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From Perth Amboy, Mr. Sofield moved to Avon- by-the-Sea, a summer resort, a few miles south of Long Branch, and there he embarked in the sand shipping business, being owner of banks of sand most suitable for use in foundries for sand blasting and in making cores. He also owned clay beds of good quality, which found a ready market among manufacturers.
A Republican in politics, Mr. Sofield served in the Avon borough council, and was one of the up- builders of that prosperous seaside community. He married October 26, 1869, Mary Ella Page, daugh- ter of Edward C. Page and Anna Maria (Blackney) Page, of New Brunswick, New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Sofield were the parents of six children: Frances A., born December 10, 1871; LeRoy, of further mention; Isabella H., born June 26, 1877; Emma G., born December 28, 1881; Howard S., born May 12, 1888; and Hilton W., born August 13, 1890. LeRoy Sofield, son of Alfred F. Sofield, was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, March 18, 1874, and there he spent the first nine years of his life. In
1883 the family moved to Avon-by-the-Sea in Mon- mouth county, and there he attended public schools. His first position was with the New York and Long Branch railroad, but he later learned the painters' trade and became a contractor of painting and decorating at Avon. He was, however, for a short time in the employ of Adams Express Company, but with that exception, has followed his painting business continuously until the present time, 1921. He has succeeded in his business activities, and is a man highly esteemed in the community, in which practically his whole life has been spent.
Mr. Sofield is a Republican in politics. He was collector of taxes for the borough of Avon which, until 1900, comprised the new boroughs of Avon and Neptune City, the last named being set off as a separate borough in that year. He was borough clerk, and on October 20, 1919, was elected mayor of Avon. For twenty-five years he has been a member of the Board of Education, and as the rec- ords show has been a most able and efficient public official. He is a member of Ocean Lodge, No. 89, Free and Accepted Masons, Goodwin Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Tecumseh Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men. In religious faith he is a Bap- tist.
LeRoy Sofield married (first) at Avon, in 1894, Norma C. Martin, who died December 24, 1913, daughter of George Martin, of Summerfield, New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Martin were the parents of seven children: May Isabel, Evangeline, George Davidson, Alfred Craig, Norma C., Theodore Roose- velt and Harry Walker. Mr. Sofield married (sec- ond) Jessie M. Hand, daughter of Theodore and Harriet (Lanning) Hand, of Trenton, New Jersey. By this union, there have been born two children, Clifford Martin, and LeRoy, Jr.
Mrs. Sofield is a graduate of the Long Branch Hospital, class of 1905, and practised her profession of graduate trained nurse until her marriage.
HARRY R. COOPER-Among the leaders in the professional life of Belmar, New Jersey, is Harry R. Cooper, a prominent member of the New Jersey State Bar, and the New York State Bar in which latter State he practiced until 1920. He has always identified himself with everything that makes for progress in Belmar, which has been his home for so many years, and where he is extremely popular, and has a host of friends.
Harry R. Cooper was born in Freehold, New Jer- sey, May 22, 1884, the son of Ralph H. and Anna F. (Snedeker) Cooper. Ralph H. Cooper was also a native of Freehold, and for several years was in the dry-goods and shoe business at Freehold, later removing to Belmar where he continued in active business life until his death, which occurred August 4, 1904. Mr. Cooper, senior, was very active in the affairs of Belmar but never held public office. He served as president of the local school board for many years, and was affiliated with the Royal Arcanum. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Cooper were the parents of two children: Harry R., of further men-
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tion; and Clarence L., who is with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in Jersey City.
The early education of Harry R. Cooper was ob- tained in the public schools of his native place, and in the Belmar grammar schools. He then entered the Asbury Park High School and finished with graduation in 1904. He had in the meantime, de- termined to adopt the law as his profession, and, accordingly, matriculated at the New York Law School, receiving from this institution the degree of Bachelor of Laws, cum laude, in 1906. The following year he passed the New York State bar examinations, and established himself in the prac- tice of his profession in that city, where he re- mained actively engaged until 1920. During these years he made his home in Belmar, and on July 5, 1911, was admitted to the New Jersey State bar. He was made. Master in Chancery December 16, 1913. Mr. Cooper has been solicitor for the Bor- ough of Belmar since 1912, and was appointed attor- ney for the borough of Sea Girt in 1920. He is secretary of the Belmar Taxpayers' Association, and secretary of the Shark River Improvement League.
