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" Previous to being mustered out at Trenton they were given a magni- ficent reception by the ladies and citizens, Maj. Frank Mills, of that city. delivering an appropriate address on the occasion. The companies returning to Hackensack were also received with warm congratulations, and a collation was served at the Mansion House."
The original field, staff and line officers of the regiment. were. Field and Staff Cornelius Fornett. Colonel : Alexander Douglas, Lieu- tenant-Colonel ; Abraham G. Demarest, Major : John F. Satterthwaite, Adjutant ; Ural B. Titus, Quartermaster; Jacob B. Quick, Surgeon ; Samuel A. Jones, Assistant Surgeon ; John E. Cary, Second Assistant Surgeon; Abraham G. Ryerson, Chaplain.
The non-Commissioned Staff were: John Ferdon, Sergeant-Major ; James T. Gunnelly, Quartermaster-Sergeant ; Frederick P. Van Riper, Commissary-Sergeant ; Benjamin S. Mennier, Hospital-Steward. Line officers- Company A., Robert W. Berry, Captain; Jacob Post. First Lieutenant ; Jacob S. Lozier, Second Lieutenant. Company B .. Abra- ham Van Emburgh, Captain ; Jacob Z. Van Blarcom. First Lieutenant : Benjamin Z. Van Emburg, Second Lieutenant. Company C., Samuel D. Demarest, Captain : William J. Demarest. First Lieutenant : Joseph P. Vreeland. Second Lieutenant. Company D., John C. Westervelt. Captain ; Walter II. Rumsey, First Lieutenant ; Nicholas Collingnon. Second Lieutenant. Company E., William Chippendale, Captain : Wil- liam Drem, First Lieutenant ; John Gilham, Second Lieutenant. Com- pany F., James M. Avers, Captain; Jacob Titus, First Lieutenant.
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George W. Cubberley, Second Lieutenant. Company G., John H. Mar- gerum, Captain ; Richard H. Ivory, First Lieutenant; William C. Van- derwater, Second Lieutenant. Company H., Daniel D. Blauvelt. Cap- tain; Thomas G. T. Paterson, First Lieutenant; George Kingsland, Second Lieutenant. Company I., Thomas H. Swenarton, Captain ; Joseph A. Blauvelt, First Lieutenant : David C. Blauvelt. Second Lieu- tenant. Company K., Richard C. Dey, Captain ; Garret J. Christie, First Lieutenant : James Christie, Second Lieutenant.
Early in January, 1863, the Twenty-second Regiment was removed to Belle Plains and attached to the left wing of General Franklin's di- vision, brigade of General Paul. On February 1st, 1863, Lieutenant- Colonel Alexander Douglas resigned his commission, and Major A. G. Demarest was afterward promoted to the Colonelcy.
Promotions were: Major Abraham G. Demarest, promoted to Col- onel January 26, 1863 ; Captain Abraham Van Emburg, promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Alexander Douglass, resigned, February 20, 1863: Captain Samuel D. Demarest, promoted to Major February 20. 1863; First Lieutenant Jacob Post, promoted to Adjutant January 1. 1863: Assistant-Surgeon William S. Janney, promoted to Surgeon March 27. 1863, died of typhoid fever in camp near White Oak Church, Va .. June 1, 1863; Second Lieutenant Jacob S. Lozier, promoted to Captain January 16, 1863; First Lieutenant Joseph A. Blauvelt, promoted to Captain May 18, 1863 : Second Lieutenant George Kingsland, promoted to First Lieutenant November 20, 1862 ; Second Lieutenant James Chris- tie, promoted to Captain May 18, 1863 : Second Lieutenant Benjamin Z. Van Emburg, promoted to Captain February 21, 1863; Second Lieuten- ant Joseph Vreeland, promoted to Captain February 22, 1863: Sergeant Stephen G. Hopper. promoted to First Lieutenant March 11, 1863 ; First Sergeant Garret M. Campbell, promoted to Second Lieutenant January 16, 1863 ; Corporal Richard A. Terhune, promoted to Seeond Lieutenant March 11, 1863 ; Sergeant Milton Birley, promoted to First Sergeant September 1, 1862; First Sergeant John A. Van Buskirk. promoted to First Lieutenant September 2, 1862; First Sergeant Albert Forbush. promoted to First Lieutenant May 18, 1863; First Sergeant Gilbert T. Bogert, promoted to Second Lieutenant November 20, 1862. and to First Lieutenant May 18, 1863 ; Sergeant George A. Ward, promoted to First Sergeant January 1, 1863; First Sergeant Andrew Van Emburg, pro- moted to First Lieutenant February 21, 1863. and to Captain May 18. 