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Mr. Hemphill is President of the Automobile Club of America, and a member of the Century Association, the Down Town Association, the Economic, the Bankers, the Metropolitan, the Recess, the Rittenhouse clubs, and the Union League, all of New York; the Rittenhouse of Phila- delphia, the Rocky Mountain Club and of the Rumson Country Club.
CHARLES O'CONNOR HENNESSY-Hackensack, (211 Passaic St.)-Writer and Savings Society Manager. (Photograph pub- lished in Vol. 1-1917). Born in Waterford, Ireland, on Sep- tember 11, 1860; son of John Collins and Annie (Cunningham)
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Hennessy ; married on December 26, 1882, to Emma Louise Han- cock, daughter of Henry and Louisa (Atwell) Hancock, of Troy N. Y.
Children : Frank Hancock.
Charles O'Connor Hennessy is an earnest believer in the philosophy of Henry George and enjoyed the friendship of that distinguished man as well as that of Thomas G. Sherman, William Lloyd Garrison 2nd, Tom L. Johnson, Father McGlynn and other noted Single Taxers. He also repre- sented the "New York World" in London in its effort in 1893 to secure the release of Dr. Gallagher and other Irish-American political prisoners serving life sentences in Portland Prison. His public exposure of the brutality with which these prisoners were treated led to a Parliamentary inquiry and the subsequent release of some of them. But he is best known in New Jersey through his five years of service in the Legislature-two years in the Assembly and three years in the Senate-where he made an unusual record for independence and devotion to progressive legislation.
Mr. Hennessy comes of Irish Revolutionary stock. His father, who came to New York in 1870. had to leave Ireland on account of political activities. An uncle died as a result of confinement in an English prison for alleged complicity in a conspiracy against British rule in Ireland. Mr. Hennessy takes his middle name from the mother's side of his family, she being of the O'Connors of Kerry. Like his father and his two brothers, Joseph P. and John A., Mr. Hennessy was trained as a New York news- paper man, after education in the Brooklyn public schools. He served as City Editor of the "Daily News" for ten years and was for a time New York correspondent of the "Boston Globe." Between times, and since, he has done much magazine writing. He eventually became interested in other directions, and has been for years President of the Franklin Society for Home Building and Savings, the largest co-operative savings institu- tion in New York City. Having come to Bergen County to live about 1898, he is held chiefly responsible for the growth of Haworth, the interesting residential town on the West Shore Railroad where he makes his home.
At Trenton Mr. Hennessy quickly won the confidence of Governor Wilson and was the chief exponent in the House of Assembly of the so- called "Wilson policies." He introduced and secured the passage of a constitutional convention bill, the bill for the direct election of United States Senators, a bill to ratify the Federal income tax and a bill to throw open the public schools of the state to all sorts of meetings and social gatherings. In the Senate he was noted for his devotion to home rule for municipalities, and especially home rule in taxation, and fought for reform in the highway laws and for a more equitable system of taxation assess- ments. He twice introduced and passed in the Senate a Torrens Land Title Registration Act and was the author of the act abolishing primaries and instituting the preferential system of voting in commission-governed municipalities. The establishment of the so-called requisition system, which put an end to waste and extravagance in the expenditure of state appropriations, was brought about through an act introduced by him while he was chairman of the Committee on Joint Appropriations. He was an advocate of equal political rights for all citizens, which he considered a
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fundamental Democratic reform. In 1916, Mr. Henessy's friends made him a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor, but a period of illness extending over several months necessitated his with- drawal from the contest.
Mr. Hennessy is a life member of the Haworth Country Club which he founded. He was for years an officer of the New York Press Club. He is a member of the Hardware Club and the Manhattan Single Tax Club, of New - York.
ERNEST J. HEPPENHEIMER-Tenafly, (Tenafly Road.)-In- surance. Born in Jersey City on Feb. 24th, 1869.
Ernest J. Heppenheimer is President of the Colonial Life Insurance Company of America, the head office of which is in Jersey City and a Judge of the State Court of Errors and Appeals. But he has been active in other business directions and was, for years before he went on the Bench of the Court of Errors and Appeals, a figure in the public affairs of Hudson County. He was one of the Democratic Presidential Electors in 1912; and it was upon Governor Wilson's appointment in 1913 that he secured his judicial office. He was President of the Jersey City Board of Aldermen and ex-officio, a member of the City Finance Board from 1910 to June, 1913, when the Commission Rule form of government came into existence. In 1912 and 1913 he was President of the New Jersey Harbor Commission.
