New Jersey first citizens : biographies and portraits of the notable living men and women of New Jersey with informing glimpses into the state's history and affairs, 1917-1918, Vol. I, Part 10

Author: Sackett, William Edgar, 1848- ed; Scannell, John James, 1884- ed
Publication date: 1917
Publisher: Patterson, N.J. : J.J. Scannell
Number of Pages: 594


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Appointed in 1890 by the Federal Government to take the census of the religious bodies. he brought to a successful conclusion the first complete work in this line by the Census Office, previous efforts having failed in completeness. He has kept up this work ever since on his own account and his annual statistics are universally accepted as authoritative. His book, published by Scribners, entitled "The Religious Forces of the United States," was the first of a series of historical works, issued under the auspices of "The Christian Literature Society." is still circulated in re- vised form, and used as a text-book in theological seminaries.


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pointed Dr. Carroll as his Special Commissioner to Porto Rico to investi- gate and report on the political, social, economic, agricultural and other industries, schools, finances, courts, system of government, etc., and to formulate a system for the government of the Island. The result was a report of 800 pages or more, of which the Government printed three edi- tions. Most of the recommendations concerning a system of civil govern- ment have been favorably acted upon by Congress.


After completing this work, he was elected as one of the Corresponding Secretaries of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, serving in this capacity eight years and making official visitation to several of the fields of the Society, including South America and Mexico. He published a book during his occupancy of this office on "Missionary Growth of the Methodist Episcopal Church." "He served as organizing secretary of the American section of the World Missionary Congress, held at Edin- burgh, Scotland, in 1910, of which he was a member, and of the Ecumenical Methodist Conference of 1911, at Toronto, of which he was Chief Secretary. He was also Chief Editor of the volume of proceedings of the Conference, published in 1912.


Since 1913 Dr. Carroll has been Associate Secretary of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, with an office in Washing- ton, D. C., where he represents the religious, moral and social interests of the thirty denominations which have officially united in creating and sup- porting the Council. These Protestant bodies embrace 103,000 ministers, 139,000 churches and seventeen and three quarter millions of communicants.


Dr. Carroll's life has been an extremely busy one. He is an officer of his local church, a member of its boards and various committees, an or- dained minister who has served as pastor of churches for limited periods, a member of denominational boards, a delegate to the quadrennial General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church four times in succession, Secretary of the Ecumenical Methodist Commission, of the Asbury Memori- al Association. of the Religious Welfare League for the Army and Navy, of the Committee on Negro Churches and of various other organizations, and President of the Methodist Historical Society of New York. He was one of the editors of the Schaff-Herzog Biblical. Ecclesiastical and Theo- logical Encyclopedia, and is editor of the Federal Council Year Book. and author. in addition to the books already mentioned, of "The Francis Asbury Centenary Volume," and "The First Methodist Society in America": also a contributor to the "Encyclopedia Britannica" and other Cyclopedias.


He has lived nearly all his married life in North Plainfield, where he has a comfortable home and family of wife and four children.


He has always taken an interest in civil affairs and was active in se- curing the incorporation of the borough of North Plainfield. He has been a delegate to State and Congressional Conventions and has always been interested in state and national politics.


Dr. Carroll's association and organization memberships are with the American Geographic Society, the League to Enforce Peace, etc.


HOWARD CARROW-Camden -Jurist. Born in Kent Coun- ty, Del .. 1860; son of Edward and Margaret Carrow; married in


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1886 to Emma, daughter of Captain Robert S. Bender of Camden, (died in 1909) ; 2'd, married in 1913 to Margaret A. Helm, of Trenton.


Children : (first marriage) James Russel, Acting Prosecutor of Cape May County ; Margaret Linda, (since deceased) ; and Helen.


Howard Carrow's forebears were of Scotch-Irish and English ex- tractions. They were principally farmers and lived in Maryland and Dela- ware for several generations. Mr. Carrow's family came to Bridgeton right after the Civil War and resided there until 1873 when they moved to Camden. Mr. Carrow has ever since been a resident of Camden County.


He was educated in public and private schools and by tutors. He was prepared for college, but circumstances prevented his going. He was made an attorney in 1SS2 and a counsellor in 1885. In 1891 he was ap- pointed Judge of the District Court of the city of Camden by Governor Leon Abbett, and served in that position for a term of five years. He was offered the Prosecutorship of Camden County by Governor George T. Werts in 1894 but business reasons prompted him to decline.