1863 ; Sergeant Charles Van Riper, promoted to First Lieutenant May 18, 1863 ; Sergeant Thomas Eckerson, promoted to First Sergeant March 8, 1863 ; Corporal John S. Townsend. promoted to Sergeant June 1, 1863 ; Corporal William Cowperthwaite, promoted to Sergeant January 1, 1863: Corporal Nicholas P. Royce, promoted to Sergeant February 4. 1863; Corporal Cornelius Van Horn, promoted to Sergeant March 11, 1863; Corporal George A. Brinkerhoff, promoted to Sergeant March 11, 1863; Corporal Aaron Vanderbeck, promoted to Sergeant March 18, 1863: Corporal Abraham H. Hopper, promoted to Sergeant March 18, 1863;
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Corporal David J. Blackledge, promoted to Sergeant April 7, 1863; Pri- vate Peter L. Conklin, promoted to Second Lieutenant February 22. 1863; Corporal Isaac D. Bogert, promoted to Sergeant March 1, 1863 ; Private Cornelius Koert, promoted to Corporal March 1, 1863.
THE RAILROAD STRIKE.
The famous railroad strike in 1877 reached New Jersey, New York. Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia and eight of the Western States. The extent of the movement was so great that the United States Gov- ernment was called upon for assistance. New Jersey being the East- ern terminus of the two great trunk lines of railroad, with their im- mense railroad property and interests subject to the communistic and criminal elements of the two great cities, rendered the position in this State critical.
To quell these riots the militia of nearly a dozen States was called into service. In the afternoon of the 23d of July the Second Battalion, under Major James Vreeland Moore, was ordered to report to Colonel Hart, at Hoboken, and were quartered there on a barge in the river with the Ninth Regiment. On the 27th the command accompanied Battery A to Jersey City, but the next day rejoined the Ninth Regiment at Hoboken. There being disorders and obstructions at Port Morris, Major Moore re- ceived instructions from the Governor to report to General Sewell, and at that point " to aid the authorities there in putting down all lawless- ness, or if they fail from any cause, do it yourself, using your best judgment."
The battalion reached Port Morris at 12.40 A. M. July 29th. On Monday, the 30th of July, General Sewell reported trains running. On the 3d of August a force of United States troops having reached Easton. Pa., the Second Battalion and regiments of National Guard were re- lieved. During this strife " the Second Battalion," under Major Moore, according to General Sewell's report, " was a credit to any man in either peace or war."
THE WAR WITH SPAIN.
During the Spanish-American War four companies from Bergen County were mustered into the United States service at Sea Girt. N. J., May 2, 1898. Their destination was Cuba. On June 1st the regiment left Sea Girt for Cuba Libre, Jacksonville, Florida, and was attached to the Second Brigade, First Division, Seventh Army Corps, General Fitz- hugh Lee Commander. It returned home September 24th, and was mustered out of the United States service November 17th, 1995, at Paterson, N. J. The history of each of these companies is given in the chapters to which they severally belong.
CHAPTER XII. SOCIETIES AND INCORPORATED COMPANIES OF BERGEN COUNTY.
THE BERGEN COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY.
At a meeting held in the Reformed Dutch Church of Hackensack. June 16th, 1847, for the purpose of considering the practicability of formning a Bible Society for the County of Bergen, Rev. H. H. Warren was called to the chair, and Cornelius Blauvelt was chosen Secretary. The meeting adjourned to the first day of July, at which date an organization was effected and the follow- ing officers chosen: Rev. W. Elting, D. D., President; Revs. Bar- banas V. Collins and John Manley, Vice Presidents; Christian De Baun, Secretary, and A. O. Zabriskie, Treasurer. Executive Committee, Rev. A. HI. Warner, Henry H. Banta. Peter Vestervelt, Jr., Jacob Van Bus- kirk, Andrew H. Hopper, Edward B. Force, Robert Rennie.
