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In 1899 he secured passage on the Red Star liner, "Northland," and on October 24 landed in New York City. He went to Omaha, Nebraska, where he was engaged in various enterprises. In 1901 he located in Newark, New Jersey, where he engaged in the insurance business for four years. He was then appointed to the city clerk's office as clerk and interpreter in the Marriage License Bureau, which position he still retains. He has acquired valuable real estate, and owns his residence at No. 261 Ferry street.
Mr. Schapira is president of the Model Building & Loan Association, secretary of the Public Loan Association, and of the congregation of Thorase- mus, of Newark. He is also identified with many charitable associations, being a member of the board of directors of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, the Hebrew Hospital of Beth Israel, and the Home for the Aged. He is also a member of the Teatonii Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Iron- bound Court, Independent Order of Foresters; Admiral Sampson Lodge, I. O. B. A., and the Monahan Association of Newark.
He married, March 4, 1901, Anna Goldring, daughter of Nathan and Taube (Schroalb) Goldring, natives of Austria. Three children have been born to them: Mollie, December 24, 1902; Marcus, January 1, 1905; M. Victor, November 21, 1912.
AMZI DODD
Civilization will hail riches, prowess, honors, popularity, but it will bow humbly to sincerity in its fellows. The exponent of known sincerity, of singleness of honest purpose, has its exemplification in all bodies of men; he is found in every association and to him defer its highest honors. Such an exemplar, whose daily life and whose life work had been dominated as their most conspicuous characteristic by sincerity, was Amzi Dodd, who endeared himself to the citizens of New Jersey by his devotion to duty as a public man and by his many kind acts in private life. Hon. Mr. Dodd served the State of New Jersey as Vice-Chancellor on two occasions, for ten years was a special justice of the Court of Errors and Appeals, and in 1882 became the president of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of Newark.
A native son of New Jersey, Judge Dodd was born in Essex County, March 2, 1823. The emigrant ancestor of the Dodd family in America was Daniel Dodd, an English Puritan, who came to America in 1646, and whose son, Daniel, was one of the founders of Newark, whither he came as a member of the party from Branford, Connecticut, headed by Rev. Abraham Pierson, in 1666. The younger Dodd gained fame as an able mathematician and he was a surveyor by profession; in 1692 he served as a member of the Colonial General Assembly. General John Dodd, grandfather of Amzi Dodd, was a lifelong resident of Bloomfield, New Jersey, where he did considerable work as a surveyor and where he served as magistrate for many years. His
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son, the late Dr. Joseph Smith Dodd, father of Amzi Dodd, was graduated in the medical department of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), as a member of the class of 1813, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He initiated the active work of his profession at Bloomfield and for nearly a third of a century devoted his attention to a large and lucrative practice here, where his death occurred September 5, 1847. He married Maria, daughter of the Rev. Stephen Grover, who was for fifty years pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Caldwell, New Jersey.
From the foregoing it will be seen that Judge Dodd was descended from a distinguished ancestry, many of his forefathers having been extremely well read and learned. He was the second son of his parents and was carefully nurtured in a home of refinement and culture. As a youth he attended the Bloomfield Academy, and, in 1839, at the age of sixteen years, he was admitted to membership in the sophomore class of the College of New Jersey, in which excellent institution he was graduated in 1841 with the highest honors, being chosen to deliver the Latin salutatory at the commencement in September of that year. He was a classmate of the Rev. Dr. Theodore Cuyler, the eminent Brooklyn divine; Rev. Dr. Duffield, of Princeton University; John T. Nixon, United States District Judge; Edward W. Scudder, of the New Jersey Supreme Court; Rev. Dr. Potter, of Ohio; and Professor A. Alexander Hodge. After completing his collegiate course he began teaching school, being thus engaged in Virginia for the ensuing four years. During all his spare time and in vacation he read law, also doing service for a time in the offices of Messrs. Miller & Whelpley, promi- nent attorneys at Morristown, New Jersey. He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in January, 1848, and shortly afterward entered into a partner- ship alliance with the Hon. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, then a practicing lawyer of prominence and later Secretary of State of the United States. In 1850 Judge Dodd was made clerk of the Common Council of Newark and he retained this position for three years, in the meantime carrying on an individual law practice. With the passage of time his legal work grew to such tremendous proportions that he was forced to withdraw from the above office and devote his entire attention to the demands of his clients. Although an able and popular public speaker his legal work seemed to be confined mostly to corporation and fiduciary affairs. In 1851 he delivered a wonder- ful Fourth of July oration in the First Presbyterian Church at Newark and subsequently he delivered a literary address at commencement at Princeton, a discourse before the Essex County Bible Society, and in the strenuous period preceding and during the Civil War he made many strong speeches in favor of abolition.
