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lle married, June 5, 1887, Lulu Teed Mercer, daughter of the late George W. Mercer, of New York City, a real estate dealer. For many years Mrs. Blanchard was a member of Grace Episcopal Church, Newark, but was married in Central Methodist Episcopal Church, and later became a member of that congregation. She is a member of the board of lady managers of the Home for the Friendless, the Babies' Hospital, the Philitispara Club, the Contemporary Club, and is interested in other similar organizations, includ- ing many years' service for the Home for Incurables, and the Young Women's Christian Association. Children: Milton Elvin (2d), educated at Newark Academy, Sheffield School, Yale University, and is now a student of medicine at the New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College; Harold Mercer, now a student at Newark Academy, preparing for admission to Williams College, and to become his father's successor in the law.
JONATHAN H. P. STEVENS
A strong man at the head of an important department of a strong com- pany, Mr. Stevens is a valuable addition to the ranks of Newark's business
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men. He has been actively connected with some form of the insurance business since his fourteenth year, and has a rightful claim to having in- herited his ability, thus early demonstrated. His father, Halsey Stevens, was secretary of the old Charter Oak Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, and after the passing of that company was connected with the Hartford Life and Annuity Company.
Jonathan H. P. Stevens was born in Hartford, Connecticut, October 7, 1876, son of Halsey and Achsah (Danforth) Stevens, a descendant of old Connecticut families seated in Norfolk county for over two hundred years. At the age of fourteen years he began his connection with the insurance business, by entering the employ of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, remaining nine years engaged in office work. He was then appointed special agent for the State of Illinois and Central Western territory, continuing until 1905. In that year he was made traveling special agent for the Boiler Department of the Fidelity and Casualty Company, and in 1905 the States of Iowa and Missouri were assigned to him as territory, with offices in St. Louis. He continued with such acceptability to his company that in 1910 he was appointed district agent, with headquarters at Washing- ton, D. C. Early in 1911 he was transferred to Newark as manager of the agency in this city, a connection maintained until his recent resignation, after nine years of honorable successful service in different fields-nearly three years of which was as manager of the Newark agency. It was not to retire from the insurance business that Mr. Stevens resigned, nor to take a step downward, but to accept the management and direction of the Newark branch of the Accident and Liability Department of the Aetna Life Insurance Com- pany, a company with the most enviable record of being one of the largest and strongest companies in the world engaged in writing liability, accident, health and life insurance. With his record of success in the different fields he has covered, there is nothing but bright promise for the future business career of Mr. Stevens. He has the enthusiasm and energy of youth, coupled with a wide experience, a thorough knowledge of business methods in general and the insurance business in particular, possessing the entire confidence of his official superiors and the loyalty and respect of his agency force.
He is a member of South Orange Lodge, No. 1154, Benevolent and · Protective Order of Elks, and a Republican in politics. He is a man of pleasing personality. He married Jessie Rowena, daughter of S. C. Callison, of Des Moines, Iowa.
HARRY V. OSBORNE
Judge Harry V. Osborne, of Newark, a prominent figure in Essex County, is a representative of an old New Jersey family, their residence dating back to the early part of the eighteenth century. He was born in Newark, August 29, 1872, son of William and Elthea (Frazee) Osborne.
After completing his education he went into business, and later entered the office of Judge Robert S. Woodruff, a leading member of the bar of Tren- ton, and was admitted to the bar of his native State at the November term, 1895. He is also a member of the New York bar. He began the active prac- tice of his profession in Trenton in 1895, but during the following year moved to Newark, in which city he has practiced ever since. He has been a student of civic, sociological and charitable problems; is one of the directors of the Newark Bureau of Associated Charities and counsel for that body. Always a Democrat in politics, the first public office Judge Osborne ever
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held was that of State Senator from Essex County from 1908 to 1911. He was the independent candidate on the Democratic ticket, and was elected by a plurality of six hundred and eighty-four, his Republican opponent being Everett Colby, the former holder of the office. During his term he was always interested in legislation tending toward the betterment of the con- dition of the people and the wards of the State. He was leader of the Democratic minority during the last year of his term, and was prominently identified with the progressive legislation passed by the session of 1911-12, having drafted the public utility law of that year, the first effective public utility law the State ever had. He was the author of the law abolishing contract prison labor in the State, and considerable other progressive legisla- tion. He was appointed by Governor (now President) Wilson Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in which capacity he is serving at the present time.
