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of talent. In all respects he has been a model receiver." Such an unsolicited tribute from the bench was most certainly a compliment to be highly valued and appreciated.
In 1897 Mr. Campbell was a member of the Indianapolis National Monetary Conference, which exerted such an important influence on the character of the legislation in Congress on the subject in that year. He was president of the Board of Trade of Newark, having been unanimously elected in January, 1903, and his natural aptitude for handling vast interests was again shown in this office. The commerce of Newark and the adjoining tide- water towns was remarkably benefited by the measures taken by Mr. Camp- bell and the members of the committee of which he was the leading spirit. He was connected with a number of organizations.
Mr. Campbell was married in 1877 to Elizabeth Mundy, daughter of David Edward and Jane Elizabeth Meeker, of Brooklyn, New York, where Mr. Meeker was a prominent lawyer until his death in November, 1889.
Mr. Campbell died at Lake George, New York, July 2, 1905. Public expressions of sorrow were many and fervent, and the press all over the country gave an unusual amount of space to historical and editorial notices of the sad event. The character of the man is exemplified in the resolutions adopted by the various corporations and other bodies with which he was connected, a few of which are appended:
By the Board of Trade: Resolved, That the members of this board have learned with sorrow of the sudden death of Edward S. Campbell, one of the most respected and influential members of this body, and formerly its presiding officer. Coming to us from a neighboring city, he soon impressed himself upon our business community and became a leader in financial affairs. Frank, courteous, forceful, he won the confidence and respect of all those with whom he was associated. He took a deep interest in the affairs of this board, and by his death we have lost one of our most efficient members and one of our wisest counselors. Resolved, That a committee be appointed by the chairman to prepare a suitable minute to be entered upon the records of this board expressive of our sorrow and regret at his untimely death. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent by the secretary of this board to the widow of our deceased brother, to whom we respectfully tender our sympathy in her bereavement.
By the Board of Directors of the National Newark Banking Company: This board wishes to record on its minutes its sense of loss in the death of Edward S. Campbell, president of this bank, which occurred at Lake George, New York, on the 2nd inst., after a brief illness. Mr. Campbell was elected a member of this board, and vice-president of this bank, January 4, 1894, and after its consolidation with the Newark City National Bank in May, 1902, ho became president of the enlarged institution. He came to the service of this bank fully equipped by a strong and active youth as a banker, and qualified by a natural disposition and a finely developed character, he at once impressed his personality upon not only the directors, but on the customers of the bank and the community at large. Few men have, in the short time of his connection with Newark affairs, gained a more enviable position or implanted themselves more firmly than he did in all that is best in business, in civic and in religious matters. His death deprives many interests of a potent factor for good, and his associates and friends of a strong and loving character. Wo wish to convey to his bereaved wife our most tender condolences, and direct that a copy of this minute be engrossed and sent to her, and that it be entered upon the records of this bank and published in the daily papers of Newark.
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By the Executive Committee of the New Jersey Bankers' Association: Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God in His infinite wisdom to remove from us by death our esteemed president and friend, Edward S. Campbell, who not only served this association ably and faithfully as president, but also assisted materially in its organization; Be it Resolved, That in the death of Mr. Campbell we have lost a most able executive, a genial and true friend and one who was held in the highest esteem by us all. We desire to per- manently record our appreciation of his most estimable character, sterling worth, vigorous and attractive personality. Resolved, That we extend to his bereaved family our most sincere sympathy in this hour of great bereave- ment. Resolved, That a copy of these preamble and resolutions be suitably engrossed and presented to Mrs. Campbell.
