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and success of the two with which he has been connected-the Norfolk, as organizer and president, and the Lincoln, as treasurer and president. The assets of each exceed $600,000.
Despite the manifold duties devolving upon him in business, Mr. Eisele for the past seventeen years has been one of the most active members of the Board of Managers of the State Hospital at Morris Plains, serving for ten years as president. A public-spirited man and a patriotic citizen, he has always been interested in public affairs. Elected to the Assembly, he rep- resented his district as a member of the New Jersey Legislature in 1894 and 1895. He was also the Republican candidate for Mayor in the spring elec- tion of 1898. Later, during the year 1906, as school commissioner from the Ninth Ward, he took an active part in the work of the Board of Education.
Mr. Eisele has not only accomplished a vast amount of work himself, but has been a helping hand to others on the road of progress. Possessed of a magnetic personality, he has been a compelling force in the business life of those about him, and, like most leaders, has the ability of bringing out and developing latent powers in others. By the force of his example, and through his many activities and personal assistance, he has been the means of securing employment, position and prominence for many.
THOMAS LYNCH RAYMOND
Thomas L. Raymond, member of the firm of Raymond, Mountain, Van Blarcom & Marsh, was born in East Orange, New Jersey, April 26, 1875, son of Thomas Lynch Raymond and Eugenia A. (Launitz) Raymond.
Thomas Lynch Raymond, the father, was president of the Produce National Bank of New York, and before his connection with this institution was teller of the National Park Bank of New York. He was major of the Seventy-first Regiment, National Guard of New York. His father, Samuel Groesbeck Raymond, was of New England ancestry, and a lawyer of New York City. The mother of Thomas L. Raymond Jr., Eugenia A. Launitz, was a daughter of Robert E. Launitz, an eminent sculptor, member of the National Academy of Design of New York, and also an officer in the Seventh Regiment, National Guard of New York. He was born in Courland, Russia, of a noble family, and married Matilda S. Pirsson, an American. From such forbears Thomas L. Raymond inherited the taste for a professional life, and has thus far demonstrated that he is not only a credit to his ancestry, but has also talent and ability with wifich he is making a success of his chosen profession, that of the law.
He began his education in the public schools of East Orange, New Jersey, continuing through Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada; Newark Academy, and New York University; in the law school of the latter he received his legal training. He later studied with Edward M. Colie and Justice Francis J. Swayze, after which he was admitted to the bar of New Jersey as an attorney at the November term, 1896, and as a counsellor at the November term, 1899. Mr. Raymond has confined his practice almost entirely to court work and litigation. After his admission to the bar he formed a partnership with Andrew Van Blarcom, which con- tinued until 1908, when the partnership was extended to include Judge Wor- rall F. Mountain and Theodore McCurdy Marsh, and still continues as Raymond, Mountain, Van Blarcom & Marsh. Mr. Raymond was Judge of the First District Court of Newark from March, 1904, to May, 1908, receiving
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his appointment from Governor Franklin Murphy. He was also First Assistant Prosecutor of Essex County from May, 1908, to January, 1910. In 1908 he received the nomination for State Senator from Essex County, against Everett Colby, and was defeated by only a small majority. He has also served as Special Master in Chancery, and Supreme Court Commissioner.
Mr. Raymond is a member of the Board of Trade of Newark, and the Essex Club, Essex County Country Club, Newark; Republican Club of East Orange; Washington Association of Morristown; New Jersey Historical Society; Newark Museum Association; Lawyers' Club of Essex County, of which he was one time president; Carteret Book Club; Canoe Brook Country Club; Wednesday Club; Automobile and Motor Club; Nassau Club of Princeton. In religion he is an Episcopalian, and a communicant of St. Barnabas' Church, Newark.
