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It was she who afterwards inspired the formation of the American Pure Food League, outlining its field of work at the first meeting, held in May, 1914, at the Academy of Medicine. She arranged first with President Roosevelt and later with President Wil- son for the reception of various officials of the Pure Food League in the interest of the cause ; was Chairman of the Food Committee of the National Consumers League in 1905 and 1912 and formed the New Jersey State Food Committee of the Consumers League in 1907. Since February, 1914 she has edited the pure food department of The Osteopathic Magazine ; and she has meanwhile lectured and written much on the subject. She
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is on the New York Board of Education lecture staff ; and in recognition of her work was admitted to membership of the National Institute of Social Sciences.
Miss Lakey is of long American ancestry on her father's side; her mother was born in England. She was educated in the Chicago schools, by private teachers and at St. Mary's Hall in Burlington. She spent the eight years between 1881-'SS in Europe in pursuit of her musical studies, being a pupil of Vannuccini in Italy, Barbot in Paris, and of Randegger and Montem Smith in London ; and soon after her return to this country became engaged in the work in which she has since become so con- spicuous.
Miss Lakey is a member of, besides the National Institute of Social Sciences, the New York Milk Committee, the Mercy Committee of New Jersey and the Village Improvement Association of Cranford.
THOMAS WILLIAM LAMONT-Englewood .- Banker. Born at Claverack, N. Y., September 30, 1870 ; son of Thomas and Caroline Deuel (Jayne) Lamont : married at Englewood, October 31, 1895 to Florence Haskell Corliss, daughter of Wilbur F. and Julia P. Corliss.
Children : Thomas S., born January 30, 1899 ; Corliss, born March 28, 1902; Austin, born February 25, 1905; Eleanor Allen, born April 15, 1910.
Thomas W. Lamont is a member of the banking firm of J. P. Morgan & Company, of New York City. After graduation from Harvard College in 1892 he entered the editorial department of the "New York Tribune," and for a time was Assistant City Editor. The business and financial life of New York held stronger attractions for him however. After several years experience in the exporting and importing business, he was in 1903 elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Bankers Trust Com- pany, New York City ; in 190S became Vice President of the First National Bank of New York, and in 1910 formed his connection with J. P. Mor- gan and Company. He has contributed frequently to press and magazines on financial and educational topics.
Mr. Lamont is of Scotch-Irish extraction on his father's side and Eng- lish on his mother's. His first paternal ancestor in this country was Robert Lamont who came from Scotland in 1750. The first here of his mother's line was William Jayne, who had been a chaplain to Oliver Crom- well. Mr. Lamont's father was a clergyman, and the son spent his earlier life in the Hudson River towns. He prepared for College at Phillips Exeter Academy, at Exeter, N. H.
Mr. Lamont is a member of the Board of Harvard Overseers, a Trustee of Smith College and Vice President and Trustee of the Academy of Political Science. Some of his clubs are the Century Association, the
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Harvard, University, Metropolitan, Players, Sleepy Hollow Country and the Englewood Country. He is a Director of many important corporations.
MERRIT LANE-Jersey City, (75 Montgomery Street. )-Jurist. Born in Jersey City, on January 2, 1881; son of Joseph M. and Emma (Cokelet) Lane.
Merrit Lane is a Vice Chancellor of the State Court of Chancery. He graduated from the High School in Jersey City, and attended the New York Law School before his ad- mission to the Bar at the Feb- ruary term of the Supreme Court in 1902. He is also a member of the New York Bar and of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Mr. Lane's rise to recognition in the profession was very rapid. He devoted himself particularly to the equity practice and to problems in municipal law and taxation, and has been retained by almost every local government in Hudson county to act as special counsel in important cases in which they had become involved. At the time when the Prudential Insurance Company underwent its change from a stock company to a mutual concern, Mr. Lane was associated with John W. Griggs, ex-Attorney General of the United States, as counsel for the policy holders. In October of 1916 Vice Chancellor Howell died, and in November of that year, Chancellor Walker named Mr. Lane to succeed him on the Bench.
Vice Chancellor Lane's ancestors on both sides have been in this country since long before the Revolution.
Vice Chancellor Lane retains membership only in the Lawyers Club of New York and the Essex Club of Newark. He has never held a political office.
GEORGE HALL LARGE - Flemington. - Lawyer. Born at White House, (Hunterdon county), December 1, 1850; son of John Knowles and Elizabeth ( Rockafellow) Large; married at Flem-
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ington, November 15, 1877, to Josephine Ramsey, daughter of John and Catherine Brokaw Ramsey, of Flemington.
