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Mr. Baker was a member of the House of Assembly from the second district of Cumberland county in 1882, and in 1886 was elected to the State Senate. To his credit as a state senator are the laws to pay Grand Jurors and for the protection of the extensive oyster industry of the State, and a provision for enlarging manual training tuition in the public schools. It was largely through his efforts in the Senate that the New Jersey Training School for Feeble Minded Children,-of the Board of Managers of which he is President-and the State Institution for Feeble Minded Women were established and located at Vineland.
The Senator was one of the Delegates-at-Large with the then Governor Green, ex-Governor Abbett and Moses Biglow, to the National Democratic Convention held in St. Louis in 1SSS; and in 1892 as one of the Presiden- tial Electors-at-Large on the Democratic ticket, he helped to cast the vote of New Jersey for Grover Cleveland for President of the United States. In the poll, the Senator received the highest cast for any of the Elector candidates. In August, 1891, he was appointed Receiver of the Philadel- phia Seashore Railway, by Chancellor McGill.
Mr. Baker has been, since it was established. President of the Trades- mens Bank of Vineland. and is, besides, devoting himself to the develop- ment of Wildwood-by-the-Sea and of Wildwood Crest.
With the exception of one son. all of Senator Baker's six children are living. The departed member of the family is Curtis T. Baker, whom Governor Wilson named in 1912 to be Presiding Judge of the Cape May county courts and who died a year later while serving on the Bench. The Senator with his family are attendants of the Presbyterian Church.
Senator Baker is a member of the Poor Richard Club of Philadelphia and the Wildwood Crest Yacht Club of Wildwood Crest. Besides being President of the New Jersey Training School, he is Vice President of the Wildwood and Delaware Bay Shore Line Railroad Co., and of the Wild- wood Title Trust Co., and one of the organizers of the Narrowgange Railway of Philadelphia and Cape May.
He is a member of the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce.
FRED. CLARE BALDWIN-East Orange. (351 William St.) - Author and Clergyman. Born at Towaco, N. J., Nov. Sth. 1860 ;
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son of Stephen and Elizabeth (Bott) Baldwin ; married at Towaco on Feb. 26th, 1884, to Emma Catherine Francisco, daughter of George W. and Caroline (Sindle) Francisco.
Children : Chauncey Edward, born Oct. 23, 1885, died May 3, 1892; Julian Wadsworth, born April 9th, 1890, died in France (U. S. A.), July 28th, 1918; Frederick Roberts, August 11, 1895.
Although Fred Clare Baldwin's chief work in life has been along religious lines, its scope has not ended there. He has also been prominent as a prose and poetry writer. In 1909 he published a volume entitled "The Life Melodious," and in 1913 a book on immortality, entitled the "Homing Instinct." He has also written extensively for church and Sun- day School publications, and attracted considerable attention as a lecturer on literary and patriotic themes.
Rev. Baldwin graduated from the Drew Theological Seminary in 1885 and was admitted to the Newark Conference of the Methodist Epis- copal Church during the same year. In 1898 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity at Dickinson College. Although the ministry of Rev. Baldwin extends over a period of thirty-five years most all of this time has been spent in Newark and East Orange, N. J.
Rev. Baldwin was born in New Jersey fifty-eight years ago and has lived in that State all his life. On his father's side his ancestry is traced back to the band of Puritans who came down from Connecticut in 1666 and founded the city of Newark.
Rev. Baldwin is the father of the late J. Wadsworth Baldwin of Essex County, N. J., who died in France during the past war.
The deceased was a promising young attorney who took an active part in Republican politics of the State. Upon declaration of war with Ger- many, after persistent application he was accepted for service in Battery A, 112th Field Artillery, Blue and Gray Division. After one month in France he died of pneumonia.
F. Roberts, the one surviving son of Rev. Baldwin, was enlisted during the war in the United States Naval Reserve Force.
Rev. Baldwin is a member of the Clergy Club, New York City; the New England Society of Orange and the Republican Club of East Orange.
JOSEPHINE LOUISE BALDWIN-Newark- (201 N. 6th St.) - Writer and Editor. Born in Foochow, China, Dec. 22, 1859;
daughter of Stephen Livingston Baldwin and Helen Maria Gorhamn.