During the World War, Mr. Cooper was a mem- ber of the New Jersey State Military Reserve. He is a Republican in politics and is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias. In religion he is a Pres- byterian and attends the First Church of this de- nomination in Belmar, where he is secretary of the board of trustees. He also holds membership in the Curlew Rod and Gun Club of Belmar.
At Belmar, New Jersey, on September 1, 1909, Harry R. Cooper was united in marriage with Belle M. Miller, formerly a teacher in the Belmar pub- lic schools. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper are the parents of one child, Harrison, born December 30, 1914.
Already the career of Mr. Cooper has been rounded by great success, and marked by the ap- preciation of men whose opinion is well worth hav- ing. That the much longer period of activity which is yet to come, will be one of still greater achieve- ment, there can be no reasonable doubt, for the past is a guarantee of the future.
DR. ANDREW M. ENGLERT-Dr. Englert's name is recognized as that of one of the leading men in the chiropractic field in Monmouth county. With offices at No. 133 Broad street, he is making a definite success in this branch of professional ac- tivity.
Dr. Englert was born in Buffalo, New York, August 1, 1892, and is a son of Andrew and Louise Englert of that city. Receiving his early education in the public and high schools of his native city, Dr. Englert, while still a young man, chose his present field as the scene of his career, and made thorough and exhaustive preparation for entering upon it. He studied, first, at the International Col- lege of Chiropractic at Detroit, Michigan, then took a second course at the Pennsylvania Orthopedic Institute, besides carrying on personal study and research covering a wide scope. During the World
War Dr. Englert was a member of the Orthopaedic Service of the United States Army, and his experi- ence was further broadened by one year spent in the Pennsylvania Orthopedic Hospital, in a pro- fessional capacity. The doctor is a member of the International Chiropractic Association. In 1918 he was president of the New Jersey Chiropractic Asso- ciation, resigning to enter the United States Army, and in 1920 was appointed by Governor Edward I. Edwards, a member of the State Board of Chiro- practic Examiners, of which he was made presi- dent.
Fraternally Dr. Englert is widely prominent, be- ing a member and past exalted ruler of Red Bank Lodge, No. 233, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; a member of Mystic Brotherhood Lodge, No. 21, Free and Accepted Masons; and of New Jersey Consistory, of Jersey City, Ancient Accepted Scot- tish Rite; and also of Salaam Temple, Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of New- ark. He is a member of the Tall Cedars of Le- banon, of Bay View Forest, of Keyport, New Jersey. His religious convictions place his membership with the Presbyterian church.
On May 30, 1912, Dr. Andrew M. Englert mar- ried Nellie Corrine Lyon, of Akron, Ohio. She is a graduate of the International College of Chiroprac- tic, of Detroit; of the Pennsylvania Orthopaedic Institute, of Philadelphia; and of the Universal Chiropractic College, of Pittsburgh (post-graduate course). Mrs. Englert has been associated in prac- tice with her husband since 1914.
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS NEWELL EMMONS- A residence of thirty-five years and upward has made this name familiar to three generations of the inhabitants of Asbury Park, as that one of her most enterprising business men and respected citizens.
Job Emmons, father of William Augustus Newell Emmons, was born in Monmouth county, and was a descendant of ancestors who had been tillers of the soil. He married Ella Grant, a native of Ocean county, and four children were born to them: John Grant; William Augustus Newell, mentioned below; Charity G., deceased; and Julia Ella.
William Augustus Newell Emmons, son of Job and Ella (Grant) Emmons, was born June 1, 1857, at Turkey (now Adelphia), Howell township, Mon- mouth county, New Jersey, and educated in his native town and at a little district school at Ardena. For three years he worked at the blacksmith's trade in Adelphia with William C. Brower, and for two years was engaged in business at Cedar Creek.
In 1884 Mr. Emmons came to Asbury Park, and built a house and also a shop. As time passed he made additions to the shop, which is now the largest carriage manufactory on the coast. In conjunction with this, he still follows the blacksmith's trade.
When Mr. Emmons first came to Asbury Park the surrounding country was all laid out in farms and he has witnessed its gradual transformation inte a neighborhood, exclusively residential.
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The Republican party is the one to which Mr. Emmons has always adhered, though never taking any active share in the work of the organization. He belongs to the Junior Order of United Ameri- can Mechanics, No. 23, of Asbury Park, and affili- ates with Tecumseh Tribe, No. 60, Improved Order of Red Men. He has passed through all chairs of the order, and is one of its charter members.
