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Judge Kirkpatrick was educated at the Rutgers Grammar School in New Bruns- wick, and at Princeton College, where he re- mained for three years and left to graduate at Union College, Schenectady, New York, from which he graduated in 1863, receiv- ing his honorary degree of M. A. from Princeton University in 1870, and in 1903 the degree of LL.D. from Union College. He then entered the office of the Hon. Fred- erick Theodore Frelinghuysen, of Newark, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney in 1866, and as counsellor in 1869. For several years he practiced as one of the members of the firm of Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, and then he went into part- nership with the Hon. Frederick H. Teese. He was eminently successful, and was a rec- ognized leader. In April, 1885, he was ap- pointed judge of the Essex county court of common pleas by Governor Abbett, and continuously reappointed until 1896, when he resigned to become judge of the United States district court of New Jersey, which position was then offered to him by Presi- dent Grover Cleveland. This position he
held until his death. "His career on the bench showed a wide knowledge of the law, together with a large fund of common sense, and his methods were celebrated for this latter trait. He acquitted himself with hon- or, and the brevity of his charges to juries were frequently commented on * * His legal knowledge was brought to bear on the cases, to the disentanglement of many knotty problems. His record as a federal judge was brilliant, and to his courtesy and humanity there were hundreds to testify. Quick-witted, intolerant of shams of any kind, and broad-minded, Judge Kirkpatrick conducted cases to the admiration of law- yers and jurists of many minds *
He possessed wide reading and because of the soundness of his judgment his opinions carried weight in the legal world. They were regarded as peculiarly clear in state- ment and had the quality of being easily comprehended by the lay mind. He was a keen student of human nature, a man of force and insight of character." Among the important commercial and corporation cases determined by him were the United States Steel Company, the United States Ship- building Company, and the Asphalt Trust. He was essentially the lawyer and the judge with administrative powers of a high or- der, and on one memorable occasion he ex- ercised these powers for the great advantage of one of the most extensive businesses in the country. In 1893 the Domestic Manu- facturing Company failed, and Judge Kirk- patrick was appointed receiver with authori- ty to continue the business of making and selling Domestic sewing machines. Notwith- standing the unexampled financial depres- sion which marked the year of the World's Fair he discharged his trust with such skill that works with hundreds of employees con- tinued in operation, and at the expiration of his official term as receiver he delivered the property to the stockholders entirely freed from its embarrassments and with as- sets sufficient to pay all of its creditors in full. He was one of the organizers and for
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some time was president of the Federal Trust Company, a director in the Howard Savings Institution, treasurer of the T. P. Howell Company, a director in the Fidel- ity Title and Deposit Company, a director in the Newark Gas Company, a member of the Newark City Hall commission, and a member of the Newark Sinking Fund com- mission. He was the treasurer and one of the original governors of the Essex Club, and one of the organizers of the Sons of the American Revolution.
In 1869 he married (first) Alice, daugh- ter of Joel W. and Margaret (Harrison) Condit, the sister of Estelle Condit, who married Thomas Talmadge Kinney. Their three children were: I. Andrew, of New York City, born October 12, 1870; edu- cated at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire; spent one year at Cornell, and five years in the Pennsylvania railroad shops at Altoona; became assistant road foreman of engines of the Pennsylvania railroad, and is now in the automobile business; he mar- ried Mae Bittner and has one child, An- drew, Jr. 2. John Bayard, born May I, 1872; attended St. Paul's School ; graduated from Harvard University in 1894, and from the law school of that instittuion in 1897; admitted to the New Jersey bar as an at- torney in February, 1898, and as counsellor in February, 1901. 3. Alice Condit, born December II, 1874; graduated from St. Agnes' School, Albany, New York. In 1883 Judge Kirkpatrick married (second) Louise C., daughter of Theodore P. and Elizabeth Woodruff (King) Howell, of New York City, and their three children are: 4. Lit- tleton, born September 2, 1884; attended Newark Academy, St. Paul's School, and graduated from Princeton University in 1906; engaged in the real estate and insur- ance business, under the firm name of Kirk- patrick & Young; married, June 9, 1908, Amanda Lewis Crane. 5. Isabelle, born January 18, 1886; married Albert H. Marckwald, of Short Hills, New Jersey. 6. Elizabeth, born August 2, 1895.
