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general plan to prohibit the sale of liquor. He wes his fight, but the city created an excise commission and granted a few licenses to hotels, on property the deeds for which contained no restrictive clauses. Years before he had secured the passage of a State law preventing the sale of liquor within a mile of any camp meeting resort. Ocean Grove, being within a mile of these hotels, brought them within the limit, and he then invoked this law. The licenses were ordered cancelled by the courts, and Asbury Park once more became "dry." He stood shoulder to shoulder with the officials of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association in any fight against the disturbance of the Sabbath sanctity. Asbury Park's beach front, under his management, was one of the most novel bathing beaches in the world. Circus wagons and fire engines, which had outlived their usefulness, were installed by him as added playthings for the children. Bathhouse signs not only dealt with the modesty of feminine apparel but announced: "The annual loss sustained on the mile ocean front of Asbury Park, in protecting it from the encroachments of the sea, lighting, policing, etc., is $10,000. This deficiency is met by James A. Brad- ley of the firm of Bradley & Smith, brush manu- facturers, 251 Pearl street, near Fulton, New York." Asbury Park always had the enviable reputation of being a safe bathing place. Under his régime there was never a drowning. Rescues were legion. He raised the famous Educational Hall, a Philadelphia Centennial structure of mammoth proportions, and set it up at Asbury Park as a religious center. He was the first postmaster, later serving also as towa commissioner, councilman and mayor. In 1894 he was elected to the New Jersey Senate on the com- bined Republican, Prohibition and Citizen's Ticket. He was a consistent opponent of all kinds of vice. Perhaps his greatest achievement in this line was the suppression of race track gambling in the State through his vote in the Senate which was the de- ciding factor in abolishing the notorious Monmouth Park track near Long Branch.
His church work was continuous from early youth. He had been superintendent of the Sunday school of the South Second Street Church, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and in 1868 held a similar position and was president of the board of trustees of Central Methodist Church, Brooklyn. At Asbury Park he continued teaching and was long an officer in the First Church. He founded the Asbury Park "Jour- nal", to which he personally contributed most of the "personals", and finally gave the newspaper to his managing editor. In his closing years he spent his summer seasons in Europe or in the White Mountains. His will left bequests to practically every church at Asbury Park, Bradley Beach, and Avon, New Jersey, and the Young Men's Christian Association, Young Women's Christian Association, Asbury Park Hospital, Long Branch Hospital, Ana May Hospital, Spring Lake, New Jersey; Seney Hospital, Brooklyn; Society for the Prevention of
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Cruelty to Children, Methodist Old People's homes of New York and Brooklyn, Asbury Avenue Hos- pital, Asbury Park Library, and many of the em- ployees of his brush business. A bronze statue of him stands in Atlantic Square, Asbury Park. His monument, however, is the town he so splendidly established on the sand wastes of the Jersey shore, and which required courage, vision and two-handed application. At heart he was something of an ad- wenturer and there was romance in his makeup, too. He had all the problems of community construction of the present day save possibly transportation. The real extent of his charity never will be known. But in his charities he was, as in all else he did, Thimical.
Mr. Bradley married, January 10, 1858, Helen M. Packard, daughter of Lewis Packard, a resident of Lowell, Massachusetts; she died February 13, 1915. He died in New York City, June 6, 1921.
CLARENCE EUGENE FRANCIS HETRICK- Since his fourteenth year Clarence E. F. Hetrick has been a resident of Asbury Park, a city of which he is the chief executive and to which he came from the State of Ohio. He is not an accidental mayor berme into office by a fortunate combination of cir- constance, but one who has been elected again and again, each election a more emphatic endorsement of his administration of city affairs than the pre- coding one. He has given city business his entire time since 1915, retiring from an established busi- www when elected to the mayor's chair by the votes d his townsmen.
Mayor Hetrick is a son of Colonel Joel. Warren und Almira Frances (Evers) Hetrick, who at the time of the birth of their son, Clarence E. F., were medents of Van Wert, Van Wert county, Ohio. Jeel Warren Hetrick was a veteran of the Civil War, \'s service having been with the Twenty-second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was colonel d' the Second Regiment, Ohio National Guard, after fe war, and a man of influence in the Republican party of Ohio. In 1887 he came to New Jersey and heated in Asbury Park, where he engaged in the Nel estate business until his death in 1899.
