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Mr. Hobart is a member of the Union League Club of New York
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City. Arcola Country Club, Hamilton Club of Paterson. Automobile Club of America and the New York City Bankers Club of New York City.
FREDERICK L. HOFFMAN - East Orange. - Statistician of the Prudential Insurance Company of America. Born at Varel. Grand Duchy of Oldenburg. Germany, May 2, 1865, son of Augustus Franciscus and Antoinette (von Laar) Hoffman (n) : married Ella G. Hay. of Americus, Ga .. in Atlanta, Ga .. July 15, 1891.
Children : (surviving.) Ella Antoinette (Mrs. H. C. Ward). Frances Armstrong, Virginia, Gilbert. Barbara and Victoria.
Mr. Hoffman was educated in the common and private schools of Ger- many and came to the United States in 1884. After a short mercantile career he attached himself. in 1887, to the industrial field service of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York. He subsequently be- came connected with the Life Insurance Company of Virginia, and resigned as Superintendent of the Newport News and Hampton district in 1894. at the suggestion of Mr. John B. Lunger. the then actuary of the company. to accept a position as statistical assistant in the Actuarial De- partment of the Prudential In- surance Company of America. Six years later he was made statistician of the Company and in 1902 elected an officer. in which position he continues to the present time.
Mr. Hoffman is widely known throughout the United States and abroad as a statistician and expert in insurance. mortality and public health problems. He has lectured before Harvard, Yale, Columbia. Cornell, Univer- sity of Wisconsin. University of Pennsylvania, University of Cal- ifornia. Leland Stanford Uni- versity. etc .. etc. During 1915 he delivered a course of lectures on mortality problems before the students of Yale University and he was included in the faculty
of that institution for the year 1916-17.
As early as 1892 he contributed an article on the "Vital Statistics of the Negro" to the "Arena" of Boston, which in 1893 was followed by an ar- ticle on "Suicide in Relation to Modern Civilization." Following the publi- cation of an interesting and important statistical investigation into the
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sanitary conditions of the Trinity tenements, made at the request of the Corporation of Trinity Church in 1895, he published in 1896 a comprehen- sive scientific work on the "Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro," which has become a standard source of reference regarding the physical, moral and economic condition of the negro population as far as ascertainable for the period covered by the investigation. In the same year he published a small treatise on "Tornadoes and Wind Storm Insur- ance." During the next four years he completed his "History of the Pru- dential Insurance Company of America," contributed to the social economy exhibit of the Paris International Exposition of 1900. Subsequently he contributed a number of papers on insurance and mortality problems, chiefly to "The Spectator," a New York insurance periodical, and the "Engineering and Mining Journal." In 1908 he completed the results of two extensive investigations into the "Mortality from Pulmonary Tuber- culosis in Dusty Trades," published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, and two years later the same government office issued a com- prehensive analysis by Mr. Hoffman on "Fatal Accidents in Coal Mining," as a first contribution towards the scientific study of American mining fatalities.
During 1911 he completed a treatise on "Insurance Science and Eco- nomics" based upon an address delivered in 1904 on "Insurance as a Science," on the occasion of the International Congress of Arts and Scien- ces held in connection with the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The work includes a separate consideration of insurance as an element of early commerce, the origin and growth of law and legislation on insurance, life insurance supervision and government control in Germany, the taxation of life insurance institutions, etc., etc. During the same year he contri- buted a chapter on the "Practice of Industrial Insurance" to "Dunham's Business of Insurance," a standard work of reference; and an analysis of "Fifty Years of American Life Insurance Experience" to the "Quarterly Publications of the American Statistical Association." In the year follow- ing, through the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, he published a treatise on the "Treatment and Care of Tuberculous Wage-Earners in Germany," and in 1913, through the Johns Hopkins Hospital, a critical analysis of the medical statistics of that institution for the preceding twenty years. On the invitation of the New Jersey Academy of Medicine Mr. Hoffman in 1913 read an address on the "Menace of Cancer." which was subsequently enlarged and published by the Prudential Insurance Com- pany of America in 1916, under the title "The Mortality from Cancer Throughout the World."
