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Besides his rare learning and fecundity as a prose writer, he was a poet of unusual powers. He possessed the extraordinary ability of cultivat- ing the muses in three languages, German, Hebrew and English. In 1865 his German poems to that date were collected in a volume entitled "Sounds of the Orient" ("Toene des Morgen-Landes"). Such gems in this volume as "Die Mystiche Harfe,". "Der Teufelstein," and "Gesicht der Seele," are unsurpassed of their kind. Of his Hebrew hymns many are to be found in the Reformed Hebrew Prayer Book. Another poem in Hebrew, read before the Cleveland Conference already referred to, has been pronounced a master- piece. "After his death," we learn, "among his manuscripts was found a considerable collection of original Hebrew poems, tales and fables, and trans- lations from German and English poets into Hebrew, which have never found their way into print." Among his other published writings may be mentioned his contributions to Talmudic Lexicography in the London Jew- ish Chronicle and Hebrew Observer (March 22, 1867), and in the Judische Literatur Blatt (Magdeburgh, Germany); English sermons which appeared in the Jewish Messenger on "Timely Words," in 1870, and on ."Excellence of Judaism," in 1871; a series of "Exegetical Lectures on the Bible" (The Occident, Philadelphia, 1851 and 1852); a series of "Contributions on Philosophical Literature" ( American Israelite, 1854 and 1855); "Prefatory Remarks to the Book of Esther" (1857); "The Book of Antiochus" (trans- lated from the Hebrew, 1859); "A Disquisition Concerning the Time of Composing the Accents of the Hebrew" (1863); "Hebrew Literature and Proselytism According to the Biblical Talmudical Laws" (1866); "Discourse
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on the Preference of the Mosaic Laws," as delivered by Rabbi Moses ben Nacham in 1263, before King Jacob, at Saragossa (translated 1866) ; "Con- tributions to the Jewish Liturgy" (1870); "Historical Researches-Who Was Tryphon, Mentioned by Justin the Martyr," etc., (1880); "Disquisition on Some Liturgical Subjects," (1880); "The Value of the Hebrew Lan- guage" (1880); "Real Treasures of Earth" (1880).
Dr. Kalisch left five sons, of whom four-Leonard, Samuel (q. v.), Abner and Burnham-became lawyers, and one, Albert, became a journalist; and a daughter, Mrs. Simon Wiener.
WILLIAM PARMENTER MARTIN
William Parmenter Martin, one of the ablest members of the New Jersey and New York bars, also prominent in political circles in the State of New Jersey, is a descendant of an old English family, whose first repre- sentative in this country was John Martin, who came from Devonshire, England, to the plantation of Dover in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, now New Hampshire, in 1634, removing to Woodbridge township, in New Jersey, in 1668, and there became one of the most prominent men.
William Mulford Martin, grandfather of William Parmenter Martin, was a Presbyterian clergyman. He married Anne Elizabeth Parmenter, daughter of James and Maria Haskell (Thayer) Parmenter, the former of whom was of Cambridge and the latter of the Boston family of that name. Their son James Parmenter Martin, father of William Parmenter Martin, was a prominent factor in the affairs of San Francisco; also represented the Bank of California in Virginia City, Nevada. He married Holdena White Bell, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Bookstaver Bell, and a descendant of Governor Bradford through Captain James Avery, of New London, Con- necticut, who commanded the united forces of the colonies in King Philip's wars, and through John Humfrey, deputy governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and first major-general of the colony. Among Mr. Martin's ancestors were five who fought in the Revolutionary War, and one was a naval captain in the War of 1812.
William Parmenter Martin was born in Virginia City, Nevada, October 8, 1871. He attended the public schools of San Francisco, acquiring a practical education, and later was a student in the Columbia University Law School, from which he was graduated in the class of 1892. He then entered the law firm of Tracy, Boardman & Platt, in New York City, in whose employ he remained for a short period of time, and then established a practice of his own in that city, which has proved highly successful. He was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in the early part of the year 1893, and opened an office for the practice of his profession in Newark, being equally successful in his work in that city. As a lawyer his abilities are pronounced, and the litigation with which he has been identified has been handled with a skill and effectiveness that have won him enviable prestige.
