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Dr. Hutchison has delivered many lectures on "Edison and some of his Inventions" and other subjects before scientific and engineering so- cieties, clubs, the inmates of penitentiaries, reformatories, etc. He is a strong advocate of social reform and uplift in prisons and reformatories.
His principal pastime is work, but he has been from childhood a de- votee of wrestling, boxing, fencing, bicycle riding and other forms of violent physical exercise, and he yet finds time for his favorite sport of horseback riding on his jumper, "Big Ben." His West Orange residence is "Colonia." Llewellyn Park, a short distance from the Edison Labora- tory. His country seat is "Woodside," Lake Minnetonka, Minn., at which the members of his family spend their summers and which he visits oc- casionally when his activities permit.
EDWARD J. ILL-Newark, (1002 Broad Street. )-Physician- Born in Newark, May 23rd, 1854; son of Fridolin and Julia ( Rehmann) Ill; married in Newark, January 10th, 1878, to Clothilda Dieffenbach, daughter of Henry Dieffenbach, of Newark.
Children : Mrs. George A. Scheller ; Dr. Edgar A., of Newark; Mrs. Chas. A. O'Malley, of Brooklyn, N. Y .; Mrs. Arthur C. Hens- ler, of Newark.
Dr. Edward J. Ill has spent all his life in Newark where he has built up a large practice and achieved a wide reputation as a physician. His early education was acquired in the Newark schools. After his graduation from the High School in 1872, he took a course at Columbia College, from which he graduated in 1875. Crossing the waters he attended lectures at Strassburg, Vienna and Freiburg. Upon the completion of his studies, he settled down to practice in Newark.
Dr. Ill has found it possible, in spite of the demands made upon his
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time and energies by his practice, to take part in the civic and some times in the political affairs of Newark. In 1879-'80 he was elected a member of the Board of Education, and from 1880 to '95 he served as Trustee of the Newark City Home. He is also a director of the Prudential Insurance Company of America, representing the policy holders and appointed by the Chancellor. And in 1904 the Governor appointed him to serve as a consul- tant to the New Jersey State Village for Epileptics at Skillman.
Dr. Ill was Vice President for New Jersey of the Pan-American Medi- cal Congress in 1893; President, in 1899, of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists : in 1912-'13 he was President of the Acad- emy of Medicine, Northern New Jersey, and in 1907, of the New Jersey Medical Society. He is a Fellow of the Southern Surgical and Gynecologi- cal Association and the New York Academy of Medicine. He is also Gyne- cologist and Medical Director at St. Michael's Hospital; Gynecologist and supervising Obstetrician, Hospital of St. Barnabas ; Consulting Gynecolog- ist of the Newark Beth Israel and St. James Hospitals ; Mountain Side Hos- pital. Montclair; St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Elizabeth; Somerset Hospital, Somerville ; Muhlenberg Hospital, Plainfield ; Perth Amboy City Hospital. Perth Amboy ; Stump Memorial Hospital, Kearny ; All Soul's and Morris- town Memorial Hospitals, Morristown and the State Hospital at Morris Plains.
Dr. Ill is also a Director of the Ocean County Trust Company. IIe has found opportunities, between times, for literary work, and has pre- pared sixty or more papers for the professional periodicals on special medi- cal topics.
JOHN ILLINGWORTH-Newark, (5S Park Place.)-Manufac- turer. Born at Yorkshire, England, son of Robert and Mary Illing- worth ; married at Newark, on October, 1870, to Madeline Williams (died January, 1914, age 6S.)
Children : Clarence, born 1874; William H., born 1876, and Ida May, (Mrs. Dalrymple) born 1879.
The story of John Illingworth's life is practically a history of the steel industry of the United States. His father was a collier in an English mine with a family of nine children and small means for their support. As a consequence they had to get out early and provide for themselves. One of his sons, John's brother, Benjamin, found employment in the great steel works in Sheffield, England, and became an expert. The production of steel in this country was first undertaken by the Adirondack Steel Co. in Jersey City ; and, needing proficient men, the company sent to England for them. Benjamin was among the first to respond to the call. He rose to be Mana- ger of a department in the Adirondack Works, and later achieved recogni- tion as an authority in the manufacture of steel. When he became settled in his new occupation he found an opportunity for John. and invited him across the seas to take the benefit of it.
