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bernatorial and presidential contests, he was in great demand, his speeches command- ing wide attention from the press of the State and nation, for he was noted far be- yond the confines of his own State. In 1901, at the Democratic State Convention, he was chosen as the orator to present the name of James M. Seymour to the convention as the nominee for Governor, his nominating speech carrying the con- vention by storm, and standing as one of the classics of political oratory. He ac- cepted an appointment by Governor Mur- phy, of opposite political faith, as member of the State Board of Assessors, serving from March 7, 1904, to March 7, 1908. In every position he was called upon to fill he served with ability and honor, winning the highest respect even of his opponents, while as a lawyer and advocate his stand- ing was among the leaders.
His business relations were few beyond his profession, but at his death he was a director of the Camden and Burlington County Railroad Company and of the Farmers' Trust Company, of Mount Holly, also serving the latter as solicitor. He was a member of Good Intent Fire Com- pany, of Mount Holly, belonged to the Masonic order, and was a past exalted ruler of the Mount Holly Lodge of Elks, of which he was a charter member. He took a deep interest in all these bodies, in fact, his public spirit extended to every de- partment of Mount Holly's life and his charity was never appealed to in vain. Suffering and distress always touched his sympathetic nature, and instant were his efforts to relieve the sufferers. Every man was his brother, and it is no figure of speech to state that the whole community mourned his death.
Mr. Budd married Eliza Esculene Bur- tis, daughter of P. Tallman and Sarah Eliza Burtis, of Chicago, Illinois, and Phoenix, Arizona, who survives him, a res- ident of Mount Holly. Children : Harold Hume, Dorothy, Grace Esculene, Mildred and Eckard P. (2).
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HOLDEN, Edgar, M. D.,
Naval Surgeon, Distinguished Practitioner
For forty years president of the medical board of one of Newark's well-known life insurance companies, and one of the leading specialists of his day, Dr. Holden occupied an enviable position in the medical profes- sion. He was of early Colonial ancestry, descending from Justinian Holden, who came from England in 1632 in the ship "Elizabeth." His grandfather, John Hol- den, was an officer of the Revolution, pro- moted for gallantry at the battle of Bunker Hill, and was one of the original members of the Society of the Cincinnati, Dr. Hol- den inheriting his membership. Dr. Holden was a man of great ability and prominence in his own right, his services to his country and to his fellowmen in both war and peace bringing him merited distinction.
Edgar Holden was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, November 2, 1838, died in Chatham, New Jersey, his summer home, July 18, 1909, son of Asa Holden, a manu- facturer of Hingham. He was early edu- cated in Hingham Academy and James Hunter's school at Jamaica, Long Island, prepared for college at John F. Pingry's school in Newark, and was graduated from Princeton College, A. B., class of 1859. In later years Princeton conferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. After leaving Princeton he entered the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of New York City, whence he was graduated M. D., class of 1861. Both be- fore and after graduation he served as in- terne at the King's County Hospital, gain- ing experience that was shortly afterward of value to him.
In the fall of 1861 he was commissioned in the United States navy, and was assigned to duty on the steam frigate "Minnesota" as assistant surgeon, and on this vessel passed through the exciting scenes at Hampton Roads, where the entire Union fleet was in peril from the "Merrimac" until
the arrival of the "Monitor." The "Min- nesota" was saved, and after the conflict Dr. Holden was placed in charge of the wounded who had fought on board the "Cumberland," "Congress" and "Minne- sota." At the bombardment of Sewell's Point he rendered such efficient service that he was promoted to surgeon in charge of the James River Squadron Hospital at Nor- folk. Later he served on the steamer "Wy- andotte," and later as surgeon of the iron- clad "Passaic," and took part in the attack on Fort McAllister, Georgia. Following, he was again assigned to hospital duty, but at his own request was appointed surgeon of the steamer "Sassacus," which vessel after sea service cruising for blockade run- ners was on duty in the South Carolina sounds, took part in the attack on Charles- ton, and fought the Confederate ram "Al- bermarle," with others of the Union fleet. In the summer of 1864 Dr. Holden was made chief of the medical department of the James River Squadron, but poor health caused him to resign after a few months' service. He, however, accepted a commis- sion as surgeon in the United States volun- teer army, becoming a member of the staff of the Ward Hospital, Newark.
