History of Essex and Hudson counties, New Jersey, Vol. I, Part 77

Author: Shaw, William H
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: [United States :]
Number of Pages: 840

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SAMUEL II. BALDWIN was admitted as an attorney in February, 1565, and as a counselor-at-law in Febru- ary, 1×69. He is a resident and practitioner in New- ark, N. J.

HENRY Yorsa was born in Newark, N. J., October 24, 1844. In 1862 he was graduated from the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, and soon after entered, as a student, the Law School connected with Harvard University, at t'ambridge, Mass. In 1865 he was ad- mitted to the bar, and began at once the practice of his profession in his native place. In 1866 he was appointed Assistant United States District Attorney for New Jersey, a position which he held for several years, and from 1876 to 1884 he occupied the office of city counsel of Newark, N. J. Since his retirement from this office Mr. Young has devoted himself en- tirely to his private practice.

WILLIAM H. MORnow was admitted as an attorney in November, 1865, and as a counselor in February, 1869. For several years he practiced law in Newark, N. J., but is now a resident of Belvidere, N. J.

CHARLES F. HILL was born in Limerick, York Co., Maine, June 26, 1822, and received his educa-

tion in the schools of his native State. His law studies were pursued under the direction of his uncle, Joshua Hill, a law partner of ex -Vice -President Hannibal Hamlin. Mr. Charles F. Hill was admitted to the bar of Maine in 1845, and began to practice at Svarsport, in that State, where he remained until April, 151, when he removed to Wolfboro', N. H. Here he resumed practice, and here remained until September, 1865, when he settled in Newark, N. J. After obtaining admission to the bar of New Jersey, in 1866, he entered npon the practice of his profession in his new home. Mr. Hill has never ov- cupied any other public position than that of super- intendent of public schools, which he held for a period of seven years in Wolfboro', N. H.

FRANCIS M. TICHENOR was born in Newark, N. J., December 20, 1840. With a good preparatory e luca- tion, he entered, a- a student-at-law, the office of David A. Hayes, Esq., and in 1866 was admitted to the bar. lle at once established himself in practice, and soon became successful in his profession. In 1868, MIr. Tichenor was elected a member of the Board of Edu- cation of Newark, and served during that and the succeeding year. He is at the present time president of the Franklin School board of trustees, and is one of the members of the Board of Proprietors of East New Jersey.

ANDREW KIRPATRICK, grandson of the distin- guished chief justice of the same name, was born at Washington, D. C., October 8, 1544. Having received a thorough preliminary education, he entered Rutgers College, New Jersey, and was graduated thence in 1563. In 1866 he was admitted to the bar a- an attorney, and sion as an attorney he established himself as a prace- titioner in Newark, N. J., where he has been since that time engaged in the work of his profession.

EDWARD LIVINGSTON PRICE was born in New York City, December 25, 1844, and is a descendant of the Price family who settled in what is now called Sussex County, N. J., in 1700. His father was the late Judge Francis Price, of Weehawken, Hudson Co., N. J., and his mother was descended from the Hart family, one of whom, John, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. At the age of sixteen, young Price entered the I'nited States service, on the breaking out of the Rebellion, April, Isol, as a second lieutenant, Company E, Seventy-fourth Regiment, New York Volunteers. He was soon promoted to first lieu- tenant, and subsequently, for gallant conduct, at the siege of Yorktown, Va., was appointed by Maj .- Gen. Hooker on his personal staff as ordnance officer of the division of the Third Army Corps, and served as such all through the Peninsula campaign, at the termination of which he was promoted to major of his old regiment and commanded it through the subsequent battles of Bristow, Second Bull Run and Chantilly. After this he was promoted to the coloneley of the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regi-

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ment New York Volunteers, his commission bearing date December 18, 1552. at which time he was yet under the age of eighteen years. On his return he entered. as a student-at-law, the office of Hon. Joseph P. Bradley, now an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and in June, 1866, was admitted to the bar. Since that time he has been continuonsly engaged in the practice of his profession, in the various courts to which he has gained admis- sion. Col. Price has been twice elected a member of the General Assembly,-once in 1865, when he had not become of age, though at his majority when he took his seat in the llonse; again in 1867. In politics he has always been identified with the Democratic party.

GEORGE P. KINGSLEY was born at Orange, N. J., May 12, 1842. After hisgraduation from the l'niversity of New York, he attended lectures at the Law School of Columbia College, and was admitted to the bar in 1866. Soon afterwards he began to practice in his native city, where he is now successfully engaged in the business of his profession.

