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Chi, the oldest literary club among ministers in Newark; and connected with Eureka Lodge F. & A. M.
Of his children, Mary Edith is his secretary. Davis Winans died Oet. 21, 1918, at Fort Hancock, N. J., in the service of the U. S., and was bur- ied with military honors at Newark Oct. 23, 1918; and Mrs. Fred P. Lang has her home at 310 Ridge Street.
ADRIAN LYON-Perth Amboy, (84 Gordon Street. )-Lawyer. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born at Village Plucke- min, Somerset Co., on July 25, 1869 ; son of William L. and Ursula (Sebring) Lyon ; married at Athenia, on May 8, 1895, to Cornelia Post, daughter of John C. and Catherine E. Post, of Athenia.
Children : Howard S., born 1896.
Adrian Lyon has been closely identified with the Progressive move- ment of recent years in the National Republican party, and is also con- spicuous in Y. M. C. A. circles. He is President of the State Y. M. C. A. and was largely instrumental, besides, in the founding, and became the first President of the Perth Amboy Y. M. C. A. The political con- troversies of the day made him a delegate from the Third Congressional District to the National Republican Convention at Chicago that renomi- nated President Taft, and to the National Progressive Convention held two months later, in Chicago also, that put Theodore Roosevelt in nomination against him. Retaining his alliance with the Progressive party, he was a delegate also to the National Progressive Convention of 1916.
The name of Henry Lyon, one of his direct forebears was the eighth on the agreement of the New Milford settlers of June 16, 1667, on which Robert Treat was the first, and he was the first Treasurer of the Town of Newark. Mr. Lyon is a member of the Society of the Sons of the Ameri- can Revolution, admitted because his great-great-grandfather on his father's mother's side, Captain James Hill, was of the Sussex county mili- tia in that struggle. He was educated in the public schools and qualified for the practice of law at the New York Law School, graduating from there in 1894 with the L. L. B. degree. He was admitted to the New Jer- sey Bar in 1892, made a counselor in 1895 and opened an office in Perth Amboy.
Mr. Lyon's public activities are almost co-incident with his profes- sional work. He was Superintendent of the schools in Perth Amboy in '94, 95. and in '95 became City Attorney. He served in the New Jersey House of Assembly, sessions of 1900-'01. In the latter year Gov. Voorhees appointed him Judge of the local District Court, and, serving there till 1909, he was appointed by Gov. Fort, Law Judge of Middlesex county to fill the unexpired term of Theodore B. Booraem. Since January. 1913, he has been Referee in Bankruptcy for the district of Middlesex coun- ty.
Judge Lyon has been an elder in the First Presbyterian Church at Perth Amboy for nearly twenty years. Since 1899 he has been President of the Perth Amboy Savings Institution : since 1893 Registrar, and a mem-
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ber of the Board of East Jersey Proprietors, and was President of the New Jersey Banker's Association in 1910. He is a member of the Masonic lodges, including Chapter, Commandery and Salaam Temple of Mystic Shrine. of the Royal Arcanum and of the East Jersey Club of Perth Am- boy.
CHARLES STEDMAN MACFARLAND-Mountain Lakes- Clergyman ; Publicist. Born at Boston, Mass., Dec. 12, 1866, son of Daniel and Sarah Abigail (Crafts) Macfarland; Married at Andover, Mass., March 9, 1904, to Mary Perley Merrill, daughter of Rev. James G. and Louisa (Boutwell) Merrill, of Nashville, Tenn.
Children : Charles Stedman, Jr., born Feb. 7, 1905, Lucia, born Jan. 1, 1908; James, born Oct. 8, 1909.
Charles Stedman Macfarland's father, Daniel Macfarland, came from Hernosand, Sweden, in his boyhood and settled at Boston, Mass. His mother, Sarah Macfarland, was a descendant of Americans, among whom is Col. Eleazer Crafts who fought in the Revolution. Her mother was a cousin of Daniel Webster.
Dr. Macfarland attended the public schools of Boston from 1871 to 1887. He entered Yale University in 1894, and graduated from that in- stitution in 1897. To further finish his education, he also studied abroad at various periods, mainly in 1898.
Soon after leaving the public schools and before entering college, however, he became an employee of T. O. Gardner & Co., Boston and New York. When he severed connections with this concern in 1892, he had become a member of the firm. At the end of this time until 1893 he was general secretary for the Y. M. C. A. at Melrose, Mass., for one year, when he became assistant pastor of the Maverick Congregational church, at Boston, and then in 1894, decided to take up studies in col- lege.
