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Mr. Poore has been a resident of Orange for many years, and a number of his most notable paintings have been first exhibited to his friends at his studio on Ridge St. While he was still in college, he competed for the Harper prize of $3,000, offered to any artist under thirty for the best illus- tration to the "Hymn to the Nativity." Though awarded the prize by the jury, it was subsequently withheld by the donors.
The country about Lyme, on the Connecticut shore of Long Island Sound, had always appealed to Mr. Poore and he took up his whole house and wandered about from place to place. The natives of the country-side became accustomed to seeing a small shack, principally plate glass win- dows, resting on runners, and being dragged over the ground by four oxen. Protected in this manner from the cold. Mr. Poore painted, over the Lvine country.
Mr. Poore was awarded a bronze medal at the Pan-American Exposi- tion in 1901; a silver medal at the St. Louis International Exposition in 1904; a gold medal by the American Art Society in 1907 ; a gold medal at the International Centennial at Buenos Aires in 1910; and a silver medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915. He is a member of the Inter- national Society of Arts and Letters of Paris, and of the National Acade- my. Specimens of his work have been purchased by the Art Club of Phila- delphia, the Fine Arts Association of Buffalo, the St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Association of Indianapolis, the Worcester Art Mu- seum, and by many private collectors.
He is the author of a number of books on art subjects. "Pictorial Com- positions," published in 1903, is now in its eleventh edition, having sold all 'round the world, and has been translated into Dutch. Other works by the same author are "Tht Pictorial Figure," and "New Tendencies in Art," the latter of which was afterwards combined in one volume with "The Con- ception of Art," published in 1913. It was partly due to the success of his written work that Mr. Poore became instructor in composition at the Penn- sylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He has also for many years conducted a summer class at Lyme, Conn., and has lectured in all the principal cities of the Atlantic seaboard and in Chicago.
Mr. Poore is a Presbyterian in faith and a republican in politics and is connected with the Lotos, Salmagundi, the National Arts and the MacDow- ell Clubs of New York, the Art Club of Philadelphia and the New England Society of Orange.
BESSIE POPE-Jersey City, (161 Summit Ave. )-Suffragist. Born at Woodstock, (now the twenty-third ward of New York City ), on August 27, 1869; daughter of Thomas J. and Katharine (Buxton) Pope.
Miss Bessie Pope is of English stock. She attended private schools during her childhood, including Miss Wreak's School of Jersey City and Miss Porter's School at Farmington, Conn. She completed her studies at the latter institution, in 1885.
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Most of her life, she has been associated with various philanthropic and civic activities in Jersey City. She is a member of the Women's Au- xiliary of Whittier House, in Jersey City, and has filled various offices in the Jersty City Equal Suffrage League. During the great war she took active part in various phases of war relief work. also serving as vice- chairman and chairman in the five Liberty Loan Campaigns.
She is a member of the following organizations: New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association, Farmington Lodge Society, Alliance Francais of New York, the Jersey City Woman's Club and the Citizens' Federation of Hudson County.
GEORGE ADAMS POST-Somerville .- Manufacturer. Born in Cuba, Allegheny Co., N. Y., on September 1, 1854; son of Ira Allen and Harriet Newell (Curtis) Post ; married on June 22nd, 1881, to Minnie C. Munson, of Susquehanna, Penn.
While a resident of Somerville, George Adams Post's activities have been largely outside of New Jersey. Before he came here, he had been a large figure in the politics of Pennsylvania. He was Mayor of Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, when he was twenty-two years of age, and later was a demo- cratic candidate for Presidential Elector on the Pennsylvania Democratic State Ticket, in the campaign of 1SS0; represented the Fifteenth District of Pennsylvania in the Forty-eighth Congress of the United States (1883- 1885) : was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1884; served in the campaign of that year as Secretary of the Democratic Con- gressional Campaign Committee, and was Chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention in 1885.
Mr. Post was educated in the public schools and the Academy of Owe- go (Tioga Co.), New York, and in the Normal School Oswego (Oswego Co.), New York. At eighteen he accepted a position in the frieght depart- ment of the Erie Railroad Company at Susquehanna, Penn., and became Assistant to the Superintendent of Motive Power in 1875. Having studied law at night, he was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in August, 1SS2 : became editor and part owner of the Montrose (Pa.) "Democrat" in 1883, continuing as such until 1889, in connection with the practice of law. Re- moving to New York, for two years (1889-1890) he was on the editorial staff of the "New York World." Entering the manufacturing business in 1892, he became Vice-President of the Standard Coupler Company of New York, and since 1894, has been continuously President of that Company, being also interested in several other industrial enterprises.
