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James A. Sullivan.
J AMES A. SULLIVAN, a member of the New Jersey bar since 1911, and now engaged in the general practice of law in Jersey City, was born in Jersey City. on September 20, 1884. his parents being James and Mary Sullivan. He has proven himself an apt disciple of Black- stone and his law business is growing. In characteristic manner when asked as to his hobbies and tastes he said he had none, that his only desire was to see his business grow. He has the training, the system and the experience which will permit him to do an enormous amount of work in the short- est possible time. His interests are always those of his clients and those who have re- tained him are loud in praise of his satis- factory work in their behalf
He was educated in the Christian Brothers' School in Jersey City, St. Peter's College in Jersey City and Seton Hall in South Orange. from which institution he graduated in 1905, with the academic degree of A. B. In 1907 he received the degree of A. M. From the New York Law School he received the degree of LL. B. in 1908. H then entered the office of Brinkerhoff & Fielder, serving a clerkship there until his admission to the bar in 1911.
Mr. Sullivan is a Democrat in politics. He is a member of the John P. Egan Democratic Club and the Carteret Club.
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William A. Kavanagh
ILLIAM A. Kavanagh, one of the younger of Hoboken's lawyers, but withal. one who in his short legal career has won a host of friend- and clients, together with their confidence, was born in County Dublin. Ireland, March 17. 1885. and is therefore a true son of the "ould sod" and of the good St. Patrick, he being born upon the day devoted to the memory of Ireland's patron saint. His parents were James F. Kavanagh and Anna Archer Kavanagh.
With his parents young Kavanagh came to this country in September. 1890. They settled in Hoboken, and it was here that the boy was educated. so far as his preliminary education was concerned. He attended both No. ! School and Our Lady of Grace Parochial School, graduating from the latter institution of learning in 1898. He then entered St. Peter's High School in Jersey City, attending there from 1899 to 1901. after which he entered Seton Hall College in South Orange, N. J .. in 1902, from which he graduated in 1905.
After his graduation at Seton Hall College he became an instructor. and taught in the Hoboken High School and in the public schools of the City of New York. As a teacher he was highly regarded. and had he chosen to continue a career as such would undoubtedly have been among the foremost tutors of his time. lle had a bent for the law, however, and entered Fordham Law School in 1909, graduating in 1912. He was soon after admitted to the bar, and since then has practiced his profession at 68 Hudson street, where he has a large and constantly growing clientele.
Mr. Kavanagh is careful and conscientious in the study of the interests of his clients in whatever matters are entrusted to him. Although a young lawyer, he already has many victories and satisfactory settlements to his credit. Through the clients he has served others have come, a fact which
Frederick N. Eberhard
REDERICK N. Eberhard, with offices in the Second National Bank build- ing, lloboken, is one of those lawyers whose advice is sought not only by private clients, but by financial institutions, municipal corporations, etc. He is recognized as an able exponent of financial and corporation law and, therefore, he has a clientele that is a little above that of the average lawyer.
Mr. Eberhard is not often seen at the bar. Most of his work is confined to his office. The work at the bar is attended to more or less by his asso- ciates. When his presence is required, however, one may find him in court, and when he is seen there one may rest assured that there is something of more than ordinary importance on for the day.
Mr. Eberhard resides in Jersey City, in the upper Hudson City section. He has a splendid home on Palisade avenue. He has a family of whom he can well feel proud. His son, F. N. Eberhard. Jr., is studying law in his father's office, and it is the intention of the elder Eberhard to take the son into the firm as soon as he has passed his examinations and been admitted to the bar.
While never dabbling in politics for personal gain, Mr. Eberhard has taken an active interest in the reforms of government in Jersey City. Ile was Judge Advocate of the Ninth Regiment of New Jersey and an Interstate Bridge Commissioner representing Hudson County. The title of "Commis- sioner" sticks with him to the present day.
Personally Mr. Eberhard is genial with friends. To those whom he likes he has a warm heart. He is courteous to all, but dismisses quietly those with whom he does not care to do business or recognize socially. He has built up his legal business on a high plane. A man of his personality could not do otherwise.
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Charles E. S. Simpson.