After a year as instructor at Yale, in 1900, he accepted the pulpit of the Maplewood Congregational Church, at Malden, Mass., and filled it for six years. At the expiration at that time, he became pastor of the Congregational Church at South Norwalk, Conn., where he served five years. In 1911, he resigned, and became general secretary of the Fed- eral Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and still holds that po- sition.
Among other offices of responsibility which he has held are : examiner, for West Point and Annapolis (1901-1902) ; lecturer at Yale (1907-'08-'09) ; chairman of the School Board of Norwalk, Conn. (1908-'11) ; and trustee of the Carnegie Peace Endowment Fund (1913-'19). He has served as college preacher at several colleges. As president of the Travel Club of Boston and London, he did considerable traveling and teaching in Europe from 1900 to 1911 and also visited Central America in 1916. He has made recently (1914-'16-'18) three trips to the other side on
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special missions representing the American Churches, visiting the several belligerent countries in 1916.
In 1918 he was appointed commissioner to France with messages to the French nation, was the guest of the French and Belgian Governments and armies, and during his stay in that country received the first honor- ary degree ever given in France, the degree of D. D., from the Divinity Faculty of Paris, in June 1918. He served as voluntary chaplain in the French and Belgian Armies and was also attached to the American Ex- peditionary Forces. Dr. Macfarland is chairman of the Committee on Relief in France and Belgium and also Field Scout Commissioner for the Boy Scouts of America. In 1911-'15 he served as fraternal delegate of the American Federation of Labor.
Although having been so actively engaged in the aforementioned af- fairs, he has also found time to do considerable literary work. He is the author of seven volumes: The Progress of Church Federation, Spiritual Culture and Social Service, Christian Service and the Modern World, The Spirit Christ-like, The Infinite Affection, Jesus and the Prophets, The Great Physician and His Healing Ministry, and was the editor and part author of the "Library of Christian Co-operation", which also con- prised six volumes. In the compilation of six other volumes he collabo- rated in authorship and acted as editor.
Dr. Macfarland is a member of the Yale Club, N. Y., Cosmos Club, Washington, D. C., Aldine Club, N. Y., Civic Club, N. Y., National Arts Club, N. Y., Authors League of America, N. Y., American Academy Politi- cal and Social Science, Academy of Political and Social Science of N. Y., American Sociological Society, American Economic Association, Ameri- can Society of Church History and numerous other national and inter- national bodies. He is a member of the International Council of the World Alliance for International Friendship and director of the Gen- eral Committee on Army and Navy Chaplains, Washington, D. C.
He has received the degree of D. D. from Ursinus College, and Ph. D. from Yale University as well as the degree from Paris. He has recently received from the French Government, the order of Knighthood with the Cross of the Legion of Honor, for services rendered France in 1918.
His professional addresses are 105 East 22nd St., New York City, and 937 Woodward Building, Washington. D. C.
EBENEZER MACKEY -Trenton - City Superintendent of Schools. Born at Butler, Pa., on Aug. 14, 1857.
Children : Higbee E., Jan. 11, 1895 ; Eric E., Jan 20, 1897, Sarah, April 5, 1899; Emily Anne, July 3, 1907.
Ebenezer Mackey attended the public schools of Butler, Pa., in 1862- '68, and later in Witherspoor Institute, Butler, Pa., and Preparatory School Mercerburg. Upon graduation in 1874 he entered the Mercers- burg, Pa., College, and received a degree of A. B. at this institution in 1878, and degree of Ph. D. at Franklin and Marshall College, Pa.
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After completing his education he became teacher in St. Paul's Or- phan Home, in Butler, Pa., and remained as such until 1881, when he became the principal, and first superintendent of schools in the same city. From 1869 to 1902, he was superintendent of schools of Reading, Pa., and at the end of that time he became superintendent of schools at Trenton, N. J., and still holds that office.
Mr. Mackey was president of the meeting of State Teachers Asso- ciation at Gettysburg, president of City Superintendents Association, Penna. and the State Teachers Association of New Jersey in 1909 and of the New Jersey Council of Education in 1912-'13.
During the war with Germany, his oldest son, First Lieut. Higbee E. Mackey although only twenty-three years of age was in Machine Gun Company, 111 Battalion, which served in France.
Mr. Mackey's business address is Administration Building, Stockton Street, Trenton, N. J.
VICTOR MAPES-Short Hills .- Playwright and Author. (Plo- tograph published in Vol. 1. 1917). Born in New York City, March 10, 1870; son of Charles Victor and Martha ( Halsted ) Mapes ; married in 1900, to Auna Louise Hoeke, daughter of Wil- liam H. and Elizabeth Hoeke, of Washington, D. C.,
Children : James Jay, born October 3, 1902.
