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was a member of the City Council of Asbury Park: In 1907 he was ap- pointed City Solicitor at that place, and has filled that position since that date. At present Mr. Carton is the trial Attorney for New Jersey Central Railroad in Monmouth Co., and also represents the traction companies between Long Branch and Sea Girt, the Asbury Park & Ocean Grove Bank, the Asbury Park Trust Company, the Ocean Grove National Bank, the First National Bank of Bradley Beach, the First National Bank of Spring Lake, the Asbury Park and the Belmar Building & Loan Asso- ciations, the Boroughs of Allenhurst, Neptune City, Spring Lake and Sea Girt, the Atlantic Coast Electric Light Company, the Coast Gas Company. He was also on Executive Committe of Four Minute Men, is President of the First National Bank of Bradley Beach, and was chairman of the Fourth Liberty Loan Committee of that place.
His club memberships are the Asbury Park Lodge of Elks, the Knights of Columbus, the Monmouth Club, the Rotary Club of Asbury Park, and the Catholic Club of New York City.
Mr. Carton's business address is A. P. & O. G. Bank Building (Du- rand. Ivins & Carton) Asbury Park, N. J.
CLARENCE EDWARDS CASE-Somerville .- Lawyer. Born at Jersey City, on Sept. 24th, 1877: son of Philip and Amanda V. (Edwards) Case ; married at Lexington, Ky., on January 29tli. 1913, to Anna Gist Rogers, daughter of Jere and Henrietta Rogers, of Lexington, Ky.
Children : Henrietta Rogers, born February 17, 1914; Clarence Edwards, Jr., born May 26, 1916; Philip Case, 3rd, born Novem- ber 26, 1917.
Clarence Edwards Case was Presiding Judge of the Somerset County Court of Common Pleas from 1910 to 1913. He resigned then to devote his attention to his private practice. In 1917 he was elected State Senator from the County of Somerset for the term of three years.
Judge Case acquired his education at the Rogers & Magie Classical Scientific School in Paterson which he attended in '93 and '94; then till '96 at Rutger's Preparatory School, and, passing into Rutger's College, graduated with the class of 1900. He took a course till 1902 in the New York Law School and was admitted to the Bar as an attorney in Novem- ber, 1903, and as counselor in February, 1907. In 1910 Governor Fort appointed him County Judge of Somerset.
Judge Case is a Mason, an Elk. and a member of the Knights of Pythias. Somerville Country Club, and of the Delta Upsilon and Phi Beta Kappa fraternities.
SAMUEL SHANNON CHILDS-Bernardsville .- Restaurateur. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born in Basking Ridge, April 4, 1863 ; son of William and Elizabeth (Kline) Childs ; mar- ried at Basking Ridge, Jan. 30th, 1890, to Emma Frances Alward.
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daughter of Waters and Mary Frances ( Burrows) Alward, of Basking Ridge.
Children : Mary E., born Feb. 12. 1896; Lois A .. born Jan. 26, 1900.
Samuel S. Childs is President of the Childs Company, which operates restaurants in a hundred places in many of the leading cities in this country and Canada. Mr. Childs had for two years been engaged as a civil engineer in bridge and railroad work when. in 1890, he embarked with his brother, William Childs, Jr., in the restaurant businses. The idea of establishing a chain of restaurants led to a growth in the enterprise that made the incorporation of a company to conduct them advisable. When it was organized, Samuel S. Childs became its president and William Childs, Jr., was made the Vice President.
Senator Childs has always lived in the Bernardsville section of the State. He was educated at the Franklin Institute in Bernards Township and at the Morristown High School. He took a course subsequently at the New Jersey State Model School in Trenton. Later he was appointed by Congressman Howey as a cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point, but he remained there for only a year.
Mr. Childs has been deeply interested in educational topics. He be- came a member of the Board of Education of Bernards Township and from 1900 to 1903 served as its President. In 1901 the democrats of Somerset county made him their candidate for a seat in the New Jersey State Senate. The County was at that time normally Republican ; but Senator Childs carried it and served at the session beginning with 1902 and ending with 1905.
RICHARD E. CLEMENT-Elizabeth. (356 Grier Ave.)-City Superintendent of Public Schools. Born at Lancaster. Coos Coun- ty, N. H., Jan. 2, 1861; son of Enoch Noyes and Mary ( Richard- son ) Clement ; married at Westfield. N. J., Dec. 23, 1886, to Elle- nore Osborn, daughter of George Baston and Ellenora (Fosdick) Osborn.