Children : George Knowles, born February 3, 1879; Edwin Kirk, born August 14, 1880; Helen Brokaw, born August 12, 1889.
George H. Large was Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third District of New Jersey from 1877 to 1885. and Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fifth District of New Jersey from 1SSS to 1893. Though he was an ardent republican, he was elected in the fall of 1885 to repre- sent the democratic county of Hunterdon in the New Jersey State Senate and served in the legislatures of 1886-'S7-'SS. In 1SSS he was President of the Senate. Since 1893 he has devoted himself to his private practice in Flemington.
Senator Large's father was a son of Ebenezer Large of the Society of Friends of Bucks county. Penna. The Senator has lived all of his life in Hunterdon county ; and after being tutored in the private schools there entered Rutgers College, gradnating with the class of 1872. While in Rut- gers he was Associate Editor of "The Targum."
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ARTHUR BURTIS LEACH-South Orange .- Banker. Born in Detroit, Mich., September 30, 1863: son of Frederick E. and Ma- tilda I. (Shaw) Leach; married in Detroit, Mich., February 3. 1SS7, to Maud Campbell.
Children : Helen C., born May 21, 1SS9; Maude C., born March 12, 1906; Henry W., born March 13, 190S; Margaret D., born June 12, 1909.
Arthur B. Leach's banking activities are in the investment line. He was educated in the public schools of Detroit, and, after periods spent there and at Devils Lake in North Dakota, came to New Jersey twenty- seven years ago, to make his home.
Mr. Leach is a member of the New York Chamber of Commerce, of the Michigan Society and of the Union League of New York and Chicago and connected with the Automobile Club of America, the Bankers, the Lotos, the Recess and the Railroad Clubs of New York, the Algonquin of Boston, the Art of Philadelphia, the Essex County Country Club and the National Golf Links.
CARL LENTZ-Newark .- Lawyer. Born in Bamberg, Bavaria, on July 1, 1845.
Major Lentz came to this country in early childhood, and at sixteen enlisted as a soldier of the Civil War. in the First Connecticut Cavalry Regiment of Volunteers. After the battle of the Wilderness he became Lieutenant ; and in the cavalry fights in the neighborhood of Washington when the Rebel General Early menaced the National Capitol in 1864, he re-
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ceived a wound that made the amputation of his right arm necessary. He had reached the rank of Major when he was mustered out of the service.
Major Lentz entered Columbia University, Washington, after the War and graduated with the class of 1889. He was a student later in the Law Department and in 1873 he received the degree of LL. B. He was ad- mitted to the Bar in the same year and opening an office in Newark has since been in the practice of his profession there.
Major Lentz was made a member of the Republican County Committee, of Essex county, and became its Chairman. While in that position, he be- came a candidate for sheriff, and his defeat gave impetus to the "Anti- Boss" movement that was then beginning to show signs of activity. His leadership was finally challenged by Everett M. Colby ; and the triumph of the Colby forces in the primaries resulted in the loss by Major Lentz of the County Chairmanship.
Governor Griggs appointed Major Lentz a member of the State Board of Taxation and he held that position until the board was re-organized out of existence by the Economy and Efficiency acts of 1915.
Major Lentz is connected with almost all of the German associations, political and social, throughout the state, and was for some years a leading figure in the National Saengerbund.
VIVIAN M. LEWIS-Paterson .- Jurist. Born at Paterson, on June 8, 1869, son of Isaac Arriston and Hannah (Davies) Lewis.
Vivian M. Lewis is one of the Vice Chancellors of the New Jersey Court of Chancery; and enjoys. besides, the distinction of having been the Republican candidate for Governor in the campaign in which Woodrow Wilson, now President of the United States, was the Democratic candidate. Mr. Lewis had been an active factor in Republican circles for some time prior to his nomination for the Governorship and upon the resignation of Edward C. Stokes from the office of Clerk in Chancery, he was named by Governor Murphy to fill the vacancy. He was renominated for the fol- lowing term, in 1905, by Governor Stokes, and, confirmed by the Senate, served until 1909. Then by Governor Fort's appointment, he became the .State Commissioner of Banking and Insurance. In 1912 he resigned from that office to accept the offer of a Vice Chancellorship from Chancellor Walker. His term as Vice Chancellor will expire in 1919.