At the close of the war, Dr. Holden es- tablished and practiced in Newark and rose to a leading position as one of the great physicians and surgeons of the State. In 1867 he became a member of the board of medical directors of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, and was elected president of the board in 1870, a position he held until his death. He continued prac- tice in connection with his official duties until 1891, when he withdrew from public practice, his health giving way under the double strain. Dr. Holden was an acknowl- edged authority in his profession on lar- yngology, a department in which he spec- ialized. In the course of his studies and practice as a specialist he invented numer- ous instruments that were quickly adopted as being a great step forward and of im-
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mense benefit to the advanced surgeon. He was a frequent contributor to the medical journals and magazines, his chief thesis on Sphygmograph taking the Stevens prize awarded by the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and later appearing in book form. At the time of his death Dr. Holden was president of the American Medical Associ- ation, member of the American Laryngo- logical Association, New Jersey State Med- ical Society, Newark Medical and Surgical Society, Essex County Medical Society, New Jersey Academy of Medicine, Associ- ation of Medical Directors of Life Insur- ance Companies ; hereditary member of the Society of the Cincinnati; original member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and of the Grand Army of the Republic ; member of the New Jersey Historical Soci- ety, the Microscopical Society, and the American Authors Guild. He was a volun- teer writer for the medical journals and magazines, his statistical papers and mono- graphs on contagion, sanitation and medical examinations for life insurance, attracting the attention of the medical world. He also wrote a series of war sketches for "Har- per's" and the "Century." In 1873 he pub- lished his book on "The Use of the Sphyg- mograph ;" in 1880, "Health and Mortality of Newark ;" and in 1883 "The Waif from Minot's Ledge." He was a Republican in politics, and a member of the Presbyterian church, serving for many years as trustee of the Second Presbyterian Church of New- ark. In February, 1908, he resigned, but the board refused for the second time to accept and allow their long-time associate to sunder official relations with the church.
KALISCH, Rev. Isidor, D. D.,
Distinguished Divine, Author and Poet.
Rev. Isidor Kalisch, D. D., one of the most distinguished rabbis of his time, was born in Krotoschin, Duchy of Posen, Prus- sia, November 15, 1816, and died in New- ark, New Jersey, May II, 1886. He was a
son of the Rev. Burnham and Sarah Kal- isch, the latter a woman of strong intellect and force of character, who died March 14, 1883, at the age of eighty-seven years. Rev. Burnham Kalisch “was widely known throughout the Duchy as a man of learning, piety and benevolence," and he "was deeply versed in Hebraic lore." He died in Kro- toschin, September 1, 1856, leaving seven children.
Rev. Isidor Kalisch, the eldest of these children, became even more illustrious than his father, receiving international recogni- tion through his public labors and his pub- lished works. His earliest years already gave promise of what he would achieve in later life, and "in his ninth year he was re- markably proficient in Talmudic and He- braic learning." Upon the completion of the curriculum at the Gymnasium, an in- stitution on a par with our American col- leges, he pursued his studies in the univer- sities of Berlin, Breslau and Prague, the most eminent professors conferring testi- monials upon him. During this time he was a steady contributor to leading German periodicals, notable among these being the "Breslauer Beobachter," the "Figaro," and Dr. Julius Fuerst's "Orient." He was the author of one of the most popular songs of that warlike period in Germany-"Schlacht Gesang der Deutschen (War Song of the Germans)-which was dedicated to the Prince of Prussia (afterwards Emperor of Germany), December 31, 1842, and ac- knowledged by that prince in a personal note to Dr. Kalisch. The song was set to music by Music Director Mueller, of Bres- lau, and at once became the fashion. The attitude of Dr. Kalisch has been thus char- acterized :
"Imbued with the love of liberty, and witness- ing the oppression of his fellow men under the forms of government and law, his generous na- ture decried these things ; he wrote poems breath- ing the true spirit of liberty; contributed articles to newspapers which were condemned as seditious by tyrannical censors; and thus when, in 1848, the revolutionary fever had reached a crisis, he
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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 Germany. He made his way to London, England, and after a sojourn there of several months, he left for New York City."
