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In 1909 he was appointed by the Governor on the Committee to report to the Legislature on the Fish and Game laws. Among the other im- portant events of Mr. Allinson's life were for six years he served as a member of the Finance Committee of New Jersey State grange, of which body he is still a member. The political field attracted his attention early in life. and he became an active member of the Young Republican Cam- paigning Club and was in 1917 elected to the Assembly for a third term. In 1917 and 1918 he served as chairman of the Committee on Town and Townships.
On Sept. 12, 1918, Mr. Allinson was appointed agricultural advisor to the Third New Jersey District Draft Board by the Secretary of Agri- culture at Washington, and on Feb. 27th, 1918, he was elected County Committeeman for Mercer County for the League to enforce Peace. When the Merchants-Bankers-Laborers-Agricultural Reconstruction con- vention was held in Newark, N. J., at the Robert Treat Hotel, Mr. Allin- son was a delegate. He was a delegate to the First National Convention of Marketing and Farm Credit in Chicago, April, 1913.
Mr. Allinson is a member of the following clubs: Masonic, Fall Cedars, Republican Club of Trenton and a charter member of Rutland Lodge, B. P. O. Elks.
PAUL AMBROSE-Trenton, (34 North Clinton Ave.) - Com- poser ; Organist. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born at Hamilton. Ontario, October 11, 1868 ; son of R. S. and Elizabeth Boyle Ambrose; married at Orange, in 1905, to Naomi Lambe, daughter of Harold and Alice Lambe.
Children : Gwynneth, Robert and Paul.
The father of Paul Ambrose was himself a distinguished Canadian composer and musician. Mr. Ambrose acquired his education in the On- tario schools, and studied piano and theory under his father, Kate S. Chittenden and Albert Ross Parsons, counterpoint under Bruno Oscar Klein and orchestration with Dudley Buck.
In 1886 he came to New York and was at once on his arrival ap- pointed organist of the Madison Ave. Methodist Episcopal Church in that city. Four years later he was selected as organist and choir master of St. James Methodist Episcopal Church, also in New York City. He was still in that position when on January 1, 1917, he became organist and choir master of the Old First Presbyterian Church in Trenton. He had meanwhile in 1903, removed from New York City to Trenton to accept
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the position of Director of the Musical Theory and Piano Department of the State Normal School there. He resigned from that position in June. 1917. Mr. Ambrose has been Professor of piano at Westminister School. Simsbury, Conn .. and is a widely known lecturer on musical topics. In 1906-1907 he was lecturer on Musical History at the America Institute of Applied Music, New York City, and since that time has been leeturer on Musical Theory, Harmony, etc., at the New Jersey State Normal School at Trenton. He is also Director of the Monday Musical Club in Trenton.
Professor Ambrose was President for New Jersey of the National Asso- ciation of Organists for three years (1913-1915). As a composer he has written much in the line of songs and instrumental works, church music etc .. and some of the products of his pen have been republished in Europe. The most widely used and best known of his secular songs is "The Shoogy Shoo": of his sacred songs "Jesus, Meek and Gentle," and "Just for To- day." while his most popular anthem is, "Come to my Heart. Lord Jesus."
Ile is a member of the International Association of Rotary Clubs, and the American Guild of Organists, a former Director of the American In- stitute of Applied Music, also of the Manuscript Society, and Vice-President of The Synthetic Guild of New York.
W. HOLT APGAR-Trenton. (375 W. State St.)-Lawyer. ( Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born in Annandale. Hunterdon County, May 18, 1861; son of Henry F. and Hannah M. (Farley ) Apgar ; married at Three Bridges. September 10. 1884, to Margaretta R. Higgins, daughter of Asher and Anna C. Higgins of Three Bridges.
Children : Mildred H. Apgar, born December 18, 1887: Anna M. Murray, born October 16, 1889; Henry Holt Apgar, born Novem. ber 26, 1896.
Mr. Apgar came to Trenton, Mercer County, in 1881, entering the law office of Captain Woodbury D. Holt as a law student, after having been educated in the Public Schools of Hunterdon County, followed by two years at the State Normal School in Trenton. He was admitted to the Bar, as an attorney, at the June Term, 1884, and as a counselor at the February Term, 1890. From the first he has practiced his profession in Trenton, and been actively engaged as well in Financial work and in politics, having been a member of the Mercer County Democratic Commit- tee for a long period of time.
