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In the Fall of 1916 Senator Martine filed his petition, as a democratic candidate in the state primaries for re-election. Attorney General, John W. Wescott, filed a petition for senatorial support in the same primary. Mr. Wescott's candidacy had the tacit approval of the Federal Administration and of the democratic state organization, and the State press also. largely supported Mr. Wescott. Senator Martine carried the primary by 30,000. On election day the democratic ticket, national and state, was over- whelmed by the republicans. and Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, (rep.) was elected to replace him.
Ex-Senator Martine is a member of the Army and Navy Club of Wash- ington. D. C.
ADOLPH F. MARQUIER-Newark, (1041 S. Orange Ave.)- Pharmacist, Teacher. Born in 1878, in Easton, Pa. ; son of Frank and Katherine (Waldmann) Marquier ; married in Newark, on June 1, 1911, to Anna M. Hall.
Children : Frank A., born August 7, 1914
Adolph F. Marquier is the President of the New Jersey Pharmaceuti- cal Association. He had spent three years in Baden-Baden, Germany, and lived in Easton for two years before he came, thirty-five years ago, to New Jersey to live. He was educated in the public schools of Newark and in
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the Newark Technical School, in the New Jersey College of Pharmacy, and, in chemistry, by private tutors.
For ten years Mr. Marquier was Quiz Master of Chemistry, and for five years has been a teacher of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, in the New Jersey College of Pharmacy. He is President of the Alumni Association of the College.
Mr. Marquier has been prominent in the work of the New Jersey Pharmaceutical Association, and at its annual meeting in Lake Hopatcong, June, 1917, he was elected President of the Association.
JAMES GILBERT MASON, D. D .- Metuchen .- Clergyman (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917.) Boru at Jonesboro, Tenn., on October 31, 1841; son of Archibald G. and Lucinda Ryhand Mason ; married March 6, 1872, to Sue Tyler, of Virginia, who died in 1875; 2nd, April 4, 1881, at Metuchen, to Anita G., daugh- ter of Henry B. Hanschild and Irene Nichols Hauschild.
Children : Irene: James Gilbert, Jr. The former is a gradu- ate of Wellesley College and now the wife of Rev. Arthur E. Harper, Missionary at Sharakpur, India; the latter, who married Irene Jaycox, of Marengo, Ill., is now in business in New York City.
The Rev. Dr. James Gilbert Mason is a prominent man in his church. Six times he has been a Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, and at one time was mentioned for Moderator of that body. He graduated from Williams College in 1863, with the degree of A. B., and in 1866 was given the degree of A. M., and three years later from Union Theological Seminary, New York City, with the B. D. degree. He was ordained, July 4, 1866, by the Third Presbytery of New York City. By the Presbytery of Nassau, he was installed as Pastor of the Wood- haven Presbyterian Church, now of Brooklyn, N. Y. Here he preached Sunday afternoons. At the same time he preached in the morning hour in the Memorial Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., as its first minis- ter. He organized the Woodhaven Church. In 1867 he was called to the church at Jonesboro, his native town. Three years later he was recalled to Woodhaven. This call he was compelled to decline because of the need at Jonesboro. Here he preached for five years. He took part in the re- construction period in Ten. In 1872, he was called to the North Presby- terian Church at Washington, D. C. After four years, and the death of his wife, he resigned the Pastorate and made an extensive tour of the Orient. Upon his return to America he was called to a church at Balti- more, and to Sedalia, Mo., and to Metuchen, this state. The latter call he accepted, and has been pastor there now for more than forty years, and is still vigorously active in pastoral work, holding an influence in the com- . munity.
Dr. Mason has been active in educational and civic affairs. During his seminary course, he was Principal, for a time, of the High School at Warren, Pa. He was called from this to close up the business of the
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United States Sanitary Commission in Tennessee. In 1864, he went with Sherman's army to Atlanta in the service of the same Commission. He was a republican. casting his first vote for Lincoln and Johnson, but joined the National Prohibition Party in 1912, and has been one of the most active workers for the Prohibition cause. He is a member of the National Prohibition Party Committee, also a member of New Jersey Prohibition State Committee. He was named on the Prohibition ticket for State Senator from Middlesex connty in 1912, and made a stirring cam- paign. The following year (1913) he was nominated for Governor and his notable state-wide campaign gained a respectable increase for the Pro- hibition vote in the state.
In the National Convention of 1916 at St. Paul, Min., his name was presented by New Jersey as her first choice as the nominee for the Presi- dency of the United States.
