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JEAN DU BOIS-Perth Amboy, (105 High Street. )-Industrial Manager. Born at Le Locle, Switzerland, Nov. 24th, 1869; son of Philippe and Louise (Andreae) Du Bois; married in 1905 to Mattie Schreiber, daughter of Henry W. and (Horton) Sschreiber of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Children : Jean Claude, March 31, 1899; Cora Alice, October 26. 1903.
Jean Du Bois comes from French ancestors who as early as 1468, for religious reasons, imigrated from Southern France to French Switzer- land, where the family has lived ever since.
Mr. Du Bois was educated chiefly in the public and high schools of Switzerland. He also attended the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland, where for three years he studied law, specializing in Roman and Inter- national law. After completing his education, he was an instructor in Latin and French in a private school in Devonshire, Eng., for a short time.
For seven years (1891-1898) Mr. Du Bois resided in South Africa, passing most of his time traveling and exploring the region of the Limi- popo River and the territory adjacent to the Portuguese possession of Mozambique. When the war broke out between England and the Boer Republic in 1898 he was obliged to leave the country. He decided to come to America, so after a short stay in England, he sailed for the United States and settled in Florida and Tennessee. During his several years' stay in that section of the country, he was active in developing the phos- phate industry.
He later came to New York City, but after a brief stay there was called from the country to erect a chemical work in France. After com- pleting his task he returned to the United States in 1911, and took charge of the business management of the important chemical factories in Perth Amboy, N. J.
At the present time Mr. Du Bois is first vice President of the Pertli Amboy Board of Trade, Director of the New Jersey Manufacturers Casual- ty Insurance Co., and Factory Business Manager of the Roessler & Hass- lacher Chemical Company, Perth Amboy, N. J.
His club memberships are, Drug and Chemical Club of New York City, East Jersey Club of Perth Amboy, N. J., and Travelers Club of New York City.
Mr. Du Bois' business address is 105 High St., Perth Amboy, N. J.
EDWARD DICKINSON DUFFIELD-Newark .- Lawyer. Born March 3, 1871; son of John T. and Sarah Elizabeth (Green) Duf-
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field ; married on April 21, 1897, to Josephine Read Curtis, daughter of Aberdeen Graham and Mary Morrison Curtis of Troy, N. Y., who died March 19th, 1914-2nd, on Oct. 12, 1916. to Barbara Free- man, daughter of Henry W. Freeman, of South Orange.
Children : Elizabeth and Dickinson Curtis.
Edward Dickinson Duffield is Vice President and General Solicitor of The Prudential Insurance Company of America. He had previously been Assistant Attorney-General of New Jersey ; served in the New Jersey House of Assembly in 1904-1905 and has been an attorney-at-law since February, 1895, and a counselor-at-law since 1898.
Mr. Duffield's father was for more than half a century a professor in Princeton University. His maternal grandfather was George S. Green, of Trenton, a brother of former Chancellor Henry W. Green and the late Caleb S. Green, at one time a judge of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals. Mr. Duffield is also a nephew of the late Federal District Judge Edward S. Green for whom he is named.
After acquiring a preliminary education at the Princeton Preparatory School at Lawrenceville, as well as private instruction with the Rev. Lewis W. Mudge in Princeton, Mr. Duffield was enrolled at Princeton Uni- versity, graduating from there in 1892, and from the New York Law School in 1894. Under the perceptorship of Frederick W. Stevens and John O. H. Pitney from 1892 to 1895, Mr. Duffield's legal experience was materially enlarged ; and after admittance to the bar he associated with the firm of Depue & Parker, some time later forming a partnership with William B. Kinney, which continued until 1901, when he associated him- self with Edward M. Colie under the name of Colie & Duffield. It was in 1905 and 1906 that he served as Assistant Attorney-General of New Jersey, joining the Prudential Insurance Company on November 15, 1906. Seven years later he was elected to a Prudential Vice Presidency, which office he still holds.
Mr. Duffield has always been a Republican in politics and has taken active part in South Orange village affairs. In 1917 he was elected Presi- dent of the village. He is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Asso- ciation. the American Bar Association, the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce. the New Jersey Historical Society, the Princeton Club of New York, the Princeton Alumni Association of the Oranges, the Nassau Club of Princeton, the Essex County Country Club, the South Orange Field Club, the Republican Club of New York, and of the Sakonnet Golf Club, and is an ex-president of the Lawyers' Club of Essex County.
