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In 1881 Dr. Beatty married Miss Tillie M. Cris- well, of Philadelphia. One child has been born to the union. He is a member of the B. P. O. E., and is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.
EDWARD FREEMAN HANKS. EDWARD FREEMAN HANKS was born in Ply- mouth, N. C., October 8, 1844. His father was born in Auburn, N. Y., and went South, when eighteen years of age, to engage in the lumber business. In 1859 his father sent him to the Hillsboro Military Academy, near Raleigh, N. C. In 1861 the students tendered their services to the governor of North Carolina, but he would not receive them. He informed them he was not enlisting boys.
When the academy closed Mr. Hanks was employed by the State as drillmaster in a re- cruiting camp, with the rank of lieutenant. This camp was broken up when conscription be- gan, and Lieut. Hanks enlisted as a private. He rose through the grades to a first-lieutenancy before the war closed. He was captured by the Northern army in action, and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware for three months. He went to Newbern, N. C., after the war, and found tem- porary employment, but decided to study dentistry. After completing his studies he removed to Perth Amboy, and subsequently to Elizabethport and Rahway. He organized the State Dental Associa- tion, and was secretary, and later president, of the association. He removed to Jersey City, and built up a large business. He entered into partnership with his brother at Newark, and both branches were successful. He opened an office in New York, and, sinking a large suin and waiting years, it prospered. Good work and liberal advertising made his fortune. He incorporated his business as the Hanks Dental Association, and it is one of the most extensive in the country.
He married Miss Harriet Tomlinson, of Perth Amboy, and they reside in a comfortable and elegant home at Ridgewood, N. J.
GEORGE H. WHITE was born in Galt, Waterloo County, Provinee of Ontario, February 23, 1841. GEORGE H. WHITE. He was edneated in the grammar sehool of his native town, and began business as clerk in a drug store in the near-by town of Berlin. He removed to Jersey City in 1863 and secured
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employment in a drug store. After three years he went into business in the firm of De Mott & White. Later he carried on the business alone. He was a charter member, and is still a director in the Home of the Homeless, and he is a director in the Young Men's Christian Association. He was a charter member of Alpha Lodge, No. 7, A. O. U. W., and is a member of Hudson Council, No. 521, A. L. of H. He is a member of Rising Star Lodge, and was raised to the M. M. Degree in Valley Lodge, No. 100, Grand Register of Canada, Dundas, Canada, in 1892. Eight years after he took his denit, and assisted in organizing Rising Star Lodge. He is a vestryman in Grace P. E. Church. In 1872 he married Mary E. Dean, of New York, and they have three children, one son and two daughters.
PERRY W. LEVERING was born at St. Mary's, Ohio, April 14, 1844. He is a son of the late Hon. Anthony D. Levering, of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Levering received his education at the Levering School of Philadelphia, the same being established in 1748 by one of his ancestors. After taking a commercial course of study he entered the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, from which he was graduated in 1865. At the beginning of PERRY W. LEVERING. the War of the Rebellion he enlisted in the Twenty-first Regiment, Pennsylvania State Militia. In 1866 he located in New York City, where he elerked in the drug establishment of Casswell, Hazard & Company, and in 1869 he came to Jersey City, where he established a retail drug store on Jersey City Heights opposite the court house, which he conducted for eighteen years. In 1887 he disposed of his drug interest, and was at that time appointed clerk of the first district court, which position he held for three years. He has filled other responsible positions. In 1887 he received the republican nomination for the assembly, to represent the fifth district, but was defeated by only fifty-nine votes. In 1892 he was elected justice of the peace, a posi-
tion he still retains. Mr. Levering is interested in iron mines in Tennessee. In 1892 he opened a drug store on Summit Avenue near Five Cor- ners, the same now being under the charge of his son, Mr. Charles Levering. In 1867 Mr. Levering married Miss Maggie Sheen, of Hempstead, L. I. One child has been born to the marriage.
Mr. Levering was one of the organizers of the Federal Club. He is a member of nearly all of the local benevolent orders. He is a prominent Mason, and is Past Master of Highland Lodge, F. and A. M., Past High Priest of Triune Chapter of Royal Arch Masons and a member of Hugh de Payens Commandery of Knights Templar.
ANSON F. GRANT was born in Stonington, Conn., December 23, 1829. When a boy Mr. Grant was apprenticed to the trade of a spar manufacturer. In 1860 he located in Jersey City and engaged in business on his own aecount, establishing his yards at the foot of Morris Street. In 1868 he re- ANSON FARNAM GRANT. moved his business to the foot of Washington Street, where lie remained until he removed to his present quarters, at the foot of Essex Street.