Dr. Mason was a candidate for Congress from the Third District, nominated by the National Prohibition Party, and endorsed by the Nation- al Party. He kept before the voters the Prohibition issue, going on to final victory now acclaimed through the land.
THOMAS L. MASSON-Glen Ridge .- Editor, Author. Born in Essex. Conn., on July 21, 1806: son of Thomas L. and Malvina N. Masson ; married on October 24, 1883, to Fannie Zulette Good- rich, daughter of William Henry Goodrich, of Hartford, Conn. Children : He has two daughters and two sons.
Thomas L. Masson (Tom Masson) has been since 1883 the Literary and Managing Editor of "Life." New York City. He edited, besides, in 1904, a selection of "Humorous Masterpieces of American Literature," in 1905 issued a book of original verses entitled "In Merry Measure.' In 1906 came a collection of verse under the title "Humor of Love in Verse and Prose." He has also written a number of humorous novels. Among these are "Yankee Navy," (1899) ; "A Corner in Women," (1905) ; "The Von Blumers," (1906) ; "A Bachelor's Baby," and "Some Grown-ups," (1907), and "The Best Stories in the World," (1913), and "Best Short Stories," (1918).
Mr. Masson is a member of the Montclair Golf Club. For years he was President of the Board of Education of Glen Ridge, and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Committee of Public Safety.
PAUL MATTHEWS-Trenton .- Bishop. (Photograph pub- lished in Vol. 1, 1917). Born at Glendale, Ohio, December 25, 1866; son of Stanley and Mary Ann ( Black) Matthews; married to Elsie Proctor, at Glendale, Ohio, May 11, 1897; daughter of William Alexander and Elizabeth Proctor.
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Paul Matthews is the Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey, with jurisdiction extending over the lower end of the State, including Hunterdon, Somerset, and Union counties, and all the state to the South.
Bishop Matthews was prepared for college at St. Paul's School, Con- cord, N. H. (1880-1883). He graduated from Princeton University in 1887, the valedictorian of his class. He studied for a year at Princeton Theological Seminary in preparation for the Presbyterian ministry, but was confirmed in the Episcopal Church in 1888, and entered the General Theological Seminary in New York, graduating in 1890.
Dr. Matthews was made a Deacon in 1890 and ordained as a priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church a year later. While he was still a Dea- con, he officiated as Assistant at the Church of the Advent, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati. After his ordination as a priest, he entered the Associate Mission in Omaha in charge of St. Paul's and St. John's Churches. Ine 1896, he became rector of St. Luke's Church, Cincinnati, and, in 1904, Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in that city.
The Rev. Dr. Matthews was elected Bishop Coadjutor of Milwaukee in September. 1905; but he declined it and continued his ministry at St. Paul's Cathedral until he accepted a like ministry at the Cathedral at Faribault, Minn. While in that ministry, he acted also as a professor in the Seabury Divinity School. He was still in that relation when he was elected Bishop of the Diocese of New Jersey, at a Diocesan Convention held in October, 1914, and accepted. His consecration as Bishop took place January 25, 1915.
The Diocese of New Jersey was organized in 1785, but the first Bishop, Rt. Rev. John Croes, was not consecrated until 1815. The Diocese was divided in 1874-the present Diocese of Newark being separated as a new Diocese.
In 1890, Bishop Matthews received the B. D. degree from the General Theological Seminary, the D. D. degree from Seabury Divinity School in 1914, and from Princeton University in 1916, and the S. T. D. degree from the General Theological Seminary in 1915.
HUDSON MAXIM - Landing P. O. - Inventor ( Photo- graph published in Vol. 1, 1917.) Born at Orneville, Piscata- quis Co., Me., 1853; son of Isaac and Harriett Boston (Stevens) Maxim; married on March 26th, 1896, at London, England, to Lilian Durban, daughter of the Rev. Wm. Durban, (M. A.) and Mary Ann Durban, of London.
. Isaac and Harriett Maxim had eight children-six sons and two daughters. Hudson was the fourth son and the sixth child. His parents were very poor, and he had no early educational advantages-not even an opportunity of learning his letters until he was nearly nine years old. He was scantily clothed and scantily fed and had no books and no schooling until he was able to pay for all such things himself with his meager earnings, working on farms, in stone quarries, and with pick and
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shovel, in brickyards. But, having an indomitable thirst for knowledge, he early determined to have a good education. He was able to learn al- most anything with wonderful ease, and seldom forgot anything which he thought might be useful for him to remember.