A Progressive Republican in his political principles, he has taken an active part in the work of his party and has acquired recognition as one of the leaders of the organization, wielding an influence that is potential in Republican politics of his county and State. He served as a member of the Common Council of Newark for three terms, 1902-1907 inclusive, and was for the same period chairman of the Committee on Compilation and Revision of the City Charter and of the laws relating to Newark, as well
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as a member of the finance and legislation committees. He was chosen as the leader of the Republican minority on the floor of the council during 1907. He initiated a campaign for changes in many of the city ordinances and led the movement against the Special Privileges Corporations and the Boss System in the party to which he belonged. He was the first public official in the city, county or State openly to oppose the Public Service Corporation and he began the fight single-handed and alone. He prevented the looping of the new City Hall by the trolley system, an accomplishment which has ever since been recognized as of the greatest advantage to the city and to the general operation of traveling conditions. He also was an active factor in the fight against the five per cent. ordinance agreement, thus saving the city of Newark upwards of thirty thousand dollars a year; favored the City Hall lighting plant and the municipal lighting plant; was active in the preparation and adoption of the theatre ordinance and in the support of measures for the reorganization of the Building Department of the city.
In 1905 he undertook the famous campaign which Everett Colby made to secure the nomination for State Senator. At personal sacrifice of time and money and against the advice of many of his friends, Mr. Martin took upon himself this responsibility, led in the work of building up an inde- pendent organization, won the victory in the primary, and in the election was successful in electing the Senator, Sheriff and Assemblyman. In the legislative session of 1906 many progressive bills were introduced by the Senator and Assemblyman of Essex County and many of them were pre- pared by Mr. Martin, including the primary recount bill, the repeal of the act for the protection of fraudulent promoters, and other important measures.
In the autumn of 1906, after the regular faction of the party had been defeated at the polls, Mr. Martin was offered the chairmanship of the County Committee of Essex County, but declined the honor. Again in the primaries of 1907 and in the subsequent election he won in opposition to the regular party leaders. He was elected a member of the New Jersey Legislature in 1908 and in that body was a leader of the Progressive Republicans. He was talked of first for Speaker of the Assembly, but was finally chosen unani- mously for leader of the majority. In that position he was the foremost figure of one of the most interesting and important sessions of the Legisla- ture that New Jersey has known in the present generation, and aided materially in securing the enactment into law of several important reforms.
In 1908 Mr. Martin was tendered the support of a large number of influential friends for the nomination for Congress in the Seventh District, to succeed the Hon. Richard Wayne Parker, but declined to enter the lists, believing that his duty was to go to Trenton and there make a fight for the enactment of a proper public utilities law and other important progres- sive measures. He therefore became a candidate for nomination to the General Assembly, and after a hard fought battle in a primary, and with the largest vote ever polled at a primary in the county, he won by a plurality of five hundred votes over his nearest competitor and was re-elected.
Mr. Martin is a member of the Bar Association of the city of New York, Lawyers' Club of Essex County, Lincoln Club, Roseville Athletic Association, California Society of New York, University Club of Newark, Essex Country Club, Board of Trade of Newark, Republican Club of New York, Lawyers' Club of New York, and many bodies of the Masonic Order. Mr. Martin married, June 10, 1896, Margaret Morrison, of Geneva, New York.
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CHIEF JUSTICE DAVID AYRES DEPUE
The late Chief Justice David Ayres Depue was more than ordinarily distinguished as a judge in a State prolific of able jurists. He possessed the judicial mind in an eminent degree, and his knowledge and under- standing of the science of law made him an authority. He was of the seventh generation of his family in this country, being descended from Hugo the Crusader, who served under Godfrey de Bouillon in 1096, and whose father was Raphael Dupuy, who was governor of Languedoc and Dauphiny under Conrad II. The parents of Judge Depue were Benjamin and Elizabeth (Ayres) Depue.
