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elected him to the State Comptrollership gathered in Trenton at the open- ing of Governor Fielder's administration in 1914. The state's resources were not at the time equal to the demands upon them, and the outlook was that the new administration would be forced to, for the first time in thirty years, impose a state tax to meet deficiencies. The imposition of a direct tax was likely to have a bad political effect ; and it was at that juncture that Comptroller Edwards came to the rescue with the suggestion of a law increasing the receipts from inheritances. The act was shaped up under his direction, laid before the Governor for his approval and adopted by the legislature. It subjects lineal heirs to a progressive rate tax with an exemption of $5,000 to each lineal. The receipts under the new act were large enough to avert the state tax menace.
Comptroller Edwards also fathered what is known as the Requisition Act which makes it impossible for any of the departments or institu- tions of the state to over draw their respective appropriations. Prior to the passage of the act. both had been in the habit of exceeding the amount apportioned to them in the annual budget and depending upon the legislature of the following year to order the payment of their excesses. The exhaustion of their funds before the end of the fiscal year, with large accounts still outstanding, brought frequent embarrassment not only to the State Treasury, but, more, to the merchants and others who had furnished supplies or rendered services. Comptroller Edwards insisted that both the departments and institutions should ask the state in their estimates for all they would need during the year and that they should not be permitted to go beyond the amount the legislature allowed. His Requisition Aet therefore required that no obligation could be incurred unless the institu- tion had to its credit sufficient funds to meet it, enforced a reasonable economy on the part of the administrative officials and guaranteed to the merchants of the state the prompt payment of their accounts,
Comptroller Edwards was educated at Public School No. 13 and the High School of Jersey City. He entered the class of 1884 at the University of the City of New York. but left college at the end of his Junior year. After spending some time in the law office of his brother, ex-Senator Wil- liam D. Edwards, he accepted a position in the First National Bank of Jersey City, where he remained for seven years. His health impaired by the confining nature of his work at the bank, he left, and was. for some years, engaged in the general contracting business of Edwards Brothers.
In 189S he entered the service of Jersey City in its tax department and was clerk to the Martin Act Commission, during the busy years of that Board. In 1903, at the suggestion of Edward F. C. Young, President of the Martin Commission, he re-entered the service of the bank as an assistant to the President : shortly afterwards he became cashier and a director, and on October 13, 1916, he was elected President of the bank. He is also vice- president and a director of the Merchants National Bank of Jersey City and connected with a number of other banking and business houses.
In politics a Democrat, he had been for many years a member of the Hudson County Democratic Committee. It was in 1911 that the joint meeting of the legislature elected Mr. Edwards, who was then Cashier of the First National Bank, to the office of Comptroller of the Treasury. At the end of his three year term, in 1914, he was re-elected.
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In November, 1918 he was nominated by petition for the office of State Senator to fill the unexpired term of Hon. Cornelius S. McGlennon. Mr. Edwards was elected at the general election by over 21,000 majority.
Mr. Edwards is a member of Bergen Lodge 47, F. & A. M., the Carteret Club, Jersey City ; the Trenton Country Club, the National Democratic Club of New York City, the Bankers Club of America and the Zeta Psi Fraternity.
EDWARD EHLERS-Rockaway, (Church St.)-Iron Manu- facturer. Born at New York, N. Y., April 13, 1876 ; son of Henry and Elizabeth (Ring) Ellers ; married at Brooklyn, N. Y., No- vember 18th, 1903, to Florence K. Meyer, daughter of John N. and Ida ( Booth) Meyer of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Children : Anna C., born July 18, 1905; Florence E., Nov. 19, 1911 ; Edith M., Oct. 20, 1915, and Edward, Jr., Oct. 20, 1915.
Edward Ehlers was educated chiefly in the public schools of New York City, and Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, Pa.
He has resided in New Jersey for the past fifteen years, at Rock- away, having come from his native city in 1903, at the age of twenty- seven years.
In connection with his interests in the iron manufacturing business, Mr. Ehlers is President of the Rockaway Rolling Mill, the Rockaway Operating Co., the Kent Iron & Steel Corp. of Brooklyn, the Bronx Iron & Steel Co. of New York City. He has also been President of the First Na- tional Bank of Rockaway since 1917.
