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Why it is that business and professional men of a certain type should neglect social duties on the meager and unintelligible plea that they are above them is still an unsolved puzzle. Every person can always find his associates; it is only a question of good and bad choice, and the advantages to be gained from social intercourse are too many and important to be made light of. William F. Hoffmann is one of those not blind to the beneficial influences of society, and he has never shunned the duties thus imposed upon him. It is only a very flattering attitude, rightly to be commented upon, to find Mr. Hoffmann in direction of the German Society of his native city, for he is proud of his German origin, thus giving a slashing lesson to those who are so quick in trying to assimilate and completely forget their
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past in the "melting pot" of nationalities. He is also an active figure in the Essex County Club, as well as in the Essex Club of Newark, thus throwing the gauntlet at those business men who despise social amusements.
We see William F. Hoffmann in another place of his active life, and not the least important, attending to the welfare of his fellowmen, lending a helping hand to those institutions that try for the betterment of the social and economic condition of men, during the years 1905-07.
In the same year that saw the bereavement of his noble father, who had lived long enough to see his son reap the recompense of success, Mr. Hoff- mann married Mary Towle, daughter of H. A. Towle, the latter event proving a great consolation. They are the happy parents of two bright children, Mary F. and William F., Jr., thus completing the picture of a happy family circle.
Mr. Hoffmann has thus proved true to his stock, complying to the fullest extent to the family tradition handed down by the old Eugene E. Hoffmann, that a place in life should only be won as a recompense of per- sonal exertions by work, work and work, in all its phases.
EDWARD HALL PETERS
Edward Hall Peters, deceased, whose home was in Newark, New Jersey, was a citizen whose worth made him greatly valued in the community in which he resided. His early death was widely deplored and the loss to the community was a most severe one.
Edward Hall Peters, son of Horatio Nelson Peters, was born in Newark, New Jersey, December 14, 1850, died in New York City in December, 1887. He acquired a sound, practical education in the public schools of his native city, and upon its completion entered the business of his father, with which he was closely identified until his untimely death. He had displayed remark- able business ability and had already demonstrated the wisdom of his progressive methods, which were, however tempered with a proper amount of conservatism. His religious affiliations were with the Clinton Avenue Reformed Church, of which he was a member. Mr. Peters was of a charitable nature, but conducted his charitable work in so unostentatious a manner that the extent of it will never be ascertained.
Mr. Peters married, November 13, 1873, Anna Woodruff Heath, and they had children: Child, died in infancy; Anna Heath, Horatio Nelson, deceased; Edward Heath. Mrs. Peters was born in Newark, New Jersey, November 16, 1853, daughter of Stafford Robert Wilson and Catherine Chittenden (Woodruff) Heath, and a direct descendant of Thomas Woodrove or Woodreeve, who resided at Portwich, Kentshire, England, dur- ing the reign of Henry VII. In the Woodruff family there have been many men who have been distinguished in the professions, the world of letters, commerce and military affairs.
HARVEY GIRARD MOORE
Harvey Girard Moore, whose Commercial Art Studio is located at No. 207 Market street, is a leading representative of these interests in the city of Newark, New Jersey. In very many respects his life is worthy of the highest commendation, for he has been the architect of his own .fortunes as well as advancing the standard of art throughout this section of the country. His
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enterprise, energy, strong determination and capable management, com- bined with his natural and acquired artistic ability, have been the essential factors in achieving his well-deserved prosperity.
Lewis F. Moore, father of the man whose name heads this sketch, was a stone cutter by occupation. For a time he lived in Jamestown, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, then removed to Williamsport, in the same State. He married, in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, Henrietta Waterous. They had children: Lila, James V., Agnes, Frank, Martha V., Harvey Girard, Jacob.