He was soon able to teach town school, and then he got on much more rapidly. Finally, he attended school at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's Hill, where he paid particular attention to the sciences, especial- ly chemistry. Even before he left school he was a facile writer. While yet a student at Kent's Hill, at the age of twenty-two, he formulated the hypothesis of the compound nature of the so-called atoms,-that all mat- ter is one in the ultimate, and that all manifestations of force in nature depend upon the relative positions and massing and motions of ultimate atoms. His theory was published in the Scientific American Supplement in 1889, and has been proven true in its main essentials since the dis- covery of radiant matter.
Immediately after leaving school he engaged in the publishing busi- ness in Pittsfield, Mass. One of his publications, a book on penmanship and pen drawing, of which he was the author, was very popular. He sold by subscription nearly half a million copies. And thus, he had al- ready done notable work in the fields of science, philosophy, art, and . letters, before he became a world-famed inventor of weapons of war.
Notwithstanding his strenuously busy life during the past thirty years in the field of mechanics and invention, he has been a voluminous writer for newspapers and magazines on a wide range of subjects. He is the author of several important books, the most notable of which is the " Science of Poetry and the Philosophy of Language," published by Funk & Wagnalls in 1910. This book was the first to place poetry on a scientific basis and to give rules for its analysis and understanding and also for writing it. It was the first book to give a scientific definition of poetry. The book introduced seven new words into the language, three of which are in the New Standard Dictionary. Furthermore, the treatise is the first to show the specific use in language of the four properties of signs-loudness, duration, pitch and tone-color,-and that the forty so- called elementary sounds of the language are different tone-color blends ; that we express thought by non-emotional sounds used arbitrarily as the signs of ideas, while we impress thought, manifest our emotion and stimulate and qualify the mind of the liearer for perception-that is to say, that we energize the hearer-by superimposing emotional tone blends on the arbitrary blends of meaning. This is one of the most important discoveries ever made in language, even if it be not the most important.
His two books, "Defenseless America," and "Leading Opinions, Both For and Against National Defense," published since the outbreak of the European War, are among the important books to which the war gave birth. The noted motion picture play, "The Battle Cry of Peace," was written upon his "Defenseless America." He sent out, free with his compliments, to leaders of thought throughout the country, to help the cause of national defense, more than a hundred thousand sets of these books.
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His book, "Dynamite Stories," contains some very vivid tales of ex- periences and adventures with all kinds of explosive materials.
Among Mr. Maxim's most noted naval and military inventions may be mentioned, process and apparatus for the manufacture of the multi- perforated smokeless cannon powder, the first to be adopted by the United States Government and still in use; and Maximite, the first high explosive safely to be thrown from heavy guns at high velocity through heavy armorplate and exploded behind the plate by a delay action fuse. This explosive was adopted by the Government in 1901, after exhaustive tests at Sandy Hook. His safety delay action fuse, after still more ex- haustive tests by the Navy Department, was adopted in 1908.
He spent more than $50,000 in conducting experiments with a new system of driving torpedoes by means of a new combustive material con- sisting of seventy per cent. nitroglycerin and thirty per cent. guncotton, called Motorite. The material is a dense, rubbery substance made into bars, seven inches in diameter, which are forced into and sealed in steel tubes, and these tubes are screwed into a combustion chamber, and ignited at one end. As the combustion is confined to the exposed end, the material burns at a perfectly steady rate, according to the pressure, which may be controlled to a nicety. Water is pumped into the combustion chamber, where it is instantly evaporated by being driven through a series of baffle plates by the flame blast. By means of this system more than twice as much energy can be placed in a self-propelled torpedo of the Whitehead type as can be developed by means of compressed air, even when heated as it escapes, and the heat of the gases used to evaporate water, according to the latest method. The expense of putting the system to practical use being too great for an ordinary private purse, and finding difficulty in get- ting the Government to appropriate the necessary money for the practical utilization of the system, Mr. Maxim sold it to the United States Navy for the sum of one dollar.
His inventions in smokeless powders, high explosives, fuses, etc., with the exception of Maximite, were sold to the E. I. duPont de Nemours Powder Company, and the Government bought from that company. Mr. Maxim has been associated with the duPonts in an advisory capacity since 1898. In 1905 he sold them his invention, Stabillite, a smokeless powder which requires no drying, there being no volatile solvent employed in its manufacture. It has remarkable value as an emergency powder in time of war, for the reason that it may be fired as soon as made. Mr. Maxim also invented a process of manufacturing calcium carbide, now in general use, which he sold to the Union Carbide Company.