RICHARD F. MATTIA
That innate talent, perseverance and force of character will win in the battle of life in spite of all obstacles that may be met, is most eloquently illustrated in the fine career of Richard F. Mattia, of Newark, New Jersey, who is equally at home in the fields of statesmanship, literature and the general business world. Beginning the earnest work of life with but a limited education, and at an unusually early age, he overcame these deficiencies by study in the evening hours, and by close and patient observa- tion of those whom he considered fine examples of the sort of man whom he had set up as his ideal of manhood.
Mr. Mattia was born in Calabritto, in the Province of Avellino, Italy, in 1872. When he was one year of age his father emigrated to America, leaving his wife and children in Italy, in order to be unhampered in the initial struggle of making a home for them in the New World. He decided upon Newark as a suitable spot, and at the expiration of two years had gained so strong a foothold that he felt justified in sending for his wife and his two children. Mrs. Mattia accordingly came to this country with three- year-old Richard F. and his elder brother, Petrino B. The boys were at once sent to the public schools of Newark, where they commenced with the kindergarten work. At the age of eight years, young Richard decided that he would rather work and thus help in the support of the family than con- tinue his attendance at the school, and, being bright and adaptable, found no difficulty in securing work of a varied character. He did not, however, neglect his education, as he spent his evenings in close study at the night schools, where he made great progress. Subsequently he took up the study of photography in the studio of his brother, and, having a natural aptitude for all matters connected with art work, his talent as an artist was widely recognized by the time he had reached fifteen years. Together with Petrino B. Mattia, he established the firm of Mattia Brothers in 1887, and twelve months later their names were widely recorded as having won the highest award for the best display of photographs and portraits at the New Jersey Waverly Fair. The firm was dissolved by mutual consent some years later, when the elder brother became an actor and scenic painter, and was subse- quently employed as stage manager and scenic artist in Miner's Empire Theatre, Newark, New Jersey.
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two awards for the best portrait drawings. Neither were his studies in other directions neglected, and a business course was taken during the evening hours in the Newark Business College. The Newark Advertiser then made him a favorable offer to act for them in the capacity of photographer and reporter, and after several years spent with them he resigned the position in favor of that of photographer for the New Jersey Tenement House Com- mission. Two years were also given to the study of law, which was pursued in the offices of Hahn & Hahn, and when the law went into effect that civics were to be a part of the curriculum for the foreign classes in the evening schools, Mr. Mattia was assigned to the Franklin and Seventh Avenue schools, being one of the first teachers to be thus appointed. When he became a candidate for public office, lack of time owing to the pressure of other matters, necessitated his refusing another appointment.
Some time ago Mr. Mattia established a weekly paper, which he publishes in Newark, which is devoted to the interests of young Italians, and which has gained a large circulation. The paper is almost ten years old, and is the only weekly publication in Newark which has both an English and an Italian edition, its name being La Revista (The Review). Mr. Mattia is the editor as well as the publisher of this, and gives his personal attention to all the numerous details connected with it.
The political career of Mr. Mattia is a remarkable one for a man of his age. From his earliest years he had taken an interest in the doings of the Republican party, and although he was merely a young lad at the time of the campaign of Garfield and Arthur, he was of material assistance even then, acting as interpreter for the comparatively few Italian voters who then lived in Newark. He was a member of the Naturalization and Speakers' Committee of the Essex County Republican Committee for almost fifteen years, and in 1906 he was a candidate for freeholder of the Fifteenth Ward. Although he ran far ahead of his ticket, he was defeated by a small vote. Two years later he carried the election by four hundred and eighty- seven votes over his opponent. Although a new member of the board, his value has already been recognized by appointments to several important committees, among them being: Bridge, Jail Discharge and Publication. His sympathies are warmly enlisted on the side of the working classes, and he has originated many measures for their improvement and comfort.