Miss Baldwin's grandfather, Stephen L. B. Baldwin, was editor of the Somerville Whig (now the Somerset Gazette). In 1858 her father went to China as a missionary and served there for twenty years. From 1885 to the time of his death in 1903 he was recording secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Foreign Missionary Society. Her great-great-grand- father, John Condit, was a surgeon in the Revolutionary War with the rank
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of Major, and he also served as U. S. Senator for thirty years after the war. Her Uncle, Joseph Condit Baldwin, was a member of the 11th N. J. Regi- ment in the Civil War and was killed in the battle of the Wilderness. Her brother. Augustus Martin Baldwin, was in the navy during the war with Spain, and as a Lieutenant in the Naval Reserve served in France during the war with Germany.
On her mother's side Miss Baldwin's ancestry is traced back to C'apt. John Gorham and Desire Howland ( 1620-1675). Her grandfather. Bars tholomew Weed Gorham, was a Methodist minister who served for thirty- five years in appointments located in New York. Pennsylvania and Massa- chusetts.
Miss Baldwin's early education was obtained in the public schools of Newark and Bloomfield. She wa graduated at Centenary Collegiate In- stitute, Hackettstown, in the class of '79 of which she was valedictorian. After completing her training she taught in the Friend's Boarding School at Moore's Mills, N. Y., and later in a primary publie school at Brook- side, N. J. In 1886 she became private secretary for Dr. James M. Buckley, editor of the New York Christian Advocate and continued in that position for thirteen years. During that time and for eleven years following she was in charge of the elementary departments in St. Paul's M. E. Sunday School in Newark. In 1898 she wrote "The Shepherd Psahn for Children," which was published by Revell.
In 1900 she entered the State Sunday School work, taking a special assignment in Pennsylvania for four months. In November of that year she was elected State Elementary Superintendent for New Jersey and during the next three years in addition to the state work, wrote a Primary Quarterly for the Presbyterian Board. In 1904 Miss Baldwin resigned the state work to devote her time to writing, and during the next five years prepared a Junior Quarterly on the Uniform Lessons. From 1905 to 1908 she was a member of the Graded Lesson Conference which pro- pared the outlines for the first nine years of the lessons now called the International Graded System. In 1908 she was engaged by a syndicate of four denominations to prepare lesson books for the International Graded Lessons to be used by the children from nine to twelve years of age and also text books for their teachers. When that task was completed in 1913 she became one of the staff of editors of Graded Sunday School literature for the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is still holding that position. She is also well-known as a teacher of junior methods in insti- tutes and summer schools.
Miss Baldwin's club memberships are; Daughters of the American Revolution, the Religious Education Association, National Child Labor Committee, Federal Council of Churches and the N. J. Sunday School Association in which she serves as secretary of the Board of Managers of the School of Methods.
Miss Baldwin's business address is, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
CAROLINE PEDDLE BALL-Westfield. - Sculptor. Born in Indiana.
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Caroline Peddle Ball studied drawing and modeling in Philadelphia and New York. She was a pupil of Augustus Saint Gaudens and Kenyon Cox and spent a winter in Florence and three years in Paris.
Mrs. Ball's work has been largely in decorative subjects for churches, memorials and garden ornaments, but has also included portraits and children subjects.
Some of her executed works are that of "Victory" for the Quadriga on the United States building at the Paris Exposition of 1900, memorial foun- tains at Flushing, L. I., and Auburn, N. Y., memorial corbels in Grace Church, Brooklyn and numerous sun-dials, fountains, bird-baths, etc.
ARRON EDWARD BALLARD-Ocean Grove .- Clergyman. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917.) Born at Bloomfield. Dec. 25th, 1820 ; son of Jeremiah and Henry (Brown) Ballard ; married at Morristown in 1849 to Emily Young, daughter of David J. and Caroline Young, of Morristown (deceased) -second, at Ocean Grove in February, 1887, to Anna Miller, daughter of Fanny and John Miller of Philadelphia.
Children : (first marriage) Frank and Carrie; (second mar- riage) Anna Stokes.
Aaron E. Ballard is President of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting As- sociation which controls the famous Methodist Coast resort at Ocean Grove and has long been a dominant figure in the camp meeting history of the M. E. Church. He is President also of the Pitman Grove Camp Meeting Association, a Trustee of Pennington Seminary, has been Secretary of the American and Foreign Christian Union, and is, altogether, one of the most widely known clergymen in the country.
Dr. Ballard's grandfather commanded a regiment in the Revolutionary War and was stationed at Valley Forge during the patriot army's awful winter there. His grandmother, while Holland Dutch, came to this coun- try in fellowship with those of her country who had allied themselves with the Huguenots.