Vice Chancellor Lewis was educated in the local schools and by private tutors, and admitted to the bar in 1892. While studying for his profession. he wrote for the New York newspapers. His newspaper work gave him large opportunities for the study of public questions and for acquaintance with public men ; and in 1897 the Republicans of Passaic county nominated him for the New Jersey House of Assembly. Elected then, and re-elected to the Legislatures of 1899 and 1900, he was the leader of the Republican majority on the floor of the House during his last term. Meanwhile he served for many years as one of the counsel of the State Board of Health,
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and in 1904 was elected City Counsel of Paterson. He resigned the City position when Governor Murphy named him as Clerk in Chancery.
Before entering upon his public career, the Vice Chancellor had con- nected himself with the old second Regiment of the National Guard; and in July, 1896, was appointed Judge Advocate of the Regiment. When the Regiment was reorganized in 1899, he was placed on the retired list with the rank of Captain.
MARY ELIZABETH (GREEN) LIBBEY-Colonial Dames .- Princeton. Born at Princeton, October 30th, 1859; daughter of William Henry and Elizabeth ( Hayes) Green : married at Prince- ton. December 7th, 1880, to William Libbey, (q. v.), son of William and Elizabeth (Marsh) Libbey.
Children : Elizabeth Marsh, born December 10, 1883; Amy Morse, born April 26, 1893; George Kennedy, born April 26, 1893, died April 27, 1894).
Mary Elizabeth (Green) Libbey, is the wife of Professor William Lib- bey, (q. v.) of Princeton University, and since 1914, has been President of the Colonial Dames of New Jersey. She is active also with the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was State Regent from 1909 to 1911 and Vice Pres- ident of the General So- ciety of the D. A. R. from 1912 to 1914. Her interest in church work led to her election in 1911 to the posi- tion of President of the Women's Foreign Mission- ary Society of the Presby- tery of New Brunswick.
Mrs. Libbey is a lineal descendant from Jonathan Dickinson, once President of Princeton College. Chan- cellor Henry W. Green, a distinguished New Jersey jurist was her granduncle. William Henry Green, her father, a widely known theologian, was Chair- man of the American Old Testament Revision Committee, and for many years Senior Professor in Princeton Theological Seminary.
Mrs. Libbey is a member of the Order of the Crown through her descent from Obadiah Bruen, one of the first settlers of Newark.
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Besides the organization memberships already referred to, Mrs. Lib- bey is an ex-President of the Present Day Club of Princeton.
WILLIAM LIBBEY-Princeton .- University Professor. Born at Jersey City, March 27, 1855 son of William and Elizabeth (Marsh) Libbey ; married at Princeton, December 7th, 1SS0, to Mary Elizabeth Green, (q. v.), of Princeton.
Children : Elizabeth Marsh Libbey, born December 10, 1883; Amy Morse Libbey, born April 26, 1893; George Kennedy Libbey, born April 26, 1893, (died April 27, 1894.)
William Libbey is a direct descendant of Lion Gardiner, of East Hampton, L. I., one of the celebrities of colonial times. Jedeliah Morse, author of the first American geography, and S. F. B. Morse, of telegraph fame, were first cousins of the family, and the same is true of Abram Clark, signer of the Declaration of Independence and of the Dayton's, father and son, of the Revolutionary forces of New Jersey. The family dates back to 1630 in this country, when six of the name were among the original settlers of south western Maine in the region of Portland. Over eighty members of the family were active participants in the Revolution. His father was for many years engaged in the dry goods business of New York as the partner of A. T. Stewart, and was also a Director in sev- eral banks and railroads, as well as a Trustee of Princeton University, and the Theological Seminary.
Dr. Libbey has been Profes- sor of Physical Geography and Director of the E. M. Museum of Geology and Archaeology since 1883, in Princeton University. He is a graduate of the Univers- ity, where he took the A. B. degree in 1877, and was given the A. M. and Sc. D. degrees two years later. He became Assistant Professor of Physical Geography in 1SS0, and of Histology in 1SS3, but resigned from the latter in 1902. His scien- tific work has consisted largely in exploration, in connection with which in- vestigations have been carried on in every State in the Union, Alaska, Mexico, Hawaii, Cuba, Greenland and Syria. For four years he had charge of the physical work of the U. S. Fish Commission, in the study of the Gulf Stream, and demonstrated its relations to the Labrador current ; incident- ally as a result of this work the tile fish was rediscovered, and its mysteri-
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ous disappearance accounted for. In recognition of this work Sir John Murray named one of the deeper areas of the Atlantic, "Libbey Deep," in his honor, and he was made Vice President of the International Geographical Congress of 1896 in London. His study of the volcano of Kilauea, re- sulted in the discovery of the presence of hydrogen and other elements as gases accompanying the eruptions in Halemaumau. In recognition of an address before the British Association for the Advancement of Science up- on the subject of the distribution of earthquakes Prof. John Mime gave the name of "Libbey Zone" to the belt of earthquake activity which surrounds the globe.