WAYNE DUMONT-Paterson, (163 Hamilton Avenue.) -Law- ver. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born at Phillips- burg ; son of John Finley and Ann Eliza (Kline) Dumont; mar- ried at Easton, Pa., on October 26th, 1898, to Sallie Insley Hunt, daughter of Edward Insley and Sallie (Lesh) Hunt.
Children : W. Hunt, born April 6, 1904, died February 17, 1908; John Finley, born April 2, 1909; Wayne, born June 25, 1914.
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In "The Making of New England," Drake mentions De Monts, Pierre de Gaust from Saintonge, France, an officer of the Kings household to whom in 1604 Henry IV granted a Charter for all the region now known as New England and a monopoly of the fur trade. Later Walleran Dumont came from Holland to New Amsterdam with a company of soldiers for Governor Stuyvesant and settled in Esopus ( Kingston) N. Y., in 1660. He was a member of the Military Council during the second Esopus War with the Indians and served as Schepen or Magistrate there till 1671.
The family from which Wayne Dumont descends first appeared in this country soon after the massacre of the French Huguenots in Paris on the historical St. Bartholomew's day. After that event the ancestors came to North Carolina, where the family remained seated for at least two or three generations.
Peter Dumont, the earliest ancestors of whom there is accurate knowl- edge. married in North Carolina. His son, John Dumont, also born in North Carolina, came north to New Jersey, apparently soon after the be- ginning of the last century and married Mary Finley. They had three children, of whom John Finley Dumont alone survived. John Finley Du- mont was born in Hunterdon Co .. November 11, 1824, and died May 8th, 1889. A lawyer by profession, he was Prosecuting Attorney for Hunterdon County but otherwise was not active in public affairs. His wife, Anna Eliza Kline, was the daughter of the Rev. David Kline.
Wayne Dumont was fitted for college at Lerch Preparatory School, Easton, Pa., graduating maxima cum laude, in June, 1SS8; immediately entered Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., where he was graduated maxima cum laude, Ph. B. in course June, 1892, afterwards having had con- ferred upon him the honorary degrees of M. S. and A. M. He immediately entered upon the lectures of the New York Law School, and was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the State in February, 1896, as at- torney. and as a counselor in February, 1899. Shortly afterwards he re- ceived an appointment as a Special Master in Chancery and a Supreme Court Commissioner. He was also promptly admitted to practice in the, Courts of the States of New York and Pennsylvania and later to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States.
Mr. Dumont is engaged in active general practice of the law in Pater- son, is a Republican in politics, but without political ambition, always having declined office. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason, having taken the degrees in both York and Scottish Rite masonry, has life member- ship in all the Scottish Rite bodies ; and is a member of Paterson Lodge No. 60. Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks.
For a number of years he was connected with the National Guard of New Jersey, Quartermaster General's Department, with the rank of Cap- tain. He was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., in June, 1910, and is still serving as a Trustee of the Institution. Mr. Dumont was one of the founders and is a Director of, and, general counsel for the United States Trust Company of Paterson.
Mr. Dumont belongs to the Arcola Country Club, Arcola : Pomfret Club, Easton, Pa. ; Lawyers' Club, New York City: Hamilton Club, Paterson;
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Sussex Country Club, Newton ; Walkill Country Club, Franklin ; and Me- gantic Fish and Game Club, Megantic, Quebec.
NELSON YOUNG DUNGAN-Somerville, (32 West Cliff St.) Jurist. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born at Lam- bertville, on May 3rd, 1867; son of Edmund Booz and Martha Matilda (Young) Dungan ; married at Belle Mead, on July 20th, 1899, to Clara May Van Nuys, daughter of Abram J. and Mary Elizabeth Van Nuys, of Belle Mead.
Children : Edmund Van Nuys, born July 5, 1901, died February 20, 1910; Ruth Elizabeth, born August 28th, 1904; Nelson Van Nuys, born March 3. 1911.
Nelson Y. Dungan is a Circuit Court Judge, and Bravet Brigadier General of the National Guard of New Jersey. He began his education at a private school in Lambertville, Hunterdon County, when five years of age; and, removing then to Harlingen, in Somerset County, attended the public schools there during the winter months until 1883, when he passed an examination that qualified him as a teacher.
He taught in the schools for some years; but meanwhile prepared for the practice of the law. He read in the office of James L. Griggs, was ad- mitted as an attorney at the November term of 1890, and as counselor at the November term of 1893. In 1896 he was admitted as an attorney and counselor of the United States Supreme Court. He is also an attorney and counselor of the State of New York and of the District of Columbia. In the State Courts he is a Special Master in Chancery and a Supreme Court Commissioner.