The society has been from its organization an effective auxiliary of the American Bible Society, and has worked in co-operation with the parent institution.
The first anniversary of the society was held at the North Dutch Church in Schraalenburgh, March 14, 1848. Dr. Elting was re-elected President, and Christian De Baun, Secretary. Agents were appointed to canvass the different townships, and Bibles were obtained from the parent society. The colporteurs reportel the first year 1859 families visited, $300.75 worth of books sold, $26 worth gratuitously distributed, $102.36 collected from contributions, 73 destitute families supplied and $392.75 paid for Bibles and Testaments.
At the second anniversary, held in Hackensack, February 6th, 1849, Rev. John M. McAuley preached the occasional sermon. Rev. S. Iranus Prime, one of the secretaries of the American Bible Society, was present and delivered an able address. Rev. Dr. Elting was re-elected Presi- dent and Christian De Baun, Secretary. For the year ending October 1st, 1899, 330 Bibles and Testaments were donated and 95 sold.
The present officers are Rev. Edward Lodewick, President: Revs. Isaac Thomas and W. Williams, Vice Presidents; Rev. David W. Tal- madg, Secretary; Mr. A. S. D. Demarest, Treasurer.
BERGEN COUNTY SUNDAV-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION.
This organization was formed in 1867, and has been largely par- ticipated in by clergymen and Sunday-school workers throughout the county.
William Williams was elected the first president. He remained in office two years, and was succeeded by Judge Thomas Cumming, who was elected September 12, 1870. The county is divided into three dis-
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tricts, the vice-presidents of the association being ex-officio presidents of their respective districts. Each township has a secretary whose du y it is to furnish statistics in a report each year to the county secretary.
GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY OF BERGEN COUNTY.
The first lighting company established in Hackensack was in 1867. when by special Act of the Legislature, the Hackensack Gaslight Com- pany was incorporated. a meeting for the purpose having been held on July 15th, of that year. The first directors were: L. J. Van Boskerek, John J. Ward, M. M. Knapp, Garrett Ackerson, Jr .. R. P. Terhune. John J. Anderson and N. S. Banta. The first officers were : President, M. M. Knapp; Treasurer, N. S. Banta ; Secretary, R. P. Terhune. The gas company in these days had the field to themselves, reaping large profits, with gas at five dollars per thousand feet. and spending only so much money as the necessities of the case demanded. Business was profitable and good dividends were paid for about twenty years, the town being obliged to pay at the rate of thirty seven dollars and fifty cents per annum, for each light. On moonlight nights lamps were not lighted. The only reason why greater revenues were not realized, lay in the fact that fewer lamps were used on a street, and a less number of streets lighted than at present.
When electricity came into nse, however, all this was changed. An electric plant was put in by another company, when the income of the gas company fell off, and they soon found that a new order of things must be instituted in order to save themselves from bankruptcy. The new company found greater obstacles to overcome than had been antici- pated, and to add to their troubles, their generating plant was burned. in November, 1894. The gas company which in 1892, had come under new control, now made radical changes realizing that more modern methods must be used, and that improvements were necessary. In 1895 a completion of the plans culminated in the purchase of the electric plant, both companies coming under one control.
The stockholders were all persons interested in the growth and de- velopment of the town, and fully convinced of the fact that in the near future not only gas but electricity also would be largely used for cook- ing purposes as well as lighting.
The present gas generator has a capacity of something over a quar- ter of a million cubic feet per day. and storage of about seventy-five thousand cubic feet, using over thirty miles of mains. The electric light- ing power of the present plant being about twelve thousand lights with over fifty miles of pole line. and about three hundred miles of wire. This plant is now a part of the new gas and Electric Company of Bergen County, a consolidation of the old Hackensack Gas and Electric Company, the Ridgewood Electric Company, the Englewood Gas and Electric Company, the Rutherford Gas Company, and the Ru- therford Electric Company.