Dr. Libbey has taken a deep interest in the National Guard of the State; and from 1900 to 1906 was Captain of Company "L" of the Second Regiment. In the latter year he was made assistant inspector General of Rifle Practice of New Jersey with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and was promoted to Colonel in 1917. Since 1915 he has been President of the Na- tional Rifle Association. He is also Vice President of the New Jersey State Rifle Association, and has been adjutant of two International teams- one of the Olympic Team of 1912, which won the world's championship at Stockholm ; the other the United States Team, which won the Pan American championship. In 1916 he was Captain of the National Guard Team which won the championship of the United States in the United Service match. He was honored by both Governor Wilson and Fielder, by an appoint- ment upon the military staff of each.
Dr. Libbey is Officier de l'Academie, France : and a member of Societe de Geographie and Societe de Geologie, of Paris; Fellow of the Royal Geog- raphical Society and the Royal Geological Society of London ; Corres- ponding Member of the Geographical Society of Geneva, Honorary Member of the Geographical Society, Liverpool, England. He is also Vice President of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, Fellow and Foreign Secretary of the American Geographical Society, Corresponding Member of the Amer- ican Philosophical Society, the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. New York Academy of Sciences, Boston Society of Natural History: a member of the New York Historical Society and of the Historical Society of New Jersey, the New England Society of New York, the A. A. A. S. and the Geological Society of America ; member and Vice President of the So- ciety of American Naturalists, of the National Geographic Society, General Secretary of the S. R .. President of the New Jersey Society of S. R., Gov- ernor of the New Jersey Society of Colonial Wars and Governor General of the Order of Founders and Patriots.
Among the products of his pen are the book entitled "Jordan Valley and Petra," and in collaboration with Dr. Franklin E. Hoskins, and the Smithsonian Physical and Meteorological Tables, besides many scientific articles in journals and newspapers.
In 1910 he was nominated for Congress by the Democratic party of the Fourth Congressional District, and came within 200 votes of being elected in a strongly republican district. He has been active in promoting the interests of the town in which he lives, having started and managed the Water works for many years-and also having been a manager of the Gas Company for several years until its dissolution. At present he is Vice President of both the First National Bank and the Princeton Savings.
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Bank. He is also Vice President of the McKinley Memorial Hospital of Trenton.
JOSEPH CROSBY LINCOLN-Hackensack, (370 Summit Ave.) -Author. Born at Brewster, Mass., February 13, 1870; son of Joseph and Emily (Crosby) Lincoln ; married on May 12, 1897, to Florence E. Sargent, of Chelsea, Mass.
After leaving school in Chelsea, Mr. Lincoln entered the office of a Boston mercantile house, where he remained for some years. Having a fondness for drawing. in 1896, he entered the illustrating class of Henry Sandham, then President of the Boston Art Club and one of America's foremost illustrators. Mr. Lincoln studied with Mr. Sandham for a year, and during that time did some illustrative work for advertising purposes and for the lesser magazines.
During that time also he be- gan to write verses and humor- ous sketches. His work in these lines attracted the attention of Sterling Elliott, President of the League of American Wheelmen, an organization with 125,000 members. As President of the League, Mr. Elliott was publish- er of the "L. A. W. Bulletin," its official organ. He offered Mr. Lincoln an editorial position on the "Bulletin," and the offer was accepted.
Mr. Lincoln remained with the "Bulletin" for two years. contributing to its columns verses and jokes, as well as edi- torial matter. Many of the verses written for the "Bulletin" are now included in his book of verses, "Cape Cod Ballads."
His work attracted attention and he received requests from the editors of various periodicals for contributions. In 1899 he gave up his position with the "Bulletin." and decided to enter the literary field as a "free lance." He and Mrs. Lincoln left Chelsea, where they had resided, and came to New York, living in Brooklyn for some months, and then re- moving to Hackensack, which has since been their home.
Mr. Lincoln, although then, as now, a regular contributor to the leading magazines, did not attempt the writing of a long story until 1904, when "Cap'n Eri" appeared. Since then, his novels have occupied the most of his time.
