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Mr. Trabold was married June 25, 1882, to Miss Ida Melvina Knight, who was born in Pennsylvania, and is the daughter of Eli and Sarah Elizabeth (Doremus) Knight. Her father died in 1866. To Mr. and Mrs. Trabold were born a son and daughter, Christina and Joseph, but both are now de- ceased.
genious devices, including a combination door check and bolt and a beer cooler and refrigerator. He is a man of many excel- lent qualities and Newark numbers him among her valued citizens.
NOAH O. BALDWIN,
of Caldwell, has for eighty-two years, his entire life span, resided upon the farm which is still his home. The history of his family presents a picture of Joseph Bald- win, his grandfather, as figuring conspicu- ously in the public life of Essex county in colonial days. He was born in Caldwell and followed the occupation of farming after the manner of the times. His ma- chinery was primitive, but he aided in re- claiming the land from its wild condition. He wore the knee trousers and other gar- ments that prevailed before the Revolution, and after that momentous struggle with Great Britain, he aided in adjusting affairs to the republican form of government. It was the year following the adoption of the constitution, 1784, that Noah Baldwin, fa- ther of our subject, was born, opening his eyes to the light for the first time in Cald- well. He married Naomi Baldwin, daugh- ter of Joseph and Esther (Crane) Baldwin, and died about 1832. His children were Joseph E., deceased; Caleb H., of Ana- mosa, Iowa; Sarah E., deceased wife of Samuel O. Harrison; Noah Oscar, whose name begins this article; Esther C., de- ceased; Hannah M., who married Samuel Dobbins and has also departed this life; Ann Louisa; and Zenas A., who is living in Washington.
Mr. Trabold is not alone prominent in Noah O. Baldwin was born on the IIth of June, 1815, and while there are many business and political circles, but is also the inventor of a number of useful and in- old families in the county, he has the dis-
NOAH O. BALDWIN.
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tinction of being the representative of one whose arrival here is antedated by few. The farm which is now his home was his birth- place, served as his playground during boy- hood and has been the scene of his later struggles and triumphs in business and now furnishes him shelter and quiet in his declining years. He was married in Pater- son, New Jersey, in 1855, to Miss Emily Gould, daughter of Moses E. Gould. She died November 2, 1873, leaving one child, Edward H., who married Mary F. Oliver, of Newark, and daughter of Wm. H. Oli- ver, and he is a respected and prosperous farmer of Caldwell township.
Mr. Baldwin joined the Republican party on its organization and cast his ballot for its first candidate, John C. Fremont, since which time he has ardently advocated its principles. He has been a member of the town committee and overseer of the poor, and has rendered generally that political service which marks a citizen as patriotic and positively representative. He is a member of the Caldwell Presbyterian church and has been one of its earnest workers and liberal supporters.
Edward H. Baldwin, son of Noah O. Baldwin, was born December 15, 1856, on the old homestead at Caldwell, attended school there and started in business as a butcher, succeeding his father. In 1890 he quit that situation and purchased a farm at Fairfield, engaging in the milk business. He is a public-spirited citizen of responsi- bility, is a member of the election board, and formerly was a town committee-man, when he was instrumental in procuring telephones and macadamized roads, etc. Politically he is a Republican. He has four children-Charles O., Esther L., Raymond L. and Jessie.
HERBERT WILSON LONG, M. D.,
a rising and progressive medical practi- tioner of Newark, was born at Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, on the 2d of February, 1872, his father being Henry G. Long, a carpenter by occupation and a native of Bradford-on-Avon, England, whence he emigrated to Canada in 1870. Coming to New Jersey in 1888, he located first at New Brunswick, where he spent one summer, and he came to Newark, in October, 1888, and has since made this city his home. He now has charge of the carpentering work of the Sprague Electrical Elevator Com- pany. He was married in Canada, in 1870, to Miss Clara Caroline Nicholls, who was born in Norwich, England. Mrs. Long departed this life on the 6th of March, 1897, leaving six children.