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Extensive enlargements to the generating plant in Hackensack are now under way with a view to shutting down all of the smaller outlying plants and supplying the entire county from the one station, gas to be supplied from the same point.
This is a progressive corporation quickly adopting the latest im- provements and keeping to the front in all matters upon which depend the maintenance of a first class service. In 1898 the company spent one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in improvements, and expect to spend a quarter of a million in the present year, (1899).
The new company starts out with an authorized capital of two mil- lions of dollars and an authorized bon led issue of one million five hundred thousand dollars, the same interests controlling as heretofore, with : Frank B. Poor, President ; Arthur B. Sturges, Vice-President; W. C. Thomas, Treasurer ; and Lemuel Lozier, Secretary. The Board of Directors will number fifteen, all well known men of the county. They are Frank B. Poor, George W. Conklin, David St. John, E. A. Pearce, Lemuel Lozier, W. C. Thomas, and Samuel Taylor of Hackensack ; E. A., Walton, Ridgewood ; F. A. E. Cott, Englewood ; William Mckenzie, Addison Ely, Rutherford ; Hamilton F. Kean, Elizabeth ; T. N. McCarter, Newark ; and Arthur B. Sturges, New York.
BERGEN COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.
In 1640 Harvard College was established followed in 1701 by Yale ; Princeton in 1746; King's College in 1754, and Queen's in 1770. These institutions were for the promotion and maintenance of a high grade of scholarship, but with no especial object in view.
Holland sent thoroughly trained theologians to look after the spirit- ual interests of the Colonists. She sent also able lawyers, as did both England and Scotland, to attend to the legal interests of those who had come to the new world, but the physical ailments incident to man were not thought of, to the extent of making a special study of medicine,
The university at Leyden was noted for its interest in the study of sciences, especially the science of chemistry, but chemicals were then but little used as curatives, herb constituting a large proportion of the material used in the healing of diseases.
The first medical school in America was founded in Philadelphia in 1765, in which Drs. Shippen and Morgan were Professors. Two years later New York established her first school of medicine in connection with King's College. But few students entered upon the work. however, as is proven by the records which show that only eleven degrees were conferred prior to the war of the Revolution, when studies in that depart- ment were suspended until 1784. From 1792 to 1816, a Medical Depart- ment of Queen's College, New Brunswick, was located in New York. Its location in the city is explained by the fact that the founders, Dr. Nicholas Romaine and associates having failed to place in New York, with the institution they desired, applied and secured authority under the charter of Queen's College to perfect their organization. In 1825
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Princeton undertook a Medical Department, in which Dr. Van Cleve, a distinguished physician took an active interest, but his death caused a delay in its establishment.
New Jersey claims to have been the first of the colonies to organ- ize a Medical Association. The Medical Society of New Jersey have in their possession, the well preserved original book of minutes of that or- ganization. The first meeting was held at the house of a Mr. Duff in New Brunswick, where sixteen physicians met on the 23rd day of July 1766, and formed themselves into a "Standing Society and Voluntary Incorporation," and signed the " Instruments of Association and Consti tution of the Medical Society of New Jersey." The names of those who signed these instruments were Robert McKean, Chris. Manlove, John Cochran, Moses Bloomfield, James Gilliland, William Burnet, Jona. Dayton, Thomas Wiggins, Williams Adams, Bern. Budd. Lawrence V. Derveer, John Griffith, Isaac Harris and Joseph Sackett, Jr. The meet- ings of the Society were held semi-annually, uninterruptedly until 1775. when the Revolution interfered and no meeting was again held until 1782. Again from 1795 until 1807 a cessation occured.
In 1790 another society was formed in East Jersey known as the " Medical Society of the Eastern District of New Jersey."
Dr. Micheau, of Elizabethtown, was the prime mover in this new society which, for a time, drew chiefly from East Jersey, because of the majority of the physicians being located on that side. In time, however, the first society gained control, which it has ever afterwards held.
