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Dr. Weber is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, the Masonic order, and Phi Alpha Sigma, the latter a medical fraternity.
Dr. Weber married, October 21, 1916, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Rebecca Duval, daughter of George and Madeline S. Duval. Dr. and Mrs. Weber are the parents of two children : William Duval, born August 29, 1917 ; and Dorothy Louise, born December 5, 1918.
JOHN FRANCIS SEAMAN, a native son, when qualified to prac- tice law, began in Perth Amboy, and although his war service delayed his beginning practice, he has accomplished a great deal and is winning his way toward success. He is a son of John Seaman, born in Austria- Hungary, as it once existed, and at about seventeen years of age came to the United States, settling in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. He now owns and conducts a grocery store there, at No. 520 State street, and is a substantial citizen, formerly an excise commissioner. John Seaman married Anna Kmetz, and they are the parents of five children, all living in Perth Amboy : Joseph A., a grocer, in business at No. 475 Penn street; Mary E., married George A. Kozusko; John Francis, of further mention ; Helen N., residing with her parents; and William G., a school- boy.
John Francis Seaman was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, March 1, 1895. He finished grammar school courses in the public school in 1910, then was a student at Seton Hall Preparatory School until 1914, going thence to the New York Law School, whence he was graduated LL. B., class of 1917. In February, 1918, he entered the United States army, and for ten months was on duty at Camp Dix, the first four months with Company K, 311th Infantry, 78th Division. He was then transferred to Company 9, 3rd Battalion, 153rd Depot Brigade, for six months. He was mustered out with an honorable discharge, December 3, 1918. He began law practice in Perth Amboy in November, 1920. Mr. Seaman is a member of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus. He is a devotee of all out-of-door athletic sports, baseball and football especially, with basketball a favorite indoor sport.
Mr. Seaman married, at Camp Dix, September 3, 1918, Catherine Alice Campbell, born in Perth Amboy, February 22, 1900, daughter of James E. and Ellen (Sullivan) Campbell, her father a Lehigh Valley Railroad conductor.
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ABEL F. RANDOLPH .- Members of the Randolph family have long been located in New Jersey, and in both Union and Middlesex coun- ties have been prominent in business, in agriculture and in the profes- sions. During the last twenty years of his useful life, Abel F. Randolph was a lumber dealer of Metuchen, there conducting a prosperous business and acquiring a competence. In 1880 he built a handsome residence in Metuchen, and there his widow, Mrs. Margaret E. Randolph, yet resides. He was a son of Samuel and Mary (Boyce) Randolph, his father a farmer, and at the time of the birth of his son, Abel F., resided at Plain- field, Union county, New Jersey.
Abel F. Randolph was born at Plainfield, New Jersey, February 24, 1834, and died in Metuchen, New Jersey, in July, 1912. He was edu- cated in the public schools, and although the son of a farmer, he did not take kindly to farm life and when free to make his own choice of an occupation he chose a mercantile life. He was variously engaged with different firms, finally becoming so well qualified that he established in the lumber business with Manning Freeman. He remained in the lumber business until his death, which, as before stated, covered a period of twenty years. He was an able business man, a good manager, and one whom all respected for his upright life and sterling character. In politics he was an Independent; and he attended services at the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mr. Randolph married, in Metuchen, December 20, 1856, Margaret E. Guernsey, born July 25, 1836, in Connecticut, daughter of Asa B. and Sarah A. (Canfield) Guernsey. Mr. and Mrs. Randolph were the parents of twelve children: Juliett, Joseph, Charles, George John, Nathan, Edwin, Harry, Jane, Jeannette, Ella, Nellie, and William. Mrs. Randolph attends the Methodist Episcopal church, as did her husband.
GEORGE JULIUS MILLER, numbered among the young profes- sional men of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, gives promise of a brilliant future. Persuasive as an advocate, clear and forceful in argument, and an all-round, whole-hearted American, his friends are watching his rise in his profession with the greatest interest.
He is a son of Julius and Lena Miller, his father being a prominent merchant in Perth Amboy, where he has conducted a furniture business for the past twenty years.