SAMTEL H. PENNINGTON, JR., son of Dr. Samuel H. Pennington, elsewhere noticed in this volume, was born in Newark, N. J., March 9, 1842. In 1862 he was graduated from the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, and subsequently passed one term at Har- vard Law School. Instead of completing at once his term of study and applying for a license as attorney, as he might have done, he preferred to enter the ranks of the Union army, and on the 15th of April, 1863, was commissioned as lieutenant in Company C, Thirty-fifth Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers, which became a portion of the Army of the Tennessee, under the command of Gen. Sherman. To this regi- ment he was attached throughout his whole term of service, and with it participated in all the campaigns from Vicksburg to Meridian, Miss. He was at the siege of Atlanta, and accompanied Sherman on his famous " March to the Sea," and in the Carolinas to Richmond and Washington. On the 15th of Novem- ber, 1864, he was commissioned captain of Company B, in his old regiment, and held this position when, at the close of the war, he, with his regiment, was mustered out of service July 20, 1865. On return- ing to his home Capt. Pennington resumed his legal studies, an I was admitted to the bar in Novem- ber, 1866. He entered immediately npon the practice of his profession, and is therein regarded as very successful.

FREDERICK G. BURNHAM was admitted as an attorney in February, 1868, and as a counselor in June, 1871. He is at present practicing law in New- ark, N. J.

FREDERICK WILLIAM STEVENS was born at Hobo- ken, N. J., June 9, 1846. Having received a thorough preparatory education, he entered Columbia College, and was graduated therefrom in 1565. In 1868 he was admitted to the bar, and since that time has

practiced his profession in Newark, N. J. When the District Courts of that city were established, in 1873, he was appointed judge of the Second District, and held that position for the term of five years.

RODERICK BYINGTON, son of the distinguished Dr. Roderick Byington, of Belvidere, N. J., was born in that place March 13, 1844. Ile was graduated from Yale College in 1865, and soon after began the study of law with Hon. David A. Depue, under whose pre- ceptorship he remained until the latter was called to the bench of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Mr. Byington then continued his studies in the law office of Messrs. Richy & Emery, at Trenton, N. J., and in 1868 was admitted to the bar. He established him- self immediately in the practice of his profession at Newark, N. J., where he is still engaged. For several years he was assistant prosecutor of the pleas for Essex County. He also assisted in the prosecution of the members of the so-called " Warren County Ring," as well as in the trial of William A. Hall for forgery in Essex County.

FRANCIS K. HOWELL was admitted as an attorney in November, 1868, and as a counselor in 1871. He is a resident and practitioner of Newark, N. J.

WILBERFORCE FREEMAN was born at Paterson, N. J., August 8, 1843. Hle is a graduate of the ('ol- lege of New Jersey, from which he received his degree of A.B. in 1864, and his degree of A.MI. in course three years after. He also attended the Law School of Columbia College, and from that institution obtained the degree of LL.B. in 1868, at which time he was admitted to the bar. Mr. Freeman began to practice law in Orange, N. J., soon after receiving his license, and is still successfully engaged in his pro- fession in that city.

JOHN J. KING was admitted as an attorney-at-law in November, 1868, and is a resident and practitioner of Newark, N. J.

LEWIS MOKERGAN is a native of Clinton township, Essex Co., N. J., and received his education in the schools of Newark. After studying law during the required term of years, he was, in 1868, admitted to the bar. He soon after became a practitioner in Newark, where he is still occupied in the work of his profession.

FREDERICK ADAMS was born at Amherst, N. II., October 9, 1840. He was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and was graduated from the Law School of Harvard University, Cambridge. In 1868 he was admitted to the bar, and immediately estab- lished himself in the practice of his profession at Newark, N. J. His residence is in East Orange.

OSCAR KEEN was born at Newark, N. J., March 3, 1844, and was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1865. In 1868 he was admitted to the bar, and soon after began to practice law in Newark, in partnership with Thomas N. McCarter, Esg., under the firm name of MeCarter and Keen. This partner- ship existed from July 1, 1868, to July 1, 1882,-a

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period of fourteen years. In January, 1883, Mr. appointed by the Court of Oyer and Terminer clerk Keen was appointed by Governor Ludlow, prosecutor of the pleas for Essex County, an office which he holds at the present time.