Mr. Post is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Railway Supply Manufacturers Association in 1903. In 1905 he was Chairman of the American Railway Appliance Exhibition, held in connection with the International Railway Congress in Washington. He was President of the Railway Business Association of the United States from 1909 until 1918, having been nine times elected to that office. In April, 1918, he declined re-election.
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In May, 1918, he was appointed Chairman of the Railroad Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
Mr. Post is one of the Board of Governors of the Machinery Club of New York (President in 1911-1912) ; a member of the Merchants Associa- tion of New York, the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, a Trustee of the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce, a National Coun- cillor of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and a member of many railroad clubs throughout the country. His social clubs are the Lo- tos, Railroad and Machinery Clubs of New York, and the Raritan Valley Country Club in Somerset county. He is Chairman of the Somerville Chapter of the American Red Cross.
As an after-dinner orator Mr. Post holds high rank, and is widely known as "The Apostle of Good Humor."
His New York office is at 30 Church Street.
FRANCES FOLSOM (CLEVELAND) PRESTON-Princeton. Born in Buffalo, N. Y., July 21, 1864; daughter of Oscar and Emma C. (Harmon) Folsom ; married in Washington, D. C., June 2, 1886, to Grover Cleveland, son of the Rev. William F. and Anne (Neal) Cleveland; 2nd, at Princeton, on February 10, 1913, to Thomas Jex Preston, Jr., son of Thomas Jex and Jennie E. ( Weller) Preston.
Children : Ruth Cleveland, born Oct. 3, 1891; Esther Cleveland, born Sept. 9, 1893; Marion Cleveland, born July 7, 1895; Richard Folsom Cleveland, born Oct. 28, 1897; Francis Grover Cleveland, born July 18, 1903.
Mrs. Preston is the widow of the late Grover Cleveland, twice Presi- dent of the United States. Her father, who was a lawyer in Buffalo, had been Mr. Cleveland's partner. Her marriage to President Cleveland was the first Presidential wedding in the White House. Thomas J. Preston, Jr., to whom she was married in 1913, first a business man in Newark, was Professor of Archaeology of Wells College, Aurora, Cayuga Co., N. Y., was in 1912 President pro. tem. of the College, and is the author of some works on art.
Mrs. Preston is of English and New England stock on both sides. She was educated at private schools in Buffalo, N. Y., and St. Paul, Minn. From the High School at Buffalo she entered Wells College. Her home is in Princeton, where President Cleveland established his residence after retiring from the White House.
Mrs. Preston was a trustee of Wells College in 1887, and is a member of the Colony Club, the Women's University Club, the Wells Club (N. Y.) and the Present Day Club of Princeton.
JACOB C. PRICE-Branchville .- Physician. Born at Branch- ville, N. J., Jan. 9, 1851; son of William and Phebe (Armstrong) Price ; married at New York City in 1899, to Alice Westbrook.
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Dr. Jacob Cole Price was educated in the public schools of Branch- ville, N. J. His father was Assemblyman from Sussex county in 1861, also a descendant of Governor Rodman M. Price. In 1871 he entered the Uni- versity of Michigan, graduating in 1874. He then took a course of three years at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at New York City.
Dr. Price has always taken an active part in public affairs in his home county. For fifteen years, 1880 to 1891, he was county physician of Sussex county, and for five years he was Mayor and Postmaster of Branchville. Under the Mckinley administration, he was appointed a member of the Board of Examining Surgeons from his Congressional District.
In 1903 he was elected to the State Senate with a plurality of 758 votes over his Republican opponent, and was returned to the office in 1906 and again in 1919, being the first Senator who had ever been given a third term in Sussex county. In 1912 he was appointed a member of the State Board of Health by Governor Wilson, but after serving one year he resigned, to accept secretaryship; also retained as member of the Board. Upon the creation of the new Department of Health he was elected Director for a term of four years. His term expires in 1919.
His business address is Branchville, N. J.
HELEN NORRIS PRICKITT-Metuchen .- Pianist and Editor. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917.) Born at Washington, D. C., daughter of John L. and Cordelia (Clarke) Norris; married September 2, 1893, to Charles A. Prickitt, of Metuchen, son of Rev. S. B. D. Prickitt and Ellen Bates Prickitt.
Children : Charles, born Sept. 1, 1898; Helen, born June 7, 1903.