Victor Mapes is a grandson on his father's side of Prof. James Jay Mapes, an eminent scientist and agriculturist. Major General Jonas Mapes, in chief command of the New York State forces in the war of 1812, is also of the father's line. His grandfather on his mother's side was Oliver Spencer Halsted, a widely known New Jersey lawyer, an intimate friend and adviser of Abraham Lincoln and himself a son of Oliver S. Halsted, once Chancellor of the State of New Jersey. He is a nephew of Mary Mapes Dodge, the founder and editor of the "St. Nicholas Maga- zine," and the author of much juvenile classic literature.
Victor Mapes has lived in Short Hills, since 1907. Previous to that he lived in New York. with the exception of five years (1892-1896) which he spent in Paris, France. He prepared for college at Morse's School in New York City, entered Columbia University (New York ) in 1887, and was graduated in 1891 at the head of his class. From 1892-1896 he studied dramatic literature and the art of play writing at the Sorbonne University, in Paris.
Mr. Mapes began his literary career in 1891, when he became a re- porter on the "New York Sun" under Charles A. Dana. From 1892 to 1896, he acted as special correspondent of "The Sun" in Paris. Mean- while, in 1895, he had written a three-act play in French entitled, "La Comtesse de Lisne," which was produced at the Theatre Mondain in Paris, where it was favorably criticised and had a successful run-this being the first time a play written in French by an Anglo-Saxon was ever performed at a regular French theatre.
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In 1897 Mr. Mapes became Stage Manager for the Lyceum Theatre Company in New York under Daniel Frohman and later went to Daly's theatre as general Stage Director for Daniel Frohman's enterprises. From 1900 to 1902 he was the "New York World's" dramatic critic under the nom-de-plume, "Sidney Sharp." In 1906 and 1907 he was induced to go to Chicago to become the first Director of the New (endowed ) Theatre of Chicago. Since that time he has devoted himself exclusively to the writing of plays and books.
Mr. Mapes' best known play is "The Boomerang" ( written in collabora- tion with Winehell Smith.) This play, produced at the Belacso Theatre, New York, on August 10, 1915, had a consecutive run at that theatre of fif- teen months. Other well known plays of his are "Don Ceasar's Return" (in which James K. Hackett was the star) : "Captain Barrington" (with Charles Richman) ; "The Curious Conduct of Judge Lagarde" (with Wil- ton Lackaye) ; "The Detective" (with Douglas Fairbanks) ; "The Under Current" (with Lena Ashwell) : "The New Henrietta" (in collaboration with Winchell Smith) ; "Gallops" (in collaboration with David Gray; "The Lassoo" (with Shelley Hull) and "The Long Dash" (with Robert Edeson ) .
Mr. Mapes is also the author of two novels, "Partners Three" and "The Gilded Way"; a book of criticism, "Duse and the French" and a number of magazine stories and articles.
Mr. Mapes is a member of the University, Columbia and Lambs Clubs, the Phi Beta Kappa and the American Dramatists Society. all of New York, the Maidstone ('lub of Long Island and the Baltusrol Golf Club.
MAHLON REED MARGERUM-Trenton, (119 E. State St. ) -- Executive Secretary and Soldier. Born at Trenton, N. J., Oct. 28th. 1856, son of John and Almira H. (Woolley ) Margerum, married at Trenton, N. J., on July 15, 1876 to Johanna Redfern, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Ann Redfern.
Children : John Frederic, born Sept. 16th, 1877; Frances Gore Redfern, born Feb. 12th, 1879.
Mahlon Reed Margerum attended the public school of Trenton, N. J., in 1866 and further added to his education by taking up a course in Business College at Rider Moore and Stewart, at Trenton.
As a very young man he entered the employ of IIiram Rice, grocer at Trenton and at the age of twenty-one established a pork-packing business at Trenton which he conducted for seven years.
Later in 1892 he became receiver of taxes in the City of Trenton, and in 1894 was appointed County Collector of Mercer County. Since 1900 he has been secretary and general manager of the Inter-State Fair Association. On Dec. 4, 1917 he was made a major in the United States Army, by President Wilson and was assigned for duty with Governor Edge of New Jersey in connection with the Selective Draft. He is now disbursing officer and agent of the United States in this State.
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Major Margerum is president of the Trenton House Company and the Peoples Brewing Company, and treasurer in the Windsor Hotel Company, and director in the Trenton Theatre Building Company.