Among the many minor contributions mention requires to be made of an address on "Industrial Accidents and Trade Diseases," contributed to the proceedings of the 15th International Congress on "Hygiene and Demo- graphy," (1912) ; an address on the "Decline in the Tuberculosis Death Rate, 1871-1912," contributed to the 9th annual meeting of the Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis ; an address on the "Chances of Death and the Ministry of Health," delivered before the Yale Divinity School, New Haven, 1914; an address on the "Significance of a Declining Death Rate," delivered before the National Conference on Race Better- ment, Battle Creek, 1914; an address on "Practical Statistics of Public
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Health Nursing and Community Sickness Experience," delivered before the National Association for Public Health Nursing. St. Louis, 1914; an address on the "Economic Progress of the United States during the last Seventy-Five Years," delivered on the occasion of the 75th anniversary meeting of the American Statistical Association. Boston, 1914. During 1915-16 he contributed monographs on the "Mortality of the Western Hemisphere," "American Public Health Problems" and the "Documentary History of Insurance" to the exhibit of The Prudential Insurance Com- pany on the occasion of the Panama Pacific International Exposition ; also a monograph on "Industrial Accident Statistics," published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, 1915: a paper on "Lep- rosy." read on the occasion of the 40th annual meeting of the American Academy of Medicine, and subsequently amplified into a presentation of evidence submitted to the United States Senate Committee on the "Care and Treatment of Persons Afflicted with Leprosy," Washington. 1916; a preliminary report on the "Statistics of Crime and Criminals," as Chair- man of the Committee on Statistics to the American Prison Association, San Francisco. 1915; an address on the "Mortality from Cancer in the Western Hemisphere," delivered on the occasion of the Second Pan Ameri- can Scientific Congress, Washington. 1916: a monograph on "Miners' Ny- stagmus." published by the United States Bureau of Mines, Washington, 1916: and, finally, a "Plea for a National Committee on the Eradication of Malaria." delivered before the County Medical Association, Birmingham, Ala., and the American Society of Tropical Medicine, 1916.
In 1904 he contributed an article on "Insurance Economics" to the Encyclopedia Americana and in 1908 an article on "Accidents in Indus- try" to the new Encyclopedia of Social Reform, and in 1914 an article on "Demography" to the Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences, and subsequently to the same work an article on "Suicide." Among more recent contributions are an extended discussion on "Facts and Fallacies of Com- pulsory Health Insurance," originally read before the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Civic Federation ; and "A Plea and a Plan for the Eradication of Malaria Throughout the Western Hemisphere," originally read before the Southern Medical Association.
Mr. Hoffman is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and an ex-President thereof ; a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society of Lon- don and a charter member and Fellow of the Casualty and Statistical So- ciety of America ; a member of the German Society for Insurance Science ; an Associate Fellow of the American Medical Association ; an Associate Member of the American Academy of Medicine and an Honorary Member of the Essex County Anatomical and Pathological Society. He is also a member of the American Economic Association, the American Academy of Political and Social Science in the City of New York, the National In- stitute of Social Sciences, the American Sociological Society, the Southern Sociological Congress, the National Conference on Charities and Correc- tions and the American Association for the advancement of Science. He is a charter member and Vice President of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, a member of the Royal Sanitary In- stitute and of the American Public Health Association : a charter member and trustee of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, and charter
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member and director of the National Safety Council and a member and trustee of the American Museum of Safety.
Mr. Hoffman was a member and speaker at the British Congress on Tuberculosis, London, 1901. He was also a member and speaker at the International Actuarial Congress held in New York, 1903; in Berlin, 1906; in Vienna, 1909; and in Amsterdam, 1912. During the same year he was a member and speaker at the first International Congress on Eugenics, held in London, and the International Congress on Industrial Accidents held in Dusseldorf. In 1909 he officially represented the United States government on the occasion of the International Actuarial Congress held in Vienna that year and at the International Statistical Institute held in Paris in the same year. In 1908 he was appointed by the Secretary of State a member of the Committee on Organization of the International Congress on Tuber- culosis held in Washington. He was also appointed to the same position on the Committee on Organization of the International Congress on Hygiene and Demography held in Washington in 1912. In 1915 he was a mem- ber and speaker at the World's Insurance Congress held in San Francisco, and in 1915-1916 he was a member and speaker at the Second Pan Ameri- can Scientific Congress held in Washington.
