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James Patrick Rogers was born in Newark, March 17, 1888, in the same house in which he is living at the present time (1913). He received his elementary education in St. John's Parochial School, and this was supple- mented by a course of study at Woods' Business College. His college pre- paratory education was acquired at the Packard Institute in the city of New York, his intention being to matriculate at Princeton University. Deciding, however, that a business life was more to his taste than a course in the university, Mr. Rogers entered the employ of the Sherwin-Williams Company, paint manufacturers of Newark. Subsequently he became connected with the Glidden Varnish Company in the capacity of salesman, and in 1909 assumed the office of New Jersey representative of the firm of Berry Brothers, varnish manufacturers, of Detroit, Michigan, a position he is holding at the present time, his efficient services being highly appreciated by the corporation with which he is connected.
Mr. Rogers is a member in high rank of the Knights of Columbus, of the Leni Lenape and Jefferson clubs, and Newark Lodge, No. 21, B. P. O. E. He is also affiliated with a number of Democratic organizations, in which his influence is an important factor, and he has many friends in all classes of society in Newark. He is progressive but prudent in his ideas, and repre- sents the Fourth Ward of the city as alderman with dignity and honor. When called upon to speak in public assembly, he has proven himself an able orator, with a fund of ready wit and a remarkable command of language.
WALTER M. VAN DEUSEN
Walter M. Van Deusen, cashier of the National Newark Banking Com- pany of Newark, New Jersey, and a financier of excellent ability, was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, son of Andrew J. Van Deusen, of that city.
Walter M. Van Deusen entered business in the New Milford ( Con- necticut) Savings Bank, from which he went to the National Bank of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, thence to the Newark City National Bank of Newark, New Jersey. In the latter institution he was note teller at the time of its consolidation with the National Newark Banking Company, and held the same position in the consolidated bank until 1908, when he was made assistant cashier, and was advanced to his present position of cashier, February 23, 1911.
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Mr. Van Deusen holds membership in various important financial asso- ciations. He was treasurer of the New Jersey Bankers' Association in 1910-11, vice-president in 1911-12, and president in 1912-13; he is at present (1913) a member of the executive committee of that association and chair- man of its currency committee. He is also a member of the executive council of the American Bankers' Association, his term extending from 1913 to 1916. He is a member of the Board of Trade of Newark, of the Holland Society of New York, the Union Club and the Down Town Club of Newark; of Cosmos Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; and of Salaam Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
PROFESSOR LUIGI TUTELA
Italy, that land of musical celebrities, has contributed one to the city of Newark, New Jersey, whose reputation, although he is still a young man, has already become widespread. Both as a performer and as a composer, Mr. Tutela has won laurels which would honor one much his senior in point of years.
Generoso Tutela, his father, was a shoemaker in his native land of Italy, and came to the United States in the year 1887. He was employed for many years by the Bannister Company, manufacturers of shoes, and his death occurred in 1907. He married Mary, daughter of Augustino Moshella, and had children: Rossario, living in Italy; Eliziario, Rocco and Charles, shoe- makers in the city of Newark; Philomena, living in Italy; Rosa, resides in Boston, Massachusetts; Albert, deceased; and Luigi
Professor Luigi Tutela was born in the town of Grollanunarda, province of Avellino, Italy, May 2, 1883. His education was acquired in the public schools of his native land, and this was supplemented with a three years' course in a Normal Institute, which he took with a view of devoting himself to the profession of teaching. However, the prospects in his mother country did not appear very enticing to him by the time he had attained a more mature age, and he determined to come to America, where he thought he could better satisfy his ambitious nature. He took passage on a steamship at Naples and was landed at New York City after a trip lasting sixteen days. Ile commenced the study of music, for which he had developed unusual ability, under the famous instructor Nutini, and studied harmony and com- position under Dr. Penfield of the New York College of Music. June 15, 1909, Mr. Tutela was graduated from this institution and his diploma was awarded him. Although scarcely more than at the beginning of his musical career, Professor Tutela has already gained an enviable reputation as a composer, performer and instructor. When but eighteen years of age he composed his "La Treonfo," a march that has been played by all the best known Italian bands and orchestras throughout the country. At the great International Musical Contest, held at Perugia, December 30, 1912, he was awarded the second prize, a silver medal and a diploma, for his composition for the piano and violin, entitled "Sciara Sciat Elegie." Among the other of his best known compositions may be mentioned: "Serenade Poetica," for violin and piano; "Angel's Prayer," for piano; and "Cuore Infranto ( Broken Heart)," a concert song with English and Italian words. In addition to the skill he has displayed as a composer and as a performer on the piano and violin, Professor Tutela is the organist and choir director of the Olivet Pres- byterian Chapel of Newark. Much of his time is also devoted to private instruction and he has an unusually large number of pupils. If one may
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judge with any degree of accuracy from what he has already accomplished in the past, Professor Tutela has a most brilliant future to look forward to.