Clarence E. F. Hetrick was born in Van Wert, Otis, August 1, 1878, and there began his public scheel education. He came to Asbury Park, New Jeney, with his parents in 1887, being then a lad of fourteen. He continued his education in Asbury Park public schools, and when his high school stud- fes were finished he entered Rutgers College, class of 1896. Returning to Asbury Park from Rutgers, he entered the employ of D. C. Covert, real estate broker, and for three years remained with him. In 1896 he joined his father, Colonel Joel W. Hetrick, in the conduct of a real estate and insurance busi- mes in Asbury Park, and as J. W. Hetrick & Son they operated a prosperous business until Colonel Hetrick's death in 1899. From that time until 1915 Mr. Hetrick conducted the business alone under the
old firm name, only retiring to give himself entirely to the duties of the office to which he was first elected in 1915, mayor.
From youthful manhood he had been interested in public affairs, and had taken an active part in local politics as a Republican. In 1904 he was elected on the Republican ticket receiver of taxes for Nep- tune township; in 1908 was elected treasurer of As- bury Park, an office he resigned in 1908 to enter upon his duties of another office to which he had been elected sheriff of Monmouth county. In 1915 he was elected commissioner and mayor of Asbury Park, an office which he has held continuously until the present, 1922. For six years he was chairman of the Monmouth County Republican Committee, following that service as a member of the Repub- lican State Committee. In 1912 he was a delegate to the National Republican Convention from the Third Congressional District of Pennsylvania, and later was chairman of the Monmouth County Pro- gressive Committee.
As mayor of Asbury Park, Mr. Hetrick has dealt with public questions in a broad, public-spirited manner, and administered the duties of his office wisely and well. He was an advocate of Woman Suffrage, expressing as early as June 1, 1915, his personal belief in the movement from the standard of justice and the basic principle which brought American liberties-"No taxation without represen- tation." He was one of the first executives to re- commend the appointment of a woman to a city office, bestowing that honor upon Miss A. Grace King, in November, 1919, by appointing her city clerk of Asbury Park, and following that appoint- ment on January 15, 1920, by nominating Mrs. Wal- ter Taylor to a place on the city Board of Educa- tion. These appointments prove Mayor Hetrick's sincerity and that he "practices what he preaches." His one thought has always been the good of Asbury Park, and with that as his aim he has accom- plished a great deal for the general welfare of the community.
As president of the Asbury Park Chamber of Commerce, he is constantly employed in the con- sideration of projects that will advance the public good and advance Asbury Park to a leading position as a sea shore resort. His program of community advancement has already been beneficial, not alone to Asbury Park but the entire North Jersey coast region.
It would have been a surprise if this public- spirited mayor had not gone to the limit in his effort to "do his bit" during the great war period, 1917-18, but he outdid himself in his enthusiastic patriotic work. He was.vice-president of the execu- tive committee of the New Jersey State Council of Defense; chairman of the Asbury Park Council of Defense; chairman of the Asbury Park Home De- fense League; vice-president of the Asbury Park Branch of the National Security League, and a mem- ber of the American Red Cross. He was also chair-
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man of the Asbury Park District of the American Red Cross Christmas Membership Drive of 1917- 1918; chairman of the First Liberty Loan Drive of Asbury Park; member of the Second, Third and Fourth Liberty Loan Drive committees; Red Cross Committee; Salvation Army Drive Committee and Jewish Welfare Relief, as well as the Four-Minute Men of New Jersey, and instructor of the Draft Board for the Third Congressional District of New Jersey under appointment of Governor Edge.
Mayor Hetrick is affiliated with many fraternal organizations, namely: Asbury Lodge, No. 142, Free and Accepted Masons; Standard Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Long Branch, New Jersey; Asbury Park Commandery, No. 15, Knights Templar; As- bury Park Lodge, No. 128, Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks; Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows; Rutgers Alumni Association; Beta Theta Pi fraternity of Rutgers; the Rutgers Club; vice-presi- dent of the New Jersey League of Municipalities, and president of the North Jersey League of Muni- cipalities.
On January 4, 1906, at Asbury Park, Clarence Eugene Francis Hetrick was united in marriage with Ida Louise Wyckoff, daughter of Charles and Anna (Brown) Wyckoff.
CHARLES EVERETT NORTON COOK was born in New York City, March 16, 1869, the son of Charles Everett Norton and Harriet (Shannon) Cook, the former of English ancestry, the latter a native of County Cork, Ireland.