He is justly popular in the social world of the city, and is a member of numerous organizations, among them being: Lodge No. 21, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Court Cavour, No. 133, Foresters of America; Lhasa Council, No. 2, Prince of the Caliphs; Newark Camp, No. 1, Guards of Columbus; Serenade Pleasure Circle; Millbrook Italian Republican Club; Lincoln Republican Club; Guards of Columbus Realty Company; Italian Republican Club of Essex; Italian Benevolent and Protective Institute; Belleville Improvement Association; Eighth Ward Improvement Association; St. Lucy's Young Men's Catholic Association; Calabrittano's Mutual Benefit Society; Northwestern Building and Loan Association; Century Building and Loan Association; Newark Street Sweepers' Protective Association; Newark City Laborers' Employers' Association; Diamond Athletic Club; Savoy Athletic Club; Holy Name Society; Mattia-Curran Association.
HUGH C. BARRETT
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interests of his clients, and exhibited a knowledge of the law which may be called exceptional, is Hugh C. Barrett, one of the younger generation of lawyers of the city of Newark, New Jersey.
His father, Michael T. Barrett, was a native of Belleville, New Jersey, and was born August 9, 1856. His earlier education was acquired in the Christian Brothers' School in Newark, and this was supplemented by the training necessary for admission to legal practice. Admitted to the bar in February, 1879, he at once commenced to practice, and in September of the same year was elected as counsel for the Belleville Building and Loan Association, with which body he has been identified in that capacity for many years. As counsel for the township of Harrison, Hudson County, New Jersey, he has been engaged in many important cases, among them being a number of criminal cases which attracted attention throughout the country, chiefly on account of the ability with which they were handled by Mr. Bartlett.
Hugh C. Barrett has followed in the footsteps of his distinguished father in a no less distinguished manner. Born in the city of Newark, 1886, he at first attended the public schools and then the Newark Academy, "from which he was graduated in the class of 1904. He then matriculated at Princeton University, from which he was graduated in 1908 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Taking up his professional duties in the law school of the University of New York, he was graduated from this institu- tion in the class of 1910, the degree of Bachelor of Laws being conferred upon him at the time. In November of the same year he was admitted to the bar of New Jersey and at once took up his profession in a practical manner. He became associated in a partnership with his father, and as the latter has retired to a certain extent from the active prosecution of cases, by far the larger share of the business of the firm must of necessity be undertaken by Hugh C. Barrett. This he does in a very capable manner, and the clientele is constantly increasing and the family name has added prestige. Mr. Bar- rett was appointed Master in Chancery at the beginning of 1912 by Chan- cellor Walker. He is a member of the following organizations: . Essex Club of Newark, Essex County Country Club, Forest Hill and Deal Golf clubs, and the Cannon Club of Princeton University. He is a man of intense public spirit, and takes pleasure in lending his co-operation to any move- ment that has in view the improvement of public conditions, or the material development of the community in any direction.
CORLISS FITZ RANDOLPH
The educational system of the city of Newark is considered in many respects as a model for the schools of the country, and among those who have done more than an ordinary share in bringing it to its present high standard of perfection is Corliss Fitz Randolph. Noted not alone as a pedagogue, but also as a philologist, his works and his writings have received the highest commendation from many quarters and have attracted widespread attention.
He was born July 24, 1863, in New Milton, Doddridge County, West Virginia, and his family traces its descent to Norse and Norman ancestry. Jonathan Fitz Randolph, the great-grandfather of Corliss, was with "Mad Anthony Wayne" at the battle of Fallen Timbers, was a son of Samuel Fitz Randolph, a commissioned officer in the Revolutionary Army, and a descend-
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ant of Deacon Thomas Blossom, of the Pilgrim Church at Plymouth, Massa- chusetts. Jephthah Fitz Randolph, son of Jonathan, was a member of the second constitutional convention of West Virginia and president of the trus- tees of the West Union Academy. Franklin, the father of Corliss Fitz Randolph, was a school teacher in early life and later turned his attention to farming. He was secretary of the trustees of the West Union Academy, corresponding secretary of Salem College of West Virginia, and married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of George and Elizabeth (Burgess) Fox. They had five children.