George J. Miller was born in Perth Amboy, on January 15, 1895. When five years of age he entered the public schools of the city, and was ready for high school at the age of thirteen. Entering high school in 1908, he was graduated in 1912 (a class from which seven graduates have entered the legal profession), and that fall began a course at the New Jersey Law School, which ended with his graduation in 1915. He was a facile student, and possessed a retentive mind. During all his high school and law studies he assisted his father in the store many hours while out of school. He entered upon the practice of law in 1916, only to awaken, in July of the following year, to the great need of his country for men to do war service. He enlisted as a private, on
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July 15, 1917, was promoted to sergeant-major, Coast Artillery Corps, on December 16, 1917, and on March 20, 1918, he was made army field clerk at the general headquarters of the American Expeditionary Forces, with the Chief of Artillery, where he was serving at the time. He reentered the practice of law upon his discharge from the army on June 16, 1919. He became a counsellor at law and master in chancery in December, 1919, passing both examinations the first time he took them. This is a record in which the young attorney's townspeople take a very natural pride. He married Bertha Francis Sarokin on January 15, 1921.
Mr. Miller acknowledges two hobbies-public speaking, and, in close alliance, books. He is a member of the Young Men's Hebrew Associa- tion, and of the Zionists. His religious convictions are those of the Jewish Orthodox. In political affiliation he is a Republican.
FRITZ WILLIAM HOYLER, works manager of Plant No. I, of the Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Company of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, has been well known in business and industrial circles of the city for above two decades, and has always been regarded by his fellow- townsmen as an enlightened and public-spirited citizen. He is a native of France, born in the city of Paris, May 3, 1869, a son of John Martin and Sophie (Jocher) Hoyler, who were then residing in that city. The elder Mr. Hoyler was born in Stuttgart, Germany, and his wife in the same place. They were the parents of ten children, of whom only one is now living, Fritz William.
When their son, Fritz William Hoyler, was yet a small child the elder Mr. Hoyler returned to Germany and settled in the city of Frank- fort, and it was there that the lad was reared to manhood and received his education. He attended first the local volkschule or public school, and upon completing his studies at this institution entered a private chemical laboratory and took up the study of chemistry. He eventually engaged in the assaying business in Frankfort and continued thus occu- pied until November 15, 1889, on which date he sailed for the United States. Upon reaching this country, he at once entered the employ of the Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Company, of Perth Amboy, as an analytical chemist and thus established an association that has ever since continued. In 1910 he was appointed works manager, the office that he holds at the present time, discharging the responsible duties of that post with the highest degree of efficiency and making himself one of the most valued members of the company's organization. Mr. Hoyler is also interested in the general affairs of the community in which he has elected to reside and has taken a conspicuous part in them. From 1909 to 1914 he held the office of commissioner of the Perth Amboy Library, and has done much to develop that institution and increase its value to the city and extend the scope of its work. Mr. Hoy- ler is an Independent in politics, and in this displays his characteristic independence of mind, preferring to exercise his own best judgment on all matters of public interest with freedom rather than be in any degree bound by partisan considerations. He is a well known figure in social
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and fraternal circles in the city, and is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and a trustee of that order. From early youth Mr. Hoyler has taken great pleasure in athletics of all kinds, especially such sports and pastimes as are carried on out-of-doors. As a young man he played football a great deal, but more recently has sought his recreation in automobiling, of which he is very fond and does considerable motoring in various parts of the country. He also takes plenty of exercise in bowling.
Fritz William Hoyler was united in marriage, March 21, 1900, with Lena F. Schopper, a native of New York City, a daughter of Theodore and Antoinette (Most) Schopper, of that place, where the former is a retired business man of prominence. One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hoyler, Helen Louise, born January 26, 1901, who resides in Perth Amboy with her parents.
ELMER HAROLD EULNER, M. D .- Dr. Eulner began his career as a private practitioner of medicine in South Amboy, in September, 1908, and has steadily grown in public estimation as a skilled and hon- orable physician. He has also taken an active part in South Amboy's business development and in her civic affairs, particularly so in the health department, for he preaches prevention of disease and puts the doctrine into practical execution through the medium of the city Board of Health, of which he was at one time president. He is of an Essex county, New Jersey, family, son of Herman Eulner, who was born in Newark, December 31, 1854. His mother, Emma Kiesele, was born in Newark, February 6, 1856, and their son, Elmer H., was born in that city. In 1884, three years after the birth of their son, Herman and Emma (Kiesele) Eulner moved to South River, Middlesex county, New Jersey, where both are yet living; he retired from business cares after a successful career as a merchant. They have three living chil- dren : Herman (2), of South River, who succeeded his father in the butcher business, and continues at the same location on Washington street ; Elmer Harold, of further mention; Lillian, wife of John Rice, of New Brunswick.