Mr. Grant is a resident of Westfield, N. J., where he has a charming home. He is a repub-
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lican, and was for more than twenty years president of the Westfield Republican Association. He has taken active part in every campaign since the nomination of Abraham Lincoln. He is a member of the Westfield Baptist Church, and has been a trustee since its organization, more than twenty-seven years ago. He was also super- intendent of the Sunday-school of that congre- gation for more than seventeen years, and for many years was a deacon in the church.
JACOB C. LOWY.
In 1863 Mr. Grant married Miss Elizabeth Pear- son, of Westfield ; three children were born to the marriage, one of whom is living, Roland P., who holds the position of receiving teller of the Clinton Bank of New York City.
JACOB C. LowY was born September 26, 1846, at Vienna, Austria. He came to America in 1870, settling in Jersey City, where he clerked in various stores until 1876, at which time he purchased a newspaper route, which he conducted in conjunction with a stationery store. In 1882 he was elected justice of the peace for a full term, and was re-elected in 1887, and again in 1893.
On December 10, 1876, he married Miss Bam- berger, a native of Baden, Germany. They reside at 213 Pacific Avenue.
Mr. Lowy is a member of Amity Lodge, No. 103, F. and A. M. ; Pythagoras Lodge, No. 62, K. of P. ; Hudson Lodge, No. 295, I. O. B. B .; Jersey City Lodge, No. 58, O. K. S. B. ; is vicc- president of Temple Beth-el, and is an active member of its building committee ; is a member of several well-known singing societies ; a director of the Lafayette Mutual Loan and Building Association, with which he has been identified ever since its organization.
ARCHIBALD M. HENRY was born in Nova Scotia, January 23, 1863. He has been a resident of Jersey City since 1865. After he had finished his schooling he accepted a position with the Singer Manufacturing Company at Elizabeth, N. J., where he remained for five years. In 1885 he engaged in the jewelry business in New York City, in which he continued for three years. In 1889 he established his present business in Jersey City at 136 First Street. In 1892 he removed to his present quarters, 535 Jersey Avenue.
Mr. Henry is a member of the Second Presby- terian Church of Jersey City, and is also secretary of the board of trustees of that congregation. He was a charter member and the first Regent of Pavonia Council, No. 1,269, Royal Arcanum. He is also Past Grand of Hudson Lodge, No. 14, I. O. O. F., one of the oldest lodges of that organization in the State of New Jersey.
Mr. Henry married Miss Ella E. Holmes, of Jersey City, in 1885. A son and a daughter have been born to the union.
JOSEPH E. BERNSTEIN, the well-known clothier of Jersey City, was born at Lissa, Germany, January ARCHIBALD M. HENRY. 12, 1866. He is the son of Jacob and Jennie Bernstein, of Jersey City. When but fourteen years of age, in 1880, Mr. Bernstein came to America and located in Meriden, Conn., where he obtained a position as a clerk in a general
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store. After a residence of six years in that place he, in 1886, came to Jersey City, and was tendered a clerical position with the late Gustave Metzler. Being possessed of excellent executive ability, he was in a short time pro- moted to superintendent, a position he held up to the time he engaged in business for himself. Prior to his retiring from the " Boston" he was presented with a testimonial from Mrs. Isabella Metzler, eulogizing him for efficient services rendered. Mr. Bernstein is a member of Sumner Lodge, No. 180, I. O. O. F. ; Jersey City Lodge, No. 15, K. of P. ; Myrtle Lodge, No 10, Daughters of Rebecca ; Pioneer Council, No. 22, Royal Ar- canum ; Mt. Sinai Encampment, No. 5, 1. O. (). F .; Canton, No. 2, Patriarch Militant ; the German Pioneer Verein. He is financial State secretary of the New Jersey Odd Fellows' Orphanage As- sociation, organized for the purpose of erecting and maintaining an asylum for Odd Fellows' orphans. He was one of the principal promoters in the organization of the association. He is prominently connected with the New Jersey Build- ing and Loan Association, and several other similar organizations throughout the State. Mr. Bernstein is unmarried, and resides at 300 Barrow JOSEPH E. BERNSTEIN. Street. He is popular socially and commercially, and enjoys the esteem and confidence of the citizens of Jersey City in general.