As a "Free-Soiler" he aided in the founding of the Republican party, of whose principles he was an active exponent. In 1856 he was chosen as the Republican nominee for Congress in the district composed of Essex and Hudson Counties. In 1863 he was elected by the Republicans of Essex County to the New Jersey Legislature, serving in that capacity for one term. In all his political campaigning he won renown as a strong and forceful public speaker and in view of this fact it was remarkable that he preferred to act as counsellor rather than as advocate, in his professional work. However, he early evinced the highest capacity for original investigation and interpretation of the law. His mind was early skilled in logical reason- ing, which enabled him to solve a legal complexity as easily as a problem in Euclid. As a lawyer he was not one who relied upon antecedent cases but
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went down to the fundamental principles and applied them to the case in hand, whether similar questions had been adjudicated adversely or not.
So widespread had Mr. Dodd's fame as a lawyer become that, in 1871, when the business of the Court of Chancery of New Jersey became so press- ing as to oblige Chancellor Zabriskie to ask for the appointment of a Vice- Chancellor, he was immediately chosen for the position. He received his appointment from Governor Randolph and served as Vice-Chancellor with the utmost efficiency until 1875, when he handed in his resignation. In 1872 he had been nominated by Governor Parker and confirmed by the Senate as one of the special justices of the Court of Errors and Appeals, the highest judicial tribunal in the State. His term of office as justice lasted six years, and in 1878 General George B. McClellan, then Governor of New Jersey, wrote Judge Dodd the following letter, which is here reproduced in full:
STATE OF NEW JERSEY, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, TRENTON, January 18, 1878.
Hon. Amzi Dodd. Newark:
Dear Sir :- Although your term of office as a member of the Court of Appeals does not expire for several weeks, there are reasons which seem to render it advisable for me to take measures to fill the appointment at an early day. I do not care to make a nomination without first ascertaining the wishes of the party most interested, and I therefore write to say to you that it will afford me peculiar satisfaction to be permitted to nominate you as your own successor. Perhaps you will pardon me for saying that I am led to this determination by the estimate in which you are held by all who have been thrown in contact with you.
Very truly and respectfully, your obedient servant,
(Signed) Geo. B. Mcclellan.
Judge Dodd returned an affirmative reply to the above letter and after Governor Mcclellan had made the appointment he sent with the commission the following brief note:
STATE OF NEW JERSEY, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, TRENTON, February 7, 1878.
Hon. Amzi Dodd, Court of Errors and Appeals:
My Dear Sir :- I take great pleasure in forwarding to you the new commission for the office you now hold. This appointment was made solely in consequence of your eminent merit and without solicitation from any quarter, and it is very gratifying to me that you have consented to accept it.
Very truly your friend, (Signed) Geo. B. McClellan.