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From 1903 to 1906. he was the editor of the "Bulletin of the American Institute of Bank Clerks," the educational organization conducted by the American Bankers' Association. As his literary work became more con- fining, he gave up all editorial labors. He is the author of "Cape Cod Bal- lads," (1902) ; "Cap'n Eri." (1904) ; "Partners of the Tide." (1905) ; "Mr. Pratt," (1906) ; "The Old Home House," (1907) ; "Cy Whittaker's Place," (190S) : "Our Village," (1909) ; "Keziah Coffin," (1909) : "The Depot Mas- ter," (1910) ; "Cap'n Warren's Wards," (1911) ; "The Woman Haters," (1911) ; "The Postmaster," (1912) ; "Rise of Rosecoe Paine," (1912) ; "Mr. Pratt's Patients," (1913) ; "Cap'n Dan's Daughter," (1914) ; "Kent Knowles, Quahaug," (1914) ; "Thankful's Inheritance," (1915) ; and "Mary Gusta," (1916).
Mr. Lincoln's writings all deal with Cape Cod and Cape Cod people. As a boy he lived on the Cape, knew the old sailors and ship masters and imbibed the 'long-shore and salt water atmosphere.
With Mr. William Danforth, of Chicago, he is the author of one play, a dramatization of his novel, "Cy Whittaker's Place," in which Thomas Wise, the well-known actor, appeared as the star.
He is a member of the Authors' League and the Dutch Treat Club of New York and of the Hackensack Golf ('lub.
Mr. Lincoln has a summer home at Chatham, Mass.
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RICHARD VLIET LINDABURY - Bernardsville. - Lawyer. Born at Peapack, October 13, 1850: son of Jacob H. and Mary Ann (Vliet ) Lindabury ; married July S, 1892, to Lillie V. S. Dinger, daughter of Albert Van Saun.
Mr. and Mrs. Lindabury have one son and two daughters surviv- ing.
Richard V. Lindabury's father was a farmer in Somerset county ; and Mr. Lindabury spent his early years between the farm and the district school. He seems to have been rather disposed to the ministry in his youth ; and the Rev. Henry P. Thompson, pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church which his family attended, undertook to tutor him for the calling. A college preparation was in contemplation. But, after three years had been devoted to the study to fit him for admission, a serious sickness inter- vened to change his plans; and the tender of a clerk-ship in the office of ex-Congressman Alvah A. Clark pointed his ambitions towards the legal profession.
Admitted to the bar at the February term of 1874, he opened an office in Bound Brook, but the field was small and he changed his locality to Elizabeth and afterwards to Newark. There in 1896, he established the law firm of Lindabury, Depue & Faulks, which is still practicing with offices in the Prudential Building. As counsel for certain stockholders he success- fully opposed the merger of the Prudential Insurance Company with the Fidelity Trust Company in 1902. In 1905 he was employed to represent
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both the Prudential and Metropolitan Insurance Companies before the Armstrong investigating committee in New York, and in 1906 was elected General Counsel for the Prudential, a position which he has held ever since.
Mr. Lindabury's skill as a corporation lawyer has commanded attention outside New Jersey as well as in it; and he has appeared in many of the most noted of recent year cases. When the Singer Sewing Machine Com- pany charged the state of New Jersey with having taxed it in violation of its charter contract with the state, he was in court as the Company's counsel and won a decision in its favor. As counsel of the American To- bacco Company, he also resisted the State's attempt to dissolve it as a monopoly in restraint of trade. The sensational litigation that grew out of the controversy over the attempt of what was known as the "Rump Senate" to bar out newly elected members in 1892, brought him again to the front as counsel and ad- viser. The democratic hold- overs in the Senate of that year, claimed that a certi- ficate of election did not constitute a title to a seat in the Senate, but that, un- der the constitutional pro- vision which makes the Senate the judge of the election and returns of its members, a member elect could not be seated util the hold-over Senators had passed upon and accepted his credentials. The hold- over Senators were demo- crats, those claiming seats were republicans; and the refusal of the "hold-overs" to admit the others to the chamber provoked an almost riotous demonstra- tion at the State House. Mr. Lindabury and Frederic W. Stevens, now Vice Chancellor, were retained by the State and they succeeded in com- pelling the rival senates to submit their respective claims to the Supreme Court, which seated the republicans.
That was the second great state tumult in which Mr. Lindabury had been a leading figure. While he was still practicing law in Elizabeth, the race track issue became an absorbing one all over the common wealth. The jockeys, who had already opened all-the-year around courses at Guttenberg at one end of the State and at Gloucester at the other end, also opened at Clifton in Passaic and at Linden in Union, other tracks that drew hordes of undesirable sports. They felt themselves in such absolute control of the state that they put a Gloucester track "starter" in the Speakers chair in the House of Assembly and, when protests against their seizure of the govern-
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