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Ferd R. Moeller was born in Austin, Texas, June 25, 1881. He was seven years of age when his parents took up their residence in Newark. He was educated in the old Green Street School, of this city, and the Newark Academy, from which institution he was graduated in 1899. Some time was then spent in travel in the United States and in Europe before Mr. Moeller entered upon his business career.
In 1900 Mr. Moeller entered the employ of the Commercial Trust Com- pany of Jersey City, and the following year he became associated with the Federal Trust Company of Newark. He resigned his position with this company in order to accept the office of secretary and treasurer of the West Side Trust Company, in June, 1902. He was successfully identified with the affairs of this company for several years, then in May, 1905, established himself in business independently in Broad street, where he has been located since that time. He is a general insurance broker and a dealer in securities of all kinds. In addition to this business he is actively identified with a number of other business enterprises, among them being: Secretary of Four Corners Building and Loan Association; secretary of the White Way Building and Loan Association; secretary and treasurer of the Broad Street Investment Company; president of the Smith-Moeller Company, manu- facturers of ladies' and children's house dresses; president and treasurer of the Acorn Tire and Supply Company; organized the Newark Trust Company, and is a member of its board of directors and of the executive committee of that body.
In 1911 he traveled through Mexico in company with General Garibaldi, a grandson of the liberator of Italy, their object being a prospecting expedi- tion and to look after some property in which they were interested in the States of Morelos and Guerrero.
In the matter of poultry farming, Mr. Moeller is considered an authority. In 1900 he was secretary and treasurer of the New Jersey Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Association, and has won many prizes with the fine birds he has raised. He is a member of the Newark Board of Trade. His connec- tion with other organizations is numerous and is as follows: St. Cecile Lodge, No. 193, Free and Accepted Masons; Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; Salaam Temple; Credit Men's Association; Union Club; recording secretary of the Waterway League of New Jersey, and a number of others. He was the organizer and chief factor in a movement for the better lighting of the city of Newark, and it is chiefly through his determined personal efforts that the city enjoys its brilliantly illuminated streets. He was the first secretary and treasurer of the South Broad Street Merchants' Improvement Associa- tion, and the lighting of the streets which was commenced on Broad street soon spread to all parts of the city.
Mr. Moeller married, January 8, 1908, Elizabeth L., daughter of Frank E. and Mary (Leonard) Ward, of Newark. Mr. Ward's father served in the Union Army throughout the progress of the Civil War, and was an active participant in that struggle. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Moeller are: Elizabeth W. and Virginia M.
The indomitable perseverance of Mr. Moeller is one of his chief char- acteristics, and while he deliberates carefully before he embarks on any undertaking, when he has once taken the matter in hand, it is a foregone conclusion that it will be carried to a successful finish. His views are broad
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and progressive, yet tempered with a certain amount of conservatism. He has gained the esteem and appreciation of all with whom he holds relations, and he is the center of a large circle of friends.
GORDON MANFRED TRAUTSCHOLD
It is to the younger generation, the rising generation, that we must naturally turn for the most progressive ideas in all fields of industry, science, and, last but not least, art in its various ramifications. Among the younger architects of the city of Newark who have already made their mark and gained a certain amount of distinction, honorable mention must be accorded to Gordon Manfred Trautschold, who has made a most exhaustive and well- advised study of the profession of architecture. This has been amply sup- plemented by practical experience, and the results he has already achieved testify to his thorough knowledge of the subject under consideration.
Born in the city of London, England, August 4, 1883, Mr. Trautschold is the son of Manfred Adolph and Marguerite (de Hees) Trautschold, the former named born March 27, 1854, at Giessen, Germany, and the latter named born March 30, 1854, at Brussels, Belgium. They were married at Dover, England, August 22, 1878, and had two sons: Reginald William, born at Verrie, Savoie, France, October 26, 1879, and Gordon Manfred. His parents having come to America with their family and made their home in Montclair, New Jersey, young Gordon Manfred attended the public and high schools of that town, and was graduated from the latter in 1901. Earnest and studious, he continued his studies at the Pratt Institute, Brook- lyn, for one year, then matriculated at Cornell University, from which insti- tution he was graduated in June, 1906, the degree of Bachelor of Archi- tecture being awarded him. Almost immediately after his graduation he went to Europe, spending nine months in traveling and further study of architecture and its allied branches of art in England, Scotland, Belgium, Holland, Germany and France. His return to this country was in the early summer of 1907, when he was most thoroughly equipped for the profession he had chosen as his life work. Young and enthusiastic as he was, he yet deemed it advisable, and wisely, to obtain practical experience in every detail. He accordingly accepted a position as draughtsman in the office of Dudley S. Van Antwerp, of Montclair, and later held a similar one for a time in the office of Grosvenor Atterbury, of New York City, whose name is famous. The experience thus gained was of great value to Mr. Trautschold, and in the late summer of 1907 he left his position with Mr. Atterbury in order to establish himself in independent practice. In this undertaking he has been very reasonably successful, the greater number of his orders having been in connection with private residences. His original and beautiful ideas, and his manner of executing the orders entrusted to him are rapidly gaining for him increased patronage of a very high order, and a brilliant future lies before him.