William Augustus Newell Emmons married, No- vember 29, 1883, at Cedar Creek (now Lenoka) New Jersey, Ada Lillian Lane, daughter of William and Vashti Lane, and they are the parents of one daugh- ter, Florence Mary, born October 3, 1888, at Asbury Park. Mr. and Mrs. Emmons are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church.
From a small beginning, Mr. Emmons has built up by his own energy and sagacity the largest carriage-making business on the New Jersey coast. He is truly the architect of his own fortune.
WILLIAM HENRY CARPENTER-The fame that Mr. Carpenter, who is now a resident of Bel- mar, has acquired, as a designer and builder of racing yachts, insures instant and widespread recog- nition of his name, in a work of this character. Mr. Carpenter has always manifested the interest of a good citizen in public affairs, and has materially aided in the development of a number of the indus- tries of his home community.
William Henry Carpenter was born April 21, 1860, in New York City, and is a son of Calip P. and Amelia Carpenter. Calip P. Carpenter, in his boyhood and youth, was engaged in farming, but later, interested in business and is now deceased. The education of William Henry Carpenter was re- ceived in grammar school, No. 3, one of the his- toric schools of New York City, and after leaving school, he was employed for several years by the firm of J. Kittel Company on Barclay street, New York importers. For five years thereafter, he con- ducted a trucking business, and then left New York, going to the Cumberland mountains, where he de- veloped a cattle ranch for J. Kittel.
Since 1911, Mr. Carpenter has been interested in a river pavilion at Belmar, and within recent years has gained celebrity by his ability in the designing and construction of racing yachts. He has designed and built all the boats of the Belmar Yacht Club, and now holds the interclub cup, in addition to other trophies, which he has won in races. He has a unique record, in that he has designed, built and sailed, not only many yachts, but also many winning yachts. He has designed and built all kinds of boats in racing fleets, and is the owner of most of the property situated on the shores of Shark River. The only clubs, with the exception of one to which Mr. Carpenter belongs, are the Fishing Club of Belmar, and that of Asbury Park, of which he was one of the incorporators. He is ex-commodore of the Belmar Yacht Club. He and his family are members of the Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends.
City, Sarah F. Hall, daughter of Samuel G. and Elizabeth (Weston) Hall, the latter a member of a family, largely engaged in the painting and dec- orating business, in New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter are the parents of the following children: Sidney H., William Harold; Beatrice Joy and Eliz- abeth Peace, twins; Dorothy, and A. Lillie. The multitude of Mr. Carpenter's friends rejoice in his good fortune, and hope that for years to come the white sails of his victorious yachts may be seen on many waters.
GEORGE FREDERICK BRUTON - In the younger generation of the business men of Bradley Beach, Mr. Bruton, as head of the firm of Bruton and Rodgers, electrical contractors, has an assured standing. As a citizen he is actively helpful, and during the World War he made a record of honor- able service in the United States Navy. George Frederick Bruton was born June 25, 1896, at West- field, New Jersey, and is a son of Frederick Enoch and Ada (Sexton) Bruton. He attended the public schools of his native town and also those of Asbury Park whither, as a boy, he was brought by his mother, his course of study being completed at the Asbury Park High School.
In 1913 Mr. Bruton entered the United States Navy, serving with the rank of electrical gunner, until November, 1919. In December, 1920, he estab- lished, at Bradley Beach, under the firm name of Bruton and Rodgers, an electrical contracting busi- ness which he has since conducted with a gratifying measure of success. The political allegiance of Mr. Bruton is given to the support of the principles up- held by the Republican party. He is a member of the American Legion Post, No. 24, and affiliates with Lodge No. 253, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, both of Asbury Park. He is a member of Bradley Beach Fire Company, and also holds mem- bership in the Fishing Club, Travel Club of Art of New York City, and the Owl Athletic Club of Bradley Beach.
Mr. Bruton married, at Bradley Beach, Emily Danielson, daughter of Joseph and Laura (Fitz- gerald) Danielson, of Asbury Park, and they are the parents of a son: George Frederick, junior, born at Bradley Beach, February 4, 1920.
At the outset of his career Mr. Bruton enjoyed the privilege of serving his country in the most memorable war in the world's history and he is now proving himself a good citizen by helping to build up, ably and honestly, the business interests of his home community. For many years he took an active part in football and basketball, playing on the Asbury Park High School team of which he was captain in 1916. He was champion of the de- stroyer flotilla's basketball team of 1919; captain of the United States Steamship Parker destroyer's team, and of the football and basketball teams of the United States Steamship Dolphin.