For seven years he was the Assistant Prosecutor of Mercer County, serving as such under Bayard Stockton during nearly the whole of the latter's eleven years of service, retiring in 1894 when a Republican Legis- lature legislated out of office all of the Assistant Prosecutors.
Although Mercer County has a normal Republican majority of three thousand, Mr. Apgar, when the Democratic nominee for Senator in 1892 refused to accept the nomination of the convention, was asked to lead the forlorn hope, and, though barely eligible to that position had he been elected. cut down the normal majority to twelve thousand.
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At the Democratic Gubernatorial Convention of 1892 which nominated then Supreme Court Justice George T. Werts, as the Democratic candidate for Governor, Mercer County presented the name of General Richard A. Donnelly as its candidate. The struggle between Edward F. C. Young's and George T. Wert's friends, for the nomination, was fierce; and when Mr. Apgar had, as a compromise, presented General Donnelly's name, the enthusiasm for the "boy in blue" was so strong that it took the per- sonal efforts of the leaders of the other two factions to stay the rush for the "dark horse" and it was only by strenuous efforts that his nomination was prevented. Both of the forces that had been fighting each other. were forced to unite to prevent General Donnelly's nomination.
Mr. Apgar also served for five years as a member of the Mercer County Tax Board, and by reason of his experience and study of the taxation questions has since been recognized, in his section of the state, as an expert upon that subject. He was also for twenty years, a Park Commissioner and during a portion of that time, was President of the Board. Mr. Apgar was tendered the appointment of Circuit Judge by Governor Stokes in 1907, but he was unable to accept the same by reason of certain professional connections that he had then made and which he felt he ought not, at that time, to sever.
During his student period, he became engaged in legislative corres- pondence work for several of the New York and Philadelphia newspapers, which connection he continued for a number of years. He was one of the charter members of the Legislative Correspondents Club of Trenton and has always retained his membership therein.
Mr. Apgar has also been very active in Fraternal life, serving for two years as Grand Master of Masons of the State of New Jersey, and for two years as Supreme Regent of the Royal Arcanum for the United States and Canada. In Fraternal Beneficiary Society law, which is a special branch of the profession, Mr. Apgar has had much experience and is frequently consulted by other lawyers regarding that specialty. For a number of years past, he has had charge of the Claim Department of the Royal Arcanum, there passing under his supervision and direction of payment over $8,000,000 per year, for the beneficiaries of deceased members of the Royal Arcanum.
He has been one of the Solicitors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Con- pany for many years, and likewise represents the Adams and American Express Companies in his section of the State, and is a member of the Lawyers Club of New York, the Trenton Chamber of Commerce, Legisla- tive Correspondence Club of New Jersey, Trenton Country Club, the Wash- ington Association, limited in its membership to twenty members of the Grand Lodge of Masons of the State of New Jersey, and the Masonic Veterans Association of New Jersey.
T. FRANK APPLEBY-Asbury Park, (Main St.)-Realty Oper- ator. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917.) Born at Old Bridge, October 10th, 1864; son of Theodore and Margaret S. (Mount ) Appleby ; married at Sommerville, April 10, 1889, to Alice C. Hoffman, daughter of David K. Hoffman, of Lebanon.
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Children : Stewart H., born May 17th, 1890; Richard H., born May 12th, 1891 ; Theodore F., born May 14th, 1895.
The name of T. Frank Appleby is a familiar one in the towns along the shore coast of New Jersey. Of English descent, he was educated in the schools of Asbury Park, and Pennington Seminary, and graduated with the class of 1885 from Fort Edward (N. Y.) Institute. Ever since he began to make his home in Asbury Park he has been engaged in the real estate business, and at the same time active in the politics and affairs of the locality. He is best known to the business world however as a real estate operator, being a member of the New Jersey Real Estate Ex- change and an active influence in the Asbury Park Buildng and Loan As- sociation of which he is Vice-President. Prominent too, in insurance circles, he was for several years President of the New Jersey Fire Under- writers, He is a member also of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Appleby's political activities have been varied and continuous for many years. He has long been a factor in Asbury Park affairs particu- larly. He was a member of the local Board of Education for ten years -an apprenticeship that fitted him for valuable work on the State Board of Education during the eight years of his subsequent connection there. He served later as a member, by gubernatorial appointment, of the State Geological Survey Board. He was a member of the Asbury Park City Council for several years, its President for five terms. He served as acting Mayor, has been twice elected Mayor of Asbury Park, is Chairman of the Ocean Boulevard Committee and a member of the Monmouth County Tax Board. In 1896 he was chosen by the Republican State convention as a district delegate to the National Convention that put Garret A. Hobart of Paterson on the National ticket for Vice President of the United States, with Mckinley as the candidate for President.
