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Mr. Hopkins was educated at Columbia Institute, a military school in New York City. After his graduation he went into business (in 1888) with Johnson & Higgins, a house of average adjusters and insurance brokers established in 1845, and has been there ever since. He spent some time in organizing the firm's offices in Boston and Chicago and has gone through all the departments of its work. He is now one of its directors and its Vice President.
Mr. Hopkins ran for State Senator on the Progressive ticket in New Jersey in 1913, being defeated by Senator Charles H. Rathbun with whom he has since been closely cooperating. He was also a delegate to the pro- gressive Presidential Convention in June, 1916, having been the Chair- man of the New Jersey delegation ; and when Col. Roosevelt endorsed Mr. Charles E. Hughes after the Republican National Convention has named him for the presidency, Mr. Hopkins was requested by the delegation to interview Mr. Roosevelt to ascertain whether he could satisfactorily ex- plain his part in the "betrayal." As a result of this interview Mr. Hop- kins personally supported Woodrow Wilson for President, retaining, how- ever his membership in the Progressive Party and was one of the dele- gates in the Indianapolis conference prior to the election and in the New York conference of December 15th, 1916, which culminated in tlie Progressive National Convention held in St. Louis on April 12th, 13th and 14th, 1917, at which the entire Party was reorganized. Mr. Hopkins was a firm advocate of combining the various parties and groups who had the same objects in view; and following this convention the National Party was formed in October. 1917. Mr. Hopkins is now their vice chair-
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Mr. Hopkins has also been very much interested in school reforms and was the Chairman of the Committee of the Mossistown Civic Association which started the battle for reconstruction of their school system which subsequently was carried through. He is now President of the Buckley School Corporation of New York State, and a Director of Johnson & Higgins, No. 49 Wall Street.
He belongs to the Down Town Association, Morris County Golf Club, Morristown Field Club and Wippany River Club.
EDWARD LEAVITT HOWE-Princeton .- Banker. Born a Princeton, April 6th, 1870; son of Edward and Hannah (Butler) Howe.
Children .- Edward L. Jr. (Serving in Italy as Y. M. C. A. manager ).
Edward L. Howe is of English and Scotch-Irish descent on his father's side and Holland-Dutch on his mother's. He was educated in Prince- ton at the public school, the Princeton Preparatory School, and then at the University. Devoting himself to the banking business since 1888 in Princeton, he is now Vice-President of the Princeton Bank and Trust Co. He has been actively identified with the New Jersey Bankers' Association since its organization, is a member of the Executive Committee, has served as Chairman on several important committees, and was President of that association in 1910-11, and is now an Honorary Vice President.
For three years Mr. Howe served on the Executive Council of the American Bankers Association and is a member of the Currency Commis- sion of that association which was appointed to confer with Congress in regard to the preparation of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913.
Mr. Howe is a Director of the Princeton Water Company and the Town Club, member of the American Whig Society, the Sons of the Revolution, and the Presbyterian Church, in which he is a Deacon. His clubs are Nassau, Town and Triangle (Princeton) Bankers and City (New York), Republican (Trenton ) and the Tourrilli Fish and Game Club of Canada.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HOWELL-New Brunswick, (32 Union Street)-Banker. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born in Cumberland County, Jan. 27th, 1844: son of Edmund and Hannah (Nixon) Howell; married as South Ambos on January 27, 1869, to Amelia Furman.
Mr. Howell has two children.
Benjamin Howell sat in eight Congresses at Washington as the Repre- sentative of the Third Congressional district. He began with the 54th Congress in 1895 and served until the close of the 61st Congress in 1911. For ten years prior to 1892 he had served as Surrogate. He was for two
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years in the county Board of Freeholders, Director of the Board in the second year of his service, and a delegate to the Republican National Con- vention that in 1892 nominated Benjamin Harrison for President of the United States. In 1894 the republicans of the Third District made him their candidate for Congress against Congressman Jacob A. Geissenheimer, democrat, who sought re-election, and whom he defeated. Seven times re-nominated he was as often re-elected, serving continuously until 1911.
Mr. Howell was in the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and in other engagements. It was after the close of the Civil War that he served in the Board of Frecholders. His first election to the Surrogacy came in 1882 and he was re-nominated in 1887. In the House of Representatives, he was a member of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds for fourteen years, and a member of the Immigration and Naturalization Committee, (its Chairman), introduced the bill to prevent fraudulent citi- zenship papers which is the present law, and was appointed by Congress one of the Commissioners to investigate the immigration question and make a report upon it.