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From 1875 to April, 1887, Judge Dodd was a member of the New Jersey Board of Riparian Commissioners, receiving that appointment from Governor Bedle. In 1881 he was again called upon to serve the State as Vice-Chancellor, taking the office at the request of Chancellor Runyon. He retained this position for only one year, however, and in 1882 also resigned his seat upon the bench of the Court of Errors and Appeals, being moved to do so in order to assume the duties of president of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of Newark, of which prominent corporation he had been mathematician for the preceding twenty years. That all Judge Dodd's public offices were held by merit and never by political influence is evident when
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it is here stated that all his appointments were received from Democratic administrations, he, himself, being an uncompromising Republican. For a period of eleven years, from 1871 to 1882, Judge Dodd was engaged in judicial duties. His opinions as an equity judge are to be found in the New Jersey Reports, volumes 22 to 34 inclusive; and as a member of the Court of Errors and Appeals, his opinions are in volumes 36 to 42 inclusive. They are regarded by legal men as possessing superior merit and belonging to the best class of juridical productions. Some of them have become authoritative cases in important questions. One of the most notable cases decided by him was that of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company vs. the National Railway Company, tried in 1873. Judge Dodd's opinions in this notable case are recorded in volume 7, C. E. Gr. 441. His decision was never appealed and the result of the injunction issued against the defendant prohibiting the construction of the proposed road was the passage soon after of the general railroad law of the State. In a historical account of New Jersey legislation the above case is spoken of as follows:
Chancellor Zabriskie was in Europe at the time, and the application for injunction restraining the construction of the new road was made to Amzi Dodd, the Vice-Chancellor, the peer of the Chancellor in legal skill and learning. The hearing extended during several months. The Chancery Court rooms, the morning he read his opinion, were crowded to suffocation. The excitement created by the decision was simply enormous. Coming on the eve of the decisive battle between the two corporations in the halls of the Legislature, then in session, its importance may be imagined, but its effect can scarcely be described. The Vice-Chancellor was praised and denounced by turns, commended for having stamped on a vicious abuse of the State's highest prerogative, and denounced by the men who had expected to profit by the fraud. His decision helped to give new force to the drift of public sentiment. The people had been impatient of the monopoly that sought to keep every competing line out of the State, and their sympathies had been given to those interested in the new line movement. But the suspicions with which the revelations made during the course of this litiga- tion had covered them, now made them objects of distrust. The only escape from these men on the one side and the legislative monopoly on the other was a bill that should open the way for the use of the soil to all roads with wise restrictions; and so an enormous impulse was given to the demand for a free and general railroad enactment.
In addition to his great professional learning, Judge Dodd was a skilled mathematician. He succeeded the late Joseph P. Bradley, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, as mathematician for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, of which he became president in 1882. As head of this great and powerful insurance company he was enabled to give vent to his splendid executive and business talents, and under him the above concern has flourished until now it is one of the largest insurance companies in the East.
In 1852 was solemnized the marriage of Judge Dodd to Jane Frame, daughter of William Frame, formerly of Newark, but after 1860 a resident of Bloomfield. Judge and Mrs. Dodd became the parents of nine children, of whom three sons and three daughters were living, in 1912, namely: William S., a lawyer; Edward Whelpley, engaged in business; Joseph Smith, a medical practitioner; Caroline, wife of Leonard Richards, a New York merchant; Julia, wife of H. B. Frissell, D. D., principal of the Hampton (Virginia) Normal and Agricultural Institute; Louise, who is unmarried, resides with her mother at Bloomfield.
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In 1874 the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon Judge Dodd by his alma mater, the College of New Jersey. In 1876 the Supreme Court of the State appointed him one of the managers of the New Jersey Soldiers' Home, of which position he was incumbent to the time of his death. Judge Dodd was a man of broad human sympathy and innate kindliness of spirit. Charity in its widest and best sense was practiced by him, and his benevo- lence made smooth the rough way of many a weary traveler on life's journey. In his private life he was distinguished by all that marks the true gentleman. His was a noble character, one that subordinated personal ambition to public good and sought rather the benefit of others than the aggrandizement of self. Endowed by nature with high intellectual qualities, to which were added the discipline and embellishments of culture, his was a most attractive personality. He was held in high esteem by all who knew him and was deeply beloved by his fellow citizens in Bloomfield. He died January 22, 1913.
JOHN FRANCIS HANLON
The public affairs of the city of Newark have generally been managed with considerable skill and to the advantage of the interests of the city, and among those foremost in the ranks of those who have the public welfare at heart, and who have spent a large amount of time in furthering these inter- ests, is John Francis Hanlon, well known and esteemed in the community, irrespective of party affiliations.