Judge Heppenheimer attended public school No. S in Jersey City until he was ten years of age and then spent three years at school in Germany. When he returned to America he was for three years in the Peekskill Aca- demy and finished at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Upon leaving the Academy he became interested in the firm of F. Heppenheimer Sons, lithographers, in New York, which his father had founded, and continued the partnership until the business was taken over by the American Litho- graphic Company. Retiring, he went to Texas and conducted an extensive cattle ranch there until he returned to Jersey City in 1897. He assisted to found the Colonial Life Insurance Company of America, was made its Secretary, promoted to Second Vice President in 1902 and succeeded to the Presidency in 1906.
WILLIAM CHRISTIAN HEPPENHEIMER-Jersey City, (291 Montgomery St.)-Banker and Lawyer. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born, in New York City, on March 27, 1860; son of Frederick and Christine (Hofer) Heppenheimer ; married in New York City, on April 30, 1890, to Blanche Miller, daughter of Charles W. and Johanna Miller, of San Francisco.
Children : Gladys, born May 8, 1891; William C., Jr., born De- cember 9, 1896.
William C. Heppenheimer is President of the Trust Company of New Jersey with offices at Iloboken. For many years he has been a figure among the public men of the State. He came into political view
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when Governor Leon Abbett was a candidate for United States Senator in 1SS7. Mr. Heppenheimer was then a member of the first House of As- sembly in which he served. It was part of the Democratic joint meeting charged with the election of a Senator to succeed William J. Sewell, Re- publican. Governor Abbett was given the caucus nomination of the Demo- ocratic majority ; but some of the Democratic Assemblymen declined to be bound by the party edict. The rupture culminated in one of the most turbulent legislative sessions in the history of New Jersey. The bolting Democrats formed a coalition with the Republican minority ; and, with votes enough to accomplish it, captured the organization of the House, defeated the caucus nominee and sent Rufus Blodgett, then Superintendent of the New York and Long Branch Railroad, to the United States Senate, in Governor Abbett's stead. Mr. Heppenheimer was a friend, both politic- ally and socially of Governor Abbett, and made strenuous attempts to defeat the combination formed for Abbett's defeat. Governor Abbett had made him a member of his official military staff; later he became In- spector General of New Jersey by appointment of Governor Green.
General Heppenheimer was re-elected to the House of 'SS, '89 and '90, and was chosen speaker at the session of 1890. Governor Abbett came to the governorship a second time in that year; and in '91, through his in- fluence with the Democratic joint caucus in behalf of General Heppen- heimer's election as Comptroller of the State. General Heppenheimer won the caucus nomination and served in that office for three years, closing in 1894.
General Heppenheimer came from New York to Jersey City when he was about four years of age and attended the Hoboken Academy until 1872. Crossing the seas, he studied at Weinheim, near Heidelberg, in Germany, until '76. Upon his return to this country he took a course from '78 to '80 at Columbia College Law School and from '80 to '82 at the Har- vard Law School. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1881 and became a practicing attorney in New Jersey in 1885. He maintained a law office in Hoboken until 1905.
Of late years, however, his attention has been devoted exclusively to banking affairs. He was the founder of the Trust Company of New Jersey in Hoboken and has been its President from the commencement. This Company has four branches, all located in Hudson county.
He is a member of the Banks' Club of America and a former Presi- dent of the New Jersey Bankers' Association and has made frequent addresses on financial topics that have attracted wide attention. He was President of the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce in 1914 and 1915 and is a member of the following clubs :New York Athletic, Carteret, and Union League of Jersey City, Arcola Country, Deal Golf, Blooming- grove Hunting and Fishing and the Bankers of New York.
JOHN WARNE HERBERT-Helmetta .- Manufacturer. (Photo- graph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born at Wickatunk, Marlboro Township, August 3, 1853; son of John W. and Agnes Day Run- von (Wright) Herbert of Piscataway Township ; married at Jersey
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City, November 10, 1885, to Olivia Antoinette Helmc, daughter of George W. and Margaret (Appleby) Helme.
Children : John Oliver, born December 26, 1886, (died October 12, 1898) ; Gertrude A., born November 22, 1892, (Mrs. Edward D. Dun) ; John Warne, Jr., born January 23, 1899.
John W. Herbert is Chairman of the State Highway Commission ap- pointed by Governor Edge for road construction in New Jersey, under an act providing for an outlay of $30,000,000. Prior to this appointment he had been well known in the professional and business life of the state and a factor in its politics.
