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Martha Tarbell is descended on both sides from old New England stock. Thomas Tarbell, of whom she is a lineal descendant, came to Groton, Massachusetts, in 167S from England. Richard Treat, of whom she is a descendant maternally, was a member of Governor Winthrop's Council, and was named by King Charles the Second of England as one of the grantees in the Charter of the Colony of Connecticut. His son,
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Robert Treat, was for forty years governor of the colony of Connecticut, and was one of the founders of Newark. His grandson, Robert Treat Paine, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Horace Tarbell, her father, was state superintendent of the schools of Michigan, and superintendent of the schools of Indianapolis and Provi- dence. In the latter city he established the first school for backward or mentally defective children, and received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Brown University. It was he who planned and organized the sys- tem of evening schools in the penal institutions of Detroit, the first of its kind in the world.
Martha Tarbell attended the public schools of Detroit, East Saginaw and Indianapolis, Indiana. From De Pauw University she has the de- grees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts, and from Brown University the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy.
She has turned her attention to writing, particularly on theological subjects. Among her works are: "Tarbell's Teacher's Guide to the In- ternational Sunday School Lessons," 1906 to 1919, (F. H. Revell Co .. Pub- lishers.) "Palestine in the Time of Christ," (George H. Doran Co., Pub- lishers.) She is also the author of several text books on geography and language work.
She is a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity; College Club of the Oranges ; Woman's Club of Orange ; L'Alliance Francaise d'Or- ange, and the New York Alumnae Association of K. K. G.
IRVING KURTZ TAYLOR-Orange, (75 Berkeley Ave. )-Im- porter. Born at New York, N. Y., Feb. 28th, 1863, son of William Lamont and Mary Martha (Kurtz) Taylor; married at Orange, N. J. April 26th, 1898, to Edith Howes, daughter of Osborn and Mary (Hinkley ) Howes, of Boston, Mass.
Children : Ellen, born Feb. 23, 1899 ; William L., born April 23. 1901; Mary, born April 3, 1905.
Irving Kurtz Taylor is descended from an old Pennsylvania family, that settled there about 1740. His maternal grandfather, John Hart, signed the Declaration of Independence, from New Jersey. The Kurtz family have always been a large family of merchants in Philadelphia. His father's family came from Scotland in 1851 and settled in New York.
In his early life he attended the public and private schools of New York. His first position was, as civil engineer on the West Shore R. R. He followed this profession for some years, and was put in charge of the Dock Department ; and had charge of the coal business of the Missouri- Pacific in the West. He entered the importing business as importer of wines and olive oils in 1892. At present he is President of W. A. Tay- lor & Co., Inc.
Although he has never held any public office he has always taken an active interest in politics. From 1912-'16 he was a member of the National Committee from New Jersey to the Progressive Party, and acted
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as chairman of the Essex County Committee. He is also president of the New Jersey Orthopaedis Hospital and Dispensary, and treasurer of the Association of Practical Housekeeping Centers of New York.
He is a member of the following clubs : Orange Lawn Tennis Club, Es- sex County Country Club, Baltusrol Club, Union League Club, Whitehall ('lub, St. Andrews Golf Club and the Camp Fire Club of New York.
His business address is 29 Broadway, New York City.
JAY TEN EYCK-Newark, (404 Mt. Prospect Ave.) -Lawyer. Born at Cohoes, N. Y., on Nov. 18th, 1864; son of Abram and Han- nah G. (Dodge) Ten Eyck ; married in Newark, on June 26th, 1894. to Henrietta Muller, daughter of the Rev. L. C. Muller, of Newark.
Children : Margaret, born September, 1896; Barent, born June, 1903.
Jay Ten Eyck was the Presiding Judge of the County Courts in Essex. He is now Associate Counsel of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Com- pany, of Newark.