Later, at a time when the state was stirred by a liquor agitation. the Legislature authorized the appointment of a commission to inquire into excise conditions in all parts of the commonwealth; and Governor Fort named Mr. Appleby as a member of that commission. The commission sat in many part of the state, and produced testimony that was revealing as to the prevalence of the liquor habit even in the restricted localities. and the confessed laxness, on the part of local officials, in many places, in the enforcement in the state liquor laws.
Mr. Appleby is fond of travel, has visited all parts of the United States, made a somewhat extensive trip through England, France and Italy, and he inspected the Panama Canal while it was in course of construction. He has attended many conventions of the American Bankers Association. and is a director of the Asbury Park and Ocean Grove Bank and a member of the Deal Golf Club and of many other local organizations.
EDWARD AMBLER ARMSTRONG-Camden .- Lawyer. Born at Woodstown, Dec. 28th, 1858; son of Francis W. and Rebecca Brown (Jess) Armstrong ; married on June 15, 1881, to Mellie MI. Fortiner, daughter of Samuel M. and Mary H. Fortiner, of Cam-
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den, (died March 23, 1883)-2nd on April 30, 1907, to Carrie W. Morgan, daughter of Randal E. Morgan, of Camden.
Children : Wynn, born February 5. 1883-member of the bar and 1st Lieutenant in World War.
Edward A. Armstrong has been Speaker of the New Jersey House of Assembly, Judge of the Camden City District Court, Presiding Judge of the Camden County Court, Judge Advocate of the Second Brigade N. G. N. J. and is now Assistant General Counsel of the Public Service Corpora- tion of New Jersey.
Mr. Armstrong finished his education at the High School, and has since received the A. M. degree from Bucknell University. Having studied law with Benjamin D. Shreve, he was admitted to the Bar as an attorney in 1880 and as a counselor in 1885. He began his practice in Camden with a special view to corporation work. His first election to the House .of Assembly was in 1883; and re-elected in 1884, '85, '86, he presided as Speaker over the Houses of 1885-86. In 1888 the Legislature elected him Judge of the Camden District Court, and in 1897 he was made Presiding Judge of the County Courts by Governor Griggs, serving until 1902. In 1906 Governor Stokes appointed him a member of the State Board of Equalization of Taxes and he served there until 1909. At the opening of 1911 he was made Assistant General Counsel of the Public Service Cor- poration. He maintains an office in Camden, where his son practices la w.
Judge Armstrong is a member of the Camden County Bar Associa- tion, the New Jersey State Bar Association, the American Bar Associa- tion, the American Archaelogical Association (Princeton), the New Jersey Historical Society, and the Pennsylvania Historical Society. His club connections are with the Camden Automobile Club, the Nassau Club (Princeton ), the Union League Club, the Penn. Club, the Lawyers' Club (Philadelphia ), the Army and Navy Club, the Manhattan Club, the Lotos Club and the Republican Club, (New York).
Mr. Armstrong has a home, "The Farm," in Princeton.
HENRY VINECOME ARNY-Montclair-(135 Wachung Ave.) Chemist. Born in Philadelphia, February 28th, 1868; son of Louise Christian and Sarah (Shinn) Arny ; married April 22, 1903, to Katharine Moody Smith.
Henry Vinecome Arny in 1889, at the age of twenty-one, received a Ph. G. degree at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and desiring to enhance his training also took up studies for years at the University of Berlin and in the University of Gottingen, where he obtained the Ph. G. degree. Following his education, in 1879, Professor Arny began as an instructor in pharmacy and later was appointed dean of the Columbia ·College of Pharmacy, which office he held until 1911.
In 1915-16 he was the editor of the "Druggists' Circular," and also the "American Pharmacy Association's Year Book," and was elected mem- ber of the Committee of revision of the United States Pharmacopolia, and
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the Committee of revision of the National Formulary. During this period Prof. Arny was chosen President of the American Conference of Phiar- macy Faculties, and was made a member of the executive committee of the American Metric Association.
The Chemical Society of England recognizing his ability as a phar- mist about this time, elected him a fellow of the organization; and the American Pharmacy Association, the American Chemical Society, and the A. A. A. S. of Franklin Institute admitted him as a member.
Professor Arny's name is also on the membership enrolment of the Chemists Club of New York.