While Mr. Trautschold takes the intelligent interest in the political situation which characterizes the good citizen, he takes no active part in such affairs other than casting his vote for the candidate who is, in his estimation, best fitted for the office for which he has been nominated. His fraternal affiliations are with the Cornell University Club of New York City. He is not married. The broad and interesting field of his business activity does not prevent him from taking an active interest in the social life of the city, and the genial simplicity of his manner, his unaffected cordiality and true kindness of heart have gained him a host of friends.
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ALBERT H. BIERTUEMPFEL
Albert H. Biertuempfel comes of a family that for generations in Ger- many were devoted to the trade of the millwright, and were well known especially in the river lands of Germany, their native country, where they constructed water power plants for mills in great numbers. The oldest member of this family in recent years was Christian Frederick Biertuempfel who died in 1907, aged one hundred and twenty-four years, a grand-uncle of our subject. The father of Albert H. Biertuempfel was a representative in the German Landtag, at a time when some very important agrarian ques- tions were engaging their attention, and took a prominent part in the discussion.
Albert H. Biertuempfel was born in 1871, in Sachsen, Germany. He, too, was apprenticed to the trades of miller and millwright, in which he showed great inclination. He then filed an application to enter the Military Training School to prepare for an army career such as is usual among the young men of Germany, who are a race of fighters, but for some reason the permission was refused. He then applied for passports to leave the country, and after a six months' delay received them. In the meantime he was employed in the secret department of Messrs. Sauer & Sons' gun factory. He immediately settled in Newark, in the Twelfth Ward, upon his arrival in the United States in 1889. He was then eighteen years of age, and he soon sought a business opening, which he and his brother made for them- selves by erecting the Central Machine Works. This building being finished, he found it necessary to add to his store of information by learning the trade of machinist. For five years he studied in this direction, attended the public night school at South Market street, Newark, and was graduated therefrom, with the first prize for attendance, as well as a diploma, as his record showed that he had not missed a single session in the two terms. After that he attended three seasons at the Technical School which made him master of every detail of a machinist's craft. He then found employ- ment as superintendent of the New Market Flour Mills and the Water Turbine Plant. One of his big pieces of draughtsmanship was the com- pletion of plans and specifications for a turbine water power plant to be used in a saw and flour mill at the Green Brook River. All this experience, together with his knowledge of the technical details involved, and his logical faculty applied to the whole, have induced him to give much time and attention to the subject of a municipal turbine water power plant with which a lighting system might be installed for the city of Newark, at much profit to the taxpaying public. He has been an earnest advocate of this scheme.
Another business venture which he entered into with his brother was the organization of the company known as the Newark Cork Works. By the purchase of his brother's share in this concern, he afterwards gained full control and has himself managed its successful development. Seventy- five per cent. of all corks made in Newark, and ninety per cent. of those used in that city, are the product of his factory. In 1907 he began to supply the New York market and now has agencies in all leading cities of the United States, which has made it necessary for him to double the capacity of his plant. It produces 8,400,000 corks a week out of raw material which is brought from the forests of Spain and Portugal. He recently drew up the plans for enlarging his plant, and an experimenting department accom- modated in a separate building has already been provided for the utilization of cork waste. This development of the cork industry is entirely due to Mr.
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Biertuempfel, who possesses original genius of a constructive kind, and mentality of large calibre. All the improvements in his plant were produced by thoughts growing from his own actual practical experience. One is a refinement on cork-cutting machinery, and another converts waste cork into material good for many uses, such as insulating materials, sheet cork, com- position cork, paving bricks, composition disks for various uses, for tin crowns for the bottling trade, which line he has added to his business, with an output of over a million per day. Corks are a commodity in universal and continual demand, and Mr. Biertuempfel's concern keeps on hand ready for any exigency of trade an amount of manufactured stock valued at $40,000. The owner of the factory is a man of tireless powers. He is ever on hand, and his constant oversight comprehends all details and directs the workings of every department, in which are employed a total of one hundred operators.
