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(III) Frank Sutherland, son of Daniel Dos- ten and Elizabeth Scott (McDonald) Hunt, was born in Newark, New Jersey, May 30, 1865, and is now living in that city. He re- ceived his education in the public schools, after leaving which he entered the employ of George C. Miller in order to learn the tailoring trade. Here he remained for ten years, and in 1889 accepted a much better position with McGregor & Company, with whom he remained until 1892, when he bought out the business and good will of James Harrison, and started in for himself under the name of Frank Hunt & Company, custom tailors, making a specialty of high grade custom work, in which he has been eminently successful. Mr. Hunt is a Re- publican in politics, and a member of St. John's Lodge, No. 1, F. and A. M., of Newark, and of Union Chapter, R. A. M .; also of Lodge No. 41, B. P. O. E., of the Royal Arcanum, and of the Modern Woodmen of America. He is also a member of the New Jersey Automo- bile Club. He married, in East Orange, No- vember 1, 1899, Florence Adele, daughter of Henry and Catharine (Gracken) Mulford, of 2624 Blaisdell avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota ; (see Mulford). No children.
(II) Richard Erwin, son of Thomas and Rebecca (Turner) Hunt, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, February 1, 1835, and is now living at 206 Fourth street, Roseville, Newark, New Jersey. He married, February 20, 1861, Mary Elizabeth Kindred, of Morris county, New Jersey. Children: 1. John Rich- ard, born January 14, 1862, married Mary Ella Blackwell. 2. Ferman Dayton, born Septem- ber 1, 1863; married Margaret M. Preston. 3. Eunice Rebecca, born March 21, 1867; died unmarried, April 15, 1889. 4. Richard Erwin (2d), born April 19, 1870; married Katharine Funnell. 5. Bertus Thomas, born February 20, 1872, living unmarried with his father.
(The Mulford Line).
Henry Mulford, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, married Catharine Gracken. Children : I. Jennet, married Professor Ventura, of the
University of California. 2. Florence Adele, referred to below. 3. Frederick, died unmar- ried, aged thirty years.
(II) Florence Adele, daughter of Henry and Catharine (Gracken) Mulford, was born in Dubuque, Iowa. Early in her childhood her parents moved to Minneapolis, where she passed her girlhood, and here began the de- velopment of her musical talent, which has brought her fame not only in her native land but also in various European musical centers, where she has won for herself a splendid reputation as an artist of first rank, in London, Paris, Berlin and Munich, as well as in Amer- ica. Even in her early years she sang for the pure love of singing, and her first musical efforts were in a local choir, where the rich, warm quality of her voice, even thus early, gave a prophecy of future fame. When she was sixteen years old her desire for instructors and training was so strong that she determined to come to the east, where she could have ad- vantages not only for study but also for hear- ing and becoming acquainted with good music that her home could not give her. Almost the first thing that she did was to apply for and win a three years scholarship in Mrs. Thurber's National Conservatory of Music. She also ob- tained a church choir position, and for several years was contralto soloist in the Munn Ave- nue Presbyterian Church of East Orange, New Jersey, where the celebrated organist, Samuel P. Warren, is the musical director. Later she went to the West End Collegiate Church, New York, remaining there until she left to become a member of the Metropolitan Opera Com- pany. Beginning at local concerts, the beauty of her voice became more and more widely known and admired, and it was not long be- fore her concert engagements became numer- ous and profitable. She never ceased studying however, and continually advanced in ex -. perience and ability. Her voice was beautiful from the first and always has remained so, but the ability to use it with effect came from her constant study. Every summer she went to Europe and spent about three months in study there. In London she studied with Herman Klein in song and oratorio interpretation. In Paris she placed herself under Fidele Koenig, for dramatic singing. In Berlin her teacher was Madame Artot de Padilla. Then she went to Munich and studied stage action and deport- ment with Anton Fuchs, being one of the only two private pupils he ever took. While Ma- dame Mulford was a member of the Metrop- olitan Opera Company she sang Gianetta in
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"Elisir d'Amore," associated with Sembrich. Caruso and Scotti; Flosshilde in "Rheingold" and "Gotterdammerung," Grimgirde in "Walk- ure," Einhirt in "Tannhauser," Pastore in "Tosca," and other roles, appearing during her last season there thirty-nine times. She re- mained a member of this company for three years and then asked for her release that she might go to Europe for study and appearances there. She went direct to Berlin, and less than two weeks after her arrival appeared at the new Royal Opera, singing Azucena, in "Tro- vatore," the famous tenor, Werner Alberti, being the Manrico. She made a great success and was engaged for three years at the Komische Oper, having to sing Carmen thirty times the first season. She cancelled this con- tract to return to America for a tour with the Boston Festival Orchestra, under the leader- ship of Emil Mollenhauer. Her voice is a warm and highly colored mezzo soprano, with a very extensive range, running from the low D to the high B flat. Throughout this entire range the voice is sweet and powerful. Her sustaining power, sympathetic interpretation, faultless enunciation, whether singing in Eng- lish, French, German or Italian, dramatic and often thrilling delivery of passionate passages -all combine to make her one of the most satisfying singers either on the concert plat- form or operatic stage. Wherever she has sung she has been received with enthusiasm by the audience and with highly appreciative and almost extravagant praise by the critics. While singing in Newark, New Jersey, one of the local critics published this sonnet in her praise :
TO A FAMOUS SINGER.