Dr. Eulner is a grandson of Simon Eulner, who came to the United States from Germany and located at Lyons Farms, then on the outskirts of Newark, New Jersey, but since incorporated within the city limits. There Simon Eulner farmed and operated a distillery. He is credited with having conceived and built the first incubator for hatching chickens ever put into practical use. It was at the farm in Newark that Herman Eulner, father of Dr. Eulner, was born.
Elmer Harold Eulner was born in Newark, New Jersey, April I, 1881, and there the first three years of his life were passed. In 1884 his parents moved to South River, New Jersey, and there the lad attended public school and also received private instruction. After completing his school years, he taught for five years in the public schools, entering Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, at the end of his teach- ing experiences. He was graduated M. D. from Jefferson, class of
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1907, then spent a year as interne at St. Barnabas' Hospital, Newark. In September, 1908, he located in South Amboy, New Jersey, and there he has attained a very satisfactory practice in medicine and surgery.
Dr. Eulner has other business interests of importance. He is presi- dent of the Wessco Realty Company, of South Amboy ; president of the Galbourne Land Company, of Middlesex county (a company dealing principally in Florida lands) ; and is interested in the Morgan Beach Realty Company and other business corporations of South Amboy and South River. During the years 1912-14, he was president of the South Amboy Board of Health ; is now on the staff of the South Amboy Hospital; a member of the New Jersey State and Middlesex County Medical societies; the Masonic order; Knights of Pythias; and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He is a communicant of the Episcopal church. Boating, fishing and hunting are his favorite sports, and these he frequently and thoroughly enjoys.
Dr. Eulner married, at South River, New Jersey, June 30, 1909, Katherine French, born there October 12, 1886, daughter of Abial and Sarah Maria (Wright) French, her father now living at South River, retired, her mother deceased. Dr. and Mrs. Eulner are the parents of two children : Elmer Treganowan, born September 18, 1910; and Kath- erine, born August 6, 1913.
RICHARD JOSEPH GALVIN .- In both City Council and State Legislature, Mr. Galvin has served his city well, and he is one of the men whose support has aided all movements for the good of the community in which he lives. Richard Joseph Galvin is a son of Richard Joseph Gal- vin, who was born in Ireland, and came to the United States with his brothers John and William Galvin, and located at Elizabethport, New Jersey, where they were employed at the coal shipping docks. Richard Joseph, the father of Richard Joseph of this review, married Elizabeth Catherine Lyons, who was born in Ireland, and died at the age of thirty-five. His widow, yet surviving him (1920), is a resident of Perth Amboy. They were the parents of seven children: Johanna, now widow of Patrick Hurley ; Catherine, deceased wife of John Kelly ; Abbie, mar- ried William Rigby, of Roselle, New Jersey; Mary, married H. C. Reilly, of Perth Amboy; Patrick, deceased; John, deceased; Richard Joseph (2), of further mention.
Richard Joseph (2) Galvin, youngest of the children of Richard Joseph and Elizabeth Catherine (Lyons) Galvin, was born in Elizabeth- port, New Jersey, May 4, 1874, and there the first two years of his life were passed. The family moved to Perth Amboy in 1876, and there the lad, Richard J., attended Public School No. 1, and St. Mary's Parochial School, finishing with graduation from St. Mary's, class of 1886. For fifteen years after leaving school, he was in the employ of Kelly & McAlinden, hardware dealers of Perth Amboy, then was with the New York Heating and Ventilating Company, of New York City, for one year. On March 1, 1903, he began the plumbing business at his present address, No. 386 State street, Perth Amboy, and has since
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been engaged there in the business. He is also president of the Richard J. Galvin Developing Company, with headquarters at No. 215 Broad street, Elizabeth, New Jersey. A good business man, Mr. Galvin has won success fairly and honorably, and, in the close competition of twen- tieth century business life, he has won honorable mention.