Harvey Girard Moore was born in Jamestown, Pennsylvania, June 9, 1877. His early education was acquired in the public schools of his native town, and as he had displayed unusual taste along artistic lines he was sent to the New York School of Illustrating in order that this talent might be properly developed. For a period of three years he was engaged in mercan- tile business, then became identified with the art department of the Grit Publishing Company, of Williamsport, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, and remained with this concern for four years. He came to Newark, New Jer- sey, in 1907, and there entered the employ of the Knox Engraving Com- pany, remaining with them for a period of two years. In 1909 he decided to establish himself in business independently, and accordingly opened his present Commercial Art Studio, which has been a successful enterprise from the outset. The quality of the work that leaves the studio of Mr. Moore is of the very finest and needs no praise from outsiders. Mr. Moore has always been an ardent patriot, and served in defence of his country's rights for a period of six months, being mustered into the United States Army in 1898, as a member of Company G, Twelfth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. His political affiliations are with the Republican party. He is a member of the Lutheran Church, and of Utility Council, No. 1364, Royal Arcanum.
Mr. Moore married, at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, June 28, 1895, Margaret K., born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, daughter of Frederick D. and Frances (Gifford) Schweiker. They have two children: Marjorie and Harvey G., Jr. While Mr. Moore has never held public position, his deep interest in the public welfare is indicated by his earnest advocacy and liberal support of all measures for the public good, and he is ranked among the valued citizens of the community.
JOHN L. REID
An engineer who has done the work on some of the most important buildings in Newark, John L. Reid is an authority on the problems of the heating and power work of the up-to-date building. He was born in New- burgh, New York, in 1876, and was brought by his parents at the age of four years to East Orange, New Jersey. He received a thorough elementary education in the public schools of East Orange. When he was eighteen years of age another move of the family was made, this time to Newark. About this time he started out to make his own way in the world, and obtained a position with the firm of Richardson & Morgan, heating engineers in New York City. Here he remained for seven years, gaining a thorough knowledge about heating houses. After this term of work he accepted the position of manager of the Thatcher Furnace Company, also of New York. In June, 1900, he started in business on his own account, in the city of Newark, and has since that time attained a very flattering measure of success. He has
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been given the heating, power and lighting work on many of the largest and most important buildings of Newark and the surrounding towns. Among these latter .he has had charge of the work of that department on some of the new buildings of Princeton University, doing also a large part of that on the buildings of the Theological Seminary. He did the central lighting, heating and power work on the Orange Hospital. He worked also on the Plank road car barns for the Public Service Commission. He may point in addition, to his work on the National Bank, the Ordway Building and the Lawyers' Building. In his political creed Mr. Reid is a Republican, and he has always taken a keen interest in civic matters. At one time he was men- tioned for Mayor of the city, but was defeated at the primaries by Louis V. Aaronson. Both he and his family are members of St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church.
Mr. Reid married a daughter of the late John Barnett, of the firm of Barnett-Ballard-Stainsby Saddlery Company, and they have one daughter, Margaret B.
FREDERIC BIGELOW
One of the best-known architects of the city of Newark, New Jersey, and one who has added greatly to the beauty of this as well as other cities, is Frederic Bigelow, who has his offices at No. 1 Clinton street. He is the son of Moses Bigelow, who was born in Newark, and was engaged in business as a manufacturer of varnish until his death in 1897. He married Lila, daughter of Samuel Fowler, of Port Jervis, New York, and they had chil- dren: Moses, a resident of Ogdensburg, New York; Henrietta F., married a Southard; Frederic, whose life forms the subject of this sketch; John O., a lawyer in Newark.
Frederic Bigelow was born in the city of Newark, New Jersey, February 17, 1882. He was educated in the public schools and the Newark Academy, being graduated from the High School in 1900. For a period of four years he was in the employ of John R. Thomas, working on the Hall of Records; with Howells & Stoke, on the Columbia Chapel; Edgar Josselyn, on the Stamford City Hall; and on the Horace Mann School in New York City. He then went to Paris, France, becoming a student at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts, and took a thorough course in architecture for a period of two years. Returning to America in 1907, he entered into a partnership with Edgar Josselyn, of New York City, and opened offices at No. 3 West Twenty-ninth street in that city, and an office in Newark on Broad street. In 1913 he removed to his present location on Clinton street. Among the numerous designs of Mr. Bigelow may be mentioned : Residences for L. Kirkpatrick, Alfred L. Dennis, Edward W. Scudder, F. Frelinghuysen, Wallace M. Scudder and Miss Jane Durand; the field house for the Park Commission; Fire Truck House No. 9, for Newark; Newark Board of Health Building; memorial tower for John Lyle; factory buildings for the Murphy Varnish Works; factory building for Mesler & Company; department stores for L. S. Plant & Company.