Children : Mary Ernestine (Mrs. Edward J. Grassman), born Nov. 6, 1SSS; Elinor Richardson ( Mrs. Leslie L. Vivian), born April 14. 1893. and Ruth Rogers. born October 19. 1899.
Records show Richard E. Clement to be a descendant of British proge- mitors who settled in Massachusetts prior to 1640 and who were pioneers in the northern New England states, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ver- mont and Maine. Richard Clement, a great, great grandfather, took an active part in the American Revolution and was with Stark and the New Hampshire men, at Bunker Hill and Bennington.
During the Civil War, his father, Enochi Noves Clement, served in the Fifth Regiment. New Hampshire Volunteers.
The subject of this biography, passed his boyhood on a farm in New Hampshire. his youth in Massachusetts and Maine. coming to New Jersey
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in 1882, to become principal of the public school at Roselle. In 1886 he was appointed supervising principal of public schools in Cranford, N. J., where he remained until August S, 1900. From 1900 to 1907 he was the head of Public School No. 3 in Elizabeth, and on July 2, 1907 he was appointed to the position he now holds, superintendent of Public Schools of the City of Elizabeth.
His entire service as an educator covers a period of thirty-seven years.
From December 1908 to the present day he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Elizabeth Free Public Library. He has always taken an active part in civic and political affairs. For some years prior to 1900, he was a member of the Union County Democratic Executive Committee, and in 1918 was the Democratic candidate for Congress from the Fifth New Jersey District.
Among the many educational associations, local, state and national, with which he has been connected are the New Jersey Council of Educa- tion, New York School Masters Club, and the National Education Associa- tion. Since 1882 he has been a member of Azure Lodge F. and A. M., and he was for several years an active member of the Sons of Veterans, U. S. A., and of the First Maine Infantry, National Guard. He has long been a member of the Elizabeth Chamber of Commerce.
UNDERWOOD COCHRAN-Atlantic City, (New York Ave. and Board Walk) .- Assemblyman, Real Estate Operator. Born at Camilla, Ga., Sept. 21st, 1872; son of Robert Henry and Emma Haile) Cochran ; married in Atlantic City Nov. 23, 1904, to Stella Marie Fralinger, daughter of Joseph and Nettie (Beck) Fralinger of Atlantic City.
Underwood Cochran who took up residence in New Jersey in 1900, previously lived in Savannah, Ga., from 1898 to 1900, besides in the city of his birth. He attended the public schools of Camilla and entered the Medical College at Lewisville in 1892 from which he was graduated with honors three years later. He then practiced medicine in his native town for about three years, but at the end of the time gave up entirely the profession he did not care for, although he came from a family of physi- cians. About this time he moved to New York City where he lived for a short time, and then went to Atlantic City. This place he liked so well that he made it his permanent home.
There he succeeded in getting a position in a drug store owned by Mr. Joseph Fralinger, whose daughter he later married. After their marriage he was entrusted with the Fralinger interest in Atlantic City, but eventu- ally drifted into the real estate business. He is the owner of the Atlantic City Sales Co. and the Appollo program which is considered one of the larg- est publications of its kind in the country, and the secretary of the Globe Printing Company, Secretary and Treasurer of the Wheeler Coal Com- pany, as well as being the treasurer of the Cochran Moore Improvement Co., and the treasurer of the Atlantic City Publicity Bureau.
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His club memberships are the Sea View Golf Club, Rotary Club, Atlantic City Yacht Club, Century Club, Old Colony Club, Life Member Morris Guards and Atlantic City Turn Verein, Pen and Pencil Club of Philadelphia. Elks. Eagles, Red Men. K. of P .. Dictator Loyal Order of Moose.
Mr. Cochran was elected in 1918 to the Assembly and served as chair- man of the Committee on Treasurers' Accounts, also member of Committee on Railroads, and Election Incidental Expenses. He was again elected for a second term in 1919 and was selected as one of the six Republicans to confer with a committee of six democrats regarding speakership for the House, and was made chairman of the Committee on Railroads and Canals, also a member of Committee of Commerce and Navigation, Ripa- rian Rights and of the Sinking Fund.
CHARLES N. CODDING-Elizabeth .- Surrogate. Born at Collinsville, Conn., Dec. 21, 1861; son of Samuel N. and Fidelia S. Codding; married at Beverly, N. J., on Oct. 18, 1SSS, to Adele C. Bonfield, daughter of Sylvester and Sarah Bonfield.