Dr. Ballard is self educated, though he holds the D. D. degree from Taylor University of Indiana. Having prepared himself for the pulpit he was licensed as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1884. He entered the New Jersey Conference the same year. Among localities in which he afterwards preached are Bergen, Lambertville, Somerville, Red Bank, Princeton, Burlington, Newark, Camden, Bridgeton and Borden- town.
Dr. Ballard has been almost as conspicuous as an advocate of temper- ance as he has been in camp meeting activities. The last active work he did was to serve as the President of the Evangelical Church Commission and as its State Agent on the subject of temperance. Upon retiring from active pastoral work he allied himself with the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association and devoted himself to its upbuilding. His energies and the success that attended his efforts commanded a recognition that pointed him out as the active chief and he became President of the Camp Meeting Asso- ciation in 1898. Under his administration the camp meeting service has
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been enormously enlarged and popularized. New temples have been erect- ed and new features added to the exercises. The new tabernacle will seat more than 10,000 people; but even its amplitude is frequently-inadequate to the accommodation of the crowds that surge to hear the leading plat- form orators of the church who are called to its platform during the camp meeting season.
Dr. Ballard is an active Director in the Asbury Park and Ocean Grove Bank.
SARAH JOANNA DENNIS BALLIETT (Mrs. L. Dow) -Atlan- tic City .- Writer and Lecturer. (Photograph published in Vol. 1 -1917). Born near Mays Landing, on March 1, 1847, daughter of Joel Dennis and Sarah Ann Risley ; married at Delanco on August 15th. 1872. to L. Dow Balliett, M. D., son of Levi and Elizabeth (Follmer) Balliett, of Milton, Pa.
The Womens Research Club on April 26th, 1917, planted to the honor of Mrs. Balliett, as the club's founder, a pin oak tree ou the Lincoln High- way in the park at Trenton near the Washington monument. Mrs. Balliett had founded the Womens Research club twenty-one years ago and was its first President; and, at the State Convention of the New Jersey Womens Clubs, held in the May following, her name was put upon the State Founder's list. She had served on the State Federation Board of Womens Clubs as Director of Music. Before coming to Atlantic City twenty-three years ago she had been the first President of "The Round Table" Club of Du Bois, Pa. She was one of the earliest workers in the W. C. T. U. there and assisted in organizing and was their first secre- tory of Clearfield County, where she resided at the time. She also or- ganized the first Temperance Cadets, that reached a membership of more than 200 boys. In Atlantic City her activities have been as marked. A pioneer in Womens Club work, she had helped select the "little blue pin" of the General Federation. When the Atlantic County Historical Society was established three years ago, she was made its first President; and for seven years she has been President of the Womens Homoeopathic Club of Atlantic City.
Besides being, meanwhile, engaged in literary pursuits she has made portraits and was invited to exhibit at the Chicago Fair. Her writings have been upon philosophical and musical subjects. Among her books are "The Body Beautiful, according to the Delsartin Philosophy," "How to Attain Success through the Strength of Vibration." a "System of Numbers as Taught by Pythagaros," "Philosophy of Numbers, their Tone and Color." "Nature's Symphony" and "The Day of Wisdom," "The Balliett." Philo- sophy of Number Vibration in Questions and Answers.
Mrs. Balliet is a decendant of the early settlers in New Jersey, and the name of Hancock, Ballinge, Dole, Somers, Lake, Frambes and Dennis figure in her line. She was educated in the public and private schools and has devoted herself from her school days to philosophic and civic affairs.
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Her Quaker mother's motto, to "Leave the place where you stop the better for your having been there," has been the Golden Rule of her career.
LOUIS BAMBERGER-Newark .- Merchant. Born in Balti- more, Md., on May 15, 1855; son of Elkan and Theresa (Hutzler) Bamberger.
Louis Bamberger, foremost among the merchants of New Jersey, is of Bavarian origin. His father came here in 1823 from a town near Nurem- burg, where the grandfather, Isaac, was engaged in mercantile pursuits. A leading dry goods house of the day in the Maryland city was that of the Hutzler Brothers; and the daughter of the founder of the business became the wife of Elkan, and was Louis Bamberger's mother.