Mr. Herbert is a descendant of Philip Herbert, the Fourth Earl of Pembroke, and Sir Thomas Warne, one of the Proprietors of East Jersey. Francis Herbert, the first representative of that name in New Jersey and a grandson of Philip Herbert, came from Long Island in 1677 with thirty associates, and settled in Middletown, Monmouth Co. He married Han- nah, daughter of the celebrated Quaker, John Bowne, who located on Long Island in 1659. Obadiah, one of their sons, in 1729, married Hannah daughter of William Lawrence, Jr., grandson of Sir Henry Lawrence, President of Cromwell's Council. Obadiah 2nd, one of their nine children, in 1765 married Elizabeth Warne, grand-daughter of Sir Thomas Warne, and settled in Middlesex county. One of their three sons, William, was father of John Warne Herbert, Sr., born in 1771, who in 1801 married Eleanor, daughter of Benjamin Conover, of Monmouth county. They had seven children, Obadiah, Conover, William W., John Wy, Abbey E., Hannah and Eleanor. Their son, John W. Herbert, father of John Warne Herbert, was one of the leading citizens of his native state. Educated a civil engineer, he was successively township Assessor, county Freeholder, County Superintendent of Public Schools and Associate Judge of the County Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions. He was Chairman of the Republican County Committee of Monmouth for ten years and for sixteen years its treasurer; a delegate to the Republican National Con- ventions of 1872 and 1884; tendered the nomination for Congress in 1872, and in 1875 received the nomination for State Senator. He died April 10, 1899.
John Warne, his son, attended school at Old Brick Church School House, near Marlboro, where Vice President Garret A. Hobart was his perceptor for two terms. Later it was Mr. Herbert's privilege and pleas- ure, as delegate to the Republican National Convention at St. Louis, in June, 1896, to take an active and potential part in the nomination of his teacher and warm personal friend for the Vice Presidency of the United States.
Mr. Herbert attended school for four years at Glenwood Institute, Matawan. He entered the scientific department of Rutgers College in 1869. and at New Brunswick in November of that year, he participated in the first intercollegiate game of football ever played in this country - between Rutgers and Princeton. He was graduated a B. S. and Civil Engincer, in 1872, and received the degree of M. S. in 1875. In 1902 he was elected an alumni Trustee of the College, and in 1907 a life Trustee.
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His profession of civil engineer not congenial, lie began the study of law in the office of Capt. Albert S. Cloke, at Jersey City. In 1874 he en- tered the Columbia Law School and for two years was under the tuition of Theodore W. Dwight. In 1876 he received his degree as an LL. B., was admitted as an attorney and counselor at law of New York in May, 1876, in the following June as an attorney, and three years later as a counselor, of New Jersey.
Beginning the practice of law at Jersey City in 1876, he soon had a lucrative practice. He was appointed a Master in Chancery in 1879, Special Master in Chancery in 1886. Though an ardent Republican, Mr. Herbert has persistently refused to be a candidate for any public office, with the exception of Mayor of Helmetta, to which office he was elected in 1890 and in which he served continuously to 1902.
Mr. Herbert abandoned the active practice of law in the Fall of 1889 to engage in the manufacturing business at Helmetta, where he remained until 1900. Major Gen. George W. Helme, his father-in-law, had estab- lished there one of the largest tobacco manufacturing plants in the country, and had founded the town that grew up around it. Mr. Herbert had meanwhile become largely interested in trolley properties, and having acquired controlling interest in the old Niagara Central R. R., a steam railroad, running from Niagara Falls to St. Catharine, Ont., converted it into an electric railroad. He bought the Niagara Falls, Wesley Park & Clifton Tramway Company. the Port Dalhousie, St. Catharines & Thorold Electric Railway Co. and the Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto Navigation Co .. and consolidating all into the Niagara St. Catharine and Toronto Railway Co., was elected its President. In 1902 he was elected the first vice-president and chairman of the executive committee of the Hudson Valley Railway Company. This electric railroad. covering 125 miles of main line, is one of the longest trolley systems in the United States.
He is also President of the Peoples Realty Company, Director of the Union Dye & Chemical Corporation. the Freehold & Jamesburg Agricultu- ral R. R. Co .. the American Snuff Co., the Columbia Gas & Electric Co., the American LaFrance Fire Engine Co., Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co., the Colonial Life Insurance Co., and many other corporations.
In 1916 he was appointed by Governor Fielder a member of the Com- mission on "Good Roads" Legislation and was made Chairman of the Com- mission. In 1917 Gov. Edge made him a member of the State Highway Commission.