By the Board of Managers of the Howard Savings Institution: The managers of the Howard Savings Institution desire to express their sense of loss in the death of Edward S. Campbell, and to record this tribute to his memory. Mr. Campbell was elected a member of this board on August 29, 1904, appointed soon after a member of the auditing committee, and has attended to his duties promptly and regularly since that time. Ile was a genial associate, and a man who, by reason of his ability and character, added strength to the board and rendered efficient service to the institution. He was a public-spirited citizen and a Christian of the highest character, and his belief was exemplified by his daily life. In his sudden death the institu- tion suffers a loss which can best be appreciated by those in the management of financial institutions who know the value of thoughtful and wise coun- sellors from the ranks of successful and self-reliant business men. We offer our sincere sympathy to his wife and rejoice with her in the memory of a life so well spent. Resolved, That this minute be spread upon the records of the institution and that an engrossed copy be furnished his bereaved family.
Mr. Campbell was an active and influential figure in the life of the community, especially in connection with those institutions most closely affecting its moral welfare. He was particularly interested in the Young Men's Christian Association, of Newark, was exceedingly liberal in its sup- port, and his personal influence was a continual inspiration to it in its beneficent work. He was also a member of the New Brunswick Association, having been its treasurer for eight years, and its president for three years. He was also a member of the Essex Club, of Newark. His death while he was yet in the prime of his mental powers, left a void not to be filled, but the example of his life remains as a tender memory and a life-long inspiration to all with whom he associated.
CHARLES WILKINSON LENT
Charles Wilkinson Lent is a conspicuous figure in the financial circles of Newark, and a man who is held in the highest respect throughout the whole community. He was born in Newark, March 22, 1871, and is the son of James and Mary Louisa ( Wilkinson) Lent. He comes of old and dis- tinguished New Jersey ancestry. Both his father and mother were natives of Newark and came of families of the Colonial period, who played their part in the upbuilding of the commonwealth. Members of his father's line had served their country in the Revolutionary War. The senior Mr. Lent now resides in Bernardsville, and is engaged in the real estate and insurance business.
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The early education of Charles Wilkinson Lent was acquired in the Newark public schools, passing through the different grades with credit. He was eager to go to work and at the age of sixteen he secured the position of messenger in the Essex County National Bank. Faithfulness and unmis- takable and unusual ability brought their reward, and he rose through the various grades until in 1910 he held the position of discount clerk. About August 15 of that year he became the representative of the prospective Broad and Market National Bank, and was very active in its organization. Upon the establishment of this institution he became its cashier, having been elected to the post December 1, 1910, an office which he has since filled with signal ability and fidelity. Mr. Lent is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, and in his business connections is a member of the Newark Board of Trade, and of the Newark Association of Credit Men. He holds to the principles of the Republican party.
Mr. Lent married, in 1896, Harriet A., daughter of John Milton Free- man, of East Orange. They have four children: Dorothy Freeman, James Milton, Donna Augusta and Elbert Wilkinson.
WYNANT DAVIS VANDERPOOL t
Wynant D. Vanderpool was born in Newark, New Jersey, August 15, 1875, a son of Wynant Vanderpool and Alice W. (Davis) Vanderpool. His parents removed to Morristown when he was about six years of age, and he there attended Talmadge's Preparatory School, from which institution he entered Princeton University, and from there graduated in 1898. His law studies were completed at the Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachu- setts, and in November, 1903, he was admitted to the New Jersey bar. His business interests include the National Newark Banking Company, of which he is a director, and the Howard Savings Institution, of which he is a manager.
Mr. Vanderpool is well known as a sportsman, and is a member of many clubs, among which are the following: The Morristown Club, the Morris County Golf Club, the Morristown Field Club, the Essex Club of Newark, the University Club of New York, the Princeton Club of New York, and the National Golf Links of America, thus joining in all the college, social, game and sporting associations of his neighborhood. In religious inclinations he is Episcopalian, and is a member of St. Peter's Church, of Morristown, New Jersey.
Mr. Vanderpool married, October 15, 1905, at Morristown, Cornelia G., daughter of Grinnell and Mary B. (Haydock) Willis. Their children are: Eugene, born August 3, 1906, and Mary W., March 31, 1909.
