USA > New Jersey > Mercer County > Trenton > History of Trenton, New Jersey : the record of its early settlement and corporate progress. > Part 27
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63
LEWIS PERRINE, SR., was born September 15th, 1815, in Manalapan township, Monmouth county, New Jersey. He received a classical education at Princeton College, graduating in the Class of '38. Upon deciding to make the practice of law his life work, he read law in the office of
196
THE CITY OF TRENTON.
Judge James S. Green, father of ex-Governor Green, and for one year was also in the office of United States Senator Garret D. Wall. In 1841 he was admitted to the bar as an attorney-at-law, and in 1844 as a counselor-at-law. During Governor Price's administration he served as the Governor's Military Secretary. In 1855 he was appointed Quartermaster-General of the State of New Jersey, and for nearly forty years he ably discharged the duties of that position. The duties of the office are very greatly enhanced by the fact that the Quartermaster-General is also Commis- sary-General, Paymaster-General and Chief of Ordnance. General Perrine was a member of the State Building Committee which had in charge the erection of the present State House. He was one of the incorporators of the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company and also of the Trenton Horse Railroad Company, of which he was President nearly all the time from its organization until his death. He was a Director of the United New Jersey Railroad Company, and of more than a score of other railroads owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. General Perrine married Anna E., daughter of Henry Pratt, who was one of the founders of northern Phila- delphia and a former owner of Fairmount Park, having as his residence what is known as Lemon Hill. General Perrine's children are Mrs. Mary A. Bell, widow of Lieutenant James E. Bell, of the First United States Artillery ; Captain Harry P. Perrine, of the Sixth United States Cavalry, who is a graduate of West Point, Class of '69, and now Assistant Adjutant-General of New Jersey, and Colonel Lewis Perrine, Jr., formerly President of the Trenton Passenger Railway Company. After a residence of over half a century in this city, General Perrine died at his home, corner of State and Montgomery streets, September 24th, 1889.
LEWIS PERRINE, JR., son of the late Quartermaster-General Lewis Perrine, was born in this city August 12th, 1859. After completing a thorough preparatory course in the Trenton Academy and the New Jersey State Model School, he entered Princeton College, from which he was graduated in 1880. He commenced the study of law with Levi T. Hannum, Esquire, of this city, and on May 23d of the following year was ap- pointed Assistant Quartermaster-General by Governor Ludlow, with rank of Colonel on the Governor's staff. Colonel Perrine continued as assistant in the Quartermaster-General's office until his father's death, in 1889. He then resigned his position to devote his time exclu- sively to his business interests. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1883. He now practices in this city. His active business career com- menced in 1881, when he was elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Trenton Horse Railroad Company, of which his father was then Presi- dent. Colonel Perrine managed the interests of the company, and upon his father's death he succeeded him as President. In 1891 Colonel Perrine purchased the City Railway Company, and united the two under the name of the Trenton Passenger Railway Company. Under Colonel Perrine's management the railway tracks were extended until all parts of the city had excellent transportation facilities. Horses were superseded by electricity. He extended his lines to the parks at the eastern LEWIS PERRINE, JR. and western ends of the city, and also to both of the leading cemeteries. Colonel Perrine is a Director in a number of railroads, having succeeded his father in these positions. He is a prominent member of the social clubs of this and other cities. He married Harriet Adelaide, daughter of Major William B. Slack, of the United States Marine Corps, of Washington.
GENERAL LEWIS PERRINE, SR.
197
THE CITY OF TRENTON.