After an ocean trip in the sailing vessel "Rolla," lasting almost nine weeks, he ar- rived in New York City on August 28, 1849, and in July, 1850, received a call from the congregation "Tifireth Israel" of Cleve- land, Ohio, to officiate as their minister. In the same month he assumed the duties of this position, finding his congregation of the true orthodox type, that is, they still upheld obsolete rites which were practically useless in that time and under those conditions, however wise they might have been, and undoubtedly were, at the time they were put in force. How to remedy this evil was now his constant thought. The result of his efforts in this direction was the assemb- ling of the first conference of rabbis at Cleveland, in 1855. The object of this con- ference was to better the spiritual condition of the Jews throughout America; to strip the Jewish divine services from heathenish and idolatrous customs ; to weed out sense- less and useless prayers ; and to establish a uniform divine service throughout the land. In order to spread this movement he had himself frequently removed from one con- gregation and city to another, and served in cities as follows: Cincinnati, Ohio; Mil- waukee, Wisconsin, in which city he was successful in uniting two disputing factions, and had them united in worship in one syn- agogue; Indianapolis, Indiana; Detroit, Michigan ; Leavenworth, Kansas. In Octo- ber, 1868, Dr. Kalisch removed to New York City for the purpose of publishing a translation he had made of Lessing's "Nathan der Weise," and while there opened an educational institution on West Thirty-sixth street. He was obliged to aban- don this at the end of a year, as he had re- ceived no support in his undertaking, and having lost all his earnings in this enter-
prise, he was compelled to enter the lecture field in order to support himself and his family. While thus engaged he received a call to the B'nai Abraham congregation of Newark, New Jersey, which he accepted. In August, 1872, he left it in order to accept the position of rabbi and preacher with the congregation "Ohavey Scholom," in Nash- ville, Tennessee, where he remained three years. He was instrumental in having a synagogue erected, and at the laying of the corner stone of this edifice ex-President Andrew Johnson and the Governor and State officials of Tennessee were present. In September, 1875, Dr. Kalisch returned to Newark, where he devoted himself mainly to the lecture field and literary work. His close application to literary labors re- sulted in the most serious consequences. His health began to fail rapidly in the winter of 1885, and he realized the fact that his earthly career would soon be closed. In spite of periods of intense suffering, he was never heard to complain and always sought to inspire hope and confidence in those about him. His death created a profound feeling of grief and sorrow in the community in which he lived, and in every community where his excellent qualities were known. Outside of a very valuable library Dr. Kal- isch left no worldly goods, but he left a far richer treasure than wealth, an untarnished name and enviable fame. We may say of Dr. Kalisch, in the language of the poet :
"We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest,
Lives in an hour more than in years do some Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along the veins. Life is but a means unto an end; that end,
Beginning, mean, and end to all things, God."
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and Accepted Masons of Newark ; Deutsche Morgenlaendische Gesellschaft (German Oriental Literary Society), of Leipzig and Halle; Mendelssohn Verein, Frankfort-on- the-Main; Allgemeiner Deutscher Schrift- steller Verband (German Authors' Union), at Leipzig.
As a profound scholar, philologist, and prolific author, Dr. Kalisch must always re- main best known to the learned world. He wrote numerous essays on religious and sec- ular subjects, maintained and carried on ex- tensive religious 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 was reviewed by James Parton in the "Atlantic Monthly" of August, 1867; an- other, 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 Maim- onides." 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 edi- tor ; and in various periodicals of the coun- try he published such essays as "Origin of the Doctrine of Demons and Evil Spirits, Taught by Judaism and Christianity, illus- trated ;" "Opinions on the Value of the Tal- mud by the Most Learned Theologians ;" "On the Sphere of Our Activities as Israel- ites ;" "The Old Biblical Doctrine of the Idea of God;" "On The Science of Educa- tion;" also critical biographies of Moses Maimonides and Haftaly Hartewid Wesely. His "Wegweiser fuer rationelle Forschun- gen in den Biblischen Schriften," published in 1853, received flattering notices from the German, English and French press. In this profound work he contends upon the basis
of a critical examination of the New Testa- ment Scriptures that all that is distinctive in Christianity is derived from Judaic doc- trines and customs. In 1855, at the solicita- tion of Professor Gibbs, of Yale College, Dr. Kalisch deciphered the Phoenician in- scription found at Sidon, Asia. His render- ing was read before the London Syro-Egyp- tian Society, and published in the transac- tions of that society as preferable to the translations submitted about the same time by the Duc de Luynes, of Paris, E. C. Die- trich, of Marburg, Germany, and W. M. W. Turner. Dr. Kalisch published a splendid English translation of Lessing's "Nathan der Weise," as mentioned previously, and rendered the same service for the "Sepher Yezireh," the first philosophical book ever written in the Hebrew language. In con- nection with this last he also issued a "Sketch of the Talmud," in which he sum- marized the results of fifty years of study. He wrote Hebrew as readily as German, and as fluently.