Mr. Codding was educated in Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., where he was prepared for entrance into Yale University in 1882. He was graduated from the latter in June 1886, with the A. B. degree, and then took up studies at the Law School of Columbia University at which he received two years later, the degree of Bachelor of Laws.
Almost immediately upon completing his education, he was admitted to the bar of New Jersey, and then took up residence in Westfield where he has lived ever since.
In 1893 and again in 1894 Mr. Codding was elected to the Legislature from Union County. For thirteen years he was the active managing head of the office of the clerk of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, being first Commissioned by Governor Voorhees, and later by Governors Murphy and Stokes. At present he is a director of the Westfield Trust Company, and is now Surrogate of Union County, to which office he was elected in 1917.
His fraternal affiliations are, the Atlas Lodge, F. & A. M., the Royal Arcanum, the Loyal Association, the Heptasophs and the Westfield Golf Club.
His business address is 58 Broad St .. Elizabeth, N. J.
GARDNER COLBY-East Orange .- Civil Service Officer. Born at Orange. September 12, 1864: (Deceased Nov. 5. 1917-Sce Vel.
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1, 1917.) son of Gardner and Martha L. (Hutchings) Colby ; married on March 21, 1SSS, to Fannie Hazzard Curtis, of Orange.
JONATHAN ACKERMAN COLES, A. M., M. D. LL, D .- Scotch Plains-Physician, Surgeon. Born at Newark, May 6, 1843 ; son of Abraham and Caroline (Ackerman) Coles.
Abraham Coles, M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., the father of Dr. Jonathan Ackerman Coles, was a distinguished scholar and poet as well as physician and surgeon. He was the author of several works, among them, trans- lations of the famous Latin Hymn "Dies Irae," "The Microcosm," a phys- iological poem, and "The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse" which John Bright, the noted English statesman and orator, and others warmly commended. He was the author besides of a number of articles on scien- tific subjects, and his national lyrics and hymns are widely known.
Jonathan Ackerman Coles graduated from Columbia College in New York in 1864 and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York in 1868. He had in 1867 received the Harzen prize for the best written report of clinical instruction in the medical and surgical wards of the New York Hospital. After graduation he attended lectures in the English and continental universities aud hospitals. Dr. Coles settled down for practice with his father in Newark and became one of the most widely known physicians in the state. On June 10, 1903, he received from Hope College. Ilolland, Michigan, the honorary degree LL. D.
He is largely known through his gifts of choice bronzes and statuary and paintings. The bronze Indian group in Lincoln Park, Newark: the heroic size bronze portrait bust of his father by John Q. A. Ward, in Wash- ington Park, Newark; the painting of the Good Samaritan, by Daniel Huntington, in the State House at Trenton : the bronze tablet on the Taber- nacle church at Salem, Mass .. commemorating the ordination in 1812 of the first American Missionaries to Asia-are his givings. The gift of his father's shares of stock iu the Newark Library Association brought the New Jersey Historical Society into possession of the building it now occu- pies on Park street, Newark. He has also given works of art to the Metro- politan Museum in New York. to the New Congressional Library at Wash- ington, to Independence Hall at Philadelphia, a country home at Mountain- side, for orphans, and built schools, domitories, faculty buildings and chapels for colleges in the Far East. He possesses a choice collection of books, works of art, and paintings by Corot, West, Turner and others.
The country residence of Dr. Coles and his sister, Miss Emilie S. Coles, is at Scotch Plains, and their city home is in New York City. They still maintain the home in Newark in which they were born.
Dr. Coles is a member of the American Medical Association, the New York and New Jersey State and County Medical Societies, the New York Historical Society, the National Geographical Society, the Washington Association at Morristown. the Anglo-Saxon Society of London and Copen- hagen ; an honorary member of the Newark Museum of Art ; a life member, trustee and patron of the New Jersey Historical Society, and a Fellow of
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, and of The American Geo- graphical Society of New York.
AUSTEN COLGATE-Orange, (363 Centre St. ) -Manufacturer. ( Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born in Orange, on August 12, 1863 ; the son of Samuel and Elizabeth ( Morse) Colgate.
Austen Colgate's ancestors came to this country during the Colonial period, the founder of the American branch being William Colgate, who in 1806 established the now famous house of Colgate & Co., the largest mami- facturers of soaps and perfumes in this country. The founder of this great business was the grandfather of Austen Colgate, and the business has descended through the father to the five grandsons who now compose the company.