Professor Tutela married Concetta, daughter of Nicolo Di Jeso, and has one daughter, Angelina, born January 12, 1913. He is held in high esteem by all who know him, and is justly popular, not alone in musical circles, but in the highest social circles of the city as well.
MEYER KUSSY
Among her foreign citizens of the second generation of whom Newark may justly be proud is Meyer Kussy, president of the West Side Trust Com- pany. He not only holds a position of responsibility at the head of one of the great financial institutions of the city, but has shown himself through- out his career a citizen of the greatest public spirit and always active in every movement making for the advancement of the city, and her material and social development.
Mr. Kussy was born in Newark, December 22, 1860, and was the son of Gustav and Bella (Bloch) Kussy. Gustav Kussy, the father, was a native of Bohemia, and Bella Bloch a native of Bavaria, both coming to this country in the year 1854, though without knowing each other. Circumstances brought them both to Newark, and it was there that they met and in 1855 were married. The elder Mr. Kussy was a butcher by trade, an occupation which he followed for many years. He died in 1907, his wife surviving him for only two years. According to the fine ancient custom among the highest type of his people Mr. Kussy made the home of his parents in their old age his residence, and did not permit himself to marry until after their death.
The education of Meyer Kussy was obtained at the public schools of Newark, having passed through the grades and the High School by the time he had reached the age of sixteen years. One of a family of six children, it was necessary for him to go to work at once, and he was nothing loath, as he was a boy to whom idleness was an abhorrence. His first business expe- rience was in his father's employ, and later he engaged in business for him- self, and continued until 1899. In 1902 the organization of the West Side Trust Company was being considered, and among the most active of the men interested in its establishment was Mr. Kussy. Upon its final organization he was elected vice-president, and served in that capacity until 1907, when he was made president, the position which he has since held. Mr. Kussy is also president of the Uptown Building & Loan Company. He has served as a member of three grand juries, having on one of these served as foreman. He is interested in a number of the charitable organizations of the town and is always a subscriber to objects of a benevolent character. He has sub- scribed himself to a number of the fraternal orders, being a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, of the Order of the Scottish Rite, and is a mem- ber of Mecca Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, having received the thirty-second degree. He is a member of the Congrega- tion Oheb Shalom. He married, November, 1909, Rose Kussy, a distant relative.
SAMUEL FOWLER BIGELOW
Samuel Fowler Bigelow, a leading figure in the legal fraternity of the State, and a man of consummate ability, was born in Newark, March 29,
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1837, son of Mayor Moses and Julia Ann (Breckenridge) Bigelow. Ilc comes of a notable family, being the grandson of Timothy Bigelow, and the seventh in descent from John Bigelow, of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. John Bigelow, a grandson of the first John, settled in Newark in 1716, and his grandsons were ardent patriots and fighters in the Revolutionary War, four having served as captains and two as privates.
From his earliest boyhood Mr. Bigelow was fortunate in receiving the best education of the time. He was prepared for college at the Newark Academy at Ashland Hall and the Freehold Institute, and then matriculated at Princeton College and was graduated with the class of 1857. After leaving college he read law with Vice-Chancellor Amzi Dodd, of Newark, and Jehiel G. Shipman, of Belvidere, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney in 1860 and as counsellor in 1864. He was subsequently admitted to the New York, California, and different United States bars.