In 1895 Judge Carrow was Permanent Chairman of the Democratic State Convention which nominated the late Chancellor Alexander T. McGill for Governor ; and in 1898 he was made a Member-at-Large of the Democratic State Committee, where he served until 1912. In 1894 he was a member of the commission appointed by Governor Werts to suggest amendments to the state constitution respecting the judiciary system. He was a Delegate-at-Large to the National Democratic Conventions of 1904 and 1908, and also a member of the National Democratic Committee in 1908, but declined re-election.


In 1911 he was President of the New Jersey Bar Association. In 1912 he retired from the bar and politics to accept an appointment from Gov- ernor Wilson as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Camden County. He resigned that position in 1913 to become Circuit Court Judge. His circuit comprises all the Counties south of Trenton, excepting Camden. Before going on the bench. in 1912, he practiced law successfully in South Jersey but he now devotes his entire time to his judicial duties.


SOLOMON SOLIS CARVALHO-Metuchen .- Newspaper Man- ager. Born in Baltimore, Md., in 1856; son of Solomon N. and Sarah (Solis) Carvalho; married in New York, May, 1895, to Helen Cusack.


S. S. Carvalho is General Manager of all of William R. Hearst's news- paper publications the "New York American," the "Boston American," the "Los Angeles Examiner," the "San Francisco Examiner," and the "Chicago American." He graduated from the College of the City of New York with the A. B. degree in 1877 and became attached to the staff of the "New York Sun" in '78. He went from there to the "New York World" in 1887 as its Business Manager, and in '96 became Mr. Hearst's General Manager.


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Mr. Carvalho is a connoisseur in Chinese wares and owns the most repre- sentative collection of Chinese blue and white porcelain in the United States.


CLARENCE EDWARDS CASE-Somerville .- Lawyer. Born at Jersey City, on Sept. 24th, 1877; son of Philip and Amanda V. (Edwards) Case; married at Lexington, Ky., on January 29th, 1913, to Anna Gist Rogers, daughter of Jere and Henrietta Rogers, of Lexington, Ky.


Children : Henrietta Rogers, born February 17, 1914; Clarence Edwards, Jr., born May 26, 1916.


Clarence Edwards Case was Presiding Judge of the Somerset County Court of Common Pleas from 1910 to 1913. He resigned then to devote his attention to his private practice.


Judge Case acquired his education at the Rogers & Magie Classical Scientific School in Paterson which he attended in '93 and '94; then till '96 at Rutger's Preparatory School, and, passing into Rutger's College, graduated with the class of 1900. He took a course till 1902 in the New York Law School and was admitted to the Bar as an attorney in Novem- ber, 1903 and as a counsellor in February, 1907. In 1910 Governor Fort appointed him County Judge of Somerset.


Judge Case is a Mason, an Elk, and a member of the Knights of Pythias, Somerville Country Club, and of the Delta Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa fraternities .--


FRANK M. CHAPMAN-Englewood, (Linden Ave.)-Ornitho- logist. Born in Englewood, June 12, 1864; son of Lebbeus and Mary Augusta (Parkhurst) Chapman; married at New York on February 24, 1898, to Fannie Miller Embury, daughter of Alfred S. and Lucy W. Bates, of Scarsdale, N. Y.


Children : Frank M., born March 19, 1900.


Frank M. Chapman is the Curator of Ornithology of the American Museum of Natural History, and the author of a number of works on bird life and habits that are regarded as authoritative. He was a founder and is still a Director of the National Association of Audubon Societies that have done so much for bird culture and for the protection of bird life in the United States. The Audubon Society of New Jersey has been more then once called upon, by the menace of hurtful legislation, to pre- vent the destruction of birds.


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Mr. Chapman's education was acquired at the Englewood Academy and at Brown University where he graduated with the Sc. D. degree in 1913. He had already, in 1887, become the Curator at the Museum of Natural History in New York. In 1917 he returned from an ex- tended professional trip through South America. He is editor and founder of "Bird Lore" and the author of "Handbook of Birds of Eastern North Ameri- ca": "Bird Life"; "Bird Studies with a Camera"; "Warblers of North America"; "Color Key to North American Birds": "Value of Birds to the State"; "Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist" and "Travels of Birds."