HARLES E. S. SIMPSON was born August 20, 1873. in New York City,
where he received his early educa- tion in the public schools. When a young man he moved to Jersey City, where he has since made his home. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1899 as an attorney and subsequently as a counselor. Hle is now practising his profession, his offices being at 665 Newark Avenue, Jersey City.
Mr. Simpson is a Democrat. He is an orator and his services are much sought in campaigns. In 19tt and 1912 he served as an Assemblyman, the latter year being re- elected by a majority of more than 19,000. over E. A. Ransom. the highest candidate on the Republican ticket. He served as chairman of the committee on incidental expenses and as a member of the commit- tees on judiciary, revision of laws, school for deaf mutes and state library.
He is always interested in the betterment of Jersey City and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce of that city. He was one of the founders and is a member of the Eighth Ward Citizens' League of Jersey City. Ile is well known fraternally and is a member of Court Jersey City. No. 2. Foresters of America ; the Jersey City Club ; the Down Town Club ; Jersey City Lodge. No. 211, B. P. O. E. ; Amity Lodge. No. 103. F. and A. M. : Lafayette Lodge, No. 79. K. of P .; Zemzem Grotto. No. 16, M. O. V. P. E. R. ; the Hudson County Democratie Association; New Jersey Automobile and Motor Club ; Automobile Club of Hudson County, the Hudson County Road Drivers' Association, and the Hudson County Bar Association. His practice is a large and lucrative one and his clientele is rapidly increasing.
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Isidor G. Brand
A MONG the lawyers of Hoboken who have attained an excellent repu- tation among business men, professional men and laymen generally. may be mentioned Isidor 11. Brand, with offices at 51 Newark street. Mr. Brand practices his profession strictly along ethical lines, and is averse to publicity, except that gained through duty well done. He is regarded as one of the leading legal lights of Hoboken, and enjoys a practice at the same time attractive to a man of his profession, and lucrative. His practice in- cludes all branches of litigation, but he prefers that which leaves him in his office, studying out intricate problems, rather than the kind which leads the lawyer into the criminal courts.
Mr. Brand believes in law as practiced by the old school of lawyers, the kind of law which makes the lawyer the confidential friend, as well as legal adviser, of his client, the kind of law that recognizes duty to clients as para- mount to every other consideration, the kind which advises and directs and refuses to take cases if there is no good case to be made for the client, the kind which advises settlement of difficulties rather than costly litigation, in fact, the practice of law along the dignified and gentlemanly side of the pro- fession.
Naturally Mr. Brand is a busy man. He is well grounded in his practice. which has grown until it reaches proportions which take up a great deal of his time. He finds time, however, to be genial to callers and extend a hearty welcome to friends. He lives at 318 Hudson street and enjoys the respect of his neighbors.
Adolph C. Carsten
A O lawyer is better or more favorably known in North Hudson, Hoboken, or Hudson County, for that matter, than Adolph C. Carsten, who has offices at 70 River street, Hoboken. Mr. Carsten was for years a law part- ner of Francis MeCauley under the firm name of MeCauley and Carsten. About a year ago the partnership was severed, and since that time he has engaged in the practice of law for himself at the Hoboken address. He also lives in Hoboken at 913 Washington street.
Praise which might be bestowed on other members of the bar would sound cheap when applied to Mr. Carsten. He is one of the school of lawyers who believe in the protection of their clients and their interests promptly and with the least litigation possible. He has so large a permanent and transient clientele that it would not pay him to dally along on cases which could be settled quickly, even were he so inclined, but it has always been a point of honor with Mr. Carsten to get through a case as quickly as possible, thereby getting it off his mind and leaving more for the client.
Mr. Carsten was born March 31. 1875. in Hoboken, his parents being Nicholas and Lina Carsten. He attended public school No. 3. He worked at the diamond cutting trade from 13 to 21 years of age. He entered the Centenary Collegiate Institute at Hackettstown in 1897, graduating in 1900. lle immediately entered the New York University and graduated in 1904 with the degree of B. A. From the New York Law School he graduated in 1905 and entered the office of James F. Minturn, who was elevated to the Supreme Court bench in 1907, at which time Mccauley and Carsten took over his practice.