Congressman Howell was elected President of the People's National Bank at New Brunswick in December, 1890, and holds that position still. He was elected one of the managers of the New Brunswick Savings Insti- tution, in 1891, and is now its vice-president. He is a member of the Soci- ety of Colonial Wars of New Jersey. Sons of the Revolution, Grand Army of the Republic, and of St. Stephen's Lodge. No. 63. F. & A. M.
ROBERT S. HUDSPETH-Jersey City. (75 Montgomery Street )-Lawyer. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born in Cobourg, Ontario, on October 27th. 1857: son of Thomas A. Hudspeth and Mary Hudspeth: married on March 7th. 1885. to Jessie E. Beggs, widow of Robert Beggs, formerly of Jersey City and daughter of John and Mary Calverley. of Jersey City.
Mr. Hudspeth came to the United States when a enild of ten years of age, with his widowed mother, who was a Vermont woman. Mr. Hudspeth and his mother took up their residence in the Greenville sec. tion of Jersey City in 1875 and he has lived there ever since. At the age of seventeen, he commenced the study of law, in the office of Thomas Carey, in the City of New York, and on his twenty-first birthday, was ad. mitted to the bar in the State of New York, and became Mr. Carey's partner. He practiced his profession in New York for some years, in the meantime being admitted to the bar of New Jersey-as an attorney in February, 1881, and as a counselor in 1892-and thereafter practiced in both States.
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In 1886, 1887 and 1889 Mr .Hudspeth was elected on the democratic ticket as a member of the House of Assembly from the Sixth District of Hudson County and was the party leader in the House during the first two years of his legislative career. In his first campaign the democrats of the district had nominated a candidate who at the eleventh hour was found to be ineligible, and on the Saturday preceding the next Tuesday election day, Mr. Hudspeth was persuaded to make the run. The dis- trict had in the previous year. elected John W. Heck, republican, by a large plurality, and Mr. Heck was re-nominated by his party in 1886, as Mr. Hudspeth's opponent. Though Mr. Hudspeth had only two days-one of them a Sunday-for his campaign, he carried the district, defeating Mr. Heck by a plurality of 76 votes. In Mr. Hudspeth's second term, 1887, he was nominated by the democratic House caucus for the Speakership, but was defeated by a combination of three bolting democrats with the Republican minority. This combination secured the election of Dr. William M. Baird, hitherto a democrat. as Speaker and accomplished the defeat of Leon Abbott as United States Senator. In 1889, however, Mr. Hudspeth was elected Speaker of the House. He was first elected to the State Senate from Hudson county, in 1892, to fill out the unexpired term of Edward F. McDonald, who had been elected to Congress, and was elected again for the full term of 1901-1904.
Upon his election to the Assembly in 1886, Mr. Hudspeth discontinued the practice of law in New York, confining his attention to his profession in New Jersey. He served as City Attorney of Jersey City during Mayor Cleveland's administration, resigning that office in February 1893, to ac- cept appointment by Governor Werts, as Presiding Judge of the Hudson county courts, where he sat for the full term, 1893-1898. In 1912 Governor Wilson appointed him Prosecutor of the Pleas of the county for the term which he is still filling. Mr. Hudspeth was Chairman of the Democratic State Committee in 1907, and had charge of the campaign of Frank T. Katzenbach for Governor. Ex-Judge Franklin Fort was Mr. Katzenbach's republican opponent. The republican plurality for Governor of 51,644, se- cured by Stokes in 1904, was reduced to 8,013 for Fort in 1907.
Since 1906 Mr. Hudspeth has been a national figure in politics. In 1908 he was chosen by the democratic organization in the State as a member of the Democratic National Committee and is still serving in that position. In the Bryan campaign in 1908, he was the Eastern Manager for the National Committee and was in control of the Eastern Head- quarters in New York City. One of his Associates at Headquarters was Josephus Daniels, now Secretary of the Navy of the United States. In the campaigns of 1912 and 1916, he was a member of the Democratic National Campaign Committee. With William F. McCombs, later Chair- man of the Democratic National Committee, he had charge of the cam- paign of Governor Wilson for the nomination for President of the United States, and upon his nomination took a very active part in securing Gov. Wilson's election. In the campaign of 1912, William G. McAdoo, now Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, was a colleague of Mr. Hudspeth at Headquarters.