JOHN WESLEY LUSHEAR
John Wesley Lushear, president of the North Ward National Bank, is one of those men whose value to the community is hardly to be ganged by the positions they hold or the offices in which they have served. For beyond the "plumbing" of the "world's coarse thumb" les the influence of a per- sonality, The weight and force of a fine example is of a benefit to a com- munity not to be. estimated in figures, or set forth exactly in words, and to this class of men belongs John Wesley Lushear. It is the good fortune of Newark that she possesses more than one such citizen, and it is hardly rash to attribute her growth in the past and her present rank among Ameri- can elties to the possession of just such citizens.
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John W. Lushear was born May 22, 1861, in Milburn, New Jersey, son of Abraham and Sarah Jane ( Welshman) Lushear. He comes of old Ameri- can stock, and both his parents were natives of New Jersey. His father was a hat manufacturer of Milburn and died in 1903. He was a man who had always taken a prominent part in all affairs affecting the community, and had always shown a spirit of generous helpfulness. A very self-effacing man he had, notwithstanding his interest in all public matters, never been willing to hold office. His son, John W. Lushear, received his first school training at the public school at Milburn, later going to the Newark schools. At the age of seventeen he left school and entered the employ of the North Ward National Bank in the capacity of messenger boy. Beginning with this, he, step by step, came to fill all the clerical positions in the bank, including that of bookkeeper, paying and receiving teller. At the age of twenty-four he had been promoted to be cashier. This was in 1886, and for eleven years he served in that capacity, when, having reached the age of thirty-five in 1897, he was elected to the office of president, and this position he has since then filled with ability and signal success. In politics, Mr. Lushear is a Republican. He is interested in various religious and charitable organiza- tions. He serves as trustee for the Newark Home for the Friendless, and is the vice-president of the Mount Tabor Camp Meeting Association, near his summer residence. He is a member of the North End Club and of the Corinthian Council of the Royal Arcanum. He is a member of the Centerary Methodist Episcopal Church, and serves on the official board of the church. Mr. Lushear married, in 1884, Eva M., daughter of Thomas Shaw, of Newark. Their three children are: Herbert, Dorothy and John, Jr.
CARL HERMAN WINTSCH
A conspicuous figure in the professional, business, social and church activities of the city of Newark, and one which has been identified with the most important events in all of these fields, is that of Dr. Carl Herman Wintsch, whose reputation as an exceptionally capable physician and surgeon is only equaled by his kindness of heart. He is the son of Carl Wintsch, a retired mechanic, who has lived in Newark for the past thirty-five years.
Dr. Wintsch was born in New York City, February 5, 1871, and was very young when his parents removed to Newark. His early education was acquired in the public schools of that city, and he was graduated from the High School. He entered the New York Homeopathic Medical College in 1892, being graduated three years later with the degree of Doctor of Medi- cine. Appointed house surgeon to the Flower Hospital in New York City, he filled this position very acceptably until July, 1897, when he accepted an appointment as surgeon of an expedition to Africa. During the two years spent in Africa he experienced many exciting and interesting adventures, and, upon his return to Newark, established himself in general practice. In this he was successful from the outset, attaining a prominent position in medical circles, and has ably maintained this during the intervening years.
He became the founder of the Homeopathic Dispensary, which, by means of his generous aid, has since grown into the Homeopathic Hos- pital, and from its inception he has served the institution on the surgical staff and as a member of the board of directors. Another institution of his founding is the Bethany Home for the Aged in Irvington, New Jersey, in which he is chief of the medical staff and one of the directors. He was one of the founders of the Dispensary of the Presbyterian Hospital, and is a member
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of the medical staff of the Presbyterian Hospital. For the past six years he has made a specialty of rectal diseases.