He served as secretary for the City Plan Commission for the year 1912, and is a member of the Board of Trade, of Newark. His social mem- bership consists of the following: Beaux Arts Society, Essex Club and the Essex Troop. He is president of the Franklin Mineral Company of New Jersey. In politics he is a Democrat, and his religious affiliations are with the South Park Presbyterian Church.
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EDMUND R. HALSEY
Edmund R. Halsey, Civil Engineer and City Surveyor of Newark, was born .in South Orange, New Jersey, in 1872, son of Edmund R. and Harriet ( Whitney) Halsey. Mr. Halsey traces his ancestry from the old English family of Halsey living in Cornwall, the solid foundations of whose fortunes were laid during the reign of King Henry the Eighth. The founder of the American branch of the family was Thomas F. Halsey, who was born in Great Geddesden, England, in 1592, died in Southampton, Long Island, August 27, 1678. Thomas F. Halsey on coming to America in 1637 settled in Lynn, Massachusetts, and remained there during witchcraft days. Later he removed to Long Island and at his death was the richest man in Southampton. The first of the Halsey family to settle in New Jersey was Joseph Halsey, son of Isaac and Mary Halsey. He left Long Island and built for himself a house in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where he died in 1725. Through his maternal ancestors Mr. Halsey is related to Rufus King, the Revolutionary statesman and patriot.
Mr. Halsey attended the St. Cloud School and the New York Central Evening High School, also the Newark Technical School. On the comple- tion of his scientific course of study, in 1896, Mr. Halsey entered on his career as a civil engineer. He has for many years made a specialty of city engineering, and has been the engineer for the South Orange village, Irving- ton, South Orange Township, Millburn Township, and other places. Mr. Halsey is a member of many societies affiliated with his profession. Among them may be mentioned the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Society of Municipal Improvement, the Village Improvement Society of South Orange, the South Orange Township Improvement Society, etc. He is also a member of the Newark Board of Trade and the Irvington Board of Trade. Mr. Halsey is a member of Kane Lodge, No. 18, Free and Accepted Masons, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Mr. Halsey married Edith Copeman, of South Orange. They have two children: Dorothy, born in 1905; Edmund R., Jr., born in 1907.
PATRICK J. DOLAN
Patrick J. Dolan, for many years actively engaged in the practice of law, with offices in the Lawyers' Building, Newark, and recently appointed Judge of the Juvenile Court, was born in Morrisville (now Everett), Mon- mouth County, New Jersey, November 22, 1872, son of Michael and Marie Dolan.
He attended school at Matawan and also the Keyport High School, from which he graduated. He began his active career as a clerk in the office of the Knickerbocker Ice Company of New York, in 1895, and there remained during the changes to the Consolidated Ice Company and the American Ice Company. Meantime, from 1897 to 1899, he pursued legal studies in the New York Law School, and was admitted to the New Jersey Bar as an attorney at the November term, 1899, and as a counsellor at the November term, 1902. In 1899 Mr. Dolan opened offices in the Lawyers' Building, Newark, where he has been located to the present day.
Mr. Dolan is the solicitor for the Pacific Building & Loan Association of Newark and the Fifty Active Associates, and is secretary and counsel for the Essex County Realty Company. On February 25, 1913, he was appointed Judge of the Juvenile Court of Newark for the term of five years.
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Mr. Dolan has never cared to enter upon a political career, but has always taken a deep and intelligent interest in public affairs, and has ever . been identified with movements for the betterment of political conditions. He has been secretary of the Woodrow Wilson Democratic League of Essex County since its organization in 1910, and he was an active factor in the movement in New Jersey which brought about the nomination of Mr. Wilson for the Presidency.
