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 13

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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Colonial times for having broken from captivity after sealping ten of the Red Skins, was of his line.


Richard Dudley Currier was educated at the Bridgeport High School, graduating there in 1896, at Yale where he won his degree in 1900 and at the Boston University Law School and the New York Law School. At graduation from Yale he was awarded the James Gordon Bennett prize for the highest work in his- tory and economics in the Col- lege course. Following his grad- nation from the New York Law School in 1902, he opened an office in New York City for the practice of the law, and was engaged there until 1908 when he came to New Jersey to or- ganize the New Jersey Law School. He was made the President of its Faculty and still holds that position. The Law School has about 250 stud. ents at present.


He has found time. apart from his profession in New York and from his labors in the New Jersey Law School, to pre- pare a number of legal books. Among them is the "Sailor's Log." a compilation of laws re- lating to seamen ; and in colla- boration with Professor Bate he was author of another important volume- "Cases on the Law of Torts."


Mr. Currier is a member of the American Bar Association. American Society of International Law. American Society for the Judicial Settle- ment of International Disputes, the St. Anthony Country Club, (Benning- ton. Vt.). Yale Club, (N. Y.) In politics he is a republican, and has been an active worker in the ranks of the party.


Mr. Currier has a summer home at Shaftesbury, Vt., where he main- tains a farm and a summer camp for girls, Camp Avalon.


JULIET C. CUSHING (Mrs. G. W. B .- East Orange. Born New York, N. Y .; daughter of Simon and Sarah M. (Ohinstead) Clannon : married at East Orange, October, 1875 to George W. B. Cushing, son of Prentice and Eleanor Taintor Cushing of Massa- chusetts.


Juliet C. Cushing has been President of the Consumers League of New Jersey since its organization in 1900. The League organized the New Jersey Child Labor Committee in 1904. It is now known as the New


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Jersey Child Labor and Welfare Committee; and Mrs. Cushing is the Committee's chairman. Mrs. Cushing is also interested in the organization work of the Presbyterian Church and has been President of the Presby- terial and Synodical Societies connected with the Presbyterian Church of New Jersey. She is also President of the Orange Auxiliary to the McAll Mission in France.


Mrs. Cushing's father, a native of County Ross, Ireland, was edu- cated at Trinity College, Dublin. Her mother was of old Colonial stock, a descendent of Jonathan Gilbert who traced his line back to Sir Humphrey Gilbert. Mrs. Cushing was educated in private schools and was graduated from Miss Wadleigh's Department of the Twelfth Street School in New York.


The Consumers League of which Mrs. Cushing is President is an asso- ciation of persons who, in making their purchases, strive to further the welfare of those who make or distribute the things bought. Its objects are to better conditions for women and children who are wage earners; to further the enactment and enforcement of laws for their protection ; to in- crease the demand for goods made and sold under right conditions and to abolish sweatshops and tenement and child labor. It urges upon every buyer responsibility for conditions in industry of which he does not ap- prove and upon employers a high standard of law-abiding, humane treat- ment of employees. It appeals to the consumer to do "Christmas Shop- ping" early and against Saturday afternoon shopping; to the employer, to give women employees a living wage, reasonable hours of labor, sanitary conditions in work and lunch rooms and a Saturday half-holiday during two summer months; and to the employee to render conscientious and in- telligent service and to make the interest of a fair employer his own in- terest.


Mrs. Cushing is a member, and in 1896-97-98 was President of the Womens Club of Orange; and was a Delegate to the Conventions of the General Federation of Women's Clubs held in Louisville, Ky,, in Denver. Col. and in New York City.


WILLARD W. CUTLER-Morristown .- Lawyer. Born at Mor- ristown, on Nov. 3, 1856 ; son of Augustus W. and Julia R. (Walker) Cutler ; married to Mary B. Hinchman, of Brooklyn, N. Y.


Children : Genevieve W .. Julia H., Ethel, Willard W. Jr., Edith and Ralph H.


Willard W. Cutler bears a name that has long been familiar to the people of New Jersey. His father served in Congress for some years and was the sponsor for the aet that created the Department of Agriculture and placed a new portfolio on the President's Cabinet desk. The Depart- ment of Agriculture has grown into one of the most important of the executive divisions of the National Government. It embraces the Weather


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Bureau and the Labor Department as well as contributing to the develop- ment of the farming industry throughout the country. Mr. Cutler achieved distinction in his first campaign for Congress in having defeated William Walter Phelps, the Republican who had represented the fifth district in the previous Congress and who was afterwards United States Ambassa- dor to Berlin. Congressman Cutler's subsequent campaign for the Gov- ernorship, was widely supported in the convention that eventually bom- inated Chancellor Alexander T. MeGill against John W. Griggs.