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Some months were spent by Dr. Wintsch in visiting the chief hospitals of Europe in connection with his post-graduate studies in the department of surgery, and he also devoted some time to a similar study at the Cook County Hospital clinics, Chicago, Illinois. By his individual efforts he opened three dispensaries in Newark, and has been a benefactor to the East Orange clinics in the way of free professional services and financial donations. His services in the public interests of Newark have been of no mern character. Ile has been medical inspector of schools, and at the present time is the medical examiner for three leading life insurance associations. He is a valued member of numerous organizations, and has held many public and semi-public offices, among which may be mentioned: Member of the Ameri- can Institute of Homeopathy, and member of three of its committees; mem- ber of the Academy of Pathological Science; ex-president of the Essex County Homeopathic Society; ex-president of the New Jersey State Homeopathic Society, and editor of its transactions up to the present time (1912); mem- ber of the Academy of Medicine of Northern New Jersey, and member of its committee on admission; delegate, in 1911, to the Homeopathic Interna- tional Congress at Atlantic City, New Jersey, and took an active part in its de- liberations. His fraternal affiliations are with Kane Lodge No. 55, Free and Accepted Masons; Granite Lodge No. 74, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; General Runyon Council No. 232, Junior Order of United American Mechanics; Memorial Lodge No. 63, Ancient Order of United Workmen, and Friendship Benevolent Aid Society.
In the literary field, Dr. Wintsch has been equally active. He has been a liberal contributor to Homeopathic journals; his papers have been trans- lated into a number of languages, reprinted in the leading journals of both schools of medicine, and some of them have been published in the form of pamphlets by the medical bodies of this country and Europe. Among the most noted of these may be mentioned: "Traumatosepsis (a word of the doctor's own coinage) of the Rectum," "Poisonous Effects of Turpentine," "Medical School Inspection," "Some of the Needs of the Medical Profession and Homeopathy," which was the subject of his presidential address before the New Jersey State Homeopathic Medical Society, May, 1911; his report on a case of Celosoma, which appeared in the "Annals of Surgery," August, 1906, occurred in his own practice and attracted world-wide attention.
Dr. Wintsch had always been a public-spirited citizen, but he had never taken an active part in political affairs until the beginning of the "new idea" movement in the State of New Jersey, since which time he has been influential in its circles and was its candidate in 1911 for the office of free- holder of Essex County. In 1912 he was the Progressive nominee for the Assembly, and in the same year was a delegate to the State Convention held at Asbury Park. He is a man of many-sided ability, and was one of the organizers of the American National Bank, and is now vice-president and one of the directors of the institution. As a member of the New Jersey Tubercu- losis League, he has done excellent work. His executive ability was again shown as grand marshal of the Essex County Sunday School parade, in Newark. " He reviewed the last parade from an automobile in company with Governor Wilson. He is county superintendent of the Department of Teacher Training of Essex County.
In church matters, the work of Dr. Wintsch is highly appreciated. He Is a member of the Evangelical Association Church, is one of the trustees
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and the Sunday school superintendent, while his wife is a member of the choir and an active worker in the interests of the Ladies' Aid Society con- nected with the institution.
Dr. Wintsch married Anna K., daughter of Conrad and Catherine Feld- bush, the former an artist of ability, of Newark, whose services are called into requisition by all the leading decorating contractors of the city and its vicinity. Dr. and Mrs. Wintsch have two living children: Olga Meriam and Chester Paul, both attending the Newark schools. The summer home of the family is at the Atlantic Highlands. Words of commendation are superfluous in connection with the history of a life so overfilled with good works of varied character as that of Dr. Wintsch. The most notable of these have been touched upon, but the many charitable acts performed by Dr. Wintsch of which the world knows nothing, for they are unostentatious in the extreme, would fill many more pages than the limits of this sketch will permit.
EDWARD WESTON
Physicist and electrical engineer, the name of Edward Weston is to-day a household word among electricians. His fame was not earned in a day; he has a long record of successes behind him.