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John learned the trade under his brother and himself later came to be recognized as one of the best informed men in the steel industry in the United States. Several machines of his invention - one a devise for cast- ing skate steel; another for rolling and polishing steel that, with the im- provements later made in it, came to be of universal utility - facilitated the manufacture of the metal and opened avenues for Mr. Illingworth's ad- vancement. In 1864 he was taken as a partner into the firm of Prentice, Atha & Co., which controlled the first steel plant in Newark. In 1891 Mr. Illingworth became allied with the firm of Benjamin Atha & Co. ; and under the firm name of Atha & Illingworth they were known as among the largest steel manufacturers in the country. Later in 18SS Mr. Illingworth started the Jolm Illingworth Steel Company in Harrison, on the site where the Crucible Steel Company of America is now located. In 1905 he, with his two sons and Charles P. Soden, started the John Illingworth Steel Com- pany at Frankfort, Pa., of which he is still President.
Mr. Illingworth incidentally became interested in fire matters: and under appointment of Mayor Seymour. served as Fire Commissioner of Newark for ten years.
Mr. Illingworth is a member of the North End Club, Newark.
CHARLES H. INGERSOLL - South Orange. - Manufacturer. Born at Delta. Eaton County, Mich., October 29th, 1865; son of Orville Boudinot and Mary Elizabeth Ingersoll; married on July 5th, 1898, at Brooklyn, N. Y., to Eleanor Ramsey Bond, danghter of Thomas A. Bond.
Children : Jane Bond, aged 17; Mary Elizabeth, aged 16; Elinore, 15; Anna Louise, 12.
While the name of Charles H. Ingersoll is most associated in the public mind with the "Dollar Watch" that has reduced a luxury of the rich to a common commodity, his activities in other directions reveal a man of marked versatility. A glance over the list. further on, of organizations with which he is identified reveals the almost endless variety of topics that in- terest him. Typical among these organizations are the American Fair Trade League and the United States of Europe Association of New York of each of which he is President, the Society for the Elimination of the Eco- nomic Causes of War, the Anti-Capital Punishment Committee of the Na- tional Prison Association, the National Popular Government League of Washington, D. C .. the Society for the Promotion of Training for Public Service, the Municipal Ownership League, the Society for Lower Rents, (N. Y.) and several associations devoted to the single tax propaganda.
Other connections disclose his wide interest, as well, in state and neigh- borhood civic affairs. He was active on the New Jersey Constitutional Convention Committee, and by Gov. Wilson's appointment served on the Morris Canal Investigating Committee. At home he has identified himself
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with the progressives in local affairs, is President of the Civic Association of South Orange, Treasurer of the Civics Club of the Oranges, is member of the New England Society of Orange and connected with the South Or- ange Field Club and the Essex County Country Club. Of the home organi- zations outside his town, he is Treasurer of the National Voters League, member of the Committee on Taxation of the Manufacturers Association of New Jersey and identified with the Woodrow Wilson Democratic League of Essex County, the Equal Franchise Society of New Jersey, the Manufac- turers and Merchants Taxation League of New Jersey and several auto- mobile associations.
The "Dollar Watch" is the product of the combined genius of his brother, Robert H. Ingersoll and himself; and, though it is only twenty- five years since it was first offered to the public, over 50,000,000 of the time- pieces have been turned out for the markets of the world from the Ingersoll factories. The history of the establishment dates back to 1879, when Robert H., at 19, started out on a cattle train from the family farm in Del- ta. Michigan, and worked his way, amid many hardships, into New York. There, with a cash capital of $175, which he had managed to save, he opened a little shop, 6x15 feet in size. at No. 92 Fulton Street, for the sale of rubber stamps, made by a process of his own. Business prospered, and only a year la- ter, in 1880, he called his broth- er, Charles H., to his assist- ance. Under their combined ef- forts trade grew even faster, and a whole Fulton Street floor was required to serve it. They combined, with the rubber stamp enterprise. a few novel- ties Robert invented ; and, ad- vertising extensively along nov- el lines, they built up a mail order business of $50,000 a year. Happening to drop into a small watchmaking establishment one day, Robert H. Ingersoll noticed, on a shelf, a battered and rusty alarm clock, somewhat under the average size. A casual glance suggested to him the possibility of a similar time piece, reduced to watch size, that could be sold at a low figure. The idea so impressed the brothers that they began the series of calculations and experiments out of which came the first "Ingersoll Watch." It was a large, cumbersome affair popularly regarded as a joke. But the idea was novel, and even its small sales spurred the Ingersolls to further efforts. They so reduced its size and improved its mechanism, that its sale immediately doubled. Then, realizing its possi- bilities, they set about developing it systematically. By applying the same general methods that had made their other articles so successful
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and by liberal advertising, they succeeded in rapidly increasing the de- mand, and the profits which resulted were devoted to improving the watch. Thus the evolution continued, the watch becoming smaller as the sales became greater.