FRANCIS BAZLEY LEE was born in Philadelphia, January 3d, 1869. He is a son of Benjamin Fisler Lee, Clerk of the New Jersey Supreme Court, and a grandson of the late Congressman Thomas Lee, of Port Elizabeth, Cumberland county. Through his mother's family, the Townsends, of Cape May, Mr. Lee is a descendant of prominent colonial families of South Jersey, among whom are the Ludlams, Ogdens and Mays. After attending a seminary in Trenton, as well as the Lawrenceville School, he was graduated from the New Jersey State Model School in the Class of 'S8. He was class poet, and in October, 1885, had established "The Signal," the official organ of the State Schools. He had also becn prominent in the Thencanic Society, and was its President. He entered the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1888, and in 1890 received a certificate of proficiency from that institution ; after having pursued a course in American History, Political Economy and Con- stitutional Law. In the University of Pennsylvania he was associate editor of the " Pennsylvanian," and on graduation was "Ivy " poet. Immediately after leaving college he went to Europe, and then took up the study of law with Hon. G. D. W. Vroom, of Trenton. In the fall and early winter of 1890-91, Mr. Lee took a special course in English literature at his Alma Mater, and was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in June Term, 1893. From his admission to May, 1894, he assisted the City Solicitor of Trenton in legal matters pertaining to the municipal sewerage system. In August, 1893, his first trial, was that of Mattie C. Shann, accused of murdering her son John. She was acquitted. Since December, 1892, he has been a mem- ber of the Board of Managers of the New Jersey State Charities Aid, and is a member of its Law Committee. He is at present, with Nelson L. Petty, Esquire, a Secretary to the Revisers of the General Public Statutes of New Jersey. He has contributed largely to the press of New Jersey on subjects relating to local historical matters, particularly concern- ing the history of Cape May county and the scashore settlements of colonial times. Among his works have been a "Memorial" of George White Worman, University of Penn- sylvania, Law, 1888, issued in 1890 ; "Supreme Court of New Jersey," "Medico-Legal Journal," March, 1892 ; series of articles on eolonial laws, FRANCIS BAZLEY LEE. legislation and customs, "New Jersey Law Journal," 1891 to 1895 ; "Colonial Jersey Coinage, from an Historical Standpoint," "Proceedings " Numismatic, &c., Society, 1893 ; "Agricultural Improvement in Southern New Jersey," a monograph upon the Baron de Hirsch settlement, in Woodbine, Cape May county, 1893; "Jerseyisms," a collection of State dialcet speech, 1894. He was also chairman of a committee of the Class of '90 which in 1895 published the quinquennial record of the class. He has also written an article upon receivers of insolvent corporations, "American Corporation Legal Manual," 1895. Among Mr. Lee's later articles is the history of the Great Seal of New Jersey, in Eugene Zieber's "American Heraldry," and a translation of the Constitution of Belgium with an historical preface, published by the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York, a copy of which was accepted by King Leopold II., of Belgium. He is also editor of this "History of the City of Trenton." During the winter of 1895 he was lecturer on the colonial history of New Jersey at the Model and Normal Schools, at Trenton. His law offices are in the new Mechanies National Bank Building, in Trenton. In April, 1895, he was appointed by Governor Werts as one of a committee of five, to examine the penal laws of New Jersey and other States, and report to the Legislature the results of investi- gations. Mr. Lee devotes much of his time to the collection of books and objects relating to the
198
THE CITY OF TRENTON.
history of New Jersey. His collection of Jerseyana is quite valuable, being most complete in works referring to the southern portion of the State. On the 12th of June, 1894, he married Sara Stretch Eayre, of Vincentown, New Jersey, daughter of Captain George S. Eayre of the Colorado Indepen- dent Battery. She a direct descendant of Colonel Timothy Matlack, the "Fighting Quaker" of the Revolution.
GARDNER H. CAIx was born in Harlingen, Somerset county, New Jersey, November 27th, 1858. Ilis early school days were passed at the Middlebush Institute and the Rutgers Grammar School. In the latter institution he prepared himself for college and graduated from Rutgers in 1881, having taken the classical course. Owing to ill health induced by hard study, he entered upon no occupation for three years. He came to Trenton and studied law with Judge Robert S. Woodruff. In November Term, 1885, he was admitted to the bar as an attorney-at-law. On February 8th, 1886, he formed a partner- ship with Charles B. Case in a general law and real estate business. For two years their office was located at the Hotel Windsor, but upon the completion of the Forst-Richey Building, they secured communicating offices on the second floor, fronting on State street, and have remained there ever since. By close and constant attention to every detail, Case & Cain have succeeded in a noteworthy degree. Mr. Cain has been Councilman-at-Large and President of Common Council for two years, from 1892 to 1894. As President of this body, he has always shown great interest. in the city's progress and welfare. Mr. Cain has also been President of the Trenton Club for the past five years.