Edward Weston was born at Brynn Castle, England, May 9, 1850. He early showed a marked inclination and propensity for mechanics; his par- ents, however, insisted that he should study medicine, and, unwilling to be thus forced into a calling not his own choice, the young man, in 1870, left England and came to America. After spending a short time in the photo- graphic laboratories of a firm of manufacturing chemists, he entered the employ of the American Nickel Plating Company, for whom he worked out a number of important improvements. In fact, it is not too much to say that to him is due in large part the credit for the fundamental processes of the vast nickel-plating industry of the world to-day. Having surmounted the chief difficulties incident to the electro-deposition of the metal, he next turned his attention to the current source, for which until then primary batteries had been used. His experiments resulted in construction of the first successful electro-plating dynamo engine in 1872. This embodied for the first time the principle of the field regulation which is now in very general use. The first electric dynamo was invented by a Norwegian named Seren Hlyjorth, and patented in Great Britain in 1856. Similar machines were subsequently built both in Europe and America, but little improvement was made until Weston undertook the study of the various factors affecting dynamo efficiency. It was he who introduced the very important laminated form for the core which increased the commercial efficiency of the dynamo from less than 40 per cent. to over 90 per cent. This is only one of the improvements in dynamo designs which the world owes to Weston. Inci- dentally, it is interesting to note that the first application of the electric current for power transmission for industrial purposes was made in Wes- ton's factory, and there also the electric arc light was for the first time used for general illumination. A fact not very generally known is that Weston is also the originator of the metal-impregnated carbon which, in its modern form, furnishes one variety of the "flaming arc." Of particular importance was his work in the development of the incandescent electric lamp. After some preliminary experiments with the platinum metals, he turned to carbon as the material best adapted for the filament of the lamp. Edison was
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at this time making the filament from natural wood fiber. Weston squirted · a filament from plastic carbonaceous material, thus originating the material which is in general use to-day. To the field of commercial photometry Weston made a contribution by insisting on the statement of the luminosity of courses in terms of their "mean spherical candle power." It had been customary until that time to merely state the candle power of the maximum ray, a procedure which is obviously calculated to deceive the public. The well-known resistance alloy, manganin, whose value lies in the fact that its temperature coefficient is nearly zero, is also a product of Weston's researches. His studies of the Clark standard cell resulted in the "Weston" cell, in which cadmium is used instead of the zinc of the Clark cell, and which has been adopted on the universal standard of electro motive force by the International Electrical Commission of 1908.
The various standard Weston instruments, the voltmeter, ammeter and duplex instrument, are too well known to require description. The factory is located at Waverly Park, Newark, New Jersey, and both the works and the laboratories are admirably equipped. Very special attention has been paid to the welfare of the employees, for whom there are pro- vided club rooms, dining hall, library, gymnasium, swimming pool and other conveniences. The number of employees exceeds eight hundred. The total invested capital of the plant and its European branches is three million dollars.
If Edward Weston stands in the front rank as a member of his pro- fession, he is no less remarkable in his personal qualities as a man. Those who have had the good fortune of a close acquaintance with him bear the warmest testimony to his sterling worth. We have here another example of a fact for which we, as a community, have every reason to be grateful, namely, that marked intellectual powers are frequently associated with the highest moral character.
LOUIS SCHLESINGER
The phenomenal growth of many American cities is due, in large meas- ure, to the enterprise and intense energy of a comparatively small number of men. To them is due the inception of work that employs thousands, and the organization of those great combinations which set industry to work on the vast material resources of the country. In their imagination first take shape those movements which are the steps of progress, and many of the develop- ments along the higher levels of human achievement are made possible by the immensity of the flood of business at the present day. Of such men whose acts have been written large over their home town, Louis Schlesinger may be taken as typical. The wonderfully rapid growth of Newark into a place among the first two or three American cities as regards the importance of its manufactures, points to such men as Mr. Schlesinger for the force that has built the bases upon which this prosperity has been developed.
Born in Newark, December 16, 1865, the son of Alexander and Fannie (Fleischer) Schlesinger, the whole life of Mr. Schlesinger has been spent in his native town. His early education was gained at the Morton street public school, whence he was promoted to the High School, from which, in 1879, he went directly into business. He was, in 1887, assigned by Mayor Joseph E. Haynes to a clerkship on the Newark Aqueduct Board, a position which he held till 1890. An opportunity then offering to go into the real estate and insurance business with ex-Sheriff William HI. Brown, he resigned from the
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