When it was possible to offer the watch for $1, the demand became so great that it eclipsed all their other interests and one by one these were discontinued. The firm now has many distributing centres-in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Montreal, London, Buenos Aires, China, India, etc. At its plant. the watches are produced at the rate of forty-two per minute, 20.000 per day or 6,000,000 per year. Sixty thousand dealers in the United States are selling them; and, in the summer of 1901, the firm gave watch-making Europe a surprise by closing with the Symonds of London a contract for a million of its time pieces. Charles H. entered full partnership with his brother in 1SS7. He acquired his education in the schools at Delta, Mich., and upon coming to New York plunged into its life and into that of his home in South Orange with characteristic energy.
The list of his clubs and associations embraces, besides those already referred to, the Manufacturers Association of N. Y .; N. J. State Chamber of Commerce; Sphinx Club (Advertising), N. Y .; Trenton Chamber of Commerce. (N. J.) ; Waterbury Chamber of Commerce, (Conn.) ; The Fairhope League, (Organic Education), V. P. (Greenwich, Conn.) ; N. J. Automobile & Motor Club, (Newark) ; Automobile Club of America ; Automobile & Motor Club; Michigan Society of N. Y .; Newark Museum Association ; Maiden Lane Historical Ass'n. (N. Y.) ; American Academy of Political & Social Science, (Phila.) ; American Association for Labor Legislation. (N. Y.) ; American Civic Association, (Wash.) ; American Forestry Association, (Wash.) ; American Free Trade League, (Boston) ; American Proportional Representation League; American Sociological So- ciety. (Chicago) ; Business Men's Association to Untax Industry, (N. Y.) ; City Club of N. Y .; Congestion Committee of N. Y .; Joseph Fels Fund Commission, (Cincinnati) ; Henry George Lecture Association, (Chica- go) ; Manhattan Single Tax Club, (N. Y.) ; Merchants Legislative League ; Municipal Government League; National Americanization Committee, (N. Y.) ; National Conservation Association, (Wash.) ; National Geographic Society : National Municipal League, (Phila.) ; National Voters League, (Wash.) ; Treasurer N. J. State Federation ; Treasurer N. Y. State I. & R. League : Treasurer N. Y. State Single Tax League ; People's Institute, (N. Y.) ; Postal Progress League, (N. Y.) ; Reform Club, (N. Y.) ; Sunrise Club, (N. Y.) ; Twilight Club, (N. Y.) ; Voters Legislative League; Wood- row Wilson Advertisers League, (N. Y.) President ; Wilson Business Men's National League (N. Y.) Member Exec. Com.
This unique club list may not appeal to censors of social standing, but speaks volumes for Mr. Ingersoll's disposition to lend a helping hand to movements, no matter how obscure. if their aim is to secure co-opera- tion in beneficial progressive action in varied fields. He is responsible for the operation of the Self Masters Colony at Union, this State, which takes care of nearly one hundred "down and outs."
Notwithstanding the variety of social, economic and political in- terests indicated, Mr. Ingersoll represents himself as being first and fore-
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most a Single Taxer, believing it to be fundamental to all other reforms ; his donations to this cause are considerable, and his national prominence in this movement is indicated by his affiliations as a member of the Joseph Fels Fund Commission, Manhattan Single Tax Club, (Vice President), and other similar propaganda organizations.
MARY A. JACOBSON (Mrs. Frederick C.) -Newark, (1074 Broad Street)-Social Worker. Born at New York City, on Sep- tember 25th, 1869; daughter of William T. and Mary (Shaw) Atkinson ; married at Newark, on November 16th, 1904 to Fred- erick Church Jacobson, son of William E. and Rebecca Jacob)- son.
Mary A. Jacobson's activities, outside of those of her home, are devoted particularly to the improvement of conditions in child life and to prison reforms. She had been Secretary for several years of the New Jersey Conference of Charities and Corrections when in 1909 she was elected President for the year. She is President of the Newark Public Bath Improvement Association, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the New Jersey State Board of Children's Guardian, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Essex County Parental School, a Director of the State Charities Aid and Prison Reform Association, a Director in the New Jersey Housing Association, and Chairman of the Curlian Relief Committee of the Newark Chapter American Red Cross.
As Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Children's Guardian all the work not requiring the full vote of the Board demands her attention ; and this relates not only to the dependent children's branch of the work but to the widows pension work as well. The Board of Children's Guardian first came conspicuously into view when, some years ago, it was discovered that the Hudson county authorities were herding an enormous colony of little children with adult paupers, male and female, of the most depraved character, in the county Alms House; and a general excursion through the almshouses of the state resulted in the discovery that like conditions prevailed, only in less degree, in almost all the counties.
The State Charities Aid Society through the late Mrs. Emily William- son and the now Mrs. H. Otto Wittpenn, interested itself in the matter; and the State Board of Children's Guardian was established with a spe- cial view, at the time, to the finding of proper homes for the little de- pendents. Its functions have since been enlarged very much ; and of late it has also undertaken the administration of the Widows Pension Fund. The function of the Public Bath Improvement Association is to see that sanitary and health laws and precautions against contagion are observed at the public baths; and the Association has also brought about the building in Newark of one of the most sanitary public bath houses in the United States. It is fitted with showers only, which the Association considers safest and most economical. Besides being President of this
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Association. Mrs. Jacobson is a Director in the American Association for Promoting Hygiene and Public Baths.
The Parental School of which Mrs. Jacobson is one of the Trustees was established by an act of the legislature of 1912 to provide and main- tain an institution for the detention of delinquents under eighteen and for the detention of those of tender years held as witnesses in the juvenile courts. The Court of Common Pleas appointed as Trustees. besides Mrs. Jacobson. Lathrop Anderson, Ex-Senator J. Henry Bacheller, Mrs. Sidney M. Colgate and Wilfred A. Manchee. The New Jersey Conference of Char- ities and Corrections was created to bring together. for effective co-opera- tive work, the men and women who are dealing at first hand with the problems of human affliction and distress. The object of the New Jersey Housing Commission is to improve housing conditions and to act as a clearing house of information for local Housing Committees.
Mrs. Jacobson is of English and Irish lineage, although her parents as well as their parents were born in this country. Her father and mother died when she was sixteen years of age and she was the oldest of nine children whom they left parentless. It devolved upon her conse- quently to become the mother of the household until she married.
Mrs. Jacobson was one of the three women named by Mayor Haussling to serve on the Newark City quarter-millenial Celebration Committee of 100; and to her was entrusted the organization and charge of the Pageant House in which 400 volunteer women made about 1,000 costumes worn in the Masque that was a feature of the celebration. The design and decora- tion of a few have been copied by organizations needing costumes of that type. Mrs. Jacobson organized the wardrobe work and saw that all the women who participated were dressed and ready to fit into their places in the Pageant show at Weequahic Lake without delay or confusion.
Mrs. Jacobson is also a member of The Contemporary of Newark.
JACOB J. JANEWAY-New Brunswick. (192 Livingston Ave.) -Manufacturer. Born in Middlesex county. March 15. 1840: son of Dr. George J. and Matilda (Smith) Janeway: married at New Brunswick, on November 29, 1871. to Eliza A. Harrington. daughter of Henry L. and Sarah P. ( Blakeslee) Harrington. of Philadelphia, Pa.
Children : Henry H., born March 19, 1873: George J., born Octo- ber 29, 1874; Emily Porter, born September 7, 1877; Lucins Porter, born June 18, 1881.
Jacob J. Janeway is President of Janeway & Carpender, Inc., manu- facturers of wall paper, at New Brunswick. During the War of the Re- bellion he served for nearly three years in the Union ranks. Having en- listed in the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, he was appoint- ed and commissioned to be Captain of Company K. by Governor Olden of the State on August 23. 1862, and was shortly mustered into service.