Charles E. N. Cook attended the public schools of his native city until his father's death when, with his mother, he moved to Montclair, New Jer- sey, later to Orange, New Jersey, and still later to Asbury Park, New Jersey, where he continued his studies for only a short time, being obliged at an early date to support himself, owing to family re- verses. He first sold newspapers, later reported for local and outside papers, but subsequently became an office boy in the law office of David Harvey, Jr., and while thus engaged he instructed himself in stenography and typewriting, becoming an expert in both branches. With the money thus earned he continued his study of the law, to which he had de- termined to devote himself. In pursuit of his am- bition he accepted a position as traveling salesman of law books and blanks for J. Y. Johnson & Com- pany, No. 23 Murray street, New York City, spend- ing two years with that firm. Becoming more and more interested in the study of law, he never lost an opportunity to gain further knowledge, and while employed at Washington, D. C., he attended night law lectures by professors of Georgetown University. Later he entered the law office of Sam- uel A. Patterson, at Asbury Park, and in Novem- ber, 1893, after passing the required examinations, he was admitted to practice at the New Jersey bar as an attorney. Immediately entering upon the practice of his profession, he rapidly advanced, was appointed a master and examiner of the Court of
Chancery, a Supreme Court commissioner and ex- aminer, and subsequently, after further examina- tion, was admitted as a counsellor-at-law. Later he was admitted to practice in the United States Dis- trict and Circuit courts as an attorney and counsel- lor, and still later to practice in the United States Supreme Court at Washington. He is counsel for the Atlantic Coast and Electric railroad; ex-counsel for the borough of Bradley Beach; ex-counsel for Neptune township, and the Public Grounds Com- mission of Asbury Park, and is the present counsel for Avon-by-the-Sea. It is also of importance to note that he is the foremost criminal lawyer of the county. Mr. Cook is a member of the Monmouth County Bar Association, and highly esteemed by his contemporaries.
A Democrat in politics, he has always taken az interest in the affairs of the organization, and in his youth was a hard worker for his party. He is affiliated with Monmouth Lodge, No. 107, Knights of Pythias, and was keeper of records and seals for several years; is a member of the Exempt Fire- man's Association of Asbury Park, having been the originator, and one of the organizers of the E. H. Stokes Fire Company of Ocean Grove and its secre- tary for many years, and is a member of the Benevo- lent and . Protective Order of Elks, Asbury Park Lodge, No. 128.
On May 12, 1892, Mr. Cook was united in mar- riage with Anna Chadwick. They are the parent: of two children: Harold Everett, and Hazel Wal- ling, the former, mentioned below, and the latter educated at Mt. St. Vincent Convent, and Notre Dame; married Clarence K. Pistell, a banker of Buf- falo, New York, and they are the parents of two children: John Charles, born September 14, 1920. and Robert Kerr, born January 31, 1922.
Harold Everett Cook was born March 6, 1893. He was educated in the public schools, Asbury Park and Neptune Township High schools, Mercersburg Acad- emy, and Washington-Jefferson College. He then returned to Asbury Park and began the study of law with his father, continuing until June 6, 1917, when he voluntarily enlisted in the United States Marines. At the conclusion of the war he remained on the reserve list until 1921, when he was honor- ably discharged with the rank of corporal. He is now connected with the Empire State Discount Cor- poration of Buffalo, New York, as one of its man- agers.
Charles Everett Norton Cook is in the best sense of the term, "a selfmade man." The simple account of his life tells far more eloquently than formal praise of the strength of his manhood and the power of his mind. He has failed in nothing which he has seriously undertaken. His practice is general and varied, and in criminal defense he excells. His career from boyhood is one worthy of emulation, and is another illustration of the heights of success that a clean-minded, right-thinking, ambitious boy can attain without the supposedly necessary aid of influential friends and abundant means.
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CAPTAIN CHARLES P. IRWIN-The Irwins of Red Bank are of an old county family, coming generations ago from the North of Ireland. Will- iam Irwin, son of the founder, lived in Middle- town, Monmouth county, and tradition says, he manufactured the first blue cloth made in the United States, and operated a fulling mill at the head of MeClees creek. His son, William (2nd), was for many years a justice of the peace at Middletown, and was keeper of the old toll gate. When the New Jersey Southern railroad came through, he was made ticket agent at Middle- town. He was an ardent Democrat and a man, strict and unbending. He married a Miss Ben- nett, and they were the parents of Capt. Edward W. Irwin and the grandparents of Captain Charles P. Irwin, whose careers are traced herein.