His invention. the "Game of War," is one of which he is very proud. This game is greatly liked and highly praised by Frank J. Marshall, the American chess champion, who teaches it at his chess divan in New York. It resembles chess, but typifies actual warfare more than does chess.
Mr. Maxim has experimented extensively in the production of new kinds of foods with a view to producing a better army ration than has heretofore been produced, and he thinks that he has accomplished this result in a food, which he calls Maximfeast. It is also equally well adapted to general household uses. He has recently constructed several
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laboratories at his place at Maxim Park on Lake Hopatcong, where he is conducting his food experiments.
In 1913, Mr. Maxim received the D. Sc. degree from Heidelberg Uni- versity, Ohio, and the LL. D. degree from St. Peters College, New Jersey, in 1918.
CHARLES W. McALPIN-Morristown .- Capitalist. Born in New York City ; son of David H. McAlpin.
Charles W. McAlpin is one of the heirs of David H. McAlpin who was one of the largest manufacturers of tobacco in the United States and a liberal patron of the arts, and has succeeded to the care and manage- ment of many of the business enterprises in which his father was engaged when he died in 1901.
The elder Mr. McAlpin started a retail cigar business in Catherine Street, New York City, in 1836, and was afterwards engaged in the manu- facture of chewing tobacco on Avenue D. and Sixth Street. From these beginnings, the business grew to a magnitude that commanded the markets of the civilized world. David H. McAlpin was a director of the Union Theological Seminary from 1872 to 1901 and munificent endowments for the Seminary were among his other beneficences. A notable contribution to the Seminary is a collection of British History and Theology, em- bracing 10,000 titles, some bearing date before 1700. He was a member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a Fellow in Perpetuity, and in this state a Director of the First National Bank of Morristown. His estate, "Brook- lawn," on the old Walker farm at Littleton, acquired in 1866, and his later estate, "Glen Alpin," at Hoyts Corner, four miles from Morristown, have long been among the garden places of that exclusive region.
JAMES JOSEPH McATEER-Kearny, (315 Kearny Ave.)- Publisher, Printer, Assemblyman. Born at Lisborn, Ireland, Nov. 6, 1873; son of John and Catherine (McNally) McAteer ; mar- ried at Kearny, N. J., April 16th, 1900, to Agnes M. Burke, daugh- ter of James and Maria (Griffin) Burke, of Kearny, N. J.
Children : Mary, born Feb. 10th, 1901; John B., born Nov. 6th, 1902; James, born Aug. 29th, 1904; Agnes, born July 10th, 1906; Regina, born Sept. 30th, 1908; Eugene, born July 25th, 1910; Kathleen, born June 18th, 1912.
When Mr. McAteer was one year old his parents moved from Lis- born, Ireland, to Johnston, Scotland, where they resided for one year and then came to America and settled at Paterson, N. J. Here, at the age of nine, Mr. McAteer attended St. John's Parochial School. In 1886, his family again changed its residence, however; this time to Kearny, N. J., and at that town, he attended night school for two years (1887-1889) dur- ing which time he also worked in a flax mill. Following this his studies
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in the public schools, he attended Coleman's Business College, evenings, for five years, and also availed himself of private teachers.
In 1908, he was elected councilman of Kearney for six years, and later accepted a position as secretary to Speaker Edward Kenny, of the New Jersey House of Assembly in 1911, and to Speaker Leon A. Taylor in 1913. In 1918 he was elected to the Assembly and in 1919 was re- elected.
Mr. McAteer's club memberships are, Knights of Columbus, Elks, A. O. H., F. O. E., and the Printers Pressman Union.
His business address is 315 Kearney Ave., Kearney, N. J.
C. CURTICE McCAIN-Maplewood .- Transportation Associa- tion Chairman. Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born in Minneapolis, Minn., on September 18, 1856; son of John Curtice and Saralı Ann Dailey ( Bond ) McCain; married at Newburg, N. Y., April 8, 1886, to Maria Bradley Shaw, daughter of Charles B. and Henrietta (Rodermond) Shaw.
Children : Curtice Shaw, born February 18, 1887; Harold Ber- rian, born July 18, 1891.