Corliss Fitz Randolph was educated at first in the public and private schools of West Virginia, then matriculating at Alfred University, New York, he was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1886, that of Master of Arts in 1888, and the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (Litterarum Humaniorum Doctor) in 1903. Pursuing his studies at Colum- bia University, New York, he was a scholar in Classical Philology, 1896-97; President's Scholar in Classical Philology, 1897-98; Drisler Fellow in Classi- cal Philology, 1898-99, and was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Salem College, West Virginia, in 1904, and that of Doctor of Laws in 1913. Prior to and during this period of study he had been engaged as a teacher in the pubic schools of New Milton, West Virginia, 1879-84; was principal of the public school in Ashaway, Rhode Island, 1888- 89; teacher in the Public High School, Montclair, New Jersey, 1889-91; engaged in business in the city of New York, 1891-92; principal of a public school on Staten Island, New York, 1892-96; principal of the Fifteenth Avenue Public School, Newark, New Jersey, 1899. He was a lecturer on the subject of Classical Philology in Alfred University, 1899-1901. In 1909, by special appointment of the Board of Education of Newark, he spent a considerable length of time in visiting the schools of England, Wales, Scotland, Holland and Germany, studying the methods in vogue in those countries with a view of transplanting such features as might be an improvement on the system in use in this country.
Mr. Fitz Randolph was the editor of the Alfred University Quarterly, 1896-98; Seventh Day Baptists in Europe and America, published in 1910, and of the School Exchange, Newark, New Jersey, 1907-11. He is also the author of: Seventh Day Baptists in West Virginia, 1905; Report on European Schools, 1909; Seventh Day Baptist Southeastern Association, 1910; German Seventh Day Baptists, 1910, and The Rogerenes, 1910. He and his family are members of the Seventh Day Baptist Church, in whose interests he is an ardent worker. He is also a member of the Schoolmen's Club of Newark, the Schoolmasters' Club of New York City and the Wednes- day Club of Newark.
He was married in Newark, March 18, 1890, to Marion Melissa, daugh- ter of William Henry and Sarah Jane (Ayars) Howard, and their only child is Mildred, born November 10, 1891, in East Orange, New Jersey, was graduated from the North Seventh Street Grammar School and the Barringer High School of Newark, and is now (1913) a junior in Barnard College, New York City.
Mr. Fitz Randolph has devoted the best energies of his life to the cause of education and the general elevation of humanity, and his efforts have been attended with extraordinary success. He is gifted with the power of personal magnetism to such an extent that he has been the means of intro- ducing his high ideals in places where it was a remarkable and rather unexpected result that they should have been adopted, and where they have
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been an inestimable power for the good of untold numbers. In private life, as in his public avocation, he is a model man. The broad fields of his activity seem unlimited, and the entire community bestows upon him its plaudits and good will.
OSCAR BROMLEY MOCKRIDGE
Oscar Bromley Mockridge, long prominent in the hardware trade of Newark, New Jersey, and closely identified with the banking interests of that city, was born in Newark, June 10, 1844, son of Abraham and Sarah Emmons (Ward) Mockridge, and comes of an old and honored New Jersey family. His father, who was born in March, 1802, and died in 1873, was a member of the firm of Mockridge & Francis, hardware dealers of Newark, an enterprise established in 1835.
The son received his education in Nathan Hedges' private school and the public schools of his native city. In 1861 he left school and went into business, applying himself to the duties assigned him and acquiring a thor- oughly practical knowledge of the hardware business, a calling for which he was peculiarly adapted and in which he was destined to win high distinction as one of its ablest and most successful representatives. He was admitted to the firm in 1868, the style of the firm being changed at that time to Mockridge & Son, under which name it was subsequently carried on, Mr. Mockridge remaining identified with the enterprise until 1899, the business at that period being the oldest continuous undertaking of its class in the city of Newark. As a man of affairs, Mr. Mockridge was ably equipped. His judgment was sound even as a young man, and his foresight keen and unerring. His methods were those of the old school, honest and fair, and he conducted his business in a progressive and energetic manner that gained for the house a wide prestige and an enviable repute.