GARDNER H. CAIN. COLONEL JOHN T. VAN CLEEF has been a resident of this State since early childhood, although his original home was Coxsackie, New York, where he was born in 1849. His father, Rev. Paul D. Van Cleef, was at that time a minister in that place, but shortly after- ward removed to Jersey City, where he has been pastor of the Wayne Street Reformed Church for about forty-five years. Colonel Van Cleef was educated at Dr. Hasbrouck's Institute, Jersey City, where he prepared for college. When only twenty years old he graduated from Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, of which his father is one of the honored Trustees. After finishing his classical course he turned his attention to the law, and pursued his studies with some of the leading barristers of Jersey City. He was admitted to the bar in 1873, and soon afterward joined in forming the well-known law firm of Fleming, Van Cleef & Van Horn, who had for many years the largest corporation practice in Jersey City. During his residence in Jersey City, Colonel Van Cleef became prominent in professional, social and political life. His ability as a lawyer was of the highest order, his social qualities were highly developed and his political record was entirely honorable. For over ten years he served as Secretary of the Board of Finance, and during 1874 and 1875, he represented Jersey City in the Board of Aldermen. When the State Board of Assessors was appointed in 1884, Colonel Van Cleef was at once tendered the position of Seeretary of that Board, a position which he accepted and filled for a number of years. He is well known and greatly liked by all of the State House officials and attaches. His friends may be found in every part of the State, as his duties in one capacity or another bring him into contact with all of the prominent citizens of New Jersey.
199
THE CITY OF TRENTON.
In 1888, he was appointed on Governor Green's personal staff with the rank of Colonel, and has served on the staff of Governor Abbett, and is now on Governor Werts' staff. He is always prominent in the annual Sea Girt encampment, being Secretary of the New Jersey Rifle Association and Secretary Commissary on the staff of organization. For years he has been in charge of the social part of the encampment life, and has charmed all visitors by his pleasant and agreeable manners. Since February, 1893, he has resided in Trenton, his home being at No. 528 East State street. In connection with his duties as Secretary of the State Board of Assessors, Colonel Van Cleef has formulated the simple and practical blanks upon which the railroads make their tax returns. Assisted by Mr. J. B. Betts, he has also compiled the most thorough railroad map of the State ever published. Colonel Van Cleef was married in 1876 to Mary Emma, daughter of Hon. Wesley W. Jones, of Rahway. They have one son and one daughter, Waller J. and Catalina. He is attorney for the Trenton Brewing Company and the Hygeian Ice Company, and is Secretary and attorney of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Power Company and Delaware River Improve- ment Company. He is now in the active practice of the law.
WILLIS P. BAINBRIDGE was born in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, in the year 1863. After receiving a good preliminary education at the John C. Green School, of his native place, he attended the College of New Jersey, at Princeton. In 1883 he came to Trenton and entered the office of Hugh H. Hamill, Esquire, to pursue the study of law. He con- tinued his study until his admission to the bar as attor- ney, in 1887. Three years later he was admitted as counselor-at-law. He served as Clerk of Ewing town- ship three successive years and was counsel for the same township in 1892 and 1895. Mr. Bainbridge has already achieved success in the practice of his profession, having built up a most satisfactory practice. He occupies a pleasant office in the Lincoln Building, corner of State and Broad streets.
CARROLL ROBBINS was born near Bloomsbury, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, on December 3d, 1858. He received his early educational training at a private school in his native town, conducted by his father, Sylvester Robbins. He afterward continued under his father's preceptorship for two or three years at Easton, Pennsylvania. In the fall of 1877, he entered Princeton, graduating with high honors with the Class of WILLIS P. BAINBRIDGE. '81, of which he was mathematical fellow, and afterward took a post-graduate course of one year at Princeton in mathematics. In 1883, Mr. Robbins came to Trenton and began reading law with James Buchanan, Esquire, of 28 West State street, but a year later left Mr. Buchanan's office to accept a position as mathematical instructor at Princeton. In 1885, he entered the Columbia Law School, and after finishing his course there, he came to Trenton, where he was admitted to the bar, in November, 1886, and in 1889 was licensed as counselor-at-law. He has served two terms on the Board of Health of Trenton, and June 4th, 1895, he was appointed a member of the Commission of Public Instruction, and he is now serving on that honorable Board. Mr. Robbins was married October 12th, 1887, to Edna, daughter of Thomas K. Thompson, Esquire, of Urbana, Ohio.
LEVI TAYLOR HANNUM is a native of Trenton, having been born here in 1849. His carlier education was received at the State Model School. He afterward, however, entered Princeton Col- lege, and was a graduate from that institute of renown in the year 1870. Leaving college, he read law with the late A. G. Richey, and was admitted to the bar. He was made attorney in 1873 and obtained recognition as counselor in the year 1876. Mr. Hannum is one of the best lawyers of the city of Trenton, is well known and respected by all. He is a very modest and unassuming man, and attends strictly to his professional duties. He has never seen fit to enter the realm of wedlock. His home is at 234 East Hanover street.
200
THE CITY OF TRENTON.