. He is a member of the State Bar Association, the Lawyers' Club of Essex County, the Society of Medical Jurisprudence of New York, the New England Society of Orange, New Jersey; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and a director of the Public Welfare Committee of Essex County.
RICHARD VLIET LINDABURY
To achieve success in one's chosen profession in a community that is favorably inclined from the fact that that community is one that had watched every step from youth, is not a particularly noteworthy success. But to extend that reputation beyond local and State lines and to win commenda- tion from unfriendly communities is an honorable distinction much harder to attain. In a great city and at a bar noted for its many eminent lawyers, a new member is not received with open arms nor is honor and prominence thrust upon a new comer. The high position held in the legal world by Mr. Lindabury has been won in open competition with great lawyers in many courts in many cities and in suits of the greatest importance, the Supreme Court of the United States having been the scene of some of his legal fights and victories.
Son of a Somerset County farmer, Richard V. Lindabury was born at Peapack, New Jersey, October 13, 1850. He attended the public schools and after exhausting their advantages was so fortunate as to win the friend- ship of Rev. Henry P. Thompson, pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church, who encouraged his ambition, offered to tutor him for college, that he might prepare for the ministry. For three years they labored together, but when about ready to enter Rutgers College a severe illness from which recovery seemed doubtful interfered and all thoughts of a college course and minis- terial career were necessarily abandoned. After his recovery, Ex-Congress- man Alvah A. Clark, who was looking for an assistant in his law office, offered the place to the young man. He accepted and for four years he studied under the able direction of Mr. Clark, teaching school at intervals to assist in defraying expenses. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar in February, 1874, and at once opened an office in Bound Brook. He suc- ceeded in building up a good practice in the four years he remained in Bound Brook, but that town was too limited in its opportunities for a man of his ambition and in 1878 he located in Elizabeth and entered the field against the strong established lawyers at the Union County bar. He won his way through sheer merit and during his seventeen years there gradually
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acquired a large clientele and a reputation that far overlapped county lines .. His standing at the bar was so high that in 1892 Mr. Lindabury, then forty- two years of age, was chosen as associate counsel with the eminent Joseph H. Choate in the litigation resulting from the suit brought by the Singer Manufacturing Company against the State of New Jersey for unjust taxation. This suit after a duration of three years was settled in favor of the Singer Company; later he was also retained with Mr. Choate by the American Tobacco Company in the suit instituted by the attorney-general of the State of New Jersey charging the company with operating unlawfully in restraint of trade. Mr. Choate withdrew from the case later, leaving its manage- ment entirely in Mr. Lindabury's hands. The celebrated case finally reached the Court of Errors, where, after a strong and masterly argument by Mr. Lindabury, a decision was handed down in favor of his client. These suits brought him nation-wide fame and later he figured prominently as counsel in a great number of corporate suits brought against some of the greatest corporations of the country, including the Amalgamated Copper Company, the American Smelting Company, the New Jersey Zinc Company and the United States Steel Corporation, the latter case brought by the United States government to establish a violation of the Sherman Act.
In 1896 he moved his legal office to Newark and in 1898 founded and became' senior partner of the law firm, Lindabury, Depew & Faulks, an ' association that still continues.
Other notable cases in which Mr. Lindabury has taken prominent part as counsel are: Robothom vs. the Prudential Insurance Company and Fidelity Trust Company of Newark, in which the merger plan of these companies was successfully enjoined; Conklin vs. The United States Shipbuilding Com- pany; State of New Jersey vs. Rogers & Adrian, in which was established the right of the Supreme Court of the State to adjudicate between two rival senates of New Jersey and determine the legal senate; the case before the United States Supreme Court involving the constitutionality of the Federal Corporation tax of 1909; Blanchard vs. the Prudential Life Insurance Com- pany, involving the question of whether the surplus of that company belongs to the policyholders or the stockholders.