Despite the fact that his business activities have naturally required a great deal of his time and attention, Mr. Ehlers has also been able to take an active part in the civic and political affairs of the state and city in which he lives. During the years 1914 to 1917, he was the mayor of Rockaway, having been elected on the Republican ticket, and in 1915 and 1916, he was chairman of the Morris Co. Republican Committee. In addition, he was the chairman of the Rockaway Chapter of the Red Cross, and in connection with his business, the Treasurer of the Em- plovers Association of Arch Iron Workers, New York City, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Eastern Bar Iron Institute, being also the only honorary member of this organization.
His club memberships are the Machinery Club of New York City, Lambs Club of New York City, N. Y. A. C. of New York City, Rock- away River Country Club, Denville, N. J. Associated Charities, Daytona, Fla., B. P. O. E., Dover, N. J., Acacia Lodge, F. & A. M., Dover, N. J., Jr. O. U. A. M., Rockaway, N. J., and the Morris County Auto Club of which he is trustee.
SIGMUND EISNER-Red Bank .- Manufacturer. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born at Horazdiowitz, Bohemia, Aus-
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tria, on Feb. 14th, 1859; son of Michael and Catharine ( Brumel) Eisner ; married at Red Bank, on Jan. 13, 1885. to Bertha Weis, daughter of Elias and Hannah Weis, of Red Bank.
Children : H. Raymond, J. Lester, Monroe, Victor.
Sigmund Eisner is President of the Sigmund Eisner Company, in whose plant in Red Bank, uniforms for the United States and for nearly every nation in Europe and Central and South America are made. Since the outbreak of the European war his company has had large orders from England, Italy and their allies for the furnishing of army uniforms and accoutrement.
Mr. Eisner was educated at the public schools across the seas, and came to this country in 1880, The business which has grown into such large proportions, started in his manufacture of clothing in a very small way. Through his energies it grew rapidly and eventually necessitated the great plant in which it is now conducted. The Sigmund Eisner Com- pany are the largest manufacturers of uniforms in the United States and produce more uniform garments than any other concern in the world.
Mr. Eisner has not lost sight of his duties to the community in which he has made his home, and he has served as Water Commissioner, a Com- missioner of the Sinking Fund, and as Commissioner of Playgrounds of Red Bank and is one of the Governors of the Long Branch Hospital. He has interested himself too in the problems for the solution of which the State Charities Aid Society was created and is one of its Vice Presidents.
ADDISON ELY - Rutherford. - Lawyer. Born in Westfield, Mass., May 23, 1853; son of William and Emeline ( Harrison ) Ely ; married in 1874, to Emily J. Johnson of Connecticut Farms.
Children : Addison Ely, Jr., lawyer, Rutherford : Seth Harrison Ely, lawyer, Dover; Sandford D. Ely, Postmaster, Rutherford ; William H. J. Ely, lawyer, Rutherford ; Leon Abbett Ely, farmer, Rutherford ; Hiram Baldwin Ely, instructor in mathematics at Westpoint ; J. S. T. Stranahan Ely, midshipman, Annapolis : Mrs. F. H. Woodward, Fitchburg, Mass .: Mrs. Waldo M. Abbott, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Miss Clara Ely. War Service, Washington. Of these Captain Hiram B. Ely, a graduate of West Point, First Lieutenant Addison Ely, Jr., Lieutenant William H. J. Ely and J. S. T. Stranahan Ely, Midshipman. were officers in the army during the period of the German War.
Mr. Ely is descended from families living in Massachusetts since early colonial times. Captain Levi Ely who was killed in the battle of Mohawk during the Revolution was his great grandfather and he had not less than twenty-five ancestors bearing the name of Ely, Harrison and Baldwin at the battles of Lexington and Concord, the battle of Bunker Hill and the Seige of Boston. His grandfather on his mother's side was related to President William Henry Harrison, whose grandson. Benjamin Harrison, later was also President of the United States.
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Upon the death of Mr. Ely's mother in '62 the family moved to Bloom- field. He was educated at Phillips Academy, Exeter and the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. At eigliteen he became a teacher in the District School in Connecticut Farms and afterwards principal of the Caldwell High School and the High School at Rutherford. He was admitted to the Bar as an attorney in 18SS, becoming a counselor in '91; and has since practiced his profession at his office in Bergen County and has been active in social and political life in Bergen County.