The law firm of CROSSLEY & MONTGOMERY is composed of William J. Crossley and John A. Montgomery. William J. Crossley was born in Trenton, New Jersey, January 7th, 1866. He finished the entire course in the city's public schools, graduating from the Trenton High School in 1883. Early developing a liking for the law, he entered the office of ex-Judge Buchanan. In 1889 he was ad- mitted to the bar as an attorney. At the instigation of ex-Judge Buchanan, in 1890, he was appointed Super- intendent of the Recorded Indebtedness Branch of the Census for the Second New Jersey Congressional Dis- trict. For five successive terms he was appointed by Judge Woodruff to defend impecunious prisoners at the Mercer County Court. This gave Mr. Crossley the opportunity that he needed to make himself known throughout the city and county as an able criminal lawyer. He has also earned an enviable reputation as a political speaker. He has several times stumped his county and Congressional district in the interests of his preceptor and the party in general. He has been a member of the City and County Republican Executive Committees, and has been a delegate to important conventions of the past few years. Several times he has had the honor of making the nominating speech. WILLIAM J. CROSSLEY. The Sixth Ward Republican Association was formed largely through his efforts, and he was made its first President .. Mr. Crossley was elected Police Justice March 23d, 1894, for the short term, and in April re-elected for the period of three years. In 1886 he was married to Sallie S. Arndt, of Easton, Pa.
John A. Montgomery was born in Trenton, New Jersey, in July, 1865. He was prepared for college at a boarding-school at Tivoli-on-the-Hudson, and was graduated from Princeton College in the Class of ' 86. He immediately returned to Trenton and commeneed the study of law with James Buchanan. In 1890 he was admitted as an attorney-at-law, and as counselor in 1894.
It was while studying law in James Buchanan's office that he became acquainted with Mr. Crossley, and in 1893 these two young men fornied the partner- ship firm of Crossley & Montgomery. Their office is at No. 31 South Broad street, corner of Front street.
Mr. Montgomery is a Democrat in politics, and has several times served on the City Democratic Executive Committee. Judge Woodruff appointed him to defend impecunious prisoners at the Mercer County Court for three successive terms. By Chan- cellor MeGill he was appointed receiver of the Bar- negat Park Land Association. Mr. Montgomery is a JOHN A. MONTGOMERY. member of the Nassau Club, of Princeton, and the Sons of the Revolution. He was married in 1891 to Helen Boudinot, daughter of Adjutant-General William S. Stryker.
BARTON B. HUTCHINSON was born at Allentown, Monmouth county, New Jersey, June 10th, 1860. Quite early in life Mr. Hutchinson developed a fondness for the law, and when he was about seventeen years of age he came to Trenton to study law with Holt & Brother. He was with them for a number of years and received a very thorough drill in his profession. In June, 1881,
201
THE CITY OF TRENTON.
he was admitted to the bar as an attorney-at-law, and as counselor in 1884. His reputation as a skillful and successful lawyer is very thoroughly established. For several years he has been a prominent member of the Board of Trade, was Vice President of that body in 1888 and 1889, and President during 1890-91. For two years he was Secretary of the Republiean Executive Com- mittee of the city of Trenton. In 1891, he was elected to the Assembly from the First district and was re-elected in 1892, serving in the legislative sessions of 1892 and 1893. Mr. Hutchinson is an ardent Republican and served his party well. He was the Republican leader on the floor of the House in 1893, and fought most vigorously against the passage of the Race-track bills. He also did excellent service on the Committee on the Judiciary. In 1885, he married Sarah M. Hulme, of Ocean county, New Jersey. Three children have been born to them-Charles Percy, Lawrenee Willis and Anna Hulme.
Mr. Hutchinson is still a young man, and from the success that he has achieved in his pro- fession and in the political affairs of the city and county, he bids fair to reach a high place, for he has won the respect and confidenee of his constituents by his integrity and fair dealing.
HERVEY C. SCUDDER is a native of Trenton and was born in 1868. He is a son of the late Uriel T. Scudder, a member of the firm of Titus & Scudder, who, for many years, carried on the dry goods business in Trenton. Sinee 1875, he has re- sided in Ewing township, on the homestead farm of his grandfather, the late Joseph B. Anderson. He acquired his edueation in the public schools of Ewing and Trenton. He was graduated from the Trenton High School in 1888, and at the commencement exercises of that year delivered the Latin Salutatory.