Mr. Dolan is a member of St. Bridget's Catholic Church, Newark, and of various benevolent and fraternal organizations, among which are Star of ' Bethlehem Council, Knights of Columbus, of which order he has been for six years past State Advocate; St. Bridget's Holy Name Society, of which he is president; Newark Lodge, No. 21, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Lawyers' Club of Essex County; Division No. 13, Ancient Order of Hibernians; and the Columbus Club of Newark, of which he was treasurer for two years. Mr. Dolan is unmarried.
PHILEMON LYMAN HOADLEY
Nowhere perhaps more than in Newark can be seen, side by side with the foreign-born citizen who is contributing to the city's growth and indus- trial development, the business man, American to the core and an epitome of all the best traditions of the old sterling American colonial stock, who, like his ancestors, has stood for the ideals political, civic and industrial which for generations have made this country a Promised Land to the thousands of Europe. To this breed of men who have made the country what it is belongs Philemon Lyman Hoadley, president of the American Insurance Company, of Newark, and prominent among those men whose wise, patient and far-sighted leadership have, in the last few decades, brought Newark into the rank of a city of the first importance.
The American ancestor of the stalwart Hoadley line was William Hoad- ley, who came to Saybrook, Connecticut, from England, in 1663. The records tell further of his removal in 1666 to Branford, Connecticut, where he bought a parcel of land on which to build a home from Abraham Pierson, who was about to go to New Jersey, and who later became famous as the first Presbyterian minister in Newark. Philemon Hoadley, born in Branford, Connecticut, in 1755, the grandfather of Philemon Lyman Hoadley, was a descendant of this man. He served on the patriot side in the American Revolution, and took part in the fighting at Ticonderoga, dying in 1811, at Collinsville, New York. His son, Lyman, the father of Philemon Lyman Hoadley, born at Westfield, Massachusetts, in 1781, enlisted also in the service of his country in the stand she took against British aggression in the War of 1812. His death occurred in 1861 at Collinsville, New York, when he had reached the age of eighty years. He married Charlotte Eliza Cowles, born in Durham, Greene County, New York, in 1812, who died in Newark, New Jersey, at the age of eighty-one years in 1893. The two children of this marriage were: Philemon Lyman Hoadley, with whom the present biographical narrative is concerned; and James H. Hoadley, D. D., a prominent Presbyterian minister of New York City.
Philemon L. Hoadley was born in Collinsville, Lewis County, New York, December 6, 1845, and received the academical portion of his education at the Whitestown Seminary, and at the Rome Academy in Oneida County, New York. Upon leaving school his first business experience was acquired in a position he obtained in a bank, and where he remained for two or three
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years. About this time he was attracted by the possibilities in the insurance business, and entered upon it, obtaining first a position as the local agent for a fire insurance company at Camden, New York. He was speedily promoted to the post of special agent for a larger field, and in 1874 became an officer of the American Insurance Company of Newark, becoming before long identi- fied with it as vice-president, and serving also as one of the directors. He has latterly become the president of the institution and no little share of its growth and success as a financial organization is due to his wise, conserva- tive, and, at the same time, progressive policy. It has been for many years recognized as one of the leading companies in the fire insurance busi- ness in the country, and the faithful and intelligent conduct of its affairs by Mr. Hoadley has been a great factor in giving it its present rating in the business world and in the esteem of the general public.
Although deeply interested in all that tends to the benefit and develop- ment of liis adopted city, Mr. Hoadley does not care to belong to many political and social organizations, being enthusiastically absorbed in subjects allied to the business of his choice. His family and a close circle of intimate friends supply the social needs of his nature. He has, however, a mind with a decided historical and antiquarian trend, and he is a member of the New Jersey Sons of the American Revolution, and is a life member of the New Jersey Historical Society. He belongs to the Newark Board of Trade, feeling that to be one of the obligations incumbent upon him. He is a member of the Presbyterian church.
Mr. Hoadley married, in 1869, Mary Olmstead, of Camden, New York, the year being that preceding the one in which he came and established himself with his family in Newark. Two sons and two daughters have been born to them, all of whom are living.