When the rich tones of thy warm, vibrant voice Thrill through the air and fall on raptured ears, Bringing once more the dreams of happy years, When naught we knew of this life's dreear annoys: 'Tis then we fear no more to make a choice Between the good and ill of Fate, the boding fears That haunt us, or the bitter falling tears; But evermore our hearts shall still rejoice. Sing on, O Singer, with thy heavenly art; Sing on, and cheer us on our earthly way; Sing on, and waken up each slumb'ring heart, To hope of truer love and brighter day. And lo, till severed be this earthly chain, Thy cheering song shall drive away our pain. -D. E. HERVEY.
Madame Mulford has sung with all the fam- ous orchestras and at many music festivals. She has made several tours of the country, and has appeared with nearly all of the many choral societies. She is now in the prime of life and
at the top of her profession. For her the future has many happy and successful days in store.
She married, November 1, 1899, Frank Suth- erland, son of Daniel Dosten and Elizabeth Scott (McDonald) Hunt ( see Hunt).
The Young family of Essex YOUNG county, New Jersey, is of Scotch extraction, and has played quite an important and prominent part in the history of both Scotland and America. The independ- ence and activity of the founder of the family in America caused his exile from his old world home. In the new world, in the different learn- ed professions of America's social and busi- ness life, one descendant became a noted astronomer, and others have risen to the front rank of the medical and legal fraternities.
(I) Robert Young, founder of the family, was one of the band of Scottish exiles wel- comed by the town of Newark in 1696, and settled in that place. Among his children were two sons, David and John, the latter referred to below, both of whom settled in Hanover, Morris county, New Jersey.
(II) David, son of Robert Young, of New- ark, became a Presbyterian minister, and grandfather of David Young, the astronomer. John, the other son, who settled in Hanover, died probably April 25, 1783, in his seventy- third year. The names of his wife and chil- dren are still unknown, but his grandson John is referred to below.
(IV) John, grandson of John Young, of Hanover, was born there about 1776, and died in Newark, New Jersey, February 15, 1854. He lived in Hanover until 1829, when he re- moved from Newark, taking his letter of dis- missal from the First Presbyterian Church of Morristown to the Third Church of Newark. It is generally believed that he was the first leather manufacturer in Newark. If this be
not essentially correct, he was certainly among the very first, and his name is indissolubly con- nected with the beginning of that industry. He had for a partner George Dougherty, and was associated with him in the manufacture of morocco leather, then an entirely new product, and this enterprise was the beginning of this manufacture which made Newark famous as a chief seat of the production of morocco. In other ways Mr. Young was one of the promi- nent men of Newark, active in promoting all its various interests. He married Catherine Tuttle. Children : Charles E., referred to
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below; Esabella Eugenia, born September 6, 1816, died July 26, 1831; John Tuttle, born July 14, 1818, died December 25 following.