In 1911 Tulane University of Louisiana conferred upon him the honor- ary degree of L.L. D. Following the declaration of war, Mr. Hoffman was appointed Chairman of the National Committee on Statistics and Informa- tion, of the Advisory Commission on Labor and Welfare, of the Council of National Defence and a member of the Committee on Anthropology of the National Research Council.
HORACE HOLDEN-Madison .- Educator ; Author. Born in Madison, on May 24, 1SS0; son of Horace and Abigail (Rankin) Holden.
Horace Holden is an Educator and writer of short stories and on educational topics for the magazines. He is still a resident of the New Jersey borough in which he was born, although business obligations and travel have permitted little time at home during recent years. He lived as a boy in East Orange, attending first the "Dearborn-Morgan School," and later the East Orange High School. Upon moving to New York in 1897, he entered Hamilton Institute, graduating with highest honors in 1899 and then entering the Engineering School at Columbia University. He had scarcely entered Columbia when an opportunity for practical work presented itself, in draughting and constructing, for the Tripler Liquid Air Company. While connected with this concern, Mr. Holden designed their large exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900.
Mr. Holden spent the winter of 190S-1909 at Harvard University, feat- uring graduate work in the Division of Education and in English. This was followed by a period at New College, Oxford, after which he became connected with one of our New Jersey schools. Mr. Holden recently re- signed as Associate Headmaster of the Westminister School, at Simsbury, Conn., and plans a school of his own for young boys.
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In 1902 Mr. Holden was elected to membership in the New York Con- solidated Stock Exchange, continuing this membership until the close of 1916, though since 1906 his interests have centered in educational and liter- ary work. As an author his short stories are based upon ex- periences in Wall Street and in the Canadian woods, and have appeared in various periodicals. He is also a contributor of ar- ticles on educational topics, and the author of a book entitled "Young Boys and Boarding School."
Mr. Holden is a member of the American Universities Club of London, the Harvard Club of New York City, the Morristown Club and the Western Nova Scotia Yacht Club: a Fellow of the American Geographical Society, and connected in New Jersey with the Historical So- ciety, Order of Founders and Patriots. Colonial Governors. Colonial Wars. American Wars, Sons of the American Revolu- tion, Washington Guard and the War of 1812. Of the last named society he is State President, and he was also President of the Morris County Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution during 1916.
Mr. Holden, when not abroad, spends his summer at his country place, "Aldercliff" Weymouth, Nova Scotia, where ten boys are received to enjoy the life of the woods and sea together with himself and his assistants.
LOUIS HOOD-Newark. (S5 Lincoln Park, S.)-Lawyer. Born in Radwonke, Prussia. Feb. 13, 1857.
Louis Hood is General Counsel of the Fidelity Trust Company of Newark. After a little boyhood schooling in Breslau he was brought here by his parents, who settled in New York. At the age of 12 the family came to Newark; and he was educated in the public schools there, winning the prize for the best oration at the High School commencement. He entered Yale College, Academic Department, graduating in 1878 and studied Law at the Columbia College Law School which at graduation in 1880 conferred the degree of L. L. B. upon him. This was followed by a post-graduate course at Yale, which in 1881 gave him the M. L. degree and in 1882 the D. C. L. degree.
Mr. Hood had meanwhile been admitted to the New York bar, in 1880; and, coming to New Jersey to practice, was admitted to the bar of this
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state in the following year, becoming a counselor in 1885. He was a Special Justice in 1884, and later in the year was made Assistant Prose- cutor of Essex County. He was afterward appointed Prosecutor of the Pleas, but resigned that position to accept the position of General Counsel of the Fidelity Trust Company.
Mr. Hood is a member of the Jefferson Club, of the Gottfried Krueger Association and of the I. O. B. B., a Mason and an attendant at the Temple Bnai Jeshurun.
ALISON TURNBULL HOPKINS (Mrs. J. A. H.) Morristown -Woman Suffrage. Born in Morristown, May 20, 1SS0; daughter of Frank and Marion Louise ( Bates) Turnbull ; married at Mor- ristown, October 8, 1901. to John Appleton Haven Hopkins (Q.V.) son of Jolm Milton and Augusta Haven Hopkins, of New York City.