In 1896 he was the Democratic candidate for Congress and in 1900 a delegate to the National Democratic Convention held at Kansas City. He connected himself with Co. (, 3rd Regiment N. G. N. J. in 1872 and in 1893 became Captain of Co. L. 2nd Regiment. In '98 he served in the Spanish-American War and was Provost Marshal of General Lee's Corps at Jacksonville. He resigned from the N. G. N. J. in 1904.
ALLEN B. ENDICOTT -- Atlantic City .- Jurist. Born at May's Landing, March 7, 1857: son of Thomas Doughty and Anne Pen- nington Endicott.
Children : Mrs. H. K. Read : Thomas Pennington ; Allen Brown ; Paul Davis.
Allen B. Endicott, who is widely known as a jurist in South Jersey, was for eleven years City Solicitor of Atlantic City, served meanwhile as Collector of Atlantic County for the six years following May of 1883, was Common Pleas Judge of the county for more than six years, Circuit Court Judge for seven years and is President of the Board of Trustees of the Atlantic Rescue Mission, and of the New Jersey Sunday School Council of Adult and Bible Class Work. His first appointment as Presiding Judge of the county courts came from Governor Griggs. He served only the single term at that time but, in 1898, he was again appointed by Governor Griggs. In December, 1903, Governor Murphy nominated him to the State Senate for Circuit Court Judge to fill a vacancy caused by the death, in November of that year, of James H. Nixon. While he has not been active in the politics of late years, Judge Endicott is Republican and Governor Wilson, who was in office at the time, being a Democrat, he failed of re- appointment in 1911, but was the same winter appointed Judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals, a position which he declined to resume the practice of law with his son as partner.
Judge Endicott acquired his early education in the local schools, and. subsequently attending the Public Institute at Hightstown, graduated in June, 1876, with the Ph. B. degree. He read law with Peter L. Voorhees of Camden and graduated from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1879.
Judge Endicott was President of the New Jersey Bar Association in 1905-1906. He is the organizer and teacher of the four hundred members of the Allen Brown Bible Class of the First Presbyterian Church and is super- intendent of Adult Bible Class Work in Atlantic County. Besides the Ph. B. degree conferred by Peddie Institute he holds the LL. B. degree from
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the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Board of Gov- ernors of Peddie Institute and of the Board of Governors of the Atlantic City Hospital and President (since its organization in 1889) of the Union National Bank of Atlantic City.
BRITTON D. EVANS-Morris Plains .- Alienist. ( Photographi published in Vol. 1-1917). Born in Caroline County, Maryland, October 1, 1858 ; son of Dr. Lewis W. and Lucinda ( Boone) Evans ; married in 1889 to Addie E. Dill, a native of Maryland, but at that time a resident of Wilmington, Delaware.
Children : Britton Buckley, Margaret Snow, Helen Sothern and Louise Duroc.
Dr. Britton D. Evans, who has been Medical Director of the New Jersey State Hospital at Morris Plains for more than twenty-five years, and now Superintendent and Chief Executive Officer, and who is in high repute as an authority on mental disease, is a direct descendant, on his father's side, of Christmas Evans, eminent Welsh divine, and, on his mother's side, of Daniel Boone, the celebrated Kentucky pioneer. His father, a graduate of two of the medical schools of Philadelphia and a practitioner for many years in that city, was first married to a Miss Patton ; Lucinda Boone was his second wife. Dr. Evans' grandfather, Colonel Britton Evans, served under General Harrison in the war of 1812, with the rank of Lieutenant of Artillery, took part in the war with Mexico, and in the Florida war, and at the time of his death was organiz- ing a company to go to Greece to help her in her struggle for independence against Turkey. His original commission, signed by Presidents Monroe and Madison, and also the original credentials which enabled him to organize a company in aid of the Greeks, are in the possession of Dr. Evans.
Dr. Evans was reared to manhood in his native state, acquiring an academic education which prepared him for the activities of life. Later he became a student in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Balti- more, from which he was graduated in the class of 1885. He located for active practice, in Millington, Kent County, Maryland, and continued thus employed for two years, when he was appointed upon the staff of surgeons of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Without solicitation on his part, he was called to the position of Assistant Medical Superintendent of the Maryland Hospital for the Insane at Catonsville, in which capacity he served for nearly five years, gaining a valuable experience. He then re- signed in order to accept the position of Medical Superintendent of the Maryland Institution for the Feeble-Minded ; and in a very short period he was offered the position of Medical Director of The New Jersey State Hospital at Morris Plains- this being tendered to him for his efficiency and ability in psychiatry and the care and treatment of the insane.