The family had already been distinguished in the annals of war and statemanship. Congressman Cutler's grandfather, Abijah Cutler, achieved distinction in the Revolutionary struggle; and his father, Joseph Cutler, was a Brigadier General in the American Army during the War of 1812. In his mother's line, was Silas Condit who was a delegate to the Conti- nental Congress, President of the New Jersey Committee of Safety and Speaker of the New Jersey As- sembly.


Willard W. Cutler acquired his education at the public schools of Morristown and studied law in his father's office. He was admitted to the Bar as an attor- ney and afterwards as a coun- selor. He was counsel for the Morristown Board of Sewerage while it was in existence ; and in later years was a member of the Democratie State Commit- tee, but resigned to accept judi- cial functions. Upon the re- signation in 1882 of George W. Forsyth, Prosecutor of the Pleas of Morris County, the Court named Mr. Cutler to take up the duties of that office; and he held it by successive reappoint- ments from Governors Ludlow. Green and Werts until 1893. He resigned then to accept the office of Pre- siding Judge of the Morris County Courts tendered to him by Governor Werts. Upon the completion of his term in '98 he resumed the practice of his profession at Morristown and continued until Governor Fielder in 1916 appointed him a Circuit Court Judge. He is assigned to the Essex Circuit.


Judge Cutler was one of the organizers of the Morristown Trust Co., and has been its Vice President for over twenty years. For some years he was President of the Y. M. C. A. of Morristown and is yet a member of its Board of Trustees. Some years ago he was the Superintendent of the South Street Presbyterian Church Sunday School and he has long been President of the church's Board of Trustees. He is also a Past Master of Cincinnati Lodge No. 3 F. & A. M. and a member of the Whippany River Club.


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Judge Cutler's daughter, Genevieve, is the wife of Charles M. Marsh, Jr., of Washington, D. C .: his danghter, Julia H., wife of John H. Salter, of Glen Ridge ; his daughter. Ethel, wife of Leon S. Freeman, of Morristown ; his daughter. Edith. is wife of Charles W. Phelps, of Morristown ; his son, Willard W., Jr .. is located at Tulsa. Oklahoma, and his son, Ralph H., is of Morristown.


MARY STEWART CUTTING ( Mrs. Charles W.)-East Orange, (50 Munn avenne)-Author. Born in New York City June 27, 1851: daughter of Ulysses and Mary ( Stewart ) Doubleday ; mar- ried in New York City December 29, 1875 to Charles Weed Cutting. who died in 1893.


Children : Charles W., Ulysses D., Mary S., Janet B., Amy D.


Mary Stewart Cutting. from her earliest childhood, was given to making up stories and trying to write them. After she grew up she wrote a number for children that were printed in a little Church Mission paper, "The Young Christian Soldier;" and the acceptance of a few of her poems by Lippincott's Magazine winged her ambition for the larger fields of literature. During her married life she wrote but little; but after her husband's death she took up literature as a profession. In two years she offered a dozen or more mannscripts sixty-three times to publishers and had but three of them accepted. One appeared in Harper's, another in the Cosmopolitan and the third in Mcclure's.


In the hope of striking some new and popular vein she varied the style and topics of her stories with only measurable success till her "Fairy Gold" caught the eye of an editor in Mcclure's. Having accepted the manuscript he said he would take all the "married life stories" she chose to send in. When she remarked that there was nothing new about that sort of thing .- that it was only just what every one knew all about,-he replied that she was the only one writing it. She took the suburbs for the setting of her contributions afterwards, and her stories have run in nearly all the magazines. Mrs. Cutting says of her work that she writes slowly and envies the people who dash off so many thousand words a day; and that the one of her stories she likes the best is "The Song of Courage," published in "Everybody's" magazine several years ago but never published in book form.


Mrs. Cutting's father served in the Civil War and was a Brevet Brigadier General of Volunteers and a brother of General Abner Double- day. Her mother's father was Dr. James Stewart, a New York physician. Mrs. Cutting has lived in-besides New York-Chicago for a year. after- wards in Bergen Point and moved to East Orange in 1898.