With the education the public schools of the city afforded, young Bam- berger began his business career in the service of his uncles, who had meanwhile succeeded to the Htuzler Bros. business. But, when his father, who had meanwhile temporarily retired, re-opened a store, Louis went into business with him. Upon the retirement of the elder Bamberger, the sons took hold of the business and Louis was made Business Manager. A career in New York, with its larger opportunities, lured Mr. Bamberger north- ward ; and in New York City he established himself as a resident buyer for several large Western concerns and built up a large and important clientele. Later with Louis M. Frank and Felix Fuld he became owner of the business of the bankrupt firm of Hill & Craig in Newark. Within two years he had his trade house commanding wide recognition and patronage.
When Mr. Bamberger selected a site for his rapidly growing business- up Market street, at the Halsey street corner-he was warned that it was too off the beaten track to become popular. The shopping throng that surges down Broad street was wont to halt at the Market street corner ; then turn back on its tracks. It was not long however before he had the stream rounding the corner into Market street and swarming to his store doors. The two floors to which the business was first confined became in- adequate to the accommodation of the rush and all of the five story structure was utilized for selling space. In time even this pretentious establishment outgrew the demands. In the imposing new $2.000,000 establishment in which the business of many millions a year is now carried on, L. Bamberger & Co .. give employment to more than 2,500 persons.
Mr. Bamberger is also widely known for his philanthropies and as a patron of art.
ISAAC BARBER - Phillipsburg. - Physician and Surgeon. ( Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born at Forty Fort, Pa., on Sept. 4th, 1854; son of Robert Kennedy and Mary (Stroh) Barber ; married at Phillipsburg, on June 26th, 1901, to Bridgie McIlhenny, daughter of Patrick and Catherine McIlhenny, of Phillipsburg.
Besides his professional relation, Isaac Barber has been a member of the State Senate of New Jersey and is now a member of the State
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Board of Taxes and Assessments. He is of a family that has long figured in the history of Warren County. John Barber, the first of its line, set- tled between 1735 and 1740 at, now Hopatcong township. The branch is supposed to have descended from Thomas Barber, one of the settlers of Windsor, Conn .. in 1635. The wife of John's son. Jesse, was of the Ship- man family, of Norman descent, whose founder was knighted by King Henry III. in 125S. George Washington, their son, was born at Union Town in Jan. 1802, and died at Stewartsville, (Warren Co.) in 1853. His wife's father drove a supply wagon in the Kennedy Brigade of teams during the Revolution; and one of her brothers was United States Mar- shal of New Jersey. Judge of the Court of Errors and a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1844. William Maxwell, who was a Bri- gadier in the Revolutionary Army, was also of her line. Dr. Barber's father was a son of George Washington Barber. His mother's grand- father served in the Revolution under General Anthony Wayne and was wounded at the battle of Trenton; and her father was a soldier in the War of '12.
Dr. Barber received his early education in the local public schools and prepared for college at Blair Presbyterial Academy. In 1872 he entered Lafayette College, graduating in 1876. He pursued his medical studies under Professor Trail Green in Easton, Pa .. and in 1879 graduated with the M. D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. For a year he served as a medical referee at New York, of the Metropolitan Life In- surance Company of New York ; and from 1892 to '97 was a United States Pension Examining Surgeon under President Cleveland's administration. For two years he was City Physician and a member of the Board of Health. of Phillipsburg.
Dr. Barber made his appearance in politics when he was elected in 1896 to represent Warren County in the State Senate. In 1899 he gave way to Johnston Cornish. but in 1902 was re-elected to serve for the three year term ending in 1905. Governor Wilson in 1912 appointed him a mem- ber of the State Board of Assessors. The Board was legislated out of office by the Economy and Efficiency Act of 1915, and its functions were trans- ferred to the new State Board of Taxes and Assessments and Governor Fielder named Senator Barber to serve on that Board. His term of office expired July 15. 1918. Senator Barber is connected with Montana Lodge K. of P. : Ortygia Company No. 10 U. R. K. P. ; and served for eight years as Brigade Surgeon for the New Jersey Brigade U. R. K. P. of New Jersey.
EDWARD LIVINGSTON BARBOUR-New Brunswick, (172 ('ollege Ave.)-College Professor and Public Reader. Born in Philadelphia. Pa .. July 29th. 1862; son of George Clinton and Fidelia Virginia (Bosewell) Barbour : married in Philadelphia, Pa .. Sept. 25th. 1885. to Lola M. Dishl of Philadelphia, Pa.
Children : Edna Livingston. Alice Kellogg, Livingston. Jr. (died in infancy.)