Helen Norris Prickitt was among the first to call attention to the enormous depreciation the mosquito brings to New Jersey property and to advise a public movement for the extermination of the pest. She was a prime mover in the organization of the Borough Improvement League of Metuchen and Chairman of its Mosquito Committee-the pinoneer Com- mittee-to agitate the importance of town, county and finally state action. The persistence of the women of the League resulted in the law providing for county Mosquito Extermination Commissions, and Metuchen was made the scene of the first thorough and successful experiments in that work. The women of the League started the late Prof. Smith of Rutgers College, State Entomologist, after the first appropriation, a $10,000 one, the State made for mosquito extermination experiments.
Mrs. Prickitt has been for some years-and is still-President of the Metuchen Improvement League. It is one of the few women's clubs in New Jersey owning a well equipped club house. The club is free of all debt and under Mrs. Prickitt's leadership has ample funds for civic work. Its building, known as the Franklin Civic House, is the center of the organized efforts of Metuchen women in a variety of public, literary, civic, beneficent, artistic and social activities. Remodeled with modern con- veniences, it is the building that served as the Town School and Meeting
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House of the Committee during the Revolution. Notwithstanding its historic interest, the building was neglected until the League took pos- session of it, rescued it from neglect and restored it to its colonial fresh- ness.
Mrs. Prickitt traces her ancestry back on her mother's side to Major John Clarke, of New York State, an officer of the Revolutionary War, and to the Norris family of Virginia and Washington, D. C. She was educated at the Washington High School, studied music with Dr. Bischoff in Wash- ington and then went to the Berlin Conservatory of Music as a pupil of Professor Jedliczka. She has appeared as a pianist and singer at concerts and in church choirs and recitals. She is news-editor of the "Metuchen Recorder," a weekly newspaper conducted by her husband and herself. and finds time besides for the promotion of worthy benevolent and civic move- ments of many kinds. She was one of the organizers and former President of the Quiet Hour Literary Society, an officer of the New Jersey State Fed- eration of Women's Clubs, and a delegate of the Federation to the last Biennial Convention of the National organization. She has taken an active part in woman suffrage work only once ; on the request of the State Chair- man, she called a meeting and planned and conducted a campaign by mail that secured in Metuchen the largest favoring majority cast anywhere in the state for the woman suffrage constitutionel amendment in 1915. In April, 1917, she became first President of the Metuchen Equal Suffrage League, at its organization.
JOHN DYNELEY PRINCE-Ringwood Manor .- University Professor, Author. Born at New York City, April 17, 1868; son of John Dyneley and Anna Maria ( Morris) Prince; married at New York City, on October 5, 1889, to Adeline Loomis, daughter of Alfred L. Loomis.
Children : John Dyneley, Jr.
John Dyneley Prince is Professor of Slavonic Languages in Columbia University. He is, besides, a leading figure in the public affairs of New Jersey. He was elected in 1905 to the New Jersey House of Assembly, and, successively re-elected, served in the Legislatures of 1906-8-9. The republican majority of the House in 1909 made him Speaker. In the fall of that year he was nominated for the State Senate by the republi- cans of Passaic, and, elected, served until the close of 1913. In the Senate of 1911 he was majority leader and in 1912 was President. While
in that position he served as Acting Governor during the many absences of Gov. Wilson from the state. In 1917 Gov. Edge appointed him Presi- dent of the State Civil Service Commission.
Senator Prince is of pure British stock. His father's family came from Yorkshire, England, and his mother's from Wales. The Princes came in the 1830's to Paterson where Senator Prince's father was born and where, of the firm of Plummer & Prince, his grandfather conducted a mill on Prince Street, which was named for him. His mother's family settled on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and at Baltimore about 1740
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and have lived there ever since. Reverdy Johnson, the famous American jurist of the "Re-construction" period that followed the Civil War, was a grandfather of his mother. The father of Senator Prince's wife was Dr. Alfred L. Loomis, the noted lung specialist at New York City.
Senator Prince had lived at Islip, L. I., and in New York City before he came in 1891 to New Jersey to make his home. He was educated at Columbia Grammar School in New York City and, having graduated from Columbia College, represented the College on the expedition to Southern Babylonia sent out in 18SS by the University of Pennsylvania. Before his return to America he attended the University of Berlin in 1889 and '90 and after his return he was a student and a Fellow of the Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore until '92. In 1893 he was made Pro- fessor of Semitic Languages at New York University and was Dean of the New York University Graduate School from 1895 to 1902. He next became Professor of Semitic Languages at Columbia University and in 1915 he was made Professor of the Slavonic Languages. Professor Prince was decorated by the King of Servia with the Order of St. Sava. He became a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1903 and a member of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, and of the Nederlandsche Maatschappij der Letterkunde in 1913, is connected with the American Oriental Society and Treasurer of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis.