HENRY V. CONDICT was born at Littleton, Morris County, N. J., in 1853. His family was a prominent one in that part of the State, he being the son of Silas B., and a grandson of the Hon. Silas Condict. Mr. Condict, the subject of this sketch, is a graduate of Phillips Academy of Andover, Mass. After leaving that institution he began the study of law with Frederick G. Burham, of Morristown, N. J. After completing his course at Columbia Law School, New York City, he resumed his studies with Robert Gilchrist and Chancellor McGill, of Jersey City. He was admitted to the bar as an attorney in 1878, and as counselor in 1882, and is now a member of the firm of Randolph, Condict & Black.
RICHARD GARREIF SIP.
In 1879 Mr. Condict married a daughter of Ephraim H. Hudson, late of New York City. Two children have been born to the marriage, Hudson and Edith. He resides during the spring and summer seasons at Picatiny, near Morris- town, and in Jersey City the rest of the year.
RICHARD GARRETT SIP was born in Jersey City on July 2, 1860. He was educated in local schools and Columbia College. He resides in the Sip homestead on Bergen Avenue, which was built in 1666 by his forefathers on part of a large tract that was conveyed to the Sip family by Sir George Carteret. Ile is of the seventh generation of Sips that have owned and occupied the premises. He was married on December 31, 1889, to Miss Mary Ella Riker.
HENRY BRAUTIGAM Was born in Germany, February 13, 1842. He is the son of Daniel and Magdalina Brautigam, both of whom came to America in 1851, and settled in New York City,
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where the subject of this sketch obtained an education in the public schools. When he was thirteen years of age Mr. Brautigam was apprenticed to the furniture trade. In 1865 he obtained a position as salesman in the lumber business, in which he continued until 1876, at which time he and a brother formed the partnership business of Vogel & Brautigam. In 1888 the firm dissolved, and was succeeded by Mr. Brautigam.
Mr. Brautigam was a member of the as- sembly in 1876 known as the One Hundred. He is a member of the Arion Society, the Union League and Berkeley clubs, being president of the latter. He is also a prominent member of the Central Avenue Reformed Church.
Mr. Brautigam has long been looked upon as one of Jersey City's most useful and progressive citizens. He is a large holder of real estate in the city, upon which he has placed many improvements. He resides in a handsome home at 906 Summit Avenue.
On May 4, 1868, Mr. Brautigam married Miss Catherine Loewe, of Jersey City. The marriage has been blessed with the birth of three sons and four daughters, all of whom are living.
ROBERT S. JORDAN was born in Jersey HENRY BRAUTIGAM. City on October 16, 1848. He was educated in public and private schools, and has been a resident of the city all his life. He has been a member of the board of aldermen, and held other offices of honor and trust. He is a member of a number of clubs and social organizations.
He was appointed postmaster of Jersey City in 1894, under the Cleveland administration, and fills the position to the satisfaction of the people.
LEWIS H. BROOME was born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 28, 1849. When he was five years of age his parents removed to Lancaster, Pa. He received his education in the public schools of that eity, and was graduated from the High School. In 1866 he began the study of architecture with Mr. E. J. M. Derrick, of New York City, and in 1869 he embarked in business in Jersey City on his own account. After occupying various locations in Jersey City, in 1892 he removed to his present location, 259 Washington Street.
Mr. Broome has probably designed and erected a greater number of public and private structures in Jersey City and elsewhere than any other local architect in the city. Among some which might be especially mentioned are : the State Capitol at Trenton ; the United States Express building in Jersey City ; sehool building No. 12; the Windsor ROBERT S. JORDAN. Theatre in New York ; the new City Hall of Jersey City, and a number of others. When the war broke out Mr. Broome entered the service of his country as a member of the Seventy-
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seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, with which command he served one year, par- ticipating in many of the most memorable campaigns and engagements of that period.
Mr. Broome is a member of the Union League Club and several other social organizations of Jersey City. In 18So he was selected by the board of public works as city architect, a position he held for four years.
JOHN H. FENNER, a son of James Fenner and Mahalia Hile, of England, was born in Ogdens- burg, N. Y., April 13, 1830. He obtained his early education at the public school in Fulton, N. Y. His first effort at business was made as a boy in a clothing house. Later he engaged with his grand- father, John L. Hile, in the saw-milling business in Fulton. He left there to engage in the dredging business for the State, with headquarters at Albany. He remained in charge of a dredging machine until 1867, when he went into the river and harbor dredging business on his own account. Later he organized the Albany Dredging Co., and remained with it until 1874. After being in busi- ness alone a couple of years he formed a partner- JOHN H. FENNER. ship with W. H. Baird, of Brooklyn, which continued until the spring of 1879. He then took the contract alone for dredging the Black Tom Channel for the National Storage Company. In 1886 he was elected a police commis- sioner in Jersey City, and served two years. In 1889 he added ship and marine railways to his business, and still carries on both industries. He is a member of Amity Lodge, No. 103, F. and A. M .; Chapel 168, of Cohoes, N. Y., and was made a Royal Arch Mason in 1864. He is identified with the Lafayette Reformed Church, and is a member of the district and county republican committees. lle was married in 1864 to Lisena A. Gordon, of Cohoes, and has one son and two daughters.