In 1771 the Medical Society of New Jersey petitioned the Assembly for an act "Regulating the practice of medicine," and resolved " That members of the society get petitions signed by the respectable inhabi- tants of their neighborhoods," and send these to the care of the com- mittee of the society charged with the prosecution of the measure be- fore the Legislature. This act was adopted in September, 1772 A table of rates and fees was now arranged, which was practically the basis of charges until 1784, when it was unanimously adopted. It is a piece of interesting reading. Medicine, as a science, is of comparatively recent date. It was not until 1754 that lectures to students was first in- troduced. Dr. William Hunter, of Newport. R. I., being the first to use them as a means of instruction, the first instruction in dissection having been given prior to that time by Dr. Bard of Middletown, in New York City.
The Provincial or State Society exerted a healthful influence, and soon district societies began to spring up in different parts of the State.
Bergen County, owing probably to its close proximity to New York. Newark and Elizabethtown, had few physicians until a later date than many other counties. Joseph Sackett. Jr., who practiced at Paramus during the Revolution, is the only member from Bergen County whose name is on the roll of the society until 1796.
The earliest physician of whom we can find any record. in Bergen County, was Dr. Van Emburgh. He lived prior to 1709, as is attested
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by the deed to his widow, given by her friend Sarah Sandford dated De- cember 7, 1709. The land so given was probably bestowed purely out of friendship, and consisted in all of about six hundred acres of land.
Dr. Abraham Van Boskirk was a surgeon in the First Militia of Bergen County, and on May 12th, 1775, was one of the committee of correspondence for Bergen County of which John Fell was chairman. Dr. Joseph Sackett was born February 16, 1733, O. S., and was one of the original charter members of the New Jersey Medical Society, taking an active part until 1772 when he removed to Newton, L. I. Dr. John Campbell, who was a physician in Hackensack after the Revolution, was a son of Archibald Campbell. who was advised by Washington to "keep neutral" and stay by his family. Dr. Campbell was born Febril- ary 13, 1770. He spent his life in Hackensack. He died in 1814, and is buried in Hackensack by the side of his wife who died in 1853. Jo- siah Hornblower. a brother of Chief Justice Joseph C. Hornblower, of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, practiced medicine in Bergen County in 1789. Dr. Hornblower was born at Belleville May 23, 1767. He studied medicine with Dr. Thomas Steele of Belleville, and began prac- tice in the town of Bergen in 1789. His practice extended over a large expanse of country covering Hudson County, including the old Town- ship of Hackensack, Fort Lee. with a considerable practice in Staten Island. He was appointed surgeon in the War of 1812, and was assigned to duty at the old arsenal on the heights. He was twice married. his first wife being Annetje Merselis, who became the mother of six chil- dren. His second wife, Hannah Town, had two children. He died at the good old age of eighty-one years, having been in active practice in Bergen County for a period of fifty-five years. Two of his sons, Wil- liam and Josiah became physicians, and three of his sons-in-law, Doctors De Witt. Gautier and Zabriskie were also physicians as were two of his grandsons, the sons of William. The family was thus widely repre- sented in the profession. Cornelius Blauvelt was a practitioner in Hack- ensack in 1819.
It was not until 1854 that the District Medical Society of Bergen County, was organized. A meeting for this purpose was held in the Washington Institute Building. in Hackensack. on February 28, where the licensed physicians and surgeons met by authority of the Medical Society of New Jersey, through a commission issued for that purpose. Those present were Drs. William H. Day, Charles Hasbrouck, George B. Brown, Henry A. Hopper and DuBois Hasbrouck. The meeting was organized by making W. H. Day, M. D., President, and Dr. Henry A. Hopper. Secretary. William H. Day was elected the first president of tli'e Society and Charles Hasbrouck secretary.
The Society held no meetings from 1858 to 1868. when a re-organi- zation took place and the by-laws were revised.
ROLL OF MEMBERS ADMITTED UP TO 1876.