Dr. Long received his preliminary edu- cational discipline in the public schools of Canada, and after arriving in Newark he decided, in 1889, to devote his attention to the study of medicine, with which object in view he began the reading of that science with Dr. George N. Waite. He eventu- ally entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, in 1891, at which he was gradu- ated in 1894, and then returned to Newark, and here commenced the active practice of his profession at No. 151 Thirteenth ave- nue, remaining there until the following year, when he moved to his present ad- dress, No. 119 Madison street, and has since enjoyed a distinct prestige in his prac- tice. possessing a large and liberal patron- age.
In his social affiliations the Doctor is a member of the Essex County Medical So- ciety, which he joined in 1894, and in his religious belief he is an adherent of the
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Union Street Methodist Episcopal church. He is district physician of the second dis- trict, which incumbency he has held since March 14, 1895, and he holds the position of clinic physician of the medical clinic of St. Michael's Hospital, the duties of which he assumed on the Ist of April, 1894.
The marriage of Dr. Long was consum- mated on the 23d of April, 1896, when he was united to Miss Edna Florence Dore- mus, daughter of the late John P. Dore- mus, of Newark.
EDWARD F. CHURCH.
Back to that cradle of much of our na- tional history, the old commonwealth of Massachusetts, must we revert in tracing the lineage of him whose name initiates this review. The original ancestor of this branch of the family was Ebenezer Church, who emigrated from England to the New World about the year 1740 and took up his abode in the old town of Pretybrian, Massa- chusetts. He subsequently moved to Brattleboro, Vermont, where he remained until about 1791, when he removed to Bain- bridge, then known as Jericho, Chenango county, New York. History records that he and his sons were among the number to whom was applied the title of "Vermont Sufferers," by reason of certain afflictions which they had endured. Ebenezer Church died in 1806, having attained a venerable age and having been a man of signal prob- ity of character and of marked ability. He had four sons and three daughters, one of whom was Eben (or Ebenezer), who re- mained in Brattleboro, while another son, Josiah, figures in the direct ancestral line of the subject of this sketch.
Josiah Church was born in Pretybrian,
Massachusetts, in the year 1751 and accom- panied his parents upon their removal to Chenango county, New York, as noted above. He married Comfort Robbins, daughter of Captain Robert Robbins, who followed a seafaring life. Mr. Church set- tled in Coventry, Chenango county, about four miles from Church Hollow. Josiah' and Comfort (Robbins) Church became the parents of eleven children, namely: Rob- ert R., whose daughter Mary became the wife of Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania, and after his death, the wife of Dr. E. H. Goodman, an eminent physician of Phila- delphia; Henry, Nancy, John, Francis, Jeremiah, Jessie, Betsey, William, Mary and Williard.
William Church, ninth child of Josiah and Comfort Church, was born in Che- nango county, New York, in 1806. In 1830 he was engaged in merchandising in Coventry and two years later he returned to Church Hollow, where he was engaged in a similar line of enterprise for a number of years, eventually returning to Coventry, where he was the incumbent as postmaster about the year 1854. In his early man -. hood he married, but his first wife died young. For a second wife he married Elizabeth Houston, daughter of John Houston, of Orange county, New York. Their son, Edward Francis Church, is the immediate subject of this review.
Edward F. Church, who is known as one of the representative and public-spirited citizens of South Orange, is a native of the old Empire state, having been born at Cov- entry, Chenango county, New York, on the 13th of November, 1844. His prelimi- nary education was received in the com- mon schools of his native town, and this discipline was supplemented by a thorough
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course of study in a higher educational in- stitution at Leicester, Massachusetts. Subsequently, for the purpose of more ยท thoroughly fortifying himself for the prac- tical duties of life, he entered Eastman's Business College, at Poughkeepsie, New York, where he was graduated with high honors. He had a natural taste and predi- lection for business affairs, and the fact that he has most successfully handled in- terests of great scope and importance stands in distinctive evidence of the excel- lent use to which he has put his talents. His initial business experience was gained in the retail dry-goods establishment of A. T. Stewart, in New York city, where he was employed three years, within which time he acquired a thorough and practical knowledge of the varied details and meth- ods involved in the carrying on of the great enterprise.