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Mr. Hudspeth is a Director of the Union Trust Company of New Jersey, and is a member of the Cartaret and the Jersey City Clubs of Jersey City and of the Baltusrol Golf Club.
WILLIAM HUGHES-Paterson .- Lawyer. Born in Ireland, April 3, 1872 (Deceased January 30, 1918 .- See Vol. 1, 1917.) ; son of Thomas P. and Ellen Hughes ; married Margaret Hughes, July 16, 1898.
ALEXANDER C. HUMPHREYS-Hoboken. (Castle Point)- College President. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 30. 1851; son of Edward R. Humphreys (M. D., LL. D., scholar and educator of Irish birth but English extraction) and Margaret McNutt, of Prince Edward Island; married on April 30, 1872. to Eva, daughter of Dr. Emile Guillaudeu, of New York City.
Children : Harold, Crombie, and Eva. (Harold, who was the first son of a Stevens' alumnus to graduate from the College, was drowned, with his brother. Crombie, in the Nile in 1901; and in commemoration, Dr. Humpreys, in 1902, endowed the Harold Humphreys Scholarship, and in 1904, the Crombie Humphreys Scholarship, in the Stevens Institute.)
Alexander C. Humphreys is the President of Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken. In 1859, the family crossed to Boston, where Alexander C. continued his education in his father's school. At fourteen, he passed the preliminary examinations for admission to the United States Academy at Annapolis; but, being too young for admission, he ac- cepted a position in an insurance office in Boston. In 1866 he entered the office of the Guaranty and Indemnity Co., in New York City ; by 1872 had become receiving teller and assistant general bookkeeper. Meanwhile, he acted as Secretary to the building committee of the Bayonne & Greenville Gas Light Co., became Secretary and Treasurer in 1872, and was Super- intendent thereafter. His experience in the Gas Company work aroused him to the advantage of an engineering education and he prepared to secure it. Dr. Morton, then President of the Stevens Institute, advised him that, as he could devote only two days a week to lectures and reci- tations, it would take him six years to complete the four-years course in Engineering. Though out of the ordinary study habit Mr. Humphreys undertook to complete the course in four years, accomplished it and was voted a formal resolution of congratulations by the Institute Faculty. Meanwhile he was a vestryman and the Treasurer of Trinity P. E. Church in Bayonne, Superintendent of the Sunday School, a member of the Bay- onne Board of Education and a foreman in the fire department.
After graduation Dr. Humphreys was Chief Engineer of the Pintsch Lighting Co., of New York, the first company to apply compressed illum-
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inating gases to the lighting of public vehicles. In January, 1885, he was made Superintendent of Construction of the United Gas Improvement Co., in Philadelphia, and soon afterwards became General Superintendent and Chief Engineer, in charge of the contracting and purchasing depart- ment and of the Company's gas and electric properties-while, too, super- vising a contracting business carried on by the Company in developing the Lowe type of apparatus for water gas manufacture. In the late SO's he installed the first storage battery ever operated in connection with a central station electric plant.
In 1892 Dr. Humphreys, entering into partnership with Arthur G. Glas- gow (Stevens 'S5) opened the house of Humphreys & Glasgow in London to carry on the business of erecting water-gas plants and furnishing appa- ratus. The success of the business in London induced Mr. Humphreys in 1894 to leave the United Gas Improvement Co. and to open a firm office in New York, where. first engaging in general contracting work, he con- fined himself eventually entirely to consulting work. Humphreys & Glas- gow plant installations have been installed in Great Britain, Ireland, Belgium, Cuba, China, Holland, Germany, Africa, West Anstralia, Asia, New South Wales, New Zealand, Japan and Switzerland. The business of the partnership was incorporated in 1909 under the name of Humphreys & Glasgow, Inc. In 1911 Dr. Humphreys retired from the London firm, and with Alten S. Miller (Stevens 'SS), established the New York com- pany of Humphreys & Miller, Inc.
In 1902, Dr. Morton having died, Dr. Humphreys was invited to the Presidency of Stevens Institute where he has brought the academic at- mosphere Dr. Morton had imparted to Institute work, down to the hard- pan practical conditions that confront students after graduation. So as to blend the practical with the scholastie, even the teaching force are encouraged to do, outside of the Institute, work that brings them in touch with current business and every day professional problems. The loss of the St. George Cricket Grounds, which had been used by the students for many years for athletic exercises, moved Dr. Humphreys to purchase the grounds adjoining the Institute for the athletic use. Later the Institute purchased the Stevens Castle and the surrounding grounds. These purchases are regarded as particularly valuable and advantageous because they provide room for the expansion of college facilities.