GEORGE WASHINGTON JAGLE
George Washington Jagle, a prominent merchant and business man of Newark, was born June 6, 1867, in New York City. He is the son of Her- man and Sophie (Hockenjos) Jagle, both of whom dying before he was eleven years of age, he went to Newark and made his home with his uncle, the late J. J. Hockenjos.
He was sent first to the Green Street German and English School, and later to the Chestnut Street Public School. From this he went to the New High School and graduated from its commercial department in 1884. After he had finished school he was offered a position in the store of his uncle, and, showing remarkable adaptability, he gained the confidence of his superiors from the outset. In 1891, at the death of his uncle, he succeeded to the business, and the firm of J. J. Hockenjos was incorporated. His man- agement of the affairs of the company has shown wise and prudent progressiveness, and has demonstrated his to be a mercantile ability of the first order. The house had become, under his leadership, one of the most important establishments of its kind in Newark.
Aside from his work as a merchant, Mr. Jagle has been identified with many other important business interests. Several financial institutions of high standing include him upon their boards of directors, and he is also a stockholder in many of them. He is a director of the Iron Bound Trust Company; trustee of the Franklin Savings Bank; director of the Court House Building and Loan Association, of the Federal Building and Loan Association, and of the Fireman's Building and Loan Association. He takes
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an active and intelligent interest in the municipal charities of Newark, serving as a director of the Bureau of Associated Charities of Newark, and giving his work as well as his name to the uses of the organization.
His political activities are no less noteworthy, serving with a whole- hearted zeal those causes that point toward the betterment industrially and socially of the town of his adoption. He is in his political sympathies a Republican, and has taken an active part in the policies of the party. He is a member of the Republican Indian League, of the Republican County Com- mittee, and of the Seventh Ward Republican Club. In 1906 he was appointed by Mayor Doremus as Play Ground Commissioner and reappointed to the office by Mayor Haussling. He was appointed by Governor Stokes a manager of the New Jersey State Hospital in Morris Plains, which post he holds at the present time. He declined to run for Mayor in 1908, though he was unanimously indorsed for the nomination. He felt that his business respon- sibilities precluded the taking upon himself the further responsibilities of political office of that character. He is a great lover of out-of-doors, is keenly interested in athletics, and as such he is a friend of the boys, having been honored by them with his election to the office of treasurer of the Newark Boys' Club.
Socially, Mr. Jagle is as successful as he is in business. Endowed with a magnetic personality, he is the center of a large circle of friends. The same qualities of geniality, resourcefulness and buoyant energy in each case form a strong, attractive and dominating character. He is constantly sought for his wise and clear-sighted counsel in many matters unconnected with his own interests. He is a member of St. John's Lodge, No. 1, Free and Accepted Masons; Union Chapter, No. 7, Royal Arch Masons; Damascus Commandery, No. 5, Knights Templar; Salaam Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Corinthian Council, No. 644, Royal Arcanum; Unity Conclave, Independent Order of Heptasophs; and Newark Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Mr. Jagle married, April 6, 1903, Elizabeth Caroline, the eldest daugh- ter of John Iffland, of Newark. They have two children: George John and Helen Anna Jagle.
FERD R. MOELLER
A man of many-sided ability is Ferd R. Moeller, and in writing a sketch of him it is a matter of difficulty to decide at which of his numerous achievements it is best to begin. Still at the beginning of the thirties, he has accomplished much more than many business men achieve in the entire course of their lives. In the matter of public improvements in the city of Newark, New Jersey, he has taken a foremost part; in the world of insur- ance and general matters, he is looked up to as a man of progress and sterling principles, and his reputation in the commercial business world is equally high.
His father, Henry W. Moeller, was born in Bremen, Germany, and was a young lad when he arrived in this country. He settled in Texas, where he engaged in the wholesale grocery business. Later he came to New York, where he entered the employ of the F. & M. Schaffer Brewing Company, and when he moved to Newark in 1888 he became the general manager of the Ballantine Brewing Company, an office he filled capably until his retirement from an active business life in 1905. He married Agnes C. Bertram, daugh- ter of Rudolph Bertram, who was a wholesale grocer of Austin, Texas.
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