In 1868 he entered the wholesale dry- goods establishment of Bradley, Kefer, Welty & Company, where his efficient ser- vice and pronounced executive ability in- sured his consecutive advancement, until he finally became manager of the flannel department. At the expiration of six years he accepted a similar position in the employ of the firm of Collins, Downing & Company. In 1881 Mr. Church became concerned in the establishment of the dry- goods commission house of Field, Morris, Church & Company, two of his associates, Messrs. Charles M. Field and John J. Mor- ris, having been representatives of one of the oldest and most important dry-goods jobbing houses in the national metropolis. The firm conducted a large and prosperous business for a period of four years, when the death of Mr. Field brought about a dissolution of the partnership. Soon after-
ward Mr. Church organized the firm of E. F. Church & Company, which carried on operations in the same line of enterprise until 1893, when Mr. Church accepted the position as manager of the woolen depart- ment of the old-established house of E. S. Jaffray & Company, retaining this incum- bency until the dissolution of the firm, when he again engaged in business upon his own responsibility.
Mr. Church has been a resident of South Orange for nearly a quarter of a century, having taken up his abode here in 1874, and having from the start been most con- spicuously and immediately identified with all that has touched the progress and ma- terial prosperity of this attractive suburban district. Thoroughly progressive and pub- lic-spirited in his methods, and reinforced by marked business sagacity and discrimi- nation, his influence has been appreciable and unmistakable. While singularly free from any office-seeking proclivities, he has not refused to render service in the public behoof. In 1877 he was elected a member of the board of village trustees, while in 1890 he was honored with the preferment of president of the village, his administra- tion of the municipal affairs proving so discriminating and effective as to gain him strong popular approval and to insure his election as his own successor in office. He thus served four consecutive years as the chief executive of the village.
A number of the most important public improvements in South Orange were ef- fected within the period of his administra- tion as president of the village. His policy . was at all times duly conservative, but he handled municipal affairs according to broad-gauged judgment and had a clear discernment as to the elements of the true
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business economy. The admirable water- supply system of South Orange was se- cured largely through his efforts, the water being drawn from the top of Summit mountain, thus providing the village with an adequate supply of the purest water, and that at a minimum expense. The system is recognized as being one of the best in the state. Within his regime was also es- tablished the system of rapid transit be- tween Newark and South Orange, by means of electric trolleys. The project en- countered a most determined opposition from certain sources,. but was successfully carried through, and by its efficiency and admirable facilities has reconciled many of those who were the most bitter antagonists of the scheme. A sewerage system was in- augurated by the purchase of a farm a few miles below the village, but owing to the opposition of the citizens of Millburn the project has necessarily been held in abey- ance to the present time. Mr. Church has maintained a lively interest in all that per- tains to the cause of education, and served for three consecutive terms-nine years- as a member of the board of education. He also assisted in the organization of the South Orange Field Club. In the year 1884 Mr. Church effected the purchase of the John Milligan place, near Prospect street, and by judicious improvements he has made this one of the most attractive of the many beautiful homes in this section of the country.
In 1870 Mr. Church was united in mar- riage to Miss Matilda Morrison, daughter of Robert Morrison, of New York. She died in 1875, leaving three children,-Kate E., Edward Francis, Jr., and Matilda. In 1879 Mr. Church consummated a second marriage, being then united to Isabella K.,
daughter of Charles Kellogg, a well known civil engineer and inventor and a represen- tative of one of the old and prominent fam- ilies of New England. In the maternal line Mrs. Church's ancestry is of Danish origin. Mr. and Mrs. Church's children were: A. Bonzano, Douglas Jaspersen, and Lucille Isabella, who died in 1890, at the age of two years.
DENNIS DAISEY
is the chief engineer of the sewage and water-pumping station at Orange, and is a capable and trusted official of the city. He was born in the city of Armagh, Ireland, on the 26th of November, 1848, and is a son of James and Ann (McVay) Daisey, the latter a daughter of Joseph McVay. His father, James Daisey, was born in the city of Armagh, was reared to manhood there and engaged in the expressing business be- fore the day of railroads, meeting with ex- cellent success in the enterprise. He was also largely engaged in the fruit trade and frequently purchased and shipped all the fruit produced in his native county of Ar- magh. At length he determined to try his fortune in America and crossed the Atlan- tic to America, taking up his residence in Jersey City, where he spent his remaining days. His wife still survives him. This . worthy couple were the parents of three children, as follows: Dennis, whose name introduces this review; Sarah, who became the wife of Edward McKee and resided in Scotland, where the death of her husband occurred; and Mary, who came to America and married Michael O'Connor, a resident of Rahway, New Jersey. She died at their home in that place, leaving three children.