Twenty years ago Mr. Lindabury, as vice-president of the Anti-Race Track League, aided in the final extermination of the notorious race track ring that controlled racing in his State and by its winter and summer and night racing had become so flagrant in its contempt for decency and public opinion that it had become a menace to public morals as well as a corrupt- ing fountain head of political immorality. To carry out the plans of the league and rid the State of the curse, Mr. Lindabury was brought face to face with the alternative of opposing some of the influential men who had secured power in the Democratic party or giving up the fight for public morality. He did not hesitate, but killed race track gambling and gained the powerful enmity of the men who then controlled the Democratic party. Mr. Lindabury was urged to accept a nomination for Governor, but refused as he has also refused appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States and to the Chancery Court of New Jersey.
His connection with the Prudential Life Insurance Company dates from 1906, when he became a stockholder of the company and general counsel. The year previous he had successfully represented the company's interest in the Armstrong insurance investigation in New York City, and has since been Identified with all the questions that have arisen relative to the Pru- dential and which have culminated In the impending mutualization plan.
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His legal business is large and in cases of great moment he is ever prominent. He appeared as counsel for the United States Steel Corpora- tion in 1911 during the progress of the Stanley Congressional Committee Investigation and a year later he was retained by J. P. Morgan & Com- pany, the United States Steel Corporation, and other representative con- cerns to represent them before the Pujo committee. In 1911 he was appointed by Governor Dix, of New York, a commissioner of the Palisades Interstate Park, succeeding W. B. Dana.
Far from the realms of law or business, two recent events have served to prominently bring Mr. Lindabury before the nation. As general counsel for the Prudential Life Insurance Company, he was designated by the board of directors to accept on behalf of the company the statue of the late presi- dent of the company, John F. Dryden, unveiled September 24, 1913. His oration was an eloquent biographical review of the life of the ex-president and so valuable a contribution to literature as to command widespread atten- tion. Again, as president of the Cleveland Monument Association, he deliv- ered an address at the dedication of the memorial tower at Princeton, October 22, 1913, that was not only a heartfelt tribute to the memory of President Cleveland, but a masterpiece of pure diction and elevated senti- ment that could only emanate from the finished orator.
While Mr. Lindabury maintains offices in the Prudential Building in Newark, his residence is a beautiful farm of six hundred acres at Bernards- ville, New Jersey. One of the attractions of the farm and the pride of its owner is one of the finest herds of Guernsey cattle found anywhere in the United States. He belongs to many of the leading clubs of New Jersey and New York City and in political faith is a Democrat. His scholarly attain- ments were recognized by the faculty of Rutgers College in 1904 in con- ferring upon him the honorary degree of LL. D.
Mr. Lindabury married, July 8, 1892, Lillie, daughter of Jacob and Mary Van Saun, and has children: Margaret and Richard Vliet Lindabury, Jr.
JOHN EDWARD HELM
Prominent among the younger members of the Newark bar, and one of the leading specialists in trust estate, corporation and patent practice, Mr. Helm occupies well-earned and honorable position. He has been identi- fied with Newark from his earliest breath, as was his father, and with the Newark bar since his admission in 1900.