Dr. Humphreys is a trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, past Presi- dent of the Stevens Alumni Association, and of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education, and member of the Public Educa- tion Association, New Jersey Teachers' Association, British and American Associations for the Advancement of Science, American Museum of Na- tural History, New York Botanical Gardens, American Forestry Associa- tion, etc. He was President of the Society of Art, Collector and Vice-Pres- ident of the New York School of Applied Design for Women. Dr. Hum- phreys received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania in 1903, and of Doctor of Laws from Columbia in 1903, New York University in 1906, Princeton in 1907, and from Rutgers and Brown in 1914, and in 1918 received the Degree of Doctor of Engineer- ing from Rensselair Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Humphreys is past Presi-
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dent of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education, of the American Society Mechanical Engineers, the United Engineering So- ciety, the American Gas Light Association, and the American Gas Institu- tion : a Fellow of the American Institution of Electrical Engineers, mem- ber of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Institute of Consulting Engineers, the Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain), the Society of Chemical Industry, the American Gas Institute, the Illuminating Engineering Socie- ty, the National Commercial Gas Association, the Society of Gas Lighting, the Pacific Coast Gas Association, the Natural Gas Association of America, the New England Association of Gas Engineers, the Franklin Institute, the New York Chamber of Commerce, and Director and member of the Finance Committee of the Equitable Life Insurance Society, the New Jer- sey Chamber of Commerce, and the Hoboken Board of Trade. He is President of the St. Andrew's Society of New York, and member of the University. Lotos, Century, Engineers', Lawyers', Union League and Church clubs of New York City ; the University Club of Hudson County, and Par- machenee (Maine ) Fishing Club.
He is the author of many papers and lectures on engineering educa- tion, the accountancy of depreciation, photometry. appraisals, methods and economics of gas engineering. etc .. and of a work on "Business Features of Engineering Practice."
JOSEPH FRANCIS HURLEY-Jersey City, (234 Bergen Ave.) Buyer and Assemblyman. Born at New York, N. Y., Sept. 4th. 1891 : son of Joseph Francis and Margaret ( Murray ) Hurley.
Joseph Francis Hurley comes of parents who were born in Ireland and who emigrated to this country about 1880, his mother's parents settling at East Orange and his father's people settled in Jersey City.
Mr. Hurley was educated in the public schools Nos. 14 and 24, in Jersey City. He left the latter institution, however, six months prior to his scheduled graduation, on account of financial difficulties in the family, as the father died when Mr. Hurley was but one year old, and left four children for his widow to support and educate.
Since the time he was a very young man, Mr. Hurley has been in- terested in politics. At twenty-one, he was a candidate for member of the Board of Aldermen in Jersey City, and although he was defeated. he re- ceived the second largest number of votes with four candidates in the field. In the following year, 1913. he was elected County Committeeman and re-elected for four successive terms. In 1917 Mr. Hurley was elected from Hudson County to the House of Assembly and was re-elected in 1918. During the session of the latter term, he fathered and passed against powerful opposition in both Houses, the New Jersey boxing law, permitting legalized eight rounds professional boxing.
Although as a member of the Legislature he was exempted from military service, he enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve Force as a petty officer. Released from active service March 1st, 1919.
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Mr. Hurley's club memberships are : Past Chief Ranger, Court Jer- sey City, No. 3 Foresters of America : Jersey City Lodge of Elks, B. P. O. E., 211: Tioga Democratic Club, St. Patricks Holy Name Society, the Dramatic Club, Hudson County Democratic Club and Honorary member of the William Hill Association of Jersey City.
His business address prior to enlisting was Saks & Company, Broad- way and Thirty-fourth Street, New York City.
BARTON BELLANGEE HUTCHINSON-Trenton, (489 West State Street) -Lawyer. Born at Allentown, June 10, 1860 ; son of Charles R. Hutchinson and Mary (Coward) Hutchinson ; married on October 1st, 1885, at New Egypt, to Sarah Meirs Hulme, daughter of Jolm L. and Anna Maria ( Meirs ) Hulme.
Children : Charles Percy, born October 17, 1887: Laurence Willis, born May 14, 1892; Anna Hulme, born November 20, 1893 : Alice Paxton, born June 29. 1896.