LUDLOW MCCARTER was born in German Valley, Morris Co., N. J., October 23, 1814. He takes great pride in saying that the Med'arters in America are Irish; that the name was always spelt, in Ireland, McCarter, and not McCarthy or McArthur. John MeCarter, the founder of the family in America, was born in Donegal County, Ireland. He was an edu- cated man, and, emigrating to this country in 1774, settled in Morristown, N. J. At the breaking out of the Revolutionary war, warmly espousing the rebel cause, he enlisted as a private in the American army. and, having been promoted to the rank of major, served as such to the end of the contest. Ile was a sterling Democrat, distinguished for his ability and force of character. His son John, born in Morris County in 1799, was a farmer, and a merchant, and a private in the war of 1812. He was noted for his varied and accurate information on all subjects, and for the clearness of his intellect and the soundness of his judgment. In politics he was always a Democrat, believing in that Democracy which is the government of the people, by the people, and for the people. He held many offices of trust during his life, and always discharged his duty with honesty and fidelity. llis son, the subject of this sketch, after receiving a good education at the Newton Collegiate Institute, studied law, and was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in February, 1869. For two years he practiced in New- ton, and then removed to Newark, N. J., where he practiced until the spring of 1879, when he was ap- pointed by Governor George B. Mcclellan president judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Essex County. After his admission to the bar he rose rapidly in his profession, and at the time of his appointment was regarded as one of the soundest young lawyers in the State. He is a ready, forcible speaker, and has the faculty of expressing himself clearly upon all subjects. His charges are regarded as models of clearness, no jury ever misunderstanding his meaning, He has never held, nor aspired to hold, any political office, his present position being regarded as one of promotion in the line of his profession. Since his ap- pointment on the bench his duties have been varied, but he has performed them promptly, easily, and with signal ability. Judge MeCarter was married, in 1573, to Miss Emma Cummings, a native of Sussex County, N. J.

JOHN C. DURNING was born in Newark, N. J., October 14, 1829, and was educated at the classical school of Mr. Bernard Kearney, and at St. John's School of his native city. Ile learned the art and business of printing in the office of the Newark Daily Advertiser, and subsequently became a ro- porter on the Daily Journal, and general superin- tendent of that paper. In 1867, Mr. Durning was

of the Grand Juries for Essex County, and has held that position continuously until the present time. In 1869, having been admitted to the bar, he opened an office in Newark, N. J., where he is now successfully engaged in the practice of his profession.

CHARLES T. GLEN was born at Matteawan, Dutchess Co., N. Y., September 28, 1844. His education was obtained nt Burr Burton Seminary, Manchester, Vt. Removing to Newark, N. J., he entered, as a student-at-law, the office of Messrs. Cortlandt Par- ker and Anthony (2. Keasbey, and was admitted to the bar as an Attorney in 1869, and as a counselor in 1873. He began to practice immediately after re- ceiving his license as attorney, remaining in the office of his preceptors, and in charge of a portion of their business, until his admission as counselor. Since that time he has been in practice for himself, and with great success, never having removed from the office in which he first established himself.

HJORACE STETSON was admitted as an attorney-at- law in November, 1869, and resides in Orange, N. J. SERGEANT P. STEARNS was admitted as an attor- ney-at-law in February, 1869. He is at present consul general for the United States at Montreal.

FREDERICK HARVEY LUMI was born at Chatham, Morris Co., N. J., October 5, 1848, and received his education principally : t the classical schools of Rev. John F. Pingry, D.D., of Elizabeth, N. J., and of Rev. Julius D. Rose, D. D., of Newark. N. J. Having read law during the required term, he was admitted to the bar, and began at once to practice. In 1873 he became associated with his former preceptor, William B. Guild, Jr., Esq., under the firm-name of Guild & Lum, a partnership which has been very successful and is still in existence.

GEORGE W. HUBRELL, son of Hon. Algernon S. Hubbell, elsewhere noticed in this volume, was born in Newark, N. J., May 27, 1847, and was educated at Newark Academy, and Hamilton College, New York. After pursuing his law studies during the usual period, as well as attending lectures at Columbia College Law School, he was admitted to the bar in 1870. Ite he- gan at once the practice of his profession in his native place, where he is still actively employed. Mr. Hub- bell was elected a member of the Common Council of the city of Newark in 1847, and served in that position during the two following years.

RICHARD WAYNE PARKER, son of Hon. Cortlandt Parker, was born at Morristown, August 6, 1848. In 1867 he was graduated from the College of New Jersey, at Princeton. His law studies were pursued under the direction of his distinguished father, and in 1870 he was admitted to the bar as an attorney, and in 1873 as a counselor. Not long afterwards he entered upon the practice of law in Newark, N. J., where he is now engaged in the duties of his pro- fession.