Dennis Daisey acquired his education in
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the schools of his native land and spent the days of his boyhood and youth at his par- ents' home. In 1868 he came to the United States, a young man of twenty years, and cast his lot with the citizens of Orange, among whom he has since re- sided, his sterling worth winning him a foremost place in their ranks. He was first employed by the firm of Compton & Root, and has since been engaged in business in the capacity of a mechanical engineer. He was appointed to his present position by the board of aldermen of Orange, in May, 1897, and has ably administered the affairs of his office. His practical understanding of the working of machinery well qualifies him for the position, and he is giving uni- form satisfaction by the able manner in which he discharges the duties that devolve upon him. He purchased a tract of land at Watchung Heights, where he has erected a pleasant modern residence and makes his home.
Mr. Daisey was married at St. John's church, Roman Catholic, at Orange, to Miss Catherine Moore, a daughter of James Moore, and to them were born eight children, four of whom are now de- ceased: Mary Ann, who died at the age of three years; Catherine, who also died in early life, and two who died in infancy. Those who still survive are James Francis, who graduated at the St. John's parochial school at Orange, learned the hatter's trade and is now following that pursuit in Cleve- land, Ohio; William J., who was graduated in the parochial school in Millburn, is now a salesman in the hat business; Dennis, who was also graduated in the parochial school in Millburn, is now foreman of the Berg Hat Manufacturing Company; and Catherine is a student in St. John's paro-
chial school in Orange. The parents are both communicants of St. John's church, Roman Catholic, and in politics Mr. Daisey is a stalwart Democrat, having cast his first presidential vote for Horace Greeley.
J. BANKS REFORD,
an inspector of customs for the port of New York city and an ex-county official of Essex county, New Jersey, resides in his handsome residence at No. 184 Midland avenue, Bloomfield, New Jersey. His long identification with Essex county and the close relation he has sustained to its affairs render his name well known and well worthy of consideration in the present work. Briefly, a resume of his life is as fol- lows :
Mr. J. Banks Reford was born in Lee, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, July 6, 1836, son of James A. and Ann (Smith) Reford. In 1840 the family came to Bloomfield, New Jersey.
J. Banks Reford was reared in Bloom- field, receiving his education at the Bloom- field Institute under charge of Rev. E. Sey- mour. On leaving school he went to New York city and accepted a position as clerk in the New York Book Concern, where he served as such most efficiently for a period of ten years. Afterward he was employed by the American News Company of New York city. On severing his connection with the latter company, he returned to Bloomfield and became deputy clerk under George D. G. Moore, surrogate, with whom he remained during the years 1870, '71 and '72. In the fall of 1872 he was elected clerk of Essex county, New Jersey. which position he filled five years, perform- ing the duties of the same in a faithful and
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conscientious manner and thus reflecting credit both upon himself and his constitu- ents. It was at the hands of the Repub- lican party that he was given this office. In 1881 he was appointed inspector at the New York port, a position he has since filled.
Mr. Reford is a man of family. He was married in 1859 to Miss Frances E. Moore, a daughter of Achibald Moore. To them four children have been born, namely: J. Theron, George S., Charles A. and J. Banks, Jr. The family are identified with Westminster church, in Bloomfield.
Mr. Reford is one of the most public- spirited and generous men, interested in all that pertains to the welfare of his town and ever ready to contribute his support toward all movements or measures he be- lieves to be for its good. He served three terms as a member of the town committee and three terms as clerk of Bloomfield township, also a member of the board of education. He helped to organize the Bloomfield fire department, was president of the first hose company in the town, and for some ten years was president of the Firemen's Relief Association.