Mr. Carsten was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Free Public Library in Hoboken in 1966 by Mayor George H. Steil. He resigned in 1909. Ile is a member of Hoboken Lodge of Elks No. 74, Camp t. Sons of Veterans, and the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity and Club with headquarters in West Forty-fourth street, New York City.
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A. O. Cirrarelli
A MONG the best known of the lawyers in this vicinity may be men- tioned A. (. Ciccarelli, with offices in the building owned by the Second National Bank, 82 River street, Hoboken. Mr. Ciccarelli has been engaged in the practice of law in the Hudson County Courts for the past twenty years, and he has built up an enviable clientele, especially among the Italian speaking residents of the county, who go to him for counsel and advice. Advice is not always confined to legal matters. Many of his clients have been advised as to financial investments there, and it is said that none who followed the advice of the counsellor in these matters ever had cause to regret it.
At one time Mr. Ciccarelli dabbled a bit in politics. He was a republican and was much interested in republican politics. lle was a member of the Fremont Club when that organization was in the height of its glory and at one time undertook to run for the assembly on the republican ticket. He was beaten at the polls, as was every other republican at the time, although his vote was a flattering one. Of late years he has eschewed politics and con- fined himself to the practice of his profession.
His offices are busy ones. Go there at any time when he is in and one is apt to find a long list of waiting clients looking for advice as to begun or contemplated litigation. Mr. Ciccarelli is sharp, clear, crisp and decisive in his advice. He has the law on most matters at his tongue's end, and is ready in many cases to give an opinion as to the meritsof litigation at a moment's notice.
Mr. Ciccarelli numbers among his friends some prominent people. He is well thought of by the bench and bar. He has never resorted to the little catch-penny tactics of so many lawyers of the younger generation, and is rather of the strictly professional order of legal gentlemen. Once a friend his friendships last until blasted by other than himself.
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John J. Walsh
J OHN J. Walsh was born at Wexford, Ireland. March 16, 1877, and is a lawyer by profession. He received his early education under the Brothers of St. Aloysius, at Wexford, where he graduated with honors. He afterwards accepted a position with Israel Wallis. Clerk of the Crown, where. from his duties as attendant at the Petit Sessions Court. he acquired a facility for the study of law.
llis father, John Walsh, was a descendant of an old - South Wexford family. and was one of the organizers and ardent supporters of the Land-League Movement in October. 1879. Under an Act of Parliament of 1881. known as "Forester's Coer- cion Act," which was pro- mulgated for the suppression of the Land-League. and the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act of that year, his father was arrested, and with 600 others of good social standing, and moderate political views, was incarcerated as a "suspect" in Kilmainham jail. Dublin. lle was released. untried and unaccused in May. 1882.
Mr. Walsh, Jr., in his younger days was affiliated with the Nationalist movement and was actively interested in the Parnell crisis of 1890.
Mr. Walsh came to the United States in 1897. with the late Rev. Michael C. MeEvoy, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Hoboken, who desired him to study for the priesthood. Mr. Walsh, however, was inclined to pursue the study of law. lle completed his studies in New York University, class of 1896. He served his clerkship under Supreme Court Justice, Hon. James F. Minturn and Corporation Counsel John J. Fallon. He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1908.
Morris Amansky
ORRIS UMANSKY, engaged in the practice of law at 51 Newark street. Hoboken, was born March 10, 1886, at Bratslav, Russia. llis parents were Joseph and Esther Umansky. He attended schools in Russia. When still a boy he came to this country, and by close application and hard study, at the age of 28 years he has made for himself an enviable place in professional circles. Ilis legal education was obtained at the Law School of the University of New York. His practice from the start has been of the higher order.
Mr. Umansky is popular in a large circle of friends and acquaintances. He is a member of Court Harmony. No. 69. Foresters of America; Hoboken City Lodge. No. 476, Independent Order of Brith Abraham, and Linath lazedek of Hudson County. He is married and lives in West Hoboken.
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Financial Justitutions
UDSON COUNTY'S financial institutions are among the strongest and most respected in the country. No loose methods of banking are tolerated here, the result being the unquestioned soundness of the banks and allied institutions.