(V) Charles E., son of John and Catherine (Tuttle) Young, was born at Whippany, Mor- ris county, New Jersey, February 19, 1816, and died in 1898. He was one of the most active and enterprising men of his day. He was first engaged in the dry goods business in Newark. He later became associated with his father in the manufacturer of leather, in- cluding their celebrated morocco, the most fin- ished and artistic of leather products. Mr. Young was a principal factor in the establish- ment of various financial and commercial enter- prises, being among the organizers of the New- ark Board of Trade and of the National State Bank, of which he was a director. He mar- ried, in Newark, Charlotte, daughter of Rod- ney and Charlotte (Denman) Wilbur, of New- ark, and granddaughter of Mathias Denman. To Charles E. and Charlotte Young were born three sons, each of whom came to distinction in his own chosen profession.
(VI) Charles Young, M. D., eldest child of Charles E. and Charlotte (Wilbur) Young, was born in Newark, August 17, 1842. He received his early education and was prepared for college at private schools, and graduated from Princeton University in 1861. He then entered the College of Physicians and Sur- geons in New York City and graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1866. He spent two years as an interne in Bellevue Hospital, New York City, and then coming to Newark was in general practice in that city for forty years, rising to the front rank of his profession as a surgeon, being the general surgeon for St. Barnabas, St. Michaels' and the City Hospitals of that city. He is a member of both the State and County Medical Societies. He married Annie Catharine Lafon. Children: John Lafon, born December 31, 1876, came to his death by accident in an elevator in St. Louis, Missouri, October 14, 1902 ; Gayle Lafon, born December 1, 1880; Katharine, born July 16, 1885.
(VI) Henry, second son of Charles E. and Charlotte (Wilbur) Young, was born October 24, 1844, and died at his home, 1078 South Broad street, Newark, March 30, 1908. He was a precocious child, and entered Princeton as a sophomore at the age of fifteen years, and graduated in 1862, not yet eighteen years old. He then studied in the Harvard Law School and in the office of Hon. Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen. He was admitted to the New
Jersey bar as attorney in 1865 and as counsellor in 1868. Princeton College gave him his Master's degree when he reached the age of twenty- one years, and two years later, in 1867, he was appointed Assistant United States District Attorney. In 1873 he was elected by the com- mon council of Newark as city counsel, and re- tained this office by re-election until 1884. His legal services to the city were of untold value and assistance during a period of distrust, de- falcations and partisan dispute, being rendered with the absolute justice, impartiality and moral courageousness which have placed him in the estimation of the public as one of the most capable corporation counsels the state has even been honored with possessing. From 1884 to 1903 he was devoted to the general practice of his profession, and in the latter year he became city counsel again by appoint- ment of Mayor Doremus. He served until May, 1904, when Governor Murphy appointed him prosecutor of the pleas for Essex county. Mr. Young was not only officially prominent, but he was also a leading member of the bar of the state and county, and his intellectual attainments, graces of manner and wide knowl- edge of New Jersey law and New Jersey men made his advice sought and his opinion re- spected in all circles. His courtesy, lofty prin- ciple, devotion to duty and kindness of heart won for him the affection and respect of all. He was a member of the Lawyers' Club, of the State Bar Association, and other legal organizations, as well as a member and one of the governors of the Essex Club. He was a member of the North Reformed Church of Newark. His death was caused by blood poisoning following the effects of erysipelas, and his last illness was painful and long. Funeral services were held in the North Re- formed Church, by Rev. James I. Vance and L. W. Allen, the pallbearers being Chief Jus- tice William S. Gummere, Vice-Chancellor John R. Emery, Governor Franklin Murphy, Frederick Frelinghuysen, Jay Newton Van Ness, Oscar Keen, Cortlandt Parker, Jr., J. O. H. Pitney and George W. Hubbell, and among those who paid their tribute to his worth, were many of the most distinguished men in the state and country.
Mr. Young married Margaret, daughter of James K. and Mary ( Kellogg) Hitchcock, of Utica, New York. Their children, three sons, all successful professional and business men, are referred to below.
(VII) Henry (2) Young, eldest son of Henry ( 1) and Margaret ( Hitchcock) Young,
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was born in Newark, where he received his early education and was prepared for college at Newark Academy. He then entered Prince- ton University, from which he was graduated in 1893. He read law under the tutorship of his father, and afterward with John R. Hardin Esq., and was admitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney in June, 1896, and as counsellor in November, 1899. He at once entered upon the general practice of his profession in New- ark, where he is now located, with offices at No. 800 Broad Street. He has drawn to him- self a large and important clientele, and is recognized as a most capable and trustworthy lawyer. He was a member of the New Jersey Assembly in 1907-1908. He is a member of the Essex Club, the Somerset Hills Country and of the University Club of New York. Mr. Young married, February 1, 1899, Alice Isabel, daughter of John Herbert and Jeannette (Boyd) Ballantine. Children : I. Henry (3d), born June 2, 1900. 2. Alice Ballantine, July 15, 1901. 3. John Ballantine, May 10, 1905. 4. Rodney Stuart, August 1, 1907.