LADD, Benjamin F.,
Influential Journalist.
The calling that Benjamin F. Ladd pur- sued in Vineland, New Jersey,-journalism, -was one that brought him much in the public eye, but the fact that he was widely known does not explain his great popularity nor the universal respect in which his memory is held, regard and liking that came in recognition of his many excellent vir- tues. For thirty-seven years he was con- nected with the Vineland "Evening Jour- nal," for thirty-five years of that time as sole owner and editor, and as the head of that newspaper he placed it among the lead- ers of journals of its standing. A promin- ent figure in local affairs, he was identified in official capacity with many of Vineland's most important institutions, and everywhere was accorded sincere respect for the up- rightness of his life and the sturdy manner in which he stood by his convictions. Even during a lifetime passed in a profession in which enemies are more easily made than in any other he avoided the bitterness and hard feeling that so often results from an ill considered or unstably founded state- ment, and, while defending to the last his opinion and judgment, never used his paper to promulgate falsehood or to publish that which best remained unprinted. At his death it was written by his associates that there passed "a man of sterling purpose for the right, a good citizen, a real friend." His death marked his yielding to a cardiac ailment whose effects extended over a period of four years, and occurred at his home on Landis avenue, December 18, 1913.
The family of which Benjamin F. Ladd was a member was founded in America by Samuel Ladd, who settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1649, coming from his home in England, where he had fought against the Cromwellian forces in the army of King Charles. The descent from the founder to Benjamin F. Ladd, of Vineland, is through John, David, Jeremiah, and
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Cyrus, to Chester, grand father of Benjamin F. Chester Ladd was born in Burlington, New York, in 1795, and left the State of his birth to settle in Pennsylvania, moving thence to Rockford, Illinois, where he was among the pioneers, pursuing the farmer's calling. He was a man of deep religious beliefs, and although not an ordained min- ister preached at the informal church ser- vices held by the settlers of the region. He married Harriet Hammond and was the father of Harvey Ladd, father of Benjamin F. Ladd.
Harvey Hammond Ladd was born in Bur- lington, New York, May 22, 1825, and died in Chicago, Illinois, in 1880. His early life was spent in his birthplace, and prior to 1840 he moved to what became known as the oil district of Pennsylvania, when the wealth of the underlying mineral deposits became known. His home was on Oil Creek, the present site of Oil City, and there for a time he taught school, later mov- ing to Belvidere, Illinois, where he learned the carpenter's trade. Appleton, Wisconsin, was his next home, and in this locality he became interested in the cutting and dressing of lumber, dealing in lumber for several years. In 1865 he moved to Vineland, New Jersey, making his home in this place for fourteen years, and in 1879 went to Chicago, Illinois, where his death occurred one year later. He was an early member of the Sons of Temperance, was also much inter- ested in matters educational, and in Vine- land, which at the time of his settlement was in its youth, served for several years as school trustee. He married, in 1850, Lu- cinda D. Perry, who, at a great age, sur- vives him to the present time (1915), daugh- ter of Benjamin F. and Abigail (Newland) Perry, her grandfather Perry a Revolu- tionary soldier and a cousin of Commodore Perry, who won his fame in the War of 1812. Children of Harvey and Lucinda D. (Perry) Ladd: Benjamin F., of whom further; and Clara L. Field, who is still living.
Benjamin F., son of Harvey and Lucinda D. (Perry) Ladd, was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, May 4, 1855. His earliest school training was gained in Stevensville, where his parents were for a short time residing, and he afterward attended the Appleton school, completing his education in the Vine- land high school. At the time of his en- trance to the Vineland school, its classes were held in the Plum Street Hall, and here he came under the teaching of Professor Charles Wright. He learned the printer's trade in the office of the "Vineland Weekly," and was also for a time employed in the office of the "Independent." His ca- reer as a publisher began on May 1, 1876, when, in partnership with Obert Spencer, he purchased the "Evening Journal," a paper of one year's standing, established by Walter E. Cansdell, which was at first the "Daily Journal," but was changed to the "Evening Journal," December 14, 1880. This association continued until June 24, 1878, when Mr. Spencer retired from the firm and Mr. Ladd became sole owner of the paper, the publication of which he con- tinued until his death. That the standard of the "Evening Journal" has been kept high and that the paper has proved itself worthy of the patronage of the townspeople is shown in the fact that during its life more than a dozen newspapers began publication, only to find themselves unable to remove "The Journal" from its secure entrench- ments of public favor. A Democrat in poli- tics, Mr. Ladd devoted his paper to the ser- vice of that party, but in politics, as in all else, the truth was stated with no attempt at deceit or compromise.