Mr. Bigelow served as City Attorney of Newark in 1863, as Judge of the Newark City Court in 1868, and as United States District Attorney for New Jersey, being appointed to the latter office by President Cleveland. Hle was also made a Supreme Court Commissioner by the New Jersey Supreme Court, Special Master in Chancery by Chancellor William T. McGill, and United States Commissioner for New Jersey by Judge Andrew Kirkpatrick. He also declined a position on Governor Bedle's staff as aide, with which went the rank of colonel. He also declined the office of Judge of the Newark District Court, though it had been largely through his instrumentality that the district courts had been created.
His work while United States Attorney was noteworthy for the vigor with which he upheld the rights of the people and prosecuted infringements of the law. He was insistent in his demand that violations of United States statutes by European steamship companies in overloading their vessels to this country should cease, and it is a commentary on the uprightness and integrity of the man in the public service that he had more cases of this character during his incumbency of the office than there had been in all the terms of his predecessors.
Mr. Bigelow has from time to time written articles of a biographical and editorial character. He wrote for the Newark city collection a biographical sketch of his father, Mayor Moses Bigelow, and after a sojourn in Cali- fornia wrote a series entitled "California Stories" for the Sunday Call. Besides these, he has written numerous articles on political and local affairs in the Newark Journal. He was, when for a short period a resident of California, a contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle. Mr. Bigelow is unmarried.
ALFRED N. DALRYMPLE
Alfred N. Dalrymple, one of Newark's leading lawyers who is prom- inently identified with the Republican party of New Jersey, was born in Washington, District of Columbia, December 16, 1874, son of Frederick B. and Annie E. (Newton) Dalrymple, and a descendant of the Dalrymple family of Morris County, New Jersey, one of the oldest and most honored in the State.
After completing his course of study in the public schools in Washing- ton, Alfred N. Dalrymple entered the office of Hon. Perry S. Heath, an excellent opening, for Mr. Heath was then the. Washington correspondent of many leading newspapers throughout the country, and in touch with their
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interests. ' This environment influenced Mr. Dalrymple in choosing the stenographic profession, preparation for which he undertook with such zeal, intelligence and ability, that he rapidly developed into an expert in that line of work, displaying speed and accuracy of a high order. As a shorthand reporter he was present at a number of hearings before Congress, and also acted as private secretary to several members of the House of Representa- tives. When Hon. R. Wayne Parker was elected to Congress in 1895 Mr. Dalrymple was engaged as his confidential secretary.
Law was, however, the goal of his ambition, and he soon began legal studies in the office of Cortlandt and Wayne Parker. While in Washington he supplemented this with a course at the Columbian University Law School, from which he was graduated, receiving the degrees of Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws. He was admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia, as both attorney and counsellor-at-law, in 1897, and to the bar of New Jersey in 1901. Having established an office in Newark, he resigned his secretaryship with Congressman Parker, in order to devote more time to law. He now carries on a general practice, and acts as counsel for a number of the leading firms and corporations of Essex County. During the years 1904 and 1905 he acted in a secretarial capacity to Governor Franklin Murphy.
Mr. Dalrymple's remarkable talents, and the brilliance of his mind, first displayed in the field of stenography, found ampler and more fitting expression in the practice of law. All cases which have come under his consideration have been handled with such marked skill as to earn for him an enviable place in the ranks of New Jersey lawyers. He has, in fact, achieved such prestige that his future promises to be one of honor.
In political principles Mr. Dalrymple is a Republican and has always taken an active part in campaign work. He is therefore recognized in his own county as one of the local leaders of the organization, and wields potential influence in Republican affairs both in county and State. In 1906 he was elected a member of the Newark Board of Aldermen from the Fourth Ward, serving in that capacity with high credit, and proving himself to be a public official worthy of estimation. He thus gained the congratula- tions and gratitude not only of his constituents, but of the city at large. He was chosen chairman of the Republican County Committee of Essex County, in December, 1906, and in 1907 was unanimously re-elected to that responsible position. By his services he accomplished a great deal toward the furtherance of his party's cause in that section. He is a member of the Republican State Committee, and exercises considerable power in organiza- tion councils. He was appointed in 1911 as Collector of Customs for the Port of Newark, which office he has ably filled.
Mr. Dalrymple belongs to the Lawyers' Club of Newark, the Union Club, the Indian League, and several fraternal bodies, chief among which is the Masonic order, in which he is far advanced, being an officer in Salaam Temple, Mystic Shrine.