Professor Prince is a voluminous pamphleteer on philological sub- jects and the author of a number of scientific works. Among them are, "Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin," (Baltimore, 1893) ; articles in the "Journal of the American Oriental Society," 1895-1916; a "Critical Commentary on the Book of Daniel," (Leipzig, 1889) ; articles in the "Pro- ceedings of the American Philosophical Society," and in the "Proceedings of the New York Academy of Sciences," the "American Journal of Phil- ology," the "American Anthropologist," etc. 1897-1916; articles in the "Journal of Biblical Literature," 1898-1914; in "Encyclopaedia Biblica," on the "Development of Primitive Music," 1902-3; "Modern Dialect of the Canadian Abenakis, Miscellanea Linguiistica," Turin, 1901; "Kuloskap the Master" (Alginquin Indian poems), with the late Charles G. Leland, 1902; "Sumerian Lexicon," 190S; "Assyrian Primer," 1909; articles in the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," and in Hasting's "Dictionary of Reli- gions," etc., and on the "San Blas Indian Language of Panama," in the "American Anthropologist," 1912-1913.
Professor Prince's club memberships are with the Union, the Tuxedo and the Hamilton of Paterson.
SEWARD PROSSER-Englewood .- Banker. Born at Buffalo, N. Y., on May 1, 1871; son of Henry Wilbur and Anna (Fay ) Prosser; married on October 25, 1902, to Constance Barber, of Englewood.
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Seward Prosser has been President of the Bankers Trust Company of New York since 1914; and is a director in a long chain of other financial institutions and of corporations.
He was educated in the public schools and at the Englewood School for Boys. He began his business career with the Equitable Life Insurance Society of the United States and later, as a member of the firm of Prosses & Homans, represented the Society. He became Vice President of the Astor Trust Company in 1907, President of the Liberty National Bank in 1912 and reached the Presidency of the Bankers Trust Company in October of 1914.
Mr. Prosses is a member of the Executive Committee of the Trust Companies Association of the State of New York and of the New York Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Executive Committee and a Direc- tor of the Astor Trust Company. of the Liberty National Bank, of the Mercantile Safe Deposit Company and of the Tobacco Products Corpora- tion ; a Director of the American Surety Company, the American Light and Traction Company, the General Electric Company, the International Nickel Company, the Railway Steel Springs Company, the Loomis Con- tracting Company, the Northern Railroad of New Jersey, the Kennecott Copper Corporation, and of the Texas & Pacific Railway Company, etc.
Mr. Posser's club memberships are with the Union League, the Metro- politan, the Recess, the India House and the Bankers.
HENRY GOSLEE PROUT-Nutley, (Stockton Place.)-Engi- neer, Editor, Manufacturer. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917.) Born in Fairfax Co., Va .; son of William and Amanda (Goslee) Prout ; married on December 19, 1877, to Gabriella Perin, daughter of Col. Glover Perin, Medical Department, U. S. Army, and Elizabeth Page Perin.
Children : Glover Perin ; Elizabeth Page; Henry Byrd ; Curtis ; Phoebe Lee; Gabriella.
Henry G. Prout's ancestry is of old New England stock on both sides. The first of his line here, was Capt. Timothy Prout, who came to Boston, (Mass.) from Biddeford, Devonshire, in 1644, served as Surveyor of the Port, Captain of Forts and Artillery, Representative in the General Court (State Legislature) and Member of the Committee for the Settlement of Deeds with the Indians. His sixth son, Ebenezer, born and died in Boston, was member and Clerk of the General Court and a soldier in the Colonial Wars. Ebenezer's grandson, John, Col. H. G. Prout's great grandfather, served in the Revolution in a Connecticut regiment.
The maternal ancestor in America was a Welshman, Thomas Goslee, who settled in Connecticut, was a Colonial soldier and died in the Colonial service. His son, Henry Goslee, (Col. Prout's great grandfather) enlisted in 1776, at the age of sixteen, and served in the Revolutionary Army until the end of the war. He was wounded when storming a fort in New Jersey
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under "Mad Anthony" Wayne and was at Monmouth and at Yorktown. His son, Henry Goslee 2nd, the Colonel's grandfather, was in the War of 1812. A third great grandfather, Stephen Benton, was also a Revolutionary soldier.
When the Civil War broke out Henry G. Prout was a boy on a farm in Berkshire, Mass. Later, in 1863, he was permitted to obey the tradi- tions of the family and in the 57th Massachusetts Infantry served as an enlisted man until the regiment was mustered out in 1865. This regiment was the third in the Union Army in the percentage of its total enrollment killed in battle. These three were the 2nd Wisconsin, 19.7 per cent .; 1st Maine Heavy Artillery, 19.2 per cent .; and 57th Massachusetts, 19.1 per cent. killed on the field or mortally wounded.