LUCIEN D. FOWLER, secretary to the commis- sioners of adjustment, was born at Morrisville, Madison County, N. Y., August 1, 1848. He at- tended the public schools, and in January, 1864, he enlisted as a private in Company E, First Regiment, Iowa Cavalry. He was at once made an orderly, and served in the regimental and brigade staff. In 1866 he was honorably discharged from the service.
After the war he engaged in business at Titus- ville, Pa., during the oil craze in that section, where he met with considerable success, but decided to go further east. He located in Jersey City, studied civil engineering, and was employed by the late I. B. Culver on railroad surveys. In 1872 he became attached to the engineering bureau of the city, a position in which he is still employed. He has rendered valuable services in that eapacity, and is very popular with his colleagues.
Mr. Fowler is a member of Van Houten Post, G. LUCIEN D. FOWL.FR. A. R., and also a member of the Royal Arcanum and Loyal Additional Benefit. He is prominently connected with several building and loan associations of Jersey City. He married Miss Laura E. Smith, of Richview, Il1. The union has been blessed with three children, two of which are living.
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OLIVER HAZARD PERRY was born at Clarkson, Monroe County, N. Y., in 1844. He received his rudimentary education in the public schools of his native place, after which he entered the Brockport, N. Y., Normal School, where he went through a course in the higher branches. In 1860 he went to Buffalo, N. Y., where he held a responsible position in the freight department of the Eric Railway. In 1870 he was transferred from Buffalo to Jersey City, where he held a similar position with his brother, W. H. Perry, Esq., who was general manager of the Canada Southern Railroad. In 1871 Mr. Perry established his present coal business at 98 Pavonia Avenue.
He is a member of the Union League Club. He served three years on the board of chosen freeholders. Owing to his removal from the third district to Jersey City Heiglits, he is not at present a member of that body. He is a director of the Third National Bank, and is a stock- holder in several other financial institutions of Jersey City.
He was one of the organizers of the Union League Club, and for several years was one of its trustees. He is a member of the Jersey City and Carteret clubs of Jersey City, and the Colonial Club of New York.
On November 9, 1873, Mr. Perry married Miss Imogene Wild, of Jersey City. Five children have been born to the union, one son and four daughters.
HENRY SNYDER Was born at Easton, Pa., on January 30, 1858. He was educated in the public schools, High School and Lafay- ette College, graduating from the latter with the classical honors in 1878. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa. He be- came principal of the grammar school at Easton after graduation, and retained the position one year, when he was appointed principal of the Easton High School. He remained there until December, 1887, when he was appointed professor of Greek and Latin in the Jersey City High School. He was subsequently appointed principal of School No. 2, and in March, 1892, was ap- pointed city superintendent of schools, a position which he still fills. He was mar- ried on July 24, 1883, to Miss Mary Coll- mad, and they have four children, two boys and two girls.
HENRY SNYDER. THOMAS MILBURN GOPSILL was born in Jersey City, December 14, 1855. He is the son of the late James Gopsill, whose sketch appears herein. Mr. Gopsill was educated at Phillips Academy of Andover, Mass., from which he was graduated in 1873. After completing his education, in 1873, he accepted a position in the office of the Hudson County Insurance Com- pany, where he remained four years, obtaining a thorough knowledge of the insurance business. He decided to engage in that business on his own account, and in 1877 opened an office in Jer- sey City, which he has successfully conducted ever since. In 1883 the business affairs of the Hudson County Insurance Company were wound up, and for a short time afterwards he was associated with his uncle, William Gopsill, Esq., until his death, in the office he now occupies, No. 1 Exchange Place.
On October 18, 1883, Mr. Gopsill married Miss Anna R. Whitney, of Jersey City. Two children have been the fruits of the marriage, both being sons. He resides in a pleasant home at 95 Sip Avenue.
Mr. Gopsill is a member of a number of social and charitable organizations, the success of which, much is due to his untiring energies. He is a member of Free and Accepted Masons,
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Legion of Honor, Scottish Rite, Thirty-second Degree; is secretary of the Lineoln Association, and is State treasurer of the State Charities Aid Association. Since the establishment of the . Home of the Homeless, he has filled the positions of secretary and president, and is at present the treasurer of that institution.