In connection with his publishing inter- ests, Mr. Ladd was for a time engaged in real estate and insurance business in part- nership with the late Thomas B. Steel, but after the death of Mr. Steel he sold the bus- iness to Henry Taylor. In the organization of the Tradesmen's Bank he played an im- portant part, becoming a member of the board of directors, and on the death of Mr.
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S. R. Fowler succeeded to the vice-presi- dency, of which office he was the incumbent at his death. His concern for the industrial and commercial welfare of Vineland found expression in his work in the Board of Trade, of which he was president for a term of years, and in all things that called for the support of good citizenship and pub- lic spirit he was a resourceful and energetic leader. Mr. Ladd was a member of the Free and Accepted Masons and the Royal Arcanum.
Mr. Ladd married, November 23, 1878, Julia M. Gifford, daughter of Chester C. Gifford, a pioneer resident of Vineland. Mrs. Ladd survives her husband with four children, Charles F., George C., Mary B., and Edward H.
KINNEY, Thomas Talmadge,
Journalist, Enterprising Citizen.
Thomas Talmadge Kinney, eldest child of William Burnet Kinney (q. v.), by his first wife, Mary Chandler, was born in Newark, August 15, 1821, and died there, December 2, 1900.
He received his early education in the Newark Academy, and was prepared for col- lege in the classical school of Rev. William R. Weeks, D. D. In 1841 he was graduated from Princeton University. Among his classmates were John Craig Biddle, Francis Preston Blair, Amzi Dodd, Theodore Led- yard Cuyler, and Archibald Alexander Hodge: As a student he showed particular aptitude for the natural sciences. In his senior year he served as assistant to his pro- fessor, the distinguished Dr. Joseph Henry, and the intimacy thus established ripened into a personal friendship which continued throughout life. After his graduation he studied law in the office of Hon. Joseph P. Bradley, who later became an Associate Jus- tice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1844, but never practiced. Upon the retirement of his father from the editorship
of the Newark "Daily Advertiser" in 1851, he succeeded as editor and manager. To his work he devoted much energy, maintaining the high character of the paper in all re- spects. He especially applied himself to the development of facilities for newsgathering, and was an important factor in the original system which culminated in the comprehen- sive organization known as the Associated Press. In 1860 he bought the property on the southeast corner of Market and Broad streets, Newark, which was then and still is the business center of the city.
Mr. Kinney was the projector of the Newark Board of Trade, and was sent by that body as its delegate to the convention which organized the National Board of Trade in Philadelphia. One of the found- ers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, he was for many years its president. For a long time he was a trustee and the active manager of the Asy- lum for the Indigent Deaf and Dumb Chil- dren of New Jersey. He was also a mem- ber of the New Jersey State Board of Ge- ology, and from 1878 to 1882 was president of the State Board of Agriculture, of which he was for many years a member. In 1860 he was one of the delegates to the Repub- lican National Convention at Chicago, ac- tively supporting the nomination of Abra- ham Lincoln for the presidency. He was a director of the National State Bank, of Newark, the Newark City Ice Company, and the Stephens & Condit Transportation Com- pany, and was one of the founders of the Newark Electric Light and Power Com- pany, and the Fidelity Title and Deposit Company, of which he was president for many years from its organization. He was a member of the board of East Jersey Pro- prietors, and an hereditary member of the Society of the Cincinnati. About 1895 he retired from the management of the "Daily Advertiser." He was a staunch Republican, and when James G. Blaine was Secretary of State he received the offer of Minister to Italy, which he declined. Having always
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a decided preference for quiet and unpre- tending pursuits and the life of a private citizen, he was never a candidate for public office. In his personal character he was ac- tive and earnest in devotion to his duties and obligations, possessing strong domestic af- fections and warm friendly attachments, and he exerted throughout his life a useful in- fluence.