Mr. Biertuempfel is a Democrat, and thoroughly understands political matters, although not taking a place as speaker upon the debating platform. That he is popular is evidenced by his being elected three times to the post of alderman in the Twelfth Ward, where he received the largest plurality ever accorded to a candidate. On this board he has been a member of various committees, especially those of Weights and Measures, Public Build- ing, Municipal Lighting, Public Markets, and Election. He has been elected Commissioner of Board of Works, having the largest majority on the entire city ticket. In business associations he is a director of the Twelfth Ward and the Commonwealth Building and Loan Association, and is also a member of the Board of Trade. He is connected with various social organ- izations besides the Turn Verein. He is connected with Diogenes Lodge, No. 22, Free and Accepted Masons; Essex County Forest, No. 8, Tall Cedars of Lebanon, New Jersey; Harmony Chapter, No. 9, and has attained the . thirty-second degree; Atlas Lodge, No. 68, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows; Alamo Council, No. 1749, Royal Arcanum; Lodge No. 21. Benevolent and Protective Order of Elky. Mr. Biertuempfel's generous disposition towards his employees, and his enterprise and constructive genius have made him a man thoroughly trusted, widely esteemed and greatly admired.
Mr. Biertuempfel married, January 4, 1898, Cecelia Allgair. They have two children: Alma and Frieda.
ROBERT A. OSBORNE
Robert A. Osborne, one of the most prominent real estate and insurance men of the city of Newark, New Jersey, has been identified with important business interests for the greater part of half a century. He is a son of the late Elias and Margaret (Moore) Osborne, and was born in Belleville, Essex County, New Jersey. He received a thorough education in the Belle- ville public schools, the Montgomery district school and the Rundell Academy at Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey.
His business career began as a clerk in the office of John D. Mitchell & Company, wholesale and retail coal dealers on Commerce street, Newark, New Jersey. One year later he entered the employ of the Citizens' Fire Insurance Company, at No. 443 Broad street. Eighteen months later he was elected to the office of secretary of the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company, No. 751 Broad street. Five years later he reinsured the risks of the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company with the German-American Insurance Company of New York, and in 1880 reinsured the risks of the Old Mechanics' Fire Insur-
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He was one of the incorporators of the South Broad Street Merchants' Improvement Association, and served as one of the trustees of this body. This was the first improvement association to place the flaming arc lights on Broad street, a proceding which advertised Newark far and wide, and caused delegations to come from distant points, even as far off as Canada, in order to inspect the lights. He was also one of the incorporators and is a member of the executive committee of the Broad Street (North) Improvement Associa- tion, which placed the flaming arc lights north of Market street. He is a member of the Fourth Ward Improvement Association, this being the central ward of the city. He has been a member of the Newark Board of Trade for many years. He has been in business on Broad street, in the same neighbor- hood, for forty years. Mr. Osborne was elected a trustee of the German Savings Bank in 1894, and has served as trustee since that date. He is a member of the election board of the National Newark Banking Company, and a member of the New Jersey Historical Society.
Mr. Osborne has never held any political office. He was drawn to serve as a member of the Federal grand jury for the 1913 term. He is a veteran of the National Guard, State of New Jersey. He enlisted in the Essex Troop of Cavalry, First Troop, National Guard of New Jersey, his term of enlist- ment being five years; re-enlisted for one year. He was awarded a medal for two years as a marksman; a medal for four years as a sharpshooter; a one hundred per cent. medal for full duty each year of service. Mr. Osborne holds no membership in secret societies, and his religious affiliation is with the Presbyterian church.
Mr. Osborne married, in Newark, 1883, Elizabeth, daughter of David and Sidney P. Graves. They have two children: Lucille Marguerite (Mrs. H. J. Lamar Washington), born in 1889, and Elizabeth Kathlyn, born in 1898.
As an insurance expert Mr. Osborne has had few rivals. In the realty field his work has been equally successful. His business undertakings show great shrewdness and conservatism, and a fair mental horizon. His con- scientious regard for the truth, his honesty and perfectly fair dealing, have won him the confidence of strangers as well as personal friends. In the development of Newark he has been eminently representative.
WILLIAM BURNET KINNEY
William Burnet Kinney was one of those sons of New Jersey who have through valuable public service reflected great lustre upon their native State. As a journalist and literary man of high culture and attainments he did a conspicuous share in holding aloft the standard of American letters, a service which was only second to that which he performed for his country as a diplomat and man of public affairs. He was born in Speedwell, Morris County, New Jersey, September 4, 1799, son of Abraham and Hannah ( Burnet) Kinney.
