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Congressman Howell was elected President of the People's National Bank at New Bruns- wick in December, 1890, and holds that position still. He was elected one of the mana- gers of the New Brunswick Savings Institution, in 1891, and is now its vice-president. He is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars of New Jersey, Sons of the Revolution, Grand Army of the Republic, and of St. Stephen's Lodge, No. 63, F. & A. M.
ROBERT S. HUDSPETH -Jersey City, (75 Montgomery Street )-Lawyer. Born in Cobourg, Ontario, on October 27th, 1857; son of Thomas A. Hudspeth and Mary Hudspeth; married on March 7th, 1885 to Jessie E. Beggs, widow of Robert Beggs, formerly of Jersey City and daughter of John and Mary Calver- ley, of Jersey City.
Mr. Hudspeth came to the United States when a child of ten years of age, with his widowed mother, who was a Vermont woman. Mr. Hudspeth and his mother took up their residence in the Greenville sec- tion of Jersey City in 1875 and he has lived there ever since. At the age of seventeen, he commenced the study of law, in the office of Thomas Carey, in the City of New York, and on his twenty-first birthday, was admitted to the bar in the State of New York, and became Mr. Carey's partner. He practiced his profession in New York for some years, in the meantime being admitted to the bar of New Jersey-as an attorney in February, 1881, and as a counselor in 1892-and thereafter practiced in both States.
In 1886, 1887 and 1889 Mr. Hudspeth was elected on the democratic ticket as a member of the House of Assembly from the Sixth District of
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Hudson County and was the party leader in the House during the first two years of his legislative career. In his first campaign the democrats of the district had nominated a candidate who at the eleventh hour was found to be ineligible, and on the Saturday preceding the next Tuesday election day. Mr. Hudspeth was persuaded to make the run. The dis- trict had in the previous year, elected John W. Heck. republican, by a large plurality, and Mr. Heck was re-nominated by his party in 1886, as Mr. Hudspeth's opponent. Though Mr. Hudspeth had only two days-one of them a Sunday-for his campaign, he carried the district, defeating Mr. Heck by a plurality of 76 votes. In Mr. Hudspeth's second term, 1SS7, he was nominated by the demo- cratic House caucus for the Speakership, but was defeated by a combination of three bolt- ing democrats with the Repub- lican minority. This combina- tion secured the election of Dr. William M. Baird, hitherto a democrat, as Speaker and ac- complished the defeat of Leon Abbett as United States Sena- tor. In 1889, however, Mr. Hudspeth was elected Speaker of the House. He was first elected to the State Senate from Hudson county, in 1892, to fill out the unexpired term of Ed- ward F. McDonald, who had been elected to Congress, and was elected again for the full term of 1901-1904.
Upon his election to the As- sembly in 1886, Mr. Hudspeth discontinued the practice of law in New York, confining his attention to his profession in New Jersey. He served as City Attorney of Jersey City during Mayor Cleveland's adminis- tration, resigning that office in February 1893. to accept appointment by Governor Werts, as Presiding Judge of the Hudson county courts, where he sat for the full term. 1893-1898. In 1912 Governor Wilson appointed him Prosecutor of the Pleas of the county for the term which he is still filling. Mr. Hudspeth was Chairman of the Democratic State Commit- tee in 1907, and had charge of the campaign of Frank T. Katzenbach for Governor. Ex-Judge Franklin Fort was Mr. Katzenbach's republican opponent. The republican plurality for Governor of 51,644, secured by Stokes in 1904, was reduced to 8,013 for Fort in 1907.
Since 1906 Mr. Hudspeth has been a national figure in politics. In 1908 he was chosen by the democratic organization in the State as a member of the Democratic National Committee and is still serving in that position. In the Bryan campaign in 1908, he was the Eastern Manager for the National Committee and was in control of the Eastern Head-
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quarters in New York City. One of his Associates at Headquarters was Josephus Daniels, now Secretary of the Navy of the United States. In the campaigns of 1912 and 1916, he was a member of the Democratic National Campaign Committee. With William F. McCombs, later Chair- man of the Democratic National Committee, he had charge of the cam- paign of Governor Wilson for the nomination for President of the United States, and upon his nomination took a very active part in securing Gov. Wilson's election. In the campaign of 1912, William G. McAdoo, now Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, was a colleague of Mr. Hudspeth at Headquarters.
Mr. Hudspeth is a Director of the Union Trust Company of New Jersey, and is a member of the Cartaret and the Jersey City Clubs of Jersey City and of the Baltusrol Golf Club.