He entered upon his duties there on June 1, 1892. He had not been there a year when he promoted the change of the name of the institution from "The Morristown Asylum" to "The New Jersey State Hospital at Morris Plains." The term "asylum" signifies a place where mentally in-
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firm persons are kept and protected against the vicissitudes incident to the struggle of life, while a "hospital" is, in addition, an institution where persons who are ill. whether mentally or physically, are treated by the most up-to-date methods. For this purpose numerous infirmaries and operating rooms have been opened, where patients are treated in bed and receive all the nursing care and medical attention their cases need.
He has also, with the co-operation of the Board of Managers, estab- lished a training school for nurses, from which since October 30, 1894, 240 have been graduated. A new dormitory building, with a capacity for 600 patients, a home for nurses, and buildings for the isolation and treat- meut of the insane of the hospital suffering from tuberculosis, have been erected, and a number of new departments established. The number of patients on June 1, 1892, when Dr. Evans assumed the office of Medical Director, was 939 and at the present date about 2700.
Dr. Evans has appeared as witness in many cases in the Federal Courts, in New York State and New Jersey and other states, among the important of which being the Preusser case in Albany, New York, the Tera- nova case in New York City, the James Joseph Gallagher case, the J. Armstrong Chaloner case, the case of Mrs. Bradley for the murder of U. S. Senator Brown of Utah, in Washington, D. C., and in the two Thaw trials and the subsequent habeas corpus proceedings.
His contributions to the medical literature of the world, on nervous and mental diseases, have been numerous and valuable. Among those which have appeared in print, are: "The Inebriate as a Producer of De- pendents," "State Care of the Insane," "The Nurse and Her Mission," "The Therapeutic and Economic Value of Diversional Occupation," "The Treatment of Paresis," "Court Testimony of Alienists," "Court Testimony of Medical Experts in Mental Diseases" and others.
Dr. Evans is a member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, the American Medical Association, the Medical Society of New Jersey, the Medico-Legal Society of New York, the American Medico-Psychological Association, the National Society for the Study and Care of Epileptics or Iusane, the National Conference of Charities and Correction, ex-President of the Morris County Medical Society, and an honorary member of the Temperance Reform League of Boston, a society organized for the scientific study and care of inebriety, a member of the staff of All Souls Hospital, Morristown, ex-President of the Tri-County Medical Society, Councilor of the American Congress of Internal Medi- cine for the State of New Jersey, and Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He is also a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, Im- proved Order of Red Men. and the Royal Arcanum. He is a member of the Methodist Church. as is also his wife.
JOHN DAVIS EVERITT-Orange, (335 Central Ave.)-Banker. Born at Orange, N. J., Nov. 6th, 1858; son of Isaac J. and Martha Britton (Armstrong) Everitt ; married at Albany, N. Y., Dec. 26th. 18SS, to Marguerite Spence Willard, daughter of Dr. Syl- vester D. and Susan E. (Spence ) Willard of Albany, N. Y.
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Children : Eleanor Willard Greene, Aug. 2, 1891; John Willard, July 4, 1895; Theodore Trail, Dec. 28, 1899; Sylvester Dudley, Aug. 2, 1901, died Dec. 21st, 1906.
John Davis Everitt is the son of Isaac J. Everitt, who was born in Montague. Sussex County, in 1825, and who was the son of John D. Everitt.
Mr. Everitt was educated in public and private schools of Orange. For twenty-five years (1893 to 1918) he was the head of the firm of John D. Everitt & Co., at No. 6 Wall street, New York, in the bond busi- ness, but he discontinued his interests with this concern about a year ago. At the present time he is President of the Orange National Bank, the Trust Company of Orange, N. J., the Orange Valley Bank, and also of the Consolidated Fire Alarm Company of New York, as well as being a director in the Automatic Fire Alarm Company of New York, and Vice President of the Georgin Light, Power & Railways Co.
Mr. Everitt has also taken considerable interest in civic and political affairs. He has been the Treasurer of the City of Orange Sinking Fund Commission for the past twenty-five years, and was Treasurer of the Republican State Committee during the Taft campaign in 1912. In 1916- 1917. he was the President of the New Jersey Bankers Association. Dur- ing 1916, Mr. Everitt was also President of the Essex County Bankers Association, and since 1908 has been Treasurer of the Orange Memorial Hospital.