A. Hopper, 1854; W. H. Day, 1854; C. Hasbrouck. 1854; H. A. Hopper. 1844; G. B. Brown, 1854; D. Hasbrouck, 1854: A. S. Burdett,
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1854; B. Oblenis. 1855; J. J. Haring, 1856; I. J. Well, 1868; W. H. Hall, 1868; J. T. Demund; 1868; H. C. Neer, 1868; F. M. Wright. 1868; J. M. Simpson, 1869; R. Stewart, 1869; S. J. Zabriskie, 1870; A. P. Williams, 1870; H. A. Crary, 1871; W. Francis, 1871; D. A. Currie, 1872; M. S. Avers, 1872; D. C. Carr, 1874; G. F. Simpson, 1874; F. A. Davis, 1874; A. Clendinen, 1875.
PRESENT MEMBERS AND SCHOOLS AT WHICH THEY RECEIVED THEIR DEGREE.
Henry A. Hopper, College Physicians and Surgeons, New York. 1847; A. S. Burdett, College Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1852; H. C. Neer, Berkshire Medical College, 1860; D. Augustus Currie, Uni- versity of Buffalo, 1864; University of Edinburgh, 1867; M. S. Ayers. Long Island College, 1871; G. C. Terhune, New York Medical College. 1853; Charles H. Hasbrouck, College Physicians and Surgeons. Fair- field, New York, 1839; D. St. John, Bellevue, 1875; Alexander Clendinen, University of Maryland, 1859; Milton Terhune, Kentucky School of Medicine, 1676; J. M. Simpson, Bellevue; 1866; S. J. Zabriskie. Uni- versity Medical College, New York, 1856; J. J. Haring, Jefferson Medi- cal College, 1855; A. P. Williams, College Physicians and Surgeons. New York, 1860; E. M. Garton, University Medical College, 1878; G. E. Brown, College Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1875; C. L. Demarest, Bellevue, 1876; Thomas Reid, University Medical College, New York, 1876.
Presidents: 1854, William H. Day; 1855-'56, Abraham Hopper; 1857, William H. Day; 1858, I. J. Wells; 1868, Charles Hasbrouck; 1869-70, A. S. Burdett; 1871-72, John J. Haring: 1873. F. Marco Wright ; 1874, H. C. Neer; 1875, A. S. Burdett ; 1876, D. Augustus Currie ; 1877, Henry A. Hopper; 1878, A. S. Burdett; 1879, S. J. Za- briskie ; 1880, Milton Turmure; 1881, Henry A. Hopper; 1882, H. A. Hopper ; 1883, D. St. John ; 1884, M. S. Avers ; 1885, Milton Turmure; 1886, John W. Hopper ; 1887, J. W. Terry ; 1888, Win. H. O. Taylor ; 1889, Lewis Parsells ; 1890, John A. Willis; 1891, M. S. Avers : 1892. H. C. Neer ; Samuel A. Armstrong ; 1894, J. W. B. Lansing ; 1895, W. L. Vroom ; 1896, Hardy M. Banks; 1897, L. B. Parsells; 1898, Howard McFadden; 1899, Chas. Calhoun.
Secretaries : 1854-58, Charles Hasbrouck ; 1868, I. J. Wells : 1869. J. T. DeMund ; 1870-76, Charles Hasbrouck ; 1877-'78, A. S. Burdett; 1879, Henry A. Hopper : 1880, Alexander Clendinen : 1881-'99 inclusive. D. A. Currie : 1882-'99, Dr. David St. John, Treasurer.
THE BERGEN COUNTY FARMERS' MUTUAL. FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.
This institution is located at Oradell, Bergen county, N. J. It was incorporated May r. 1849, by the following named persons: Jacob Van Buskirk, Nicholas C. Durie, Charles Hasbrouck, Benjamin Z. Van Emburgh, David A. G. Demarest, John G. Demarest, Isaac D. Demarest, Garret S. Demarest, Henry N. Voorhis, George T. Brickell, Garrett .1. Eckerson, Henry H. Voorhis, Jr., John Ackerman, Jr.
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The Company was organized wtih Garret S. Demarest as president. and Henry H. Voorhis as secretary. These gentlemen occupied these positions respectively many years. The company insures farm and other property for cash premiums only. The present officers of the company are as follows: Abram C. Holdrum, President: John T. Haring, Vice- President; Elmer Blauvelt, Secretary: Daniel I. Demarest, Treasurer.
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