(VII) Stuart Adams Young, second child of Henry and Margaret (Hitchcock) Young, was born in Newark, August 25, 1882. He attended the schools of that city, was pre- pared for college at Newark Academy, and entered Princeton University, from which he was graduated in the class of 1902. For two years afterward he was engaged in the offices of Henry, Brothers & Company, bankers and brokers, Wall street, New York. He then read law with his father and Vice Chancellor Howell, and for one year was in the offices of Pitney, Hardin & Skinner, of Newark. He was admitted to the bar in 1907, and is engaged in the practice of his profession in partnership with John D. Bigelow, with offices at 800 Broad street, Newark. He is a member of the Princeton Club of New York City and New- ark, and the University Cottage Club. He is a Republican in politics.
(VII) Roger Young, third child of Henry and Margaret (Hitchcock) Young, was born August 15, 1883, in Newark. He received his academic education in that city, and entered Princeton University, from which he was graduated in 1905. He is engaged in the real estate business with Littleton Kirkpatrick, at 800 Broad street, Newark.
(VI) Frederick Beardsley Young, youngest child of Charles E. and Charlotte (Wilbur) Young, was born March 16, 1862. He was prepared for college at Newark Academy, and entered Princeton University, but on account
of an injury was unable to remain and com- plete the course of study. For some years he was engaged in the Department of State, Wash- ington City, where he also read law and was admitted to the bar. He married Elizabeth Otis, daughter of William P. Morton, D. D. S., the discoverer of ether.
The Hoffman family is one HOFFMAN the oldest in Salem county, New Jersey. The will of Andrew Hoffman, of Piles Grove precinct, that county, was proved May 18, 1728. His wife's name was Mary, and he was the father of a large family. He was a properous farmer and a man of influence in the community. The father of Hon. Samuel D. Hoffman was a native of Gloucester county, but resided in Salem county most of his life, where the fam- ily has always been well represented.
James Hoffman was born in Gloucester county, New Jersey, in March, 1804, and died in 1866. He married Sarah Fisler, born in Colchester county, New Jersey, and died in 1878.
Samuel D., son of James and Sarah (Fitz- gerald) Hoffman, was born at Auburn, Salem county, New Jersey, February 27, 1848. He received his primary education in the Salem county schools, and in 1871 entered the State Normal School at Trenton, from which he was graduated two years later. He had prepared himself for teaching, and after receiving his diploma was appointed principal of the high school at Mays Landing, New Jersey, where he remained five years. He had in the mean- time decided to enter the legal profession, and now began the study of law in the office of J. E. P. Abbott. He was later employed as a clerk in the law office of William Moore. In February, 1881, he was admitted to practice as an attorney at the New Jersey bar, and in 1884 was admitted a counsellor. In 1883 he settled in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where his home now is, and where his twenty-five years residence has brought him high professional and political honors. On commencing his pro- fessional career in Atlantic City he associated himself in the law business with Judge Joseph Thompson, the firm name being Thompson & Hoffman. This firm became well known as able and successful practitioners and the rec- ords of the Atlantic county courts are burden- ed with the trial proceedings of the cases with which they have been connected either for the defense or prosecution. Mr. Hoffman at once sprang into political prominence in the Repub-
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lican party, with which he allied himself, and in South Jersey he still ranks as one of the leading men of his party. He was appointed clerk to the board of freeholders, and in this capacity served several years, forming a wide acquaintance and making many influential friends. In 1884 he was elected an alderman of Atlantic City. His interest in educational matters and his experience as a teacher made him the successful candidate for city superin- tendent of schools. He brought the schools of Atlantic City to a much higher level than they had hitherto attained, and introduced methods that received marked approbation from promi- nent educators. He remained in this position until there was a demand for him to take the head of the city government. He was elected mayor of the city, and held that high respon- sible office five years, giving the city a wise and business like administration. His term of office was marked by many public improve- ments made necessary by the marvelous growth of the famous City by the Sea. In these years of public service Mr. Hoffman has proved his worth as a public officer, and in 1891 he was chosen by his party to represent the district in the New Jersey legislature. In the follow- ing year he was taken from the lower house and elected state senator, and in 1895 was re- elected to the senate. In both houses he served on important committees and was connected with many measures of public importance both to his district and the state at large. Skill- ful lawyer and trained practical politician as he is, it is very doubtful if either law or politics lay as near his heart or bring out his best effort as does the cause of education. In 1896 he was appointed superintendent of instruction for Atlantic county, and at this date ( 1909) is still in that office. He stands high as an educator, is eminently practical, and has brought the schools of Atlantic county to a state of efficiency that entitles them to rank among the best in the state.