Notwithstanding the panic through which the country at large has passed, there has been little of the general depression felt here, so far as banking business is concerned. The banks have been liberal in their accommodations to business men-as liberal as good business management would permit. So far as the annual reports for 1914 show every bank has increased its assets. decreased its actual liabilities and increased its saving deposits. While 1914 was by no means the best financial year experienced in Hudson, it was far from being the poorest. Failures were few and, with one or two exceptions. were unimportant. All in all, the financial conditions have been remarkably good. considering the depression that existed elsewhere, and there seems to prevail the general optimistic feeling of a better business year to come.
Building and loan associations have increased in numbers. shareholders and the number of shares taken and this increase is continuing. Careful management has marked the conduct of the sixty or more associations of this I:ind in the county. All have done an extensive banking business.
Many of Hudson's banks do do business with correspondents throughout the entire civilized world. Many of her financiers are internationally known. The credit checks. or letters of credit, of many of her institutions are accepted as collateral the world over. The figures of business done. of deposits and assets are astounding.
Realty operations have been general and in some parts of the country. more notably in North Hudson, an actual building boom has been in pro- gress. West New York especially has felt this in full force and there has been no indication of a slump of any kind. New business houses have been opened and are apparently doing well. From the financial, as well as social and economical, standpoint Hudson County is a good, live section.
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Muinn Orust Company
HE Union Trust Company of New Jersey, with headquarters at 75 Montgomery street. Jersey City, and a branch at Broadway and Thirty- third street. Bayonne, although a comparatively young financial in- stitution, having commenced business in 1907, is one of the strongest in Hudson county, having a capital and surplus of more than $630,000, with assets of more than $3.700.000. It has direct facilities for drawing and trans- mitting funds on or to any important city in the world by draft. letters of credit or cable.
Officers of the company are: President. Samuel Ludlow, jr. ; vice-presi- dent. John J. Gorman ; vice-president and treasurer, James G. Hasking: sec- retary. George E. Bailey: assistant secretary, Floyd Ramsey ; directors. Charles K. Beekman. William 11. Cane, Joseph A. Dear, Thomas H. Ecker- con. Benjamin E. Farrier, John J. Gorman, James P. Hall. James G. Hasking. Robert S. Hudspeth, Charles F. Long, Samuel Ludlow, jr., C. F. Mueller, jr., Jacob Ringle, Thomas W. Shelton, Stanton M. Smith. A. J. Stone and J. T. Thomas. With these gentlemen at the head of the institution it does a bank- ing and trust business in all its branches, is the depository of savings funds at 4 per cent. interest, a depository of the State of New Jersey, of the county of Hudson, of Jersey City. the City of Bayonne, and likewise a depository in bankruptcy. It has twenty-one employees.
The president, Mr. Ludlow, has a wide experience in the banking busi- ness, beginning as messenger in a large New York bank at the age of 17 vears. He has worked in every important department of a large city bank and is therefore conversant in all branches of banking, as well as all the details necessarily involved.
The vice-president. J. J. Gorman, is widely known as the president of the Manhattan Electrical Supply Company, one of the largest electrical supply companies in the world, which was established by Mr. Gorman with but a few hundred dollars some thirty years ago.
Vice-president and Treasurer James G. Hasking, is widely known in bank- ing circles throughout Jersey City, his activities in this line in that city cov- ering a period of more than fifty years. All of the directors are known as men of high integrity and business ability.
This trust company when organized in 1907 assumed the deposit liabilities of the Second National Bank of Jersey City and engaged to liqui- date that institution. At the time the present management took hold the deposits of the Second National Bank were slightly in excess of $700.000. . \1 the present time the deposits amount to over $3.000.000. a gain of over 400%, while the total assets amount to over $3.700,000. The capital stock of the Second National Bank has been liquidated up to one hundred cents on the dollar. At the present time the Union Trust Co. has no direct or indirect interest in the old affairs of the Second National Bank of Jersey City, and their affiliations although always indirect are now completely severed.