WILLIAM HUGHES-Paterson .- Lawyer. Born in Ireland, April 3, 1872; son of Thomas P. and Ellen Hughes; married Margaret Hughes, July 16, 1898.
Children : Phyllis and Ruth.
William Hughes came to this country at an early age, received a common school education, worked in the silk mills of Paterson, studied typewriting and stenography at a business college in that City, and be- came a law student in the of- fice of William M. Rysdyk. He later entered the law office of William Nelson, of Paterson, and subsequently that of former United States Attorney General John W. Griggs. He was ad- mitted as an attorney at law in June, 1900; subsequently as a counselor. He has always been closely identified with organized labor cases.
During the Spanish-American War he enlisted in Co. A. Sec- ond Regiment. N. G. N. J., and served five months at Sea Girt and Jacksonville, Fla. At Sea Girt he was detailed as steno- grapher to Gov. Voorhees and at Jacksonville to Maj. Gen. Fitz- hugh Lee.
He was elected to the Fifty- eighth, Sixtieth, Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses. He resigned the office of Representative in Congress in September, 1912, to assume the duties of Judge of Passaic County, to which office he had been appointed by Gov. Wilson. At the primary election held on September 24, 1912 he
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was selected as Democratic candidate for Senator and at the next session of the Legislature he was elected to that office, succeeding Frank O. Briggs. Senator Hughes' term expires March 4, 1919.
ALEXANDER C. HUMPHREYS-Hoboken. (Castle Point)- College President. Born in Edinburgh. Scotland, on March 30, 1851; son of Edward R. Humphreys (M. D., LL. D., scholar and educator of Irish birth but English extraction) and Margaret MeNutt, of Prince Edward Island; married on April 30, 1872. to Eva. daughter of Dr. Emile Guillaudeau, of New York City.
Children : Harold, Crombie, and Eva, (Harold, who was the first son of a Stevens' alumnus to graduate from the College, was drowned, with his brother. Crombie, in the Nile in 1901: and in commemoration, Dr. Humphreys. in 1902. endowed the Harold Humphreys Scholarship, and in 1904. the Crombie Humphreys Scholarship, in the Stevens Institute.
Alexander C. Humphreys is the President of Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken. In 1859, the family crossed to Boston, where Alexander C. continued his education in his father's school. At fourteen, he passed the preliminary examinations for admission to the United States Academy at Annapolis; but. being too young for admission, he ac- cepted a position in an insurance office in Boston. In 1866 he entered the office of the Guaranty and Indemnity Co., in New York City : by 1872 had become receiving teller and assistant general bookkeeper. Meanwhile, he acted as Secretary to the building committee of the Bayonne & Greenville Gas Light Co., became Secretary and Treasurer in 1872 and was Super- intendent thereafter. His experience in the Gas Company work aroused him to the advantage of an engineering education and he prepared to secure it. Dr. Morton, then President of the Stevens Institute, advised him that, as he could devote only two days of a week to lectures and reci- tations, it would take him six years to complete the four-years course in Engineering. Though out of the ordinary study habit Mr. Humphreys undertook to complete the course in four years, accomplished it and was voted a formal resolution of congratulations by the Institute Faculty. Meanwhile he was a vestryman and the Treasurer of Trinity P. E. Church in Bayonne, Superintendent of the Sunday School. a member of the Bay- onne Board of Education and a foreman in the fire department.
After graduation Dr. Humphreys was Chief Engineer of the Pintsch Lighting Co., of New York, the first company to apply compressed illum- inating gases to the lighting of public vehicles. In January. 1885 he was made Superintendent of Construction of the United Gas Improvement Co .. in Philadelphia, and soon afterwards became General Superintendent and Chief Engineer, in charge of the contracting and purchasing depart- ment and of the Company's gas and electric properties-while, too, super- vising a contracting business carried on by the Company in developing the Lowe type of apparatus for water gas manufacture. In the late 80's
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he installed the first storage battery ever operated in connection with a central station electric plant.