In 1895 Governor Werts named Mr. Dungan to the State Senate for Prosecutor of the Pleas of Somerset County, and, the confirmation coming as a matter of course, he served until 1900. While he was still in that position he associated himself with John F. Reger in the law business under the firm name of Dungan Reger. That partnership lasted until he went on the bench in the spring of 1911. In 1903 Governor Murphy ap- pointed him a member of the Board of Managers of the State Village of Epileptics, and he served until November of 1911. It was on Governor Wilson's appointment that he became a Circuit Court Judge and he is- still holding that position, having been re-appointed in 1918. His Circuit is Essex, Monmouth and Hunterdon counties.
Judge Dungan's connection with the military life of the state began in 1898 when he enlisted as a private in Co. H. 3rd Regiment, New Jersey Infantry. He served through the various grades of that regiment and the 2nd New Jersey Infantry until March 25, 1907, when he was commissioned Colonel of the 2nd. He retired on March 25, 1911, and in February, 1912, the rank of Brigadier General by Brevet was conferred upon him.
Judge Dungan is Vice President of the Somerville Dime Savings Bank, and a member of the Old Guard of New York, Sons of the Revolu- tion and of the Bachelor Club of Somerville.
MICHAEL DUNN-Paterson .- Lawyer. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born at Newton. August 27, 1858; son of James and Bridget (O'Connell) Dunn : Married at Paterson, on Septem-
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ber 3, 1890, to Amelia M. Donnelly, daughter of Arthur and Amelia Donnelly, (Mrs. Dunn died June 13, 1913).
Children : James M., age 24; Arthur, age 22; Amelia M., ago 20: Louisa, ago 18; Eugene, age 16.
Michael Dunn has been identified with the politics of two counties. He was Under Sheriff of the County in 1881. He is now the Prosecutor of the Pleas of Passaic County.
Both of Mr. Dunn's parents were born in Ireland-his father in County Meath and his mother in County Caven. They came to this country and took up their residence in Newton, Sussex County, where Mr. Dunn was born. Mr. Dunn began his education in the public schools of Newton. and took up the study of law in the office of Martin Rosenkranz at. Newton. after graduating from the Newton Collegiate Institute, became a student in Princeton college. He graduated from there in the class of 1880; and He was active in the Democratic ranks of Sussex and was made Deputy He was licensed as an attorney in 1882, and at the end of the usual three year period was made counselor. In November, 1881, he became Under Sheriff of Sussex and served in that office till 1884. In the year 1SS5. he removed to Paterson and engaged in the practice of his profession, where he is established with his brother. Charles B. Dunn.
Mr. Dnnn plunged into the public life of Passaic as energetically as he had in that of Sussex. In May, 1900, the Paterson Board of Aldermen appointed him City Counsel and he served until the opening of the year 1904. He was a warm supporter. in the 1910 campaign, of the election of Woodrow Wilson for Governor; and after Dr. Wilson had taken the chair of state, he nominated Mr. Dunn for the office of Prosecutor of the Pleas of Passaic County. Confirmation came in due course. He was re-appointed in 1916, and is still holding that position.
Mr. Dunn is a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Hamilton Club of Paterson, and of the Princeton Club of New York City.
FLORENCE PESHINE EAGLETON (Mrs. Wells Phillips Eagleton) -Newark .- Suffragist. Born at Newark, N. J., daughter of F. Strafford and Elizabeth (Jelliff) Peshine.
Florence Peshine Eagleton comes of French and English ancestry. Iler Colonial forbear was Lion Gardiner, Lieutenant of English Engineers, who came to America in 1633, built and commanded Saybrook Fort and was the hero of the Pequot Wars. Gardiner's Bay and Island are named for him. He purchased the latter from the Indians and ruled there as Lord of the Manor. Mrs. Eagleton's Revolutionary ancestor was Captain Jonathan Mulford. Through her forbear Edward Ball (son of William Ball, an English ancestor also common to Mary Ball, mother of George Washington ) Mrs. Eagleton has an unbroken New Jersey lineage of over two hundred and fifty years. Edward Ball was one of the Twelve Proprietors of the town of Newark and held public office as early as 1665. He is recorded as High Sheriff of Essex County in 1692 and '93.
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Mrs. Eagleton's French ancestor, Pierre Abraham Pechin, (angelicized Peshine) also settled in New Jersey, at Middletown Point, about 1763. He was a commissioned officer of the French army, of distinguished family, and served under Louis Fifteenth during the Seven Years War.