ALVIN H. GRAFF, clerk to the board of education, was born in New York City in 1856. When he was twelve years of age his parents came to Jer- sey City to reside, where he finished his school studies, he having been a pupil of Publie School No. 11, and was one of the first scholars of the Jersey City High School. After leaving school Mr. Graff accepted a clerical position in a hard- ware store, at which he remained for twelve years ; he resigned that position to accept one in a dry goods store, and where he remained for four years. After spending another four years in the employ of the Erie Elevator, he accepted his present posi- tion on May 2, 1892. He was reappointed in the spring of 1893 for another term.
Mr. Graff married a danghter of Judge Fry, of Jersey City. Two children have been born to the union. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, ALVIN H. GRAFF. and is Past Regent of that order ; he is also a member of the Odd Fellows, and quartermaster of the Fourth Regiment. :
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EMANUEL SANDS was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., February 22, 1845. He received his educa- tion in the public schools of that city. In 1862 he enlisted in the Twelfth Regiment, New York Infantry, and during the Civil War he was captured by the enemy, with a portion of his regi- ment, after which he was mustered out of the service as a paroled prisoner. He immediately returned to Brooklyn, where he accepted a position in a shoe store, where he remained seven years. During that period he saved enough money to start in business for himself. In 1870 he removed to Buffalo, N. Y., where he opened a shoe store, and in which he was very successful. Owing to failing health, and the climate not agreeing with him, Mr. Sands decided to remove to Jersey City. He engaged in the same business here in 1872, which was followed with the usual success.
F.MANUEL SANDS.
Mr. Sands is a member of Varick Lodge, No. 31, F. and A. M .; Chapter ; Hugh de Payens Com- mandery, No. 1, and has taken the Thirty-second Degree. He is a member of G. Van Houten Post, No. 3, G. A. R., and was twice elected its com- mander. He has served as judge-advocate of the department of New Jersey. He is a stockholder in the Third National Bank, and is prominently identified with several building and loan associa- tions of Jersey City. Mr. Sands is also interested in and is part owner of several sailing vessels. He is a member and trustee of the Hedding M. E. Church. In ISSo he married Miss Clara Winter, of Jersey City. Four interesting children have been born to the marriage, one of whom is deceased.
JOHN WILLARD ATKINSON, eldest son of Rev. John Atkinson, D. D., and Katharine Landers Atkinson, was born in Newark, N. J., November 17, 1865. His father being a Methodist clergy-
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man, he attended the public schools in Jersey City, Chicago, Ill., Bay City and Adrian, Mich., and was a student at Pennington Seminary. He graduated from the Adrian High School in 1883, and entered Adrian College in the fall of the same year. Upon the removal of the family East he attended Princeton College, and later took a course of medical lectures in the New York University. He was engaged in newspaper work on the Jersey City News, New York Mail and Express and Commercial Advertiser. He took an active part in campaign work on the republican side in 1892, 1893 and 1894, making many speeches in Hudson County. He is a member of the Union League and the Wanser clubs of Jersey City, and the Garfield Club of West Hoboken, the West Bergen Republican League Club, the Hudson County republican committee, the West Side Improvement League, the West Bergen Citizens' Association and Court Bergen, Order of Foresters. He was one of the organizers of Company G, Fourth Regi- ment. He is at present associated with his brother James in the law business in Jersey City.
GEORGE HENRY FARRIER was born in England, May 8, 1832. His parents removed to this country in January, 1834, and located in Harsimus. He was educated in Public School No. 1, in Jersey City, being one of the thirteen pupils with which the school was opened. His father was a tailor, and he was compelled by the family needs to assist in the business at an early age. He worked in the daytime, and attended a private night-school. When he became of age he joined the volunteer fire department, and for a number of years was commandant of one of the companies. In 1862 he raised a company which became Company A, Twenty-first N. J. Volunteers. He was elected first-lieutenant, and soon became captain. He served at the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and other less important engagements, under Generals Mcclellan, Franklin, Burnside and Hooker, and received the personal thanks of the latter for carefully guarding prisoners. His regiment formed part of the Sixth Army Corps, which became famous as the "Fighting Sixth." His family is distinguished in the State as having had the largest number of brothers in the war at one time. He was the oldest of five who were in the service, and all were noted for their courage and patriotism. After his return from the war he entered business as a merchant tailor, and carried it on successfully until 1888. when he became assistant cashier of the Third National Bank. He resigned this position in 1891 to become secretary and treasurer of the Jersey City Electric Light Co.
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