Mr. Herbert is a warden of St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church, of Helmetta, and of St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church, New York. He is a member of the Lawyer's Club and the Union League of New York. (now Vice President ), the Sleepy Hollow Country, the Oakland Golf Club. and Freehold Golf and Country Club.
His New York home is at Fifth Avenue and Forty-fourth Street, and his office at 31 Nassau Street, New York.
RICHARD W. HERBERT-Wickatunk .- Farmer. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born at Wickatunk. in 1859: son of Jolmn W. and Agnes D. (Wright) Herbert.
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Richard W. Herbert was Governor Murphy's appointee as one of the Commissioners to the St. Louis Exposition of 1904. In 1907 Gov. Stokes selected him to serve on the Commission to the Jamestown Exposition. In 1908 Gov. Fort named him to attend the International Tax Conference held in Milwaukee, and he has since attended the succeeding Conferences . each year. by appointments of Governors Wilson and Fielder. He acted as President and Manager and Treasurer of the Freehold & Keyport Plank Road Company, and of the Manalapanville and Pattens Corner Turnpike and was the first person to advocate the sale of turnpikes to the County. Board of Frecholders in Monmouth.
Mr. Herbert's father was active in Monmouth county politics, and Mr. Herbert has lived in Wickatunk all of his life. He was educated at the Glenwood Institute, Matawan ; and afterwards took the classical course at Rutgers College, in the class of 1878. Since leaving college he has been engaged in scientific farming on a large scale, finding time, however, to devote to public affairs. In 190S he accepted Gov. Fort's appointment as a member of the County Board of Taxation. Governors Wilson and Fielder respectively reappointed him in 1911 and in 1914. Ile also held the office of Monmouth County Collector for a year. Besides the other state distinctions conferred upon him. he was made by Gov. Fort a member of the commission to ascertain the cost of land needed to build the inland waterways, and was chosen its Chairman.
Mr. Herbert is also a Director of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Matawan and Director of several corporations. He is a member of the Freehold Golf and Country Club and a life member of the Union League of Jersey City.
RUDOLPH HERING-Montclair, (40 Lloyd Road. )-Hydraulic Engineer. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born in Philadelphia, Pa., on February 26, 1847: son of Constantine and Therese (Buchheim) Hering: married in Philadelphia, on Janu- ary 2. 1873, to Fannie Field Gregory, daughter of I. N. Gregory, of Philadelphia : - 2nd, in Zittau, Germany, on March 27, 1894. to Ilermine Buchheim, daughter of Prof. Rudolph Buchheim. of Giessen, Germany.
Children : Oswald Constantine. born January 12. 1874; Ardo. born March 7, 1880; Dorothea P., born August 25. 1895; Paul E .. born July 26, 189S; Margarete, born May 22, 1902.
Rudolph Hering is engaged in private practice as Consulting Engi- neer. Incidental to this practice, he has acted as Chief Engineer of the Water Supply and Drainage Commission of Chicago; as Consulting En- gineer for the improved sewage works, proposing and recommending the new water supply surveys for Philadelphia, and, as Consulting Engineer for New York City, proposing and recommending the Catskill water sup- ply improvements, sewage system, street cleaning and refuse disposal.
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He has acted also, either as designing or advising of consulting en- gineer, for water supply, sewerage and refuse disposal works in, besides cities of less account, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, New Orleans, San Francisco, Toronto, Montreal, Mexico City, Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus, O., Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Charleston, Savannah, Atlanta, Montgomery, Trenton, Albany, Minneapolis, Duluth, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Honolulu, Tacoma, Victoria, Winnipeg, Ottawa, St. Johns, (N. F.), and Santos, Brazil. He has also written much in the way of reports, pamphlets, etc., upon the problems to which he has given his attention. With Mr. Traut- wine, he translated Kutter's work on "The Flow of Water in Open Channels" and was largely instrumental in introducing the use of the "Kutter formula" in the United States. He made frequent trips to Europe to study new designs and practice in his profession, and brought to the attention of United States engineers, the Imhoff tank for sewerage treat- ment, improved refuse incinerators and other novelties.
Mr. Hering's family went from Moravia to Germany in the 16th cen- tury, bearing the name Herynk. His father, born in Germany in 1800, was sent to South America by the Saxon Government in 1826 for zoological and botanical research. He settled in the United States in 1830 and founded at Allentown, Pa., the first college of homeopathic medicine in America.