John E., son of George W. and Bertha (Nittinger) Helm, was born in Newark, August 20, 1878. He obtained his early education in the public schools of Newark, private schools, both English and German, preparing for college in New York, also receiving private instruction in foreign languages. His collegiate course was begun and completed in the University of the City of New York, class of 1899: After graduation he began the study of law, his preceptors being Howard W. Hayes, George S. Duryee, Edward H. Duryee, and George H. Lambert. He was admitted to practice at the New Jersey bar as an attorney in February, 1900. In 1901 he was admitted to a partnership with one of his former preceptors, Howard W. Hayes, an association that continued two years, until the death of Mr. Hayes. He then became a partner with another of his preceptors, Edward H. Duryee, practicing as Duryee & Helm until 1906, when death again deprived him of his associate. He is now practicing alone. Early in his career and
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following the lead of his partner, Mr. Hayes, who was one of the great patent lawyers of the country, Mr. Helm specialized in patent law, trust estate, and corporation law. He succeeded Mr. Hayes as counsel for Thomas A. Edison, and since 1902 has protected the legal rights of that great inventor in both the United States and Europe. During this guardianship he has been personally engaged in many suits in all parts of the Union, the importance of the cases and the ability with which they were conducted by Mr. Helm in person having gained him the favorable opinion of the officials of other corporate interests whom he now represents as counsel. He has achieved a notable success in this branch of his profession, and is one of the recognized authorities. He also represents many estates, and has an influential, desirable clientele in that department as well. He has been admitted to practice in all State and federal courts of the district and in the courts of other States than his own. He has numerous business con- nections outside his profession; is vice-president of the Essex Press (Inc.) Printers, of Newark, and is president and treasurer of several other corpora- tions.
Mr. Helm is prominent in the Masonic Order; is a thirty-second degree Mason, A. A. S. R .; a Master Mason of Kane Lodge, F. and A. M .; a com- panion of Union Chapter, R. A. M .; member of Kane Council, R. and S. M .; a knight of Damascus Commandery, K. T., and a noble of Salaam Temple, A. A. O. N. of the M. S.
Besides membership in professional societies and associations, he is connected in active membership with the Newark Board of Trade, the Lawyers' Club of Newark, the Friars' Club of New York, the Automobile Club of New Jersey, the Union, North End, Down Town and Chamber of Commerce clubs of Newark, and the B. P. O. E.
ISIDOR KALISCH, D. D.
Isidor Kalisch, D. D., one of the most distinguished rabbis of his time, was born in Krotoschin, Duchy of Posen, Prussia, November 5, 1816, and died in Newark, New Jersey, May 9, 1886. The Rev. Burnham Kalisch, of Krotoschin, his father, was "widely known throughout the Duchy as a man of learning, piety and benevolence," and was "deeply versed in Hebraic lore." He died in Krotoschin, September 1, 1856. His wife was a woman of strong intellect and great force of character. Of their seven children, the eldest was the Rev. Isidor Kalisch, D. D.
Dr. Kalisch was even more illustrious than his father, receiving inter- national recognition through his public labors and his published works. From early childhood he evinced decidedly scholarly predilection, and "in his ninth year was remarkably proficient in Talmudical and Hebrew learn- ing." After finishing the curriculum of the gymnasium (on a par with our American colleges) he studied in the Universities of Berlin, Breslau, and Prague, obtaining testimonials from the most eminent professors. During this time he was a contributor to leading German periodicals, notably the Breslauer, Beobachter, the Figaro, and Dr. Julius Fuerst's Orient. He was the author of one of the most popular songs of that war-like period in Germany, "War Song of the Germans" ( "Schlacht Gesang der Deutschen"), which was dedicated to the Prince of Prussia, December 31, 1842, and was accepted by Prince (afterward Emperor) William in a note to Dr. Kalisch, January 12, 1843. The song was set to music by Music Director Mueller,
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of Breslau, and at once became the fashion. His attitude has thus been characterized : "Imbued with the love of liberty, and witnessing the oppres- sion of his fellowmen under the forms of government and law, his generous nature decried these things; he wrote poems breathing the true spirit of liberty; contributed articles to newspapers which were condemned as sedi- tious by tyrannical censors; and thus, when in 1848 the revolutionary fever had reached a crisis, he became one of the many obnoxious citizens who were inimical to the welfare of Prussia because they were stumbling blocks to the progress of tyranny and oppression. He was compelled to leave Ger- many. He made his way to London, England, and after a sojourn there of several months he left for New York City."