Mr. Chapman is a Fellow of the American Ornithologists Union (President, 1911 to '13) ; member of the Linnaean Socie- ty (President, 1897) ; Honorary member of the New York Zoo- logical Society ; Vice-President of the Explorer's Club ; a mem- ber of the British Ornitholog- ists Union, etc. ; and is connected with the Englewood Country Club, Cen- tury Association, Society of Colonial Wars and the Cosmos Club of Wash- ington, D. C.


SAMUEL SHANNON CHILDS-Bernardsville .- Restaurateur. Born in Basking Ridge, April 4, 1863; son of William and Eliza- betli (Kline) Childs; married at Basking Ridge, Jan. 30th, 1890; to Emma Frances Alward, daughter of Waters and Mary Fran- ces (Burrows) Alward, of Basking Ridge.


Children : Mary E., born Feb. 12, 1896; Lois A., born Jan. 26, 1900.


Samuel S. Childs is President of the Childs Company, which operates restaurants in a hundred places in many of the leading cities in this country and Canada. Mr. Childs had for two years been engaged as a civil engineer in bridge and railroad work when, in 1890, he embarked with his brother, William Childs, Jr., in the restaurant business. The idea of establishing a chain of restaurants led to a growth in the enterprise that


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made the incorporation of a company to conduct them advisable. When it was organized, Samuel S. Childs became its President and William Childs, Jr., was made the Vice President.


Senator Childs has always lived in the Bernardsville sec- tion of the State. He was edu- cated at the Franklin Institute in Bernards Township and at the Morristown High School. He took a course subsequently at the New Jersey State Model School in Trenton. Later he was appointed by Congressman Howey as a cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point, but he remained there for only a year.


Mr. Childs has been deeply interested in educational topics .- He became a member of the' Board of Education of Bernards Township and from 1900 to 1903 served as its President. In 1901 the democrats of Somerset county made him their candidate for a seat in the New Jersey State Senate. The County was at that time normally Republican : but Senator Childs carried it and served at the session beginning with 1902 and ending with 1905.


JOHN CLAFLIN-Morristown-Merchant (retired). Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on July 24, 1850; son of Horace B. and Agnes (Sanger) Claflin ; married at Monterey, Cal., on June 27th, 1880 to Elizabeth Stewart Dunn.


John Claflin was, till the time of his retirement from business in 1914, the head of the Claflin dry goods establishment in New York. His father who stood at the head of the mercantile men of the country had founded the Claflin Company. John Claflin was educated at the College of the City of New York, graduating from there in 1869. He afterwards traveled in Europe and the East, and in 1887 crossed the South American continent from the Pacific coast at 10 degrees South latitude to the Atlantic coast at the Equator. Upon his return he entered his father's establishment and became a member of the firm in January, 1873. In 1890 the business was.


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organized under the title of The H. B. Claflin Co., and in 1909 re-organized as the United Dry Goods Companies.


CHARLES N. CODDING-Elizabeth .- Lawyer. Born in Col- lingsville, Conn., December, 1861.


Charles N. Codding was, under several of the chiefs for many years, the executive official in the office of the Clerk of the New Jersey Court of Chancery ; and during all that time exerted a quiet but very forceful in- fluence in the republican politics in the state. Mr. Codding was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and at the Williston Seminary in East Hampton, Mass. Entering Yale, he graduated with the class of 1SS6, and subsequently took a course in law at the Columbia Law School in New York. He graduated from there in 1SSS with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Opening an office in Westfield he began the practice and sub- sequently opened a law office in New York, where he did business under the firm name of Green, Codding & Van Winkle.


Mr. Codding's political activities have been rather as an advisor than in the more showy places. The only elective office he has ever held was that of member of the New Jersey House of Assembly during the two terms of 1894 and 1895.


EVERETT COLBY-West Orange .- Lawyer. Born in Mil- waukee, Wis., on September 10, 1874; son of Charles L. and Anna Sims Colby ; married at Plainfield, on June 30th, 1903, to Edith Hyde, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Hyde.


Children : Elizabeth (died) ; Edith ; Anne, Everett, Jr .; Charles Lewis.


Everett Colby came into public view when in 1905 he achieved a nom- ination for member of the State Senate from Essex County over the violent opposition of Major Carl Lentz, chairman of the Republican County Committee, and of the powerful organization at Major Lentz's command. Major Lentz had been regarded all over the state as one of the most auto- cratic leaders in all of the state's history ; and Mr. Colby's capture of the state senatorial nomination, after Major Lentz had said he could not have it, attracted attention all over the East. The Anti-Boss movement which exerted so marked an influence upon the later political history of the country had its birth in this struggle between Colby and Lentz.