HARRY MEYER FRIEND
Harry Meyer Friend, secretary, treasurer and general manager of The Essex Press, printers and publishers, of Newark, and vice-president and treasurer of The Chronicle Publishing Company, of Orange, is a native of Poughkeepsie, New York, born April 4, 1871, son of Meyer and Henrietta Friend, both natives of Germany, the former named having been in early
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life a merchant at Poughkeepsie, and later and up to the present time actively connected with the Dutchess Manufacturing Company of Poughkeepsie.
Harry M. Friend attended the public schools of Poughkeepsie, and at the age of thirteen was apprenticed to A. V. Haight, master printer, of Poughkeepsie, with whom he thoroughly learned the trade in all its branches, becoming an expert at printing and newspaper work. Later he went to Newburgh, New York, and was employed as circulation manager, advertising manager and later business manager of The Newburgh Register, subsequently becoming part owner. From there he removed to Orange, New Jersey, and became connected with The Orange Chronicle, as secretary and business manager, continuing in this capacity until 1907, when he also became connected with the Essex Press, Inc., of Newark, in the capacities named above, in which enterprise he is associated with William E. Gilmore and John E. Helm, and with the Chronicle Publishing Company, in the positions stated. He is a director of the Broad and Market National Bank of Newark, a member of the Board of Trade of Newark, Newark Advertising Men's Club, Newark Association of Credit Men, New Jersey Automobile and Motor Club, and Orange Lodge, No. 135, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a Democrat in politics, but has never sought nor held office.
Mr. Friend married, in Newburgh, New York, 1896, Lillian Scharps, of Newburgh, daughter of Marcus and Mary Scharps, the former of whom was a prominent merchant of Newburgh.
WILLIAM EUGENE TURTON
William Eugene Turton, who was born in Newark, November 13, 1875, has brought honor to his native town even during his short career as a lawyer. His parents were John and Catherine (Buchanan) Turton, and his maternal grandfather, Patrick Buchanan, was a resident of New York City.
The usual training in public and private schools prepared him for Columbia University, where he entered the Law School, and was graduated in 1903. During his time at the school he spent some part of it in the office of A. Q. Keasbey & Sons, of Newark, where he showed marked genius in his acquirement of legal knowledge and its application in special instances. His admission to the bar occurred in November, 1903, when he became an attorney, and in February, 1908, he was made a counsellor. Now fairly launched upon his career as a lawyer, Mr. Turton took offices in Newark, and soon established himself in the good opinion of the community. From the first he showed unusual ability, and his small cases rapidly multiplied to a generous clientele that soon brought to his hand many important pieces of litigation in whose conduct he gained great credit.
The Republican party claimed him as one of its active workers, and he contributed largely to the success of its campaigns in Essex County. He was a member of the Republican Central Committee for the Irvington sec- tion, of which town he was made recorder. He is a member of many associa- tions, including the Lawyers' Club of Essex County, the North End Club of Newark, the Newark Board of Trade, and the Road Horse Association. Besides his sporting, legal and social connections, he is interested in Masonry. As such he belongs to St. Albans Lodge, No. 68, and is a member of Lucerne Lodge, No. 181, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in Newark. He is an honorary member of the Veterans' Association. Naturally Mr. Turton's
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amiable disposition and his high standards of conduct and intellectual attain- ments have brought him a host of friends and a long line of admiring clients.
Mr. Turton married, April 5, 1904, Mabel Dawson, daughter of Thomas W. Dawson, of Newark, herself a native of the same city.
ISAAC FIELD ROE
Isaac Field Roe, a leading official in many corporations of Newark, and a successful merchant and manufacturer, was born in Hackettstown, New Jersey, son of George and Lizzie (Miller) Roe. Continuing back on his father's side he was the grandson of Nathaniel and Harriet (Shepard) Roe, and great-grandson of George and Margaret (Struble) Roe. On the mother's side his grandparents were Jacob Baird and Elizabeth ( Kline) Miller, and great-grandparents Henry and Margaret (Baird) Miller. He is one of those who have made their mark in the business world through sheer perseverance and strength of personality.