Since the trust company was organized in the old building of the Second National Bank, corner Washington and Montgomery streets, it has disposed of the old building to the United States government, where the new Jersey City post office is now located and has erected a modern bank and office building at the corner of Washington and Montgomery streets, wherein is located the Downtown Club, the Chancery Court Chambers, the Bank- ruptcy Court and the Chamber of Commerce. The home of the Trust Company is considered the best equipped banking rooms in the State of New Jersey. Herein is located a safe deposit vault, which is pronounced by ex- perts as the heaviest and strongest vault in the State.
During the year ending June 30th, 1914. the total transactions of money handled by the Union Trust Company. amounted to the immense sum of $171.921,679.27. Over 10,000 depositors are handling their banking business through this company at the present time.
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Highland Trust Company of New Jersey
S TARTING business on June 30, 1904, the Highland Trust Company of New Jersey, at Summit avenue and DeMott street, West Hoboken. has grown to a lusty financial yougster of ten years, with assets of more than $2,000,000. In starting, it occupied a twenty foot building in the neighborhood of the transfer station. It now has a splendid building of it- own, facing for sixty feet on busy Summit avenue.
The policy which has built the business of this bank and caused such unusual prosperity and growth is the principle that the important feature of banking is to always have the money to pay the depositor when he comes to the window for it.
Organizers of the company include Julius Belte, A. A. Franck, J. P. llenry, M. D., R. J. Hillas, George J. MeEwan, J. Lawrence Nevin. (de- ceased), Richard Stevens. Edward H. Snyder, Albert Wiggers. George Lausecker, J. A. Wolfenden, B. H. Pelzer, Jr., Charles J. Solyom. George Lawyer and Thomas MeEwan.
Officers are: Thomas MeEwan, Jr., president ; Robert J. Hillas, vice- president : I. S. Chamberlain, secretary and treasurer. Directors are : Thomas MeEwan, Julius Belte. Robert J. Hillas, Henry Prunaret, Robert R. Lampa, George J. MeEwan, Joseph A. Nevin, M. D., Edwin H. Snyder William Werner, John A. Wolfenden and Edward Savoye.
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Industrial Progess in Dudsm County
UDSON COUNTY is first in importance both in population and in- dustries among the counties of New Jersey. Its advantageous location in the Metropolitan District, assures to all of the municipalities within its boundaries an equal share in the industrial development of the Port of New York.
At this point the principal railroads of the country converge-in fact Hudson County may well be termed the tide water terminal of practically every important trunk line in the country. Here, too, are located four im- portant trans-Atlantic lines (two of them among the largest in the world) which together handle more than half of the entire ocean passenger traffic and a substantial share of the immense volume of freight to and from Euro- pean and other foreign countries.
The completion of the waterways system from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River, and the opening of the Panama Canal also gives promise of even greater prosperity.
Manufacturers are quick to perceive its many advantages and are locat- ing in all parts of the county in constantly increasing numbers. Sections which a few years ago were woods and fields, marsh lands, or dumping grounds for rubbish, can now boast of some of the finest examples of modern factory construction. Many new streets have also been laid out in these sections, and apartments, flats and dwellings have been, and are being, erected to house the numerous workers.
Labor of all classes, skilled and unskilled, is available throughout the county, and because of the development of transportation facilities, the va- rious sections of the county have been drawn closer together. Excellent suburban train service has also placed within the reach of many people who are employed within the county, the advantages of country life.
It needs no great prophet then, to forecast the industrial future of Hudson County. The westerly shore of the Hudson River, the shores of the Staten Island Kills, the lowland fringeing the Hackensack River, will be utilized in the development of a freight terminal system second to none in the world and with this development will come industrial prosperity unsurpassed by any section of our country.
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hudson and Manhattan Railroad On.
O ONE development, or industry, has played a more important part in the growth and development of Hudson County than the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company, operating the tunnels under the Hud son river between Jersey City, Hoboken and the shopping and downtown districts of New York. By its extensions in Jersey City, patrons are now enabled to reach the western slope of the Bergen section, and from there, by special arrangement with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, through to Newark, upon trains operated by the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Com- pany. Other extensions are planned in New York, by which New Jersey patrons will be able to ride direct to the Grand Central station in New York. When these extensions are completed, Hudson County will have direct and quick communication with financial and commercial New York, unequalled by that of any other section of the metropolis and its neighboring towns and counties.
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