In addition to his rare learning and ability as a prose writer, he was a poet of unusual merit. In 1865 his German poems, up to that date, were collected in a volume entitled "Toene des Morgenlandes" (Sounds of the Orient). Such gems in this volume as "Die Mystische 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, has been pronounced a masterpiece. We learn that "after his death, among his manuscripts was found a considerable collection of orig- inal Hebrew poems, tales and fables, and translations 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 "Jewish Chronicle" and "He- brew Observer," and in the Juedische Lit- eratur Blatt, of Magdeburg, Germany ; Eng-
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lish sermons, which appeared in the "Jewish Messenger," on "Timely Words," and on "Excellence of Judaism ;" a series of "Exe- getical Lectures on the Bible," in "The Occident," Philadelphia; a series of "Con- tributions on Philosophical Literature," in "The American Israelite;" "Prefatory Re- marks to the Book of Esther ;" "The Book of Antiochus," translated from the Hebrew ; "A Disquisition Concerning the Time of Composing the Accents of the Hebrew ;" "Hebrew Literature and Proselytism ac- cording to the Biblical Talmudical Laws;" "Discourse on the Preference of the Mosaic Laws," as delivered by Rabbi Moses ben Nacham, in 1263, before King Jacob, at Saragossa; "Contributions to the Jewish Liturgy ;" "Historical Researches-Who Was Tryphon, mentioned by Justin the Martyr," etc .; "Disquisition on Some Lit- urgical Subjects ;" "The Value of the He- brew Language;" "Real Treasure of Earth;" "The Jewish Minister as He Should Be."
Rev. Dr. Kalisch was married, at Jut- roschin, Duchy of Posen, in 1843, to Char- lotte, a daughter of Abner and Bettina Bandman, and this union was blessed with children as follows: Albert, born Septem- ber 15, 1844; Hannah, born April 10, 1846, married Simon Wiener; Leonard, born April 12, 1848; Samuel, born April 18, 1851; Abner, born September 2, 1853; Burnham, born August 5, 1867. Albert be- came a journalist; the other sons all became eminent lawyers.
The death of Dr. Kalisch cast a deep sor- row over the entire city, a sorrow which was by no means confined to his co-relig- ionists, for, whenever there was distress to be relieved, a difference in religious belief never affected the aid freely and generously given by him. The funeral services were attended by members of all creeds, by high and low, by rich and poor. The funeral oration was delivered by the venerable Dr. Gustav Gottheil, the eminent divine of Temple Emanuel, of New York City; a
prayer by the Rev. Joseph Leucht, of the Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, of Newark; and resolutions of condolence were adopted by the Society of "Der Treuen Schwestern," (The Faithful Sisters), of Milwaukee, Wis- consin, an organization which had been called into life by Dr. Kalisch. We can give no better estimate of the character of Dr. Kalisch than to quote a few extracts from a "Memoir" which was published of him in Newark.
One paramount aim seems to run through all his writings and labors, that of mental and moral improvement. When it is considered how unprofitable, in a financial sense, such labors are, in a busy world wholly devoted to racing after wealth, one cannot but admire the nobleness, unselfishness, and self-sacrificing character of the subject of this memoir. Who is there skillful enough to wield the pen, to do justice to the memory of a man who despised wealth, and sacrificed all the years of an active life in attempting to better the moral and mental condi- tion of his fellow men? Who is there possessed of sufficient eloquence to do justice to the mem- ory of a man who wilfully and manfully put on the armor of truth and justice, not merely in a state of defense, but in an aggressive state, to carry on a life-long war with falsehood, hypocrisy, deceit, fanaticism, bigotry and super- stition, a war in which no flag of truce was recognized, no quarter given, and no blood spilled-a war of reason against blind faith and sophistry ?