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On September 19, 1864, he was promoted to the rank of Major and was again advanced to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, December 13th of the same year. On April 2nd, 1865, he was made Colonel by Brevet of the United States Volunteers "For Gallant and Meritorious Services before Petersburg, Va." He was mustered out of service June 18, 1865. He had thus been an active participant in the battles for the preservation of the nation for two years and nine months. With the Regiment he took part in the following engagements :
Manassas Gap, Va .. July 17, '63; Wapping Heights. Va., July 24, '63; Culpepper, Va., Oct. 12. 63; Bristow Station, Va., Oct. 14, '63; Kelly's Ford, Va .. Nov. 7, '63 ; Brandy Station, Va., Nov. S, '63; Locust Grove, Va., Nov. 27, '63; Mine Run, Va., Nov. 29, '63; Wilderness, Va., May 4 to 7, 64 : Spottsylvania, Va., May S to 11, '64; Spottsylvania C. H., Va., May 12 to 14. '64 : Po River, Va., May 15, '64; North Anna River, Va., May 23 to 24, '64; Hanover. C. H., Va., May 30 and 31, '64; Cold Harbor, Va., June 1 to 10, '64: Bermuda Hundred, Va., June 14, '64; before Petersburg, Va., June 16 to 23, '64; Monocacy. Md., July 9, 64; Snicker's Gap, Va., July 18, '64; Strasburg, Va., Aug. 15, '64; Charlestown, Va., Aug. 21, '64; Opequan, Va., Sept. 19, '64. In the battle at Opequan. Va .. Major Peter Vredenburgh, commanding the Regiment, was killed and Captain Janeway took command retaining it until the close of the war. Under his command the Regiment took part in the following ad- ditional battles : Flint Hill. Va., Sept. 21, '64; Fisher's Hill, Va., Sept. 22, '64: Mount Jackson, Va., Sept. 25, '64; Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, '64; Hatcher's Run, Va .. Feb. 5. '65; Fort Steadman, Va., March 25, 65; Capture of Petersburg. Va .. April 2, 65; Sailor's Creek, Va., April 6, '65 ; Farmville, Va., April 7, '65; Lee's Surrender (Appomattox, Va.) April 9, '65.
Colonel Janeway's family is of English descent. William Janeway born in London, the first of the line of whom there is any record in this country, came to New York City in 1694. He was an officer in the Eng- lish Navy. He brought with him the Charter of the Parish of Trinity Church, New York - the greatest Episcopal parish in the United States. He bought of William Merret, Mayor of the City of New York, May 10, 1698, farm within the City, from near the City Hall to East River. Further in this ancestral line are Jacob Janeway, born 1707, who married Sarah Hoagland. June 26, 1738; George Janeway, born October 9, 1741, who married Effie Ten Eyck, December 13, 1767; and Rev. Jacob J. Janeway, D. D., born December,
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1774, and married to Martha Gray Leiper, April 17, 1804. George J. Jane- way, son of Rev. J. J. Janeway, and father of Colonel Janeway, born Octo- ber 14, 1806, was a physician practicing in New Brunswick.
Colonel Janeway was educated at the schools in New Brunswick, and became a student in Rutgers College in the class that graduated in 1859. After leaving College he was a clerk in Schieffelin Brothers, Wholesale Drug Business, New York City. He entered the Army August 23. 1862, and remained to the close of the war. Then was with Janeway & Company in the wall paper business until 1872, when he formed a co-partnership with Charles J. Carpender and started manufacturing in a building which now is part of those occupied by Johnson & Johnson. Manufacturing Chemists. As the business grew the buildings were found to be too small and ground was purchased adjoining the Pennsylvania Railroad on Paterson, Schuyler and Church Streets. In 1884 a five story and basement building was built and fully equipped and Janeway & Carpender became the largest manu- facturers of wall paper in the country. In 1889 Colonel Janeway bought out the interest of Charles J. Carpender and continued the business alone. In 1892 he sold out to the National Wall Paper Co., an organization which dissolved after eight years. Colonel Janeway then bought back the business and in 1900 incorporated under the corporate name of Janeway & Carpen- der, and became President. In 1904 he took in his son, Lucins Porter Janeway, just graduated from Princeton College, who later became Vice- President ; also in 1907 Rev. Charles J. Scudder, a graduate of Rutgers College and Seminary, who married his daughter, Emily Porter Janeway, and who became Secretary soon after his connection with the company.
In March, 1907, the factory buildings were totally destroyed by fire. Colonel Janeway rebuilt on the present site across the river on land that would give ample room, about 600 feet square. The new buildings were started a short time after the fire and were built and the factory was running before the fire went ont. The reason of this was that the fire smouldered for almost a year while, in four months from the time of start- ing to build, the plant was running ; by working two forces, night and day the Company was able to get out samples and do almost the normal business that year. The buildings they now occupy constitute the largest individual wall paper factory in the country, and also afford plenty of room for growth. With the addition of branch houses at 520-526 Canal Street, Chi- cago, Ill., and 23 North 10th Street, Philadelphia, Pa., they can carry suf- ficient stock to supply promptly all the wants of their customers scattered throughout the country.
Colonel Janeway's oldest son, Henry H. Janeway, is a Surgeon practic- ing in New York City and is an Attending Surgeon of the Memorial Hos- pital, 106th Street and Central Park, West, New York City, specializing on the use of radium. His son George J. Janeway graduated from Prince- ton Seminary but on account of ill health has no charge. Both these sons are graduates of Rutgers College.
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