His father was a man of a very profound and unusual culture, and the early education of William B. Kinney was acquired through the companion- ship and direction of this scholar. He also followed his father to the War of 1812, though then but a very young boy. The beneficent influence of this high-minded and noble scholar is shown throughout the career of the son. It was his father's intention that he should be educated for military service, and he was accordingly sent to the Military Academy at West Point. His father died while he was there and at the wish of his mother he resigned from the institution, as she thought that his abilities were such
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as to qualify him more for a learned profession or a literary career. He was then put under the direction of tutors and instructors of scholarly eminence, and later entered upon the study of the law in the office of his brother, Thomas Talmadge Kinney, coming afterwards under the tutelage of his cousin, Joseph C. Hornblower, who was later Chief Justice of the State of New Jersey. Though the success he had as a student and the great ability he evinced as a speaker pointed to a career of distinction at the bar, his tastes were so decidedly in the direction of literature that he gave up the law without being admitted to the bar. He then took up the work of journalism and from 1820 to 1825 was the editor of the New Jersey Eagle, a weekly paper of Newark. In 1825 he removed to New York and took an active part in the organization of the Mercantile Library, serving for a time as the librarian, and acting in a critical capacity for the firm of Harper's Brothers. In this position his keen, scholarly acumen was of great value in passing upon the books and manuscripts submitted for publication.
After spending a number of years in New York Mr. Kinney returned to Newark and undertook the management of the Daily Advertiser, at that time the only daily paper in New Jersey, and to this he united as its weekly issue one called the Sentinel of Freedom. As was to be expected under the management of a man of this calibre, the character of the journal became of the highest literary standard. His literary work was recognized in 1840 by his being elected one of the trustees of the College of New Jersey at Prince- ton, he having previously been honored by the degree of that institution. He was also made in this year the delegate-at-large to the Whig National Convention that nominated General Harrison to the Presidency, but this honor he declined. Four years after this, in 1844, he was sent to the Whig convention in the city of Baltimore as the delegate-at-large for his State. Through a coalition of the opposing forces in 1843 he narrowly missed being sent to Congress as the candidate of the Fifth District of New Jersey.
In 1851 he was appointed by President Fillmore Minister to the Court of Sardinia at Turin, an important diplomatic post which his eminent abil- Ities and culture, both literary and philosophical, fitted him to fill with great satisfaction to the home government, and rendered him of invaluable service to the State to which he had been accredited. It was at that time that the Sardinian government was being reconstructed along constitutional lines, and Mr. Kinney was in close touch with all the master minds of the day, his reputation as a scholar and as an authority upon political questions, added to a personality both engaging and forcible, giving him an influence as an exponent of republican principles which became very apparent in the establishment of those liberal institutions which have since marked the Italian polity. Not only was he of signal service to the cause of constitu- tional government in Italy, but he rendered himself so valuable to the government of Great Britain by the performance of some delicate and important diplomatic business that he was the recipient of a special despatch tendering the thanks of his government from the prime minister, Lord Palmerston. It was very largely owing to the secret dispatches of Mr. Kinney to Mr. Webster at the time of the Kossuth excitement that our government was kept from an official connection with a controversy which would have involved grave complications with foreign powers. His influence while at the Court of Turin was continually being exercised for all pro- gressive and humanitarian measures. An instance of this was his procuring for the Waldensian sect, persecuted so long and so bitterly by the Church of Rome, the right of toleration from the King of Italy, and a permission to
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erect a place of worship in the city of Turin, the first church building they had ever been allowed to own in that city. When the time came for the dedication of the edifice he was chosen to lay the cornerstone.
Mr. Kinney remained abroad after the expiration of his term of office, making his residence for a number of years in Florence, in the midst of that distinguished and cultivated coterie of writers and artists of. whom the Brownings and the sculptor, Hiram Powers, were notable examples. He had become deeply interested in the history of the Medici family, and he devoted a large portion of his time to that study, and to the collection of material for a monumental work on the subject. This project was left uncompleted by his death. He had during his residence abroad kept a diary of the most important and interesting incidents of his public trans- actions and of his private intercourse with the personages of the day, and this manuscript, comprising a mine of information at first hand of the incidents of a most momentous and critical period, remains in the pos- session of his family.
About the time of the close of the Civil War in the United States Mr. Kinney returned to his native land and spent the remainder of his life in retirement, devoting himself to literary pursuits. In May, 1866, at the time of the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the settlement of Newark, he was chosen to deliver the oration at the First Presbyterian Church of Newark. This was a valuable summary of the work accon- plished by the Puritans, and it has been preserved in the "Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society." The latter period of his life was one of much suffering which greatly interfered with his cherished literary work. He died in New York, October 21, 1880, and was buried in the churchyard of the First Presbyterian Church of Newark.
He married (first) September 15, 1820, Mary, daughter of Finley and Jemima (Winans) Chandler; she died January 28, 1841, aged thirty-eight. The children were: Thomas Talmadge and William Burnet, Jr., the latter born September 10, 1824, died February, 1825. He married (second) November 16, 1841, Mrs. Elizabeth Clementine (Dodge) Stedman, daughter of David L. Dodge and widow of Edmund Burke Stedman. The children of this marriage were Elizabeth Clementine, who married William Ingra- ham Kip, son of Bishop William Ingraham Kip, and Mary Burnet, who married Nelson Starin Easton.
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