His club memberships are, the Lotus Club, of Trenton and the Carteret Club, Trenton.
TYNAN SIDNEY MARSHALL-Hackensack, (453 Main St.) - Wall Paper Manufacturer. Born at Drayton, Ontario, Canada, April 20, 1878, son of Stephen and Anne (Tynan) Marshall, mar- ried at New Brunswick, N. J., Feb. 21. 1917, to Irene Mason, daughter of William Mott and Isabella (Alexander) Mason of New York City.
Tynan Sidney Marshall is a member of a family which is living and has lived for many generations in Ontario, Canada. His ancestors were originally Hugenots in France who spelled their name "Marcial", and ultimately coming to the New World. Mr. Marshall's great, great grandfather was a noted Methodist minister in Canada and his two brothers, one recently deceased, occupied important pulpits of the same denomination in Canada.
Mr. Marshall's boyhood was spent in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada. Ile attended the public schools of that place and in June, 1896, graduated from the Collegiate Institute in St. Catherines. Upon leaving school he selected banking as his vocation and continued in that until he left Canada.
In November, 1902, he moved to Ithaca, N. Y., identifying himself with the Ithaca Wall Paper Mills. In September, 1903, he moved to Glens Falls, N. Y., taking a position with the Imperial Wall Paper Co., of that place, and has every since been connected with that company and its affiliated corporations. During February, 1909, he was transferred to the William Campbell Wall Paper Co., Hackensack, N. J., where he has made his headquarters ever since.
On March 17, 1908. he was naturalized as a citizen of the United States.
Mr. Marshall is Vice President of the following organizations: Lodi Trust Co., Lodi, N. J .; Wm. Campbell Wall Paper Co., Hackensack, N. J .; Imperial Wall Paper Co., Glens Falls, N. Y., and Hobbs Wall Paper Co., Hackensack, N. J. He is also Director of the Plattsburgh Wall Paper Co .. Inc., Plattsburg, N. Y .; Imperial Color Works, Inc., Glens Falls, N. Y .; Imperial Dyewood Co., Inc., Hackensack, N. J .; Underwood Paper Mills, Inc., Plattsburgh, N. Y., and for two years during 1915-16 he was a Direc- tor of the Hudson Navigation Co., New York City.
Mr. Marshall is now the Treasurer and serving on the Executive Committee of the Wall Paper Manufacturer's Association of the U. S., and is a Director of the Manufacturer's Council of the State of New Jersey. He has served two years (1916-'17) as President of the Community Coun- cil of Hackensack, N. J., which served as a Board of Trade in that city. He has also taken an active interest in fraternal organizations, being
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a member of many branches of the Masonie order, and also the Hacken- sack Club. Union League Club of Bergen Co., Hackensack Golf Club, Oritani Field Club, and Canadian Club of New York.
During the War Mr. Marshall served as a member of the District Board, representing Bergen County, for Division No. 1. for the State of New Jersey in connection with the Selective Draft.
WILLIAM PARMENTIER MARTIN-Newark, (314 Sixth Ave. )-Jurist-Born in Virginia City, Nev., October S, 1871.
William P. Martin was head and front of the Progressive movement in the republican party of New Jersey and an active worker for the cause until he went on the Bench as Presiding Judge of the Essex County Court.
Mr. Martin's first political position was as a member of the Common Council of Newark. For many years he was one of the most energetic in- fluences in the chamber and for six years was President of the Board. He made himself a recognized force in the republican politics of the State, when what is known as the "New Idea" movement started in the party. The movement had its inspiration in the effort to overthrow Major Carl Lentz, Chairman of the local County Committee. It was alleged that Ma- jor Lentz had assumed and acquired autocratic power in the matter of making nominations in Essex county and also in directing the policy of the local party and so not only dominating in county affairs but also exerting an influence in state affairs. It was chiefly through Mr. Martin's efforts that the Colby revolt that eventually overthrew Major Lentz was organized for its successful campaign work.
The opponents of Major Lentz in the fall of 1906 put an entire local tieket in the field with Mr. Colby as a candidate for the State Senate and Mr. Martin among the candidates for seats in the Assembly. Mr. Martin organized the anti-Lentz canvass and threw himself with fiery energies in the effort to make it successful. Its triumph first in the nominating pri- maries and afterwards at the polls marked an epoch in the republican pol- ities of the State. Having thus identified himself with the Progressive wing of the party, Mr. Martin was its consistent supporter to the end ; and in the historical struggle between President Taft and ex-President Theo- dore Roosevelt, for the republican nomination for the Presidency in 1912, he was the warm advocate of President Roosevelt's candidacy. It was in recognition of his progressiveness that Gov. Wilson named him to the Senate for County Judge of Essex.