A Democrat in politics, Mr. Galvin has for four terms represented the Third Ward of Perth Amboy on the city Board of Aldermen, and for one term represented his district in the New Jersey Legislature as assemblyman. During the World War, he was enrolled in the State Military Reserve. He is a charter member of Perth Amboy Lodge, Knights of Columbus ; a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and a communicant of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church.
He married, in Perth Amboy, Rose Martin, born there, daughter of James and Julia (Cushing) Martin, both deceased, her father an engi- neer. Mr. and Mrs. Galvin are the parents of three children: Loretta, Rose and Catherine.
REV. ARTHUR LOUIS KREYLING .- Although he is a com- paratively recent comer to Perth Amboy, New Jersey, the Rev. Arthur Louis Kreyling has already made an important place for himself in the religious life of the community and gained the esteem and affection of his congregation as pastor of the Lutheran Church of Our Saviour in that city. Mr. Kreyling is a native of St. Louis, Missouri, where his birth occurred, July 18, 1889, and a son of Christian and Bertha (Bentel) Kreyling, old and highly respected residents of that place, the former having been successfully engaged in business there as a caterer for a number of years.
The childhood of Arthur L. Kreyling was passed in the city of his birth, and he there attended the parochial school of the Mount Calvary English Lutheran Church until his graduation in June, 1902. He had been prepared for college at that institution, and in September of the same year matriculated at St. John's College. There he took the classical course and graduated with the degree of B. A. in 1908. The young man had by that time definitely determined upon entering the ministry of the Lutheran church, and with this end in view, matricu- lated at the Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary at St. Louis, in September, 1908. He pursued his studies in divinity at that institution until he was graduated therefrom with the class of 1911. He was regularly ordained into the ministry July 2, 1911, and was sent to do missionary work at Chickasha, Oklahoma, remaining at that post until November, 1914. In December of the same year Mr. Kreyling was called to the Immanuel Lutheran Church of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and remained in charge of that church until the entrance of the United States into the World War. Mr. Kreyling was prompt to offer his services to the government, and was shortly after appointed camp pastor for the Lutheran church at Camp Meade and for eight camps in the Baltimore district. His war services continued from December, 1917, until June, 1919, when he received his honorable discharge. It was in
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August, 1919, that Mr. Kreyling came to Perth Amboy, whither he had been called to take the pastorate of the Lutheran Church of Our Saviour, a post which he continues to occupy. In the brief space of time that he has been in charge of his present church, Mr. Kreyling has proven himself a most active and devoted clergyman and has done much to organize the work of the parish.
Arthur Louis Kreyling was united in marriage at St. Louis, Missouri, with Florence Stephanie Tacke, a daughter of Charles William and Emma Kathryn (Schenck) Tacke of that place. Mr. and Mrs. Kreyling are the parents of three children, as follows: Dorothy Lillian, born July 3, 1914; Arthur Ralph, born January 10, 1916; and Ruth Adele, born November 14, 1917.
DR. HARRY WILLARD McDONALD, JR .- As an exceptionally able chiropractor, Dr. Henry Willard McDonald, Jr., has attained pres- tige in the practice of his profession, his success having come as the logical sequence of thorough technical information, as enforced by natural predilection and that sympathy and tact which are the enviable concomitants of precedence in professional life.
Harry Willard McDonald, Sr., father of Dr. Harry W. McDonald, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Andrew McDonald, who brought his family to this country when he was a young man. Andrew McDonald took an active part in both the Mexican and Civil wars. He died in Pittsburgh, at the age of eighty-six years. Harry Willard McDonald, Sr., now lives retired in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where for many years he was president of the Pittsburgh Real Estate Exchange. He married Margaret Thompson, of Ballyhaise, Ireland, and they are the parents of one child, Harry Willard, Jr., mentioned below.
Harry Willard McDonald, Jr., was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 8, 1886. His preliminary education was obtained in the public schools of his native place and the Allegheny High School, graduating from the latter in 1904. He then went to Fresno, California, where he lived on a ranch for three years, after which he traveled through the southern part of Mexico and then through Canada on account of ill health. In 1911 he returned to his native city, Pittsburgh, and having decided to become a chiropractor, he entered the Central College of Chiropractic at Pittsburgh, from which institution he was graduated in 1914, later matriculating at the Palmer School at Davenport, Iowa. Upon the conclusion of the period spent in the Palmer School, he went to New York City and established himself in active practice there, but soon, thereafter, opened an office in New Brunswick, New Jersey, con- tinuing to practice in New York City, however, until 1917, when he discontinued his practice there and since has devoted himself exclusively to his ever-increasing clientele in this community, his office at No. 90 Monument Square.