Mr. Hering was educated at the private schools in Philadelphia to 1860, and thence until 1867 studied in preparatory schools and college at Dresden, Germany. Upon his return to this country he took a course in a business college. The University of Pennsylvania in 1907 conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Science. Immediately after leaving the busi- ness college, he became rodman in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, and a year later he was made Assistant Engineer at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. In 1872 he was engaged in topographical work in Yellowstone Park for the United States Geological Survey. Returning to Philadelphia in 1873 he was engineer in charge of building the Girard Avenue bridge crossing the Schuylkill river, and later until 1880, was Assistant City Engineer of the Pennsylvania metropolis. In 1881 he was engaged by the National Board of Health to prepare a report on European sewerage systems. He was a member of the firm of Hering & Fuller from 1901 to 1911, and of the firm Hering & Gregory until April, 1917.
Mr. Hering is a member of the American Institute of Consulting En- gineers, American Society Civil Engineers (Vice President). Institute of Civil Engineers of England. Verein Deutscher Ingenieure, Canadian So- ciety Civil Engineers, New England Water Works Association (Honorary Member), Western Society of Engineers, Engineers Clubs of Philadelphia (President) and of Trenton, New Jersey Sanitary Association (Presi- dent), the American Public Health Association (President). Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute of Arts and Sciences and member of the Century Club of New York City, and Chairman Sanitary Committee of Civic Association, Mont- clair.
HENRY BURDETT HERR-Flemington-(North Main Street ) Lawyer. Born at Haverstraw, N. Y., Jan. 3. 1849: son of Martin
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and Mary Elvira (Burdett) Herr; married at Philadelphia, Pa., on Oct. 24th, 1876, to Virginia B. Large, daughter of Jolm K. and Eliza A. ( Hall) Large, 2nd, at Jersey City, Feb. 1898 to Cora J. Hummer, daughter of Joseph and Susan (Johnson) Ramsey.
Children : Henry Burdett, born July, 1877, John Knowles, born Oct. 1. 1878; Frederick, born April, 1888; Florence Virginia, born Feb., 1890; Charles Ryman, born May, 1892; Wilmen E., born Feb., 1894; Marian, born May 6, 1895.
Henry Burdett Herr is a lineal descendant of Hans Herr, the first leader of the menonites, who settled in Pennsylvania about 1700. His father was R. V. Martin Herr, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church for many years, and who was stationed at many places in northern New Jersey, Newton, Washington, Hackensack, and others.
Mr. Herr was educated in the public schools and also studied at the Dover Institute and the Pennington Seminary. He was graduated from the latter in 1866.
Six years after completing his academie training, he was admitted to the bar of New Jersey as an attorney, and in 1875, he became a counsellor. Was delegate to Presidential Convention of 1888.
Mr. Herr in the early part of his career, practised his profession in Somerville, N. J., for three years (1873 to 1876) and after this period at White House Station, N. J., until 1888. Following this he opened his office in Flemington, N. J. Since his admittance to the bar, he has been law judge of Hunterdon County for a full term, from 1898 and also prose- cutor for a full term. In 1902, Mr. Herr was a candidate for Congress in the Fourth District of New Jersey.
During the World War, he received a severe blow when his sou, Lieut. Wilmer E. Ilerr, of the Ninth United States Infantry, was killed in action in France on April 8th, 1918. Another son, Lieut. Charles R. Herr, who is now adjudant of the 319th Infantry, was wounded three times. Col. John K. Herr, Chief of Staff of 30th Division, and Major Frederick Herr, who are West Point graduates, are also children of Mr. Herr.
His business address is Main Street, Flemington, N. J.
ALFRED M. HESTON .- Atlantic City .- Municipal Financier and Author. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born on April 30, 1854; son of I. Morris and Anna (Patton) Heston ; married at Camden, on December 30, 1875, to Abbie Mitchell.
Children : Helen ( Mrs. George B. Gensemer ) ; Jessie ; Florence (Mrs. Hobart J. Cavanaugh. )
Alfred M. Heston's literary work has given him a reputation in this and adjoining states as an annalist and local historian, while his work in the financial department of Atlantic City has won recognition for him as an expert in municipal finances. He published in 1883 a history of his
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own family, to which he made extensive additions in 1916. In this he traces his line back to 1277. Though of Quaker descent, he is an Episco- palian. One of his forbears, a Quaker, persecuted and driven out of Massachusetts about 1684, moved to New Jersey and married Dorothy Hutchinson, of Trenton.
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