Who is there adequate to the task of faithfully portraying the character of a man, whose life was devoid of every selfish thought, whose soul was enwrapt in the welfare of others, whose greatest happiness was to observe others happy, and whose greatest triumph was to see truth, justice, virtue and enlightenment, triumph over falsehood, op- pression, vice and bigotry? Dependent upon his vocation and literary labors for his liveli- hood, and with a family dependent upon him, he rather struggled for existence, than to sacri- fice his opinions and resort to dissimulation. He did not seek after wealth, but that which was dearer to him, the establishment of a Judaism which would be impregnable to the insidious attacks of scoffers and atheists. He was a man of original thought. He took great delight in grappling with abstruse questions of mental and moral philosophy, theology, or any other subject which called for the vigorous exercise of his strong intellectual faculties. His power of analy-
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sis was so strongly developed, that a subject fell apart, as it were, into many pieces, with mathe- matical exactness and evenness under his keen dissection, and not the smallest particle thereof escaped his mental grasp, until it fully revealed its integral existence and relation to the whole. He furthermore possessed the happy faculty of investing the most intricate subject in a simple garb, so that it could be readily understood by the common mind. A strong sense of right and justice pervaded all his actions through life. So strongly was he imbued with this quality, that it produced in him an uncontrollable aversion to- wards dissemblers and pretenders, and which his open and ingenuous nature was powerless to conceal. In the presence of such, his usual calm and even temperament, his urbane and genial manner, would become uneasy, ruffled and repelling.
His charities were numerous, and no solicita- tion to him for alms ever went unanswered. He heeded no exertion, shunned no fatigue, when bent upon a mission of mercy or charity. He will be affectionately remembered by the many who have been cheered upon their lonely and desolate way through life, by the substantial aid received from his kind and helping hand. The result of his labors testifies to the efficiency of his work. In the family circle he was per- petual sunshine. He was all love, patience and generosity. He was a kind and devoted husband, a loving and affectionate father, and a steadfast friend. To him the approach of death was only the beginning of that spiritual life, which was the theme of his earnest life work.
DURYEE, Peter Sharpe,
Enterprising Citizen, Friend of Education.
There are some men whose natures are so large, who touch life at so many points, that in whatever communities they may reside, they exert an influence widely and power- fully felt. To this class of men belonged the late Peter Sharpe Duryee, late of New- ark, New Jersey, a representative of an old family, whose ancestors were Dutch and Huguenot settlers at Newtown, Long Island. The parents of Mr. Duryee were George and Mary (Sharpe) Duryee.
Peter Sharpe Duryee was born at the corner of Fulton and Gold streets, New York City, December 21, 1807, and died at
his home, No. 40 Park Place, Newark, New Jersey, September 23, 1877. He received an excellent education in private schools near the country residence of his father at Newtown, Long Island, and was still a very young man when he decided to enter upon a business career. He removed to Newark in 1821, and became an apprentice in the store of the late William Rankin, hat manufac- turer. Devoting himself wholeheartedly to the interests of the business with which he had become connected, his fidelity and worth were recognized, and at the age of twenty-one years he was admitted to a part- nership in the firm. The firm was operated under the name of Rankin, Duryee & Com- pany, and the progressive yet conservative methods of Mr. Duryee raised this enter- prise to such an extent that it became the largest concern of its kind in the country. They had established branches in almost all the large cities of the Union until the out- break of the Civil War, at which time the firm retired from business. Mr. Duryee was associated with a number of other business enterprises and held official position in many of them. He was a director and vice-presi- dent of the State Bank of New Jersey and director of the Newark Savings Bank, New Jersey Insurance Company and the Me- chanics Insurance Company. He was ac- tively interested in the New Jersey railroad, having been one of the original stockholders, and had charge of a number of its interests. He was also president of the Mount Pleas- ant Cemetery Association.
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