He is of the fourth generation of his family in this country, his great- grandfather having emigrated from Ireland. His grandfather took an active part in the Civil War and lost his leg in one engagement. Upon recovering from this misfortune, he again enlisted, was engaged in the battle of the Wilderness, from which time nothing more was heard from him, the pre- sumption being that he fell on the field of battle while in the active discharge of his duty as a gallant soldier. John Alexander Hanlon, father of John F. Hanlon, was born in Verplanck, New York, in 1857; has been engaged in the coastwise trade since his fourteenth year, and is at the present time captain of a steam lighter. He married Margaret, daughter of John J. and Mary Ellen Coleman, and has had eight children: John F., Henry, Joseph, Edward, Mary Ellen, Theresa, Thomas, Martin deceased.
John Francis Hanlon was born in the Twelfth Ward of Newark, March 8, 1883. He removed with his parents to the Fifth Ward in 1889, and has since that time been closely identified with the interests of the latter ward. He acquired his education in St. James' Roman Catholic Parochial School, where he was thoroughly equipped for a business life. In September, 1898, he accepted a position as clerk to the superintendent in the Lister Agricultural Chemical Works, where his systematic methods, reliable attention to detail, and various other commendatory traits obtained for him advancement from position to position, until at the present time he is filling the responsible office of head of the shipping department of the corporation.
Personally he is a very popular man and holds membership in a number of organizations, among them being: Newark Lodge, No. 21, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Lhasa Council, No. 2, Princes of Caliphs; Loyal Order of Moose, No. 237; Emmett J. Quinn Tally-Ho Club, and the John F. Monahan Association, in which he is a member of the' board of governors. He has always given serious thought to the political situation
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of the city, State and country, following every question of public moment with keen interest. That his opinions, formed after calm and cool delibera- tion, carry weight, is evidenced by the fact that he was elected alderman from the Fifth Ward in 1910, with a plurality of 610, the number of votes cast for him being almost double those of his opponent, and re-elected in 1912. He is chairman of Band Concerts, and a member of committees as follows: Public Markets, Legislation, Public Buildings, Election, and Fourth of July Celebration. Mr. Hanlon has shown himself a ready and fluent speaker, with a quick and thorough grasp of the subject in discussion. He is quick at repartee and has a fund of natural wit that keeps his hearers in good humor and inclines them most favorably to his view of any question.
WILLIAM S. WILLIS
One of the leading lights of the pedagogical life of the city of Newark, New Jersey, is William S. Willis, principal of the Normal School, which he has done much to place in its present high position.
His father, the Rev. Ralph Willis, received his degree of Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers College, and was graduated from the Theological Sem- inary of New Brunswick, New Jersey, with the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. For many years he served as pastor of the Old Brick Church at Marlboro, New Jersey, and for twenty-four years was county superintendent of schools in Middlesex County, New Jersey. He married Lucretia, daughter of James Van Nuis, and had children: John B., who lives in Plainfield, New Jersey; H. Brewster, who has served as county superintendent of schools for a period of twenty-two years; Jennie D .; William S.
William S. Willis was born in Freehold, New Jersey, December 14, 1862. His elementary education was acquired under private tuition and under the instruction of his talented father, and he was then sent to the New Bruns- wick Preparatory School, and from this to Rutgers College, and was gradu- ated from that institution in 1886 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. For five years he was engaged in teaching, holding the position of principal of a primary school, and another five years was spent as principal of a grammar school. He was then advanced to the position of principal of the Normal School of Newark, an office he has now (1913) filled very efficiently for a period of fourteen years. Mr. Willis is connected with a number of organiza- tions, some of them having a direct bearing upon his educational work. They are as follows: St. John's Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; School- men's Club; Principals' Association; State National Association; National Association of Educators; State Association of Educators.
Mr. Willis married, April 14, 1901, Caroline N., daughter of Ex-Senator Gould, of Sussex County, New Jersey. His career as a principal shows his wide knowledge of his profession, and his methods are celebrated for the solid foundation of common sense upon which they are built.
WILLIAM S. LOZIER
William S. Lozier, president of the American Roofing Company, and one of the prominent men in building circles in Newark, was born in Hacken- sack, New Jersey, in 1862. Here he passed his youth and received his educa- tion in the public schools of the town. At the age of twenty he came to Newark, and entered the building business. He is a member of the Builders'
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Exchange, and has been for fourteen years president of the American Roofing Company, who are the owners of a patent roofing material of great value. The firm has had charge of some very important construction work, and worked on the largest buildings in Newark. Mr. Lozier is in his political views a Republican, and in the three years from 1878 to 1880 he served as assistant postmaster at Hackensack.