Captain Edward W. Irwin, from the age of ten years, followed the sea, running away from home after having been severely whipped by his father. He walked from his home to Port Mon- mouth; thence by steamer to New York City, there shipping as cabin boy on a sailing vessel. After an absence of three years, he returned home to visit his mother, but only stayed with her a few minutes; then returned to New York, and again went to sea, touching during the next five years, at many of the principal ports of the world. At the end of that term, five years, he again visited his home, but still continued following the sea, but shipped thereafter on coasting vessels. He was yet a very young man when he became Cap- tain of the schooner "Jordan Woolley" the first vessel he ever commanded as master. He was master of different vessels, and again in after life, was captain of the "Jordan Woolley," his first vessel. Captain Irwin was in the coasting trade and freighted a great deal of produce between the coast cities. He was also connected with wrecking operations on the Jersey coast, prin- cipelly in lightering cargoes from wrecked vessels. One of these vessels was the "Russland," wrecked of Long Branch, that later went to pieces, and the French Transatlantic liner "Amerique" that went ashore just below Sea Bright, and there lay several months, before being sufficiently lightened, to be pulled off the beach. In addition to the "Jordan Woolley," Capt. Irwin commanded the "A. J. Collins," "West Wind," "The Last One" and "The Hiram B. Edwards," which he also owned. For a time he was pilot of the steamer "Jessie Hoyt' which for many years was a favorite steam- er on the Sandy Hook route, connecting with the New Jersey Southern railroad at Sandy Hook, now the Central railroad of New Jersey; the railroad terminal, now Atlantic Highlands. He also was captain of the "Grace B. Hoffmier," and was one of the best known mariners of the Jersey coast. Brave, hardy, bluff and generous, he was liked by all who knew him.
He was powerful in body, coming from a hardy race, his ancestry Scotch-Irish, from the North of Ireland. Capt. Edward W. Irwin enlisted in Com-
pany K, First Regiment, New York Volunteer Engineers, became corporal, and served until the close of the war. He was a member of the Post, No. 61, Grand Army of the Republic, and a mem- ber of the Masonic order. He married Johanna Springstein and they were the parents of two children, who reached years of maturity; Geor- gianna, now widow of Henry Wood of Red Bank; and Captain Charles P., of further mention. Cap- tain Edward W. Irwin died in Monmouth, his native county, aged sixty-seven, his wife also born in Monmouth county, died aged sixty-three years.
Charles P. Irwin, son of Capain Edward W. and Johanna (Springstein) Irwin, was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, November 13, 1867, and there yet resides. He was educated in Red Bank public and private schools and his youth was largely spent on the Shrewsbury, fishing, gunning, sailing boats in summer, and ice boats in winter; in fact, his whole life has been practically spent on the water. He began building row boats when a lad, and from that has built up a large and prosper- ous business. His first small shop was on the "Green" at the foot of Wharf avenue, having only "squatters" right; but later he purchased 210 feet of Shrewsbury river frontage, six hundred and thirty feet in depth, now a most valuable piece of river-front property. There he has built small boats of all kinds and descriptions, and there has biult a bungalow in keeping with the beautiful river surroundings. Captain Irwin has his boat building yard, his shops, offices and boat storage houses, two hundred by forty-five feet, the largest private boat storage houses plant in the State. He has built thousands of small boats there, from very simple, to the most elaborate. His boats are speedy, and he is as famous a skipper, as he is a builder. His motor boats and ice boats have be- come famous, and in both classes he holds cham- pionship honors. His skill in sailing his craft is uncanny, and he has never yet suffered defeat in a match race.
He has built, perhaps miles of bulkheads along river and ocean fronts, at any rate, more than any other man of his section, and owns and operates a river dredging outfit, which keeps fully employed during the open season. He executes large contracts in the way of river and bay im- provements, channel deepening, filling in docks, and bulkhead building. When he was barely twenty- one, he passed an examination for pilot, with a rating of one hundred per cent., and for years he ran a passenger steamer on the Shrewsbury be- tween Red Bank and Highland. While most of his contracting has been in connection with river and bay, he executed a contract with the Shore Electric Light Company, erecting complete, twenty- five miles of their lines. Everybody knows, and everybody respects Captain Charles P. Irwin, as they knew and respected his father, Captain Ed- ward W. Irwin.