He married, October 1, 1863, Estelle, daughter of Joel W. and Margaret ( Harri- son) Condit. She was born in Newark, and died there, December 26, 1907. Her life was marked by keen interest and much ac- tivity, quietly exercised, in philanthropic work in Newark. One of the founders of the Babies' Hospital and its president, she was incessant in her efforts to promote the usefulness of that institution. In a reso- lution of the board of managers of the hos- pital the following tribute was paid to her : "Kind, generous, and wise, her nature was adapted to the good work, and her great business capacity made her the best of man- agers and advisers. The hospital is a mon- ument to her goodness and wisdom." The Newark Exchange for Women's Work was established in 1881 at a meeting held in her home, and she was its president until her death. This organization also has placed on record testimony to her conscientious and valuable services, in which reference is made to her "broad and ready sympathy with all in trouble or need; her innumerable acts of charity and kindness, which she with modest spirit made nothing of; her genial spirit, which was an uplift to all who came in touch with her; her many graces of mind and heart." She was descended from John Condit, who came to America in 1678, and with his son Peter settled in Newark, where he purchased lands.
Children of Thomas Talmadge and Es- telle (Condit) Kinney: I. Mary Clemen- tine, born August 12, 1864; married Wil- liam Campbell Clark, of Newark; children: i. Estelle Campbell Clark; ii. Mai Felicity Clark. 2. Margaret Condit, born October
28, 1865; married, April 14, 1904, Carrol Phillips Bassett; children: i. Carroll Kin- ney Bassett; ii. Estelle Condit Bassett; iii. William Burnet Kinney Bassett. 3. Estelle Burnet, born July 9, 1868; married Freder- ick, son of Hon. Frederick T. Frelinghuy- sen, of Newark; children: i. Frederick Frelinghuysen; ii. Thomas Talmadge Kin- ney Frelinghuysen; iii. Theodore Freling- huysen ; iv. George Frelinghuysen. 4. Wil- liam Burnet, lawyer. 5. Thomas Talmadge, born October 24, 1872; died February 14, 1885.
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BEATTIE, Robert,
Enterprising Manufacturer.
No man in Passaic county has been more prominently identified with her progres- sive advancement than the late Robert Beattie, head of the Beattie Manufactur- ing Company many years, to whom is due much of the substantial development upon which rests the prosperity and happiness of the community. He ever manifested a public spirited loyalty to all interests for the general good, and his practical ideas and untiring labors left their impress on many of the most beneficial improvements of the county.
His father, also Robert Beattie, was a native of Ireland, from which country he emigrated to America in the first half of the nineteenth century. More than half a century ago he founded the business which has since become such an important indus- try. He purchased a building at Little Falls, Passaic county, New Jersey, which had been used as a grist mill, remodeled it for his purpose, and installed the necessary equipment for the manufacture of ingrain and three-ply carpet. He was one of the pioneer carpet manufacturers of this coun- try. It is said that the first power loom ever used for carpet weaving was installed and operated by Mr. Beattie about the year 1840. It was invented and manufac- tured by Nicholas Haight, at that time the
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manager of the New Jersey and Little Falls Carpet Company, which had been or- ganized in New York in 1822. Mr. Beattie went to Little Falls to start the looms of this company, but they did not prove a success. The invention, however, had suf- ficient merit to cause E. B. Bigelow to make a careful study of it prior to perfect- ing the loom which gained for him fortune and fame. During the Civil War Mr. Beattie, with the sagacity of the keen sighted business man, abandoned the man- ufacture of carpets, and devoted his atten- tion and looms to the manufacture of blan- kets, a bit of business acumen which af- forded ample returns. Upon the termina- tion of the war, he resumed his carpet man- ufacturing operations. He married Agnes McGraw, a native of Scotland, and had children : Robert and William, Mary, Cath- erine, Josephine Agnes.