Judge Martin is of an old New England family that came years ago to Union and Middlesex counties to settle. He was educated in the public schools of San Francisco and took a course at Columbia University Law School. In 1882 he entered the offices of Tracy, Boardman and Platt, in New York City ; and after his admission to the New York Bar he opened an office for practice in the Equitable Building. When he was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1893 he opened a branch office in Newark.
Judge Martin is a member of Lawyer's Club of Essex County, Lin- coln Club of Roseville, Roseville Athletic Association. Bar Association of
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the City of New York, California Society of New York, University Club, Essex County Country Club. Newark Board of Trade, Republican and Law- yers Clubs of New York, and of several bodies in the Masonic Fraternity.
JAMES EDGAR MARTINE-Plainfield .- Farmer (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born in New York City, August 25, 1850; son of Daniel W. and Anna Maria (Neher) Martine; mar- ried at Plainfield, in October, 1905, to Julia Edgar Rodman, daughter of Scott and Bessie Bayard (Lorillard) Rodman, of New York City.
James E. Martine was the first man in the East to reach the United States Senate, as the result of a popular referendum. He achieved his seat in the Senate under the Preferential Senatorial Law that antedated the amendment to the Federal Constitution providing for the popular elec- tion of United States Senators in all the states, and it was the crowning honor of a life devoted to the public service. Another of his distinctions- somewhat local-is that a large part of the city of Plainfield rests upon the farm his father owned and in the old homestead of which, known as Cedar Brook House and erected in 1717, Senator Martine still lives.
Senator Martine who is of French and German origin, was only thirteen years old when his father died, and the cares of his estate de- volved upon the young man's shoulders. For thirty years he was en- gaged in practical farming on the property ; but a large part of its area was eventually set off into city lots, and its sale brought him actively into the real estate field.
He found time, however, from his other occupations, to engage in public affairs, and, a forceful orator, was frequently called to the platform in the interest of the democratic party, with which he has always been associated. Even in the first Bryan campaign, when the democrats of the East revolted against the so-called "silver heresy" of the democratic National platform, Mr. Martine stood by the party colors, and was not only the warm advocate of Mr. Bryan's election but Mr. Bryan's close personal friend as well.
Mr. Martine's popularity made his name desirable for party nses, and he was frequently drafted from the ranks to run for political position. His party friends made him its candidate for various city offices. He was can- didate for Congress four times and for county offices and upon one or two occasions for the gubernatorial nomination. But his independence made him not entirely acceptable to the ruling powers in the party, and the United States Senatorship is the only one of all for which he was named that he succeeded in achieving.
In the State Campaign of 1910 Mr. Martine's friends petitioned him to become a candidate, in the primary to be held under the Preferential Law, for the United States Senate and he entered the list. Some republicans were also candidates on the other side. Mr. Martine had an overwhelming lead on the democratic side ; and. when the legislature of 1911 got together to' ballot for a Senator to succeed John Kean, republican, Mr. Martine's
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claims were pressed upon the attention of the democratic majority. Before the preferential primary was resorted to, the understanding had been that, if the legislature were democratic, the seat in the Senate was to be given to ex-United States Senator James Smith. Jr., of Newark. Mr. Smith had not however gone into the primary, and Gov. Woodrow Wilson demanded that the democratic legislature pay respect to the expressed preference of the party voters and name Martine instead. After a bitter struggle, in which Gov. Wilson participated warmly, Mr. Martine was made the cau- cus nominee ; and, at the joint meeting of the two Houses, elected to repre- sent the State in the United States Senate for the six year term beginning March 4, 1911.
In the Senate, Mr. Martine served on eight prominent Committees, and the records show that only one other senator answered to as many roll- calls. He went to West Virginia as one of the Coal Miners Strike Commis- sion and was active and influential in restoring peace and order among the rioting miners. He was generally a supporter of the Administration, but he refused to follow the President's lead in the movement for the repeal of the Panama tolls law, and on other occasions stood in opposition to some presidential appointments which he felt were more in the interest of the Trusts than of the people.
Senator Martine explained to the Senate as to the tolls' bill repealer, that in the previous session he had voted for the toll bill, that the platform of the Convention at Baltimore that had put Gov. Wilson in nomination for the Presidency had endorsed the bill, that the President himself had declared for it, in numerous speeches, and he regarded the repeal of it as against the best interests of the nation.
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