In the first and second Liberty Loan Campaigns, he was the Chairman of the committee which had in its charge, the Oranges of New Jersey. This body was separated during the 3rd and 4th Loan but Mr. Everitt selected the men who made a success of the war loan drives in East, West and South Orange, and later took charge of the Orange proper himself.
Mr. Everitt is a member of the Essex County Country Club, New England Society of Orange, Suffolk County Country Club and the Bell- port Yacht Club. L. I.
WILSON FARRAND-South Orange .- Head Master. (Photo- graph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born Sept. 22, 1862; son of Samuel Ashbel and Louise (Wilson) Farrand, and brother of Max Farrand, Professor of History, Yale College, and of Living- ston Farrand. President University of Colorado: married at Bos- ton, on Nov. 23, 1889, to Margaret Washburne Walker, daughter of James P. and Mary A. Walker, of Boston, Mass.
Children : Margaret L., Katharine, and Dorothy W.
Wilson Farrand is Head Master of the Newark Academy, which was founded in 1792, and of which his father became head in 1859. He is one of a family of brothers who are distinguished in the educational and scho- lastic life of the country. Mr. Farrand achieved a high reputation in col- lege for his literary proficiency, and bore away the first Lynde Debate prize when he graduated from Princeton University with the class of 'S6; and
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has been a frequent speaker at dinners and on other public occasions. He was for six months Assistant Editor of Scribner's Magazine, edited Car- lyle's "Essays on Burns" in 1896 and Tennyson's "Princess" in 1898: and has written and lectured considerably on literary topics.
Those, however, of his papers that have attracted most attention have been on educational topics. He has been particularly effective in the move- ment to bring about uniformity in the matter of college entrance require- ments and in establishing the relations of the schools to the colleges. His address before the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the Middle States and Maryland in November, 1893, described by the "Edu- cational Review" for January, 1894, as "a lucid and cogent paper on the work in preparatory schools in English." resulted in the appointment of a committee (with Mr. Farrand for a member) to secure uniformity in col- lege requirements in English. The adoption of the first uniform entrance- requirement in any subject by the American colleges followed; and Mr. Farrand, since its foundation, has been a member of the National Con- ference on Uniform Entrance Requirements in English-for a number of years past, its Secretary. With President Butler, of Columbia University, he was on the committee that planned the organization of the College En- trance Examination Board, and is yet chairman of its Committee on Ex- amination Ratings and a member of the Committee of Review.
A paper which he read before the School Masters' Association in 1905 on the question whether college requirements are too great in quantity led the Association to devote all of its meetings for a year to the con- sideration of the subject : and as the result of a second paper, laid before the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, a halt was called on the tendency to increase college requirements and in many cases they were distinctly reduced.
Dr. Farrand was President of the School Masters' Association of New York (1895-6) ; and in his inaugural speech made a plea for a reform of college entrance requirements that moved President Seth Low, of Colum- bia. and President Eliot, of Harvard, to unite in calling a conference for a discussion of the problem. The conference was attended by representatives of Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Cornell and the University of Pemi- sylvania, and by representatives of the secondary schools. Mr. Farrand was chairman of the committee charged with the selection of the Secondary School representatives, and participated, besides, in the general work of the Conference. At the annual meeting, at Johns Hopkins University, of the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, Mr. Farrand returned to the subject with a striking address.
When in 1906 a new committee, known as the National Conference Committee on Standards of Colleges and Secondary Schools, was organized, Mr. Farrand was named to represent the College Entrance Examination Board, which, with the Carnegie Foundation, the Association of State Uni- versities and the various associations of colleges and secondary schools, had delegates in attendance. Mr. Farrand, as First Vice President, be- came President of the Conference. Its influence is felt throughout the College system of the country : and Mr. Farrand's position on it has en- abled him to establish intimate relations and co-operation with some of the leading educational authorities of the nation.
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In 1909 Mr. Farrand was elected Alumni Trustee of Princeton Uni- versity for a term of five years, and in 1914 was re-elected for a second term. His educational experience and wide acquaintance with school and college men especially qualify him for work of this kind, and ever since his first election to the Board he has been one of its most active and in- fluential members.
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