In 1892 Dr. Humphreys entering into partnership with Arthur G. Glas- gow (Stevens' 'S5) opened the house of Humphreys & Glasgow in London to carry on the business of erecting water-gas plants and furnishing appa- ratus. The success of the business in London induced Mr. Humphreys in 1894 to leave the United Gas Improvement Co. and to open a firm office in New York, where, first engaging in general contracting work, he con- fined himself eventually entirely to consulting work. Humphreys & Glas- gow plant installations have been installed in Great Britain, Ireland, Belgium. Cuba, China, Holland, Germany, Africa, West Australia, Asia, New South Wales, New Zealand, Japan and Switzerland. The business of the partnership was incorporated in 1909 under the name of Humphreys & Glasgow, Inc., Dr. Humphreys being chief stockholder. In 1911 Dr. Humphreys retired from the London firm, and with Alten S. Miller, estab- lished the New York company of Humphreys & Miller, Inc.
In 1902. Dr. Morton having died, Dr. Humphreys was invited to the Presidency of Stevens Institute where he has brought the academic at- mosphere Dr. Morton had imparted to Institute work, down to the hard- pan practical conditions that confront students after graduation. So as to blend the practical with the scholastic. even the teaching force are encouraged to do, outside of the Institute, work that brings them in touch with current business and every day professional problems. The loss of the St. George Cricket Grounds, which had been used by the students for many years for athletic exercises, moved Dr. Humphreys to purchase the grounds adjoining the Institute for the athletic use; and the purchase is regarded as particularly valuable and advantageous be- cause it provides room for the expansion of college facilities.
Dr. Humphreys is a trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, past Presi- dent of the Stevens Alumni Association, and of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education, and member of the Public Educa- tional Associations, New Jersey Teachers' Association, British and Ameri- can Associations for the Advancement of Science. American Museum of Natural History, New York Botanical Gardens, American Forestry Associa- tion, etc. He is President of the Society of Art, the Municipal Art So- ciety, and the New York School of Applied Design for Women. Dr. Humphreys received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1903 and of Doctor of Laws from Columbia in 1903. New York University in 1906, Princeton in 1907, and from Rutgers and Brown in 1914.
Dr. Humphreys is past President of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education, of the American Society Mechanical Engineers, the United Engineering Society. the American Gas Light Asso- ciation, and the American Gas Institute: a Fellow of the American Insti- tute of Electrical Engineers, member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Insti- tute of Consulting Engineers, the Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain), the Society of Chemical Industry, the American Gas Institute, the Illuminating Engineering Society, the National Commercial Gas Asso-
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ciation. the Society of Gas Lighting, the Pacific Coast Gas Association. the Natural Gas Association of America, the New England Association of Gas Engineers, the Franklin Institute, the New York Chamber of Commerce, and Director and member of the Executive Committee of the Equitable Life Insurance Society, the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, and the Hoboken Board of Trade. He is Vice President of the St. Andrew's Society of New York, and member of the University, Lotos, Century, Engin- eers', Lawyers', Union League and Church clubs of New York City ; the University Club of Hudson County, and Parmachenee (Maine) Fishing Club.
He is the author of many papers and lectures on engineering educa- tion, the accountancy of depreciation, photometry, appraisals, methods and economics of gas engineering, etc .. and of a work on "Business Features of Engineering Practice." and delivered two of the One-hundred-fiftieth Anniversary lectures given at Brown University in January, 1916.
BARTON BELLANGEE HUTCHINSON-Trenton, (489 West State Street)-Lawyer. Born at Allentown. June 10, 1860: son of Charles R. Hutchinson and Mary (Coward) Hutchinson : married on October 1st, 1885, at New Egypt, to Sarah Meirs Hulme, daughter of John L. and Anna Maria (Meirs) Hulme.
Children : Charles Perey, born October 17, 1887: Laurence Willis, born May 14, 1892; Anna Huhe, born November 20. 1893 : Alice Paxton, born June 29, 1896.
Barton B. Hutchinson. twice represented Mercer county in the State Senate of New Jersey. He is of mixed descent. his line being English and Scotch-Irish and Dutch. Jonathan Forman, who made a record at the battle of Monmouth, was one of his forebears.
Mr. Hutchinson's education was acquired at the country district school and rounded off at the Allentown High School. Picking the law for his life calling. he entered the office of Holt & Brother, in Trenton in 1877, and was admitted as an attorney June 10. 1SS1, and as counselor at the June term three years later. Opening an office in Trenton, he practised alone until. in 1912, his son, Charles Percy Hutchinson, quali- fied as a lawyer, and the two have since done business under the firm name of Hutchinson & Hutchinson. In the earlier days of his practice Mr. Hutchinson was the Solicitor for the borough of Wilbur, adjacent to Trenton ; he is a Master and Special Master in Chancery and a Supreme Court Commissioner, and has frequently been picked out for special legal distinctions. Governor Voorhees appointed him a Commissioner to revise the National Guard Law. Ex-Gov. Leon Abbett. when, later, a Justice of the State Supreme Court, named him to serve as a Commissioner for the Adjustment of Taxes under the Martin act, for Trenton, and he served there nearly four years. He is now a member of a commission to revise the corporation laws of New Jersey, of one to revise the laws relating to married persons, and of a third to revise the legislative procedure of New Jersey.