Colonel Colgate received his education at the Orange High School, Orange, the Norwich Academy, Norwich, (Conn.) and Yale University, from which he graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1886. Upon leaving college, he entered the house of Colgate & Co., thoroughly familiarized himself with all the details of the manufacturing end of the business, and in 1896 was admitted to partnership, becoming Vice President of the company upon its incorporation and still retaining that position.
During his entire career Colonel Colgate evinced a keen interest in the politics of his state, and in 1905 associated himself with the Progressive wing of the Republican party. The next year he accepted the nomination for the Assembly and was elected to represent Essex County in that body. He was re-elected to the Assembly in 1908 and 1909, and in 1911 was elected to the State Senate. The Colonel was re-elected to the Senate in 1914, resigning his seat two years later to become a candidate at the 1916 pri- mary for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in which he was de- feated by a very close margin. He was elected to represent New Jersey in the Presidential Electoral College in 1916.
During his service in the Legislature, Colonel Colgate introduced meas- ures exempting public playgrounds from accident claims ; making it unlaw- ful for any judge to commit a child of sixteen years or under to the county jail ; requiring the licensing of dance halls ; creating a commission to study mental defectives ; creating a minimum wage commission ; creating women police officers ; providing for the better keeping of vital statistics ; investi- gating the cause of blindness ; providing for nurses in each county to care for tubercular patients ; revising the Child Welfare laws ; providing for the establishment of colonies for the care of feeble-minded men; creating a workmen's compensation fund ; increasing compensation under the liability law ; removing disputes in the settlement of labor compensation troubles ; extending workmen's compensation to occupational diseases ; protection of civil service ; protection of fish and game ; regulating speed of automobiles and providing punishment for intoxicated drivers, and many other pro- gressive and humanitarian measures. He also promoted legislation for re- form in the jury system ; the creation of mosquito commissions, the limited franchise law, the direct primary law, child labor reform, the creation of the Civil Service Commission and the Public Utility Commission, the widows' pension act, and a long line of other measures, since become laws.
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In addition to his law-making duties in the Legislature, Colonel C'ol- gate has found time to render military service to his state in its National Guard. In 1908. Governor Fort appointed him personal aide and Chief of Staff, which office he held for three years, when he was tendered and ac- cepted the position of Deputy Adjutant-General of the State, ranking as Colonel. Upon the death of Adjutant-General Wilbur F. Sadler, Jr., in 1916. Colonel Colgate was offered the position of Adjudant-General, but de- clined. In 1917, finding it impossible to longer give to the work of the Guard the time required. he asked to be placed on the Unassigned List of New Jersey Officers, and is now subject to call by the President or Govern- or whenever his services are needed.
Colonel Colgate is a member of the Board of Trustees of Colgate Uni- versity. Hamilton, N. Y .. and is a member of the Board of Corporators of Peddie Institute, at Ilightstown. He is ex-President of the Essex County Country Club. a member of the Baltusrol Golf Club, the Rumson Country Club. the University Club of New York, the Yale Club of New York, and a charter member of Squadron "A" of New York City. He is a 32nd degree Mason and a member of other fraternal and social organizations.
ROBERT JOSEPH COLLIER-Wickatunk. (Rest Hill) .- Pub- lisher and Editor. Born in New York, N. Y., on June 17th, 1876; (Deceased Nov. 8, 1918.) son of Peter Fenelon and Katherine Lou- ise ( Dunue) Collier ; married at New York, N. Y .. on July, 1902. to Sara Steward Van Allen, daughter of James J. Van Allen of Newport, R. I.
Robert Joseph Collier, the late editor and publisher of Collier's Weekly, received most of his early education in St. Francis College, New York City. after which he attended the Georgetown University at Wash- ington, D. C., at which institution he received the degree of A. B. in 1894. His further training was secured in Harvard University where he studied for one year and at the Oxford University, England, where he studied for an equal length of time. The father of Robert Joseph Collier established the weekly publication which bears his name, years ago, and of which the son became the editor and publisher in 1898. At the death of the parent. he became the president of P. F. Collier & Son which was incorporated April 24th, 1909.
It was largely through Mr. Collier's effort that the old Lincoln farm in Kentucky is still in existence as a memorial to the martyr President. It was he who began the Lincoln Farm Association which raised by popu- lar subscription the funds for the purchase of the place, and erected the granite memorial of the log cabin where Lincoln was born. The two memorials were presented to and accepted by the United States Govern- ment about a year ago.