RICHARD WAYNE PARKER
Richard Wayne Parker was born in New Jersey, August 6, 1848, and was the oldest son of the late Cortlandt Parker and his wife, Elizabeth Wolcott (Stites) Parker, of Newark.
He attended Pingry's School in Roseville and the Newark Academy, and graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1864, Princeton College in 1867, and Columbia College Law School in 1869. He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar as an attorney in June, 1870, and as counsellor in 1873, having charge of the docket of Parker & Keasbey till 1876, when he went in partnership with his father in the firm of Cortlandt & Wayne Parker, which since the death of his father, July 29, 1907, has been composed of himself and his brother, Cortlandt Parker, Jr.
He was elected as a Republican to the Legislature of 1885 and 1886; was candidate for Congress in 1892, and elected in 1894 to the fifty-fourth Con- gress, and thence successively for eight consecutive terms, serving until March, 1911. He was active in the Legislature, especially opposing all municipal bonding acts and favoring a policy of pay as you go. He repre- sented the House of Assembly in the Laverty impeachment. Afterwards in 1893 he brought and won the suits against the gerrymander of legislative districts, and was active in the conduct of the Senate steal cases.
In Congress he was a member of the committee on military affairs, and was a member and in the sixty-first Congress chairman of the committee on the judiciary, his service embracing the period of the Spanish and Philippine War, the Dingley and Payne tariffs, the reorganization of the army, and the legislation for the Panama Canal, of which route he was an early and earnest advocate.
He married Eleanor Kinzie Gordon, of Savannah, in 1-884, and has a family of three daughters, and one son, Cortlandt Parker (3d).
SAMUEL KALISCH
Justice Kalisch, one of the most prominent trial lawyers in the State of New Jersey, serving as counsel in many notable cases, both civil and criminal, and whose elevation to his present responsible office is the result of his own efforts and the use he has made of his rare attainments, is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, born April 18, 1851, son of Isidor Kalisch, D.D., one of the most distinguished rabbis of his time, born in Krotoschin, Duchy of Posen, Prussia, November 5, 1816, died in Newark, New Jersey, May 9, 1886, and a grandson of the Rev. Burnham Kalisch of Krotoschin, a promi- nent citizen of that city, whose death occurred there, September 1, 1856.
Samuel Kalisch studied under the competent preceptorship of his tal- ented father, and thus acquired a proficient training in ancient and modern languages. He also attended the public schools of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and Detroit, Michigan. He pursued his law studies in the Columbia Law
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School, New York City, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1869, and then entered the office of the late William B. Guild, Jr., with whom he studied until his admission to the bar of New Jersey at the February term, 1871; he was admitted as counsellor at the February term, 1874. Shortly after his admission as an attorney he began active practice in Newark, where he has since resided. His practice was along general lines, and he soon gained a reputation and an extensive patron- age. Later he became an expert in criminal law, and among his noted criminal cases may be mentioned that of Joseph Koerner, indicted for mur- der, whose acquittal he secured in 1878. He also successfully defended Westbrook, of Newton, and Burke, Noonan and Dunn, of Union County. In 1880 he secured a reversal in the Supreme Court in the judgment in the case of Dr. Gedicke, and secured a verdict of manslaughter in the seemingly hopeless case of George Stickert, "Fiddler" Smith, William Hoffman, John Weiss, Thomas Hefferan and Wildinghaus. He carried the famous cases of James B. Graves and John Chisholm (the latter indicted for wife murder) through the higher courts before relinquishing his efforts. In his appeals to the higher courts he was remarkably successful, often establishing prece- dents and frequently surprising the bench by unearthing forgotten statutes. He was the first lawyer in the State of New Jersey to obtain the release of a convict from the State prison under a writ of habeas corpus. In recent years he has devoted himself exclusively to important civil litigation, in which branch he has been equally prominent and successful.
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