THEODORE D. FAULKS
is an active and prominent business man, who is now occupying the responsible posi- tion of superintendent of the West Orange water works, and also carries on business as a civil engineer and dealer in real estate. He was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on the 12th of December, 1870, and has al- ready attained in business circles a position which many an older man might well envy. His parents were Stephen H. and Annie (Cleveland) Faulks, the latter a descendant
of the Cleveland family from which the late president springs. The father of our sub- ject is a son of Isaac and Hettie (Woodruff) Faulks. The former was the first of the family to settle in New Jersey, taking his residence in Madison, Morris county, where he was engaged in the wholesale butcher- ing business. He was also something of a mechanical genius and invented and pat- ented a hay press which came into general use in central New Jersey. He died in Elizabeth, at the age of seventy years, but his wife is still living, making her home with her daughter Mary Jane, now the wife of Samuel Stelle; of Elizabeth. Mr. and Mrs. Stelle have two children, Hettie P. and Viola.
Stephen H. Faulks, the only son of Isaac and Hettie Faulks, obtained his elementary education in the public schools and after- ward pursued his studies in the Newark Academy. In early life he became asso- ciated with his father in the hay-press and provender business, and upon his father's death formed a partnership with William Holmes, of New York city, dealing in hay and produce. This business relationship is still maintained, and they are enjoying a liberal patronage. By his marriage to Annie Cleveland, who has been to him a faithful companion and helpmeet, Stephen H. Faulks had four children : Isaac Wood- ruff, who married Nellie W. Fort and has two children,-Huber W. and Richard; Theodore D .; Grace C., wife of William D. Bird, by whom she has one son, Charles; and Eugene C., who died in early life. The parents are now residents of Newark, New Jersey, and both are consistent Christians, holding membership in the Presbyterian church.
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Theodore D. Faulks was reared in the
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usual manner of boys of the period. When he had attained the prescribed age he en- tered the public schools of Newark and there pursued his studies until seventeen years of age, when he matriculated in Rut- gers College, of New Brunswick, New Jer- sey, and pursued a civil-engineering course for a year. On leaving that institution he became associated with Carrol P. H. Bas- sett, of Newark, with whom he is still en- gaged in civil-engineering business. Mr. Bassett is a graduate of Lafayette College, which institution conferred upon him the degrees of civil engineer, mining engineer and doctor of philosophy .. He is also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Mr. Faulks began business as a civil en- gineer on his own responsibility, in 1890, at Somerville, New Jersey, where he was employed to superintend the construction of a sewage system. In the same year he was also engaged as engineer in charge of the construction of sewers in Middle- town, Orange county, New York, and in 1891 filled a similar position in Orange. In 1893 he had full charge of the construc- tion of the water works and sewage system at Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. In September, 1893, he assumed his present responsible position as superintendent of the West Orange water works, having made the survey and superintended the construction of the plant. In 1896 he formed a partnership with M. R. Baldwin, of Orange, under the firm name of Faulks & Baldwin, surveyors and civil engineers, and in addition to their efforts in this line they also conduct a successful real-estate business.
On the 17th of April, 1895, in Somer- ville, New Jersey, was celebrated the mar-
riage of Mr. Faulks and Miss Josephine Ringelmann, a daughter of the Hon. John Ringelmann, and a descendant of German and French Huguenot ancestry. To this union has been born one child, Elizabeth, born February 12, 1896.
Mr. Faulks is a member of the Grand Fraternity Lodge, No. 61, Improved Order of Heptasophs, of Orange; Lodge No. 475, of the National Union; Whitman Council, No. 799, of Orange, and also Eagle Rock Council, No. 3763, Independent Order of Foresters. In his political affiliations he is a stalwart Republican. Both he and his wife hold membership in St. Mark's Epis- copal church, of West Orange, and their position in social circles is an enviable one. He is one of the foremost representatives of his profession in this part of the state and his pronounced ability has won him continuous promotion in his chosen calling.
FRANCIS K. HOWELL,
who has been engaged in the practice of law in Newark for twenty-nine years and has maintained an enviable standing at the bar, was born in Morris county, New Jer- sey, on the 23d of March, 1843. His par- ents, Calvin and Charlotte (Kitchell) How- ell, were natives of the same county and belonged to distinguished New Jersey fam- ilies, of long identification with the history of the state, that were represented in the Colonial army during the war of the Revo- lution. The Howells were originally Welsh, and the founder of the family in America settled at East Hampton, Long Island. The Kitchells also came to Amer- ica at an early era in the country's history and were descended from Huguenot an- cestors who lived in Switzerland.
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