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Taking an early interest in politics, he became a member of the Tren- ton Republican City Committee and was made its Secretary. He has been Vice President, President, and member of the Board of Governors, of the Republican Club of Trenton" and Vice President and President of the "City Invincibles," a local republican political organization. He was elected to the General Assembly in 1891 and served in '92 and '93. In '93 the republican minority on the floor of the chamber named him as its leader. His first election to the State Senate was in 1904, when he served one term. He was elected a second time in 1913 and served another term that expired in January, 1917. Apart from his professional and political activities Senator Hutchinson was made a Master Mason in Trenton Lodge No. 5 in September, 1SS1, Worshipful Master in 1SS5 and District Deputy Grand Master in 1886.
Senator Hutchinson is a Presbyterian. He was Deacon in the First Presbyterian Church of Trenton, and subsequently became and now is an Elder of that church. He was a member of the Seventh Regiment N. G. N. J. Gun Detachment, and Judge Advocate of the Second Regi- ment. He was also Vice President of the Trenton Board of Trade in 1SS9 and its President in 1890.
Senator Hutchinson's club and society memberships embrace the Sons of the Revolution, Trenton Country Club, Lotus Club of Trenton, Royal Arcanum and National Union, American Bar Association, and the Mercer County Bar Association. He is one of the Charter members of New Jersey State Bar Association and also a 32nd degree Mason and of the Royal Arch.
ELIJAH C. HUTCHINSON-Hamilton Township, (Mercer Co.) -Merchant, Miller. Born in Windsor, (Mercer Co.), August 7th, 1855; son of Spafford W. and Mary (Cubberly ) Hutchinson ; married on Nov. 22nd, 1876, to Ella D. Stults, daughter of Garret S. Stults, of Cranbury.
Children : Harvey S., born March 5th, 1878; Raymond, born Oct. 9th, 1SS4; Spafford, born June 15, 1SSS; Stanley, born Feb. 23rd, 1897.
Elijah C. Hutchinson, besides being a Representative of the Fourth Congressional district in the National Congress at Washington, is of diver- sified business activities-interested in the pottery industry, a banker and a merchant miller.
Mr. Hutchinson in 1889 assisted in the organization of the Trenton Bone and Fertilizing Company, was made its Treasurer at the time, and three years later became its Manager. His closer business connection is, however, with the flour mill and grain elevator which he established in Hamilton Township. Incidental to this business, he is also President of the Trenton Flour Mills Company in Trenton, Vice President of the New Jersey China Pottery Company, Treasurer of Cochran Drugan & Com- pany, and a director of the Broad Street Bank and of the Mercer Trust
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Company. He was the first Treasurer of the Interstate Fair Association serving three years, and as one of its directors.
Mr. Hutchinson's political career began with his election to the House of Assembly in 1895-96. His plurality of 3.273 in '95 was more than doubled in '96. His Assembly work pointed him out as a logical candidate for a seat in the State Senate. Nominated by the republicans of the county. be was elected in 1889 over his democratic opponent. Bavard Stockton ; and in the canvass for re-election in 1901 he defeated ex-Judge Robert S. Woodruff.
During his second term in the Senate he was its President. and dis- charged the functions of that office with an even hand that won for him a resolution of thanks from his colleagues even of the Democratic minority. Soon after the expiration of his second term in the Senate, Mr. Hutchin- son was appointed State Road Commissioner by Governor Stokes. His management of the State Road Department was marked by many changes and reforms.
Mr. Hutchinson's first election to Congress was achieved in 1914, when he defeated Allan B. Walsh, the Democrat. who had preceded him at Washington and who sought re-election, by a plurality of 3,312. In 1916 Congressman Hutchinson was renominated and re-elected.
MILLER REESE HUTCHISON, E. E., Ph. D .- West Orange, (Llewellyn Park) -Inventor, Engineer. Financier. Born at Mont- rose, Baldwin County, Ala., August 6th, 1876; son of William Peter and Tracie Elizabeth (Magruder) Hutchison : married in New York City on May 31st, 1901, to Martha Jackman Pomeroy, daughter of John W. and Anna S. Pomeroy of "Woodside," Lake Minnetonka, Minn. and Jacksonville, Fla.