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whom mention is made elsewhere in this volume, was born in Newark, N. J., August 4, 1×48, He was a student in the public schools and in the High School of Newark until 1863, when he entered the Newark Academy, from which he was graduated in 1865. His law studies were pursued in the office of his late father, and in 1870 he was admitted to the bar. Al- though Mr. Weeks makes a specialty of the examina- tion of titles to real estate, he engages also in the general practice and the trial of eauses. In 1879 he was engaged as counsel in the celebrated case of Joseph 1. Blair, charged with the murder of his coachman, and acquitted. In 1843 and last he was counsel for the New Jersey State Firemen's Association in mat- ters affecting the interests of that body. Mr. Weeks is a member of the American Geographical Society, also historiographer of the American Numismatic and Archiological Society, and has been a member of the American Bar Association since the year follow- ing its organization.

SAMUEL MORROW, JR., is a native of Deckertown, ALPHEU'S STRUBLE was born at Newton, Sussex Co., N. J., March 5, 1843. After enjoying all the advantages afforded by the schools of his native county, he engaged in teaching, with a view to carning the means necessary to enable him to obtain a profes- sion. In this he was so successful that at the end of three years he had not only made considerable prog- ress in the study of law, but was able to attend ler- tures at the Columbia College Law School. Having spent a year in this institution, he was admitted to the bar in 1871. Hle settled at once in Newark, N. J., Sussex Co., N. J., and received his education in the lligh School of that place. At an early age he he- came a teacher, and in the cause of public in- struction made himself prominent and efficient at teachers' institutes and other educational gatherings in various parts of his native State. Desirous, how- ever, of entering one of the learned professions, he finally applied himself to the study of law, and in June, 1871, was admitted to the bar. He began soon after to practice in Newark, N. J., and was already so well and favorably known in that city that in the , where he began to practice, and where he is still in following year he was elected a member of the . the exercise of his profession.

General Assembly, and in 1873 and 1874 was re- elected to the same othce. Since the last-mentioned year he has withdrawn almost entirely from political life, and devoted himself strictly to the duties of his profession.

FREDERICK FRELINGHUYSEN, son of Ilon. Fred- erick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State of the United States, was born at Newark, N. J. He re- ceived his preparatory education at the Newark FRANCIS ELSTON MARSH was born in Plainfield, N. J., March 2, 1845. He was graduated from the Academy, and subsequently entered Rutgers College, N. J., from which institution he was graduated in | College of New Jersey in the class of 1867, and in 1868. In 1871 he was admitted as an attorney, and 1874 as a counselor-at-law. Since his admission as an attorney he has continued to practice his profes. sion in Newark. On the failure of the National Me- chanies' Bank, of that place, he was appointed by Chancellor Runyon its receiver.

SAMUEL KALISCH was born in Cleveland, Ohio, April 18, 1851. In the schools of that city, and under the tuition of his learned father, Rev. Isador Kalisch, lu received a classical education. After removing with his parents to Newark, N. J., he began the study of law, and in time entered the Columbia College Law School, from which he was graduated. In 1871 he was admitted to the bar, and soon after commenced as a practitioner in Newark, N. J. He began in a very

short time to attract attention by reason of his success in criminal cases, and of these he has probably had his full share. Among the more important in which he was retained as counsel was that of George Stickert, who was indicted for murder, and convicted of man- slaughter in 1876; also that of Joseph Koerner, who was indicted for the murder of Gommersall, and ac- quitted in 1878. In the case of James B. Graves, as well as in that of John Chisholm, he was not so successful, but did all in his power to save them from the gallows, and many persons feared that he would succeed. Mr. Kalisch was counsel for the American Protective Association from 1877 to 1879, and one of the counsel for depositors in the proceedings for con- tempt against the managers of the Newark Savings Institution. In 1875 he was corporation attorney for the city of Newark, and in 1879 was the Democratic nominee of the Fifth Assembly District for the Gen- eral Assembly, but was defeated by one hundred and thirty-seven votes.

ELWOOD C. HARRIS was born in Warren County, N. J., December 20, 1847. In 1868 he was graduated from the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, and soon after entered, as a student-at-law, the office of Messrs. McCarter & Keen, in Newark, N. J. In 1871 he was admitted to the bar, and immediately commenced his work as a practitioner. Mr. Harris finds much employment as a master and examiner in Chancery.

1871 was admitted to the bar. Since that time he has practiced law in Newark, N. J. In 1875 he became associated in business with Hon. Caleb S. Titsworth, in the law firm of Titsworth, Francis & Marsh, after- wards Titsworth & Marsh, and this partnership has continued very successfully until the present time.