Mrs. Eagleton was educated in the private schools of Newark and has always been especially interested in the welfare of women. She is actively associated with the cause of woman suffrage, and devotes her time entirely to work furthering their advancement and enfranchisement.
Mrs. Eagleston is President of the Women's Political Union of New- ark, First Vice President of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association, a member of the Nova Caesarea Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a member of the Executive Committee on Women in Industry, Advistory Commission Council of National Defense, and of the Board of Directors of the National League for Women's Service (Newark Branch). a director of the Visiting Nurses Association, a member of the Contemporary Club, and of the Newark Seminary Alumnae Association. Mrs. Eagleton is also a member of the New York Browning Society and the Post Parliament, of New York.
WELLS PHILLIPS EAGLETON-Newark, (212 Elwood Ave- nue)-Surgeon and Soldier. Born at Brooklyn, N. Y., on Septem- ber 18, 1865; son of Thomas and Mary Emma Phillips Eagleton ; married at New York, N. Y., on May 24, 1913, to Florence Peshine Riggs, daughter of F. Strafford and Elizabeth Jelliff Peshine, of Newark.
Wells P. Eagletou is a specialist in surgery of the brain, eye and ear. He is of American and English ancestry, and received his education at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York. He began the practice of medicine in Newark in 1890, and maintains an office at 15 Lombardy Street.
Dr. Eagleton is Medical Director of the Newark Eye and Ear Infirmary, Attending Opthalmologist and Otologist of the Newark City Hospital, and the Home for Crippled Children, Consulting Surgeon of the Memorial Hospital, Consulting Opthalmologist and Otologist of the Es- sex County Isolation Hospital, the Essex County Hospital for the Insane and the Morristown Memorial Hospital.
Dr. Eagleton is a member of the New Jersey State Commission for the Blind, Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American Otological Society, the New York Otological Society, the Ameri- can Laryngological and Otological Society, the Medical Society of New Jersey, the Academy of Medicine of Northern New Jersey, the New York Academy of Medicine, the Society of Surgeons of New Jersey, the Essex County Pathological & Anatomical Society, and the Practitioners Club.
At the outbreak of the World War Dr. Eagleton was commissioned a Major in the Medical Corps, U. S. Army, and has been serving as Chief of the Section of Surgery of the Head at the Base Hospital, Camp Dix, New Jersey. He is now Lieut .- Colonel, M. R. C., U. S. A.
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Dr. Eagleton is a member of the Essex Club (of Newark), the Essex County Country Club, and the Browning Society (of New York).
ELLIS P. EARLE-Montclair, (Edgewood Road ) .- Financier. Born at Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 23. 1860; son of Theodore L. and Mary E. (Berry ) Earle; married at Elizabeth, N. J., Sept. 5th. 1882. to Adelaide Prince, daughter of David and Francis Prince.
Ellis P. Earle is of English stock. His ancestors came to this coun- try about 1680.
He obtained his education in the Publie and Wyckoff schools at Elizabeth, N. J., from which he graduated in 1879.
Mr. Earle is President of the Nipissing Mines Co., Vice President of the Granby Consolidated Mining and Smelting Co., Chairman of Board of Directors, the Nafra Co .; and director of the Chatham & Phoenix Na- tional Bank of New York. He is also a member of the Railroad Club of New York. the New Jersey, the New York State and of the United States Chambers of Commerce, the Montclair Golf Club, the Montclair Club and the New Jersey State Board of Charities and Correction.
Mr. Earle's business address is 165 Broadway, New York City.
JAMES ALEXANDER EDGAR-Highland Park, (202 Grant Ave.)-Real Estate and Assemblyman. Born at Hoboken, N. J., Jan. 28th, 1870, son of Joseph and Annie E. ( McCollum) Edgar ; married at Clinton, N. J., Oct. 28th, 1897, to Bertha Bodle Hoff- man. daughter of Jeremiah King and Margaretta ( Ramsey) Hoff- man. of Clinton, N. J.
Children : Joseph Hoffman, born Aug. 20, 1898.
James Alexander Edgar is a descendant of Scotch-Irish progenators. His paternal grandmother, Mary Campbell Edgar was related to the Duke of Argyle, and her forbear, Sir Colin Campbell, led the Scotch troops at the battle of Lucknow, India, in (1858). Mr. Edgar's father, Joseph Edgar, was in his youth, a school master in the north of Ireland, and won the first gold medal awarded for elocution in the city of Belfast. Through his maternal grandmother, Barbara Wallace, he is a descendant of the well known Scotch family of Wallaces.