Hervey C. Scudder is a Republican. As a resident of Ewing township, he does not identify himself with the politics of this city, but at his home he is one of the active young men of the party. At present, he is a member of Ewing Township Board of Education, and is serving as Clerk of the Board. He studied law with ex-Judge William M. Lanning, with whom he is now associated in practice, and was admitted to the bar in 1892.
LINTON SATTERTHWAIT was born near Columbus, Burlington county, New Jersey, January 19th, 1857. When ten years of age his father moved to a farm HERVEY C. SCUDDER. in Lawrence township, Mercer county, New Jersey, and while living there Linton came to Trenton every day and attended the State Model School. From there he went to the Trenton Academy, and, after spending several years in that institution, he took a thorough course at the Trenton Business College. Concluding that he would extend his education to a college course, he spent two years at Shortlidge's Academy, at Media, Pennsylvania, where he prepared for Yale College, which institution he entered in the fall of 1879, graduating therefrom with the Class of '83. After graduating, he returned to the academy at Media, where he taught one year. In 1885, he took up the study of law, registering as a student in the law office of ex-Judge Buchanan. In connection with his law studies he worked one year on the local staff of the Philadelphia "Record," which position he resigned when, in the February Term, 1887, he was admitted as an attorney-at-law. In his short carcer as a counselor, he has figured in many cases of importance.
Mr. Satterthwait was married on June 20th, 1893, to Miss Florence W. Hibbs, an estimable young lady of Germantown, Pennsylvania. One child-a daughter-has blessed the happy union. He has contributed many valuable articles to our American literature, most of which were of a political nature, contributing chiefly to the " American Journal of Politics," the " Yale Review " and the "State Gazette."
A*
202
THE CITY OF TRENTON.
CHARLES EDWARD ROBERTS was born in England in the year 1864. His early education was procured at the public schools in his native country. After leaving school he was ticket agent on one of the leading railroads of England. He came to America in 1884 and immediately located in Trenton, where he has ever since resided. He be- came an efficient stenographer and was engaged to teach the evening class at the Trenton High School, in which capacity he still serves. He entered as a law student in the office of Hon. George M. Robe- son, and finished his course at the Harvard Law School. In 1893 he was admitted to the bar of New Jersey as an attorney-at-law. His office is located at the southwest corner of State and Broad streets.
EDWIN ROBERT WALKER was born in Rochester, New York, September 13th, 1862. Upon the death of his father, Dr. Walter Walker, of that place, in 1868, he was brought to Trenton and has lived here ever since. Trenton and vicinity have been the home of his maternal ancestors since 1678, he being a lineal descendant of the prominent and wealthy Quaker, Mahlon Stacy, who came from England in the ship "Shield" in that year, and, together with the other colonists, formed the settlement which is now the city of Burlington, New Jersey, and who CHARLES EDWARD ROBERTS. afterward became the founder of the city of Trenton. In 1878 Mr. Walker became a clerk in the office of the Court of Chancery and remained there until 1886, when he resigned to commence the practice of law, having studied for the profession under Hon. Garret D. W. Vroom. Mr. Walker was admitted to the bar at the June Term of the Supreme Court, 1886, as an attorney, and at the corresponding term three years later he was made a counselor. From the first he has been in active practice, and was counsel for the Board of Chosen Frecholders of the county of Mercer in 1891-92, and was City Counsel of the city of Trenton in 1892-93. Mr. Walker is a member of the Democratic League, of which he was one of the organizers and at one time President. He is a. member of the Berkeley Club, of which he was one of the organizers, and is also a member of the New Jersey Society Sons of the Revolution.
HON. ROBERT SPENCER WOODRUFF is a native of Newark, New Jersey. When about nine years of age he removed with his parents to Trenton, and this city has been his home ever since. Judge Woodruff was graduated from both the Model and the State Normal Schools, and shortly after graduating from the last-named institution he was called to New Brunswick as the Principal of Rutgers College Grammar School, and while thus engaged pursued his classical studies under Dr. Campbell, President of Rutgers College, and Prof. Reilly, Professor in Latin, and after passing examination the degree of A. B. was conferred upon him, and later the degree of A.M. He remained at New Brunswick as student and teacher for five years. He commenced the study of law with Hon. G. B. Adrain, of New Brunswick, and later finished in the office of Hon. Lewis Parker, of Trenton, New Jersey. He was admitted to the bar as an attorney-at-law in 1868, and as counselor in 1876. Judge Woodruff soon rose to prominence in his profession, and has filled many positions of honor in this city and county. He also takes a very active part in the political life of the city.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.