Not all of his activities have been solely confined to the field of pharmacy, however, as he has also found time to write a book, "The Principles of Pharmacy." which is already in its second edition.
His office address is 115 W. 68th Street, New York City.
BENJAMIN ATHA-Newark. (756 High St. )-Banker. Born Liberty, N. Y., January 5, 1844; son of Andrew Atha and Henri- etta (Armitage) Atha married at Newark, May 15, 1867, to Sarah A. Gurney, daughter of Henry G. Guerney, of England.
Children : Henry G., Herbert B., Albert H., Charles G., and Louis M.
Benjamin Atha's fore-bears came from England to this country in 1842. His father, Andrew Atha, was of the firm of Prentice Atha & Co., organized in 1864. The firm established itself at Newark, and afterwards moved to Harrison, and quickly grew into prominence among the industries of the country. The plant was extended for a constantly increasing business that made its product known in the markets of the world. An- drew Atha, during Civil War times, devoted a considerable part of his fortune to the comfort of the soldiers serving in the field of the Union ranks ; and he gave rent free to the families of all tenants whose sons or husbands or other wage earners had enlisted.
Benjamin Atha was educated in private schools and assisted in the conduct of his father's steel business. In 1871 the firm name was changed to Benjamin Atha & Company and so remained until 1898. Then Johu Illingworth was taken into the business, and it was reorganized as the Benjamin Atha & Illingworth Company. In 1900 the company was ab- sorbed by the Crucible Steel Company, and the works at Harrison consti- tute one of the most important establishments of that great producing corporation.
Andrew Atha was one of the original incorporators of the Essex County Bank. When he died in 1875, Benjamin Atha was chosen to sulc- ceed him in the bank's Board of Directors. In October of 1906, he was elected President of the bank, and continued in that relation till the open- ing of July, 1910, when he asked to be relieved. The Board of Directors. granting the request of course, conferred the title of Honorary Vice Presi- dent upon him.
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Mr. Atha is a member of the Union League Club, New York, the Essex Club, Newark, the Essex County Country Club, and the Baltusrol Golf Club.
ROBERT RENNIE ATTERBURY-Wyckoff-Stock Broker. Born at Paterson, N. J., April 27th, 1864, son of Elisha Bondi- not and Josephine (Kirby) Atterbury, married at Paterson, N. J., October 30th, 1901, to Eleanor Godwin Dodge, daughter of Fred- erick N. and Jennie Prall Dodge of Paterson, N. J.
Children : Richard Stockton, October 4th, 1902; Robert Rennie, Jr., March 26th, 1904; Eleanor Godwin, Feb. 17th, 1908.
Mr. Atterbury's education was obtained in the Bishop's College School in Canada (1876-1880) and at the Philips Academy, Andover, Mass. (1881- 1884).
He is a member of the New York Stock Exchange and of the firm of Van Emburgh and Atterbury.
His club memberships are the Raquet and Tennis' Club of New York, Church Club, Sons of the Revolution, Hamilton Club of Paterson, and Arcola Country Club.
WILLIAM STUART AUCHINCLOSS-Atlantic Highlands .- Author and Inventor. Born in New York, March 19, 1842, son of John Auchincloss.
William S. Auchincloss was educated at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and in 1862 received the C. E. degree from it. He was in the construction department of the Atlantic & Great Western Railway and of the Jersey City Locomotive works for seven years after graduation ; later a manufacturer of rolling stock and a ship builder for eight years. In these relations he acquired the expert information he afterwards embodied in his book "Link and Valve Motions." He was in business as a commis- sion merchant for fifteen years and meanwhile invented the averaging instrument for the rapid calculation of accounts. In 1867 President An- drew Johnson appointed him one of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Exposition.
Besides being the author of the technical work already referred to, Mr. Auchincloss has written "Ninety Days in the Tropics," "The Book of Daniel Unlocked" and "Standard Chronology of the Holy Bible."
HARRY A. AUGENBLICK-Newark, (22 Stuyvesant Ave. )- Counselor and Assemblyman. Born in New York, N. Y., May 1, 1888, son of Jacob and Pauline Augenblick ; married at Norwich,
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Conn., September 22, 1915, to Bertha Greenburger, (deceased Jan. 2, 1917), daughter of George and Mary Greenburger of Norwich, Conn.
Children : Bertha Pauline, Dec. 31, 1916.
Harry A. Augenblick, who has been a resident of Newark for the past twenty-five years, graduated from the public schools of that city ill 1902, and four years later from the High School there. Later he attended the Cornell University where in 1910 he received the degree of Civil En- gineer, and the New York University where in 1914 he obtained the degree of Bachelor of laws and Doctor Juris.