Professor Edward Livingston Barbour who for twenty-seven years has been connected with Rutger's College of New Jersey. received his
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early education in the public schools of Philadelphia, and he later at- tended the University of Pennsylvania. The foundation of his life's work, however, was obtained in the National School of Elocution and Oratory at Philadelphia of which he is a graduate; and the Boston School of Oratory, in which institution he obtained the degress of M. E. and B. O.
Professor Barbour's father was a son of Judge John Barbour of Lambertville, N. J., and while still a young man left the paternal roof to take up residence in Philadelphia. In this city he was successful and became the head of the firm, Barbour, Slack and Gemmill, wholesale dry goods, on Market street. In later life, Mr. Barbour withdrew his interests, and became a capitalist. Records show Professor Barbour to be a direct descendant of Wilhelm Beekman, a pinoneer settler in New York, and Peter De La Noy, the first deputy governor of New York City is also an ancestor, and a member of the family which settled in New York and the New England states about 1633.
In his capacity as a master of elocution, Professor Barbour helped to organize the National Speech Arts Association, and served as its Presi- dent for two years. He also filled the chairmanship of the Literary Com- mittee for three years, during which time he arranged the program for a five days convention in Washington, D. C., Cleveland and Chattanooga, when hundreds of educators from schools and colleges met. About this period he was also the instructor of the Public Speaking Club of Brooklyn and Newark, N. J., Congress.
Professor Barbour's activities did not end here. however. As a result of frequent trips to New Jersey State Reformatories at Rahway and Jamesburg, and the state Home for Girls at Trenton, he began to feel that alcohol was the chief factor in a large majority of the inmates condition, and he became interested in the Prohibition movement. Thus in 1915, he was eventually nominated State Senator for that poltical party and polled the largest vote of any prohibitionist candidates up to that time. In 1916, he was again nominated by the Party, this time as a candidate to the United States Senate, and in 1918 as a Prohibitionist candidate for State Senator.
His greatest and most successful efforts however have been confined chiefly to his chosen profession. as he has been a professor in the National School of Elocution and Oratory of Philadelphia, in the Washington and Lee University, Lexington. Va., Hollins College, Hollins. Va., as well as in the University of Virginia. Charlottesville, Va., the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Tenn .. the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington. Va .. the Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, N. J., and he is also con- nected at the present time with the Seminary of the Dutch Reformed Church of America at New Brunswick. N. J., and Rutgers College.
Among the many articles Prof. Barbour has written are "The Need of Teaching Phonetic Spelling in the Public Schools," "Mannerisms of Public Speakers," "Imagination, a Potent Factor in Speech," "Put Your- self Behind Your Subject." "The Convincing Speaker," "A Plea for Natural Reading," "Essentials of the Successful Public Speaker," "Hygiene of the Voice," "Gesture a Means of Emphasis and the Power of the Spoken Word."
Professor Barbour is a member of the Presbyterian Church, the Phi
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Beta Kappa of New Jersey, the Prohibition State Committee, the National Speech Arts Association, the Rutgers College Club at New Brunswick and the Y .M. C. A.
JOHN EDWARDS BARBOUR-Paterson. (Kilbarchan ; Broad- way) .- Manufacturer. Born in Paterson, N. J., August 9, 1871; son of Robert and Sarah Rebecca (Edwards) Barbour ; married at Honesdale, Pa .: June 19, 1901, to Katharine Niven Stanton, daughter of William and Elizabeth Stanton, of Honesdale, Pa.
Children : Robert, June 6, 1903; William Stanton, August 11. 1905; Gordon, June 9, 1910, and Harriet, August 14, 1913.
John Edwards Barbour, who established the J. ES. Barbonr Company, Linen thread manufacturers at Lakeview and of which concern he is now President, comes from a long line of textile manufacturers. The Barbour family dates back to the middle of the 17th century at which time authentic records show them located in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, Scotland, and that John Barbour owned and operated a weaving factory for coarse linens.
The branch of the family of which Mr. Barbour is a member con- tinued in that industry at Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, Scotland, until 1834, when his great-great-grandfather, also John Barbour, imigrated to Lisburn, Ireland, and there with his two sons began the manufacture of linen thread.
About fifty-five years ago, the father of John Edwards Barbour landed in America and founded the Barbour Flax Spinning Company in Paterson, which is one of the largest concerns of its kind in the world.
After the death of his father in 1892, although only twenty-one years of age, he became the President of the firm and successfully filled that office for eighteen years. Two years after severing connections with the original concern, he established in 1912 the plant at Lakeview which bears his name at the present date.
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