Children : John Milton, born March 9, 1903; Marion Louise, born November 20, 1904; Douglas Turnbull, born July 31, 190S.
Alison Turnbull Hopkins is one of the leading figures in the move- ment for the amendment of the United States Constitution so as to permit Woman Suffrage throughout the nation; but she finds time, besides, for notable civic activities. She is State Chairman of the New Jersey Branch of the National Woman's Party and a member of the National Executive Com- mittee of the National Woman's Party. In her civic work she is President of the Morristown "Summer Shelter," a member of the executive committee of the Morris County Branch of the State Charities Aid Society, member of the board of mana- gers of the Speedwell Society, Chairman of the Ladies House Committee of the Morristown Field Club, member of the Executive Committee of the Women's Town Improvement Committee and, too, of the Mor- ris County Corn Growing and Industrial Contests.
Mrs. Hopkins' father was an officer in the United States Navy. Most of his family were either in the Federal Army or Navy. Her grandfather, William Turnbull, a Topo- graphical Engineer, U. S. A. with the rank of Colonel, built the Potomac aqueduct of Washington, D. C. On her mother's side she is descended from Governor Bradford of Massachusetts.
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Mrs. Hopkins has spent all of her life in Morristown except the period between 1901 and 1908, when she lived in New York City, where she now spends her winters. She was educated by private tutors having never attended any school.
Mrs. Hopkins cannot remember the time when she did not believe in rights of women. Her experience in civic and sociological work taught her that only through political power could women secure the reforms they wished for in our government and in our labor laws. During the suffrage referendums, she took an active part in the New York and New Jersey campaigns, as an officer of the Women's Political Union. When these failed, she became convinced that the only way to secure the en- franchisement of women was through an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. When, in the Fall of 1915, the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage organized a branch in New Jersey, she became its chairman. Later, she took part in the campaign carried on in the West by the National Woman's Party, the political outgrowth of the Con- gressional Union. In the spring of 1917, it was decided to merge with the National Woman's Party and take its name. The object remains the same however-to secure a federal amendment enfranchising women.
Mrs. Hopkins is a member of the Morristown Field Club, the York Club (New York), Morris County Golf, the Whippany River, and the Mor- ristown Garden Clubs, of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Drama League of America and of the Contemporary Club of Newark.
JOHN APPLETON HAVEN HOPKINS-Morristown .- Insur- ance. Born in New York City, on May 17, 1872; son of John Milton and Augusta Deblois (Haven) Hopkins ; married to Hilda Elizabeth Stone, November 14th, 1895 (died March 5, 1899) : 2nd-at Morristown, on October Sth, 1901 to Alison Low Turn- bull. daughter of Frank and Marion Louise ( Bates) Turnbull.
Children-(First marriage)-J. A. H., born Feb. 19, 189S; (second marriage)-John Milton, born March 9, 1903; Marion Louise. born November 20, 1904; Douglas Turnbull, born July 31, 190S.
John A. H. Hopkins has been devoting all of his spare time, ever since he was old enough to realize the necessity for it, to an effort to destroy bi-partisan rule in governmental affairs, to establish a real de- mocracy, and to give the working men and all who have their own way to make a fair chance to do so at a remunerative wage. For this reason he joined the Progressive Party when this was formed in 1912. He also took a leading part in the formation of the Citizens Union of New Jersey and has been an earnest advocate of Woman's Suffrage, finally identi- fying himself with the National Woman's Party in their efforts to secure the passage of the Susan B. Anthony Federal Amendment. In the latter
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relation as well as in the others, he has been an active worker and speaker for a long time. He is State Chairman of the Progressive Party of New Jersey and National Treasurer of the National Progressive party, and Chairman also of the Citizens Union Executive Committee.
Mr. Hopkins was educated at Columbia Institute, a military school in New York City. After his graduation he went into business (in 1SSS) with Johnson & Higgins, a honse of average adjusters and insurance brokers established in 1845, and has been there ever since. He spent some time in organizing the firm's offices in Boston and Chicago and has gone through all the departments of its work. He is now one of its directors and its Vice President.