JOHN G. TRUESDELL was born in Vernon, Sussex Co., N. J., May 22, 1531. With the foundation for a good education, he began, at the age of fifteen, to teach in the district school of his neighborhood, pursuing his studies, at the same time, privately, and under competent instructors. In 1851 he entered into mercantile business, and remained therein until 1859 In 1860 he entered the office of the late Judge Charles L. C. Gifford, but in 1864, becoming interested in some

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large real estate transactions, which occupied him for several years, he did not apply for admission to the bar until 1872, when he received his license. In the mean time (1863) Mr. Truesdell was elected State Senator for Essex County, and as such served for the term of three years. Soon after his admission to the Bar he became associated in practice with his former preceptor, Judge Gifford, a partnership which contin- ued until within a few months of Judge Gifford's death. Since that time, he has practiced alone.

JOHN SYLVESTER YOUNG was born in Newark, N. J., December 13, 1847. He received his preliminary ulucation at the Newark Academy, and was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1867. In 1872 he was admitted to the bar, and soon after established himself in the business of his profession in Newark, where he has continued to practice until the present time.

EDWARD Q. KEASBEY, son of llon. Anthony Q. Keasbey, elsewhere noticed in this volume, was born in Salem, N. J. After a preparatory training in the Newark Academy, he entered the College of New Jersey, Princeton, and was graduated thence A.B. in 1869, and three years afterwards received his degree of A.M. Hle subsequently entered Harvard Law School, and from that institution obtained the degree of LL.B. In 1872 he was admitted to the bar, and soon after began to practice in Newark, N. J. Hle was without any business partner until 1876, when he and his brother, George M. Keashey, became associated with their father, forming the law firm of A. Q. Keas- bey & Sons. Mr. Edward Q. Keashey was appointed a United States commissioner in 1873, but resigned November 5, 1853. In July, 1873, he was made a master in Chancery, in July, 1878, a commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Jersey ; and in November 1883, was elected a member of the General Assembly. From January, 1879, to the present time he has been one of the editors of the New Jersey Law Journal. Of the Essex Law Library he is one of the board of governors, of the Essex Bar Association a trustee, and of the Board of Trade a director.

JAMES E. HOWELL was born in Sussex County, N. J., June 25, 1848. Having been educated at the University of Michigan, he entered upon the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in 1872. During the last ten years he has practiced his profession success- fully in Newark, N. J., where he still resides.

ELIAS F. MORROW was born at Deckertown N. J., and was educated at Mount Retirement Seminary. At the early age of sixteen he was a teacher in the Newton Collegiate Institute, and afterwards taught successively in the Stamford Military Institute, Con- necticut, and as principal of one of the public schools in the city of Rahway, N. Y. With an experience of eight years as a teacher, Mr. Morrow began the study of law in the office of Theodore Runyon, Esq., afterwards chancellor. In 1872 he was admitted to the bar as an attorney, and in 1875 as a counselor. He began

the practice of his profession in the office in which he studied it, and remained therein until Mr. Runyon was elevated to the chancellorship. His success as a practitioner has been remarkable, and it is believed that the present ill condition of his health is due to overwork in his profession. For the present he has retired, and is now striving to recover his strength among his native hills in Sussex County.

JAMES M. C. MORROW was born in Deckertown, Sussex County, N. J., August 30, 1837. He was educated in his native place, and, after teaching school three years in Milburn and Rahway, N. J., entered upon the study of law in the other of John Whitehead, Esq., of Newark, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1872. In the latter place he began at once the practice of his profession, and it was through him that the remarkable sale of the "Deserted Village." in New Jersey, wa- effected, under an order obtained by him from Chancellor Runyon. Feltville was the name of the place, and it was so called after its owner, who, from his Jordly mansion, which overlooked his mills, his church, his tavern, and his row of neat cottages, ruled like a prince hi- three or four hundred tenants and workmen. Like many other princes, he was compelled to abdicate. His paper manufacturing business proved a failure. The mills were closed ; the tenants had nothing to live on; the tavern was de- sorted ; the bellows of the blacksmith breathed its last ; the tolling of the church bell ceased, and all was over. Grass grew sadly and reverently over the sidewalks, and a long night began, without the smallest prospect of a coming morrow. It came, however, by order of the chancellor, as above stated, and the auctioneer came also. Feltville is once more a happy place, and Mr. Morrow justly deserves a share in it.

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History of Essex and Hudson counties, New Jersey, Vol. I, Part 77

Author: Shaw, William H Publication date: 1884 Publisher: [United States :] Number of Pages: 840

Author: Shaw, William H
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: [United States :]
Number of Pages: 840