Withdrawing from the business in 1899, Mr. Mockridge became treas- urer of the Security Savings Bank of Newark, an institution that is notable as one of the largest savings banks in the city. As treasurer of the institu- tion in question, Mr. Mockridge has performed his functions with an ability that is most pronounced, and his knowledge of banking has stood him in good stead in this connection. He still retains the treasureship of the Security Savings Bank and in that capacity has strengthened the enterprise and contributed in no small degree to the building up of its steadily increas- ing business. He has been associated with banking in Newark for more than thirty years, having been throughout that period a director of the Manufacturers' National Bank of that city.
He has never taken an active part in politics, neither seeking nor hold- ing public office, and preferring to concentrate all his efforts upon his' personal affairs .. At the same time, he is public-spirited to a notable degree and is willing at all times to unite in any movement calculated to advance the common good or promote the material welfare of the community at large. He is one of the original members of the North End Club, of Newark, and a popular man in that organization.
He married, August 19, 1873, Carolina V. Tichenor, of Newark. They are the parents of one child, Dr. Oscar A. Mockridge, whose sketch follows.
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Dr. Oscar A. Mockridge, son of Oscar Bromley and Carolina Virginia (Tichenor) Mockridge, was born in Newark, New Jersey, March 29, 1883, and was educated at the Newark Academy; from thence he went to the Pennsylvania Military College, Chester, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1901 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. The following year he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, medical department of Columbia Uni- versity, New York City, from which, in 1906, he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. While there he was elected to membership in Kappa Chapter of Omega Upsilon Phi fraternity. After serving his internship at the Newark City Hospital, he established himself as a general practitioner of medicine in Newark. At present he is assistant physician to the Babies' Hospital Clinic and also to the German Hospital ( Pediatric Clinic), and is assistant attending physician to the Presbyterian and St. James' Hospitals. From the beginning of his medical studies he was especially interested in pediatrics. With Dr. Henry L. Coit, he started the first "Conference for Mothers" in the public schools of the city, whose pur- pose is to reduce infant mortality by education in hygiene and the care and feeding of infants and young children. He is a member of the New Jersey State Pediatric Society, American Medical Association, Essex County Medical Society, New Jersey State Medical Society, Academy of Medicine of Northern New Jersey, New Jersey Anatomical and Pathological Society, and the Doctors' Club. Politically he is a Republican, and he is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
In December, 1907, Dr. Mockridge married Ethel Jane Bott, and they have one son, Oscar A., Jr.
THOMAS F. KENNEDY
Thomas F. Kennedy, one of the foremost educators in the State of New Jersey, is the principal of the new East Side Commercial and Manual Train- ing School. His previous post, one in which he had shown the conspicuous ability that suggested him for the new position, was that of head assistant In the Barringer High School, In addition to which he had for a few years been acting principal of the Market Street Annex of the same school.
Mr. Kennedy was selected for this position from nearly fifty com- petitors. By a process of elimination the eight most fit by reason of credentials, references and experience, were left, and these were subjected to a most searching test that lasted for five hours without intermission. This sifting was in the hands of the Committee on Instruction and Educational Supplies. The chairman of this committee, himself a schoolman of wide experience and a former principal of the city schools, spoke of the action of his committee thus: '"In considering the availability of the applicants three things were taken into consideration: The personality of the man, his experience in technical work and his executive ability." In respect to the latter qualification, he stated that a better man than Mr. Kennedy could not be found, and this, in his opinion, was the most essential qualification. In considering the other applicants it was also found that not only did Mr. Kennedy meet the requirements in every respect, but also excelled in a marked degree in what were considered the greater qualifications. Another point in his favor was the fact that he was a member of the local toaching
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force from which it was the policy of the Board of Education to make its selections as far as possible, in order to stimulate effort in the teaching staff.
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