Dr. McDonald is a member of New Brunswick Lodge, No. 324, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Improved Order of Red Men. In religion he is a Presbyterian, being a member of the First United Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh.
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With a vigorous and luminous intellect, Dr. McDonald combines strength of character and a genial disposition. This union of traits explains in a large measure his success, and gives promise of even more signal achievements in the future. He is a close student, keeping fully abreast of modern thought in all matters pertaining to his profession, and he possesses the high esteem and implicit confidence of the general public. Dr. McDonald has never married.
AUGUST C. STREITWOLF .- This name is not an introduction, it is simply an announcement. To introduce Mr. Streitwolf to the readers of this work would be wholly superfluous, for his high standing as a representative citizen is common knowledge beyond the limits of his home town, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
August C. Streitwolf was born in New Brunswick, May 19, 1879, the son of August and Elizabeth (Landmesser) Streitwolf. He obtained his elementary education in the public schools of his native place and then entered Peddie Institute at Hightstown, New Jersey, where lie remained for a while, after which, having determined to adopt the law as a profession, he matriculated at the law school of the New York Uni- versity, from which he was graduated in 1900 with the degree of Bach- elor of Laws, and was admitted to practice as an attorney and counsellor in New York State, May 14, 1901, as an attorney in New Jersey, June 10, 1901, and as a counsellor in this State, June 29, 1904. From 1901 until 1919 he maintained an office for general practice in both New York City and New Brunswick, New Jersey, but when elected to his present position as president of the Middlesex Title Guarantee and Trust Com- pany at New Brunswick, he retired from active law practice in New York City, but continued to maintain a nominal office at No. 59 Wall street in connection with his bank duties and the general practice of law at New Brunswick. Mr. Streitwolf is general counsel for the New Brunswick Fire Insurance Company ; also counsel for various corpora- tions, and his favorite branch of legal practice is corporation law.
In politics Mr. Streitwolf is a staunch Democrat, and takes an ardent interest in the affairs of the organization. He served in the General Assembly of New Jersey in 1911, and again was elected to serve the following year. He affiliates with Union Lodge, No. 19, Free and Accepted Masons. A Baptist in religion, he has always served the Livingston Avenue Baptist Church well by personal interest. and his means are ever contributed to it.
On April 17, 1907, Mr. Streitwolf was united in marriage with Edna E. Rose. They have no issue.
August C. Streitwolf might be called one of the most prominent business men in New Brunswick, for such he is in the highest sense. Executant, financier, citizen, philanthropist-all these he is to an emi- nent degree, but perhaps an attempt to describe him in a single phrase would be best accomplished by the simple statement "that he is a true man."
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SELDEN TALCOTT KINNEY, M. D .- When Dr. Kinney came to South Amboy in 1913, he was not without practical medical experi- ence, having been out of college for two years, during which he served as hospital interne, and was associated with his father in sanitarium practice at Easton. He is now well established in practice in South Amboy, and is highly regarded by the brethren of his profession.
Dr. Kinney is of ancient Colonial family, the Kinneys having come from England to New England as early as 1685, descendants serving in the Revolutionary War. His grandfather, T. W. Kinney, married a Miss Ranney, of Vermont, and they settled in Suffield, Connecticut, where they lived until the death of Mr. Kinney, when Mrs. Kinney made her home with her son, Dr. C. Spencer Kinney, at Easton, Pennsylvania.
Dr. C. Spencer Kinney was born in Suffield, Connecticut, April 13, 1855, and died at Easton, Pennsylvania, October 26, 1920. He had been in active practice in Easton for twenty years prior to his death, was a noted alienist, and owner of Easton Sanitarium, an institution widely known. He married Jane L. Dill, born in Middletown, New York, October 29, 1857, who survives her husband, a resident of Easton, Pennsylvania. Dr. and Mrs. Kinney were the parents of two sons: Selden T., of further mention; and Harry Dill, a mining engineer and assistant mine superintendent, a veteran of the World War, having served in France with the engineering section of the American Expedi- tionary Force, ranking as first lieutenant.
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