Mrs. Cutting's books are: "Little Stories of Courtship." "Little Stories of Married Life." "More Stories of Married Life," "The Suburban Whirl and Other Stories of Married Life." "Heart of Lynn," "The Wayfarers,"


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"Just for Two." "Lovers of Sanna," "The Unforeseen," "Refractory Hus- bands," and "The Blossoming Rod."


Mrs. Cutting is a member of the Authors League of America.


LEONA DALRYMPLE - Passaic. (45 Summer St. ) - Author. Born in Trenton. daughter of George H. and Carrie Virginia (Dean) Dalrymple.


Through her charmingly optimistic stories Leona Dalrymple has won her way into the hearts of many readers in the United States, Canada, Australia and England-and she is virtually at the threshold of her career. Her spectacular achievement in winning a $10,000 prize offered by the Reilly Britton Co. in 1915, for the best popular novel in a competition that called forth competing work from two thousand rivals, bears out the promise shown in her earlier work. Miss Dalrymple had achieved literary distinction before she won the prize with her novel "Diane of the Green Van" which sold over a hundred thousand copies and was included in the Bookman's list of Best Sellers for several months. In England "Diane of the Green Van" was selected as the "jubilee" book of the year. "The Lovable Meddler" pub- lished the following year also found its way into the list of Best Sellers. Though Miss Dal- rymple is best known by her do- lightful popular novels, she is most loved by readers who write to her from all parts of the country - for her Christ- mas stories in book form. These little heart tales that sparkle with tears as well as laughter are loved by rich and poor. young and old alike.


Miss Dalrymple's first book "Traumerei" was published in the early part of 1912. In the fall of that year appeared her "Uncle Noah's Christ- mas Inspiration" first published in the Ladies "Home Journal" and later in book form. Other books of hers are "In the Heart of the Christmas Pines." 1913: "Uncle Noah's Christmas Party." 1914: "Jimsy. the Christ- mas Kid." 1914: and "When the Yule-log Burns," 1916. Her novelette "The Driftwood Adventure" which had magazine publication will be pro- duced this fall as a play by Cohan and Harris. In July (1917) Miss Dal- rymple's new novel "Kenny" the tale of a lovable, madcap Irishman will be published by the Reilly Britton Co. of Chicago.


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For the past three years Miss Dalrymple has been a weekly contribu- tor of fairy stories for the Newspaper Feature Service and a number of her photo-plays have been produced by the Selig Polyscope Co. and The Vitagraph.


The young author's ancestry is Scotch on her father's side and French on her mother's. Her father is well known in the politics of the upper part of the state. He is one of the active promoters of the progressive movement of the Republican party.


Miss Dalrymple is devoted to music and motoring. She is a part of that Bohemian life which centers in New York and a member of many clubs of actors, illustrators, writers, painters and musicians.


DAVID R. DALY-Jersey City, (324 York Street)-Manufac- turer. Born at Piermont, N. Y., June S, 1853, son of William and Mary Ann (Rennie) Daly. Married to Jane Gaisford, dangh- ter of James and Mary A. Gaisford, of Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.


David R. Daly is of Irish parentage. He was educated at old Public School No. 1 in Jersey City, and in the technical classes of the Cooper Institute, New York. He entered the employ of J. H. Gautier & Co., of Jersey City, at an early age. Eagerness for the technical education, which he found to be a necessity in his employment, led him to attend the classes at the Cooper Institute. He has been with the Gautier Company ever since, and the story of his career is one of steady rise to prominence in its management, now being the Company's President and General Manager.


Mr. Daly has taken an active part in the civic and trade life of the city, and his interest in the educational welfare of the community led Mayor Wanser to name him a director of the Board of Education. Later, Mayor Fagan appointed him a member of the Free Public Library Board, and he is now its Treasurer. He has also held the office of President of the Jersey City Chamber of Commerce for the years 1905, 1906 and 1911.


Mr. Daly is a director of the Home of the Homeless in Jersey City, an institution for orphaned children ; a trustee of the Provident Institution for Savings, Vice-President of the Hudson County National Bank, and a- member of the Union League, Palma and Carteret Clubs.


JOHN COTTON DANA-Newark .- Librarian. Born in Wood- stock. Vt., on Aug. 19th, 1856; son of Charles and Charitie Scott (Loomis) Dana : married on November 15, 1888, to Adine Rowena Wagener, of Russellville Ky.