He received his early education in the schools of Hackettstown and Newark, where he moved in youth, but his entry into the business world was made as clerk in a New York City bank, and he returned later to Newark where he became interested in various manufacturing industries. The development of the firm of Roe & Conover is mainly due to his remarkable ability and knowledge of the smallest details of the business in which he engaged. As the proprietor of this enterprising concern he soon took a leading place in the manufacture and jobbing of all kinds of machinery, tools, supplies for mills, railways, machinists, power plants, steam fitters, plumbers, contractors, and other mechanical trades, as well as dealing in general hardware lines. This business was conducted for a long time at 200-202 Market street and 17-23 Mechanic street, Newark. However, rapidly increasing trade demands made larger quarters necessary, and a plant, unique in its construction, was built, with facilities beyond the possi- bilities of the crowded section of the city, and the business was removed to 206-210 Frelinghuysen avenue in that city. It occupies as much space as two large city blocks, and is completely equipped with trackage from rail- roads, with various buildings built alongside and adaptable to all the inter- ests in which the firm takes part. A new pace has thus been set, and expense and time are both saved; consequently, greater attention is given to the needs of customers and better satisfaction is offered.
Among other business interests, Mr. Roe has been chosen as State director of the Prudential Insurance Company. The Ninth Ward Building and Loan Association has elected him as its president, and the same trust was reposed in him by the Shippers and Receivers' Bureau, of Newark. He is also a director of the Ironbound Trust Company. His many lines of work and wide knowledge of the general business world soon demanded his appointment on the Newark Board of Trade, of which he was vice-president, and where he also served as member or chairman of many committees. At one time he was a member of the Advisory Dock and Meadow Reclamation Commission, and is still a member of the Builders' Exchange. He is con- nected as a member with the Essex Club of Newark, the Essex County Country Club of Orange, Baltusrol Golf Club, the Forest Hill Field Club, the New Jersey Automobile and Motor Club, and the Road Horse Association of New Jersey. He is also connected with Masonry, and is a member of Kane Lodge, No. 55, Free and Accepted Masons; and of Salaam Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Roe is unmarried.
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FREDERICK GIRARD AGENS
Frederick Girard Agens, senior partner in the firm of Agens & Com- pany, of Newark, New Jersey, and engaged in a number of other important business enterprises, may truly be considered as one of the representative men of the city, both as regards his business and his patriotic career. The admirable trait of patriotism has been transmitted to him in full measure by his grandfather, who had a most interesting and varied career during the stirring period of the American Revolution.
James Agens, the grandfather mentioned above, was of Scotch-Irish parentage, and was born on board of a sailing vessel as it passed through the channel between Scotland and Ireland in 1751. While walking in the streets of Edinburgh, Scotland, in which city he was apprenticed to learn the trade of weaving, he was impressed, at the age of fourteen years, as a British soldier, and sent with his regiment to Boston, Massachusetts, at the commencement of the Revolutionary War. The unfairness and injustice exhibited in the army excited his disgust, and having determined to escape he wounded the sentry, and in spite of being wounded himself he escaped. Pursued by soldiers, he rushed into a house where he found a girl sitting at her spinning wheel. Upon hearing his story she hid him in the chest upon which she had been sitting, resumed her seat, and when the soldiers . entered the house she was spinning as calmly as before the interruption, and remained undisturbed at her employment while they ransacked the house, and ran their bayonets through bedding, etc., in their vain efforts to find the deserter. Later Mr. Agens joined the American forces and was engaged in active service until the close of hostilities. After wintering at Valley Forge he crossed the Delaware with Washington, was engaged in the battle of Trenton, and after this conflict was found under the snow when the battlefield was being cleared, with his head cut open by a Hessian sabre. As he showed slight signs of life he was removed, and after careful treat- ment recovered sufficiently to do excellent service in numerous other engage- ments before the termination of the war. He was in the battles of Brandy- wine, Germantown, Monmouth, Stony Point, Stanwood and Yorktown. He was severely wounded at the battles of Monmouth and Stony Point, where he was in the company of Mad Anthony Wayne. He was at Yorktown at the time of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and received an honorable discharge at the close of the war. A He pension was awarded him in April, 1818, under the Monroe administration. He went to Newark, New Jersey, and not long afterward purchased a farm in what is now Valley street, Orange, was active In drilling soldiers to take part in the War of 1812, and died In 1825. He married, in 1785, Phoebe Force, of Orange, New Jersey, and they were the parents of four sons and four daughters.
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