Robert Beattie, the particular subject of this sketch, was born in New York City, January 10, 1842, and died at his home at Little Falls, Passaic county, New Jersey, January 29, 1910, after an illness of several weeks duration, from a complication of diseases. Upon the completion of his educa- tion he became associated in the carpet man- ufacturing business with his father, and was identified with this industry throughout his life. As above stated, the business was founded by the elder Beattie in 1840; it was operated as the Little Falls Carpet Mills, 1843-1871, under the title of Robert Beattie & Sons, 1871-1882, and was incorporated as the Beattie Manufacturing Company, in 1882, at which time the elder Robert Beat- tie became president of the corporation, and his son William, treasurer. They had New York offices at No. 133 Fifth avenue, and a Chicago office at No. 1509 Heyworth Building, of which R. Howard Beattie, a son of William, had charge many years. In 1870 Brussels and tapestry carpets were added to the output of the mill, and sub- sequently velvet and felt carpets were also manufactured there. Upon the death of
the elder Mr. Beattie, the business was car- ried on by his two sons, and when William Beattie died in 1897, Robert Beattie be- came president of the company, conduct- ing its affairs with remarkable executive ability, and retaining his active interest in everything connected with it until a few weeks prior to his death. In recent years velvet carpets and rugs have been manufac- tured exclusively, the demand for carpets having gradually died out, as the practical utility of rugs has become more and more apparent. The business is now carried on by the younger members of the Beattie fam- ily. At a meeting of the stockholders of the company after the death of Mr. Beattie, Robert Beattie Jr., his son, was elected a director, and R. Howard Beattie, a son of the late William Beattie, was elected presi- dent. The death of Mr. Beattie cast a wide spread gloom over the community. The services were attended by prominent men from all parts of the country, and the remains were interred in the family plot at Laurel Grove Cemetery.
Mr. Beattie married (first) Sophia Sig- ler ; (second) Ruth Woodhull, of New York State. By the first marriage he had a son, William H., now superintendent of the mills at Little Falls, and a daughter, Kate; by the second marriage he had : Robert Jr., assistant superintendent of the mills, and Frank Kitching. Mr. Beattie was well preserved, dignified and courteous in his demeanor, and of kindly disposition. The portrait accompanying this sketch is from a photograph taken when he was forty- eight years of age. He was a notably gen- erous man, of a deeply sympathetic nature, and his contributions to charitable and re- ligious projects were always liberal in the extreme. He was a man of broad and lib- eral views. Especially fond of travel, he spent much time in this form of recrea- tion, but preferred travel in his own country to that abroad. Hunting and fishing also received their due share of attention, and he was an expert in both sports. He took
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a deep and beneficial interest in forestry, was a pioneer member of the Northwood Club, in the Adirondacks, and also of an organization formed to protect the timber lands of the same section. His social af- filiation nearer his home was with the Hamilton Club, of Paterson, New Jersey.
CUTHBERT, Mayland,
Naval Officer in the Civil War.
Those things which men bear in their minds and hearts as thoughts and senti- ments worthy of remembrance and which they are fond of quoting, serve as almost unfailing indices to their lives and charac- ters, for those things which men cherish, whether as ideals or lower passions, leave indelible imprints upon their lives. So it was with Mayland Cuthbert, of Beverly, New Jersey, and the key to his calm faith and assurance in his later years of a final shepherding by the Good Shepherd was found in his love for the sweet verses of the poet which conclude,
"I hope to see my Pilot face to face, When I have crossed the bar."
Guided through his life of sixty-eight years by this hope, strong in his faith to the end, he so lived that men could find no smirch upon his name or reputation, and bore to his grave the loving respect and regard of his community, his business associates, and his former comrades of the battle field.
The life of Mayland Cuthbert, early de- voted to technical and professional train- ing, was turned from the course of steady effort and advancement it would naturally have followed by the outbreak of the War between the States. This conflict he en- tered as an engineer in the United States navy, being in active service from August, 1861, until his honorable discharge from the navy in August of 1864, receiving a severe wound at the battle of Port Royal that caused him suffering for the remain- der of his life. Returning to civil life, he
pursued the business that had claimed him prior to his enlistment, that of drugs, fol- lowing this in Scranton and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, then, after a short residence in Colorado, forming an association with James S. Mason & Company, of Philadel- phia, that continued until his death.
Mr. Cuthbert traced his family line to distinguished ancestry, and was a grand- son of Captain Anthony Cuthbert, of Rev- olutionary fame, who won conspicuous no- tice by his gallant defence of his company's guns at the battle of Trenton. He was also a descendant of David Ogden, who came to America in the "good ship Welcome."
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