C. Curtice McCain is Chairman of the Trunk Line Association and an expert and author of recognized authority on transportation problems. He is of Scotch lineage and owes his education to the public schools and personal study and research. He entered the office of the Trunk Line Asso- ciation in New York as a clerk in July, 1877. The Association was then in charge of Albert Fink. Later he became Chief Clerk and was associated with Judge Thomas M. Cooley, who acted as arbitrator in many traffic questions between the railroads.
When Judge Cooley was selected Chairman of the first Interstate Commerce Commission in 1887, he appointed Mr. McCain to the important position of Auditor of the Commission. He held that position until April 1, 1895 when he was selected by the vessel interests on the Great Lakes to organize their traffic association, and he held the office of Commissioner of the Association of Lake Lines, with an office at Buffalo, N. Y., until October 1907 when he was asked by the large Eastern railroads to return to New York to become Chairman of the Trunk Line Association with which he had begun his business career as a clerk in 1877.
Mr. McCain is widely known throughout the railroad world as an expert in matters relating to transportation rates and allied questions. His experience as an officer of the Interstate Commerce Commission and his close relations with the affairs of transportation companies have es- pecially qualified him to meet the increasing activities imposed upon transportation men by reason of the many new and exacting laws and regulations governing the railroads. He has been associated with many of the large traffic and rate adjustment questions before the regulating bodies, and has written extensively on various phases of the railroad problem.
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Among Mr. McCain's publications are: "Compendium of Transporta- tion Theories," "The Diminished Purchasing Power of Railway Earnings," "A Neglected Aspect of the Freight Rate Problem," "The Necessary Adjust- ment of Railway Rates," and numerous monographs, pamphlets and contri- butions to the press, magazine, etc.
Chairman McCain is a republican in politics and an Episcopalian in faith.
ROBERT HARRIS MeCARTER-Rumson .- Lawyer. ( Photo- graph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born at Newton, on April 28th. 1859; son of Thomas N. and Mary Louisa ( Haggerty ) McCarter ; married at Bryn Mawr, Pa., Oct. 12, 1886, to Mary B. Peterson, daughter of Robert E. and Ellen (Deacon) Peterson, of Philadel- phia, Pa.
Children : George W. : Eleanor J.
Robert H. McCarter was the Attorney General of the State from May 15, 1903 to the Fall of 1908. In that position he succeeded his brother, Thomas N. McCarter, (q. v.). who had resigned to become President of the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey. Appointed by Gov. Murphy to serve out Thomas N.'s unexpired term he was re-appointed upon its expiration by Gov. Fort. He is senior member of the firm of McCarter & English, with offices in the Prudential Building, Newark, and had been before he became Attorney General, as he has since he withdrew from the office, prominent in a large number of important litigations.
A Republican, Mr. McCarter has been active in the civic life of the State. His brother, Uzal H. McCarter, (q. v.) ), is President of the Fidelity Trust Company of Newark; and the family is one that has long been noted in political and professional and financial affairs.
Mr. McCarter, who is of Scotch-Irish origin began his educational training in Newark. Attending afterwards the Pingry School in Eliza- beth and going thence to Princeton University, he graduated from the University with the class of 1879; and the University, in 1904 conferred upon him the LL. D. degree. He took a course subsequently at Columbia College Law School, was admitted to the Bar as an attorney in 1882 and as counselor in 1885. When ready for business, he opened an office at Newark and entered upon the practice of his profession. The only official position he has ever held is that of Attorney General.
Mr. McCarter is a member of the University and of Princeton Clubs of New York City, the Essex ('lub of Newark. the Rumson Country Club of Rumson, the Nassau Club of Princeton, and the Automobile Club of America, (N. Y.).
THOMAS NESBIT MeCARTER-Rumson .- Corporation Man- ager. Born in Newark, Oct., 1867: son of Thomas N. and Mary
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Louise ( Haggerty ) MeCarter ; married February 9th, 1897, to Madeleine G. Barker, daughter of George and Ellen Barker, of Baltimore, Md.
Children : Ellen George, born 1898; Thomas N. Jr., born 1899 ; Uzal Haggerty, born 1901; Madeleine Barker, born 1904.
The first forebear of the McCarter family of whom there is mention landed in Philadelphia in 1774, attested as a "single person, Protestant parents, County of Donegal, Ireland." He became a Commissary in the Revolutionary struggle and served under Wayne, Lamb and Hazen. He afterwards engaged in mercantile pursuits in Philadelphia, till he was obliged to go elsewhere for health. Settling in Mendham he bought the iron works that had been established there. The works were swept away two or three times by freshets, and, finally forced into bankruptcy he was glad to be made the Clerk of Morris County.
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