After completing his education he entered the employ of the Public Service Commission of New York as assistant engineer and after serving as such for six months resigned, and became an instructor at the Uni- versity of Michigan in the College of Engineering for the year 1910-1911. At the end of this time, he connected himself with J. G. White & Company as construction engineer, and did engineering work in England, the Cau- casus and Siberia. In 1912 he returned to the United States and entered the employ of the New York Central Railroad, and assisted in the con- struction and designing of the Grand Central Terminal and the various viaducts and bridges connected therewith.
In 1915 he was admitted to the New Jersey Bar as an attorney-at-law and in 1918 as a counselor. He later became associated in the practice of his profession with the former prosecutor of Essex County, Jacob L. Newman, and is now engaged in business for himself at the National State Bank Building, Newark, N. J., and also occupies the position of instructor in mechanical engineering at the Fawcett School of Industrial Arts, of Newark, N. J.
In 1919 he was elected as a member of the House of Assembly of New Jersey on the Democratic ticket.
Mr. Augenblick is a member of the Lawyers Club of Essex County, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Cornell Club of New York, the University of Michigan Club and the fraternal order of Eagles.
His business address is 810 Broad Street, Newark, N. J.
CHARLES L. AUGER-East Ridgewood, (Glenacres) .- Manu- facturer. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born in Phila- delphia, Pa., Sept. 29th, 1860; son of Peter F. and Marie F. (Clement) Auger; married to Mary Mirandon in 1881 (died 1883)-second to Emma Chadwick, in 1884.
Children : Frank C .; Emma F .; Mary F .; Charles L., Jr., and Louis F.
Charles L. Auger has been President of the National Silk Dyeing Company since its foundation. He is of French extraction on both sides, his father having been born in Normandy and lived in Paris, and Lor- raine being the birthplace of his mother. Both came to this country in 1860. Mr. Auger was educated in the public schools, and has lived in
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Paterson and vicinity for the forty years since he came from Phila- delphia. He took up a commercial course and became identified with the silk business, taking up the branch of dyeing which he mastered in every detail. He began business in a small way when very young and from the very commencement his career was a success. At the time of the incorporation of the Auger & Simon Silk Dyeing Company in 1890 he became its President and continued until he and his associates formed the National Silk Dyeing Company, the largest silk dyeing company in the world today, of which he has been president since its organization.
Besides being President of the National Silk Dyeing Company Mr. Auger is connected with a number of corporations engaged in finance and manufacturing. He is also a Director of the First National Bank of Pat- erson, of the Hamilton Trust Company, Paterson, of the Paterson Savings Institution, Paterson, and of the Cellonite Company of Basle, Switzerland. He is a member of the Society of Chemical Industry of London, of the Society of Inventors of France and of other civic, professional and lite- rary bodies of this country and Europe.
Mr. Auger is interested in the charities, their work and institutions. He lives in the country at East Ridgewood, adjoining Ridgewood, where he has established a homestead which he calls "Glenacres" and where he spends most of his time outside of business. He is also an enthusiastic automobilist, being among the first to own and operate an automobile in this country and has driven cars himself several hundred thousands of miles.
Among the clubs and organizations with which he is connected are the Hamilton Club, Paterson; the Arcola Country Club, Arcola ; the Living- stone Club of Allentown ; the Ross Club, Williamsport, Pa .; the Union League Club of New York; the Lamb's Club, New York; the Automobile Club of America, New York; the New Jersey Automobile Club of Newark ; the Princeton Club of New York, and the Circle Republicain of Paris, France, also Manhattan Club, New York.
Of Mr. Auger's children, the oldest, Frank, is living on the farm, "Glenacres," in East Ridgewood ; Emma, married Frank T. Powers, (died) ; Mary (or May) married Henry C. Muhs-they are living in Ridgewood with their two small children ; Charles L., Jr., is an engineer and graduate of Princeton, enlisted in the army at the beginning of the war, became a First Lieutenant in May, 1918, went overseas in charge of the one-pound gun service, 319th Infantry, was in a number of battles, going over the top several times. He was promoted, Captain of Hd. Qts. Co., in Feb., 1919.
Louis F. Auger, who was studying engineering at Princeton, joined the New Jersey Squadron at the beginning of the war, afterward enlisted in the Artillery, became a Lieutenant of Battery E, 36th Regiment and was on the point of sailing overseas when the armistice was declared.
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