Barton B. Hutchinson twice represented Mercer county in the State Senate of New Jersey. He is of mixed descent. his line being English and Scotch-Irish and Dutch. Jonathan Forman, who made a record at the battle of Monmouth, was one of his forebears.
Mr. Hutchinson's education was acquired at the country district school and rounded off at the Allentown High School. Picking the law for his life calling, he entered the office of Holt & Brother, in Trenton in 1877, and was admitted as an attorney June 10, 1881, and as counselor at the June term three years later. Opening an office in Trenton, he practiced alone until, in 1912, his son, Charles Percy Hutchinson, quali- fied as a lawyer, and the two have since done business under the firm name of Hutchinson & Hutchinson. In the earlier days of his practice Mr. Hutchinson was the Solicitor for the borough of Wilbur, adjacent to Trenton. Governor Voorhees appointed him a Commissioner to revise the National Guard Law. Ex-Gov. Leon Abbett, when, later, a Justice of the State Supreme Court, named him to serve as a Commissioner for the Adjustment of Taxes under the Martin act, for Trenton, and he served there nearly four years.
Taking an early interest in politics, lie became a member of the Tren- ton Republican City Committee and was made its Secretary. He has been Vice President, President, and member of the Board of Governors, of the "City Invincible," a local republican political organization. He was elected to the General Assembly in 1891 and served in '92 and '93. In '93 the republican minority on the floor of the chamber named him as its leader. His first election to the State Senate was in 1904, when he served one term. He was elected a second time in 1913 and served another term that expired in January, 1917. Apart from his professional and political activities Senator Hutchinson was made a Master Mason in Trenton Lodge No. 5 in September, 1881. Worshipful Master in 1885 and District Deputy Grand Master in 1886.
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Senator Hutchinson is a Presbyterian. He was Deacon in the First Presbyterian Church of Trenton, and subsequently became an Elder of that church. He was a member of the Seventh Regiment, N. G. N. J. Gun Detachment, and Judge Advocate of the Second Regiment. He was also Vice President of the Trenton Board of Trade in 1889 and its President in 1890.
Senator Hutchinson is a member of the Mercer County Bar Associa- tion, and was one of the Charter members and organizers of New Jersey Bar Association.
ELIJAH C. HUTCHINSON -Hamilton Township, (Mercer Co.) -Merchant, Miller. Born in Windsor, (Mercer Co.), August 7th. 1855; son of Spofford W. and Mary (Cubberly) Hutchinson : married on Nov. 22nd, 1876, to Ella D. Stults, daughter of Garret S. Stults. of Cranbury.
Children : Harvey S., born March 5th 1878; Raymont, born Oct. 9th, 1884: Spafford, born June 15, 1888; Stanley, born Feb. 23rd, 1897.
Elijah C. Hutchinson, besides being a Representative of the Fourth Congressional district in the National Congress at Washington, is of diver- sified business activities-interested in the pottery industry, a banker and a merchant miller.
Mr. Hutchinson in 1889 assisted in the organization of the Trenton Bone and Fertilizer Company, was made its Treasurer at the time, and three yearse later became its Manager. His closer business connection is, however, with the flour mill and grain elevator which he established in Hamilton Township. Incidental to this business, he is also President of the New Jersey China Pottery Company, Treasurer of Cochran Drugan & Com- pany, and a director of the Broad Street Bank and of the Mercer Trust Company. He was the first Treasurer of the Interstate Fair Association serving three years, and as one of its directors.
Mr. Hutchinson's political career began with his election to the House of Assembly in 1895-'96. His plurality of 3,273 in '95 was more than doubled in '96. His Assembly work pointed him out as a logical candidate for a seat in the State Senate. Nominated by the republicans of the county, he was elected in 1889 over his democratic opponent, Bayard Stockton ; and in the canvass for re-election, in 1901, he defeated ex-Judge Robert S. Woodruff.
During his second term in the Senate he was its President, and dis- charged the functions of that office with an even hand that won for him a resolution of thanks from his colleagues even of the Democratic minority. Soon after the expiration of his second term in the Senate, Mr. Hutchin- son was appointed State Road Commissioner by Governor Stokes. His management of the State Road Department was marked by many changes and reforms.
Mr. Hutchinson's first election to Congress was achieved in 1914, when he defeated Allan B. Walsh, the Democrat, who had preceded him at
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