Mr. Hoffman holds membership in the New Jersey State and Atlantic County Bar Asso- ciation, the New Jersey Association of School Superintendents, and the South Jersey School Masters Club. To these professional asso- ciations he gives his loyal support. His polit- ical club is the Republican of Atlantic City. He holds fraternal membership with all the Masonic bodies of Atlantic City: Trinity Lodge, No. 79, Trinity Chapter, No. 38, and Atlantic Commandery. He is a member of Lulu Temple, Mystic Shine, of Philadelphia. He is unmarried. In his threefold capacity of
lawyer, politician and educator, his time is fully occupied. His life has been a busy one, and he will long be remembered for the valu- able public service he has rendered his adopted county, Atlantic, and his loved home, Atlantic City.
This family is of French origin,
LA RUE the name being originally Le Roy, and the immediate ances- tors of that branch of the family now under consideration were doubtless among the Huguenots who left their mother country about 1666 and took refuge in Switzerland and Palatinate, many at the same time emigrated to England and America. About 1680, Franz, Jacques and Abraham Le Roy, probably all brothers, and the two last named certainly such, came from Manheim, "in the Palz," and located in the province of New York-Franz at or near the present site of Albany, New York, where there was a considerable colony of Huguenots under the leadership of Louis Du Bois, otherwise "Louis the Walloon," who had fled from Franz to Manheim in 1658, and thence to America in 1660; Jacques on the Hackensack river in New Jersey; and Abra- ham on Staten Island, New York.
Abraham LaRue, the first member of this branch of the family of whom we have definite information, settled in Bensalem township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He was doubt- less a descendant of the Staten Island and New Jersey families of the same name. He was a farmer and a wood-turner, and owned a horsepower turning-mill where he made broom handles. He was a Whig in politics, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married Ann Clark. Children : Charles Clark, referred to below; William; Wesley ; Eliza ; possibly other children died in infancy.
(II) Charles Clark, son of Abraham and Ann (Clark) LaRue, was born in Bensalem township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, about 1834, and died in 1889. After receiving his education in the public schools he worked on his father's farm in the summer time and dur- ing the winters manufactured brooms. He was a deep thinker and was gifted in many ways. He frequently did the local preaching for many months at a time, being a forcible and magnetic speaker on religious as well as political topics. He was also very successful both as a prose writer and a poet, his works containing a unique vein of excellent humor. He was a Whig in politics, but steadily refused
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to hold any office. He married Mary, daugh- ter of Robert and Elizabeth ( Hamilton) Lott of Bridgewater, Pennsylvania. Children : Child, died in infancy; Howard H .; Pearson; Charles F., referred to below ; Emma; Annie ; William B., referred to below; George.
(III) Charles Frederick, son of Charles Clark and Mary (Lott) LaRue, was born in Bensalem township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, July 9, 1857, and is now living in Bound Brook, New Jersey. After receiving his edu- cation in the public schools he worked on his father's farm until he was twenty-one years old, when he went to Kansas and other por- tions of the west and far west in order to see the country and to prospect for gold. Return- ing to Bensalem township six years later, he took up farming again until after his mar- riage, when he removed to Philadelphia and engaged in the wholesale business. In 1902 he removed again to Bound Brook, where he has been ever since, engaged in partnership with his brother in the gentlemen's furnishing business. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Methodist Church of Bound Brook, where for the last five years he has been superintendent of the Sunday school. He is also a member of the board of trustees and of the official board of the church. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married Ann, daughter of Thomas and Tacy (Hall) Leedom, of Richborough, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Children : Kars- ner and Adella W.
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