In 1871, H. G. Prout was graduated from the University of Michi- gan with the degree of C. E. In 1902 he received an honorary A. M. from Yale and in 1911 an honorary LL. D. from the University of Michigan.
During his college vacations he found employment under officers of the Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., and after graduating he had further work under that Corps, the last being the command of an expedition of reconoissance in the Rocky Mountains. This service lea to his selection by General Sherman for a commission in the Egyptian Army as one of six officers then sent out at the request of the Khedive. He went out as Major of Engineers and rose to the rank of Colonel in the General Staff. His service of four and one half years took him from Cairo to the Great Lakes and from the Red Sea to the western frontier of Darfour. His first year was in Cairo (Chief of the Bureau of Military Engineering) in the Delta and on the Syrian frontier. He commanded an expedition of recon- noissance in Kordofan and Darfour (Egyptian Soudan) for a year and a half, and then, at the request of General Gordon ("Chinese Gordon"), he succeeded Gordon as Governor General of the Provinces of the Equator .- Gordon going to Khartoum as Governor General of the Soudan. Thus, Prout became Gordon's subordinate. The Provinces of the Equator covered the Nile country from the 10th degree of latitude to the Lakes at the head of the Nile. This included the Albert Nyanza but the Khedive's conquests never reached the Victoria Nyanza.
In 1879 Col. Prout came to live at Nutley which has been his home ever since. For 16 years he was editor of the "Railroad Gazette" (now the "Railway Age Gazette") an authoritative weekly journal of railway engin- eering, transportation, finance economics. It was his work there that won his degree for him.
For nearly twelve years Col. Prout was First Vice President and Gen- eral Manager of the Union Switch and Signal Co. (George Westinghouse, President), engaged in the manufacture and installation of block signals and other safety apparatus for railroads. On the death of Mr. Westing- house he succeeded to the Presidency and shortly after retired from business. He is now Chairman of the Nutley Chapter of the American Red Cross.
Colonel Prout is a member and former Director of the American Socie- ty of Civil Engineers, a Corresponding Member of the American Geograph- ical Society, and a member of the Century Club and Railroad Club of New
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York, the University Club of Pittsburgh, the Chicago Club of Chicago, and the Yountakah Country Club of. Passaic.
M. TAYLOR PYNE-Princeton .- Lawyer, Trustee. ( (Photo- graph published in Vol. 1, 1917.) Born in New York City, on De- cember 21st, 1855; son of Percy Rivington and Albertina Shelton (Taylor) Pyne ; married at Trenton, on June 2nd, 1880, to Mar- garetta Stockton, daughter of Major General Robert F. Stock- ton, of New Jersey.
Children : Percy Rivington 2nd, born June 23rd, 1881; Robert Stockton, born May 27th, 1883, died 1903; M. Taylor, Jr., born November 5th, 1885.
Mr. Pyne is of English lineage and graduated from Princeton Uni- versity with the degree of B. A. in 1877, and M. A. in 1880. He studied law in Columbia University, receiving the degree of LL. B. in 1879, and was given the honorary degree of L. H. D. in 1903, by the same institu- tion. He was Republican Presidential Elector in 1908 and 1916, Chair- man of Princeton Township 1899-1911; and is President of the Warren R. R. Co., and the Lake Carnegie Association, Vice President of the Princeton University Press and Chairman of the New Jersey Public Li- brary Commission, of which he has been a member since its organiza- tion in 1900, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Young Men's Christian Association of New York City, and is Treasurer of the War Council of the Diocese of New Jersey and Chairman of the American Li- brary Association War Work Campaign for New Jersey.
Mr. Pyne has been Trustee of Princeton University since 1885 and of the Lawrenceville School since 1898; Director of the National City Bank of New York since 1892; Manager of St. Luke's Hospital, New York City, from 1882 to 1915; Manager of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R. Co. since 1892, and Director of the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Co. since 1898, the Commercial Trust Co. of New Jersey since 1906, the Princeton Bank and Trust Co. since 1897 and the Prudential Insurance Co. of America since 1917. He was Director of the Farmers Loan and Trust Co., 1883-1917, the Franklin Trust Co. of New York, 1907-1912, the Consoli- dated Gas Co. of New York, 1892-1906, the Harvey Steel Co. 1892-1913, the New Jersey Zinc Co. 1892-1911, the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Co. 1891- 1914, the Lackawanna Steel Co. 1902-1913, the United States Mortgage and Trust Co. 1909-1910. He has also served as Trustee of St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and the Pomfret School, Pomfret, Conn.
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