John Cotton Dana is Librarian at the Free Public Library in Newark. He graduated from Dartmouth College with the A. B. degree in 1873; studied law in Woodstock, Vt., and was admitted to practice at the New York Bar in 1883. Meanwhile, in 1880 and 1SS1 he was a land surveyor in


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Colorado, and in 1SS6-'87 he was a civil engineer in Colorado. He became Librarian of the Denver Public Library in 1889 and continued in that posi- tion until 1897. From 1898 until 1902 he was City Librarian at Spring- field, Mass. In 1902 he was made Librarian of the Free Public Library in Newark.


Mr. Dana has been Director of the Newark Museum Association since its foundation in 1909; is a member, and in 1896 was President of the American Library Association and is connected with the Century Club in New York and with the Essex Club in Newark.


Mr. Dana's official duties have not excluded him from participation in current affairs. He is a frequent participant in community movements, was a member of the Committee of One Hundred that arranged the Newark City 250th Anniversary fete of 1916, and finds time besides, to occasionally make graceful contributions to the literature of the day.


Mr. Dana's brother, Charles Loomis Dana, is Professor of Nervous Diseases at Cornell University Medical College and ex-President of the New York Academy of Medicine.


WINTHROP M. DANIELS-Princeton .- Interstate Commerce Commissioner. Born at Dayton, O., September 30, 1867; son of Edwin A. and Mary B. Daniels ; married at Montville, Conn., October 12, 1898, to Joan Robertson, daughter of Carmichael and Mary Clark Robertson, of Montville, Conn.


Children : Robertson Balfour, born Ang. 6, 1900.


Winthrop M. Daniels attended the public and private schools of Dayton, Ohio; and, entering Princeton in 1884, obtained his A. B. degree in 1SSS. While doing graduate work in the Uni- versity he taught for two years in Princeton Preparatory School. Princeton awarded the A. M. de- gree to him in 1890. The same year he entered the University of Leipzig. In 1891 he was en- gaged as an Instructor in Eco- nomics at Wesleyan University in Middletown. Conn. In 1892 he was called to Princeton Uni- versity and made Assistant Pro- fessor of Political Economy ; and three years later he was elected Professor of Political Economy. He was still holding this chair when, in 1911. Gov- ernor Wilson tendered him a place on the Puplic Utility Commission of New Jersey. He served on that board until Gov. Wilson, having become


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President of the United States, nominated him to a place on the Interstate Commerce Commission. A vacancy had occured in the Commission ; and the original appointment was to fill an unexpired term to end January 1st, 1917. He was re-appointed for a full term and was confirmed by the Senate in January, 1917.


Commissioner Daniels served for several years as ad interim editorial writer on the staff of the New York Evening Post; and for three years as Secretary and Treasurer of the American Economic Association. He has published a volume entitled "Elements of Public Finance," and also various economic and literary studies for the periodical publications.


Commissioner Daniels is a member of the Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C., and of the Transportation Club of Chicago; and, though his official duties make a residence in Washington necessary, his home is still in Princeton.


J. WARREN DAVIS-Salem .- Jurist. Born in Elizabeth City, N. C .. March 14, 1867; son of John S. and Emma B. (Sawyer) Davis : married at Salem, on June 14, 1913, to Margaret N. Gay, daughter of Dr. William Gay, of Delaware County, Pa.


Children : Mary Segrove, born November 15, 1915.


J. Warren Davis, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey has been conspicuous equally in politics and profes- sionally. He lived with his parents near Norfolk, Va., until 1889, when he went to Chester, Pa., to prepare at the Chester Academy for college. He subsequently attended Bucknell University at Lewisburg, Pa., and in 1896 graduated from there. Thence he went to Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester receiving his diploma there in 1899. On the day of his graduation he was made Instructor in Hebrew and Greek in the Seminary and taught there for three years. During the summer months of 1900 and 1901 he at- tended the University of Chicago; and a year later became a student, at the University of Leipzig, of History and Philosophy. During his two years at Leipzig he also attended lectures at the Universities of Berlin. Halle and Gottingen. Upon his return to America he entered the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, taking his degree there in 1906.


With his brother, James M. Davis, he entered the law office of A. S. Ashbridge, Jr., in Philadelphia ; and subsequently both became partners with Mr. Ashbridge. Mr. Davis had become a resident of Salem County this state in 1903; and in time the Philadelphia partnership was dissolved and the brothers entered upon the practice of law in Camden.


Mr. Davis was elected to the New Jersey State Senate in the fall of the year in which Woodrow Wilson became Governor of New Jersey ; and there he was the Governor's lieutenant in the promotion of the reform measures which the Governor submitted to the legislature. He was the sponsor for the bills regulating the corporations of the state, which became famous as the "Seven Sisters": and he was the advocate also of other progressive legislation that Governor Wilson urged.