Mr. Colby had been a member for three years of the New Jersey House of Assembly, with Major Lentz's countenance, when he sought pro- motion to the State Senate. When the County Chairman set his face against Mr. Colby's nomination, the Assemblyman met him at the prim- aries with a full opposition ticket; and not only Mr. Colby but every man on his ticket was put in nomination and afterwards elected. One of the local results was the appearance in Trenton of a Republican legislative


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delegation in both Senate and House, defying the regnant republican pow- ers of the state as well as of the county. The movement started out as the "New Idea" party ; but later, when the "Progressives" came into prom- inence, became known as the Progressive Party of the State. Mr. Colby has been consistently in sympathy with that wing of the republican party ever since, and was a warm advocate of Colonel Roosevelt's nomination in the campaign of 1912 in which President Taft sought re-election. His work as a Progressive has helped to tincture the republican party of the United States with the spirit of the Progressive movement.


In the State Senate, apart from promoting legislation aimed at the power of the dominating local political chiefs throughout the state, Mr. Colby's energies were largely directed toward the enactment of laws limiting the term of franchises granted by the au- thorities to the public utility companies. They had been se- suring, almost for the asking, street and other public right of way in perpetuity ; and as the result of the movement in which Mr. Colby was most conspicuous, laws were enacted, not only in New Jersey but in other states, forbidding grants that were to run in excess of fifty years.


Mr. Colby brought into the politics of the state a name that was not unfamiliar here. His uncle, Gardner R. Colby, had, in a previous campaign, made a very imposing, though it proved to be an unsuccessful, canvas for the republican nom- ination for the governorship; and it was the political opportunity that Gardner R. Colby's candidacy seemed to open that att. acted Everett Colby into the New Jersey field. Mr. Colby's activities after he came into the state were strenuous. He became chairman of the West Orange Republi- can Township Committee, a member of the State Board of Education and President of the State League of Republican Clubs. He was also a member of Governor Murphy's personal official staff. He was the Progressive can- didate for Governor in 1913 and one of the six Progressives appointed to the National Republican Committee to manage the presidential campaign of 1916.


Mr. Colby came to New York when a boy, attended Brownings School and graduated from Brown University in 1897. After he had made a tour around the world, he entered the New York Law School, graduating from there in 1899. He was admitted to the bar of New Jersey and opened a law office there in association with Frank Sommer and Borden D. Whiting, under the firm name of Sommer, Colby & Whiting. He had meanwhile in


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1904 been connected with the banking firms of Herrick, Hicks & Colby, and the law firm of Hatch, Debevoise & Colby.


GARDNER COLBY-East Orange .- Civil Service Officer. Born at Orange, September 12, 1864; son of Gardner and Martha L. (Hutchings) Colby ; married on March 21, 1SSS to Fannie Hazard Curtis, of Orange.


Gardner Colby is Secretary and Chief Examiner of the New Jersey State Civil Service Board. His father came into prominence in 1SS6 when he made a campaign for the republican nomination for Governor, but was defeated by Benjamin F. Howey, who was afterwards defeated at the polls by Robert S. Green, the democratic candidate. Mr. Colby was edu- cated at Brown University and graduated, class of 1887, with the A. B. degree, the A. M. degree being conferred upon him in 1890. While in college he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity. After graduation he engaged in the dry goods com- mission business with his father, and, upon his father's death, became associated with his uncle, Charles L. Colby in extensive railroad, manu- facturing and real estate enterprises in the West. He was President of the Everett Pulp & Paper Company and Treasurer of the Everett Land Com- pany from 1SS3 to 1901 and Treasurer of the Kinsman Block Signal Com- pany from 1901 to 1903. In May, 1898, the office of Secretary and Chief Examiner was given to him by the Civil Service Commission and he severed his business connections in New York.


CLARENCE L. COLE-Atlantic City .- Lawyer. Born in Alex- andria, Va., on Dec. 17th, 1863 ; son of James R. and Melissa Cole ; married in Jan., 1SS5, to Lizzie Conover of Atlantic City.


Children : Myra Ella, Clarence L. Jr., Maurice Y.