Mr. Hopkins ran for State Senator on the Progressive ticket in New Jersey in 1913, being defeated by Senator Charles H. Rathbun with whom he has since been closely co- operating. He was also a dele- gate to the Progressive Presi- dential Convention in June, 1916, having been the Chair- man of the New Jersey delega- tion ; and when Col. Roosevelt endorsed Mr. Charles E. Hughes after the Republican National Convention had named him for the presidency, Mr. Hopkins was requested by the delegation to interview Mr. Roosevelt to ascertain whether he could satisfactorily explain his part in the "betrayal." As a result of this interview Mr. Hopkins personally supported Woodrow Wilson for President, retaining however, his member- ship in the Progressive Party and was one of the delegates in the Indianapolis conference prior to the election and in the New York con- ference of December 15th, 1916, which culminated in the Progressive Na- tional Convention held in St. Louis on April 12th, 13th and 14th, 1917, at which the entire Party was reorganized. Mr. Hopkins was a firm advocate of combining the various parties and groups who had the same objects in view ; and at this Convention the Prohibition Party combined with the Progressive Party and steps were taken to form coalitions with the Na- tional Woman's Party and several other similar organizations.
Mr. Hopkins has also been very much interested in school reforms and was the Chairman of the Committee of the Morristown Civic Association which started the battle for reconstruction of their school system which subsequently was carried through. He is now President of the Buckley School Corporation of New York State, a Director and Vice President of Johnson & Higgins, No. 49 Wall Street, and a Director in Prindiville & Company, Chicago, Ill.
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He belongs to the Down Town Association, Morris County Golf Club, Morristown Field Club and Whippany River Club.
EDWARD LEAVITT HOWE-Princeton .- Banker. Born at Princeton, April 6th, 1870: son of Edward and Hannah ( Butler) Howe.
Edward L. Howe is of English and Scotch-Irish descent on his father's side and Holland-Dutch on his mother's. He was educated in Princeton at the public school, the Princeton Preparatory School and then at the University. Devoting himself to the banking business since 1SSS in Princeton, he is now Vice President of the Princeton Bank and Trust Co. He has been actively identified with the New Jersey Bankers' Association since its organization, is a member of the Executive Committee, has served as Chairman of several important committees, and was President of that association in 1910-11, and is now an Honorary Vice President.
For three years Mr. Howe served on the Executive Council of the American Bankers Association and is a member of the Currency Commis- sion of that association which was appointed to confer with Congress in regard to the preparation of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913.
Mr. Howe is a Director of the Princeton Water Company and the Town Club, a member of the American Whig Society, the Sons of the Revolution, and the Presbyterian Church, in which he is a Deacon. His clubs are Nassau, Town and Triangle (Princeton) Bankers and City (New York), Republican (Trenton) and the Tourrilli Fish and Game Club of Canada.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HOWELL-New Brunswick, (32 Union Street)-Banker. Born in Cumberland County, Jan. 27th, 1844; son of Edmund and Hannah (Nixon) Howell ; married at South Amboy on January 27, 1869 to Amelia Furman.
Mr. Howell has two children.
Benjamin Howell sat in eight Congresses at Washington as the Repre- sentative of the Third Congressional district. He began with the 54th Congress in 1895 and served until the close of the 61st Congress in 1911. For ten years prior to 1892 he had served as Surrogate. He was for two years in the county Board of Freeholders, Director of the Board in the second year of his service, and a delegate to the Republican National Con- vention that in 1892 nominated Benjamin Harrison for President of the United States. In 1894 the republicans of the Third District made him their candidate for Congress against Congressman Jacob A. Geissenheimer, democrat, who sought re-election, and whom he defeated. Seven times re-nominated he was as often re-elected, serving continuously until 1911.
Mr. Howell was in the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and in
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other engagements. It was after the close of the Civil War that he served in the Board of Freeholders. His first election to the Surrogacy came in 1882 and he was re-nominated in 1SS7. In the House of Representatives, he was a member of the Com- mittee on Public Buildings and Grounds for fourteen years, and a member of the Immigration and Naturalization Committee, (its Chairman), introduced the bill to prevent fraudulent citi- zenship papers which is the present law, and was appointed by Congress one of the Com- missioners to investigate the immigration question and make report upon it.
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