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Upon his election to the Presidency of the United States, Mr. Wilson named Senator Davis for United States District Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Because of the number of corporations that hold charters under the state laws, the district is one of the most important in the country. While District Attorney, Mr. Davis compelled the Jersey Central Railroad Company to pay a fine of $200,000 for violation of the law against rebating, and the Leheigh Coal and Navigation Company upon conviction was fined $100.000 for soliciting and accepting rebates. The fine imposed on the Jersey Central was the largest ever paid by a railroad for rebat- ing.


In the criminal branches of his work, he convicted sixteen noted yeggmen in one year and put a damper on the robberies of post-offices that had previous- ly been quite prevalent through- out the state. The oxygen ace- tylene gas flame which will melt the lock of any safe door within a minute or two was first used by the veggmen in one of these cases.


Upon the creation by Congress of a new Federal Judgeship in the District of New Jersey, President Wilson appointed Senator Davis Judge for this District, in May, 1916.


THOMAS A. DAVIS-Orange, (252 Main Street)-Lawyer. Born at Orange, on Jan. 14th, 1871: son of Michael and Mary Davis ; married in Orange on November 25th. 1896 to Mary Adele, daughter of Henry and Margaret (Cox) Jacobs.


Children : Three sons and three daughters.


Thomas A. Davis, whose father held the positions of alderman, free- holder and police justice, in Orange, acquired his education by attendance at the preparatory school of St. John's Church at Orange, and the College of St. Francis Xavier, New York City. He then matriculated at the Metro- polis (late the University) Law School, and also received instruction for his profession of law under the guidance of Vice-Chancellor Stevens. Edward M. Colie and Supreme Court Justice Swayze. He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar as an attorney in June. 1895, and as counselor in June, 1898. In the same year that he was admitted to the Bar he formed a partnership with John L. Blake and William Read Howe, of Orange,


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and the connection with Mr. Howe has continued up to the present. Mr. Blake died about fifteen years ago, and the firm is now Howe & Davis.


In May, 1908, Mr. Davis was appointed County Judge of Essex county by Governor Fort, and he served until December, 1911, when he resigned because of the demand of his practice. He also served as City Counsel for Orange for a period of seven years, was a member of the Common Council of Orange for three years, was Village Counsel for South Orange for five years, and his firm is counsel for the Orange National Bank, the Half Dime Savings Bank, the Trust Company of Orange, and the Orange Valley Bank. He is also Supreme Court Commissioner and Special Master in Chancery. He keeps membership in the New Jersey State Bar Association and the Lawyers' Club of Essex County, and is also a mem- ber of the Essex County Country Club, the New England Society, and the Order of the Knights of Columbus. He is a member of St. John's Roman Catholic Church. In June, 1909, Seton Hall College conferred on him the degree of LL. D.


WILLIAM JEROME DAVIS-Harrison .- Lawyer. Born at Harrison, November, 1858; son of Hiram W. and Emma L. (Sand- ford) Davis.


William J. Davis, President of the Hudson County Park Commission, has been known in Republican State councils for some years. He comes of a family that owned the farms on which East Newark and Arlington rest, and whose members were deep in the life of the community about them. His father, a member of the Hudson County Board of Free- holders, was instrumental in establishing the free bridge across the Passaic that connects Hudson with Essex County, and had a large hand, too, in the erection of the Hudson county Penitentiary at Snake Hill.


Mr. Davis's family on his father's side can trace its line away back to Cedric in the 5th century, decorated later on with the names of Charlemagne and Frederick the Great. The first of whom there is any record in New Jersey is Jacobie Davis, whose son, Aaron, was born in Asbury (Hunterdon Co.) in October, 1775. Aaron was a cousin of Wm. Davis who owned the territory that is now the town of Arlington. His


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son, Mark W., grandfather of Wm. J. Davis, removed to Harrison and purchasing the farm on which Harrison has since been built, engaged in the cattle business and maintained a road house that was patronized by cattle drivers. Mark's son, Hiram W. (Mr. Davis's father), reserving the home- stead, set the rest of the farm off into building lots and devoted himself to his estate and to community affairs.


Mr. Davis's mother traced her ancestry back to William the Conqueror. Their estate in England was confiscated by Parliament and Captain Sand- ford, then head of the family, came to Barbadoes, W. I .; and afterwards settled in Union (N. J.) on a farm covering 5,000 acres of upland and 10,000 acres of meadow land. The farm has since become the site of East Newark.




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