DR. SAMUEL WILLIAM HAUSMAN, a prom- Mr. Carpenter married, July 6, 1886, in New York ising member of the younger group of physicians in
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Monmouth county, was born in Alton, Wayne county, New York, October 23, 1886, and is a son of William H. and Louise (Camp) Hausman.
Depending entirely upon his own efforts, in his struggle for education and opportunity, he was graduated from high school in the class of 1908, and later matriculated at Syracuse University, in the arts and medicine, and was graduated from that institution in the class of 1916. On July 1, of that year, he became an interne at the St. Lawrence State Hospital, at Ogdensburg, New York, where he later was appointed house physician, serving. the institution until September 26, 1917. On that date Dr. Hausman entered the United States Army, for service overseas, having enlisted in the medical corps. On July 31, 1917, he was commissioned first lieutenant of the Medical Corps, and was assigned to the neuro-psychiatric section. He was sent to Camp Mills; thence to Camp Bowie, Texas; thence to Camp Jackson, in South Carolina; and on July 26, 1918, sailed for France. There he served until January 31, 1919, in one of the Argonne Neurological Hospitals, thereafter being returned to the United States. Here he was assigned to the United States General Hospital, No. 3, at Colonia, New Jersey, where he remained until October, 1919, during that period receiving his promotion to the rank of cap- tain. He was mustered out of the service, October 18, 1919.
Coming at once to Red Bank, Dr. Hausman opened his present office, No. 55 East Front street, and entered upon the general practice of medicine. In the comparatively short time which has elapsed since then, he has developed an excellent practice along general lines, but will undoubtedly command in the future a large share of the work in his special field. He is now associated with the med- ical staff of the Monmouth Memorial Hospital, as assistant in the department of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and also serves as examiner in Neuro- psychiatry for the United States Public Health Service in this district.
Dr. Hausman is a member of the American Medical Association, and of the State and County medical societies. Fraternally he holds membership in the Mystic Brotherhood Lodge, No. 21, Free and Accepted Masons, and his college fraternities are the Zeta Psi, and the Nu Sigma Nu. He is a mem- ber of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Red Bank.
On June 11, 1918, Dr. Hausman married Ethel Ruth Y'Blood, of Waldo, Arkansas, and they have one son, Weston Hilliard. The family residence is located, as is also Dr. Hausman's office, at No. 55 East Front street, in Red Bank.
WILLIAM PINTARD-William Pintard, an emi- nent member of the Monmouth county bar, 1878- 1913, bore the name of his French ancestor, who in the days when religious persecution was rife in France fled from France and in time found a home in New Jersey, where he became a landowner and a prosperous farmer. By his wife Hannah, he had
seven children. One of his descendants, Isaac An- toine Pintard, was born at Fair Haven, Monmouth county, New Jersey, September 29, 1821. He be- came a master mariner and during the war between the States, 1861-65, served in the merchant marine as an enlisted man. Captain Isaac A. Pintard mar- ried Catherine Minton and they were the parents of William Pintard, of Red Bank, to whom this ro- view is offered as a tribute of appreciation and re- spect. He was a man of sterling character, a good lawyer and a citizen above reproach.
William Pintard, son of Captain Isaac Antoine and Catherine (Minton) Pintard, was born in Fair Haven, New Jersey, February 20, 1851, died in Red Bank, New Jersey, September 13, 1913. He was educated in the public schools of Red Bank and elsewhere, and later became a law student in the office of Governor Bedle, governor of New Jersey. Governor Bedle practiced in Jersey City, and in 1878 Mr. Pintard was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney. After his admission as a counsellor in 1881, he practiced for two years with his pre- ceptor's firm, Bedle, Muirhead & Magee, in Jersey City, then removed to Red Bank where he prac- ticed his profession until his passing thirty years later. He was learned in the law, skilled in its application and very successful. He gained public confidence, and his practice was large in all State and Federal courts of the Monmouth district. He was a member of the Monmouth County Bar Asso- ciation and of the New Jersey Bar Association, his standing among his brethren of the profession very high.