Chief Justice David Ayres Depue was born at Mount Bethel, Northamp- ton township, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1826, and died at his home in Newark, New Jersey, April 3, 1902. He received his preparatory education at the school conducted by Rev. John Vander Veer, in eastern Pennsylvania, then matriculated at Princeton College, New Jersey, and was graduated from this institution in the class of 1846. His father had removed to Belvi- dere, Warren County, New Jersey, and Judge Depue returned to that town and commenced the study of law in the offices of John Maxwell Sherrerd, who was one of the leading lawyers in Sussex and Warren counties. The example and training he received here were always held in the highest estimation by Judge Depue, and he attributed much of his later success to this thorough grounding. Judge Depue was admitted to the bar as an attorney in July, 1849, and as a counsellor, February, 1856. From 1849 until 1866 he was in constant practice in Belvidere, being called to the bench in the last mentioned year. When Governor Marcus L. Ward was ready to appoint a successor to Judge Haines in 1866 he probably knew very little personally of Judge Depue, but the latter was highly recommended for the office by the judges and lawyers of Sussex and Warren counties, and he was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court, November 16, 1866, being assigned to the Essex and Union Circuit. At this time he removed his home to Newark, and continued that as his place of residence until his death.
Judge Depue married (first) in 1859, Mary Stuart, (second) in 1862, Delia Ann Van Allen. By the first marriage there was a daughter, Eliza; by the second marriage, Sherrerd, who was also a distinguished lawyer of New Jersey, and the holder of a number of important public offices; Mary, who married Sidney Norris Ogden; Frances.
The appointment of Judge Depue to the office of Chief Justice came as the fitting culmination of thirty-four years of service as associate judge of the Supreme Court, and it was in this latter office that his eminence as a judge became fully recognized. His appointment as Chief Justice took place May 2, 1900, and he remained in the active discharge of these duties until the close of his thirty-fifth year on the bench. He and his associates, Beasley and Van Syckel, were all men of great strength and learning in the law, and of the three Judge Depue's influence was most strongly felt. He was fair and just, and determined that justice should be done without fear or favor, being especially careful of the rights of the public and the common people. No better or truer opinion of the character and qualities of Judge Depue can be given than that voiced by his legal admirers .: When the death of Chief Justice Depue was announced, Attorney-General Robert H. McCarter said: "I do not believe that New Jersey-aye, this. broad land of ours-has yet produced a lawyer or judge with greater knowledge of case law or a more remarkable aptitude or facility for making use of this knowledge than had Judge Depue." Mr. Justice Van Syckel said, in part:
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"He soon impressed the public and the bar with a sense of his fitness and capacity by his strict, but just and impartial, administration of the law. He won the confidence and respect, to which he was deservedly entitled, by his purity of life, his sincerity and integrity of character, his exalted views of duty and his marked ability as a judge. He did not display the meteoric brilliancy of intellect which dazzles, and delights, and capti- vates, while it exhausts itself in the beauty which it creates. The distinc- tion which he achieved was the product of patient investigation, untiring research, and unremitting labor, applied by a vigorous intellect, to every subject submitted to his consideration. His profound knowledge of the law, his close analysis, and his power of discrimination are displayed in his opinions, which abound in our law and equity reports from the time of his elevation to the bench in 1866 until his retirement as Chief Justice in 1901.
"Logical, accurate and forcible in his reasoning, with an innate love of justice, he was seldom at fault in his conclusions. He fortified his opinions by elaborate discussion and a wealth of authority, with which thorough investigation and exhaustive research always supplied him. With every department of the law to which his duty directed his attention, lie made himself familiar. In controversies involving the title to real estate, the construction of wills, common law procedure and commercial paper, he was an authority.