Mr. Collier was a member of the Board of Governors of the Aero Club of America, a trustee of the Civic Forum, and is also connected with the A. A. A. S., the Municipal Art Association, the American Irish Histori- cal Association, the American Geographical Society, the American Museum of Natural History, the Botanical Society, Horticultural Society, the Met- ropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Academy of Science, the National
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Conservation Association, the National Press Club of Washington, the Navy League of the United States, the New Jersey Historical Association, the Rural and County Y. M. C. A. of Freehold, N. J., and the United States Catholic Historical Society.
The list of his clubs and associations embraces besides those already referred to, the Century Association, the Raquet and Tennis Club, the Brook Club, the Harbard Club, the New York Yacht Club, Meadow Brook Club, Turf and Field Links Club, Rochampton, and the Harlingham Clubs of England, the Travelers Club of Paris, the National Golf Links of America, the Piping Rock, the Rockaway Hunting Club, the Oakland Golf Club, the Rumson Country Club, the Freehold Driving Association, the Society of Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, the Mendelssohn Glee ('lub.
Mr. Collier was devoted to polo, tennis, riding, hunting and boating. Was independent in politics and a member of the Catholic Church.
Mr. Collier's New York residence was at 1067 Fifth Avenue, and his office was at 416 West Thirteenth St., New York City.
DENNIS FRANCIS COLLINS-Elizabeth, (516 Cherry St.)- Commercial Pursuits. (Photographi published in Vol. 1-1917). Born in Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland, May 3, 1868 ; son of Dennis F. and Helen (Kirk) Collins ; married February 10, 1890, to Eliza- beth Keimig (who died on the birth of her daughter, Elizabeth, now Mrs. Clarence Martin)-2nd, at Elizabeth on September 16. 1896, to Louise J. Breidt, daughter of Peter and Louise Breidt. of Elizabeth.
Children : (second marriage) Louise Helen. Peter B., Anna Marie, Dennis Francis, Jr .. Kathleen.
Dennis F. Collins is Major General of the National Guard of the State of New Jersey and has been active in the military and political life of the state for many years. He has been for a long time a member of the Democratic State Committee-for ten years its treasurer. General Col- lins was prominent in the movement that, just before the opening of the National Campaign of 1912, deposed James R. Nugent from the Chairman- ship of the State Committee. He was an ardent supporter of Governor Wilson's candidacy for President, and played an active part in the cam- paign which resulted in his election. It was upon Governor Wilson's ap- pointment that he became Major General of the State Militia; and the Governor also appointed him a member of the New Jersey Commission to the Panama Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco in 1915. In Union county politics and business, he has been onc of the determining factors and is now City Comptroller of Elizabeth.
General Collins came to the United States at an early age with his parents and was educated at St. Patricks Parochial School in Elizabeth. His first experience in the business world was in 1SS2 as an office boy in the Elizabeth Cordage Works. He clerked afterwards in a retail grocery store and was later still a shipping clerk in New York for Townsend & Baremore and a bookkeeper in Elizabeth for J. S. Keimig & Co. In 1896 he became collector for the Peter Breidt City Brewery Company of Eliza-
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beth. He was soon Vice President of the company and upon the retirement of Mr. Breidt in 1904 succeeded to its Presidency.
General Collins began his political career early as a member of the Common Council of Elizabeth. He served there for fourteen years-for a large part of the time as its President. In 1908 and again in 1914 he was the party nominee for Mayor, but the political trend both years was so strongly in favor of the opposite party that he was unsuccessful. His ap- pointment as Comptroller of Elizabeth came in 1916.
General Collins enlisted as a private at the age of twenty in Company D, 4th Infantry in May, 1888. He was made First Lieutenant of Company E in 1894 and Captain later in the same year. In 1899 he became Major of the 2nd Infantry, Lieutenant Colonel in 1900 and Colonel in 1902. In 1897 he was appointed Brigadier General 2nd Brigade and his appointment as Major General came in 1913. During the Spanish War he was Captain of Company E, 3rd Regiment New Jersey National Guard Volunteer In- fantry, serving until the protocol of Peace was signed, when he resigned and returned home to business.
General Collins is a member of New Jersey Commandery of the Society of Foreign Wars, a member of the Spanish-American War Veterans, of the Naval and Military Order of the Spanish-American War, of the American- Irish Historical Society, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, of the Knights of Columbus, of the Board of Trade, the Loyal Order of Moose, Fraternal Order of Eagles, and of almost every other fraternal and social organization of the city of Eliza- beth.
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