Captain Irwin is a Republican in politics, and in 1917, was elected a member of the Borough
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Council, being the only Republican elected on his ticket; he polled more votes than any other can- didate on either ticket. He made no campaign for office, and on election day, went hunting, leaving the matter in the hands of the people, said, "If I am elected, I want it to be by the people of Red Bank, because they believe I will fight for good, clean, wholesome government." The people did elect him, and they were not mistaken in their man. Although he stood alone in a party sense, he so ardently pleaded the cause of good govern- ment and was so powerul an advocate of the right, that he secured from the Council for the people some of the sanest and best legislation Red Bank has ever known. He is a genial, hearty, com- panionable, whole-souled gentleman, but he will fight for right and justice, with a valor and spirit that cannot be denied. The people believe in him, and he never lacks public support for any measure he champions.
Captain Charles P. Irwin married, November 19, 1900, Emma Chadwick, daughter of Joseph and Catherine Chadwick of Red Bank. Captain and Mrs. Irwin are the parents of three children: Joseph C., Edward W., Charles P., Jr. The family home is on the river front, Red Bank, New Jersey.
Captain Irwin is a charter member and a trus- tee of Red Bank Lodge, No. 233, Benevolent Pro- tective Order of Elks; charter member of Red Bank Camp, Sons of Veterans; member of the South Shrewsbury Ice Boat Club; the Monmouth Boat Club, and the Red Bank Club. He is a true sportsman, and affiliated with the New Jersey Game Protective Association. In religious faith, he and his family are members of the Baptist church. The submarine detector was started and perfected in Mr. Irwin's shop by Mr. Edison, Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Irwin. During the World War, Mr. Irwin was appointed by the govern- ment as police commissioner for this district.
ELLA PRENTISS UPHAM, M. D .- Always a close and earnest student of her profession, Dr. Upham keeps in touch wth the most advanced prac- tical thought through her membership in the vari- ous medical societies, her ability being widely recog- nized throughout the community where she has practiced for so many years. She has secured a large and representative patronage, her skill and ability being very evident in the excellent results which have followed her labors.
Ella Prentiss Upham was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1850. After devoting some years to study in a convent in Chicago, she entered St. Xavier's Academy, from which she was susequently graduated. Then followed her marriage to George E. Upham, at Newark, New Jersey, in 1874. From this union two children were born: Dexter Prentiss, a poultry breeder in Belmar, New Jersey; and Helen Frances, mentioned below.
Having for many years been interested in the medical profession she decided to adopt it for her life work, and with this end in view, Dr. Upham
matriculated at the Women's College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from which she won the degree of Doctor of Medicine in the year 1885. Immediately after graduating, she establshed herself in the priv- ate practice of her profession at Philadelphia, where she continued successfully for five years, when she came to Asbury Park, New Jersey, and has here been busily engaged with her professional labors ever since. Dr. Upham is a member of the Am- erican Institute of Homeopathy; the New Jersey State Homeopathic Association; charter member of the Monmouth County Homeopathic Society, and at one time president; member of the State and County Medical societies; first woman president of any State Medical Society in the United States; and a member of the staff of the Anne May Mem- orial Hospital at Spring Lake, New Jersey, for many years; and also president of the Asbury Park Woman's Club, 1915-1916. Dr. Upham is a member of the Congregational church of this city.
Helen Frances Upham, daughter of George E. and Ella Prentiss Upham, was born at Washington, D. C. At an early age she came to Asbury Park with her mother and it was here she obtained her high school education, graduating from the local school with the class of 1903. Determined to adopt medicine as her profession she, like her mother, entered the Women's Medical College at Philadelphia, subsequently graduating with the de- gree of Doctor of Medicine. Dr. Upham was in- terne at the Women's Hospital for one year, and from 1905 to 1907 was resident physician at the Pittsburgh Eye and Ear Hospital, where she had gone to practice after terminating her studies. She then came to Asbury Park and established herself in the practice of her chosen profession, where from that time up to the present she has had an uninterrupted course of success, devoting her en- tire time with the exception of one year, 1918-1914, when she took a post-graduate course in Germany, to her large practice in this city.
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