"His opinions are rich in learning, and an invaluable contribution to the discussion of the subjects to which they pertain. Without detracting from the merit of those who preceded him, it is not undue praise to say that, in familiarity with adjudged cases and in a comprehensive knowledge of the law, he was not excelled by anyone who has occupied a seat upon the bench of our State. Inspired by a love of learning, he was a wide and diligent reader, not only in the range of the law, but also of history and the choice literature of the times. His retentive memory treasured and stored up all that was of value. Unostentatious and modest in his deport- ment, of rare simplicity in his taste and habits, he scorned vulgar display and despised shallow pretension. The desire which dominated his life was to faithfully discharge every duty which devolved upon him to the best of his ability. His courteous demeanor, the respect and consideration he gave to the views of others, and his readiness to yield to the better reason, which he was quick to perceive, endeared him to his associates on the bench, and impressed them with confidence in his singleness of purpose to find the true solution of every legal problem. He had the self-confidence which is born of eminent ability, and a thorough knowledge of his subject, but he was self-reliant without being self-conscious. His true manhood and his singular devotion to duty rendered his life at once a benefaction to his State and an example to be emulated. A genial, warm-hearted, constant friend, with a sincere greeting for all with whom he came in contact, it was a merited recognition of the esteem in which he was held that, upon his retirement as Chief Justice, the bar of the entire State assembled at the capitol to do him honor."
A portrait of Chief Justice Depue, which had been painted for the bar for presentation to the State, now hangs in the Supreme Court room.
FRANKLIN MURPHY
Ex-Governor Franklin Murphy --- patriot, soldier, statesman, scholar, and business man of exceptional ability -- has a more than ordinarily inter- esting history. The city of Newark, in which the greater part of his life has been spent, may well feel proud of a citizen of his caliber.
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Robert Murphy, the immigrant ancestor of ex-Governor Murphy, was born in Ireland, and emigrated to this country from England about 1756. He settled in Connecticut, and was there 'engaged in teaching. He married Ann, a daughter of Joshua Knapp, of Greenwich. Robert, son of Robert and Ann (Knapp) Murphy, was born in Connecticut in 1759. At the out- break of the Rovolution he enlisted in the Bergen County, New Jersey, troops, and served under General Nathaniel Greene in the battle of Long Island and other conflicts. He married Hannah Doane. William, son of Robert and Hannah (Doane) Murphy, was born April 23, 1795. He mar- ried Sarah, daughter of Benjamin and Phebe (Crane) Lyon, of Elizabeth- town, and a descendant of Henry Lyon, a soldier under Cromwell, who was the first of the family to come here.
William Hayes, son of William and Sarah (Lyon) Murphy, was born in Newark, New Jersey, April 15, 1821, and died October 7, 1905. He attended the public schools of Newark, the Preparatory School at Wilbra- ham, Massachusetts, and was then graduated from the Collegiate Prepara- tory School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The next seventeen years were then spent in business in Jersey City, and the remainder of his life in Newark. He represented the Third Ward of Newark two consecutive terms as an alderman, and was twice a member of the House of Assembly, for Essex County. For more than sixty years he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was a delegate to the General Conference, and in 1901 was delegate to the Ecumenical Council of all the branches which met in London, England, from the Methodist Episcopal Church North of the United States. He was a member, and for a number of years one of the managers, of the New Jersey Society, Sons of the American Revolution. Mr. Murphy married (first) Abigail Elizabeth Hagar, (second) Sarah Richardson Mor- gan, of Poughkeepsie, and had children, five by the first marriage: William Augustus; Franklin, of further mention; Howard; Theodore; Robert; Henry Morgan, deceased; Florence.
Franklin, son of William Hayes and Abigail Elizabeth (Hagar) Murphy, was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, January 3, 1846, and removed to Newark with his parents when he was ten years of age. He was a student at the Newark Academy at the outbreak of the Civil War, and left this institution in July, 1862, in order to give his service to his country. He enlisted in the Thirteenth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, was in active service until the close of the war, being with the Army of the Potomac a part of this time, and serving the remainder under General Sherman. He had been promoted for gallant and meritorious service, and was mustered out as first lieutenant.