Most of Mr. Edgar's education was obtained in public schools. He attended them in New York City from 1875 to 1878, and also in New Jersey, at Red Bank, N. J., from 1878 till 1883, and the high school of that place from 1884 to 1886, inclusive.
Several years after his school training was finished, he became in- terested in Y. M. C. A. work, and in 1902 became a director in the New Brunswick branch of the organization, and remained as such an officer until 1912. In 1914 he began his two years' term as President of the Board of Education of Highland Park, N. J .. in 1909 he became the Sec-
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retary and Director of the Highland Park Building and Loan Associa- tion.
Mr. Edgar has also taken an active part in politics chiefly a Republi- can. In 1912, however, when Theodore Roosevelt left the Republican National Convention and formed the Progressive party, Mr. Edgar espoused his cause and for several years was chairman of the Progressive party in Middlesex County, New Jersey. On a local option platform in 1916, he was elected on the Republican ticket for membership in the Assembly, and in 1917, was re-elected to the same office.
For many years he has also been engaged in the real estate business at New Brunswick.
Mr. Edgar is a member of the Palestine Lodge No. 111, F. & A. M., and Washington Camp No. 51, P. O. S. of A.
His business address is 349 George St., New Brunswick, N. J.
WALTER EVANS EDGE-Atlantic City .- Publishing and Ad- vertising. ( Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born in Philadelphia, Pa., on Nov. 20th, 1873; son of William and Mary Edge ; married at Memphis, Tenn., on June 5, 1907, to Lady Lee, daughter of Mrs. Sarah Lee Phillips, of Memphis, Tenn. Mrs. Edge died July 14th, 1915. )
Children : Walter Evans, Jr., born July 10th, 1915.
Walter E. Edge had scarcely been inaugurated as Governor of New Jersey in 1917 when Congress, proclaiming a state of war between the United States and Germany, plunged this nation into the greatest struggle in the history of the Ages; and he will go down into State annals as New Jersey's epochal War Governor.
Governor Edge may be said to have inherited a taste for public life. Two great uncles were members of the Pennsylvania Legislature ; another was for years Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, and his great grand- father was Judge of the Courts of Pennsylvania for forty years. His father was a retired railroad man.
The stress of circumstances made it necessary for Edge to forego a college course, and all the schooling he got was that afforded at the public schools in Pleasantville, just outside of Atlantic City. He found himself early in life doing the work of a "printers devil" in the offices of the "At- lantic Review," but at sixteen secured a position with the Dorland Adver- tising Agency of Atlantic City. This, at the time, was merely a local busi- ness specializing in hotel advertising. When Mr. Edge came into posses- sion of it, as he did about two years after the proprietor died, he extended its lines througout the country, with offices in, among other European centers, London, Paris and Berlin. The first shining demonstration of the agency's enterprise was in the world-wide fame its exploits brought to At- lantic City as one of the great resorts on the Atlantic coast. In this work he was assisted by the "Atlantic City Press" which, after he had established it, progressed from a mere hotel medium to the leading news medium of the coast, and by the subsequent establishment, as its evening complement,
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of the "Atlantic City Union." The work of the advertising agency required so much of his attention that he eventually leased both the papers to young employees who had won his confidence.
Governor Edge had begun his political career as Journal Clerk of the State Senate when the war between Spain and the United States broke out, in 1898. He participated in the organization of the Morris Guards, an independent military company of Atlantic City which mustered into service during the war as Co. F., Fourth New Jersey Volunteer Infantiy. and was commissioned as its 2nd Lieutenant. Later he was Captain of ('o. L. Third Regiment N. G. N. J .; and Governors Murphy and Stokes put him on their personal staffs. He afterwards became Chief of the Ordinance Department, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, on the statt of Major General C. Edward Murray. There is a Walter E. Edge Garrison of the Army and Navy Union in Atlantic City; and Mr. Edge is also the head of the Boy Scout movement in Atlantic City.
Mr. Edge's rise in the politics of the state was rapid after the war was over. In 1904 he was a Presidential Elector on the Republican ticket and in 1908 a delegate to the Republican National Convention that nominated President Taft. A year later he was elected to the Assembly from Atlantic county, and achieved the rare distinction, in his first year, of being chosen as the Republican leader on the floor. In 1910 he was promoted to the State Senate: and two years later he was made majority leader on the floor of that chamber. Re-elected in 1913, he served in 1915 as President of the body : and while in that position was Acting Governor of the state during the five weeks Governor Fielder was in California attending the Panama-Pacific Exposition.
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