Children : Miller Reese, Jr., born 1902; Harold Pomeroy, born 1904; Juan Ceballos, born 1906; and Robley Pomeroy, born 1908.
Miller Reese Hutchison is Engineering Advisor to Thomas A. Edison, member of the Naval Consulting Board of the United States, President, Treasurer and Director of Miller Reese Hutchison, Incorporated. of New Jersey, Vice President and Director of Hutchison Office Specialties Com- pany, of New York. etc. etc.
Dr. Hutchison was educated in the private schools of Mobile. Ala., from 1883-1889. and at Marion Military Institute, Marion, Ala., (1889-'91), Spring Hill (Ala.) College, (1891-'92), the University Military Institute (Mobile) (1892-95), finally completing his collegiate studies at the Ala- bama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala., (1895-'97) where he devoted himself exclusively to electrical and mechanical engineering. Subse- quently, in his researches in apparatus to ameliorate deafness, he attended the Alabama Medical College in special anral investigation and study.
At the age of ten years he commenced to devote practically all his spare time to manual training in pattern shops, foundries. machine shops, electrical repair shops, power houses, etc., etc., and kept it up until he finished college in 1897. thus learning his profession both practically and
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theoretically. He took out his first patent-a lightning arrester for tele- graph and telephone lines,-at the age of sixteen. This was followed, in 1895, by the Akouphone, an electrical device to enable the deaf to hear.
At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War Mr. Hutchison volun- teered his services and was appointed Electrical Engineer of the 7th and Sth Lighthouse Districts, under Major A. N. Damrell, U. S. A., and was engaged in laying submarine cables and mines, protecting the harbors from Key West to Galveston. When the war ended he returned to re- searches in which he was engaged when it broke out. His efforts were productive of the Acousticon, to this day the standard instrument for the alleviation of deafness and of which there are several hundred thousand in daily use. The Acousticon was quickly followed by various electrical and mechanical devices, in commercial ser- vice.
In 1899 and again in 1902 he was requested to go to Europe to apply his Acousticon to several of the mobility and to one of the reigning monarchs, and, as a result of his ef- forts, he was, on August 21st, 1902, presented with a gold medal by the Queen of England "as a reward of merit for Scientific In- vestigation and Invention." During his stay there he was present, in Westmin- ster Abbey, at the Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. Upon his return to America, he re-established his Laboratory and in due time produced, among other noteworthy inventions, the "Klaxon Horn," used universally throughout the entire world, the "Hutchison Electrical Tachometer," the "Hutchison Spool-O-Wire Fastener," etc., etc. Alto- gether he has been granted several hundred patents and for a number of years officiated as Consulting Engineer to several large financial institu- tions in New York City. His inventions were awarded gold and silver medals at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904. He was a Com- missioner of the Department of Electricity at the Louisiana Purchase Ex- position, and Member of the International Electrical Congress in 1904, and of the International Engineering Congress in 1915.
Dr. Hutchison is a member of the Naval Consulting Board of the U. S. A., American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Auto- motive Engineers, American Institute of Radio Engineers, National Insti- tute of Social Sciences, National Geographic Society, Kappa Alpha, Acade- my of Political and Social Sciences, Museum of Natural History, Engin-
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eers Club, University Club of Washington, D. C., and American Defense Society; member and Director of the American Radio Relay League, life member of the New York Electrical Society, and the Navy League of the United States, and Associate Member of the American Society of Naval Engineers, and the U. S. Naval Institute.
In 1911 he became associated with Mr. Edison in the development of the Edison Storage Battery for Submarines. In 1912 he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Edison Laboratory, Edison Storage Battery Co., and Thomas A. Edison (Inc.) and Chief Engineer to and Personal Representa- tive of Mr. Edison. In 1916 he was made Engineering Advisor to Mr. Edison. On January 1st, 1917, Miller Reese Hutchison, Inc., was organ- ized by Dr. Hutchison and took over the exclusive sales-rights of the Edi- son Storage Battery for all military and naval purposes of practically all nations.
The degree of Electrical Engineer (E. E.) was conferred by the Ala- bama Polytechnic Institute in June, 1913, and that of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) was conferred by Spring Hill College in June, 1914, for con- spicuous achievements in the realms of science and philosophy.
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