In the movement, intensively pursued immediately after Woodrow Wilson's inauguration as Governor, for the eradication of the corruption with which Atlantic City and county officialism had been impregnated for more than a quarter century, one of the purifying forces was exerted by Clarence L. Cole. It was because of his sympathy with the Progressive spirit of Governor Wilson's administrative policies that the Governor in February, 1911, selected him as Judge of the Circuit Court. He took the position on the Bench that had been filled by Judge Allen B. Endicott.


Judge Cole found his first employment as a messenger boy in Alex- andria, Va., for the Atlantic Pacific Telegraph Company, but soon after- wards he went with the Western Union. He clerked subsequently in gen- eral merchandise stores and became later an apprentice to the moulding trade in the shops of the Virginia Midland R. R. Co. at Alexandria. Re- turning to the telegraph service at Baltimore he later was an operator at the Brighton Hotel in Atlantic City, and subsequently became manager of the main telegraph office there.


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Meanwhile he had fixed his mind upon the practice of the law for a calling and he enrolled himself as a student in the law office of Judge Joseph Thompson. Soon after his admission to the Bar, in 1890, he was made Assistant Prosecutor of the Pleas of the county under his preceptor, who then held the office of Prosecutor; and upon the expiration of their terms he and Judge Thompson entered into a co-partnership under the firm name of Thompson & Cole. That business relation continued until Mr. Cole was appointed to the Circuit Court Bench in February, 1911, which office he held until April, 1914, when he resigned to became County Judge. The latter office he held until November, 1915, when he resigned and resumed the practice of law.


Judge Cole is a member of the State Bar Association, and the Atlantic County Bar Association. He is an F. & A. M. of Trinity Lodge No. 79.


JONATHAN ACKERMAN COLES, A. M., M.D., L. L. D. - Scotch Plains .- Physician, Surgeon. Born at Newark, May 6, 1843 ; son of Abraham and Caroline (Ackerman) Coles.


Abraham Coles, M. D., Ph. D., L. L. D., the father of Dr. Jonathan Ackerman Coles, was a distinguished scholar and poet as well as physician and surgeon. He was the author of several works, among them, trans- lations of the famous Latin Hymn "Dies Irae", "The Microcosm", a phys- iological poem, and "The Life and Teachings of Our Lord In Verse" which John Bright, the noted English statesman and orator, and others warmly commended. He was the author besides of a number of articles on scien- tific subjects, and his national lyrics and hymns are widely known.


Jonathan Ackerman Coles graduated from Columbia College in New York in 1864 and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York in 1868. He had in 1867 received the Harzen prize for the best written re- port of clinical instruction in the medical and surgical wards of the New York Hospital. After graduation he attended lectures in the English and continental universities and hospitals. Dr. Coles settled down for practice with his father in Newark and became one of the most widely known physicians in the state. On June 10. 1903, he received from Hope College, Holland, Michigan, the honorary degree L. L. D.


He is largely known through his gifts of choice bronzes and statuary and paintings. The bronze Indian group in Lincoln Park, Newark; the heroic size bronze portrait bust of his father by John Q. A. Ward, in Wash- ington Park, Newark: the painting of the Good Samaritan, by Daniel Huntington, in the State House at Trenton ; the bronze tablet on the Taber- nacle church at Salem, Mass., commemorating the ordination in 1812 of the first American Missionaries to Asia-are his givings. The gift of his father's shares of stock in the Newark Library Association brought the New Jersey Historical Society into possession of the building it now occu- pies on Park Street. Newark. He has also given works of art to the Metro- politan Museum in New York, to the New Congressional Library at Wash- ington, to Independence Hall at Philadelphia. a country home at Mountain- side, for orphans, and built schools, domitories, faculty buildings and


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chapels for colleges in the Far East. He possesses a choice collection of books, works of art, and paintings by Corot, West, Turner and others.


The country residence of Dr. Coles and his sister, Miss Emilie S. Coles, is at Scotch Plains, and their city home is in New York City. They still maintain the home in Newark in which they were born.


Dr. Coles is a member of the American Medical Association, the New York and New Jersey State and County Medical Societies, the New York Historical Society, the National Geographical Society, the Washington Association at Morristown, the Anglo-Saxon Society of London and Copen- hagen ; an honorary member of the Newark Museum of Art ; a life member, trustee and patron of the New Jersey Historical Society, and a Fellow of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and of The American Geog- raphical Society of New York.


AUSTEN COLGATE-Orange, (363 Centre St.)-Manufacturer. Born in Orange, on August 12, 1863, the son of Samuel and Eliza- beth (Morse) Colgate.




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