In politics Mr. Pintard was a Democrat, and in 1886 represented his district in the State Assem- bly. He was a colonel of the State Militia, and in 1880 was on strike duty in Jersey City under orders from Governor Bedle. His fraternity was the Royal Arcanum of which he was a regent. He was the first president of the Monmouth Boat Club, aided in the organization of that club, and was always a patron and lover of out-of-door recreation, especially aquatic sports.
William Pintard married, in Trinity Church, Red Bank, New Jersey, April 18, 1882, Ella Herbert Wardell, born in Long Branch, New Jersey, Novem- ber 10, 1860, daughter of Edward and Sophia H. (Robbins) Wardell, and granddaughter of Harry Wardell, who was at one time assessor for Mon- mouth county. Edward Wardell, a direct descen- dant of Elia Kim Wardell, one of the original paten- tees of Monmouth county, was born September 5, 1826, died March, 1912. Sophia H. Robbins was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, August 5, 1888, died in 1908, daughter of George Robbins, born in Philadelphia. Edward Wardell was a member of the board of underwriters of New York City, who took charge of all wrecks along the New Jersey coast. He was an influential Republican, a leader of his party in Ocean township.
Three children were born to William and Ella Herbert (Wardell) Pintard: 1. Osborn Herbert, born May 5, 1883, married Mildred, the daughter
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of Willard F. Cornwell, of Red Bank; they have three children: Millard Fillmore; Osborn Herbert; and Virginia. He is a graduate of Professor Tal- madge's Academy. 2. Elsie Wardell, born May 1, 1885, died July 23, 1898. 3. William Antoine, born March 27, 1893, a law student with Alston Beek- man at Red Bank; was educated at Professor Tal- madge's Academy, Red Bank.
Mrs. Pintard survives her husband and continues her residence in Red Bank, her home at No. 177 Broad street.
JOHN H. COOK-Among the men who came to Asbury Park in its early days, although not with the earliest arrivals, was John H. Cook, the present pro- prietor of Cook's Bee Hive at the corner of Cook- man avenue and Main street. He came in 1881, a young man of twenty-six, who from boyhood had been in the dry goods business. The little store which housed his modest beginning, was on the est side of Cookman avenue, and how well the jung man conducted his business, and how thor- galy he established himself in public regard, may he judged from his present establishment, which occupies the entire block at the corner of Cook- man avenue and Main street. From the age of thirteen, Mr. Cook has been in the dry goods busi- news, and the success he has attained has not come through a favorable turn of fortune's wheel, but through hard, honest, persevering, intelligent work, and the lending of every energy toward the prose- cution of his plans and aims. He is a true ex- ample of a self-made man and may take an honest pride in the record he has completed. He has practically retired from active management in favor of his capable son, C. Carroll Cook.
John H. Cook is a son of John and Sophia Cook, his father coming from Germany when a boy. He was a stove maker, and is credited with having built the first practical damper stove ever made in this country. John and Sophia Cook were the parents of nine children, and were living in Phila- deiphia, Pennsylvania, at the time of the birth of their son, John H. Cook, the principal character of du review.
Jela H. Cook was born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl- mit, and there attended public school until the " df thirteen, when he engaged in a small way in the dry goods business. He stuck to his little Luisess enterprise, and gradually it grew, until he could consider himself able to conduct a business against any competition. With this thirteen years' experience he came to Asbury Park in 1881, and epsmed a small dry goods store in a room on Cook- ma avenue. By close attention to his business he prospered, and each year saw an enlargement of Parters or an increase in lines carried. Finally he outgrew the small stores class, and moved to the comer of Cookman avenue and Main street, where he has the entire block, and it is said, that the busiest place in Asbury Park is "Cook's Bee Hive." Mr. Cook has no party affiliations, being absolute- ly independent in his political action. He is a mem-
ber of the Presbyterian church, and interested in many of the activities of that church.
John H. Cook married in Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, in 1864, Dora Linnell, daughter of C. and Dora (Harrison) Linnell, her mother a connection of President Benjamin Harrison. Mr. and Mrs. Cook are the parents of a daughter, Ruth; and a son, Charles Carroll Cook, born in Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, December 4, 1876. He was educated in the schools at Asbury Park, and Ganesville, Florida, and after completing his studies entered his father's store and so continues, the heavier burdens of man- agement having been shifted to his younger shoul- ders. He is a member of Sitting Bull Tribe, Im- proved Order of Red Men, and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. Charles Carroll Cook married in October, 1913, at Asbury Park, Carrie, daughter of John Howell, and they are the par- ents of two daughters, Dora Margaret, and Minerva Carroll.
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