Dr. Kalisch delivered in Krotoschin, in 1843, the "first German sermon ever preached in his native town." He arrived in New York on August 28, 1849, and the following July was called as minister of the Congregation Tifireth Israel, of Cleveland, Ohio. Here he began the distinctive work which was afterward to characterize his labors as a rabbi and carry his name to every section of the country. Finding his charge at Cleveland strictly orthodox (hermetically attached to all the useless and meaningless Jewish religious rites and ceremonies of bygone ages), Dr. Kalisch "unhesitatingly and boldly planted the banner of reformed Judaism" among them, and by means of his sound reasoning disarmed opposition, and presently saw the congregation "thoroughly infected" with his own spirit of reform. His work in Cleveland has been well characterized as a "sudden revolution in the affairs of the Jewish Church." It inaugurated a movement which spread in every direction. The immediate effect is best described in the words of the memoir previously cited : "The preacher's course, while it received the sanction of his congregation, drew him into heated newspaper controversies with the orthodox Jewish ministers in various cities. They were, however, silenced by his trenchant and facile pen."
The result of his vigorous onslaught on the worthless ceremonies, customs and rites practiced by orthodox Jews was the assembling of the first conference of rabbis at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1855. The object of this conference was to better the spiritual condition of the Jews in America; to strip the Jewish divine services from heathenish and idolatrous customs; to weed out senseless and useless prayers; and to establish a uniform divine service throughout the land. Dr. Kalisch's removals from one city to another were largely induced by his zeal to spread and perfect the movement begun at Cleveland. Moreover, he devoted several years between pastorates to lecturing and preaching in all the large cities in the Union, carrying on the same propaganda. Yet in no instance did he fail to devote himself with equal zeal to the material condition of his congregation. In Cleveland, through his exertions, a new synagogue and school were erected. In Mil- waukee he accomplished a similar achievement after having reunited a con- gregation which had divided into two factions, worshipping in separate synagogues. Through his efforts was also organized in Milwaukee the "Die Treue Schwester," a benevolent society among the Jewish ladies.
As a profound scholar, philologist, and prolific author, Dr. Kalisch must always remain best known to the learned world. He wrote numerous essays on religious and secular subjects, maintained and carried on extensive reli- gious controversies in the Jewish press, both aggressive and defensive, with the orthodox and ultra-reform elements in Judaism, and wrote poems which appeared at frequent intervals in German newspapers and periodicals. His lecture on the "Source of All Civilization" attracted wide attention, and
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was reviewed by James Parton in the Atlantic Monthly (August, 1867); another on "Ancient and Modern Judaism" was not less notable; while still others of note were on "Divine Providence," "The Origin of Language and the Great Future of the English Tongue," "Jewish Ethics," and the "Life and Works of Moses Maimonides." He contributed a series of articles on the Talmud, "The Wine of the Bible," "All Christians Astray on Baptism," and kindred topics to the Christian Union, of which Henry Ward Beecher was then editor; and in various periodicals in this country published such essays as the "Origin of the Doctrine of Demons and Evil Spirits Taught by Judaism and Christianity Illustrated," "Opinions on the Value of the Talmud by the Most Learned Christian Theologians," "On the Sphere of Our Activity as Israelites," "The Old Biblical Doctrine of the Idea of God," "On the Science of Education," together with critical biographies of Moses Maimonides and Haftaly Hartewid Wesely. His "Wegweiser fuer Rationelle Forschungen in den Biblischen Schriften," published in 1853, received the flattering notice of the German, English and French press. In this profound work he con- tends upon the basis of a critical examination of the New Testament Scriptures that all that is distinctive in Christianity is derived from Judaic doctrines and customs. In 1855, at the solicitation of Professor Gibbs, of Yale College, Dr. Kalisch deciphered the Phoenician inscription found at Sidon, Asia. His rendering was read before the London Syro-Egyptian Society and published in the transactions of that society as preferable to the translations submitted about the same time by the Duc le Luynes, of Paris; E. C. Dietrich, of Marburg, Germany, and W. M. W. Turner. Dr. Kalisch published a splendid English translation of Lessing's "Nathan de Weise," and rendered the same service for the "Sepher Yezirah," the first philosophical book ever written in the Hebrew language. In connection with this last he also issued a "Sketch of the Talmud," in which he sum- marizes the results of fifty years of study.
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