The executive ability of Mr. Murphy has been displayed in business matters by founding the firm of Murphy & Company, varnish manufacturers, in Newark, in 1865, this being incorporated as the Murphy Varnish Com- pany in 1891, of which Mr. Murphy has been president without interruption. His public career has been of undimned credit to him and of decided satis- faction to his fellow citizens. From 1883 to 1886 he was a member of the Common Council of Newark, and was at one time president of the council. He was elected to the House of Assembly in 1885; while in office as park commissioner he laid out and completed the parks of Essex County; from March 24, 1886, to 1889, he was a trustee for the Reform School for Boys. President Mckinley appointed him one of the commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition in 1900. He has held official position in numerous financial institutions, social and civic bodies, etc. From the time he cast
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his first vote Mr. Murphy has been a staunch supporter of Republican prin- ciples. He was chairman of the Republican State Committee in 1892, and the campaigns under his management were uniformly successful. Since 1900 he has been a member of the Republican National Committee. In November, 1901, he was elected Governor of New Jersey, and when he entered upon the duties of his office at the commencement of 1902, it was the first time that a business man had held this office in New Jersey. His practical business ideas, however, benefited the entire State in an unusual degree, and the people soon came to a realization and appreciation of this fact. During the three years of his term as Governor, Mr. Murphy also made changes in financial laws which were very beneficial, and he insisted that the State departments should submit their books for inspection to a State auditor, in this way saving a considerable sum to the State. The conservation of the Passaic River was another of his institutions, and he established an efficient system of factory inspection, a tenement house com- mission and an open primary system, all of unending benefit.
Ex-Governor Murphy married, June 24, 1868, Janet, born December 30, 1842, died February 10, 1904, a daughter of Israel Day and Catherine Cox Gale (Hoghland) Colwell. Children now living: (1) Franklin, vice- president of the Murphy Varnish Company, married Harriet Alexander Long, of Chicago; (2) Helen, married William Burnet, son of Thomas Tal- mage and Estelle (Condit) Kinney. Ex-Governor Murphy is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and one of the managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; of Newark and New York clubs of importance; the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; Sons of the American Revolution, of which he was president-general in 1899; Society of the Colonial Wars; and Society of the Cincinnati. He is an eloquent and forcible speaker, and is frequently called upon to make public addresses. Both Lafayette College and Princeton University conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1902.
JUDGE FREDERIC ADAMS
The name of Judge Frederic Adams, of Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, is known as that of a jurist of marked distinction and ability. Although he Is a man of most pronounced views in political matters, and an Independent thinker along many lines, he never allows his judgment to become blased nor his actions as a judge to be influenced. Hlis profound and wide attainments, the clarity and keenness of his mind, combined with a character of the most uncompromising integrity, have won him the unde- viating respect and confidence of the bar and of the citizens over whom he has presided as judge. His father, Rev. Frederic Augustus Adams, a graduate of Dartmouth College, a clergyman and teacher, married Mary J., a daughter of Colonel David McGregor Means, of Amherst.
Judge Frederic Adams was born in Amherst, New Hampshire, October 9, 1840; was graduated from the Phillips Academy, Andover, in the class of 1858, and from Yale College in the class of 1862. The next two years he pursued his legal studies at the Harvard Law School, followed this course in New Jersey and New York, and was admitted to the bar of New York City in 1864. In February, 1868, he was admitted 'as an attorney to the bar of New Jersey, and in November, 1873, he was admitted as a counsellor in New Jersey. His inclinations and special capabilities were for the more exact branches of his profession, and from an early period in his profes-
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sional career his employments were largely in connection with responsible private trusts and in the conduct of important litigation. The main part of his career as a lawyer was passed in Newark, his duties as special and advisory master in chancery occupying the greater part of his time. His public career has been a steady onward progress. He served as clerk of East Orange township, Essex County, New Jersey, and also as counsel for the same. March 23, 1897, he was nominated as judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals by Governor Griggs, to succeed Judge Barkalow; the appointment was unanimously confirmed by the Senate, March 25, 1897. Governor Murphy nominated him as a Circuit Court judge, January 13, 1903, for a full term of seven years, this being unanimously confirmed by the Senate, January 20. Upon the expiration of his term in January, 1910, he was reappointed for a second term of seven years, by Governor Fort, this also being confirmed by the Senate. His circuit comprises the county of Essex, and in his decisions as a judge, as well as in his legal practice, he has brought to bear the dominant traits of his strong character, executive power, determination and perseverance, which have enabled him to reach his present eminent position. In politics he is a Republican.
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