Mr. Ten Eyck's Parents went from Cohoes when he was five years old to New Albany, Ind., and two years later to Waterford, N. Y., the schools: of which he attended from 1871 to 1881. He came to Newark when he was seventeen years old and two years later began the study of the law in the office of Coult & Howell. He passed the examination for admission to the bar in 1888, and has since engaged in the practice of the law in Newark, be- coming a member of the firm of Coult, Howell & Ten Eyck.
The New Jersey Supreme Court appointed him an examiner to examine applicants for admission to the bar; and in December, 1905, Gov. Stokes selected him to act as Judge of the Common Pleas of Essex County, to com- plete the term of Judge A. F. Skinner, who had resigned. In April. 1906, he was reappointed for the full term and he served until April, 1911. Later in the year, Chancellor Mahlon Pitney appointed him an Advisory Master of the Court of Chancery. In June, 1912, he was selected to act as Associ- ate Counsel of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company. He is also a member of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel.
Ex-Judge Ten Eyck is a member of the Lawyers Club of Essex Coun- ty and the Essex Club. Mrs. Ten Eyck has a wide reputation as a singer, and is frequently heard at society and church functions.
HENRY S. TERHUNE-Long Branch, (176 Broadway.) -Law- yer. Born at Matawan, June 8, 1860 ; son of William L. Terhune.
Henry S. Terhune is a Judge of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals. His mother was a sister of Henry Stafford Little, who for a. quarter of a century was one of the dominant forces in the politics of New Jersey. Mr. Little was a democrat and one of three or four state leaders
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who practically named every Governor and every United States Senator for more than twenty years. He was Clerk of the Court of Chancery from 1881 to 1886, and a large donor to the equipment of Princeton University. Henry S. Terhune was a favored nephew and became his heir.
Mr. Terhune is a graduate of Princeton University and made himself proficient in law at the Columbia College Law School. He studied the practice in the office of John S. Applegate at Red Bank, and was admitted to the Bar as an attorney in 1885 and made a counselor in 1890. Opening an office in Long Branch he has since been engaged in the practice there.
Mr. Terhune served for many years as chairman of the Democratic Committee of Monmouth county. In 1890 he was elected to the State Senate. In 1913 Gov. Wilson appointed him a Judge of the State Court of Errors and Appeals. His term of six years will expire in 1919.
G. WISNER THORNE-Newark, (10 James Street.) -Editor and Publisher. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born at Newark, on September 16, 1849; son of Lewis A, and Louisa (Mills) Thorne.
The name of G. Disner Thorne, who is widely known for his interest in the newspaper, church and benevolent life of Newark, is redolent of Revolutionary memories. Henry Wisner, a member of the Continental Con- gress in 1874-'75-'76, and Gabriel Wisner, who was killed in the fighting at Minisink in '79, were of his lineal ancestors. Henry Wisner voted for the Declaration of Independence on July 4, but was not in Congress when it was signed on Aug. 2. Timothy Mills, a "minute man" in Morristown. was also of his line; and Major Richard Thorne, another, was a Revolu- tionary patriot on Long Island. The Thorne family, coming from England early in the seventeenth century, settled first in Massachusetts and about 1650 at Great-Neck, L. I. It was in Long Island also that the Wisner family had its beginnings in America. Johannis Wisner, a soldier under Marlborough, was awarded a grant of land on Long Island by Queen Anne of England and came hither to settle on it. Henry and Gabriel Wisner, his descendants, had their home in Orange county, N. Y.
G. Wisner Thorne was educated in the Newark Academy, and at the age of seventeen, found employment with the "Newark Evening Courier." After serving that paper, the "Newark Journal" and the "New York Sun" as a reporter, he joined the staff of the "Sunday Call" of Newark, and to- day is the chief editor of the paper and the President and Treasurer of the company which publishes it.
He is a member of the Episcopal Church and for ten years has been a member of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Newark and a Trus- tee of St. Barnabus Hospital, Newark, for a dozen years. He is also a Trustee of the Young Women's Christian Association, was for eleven years President of the New Jersey S. P. C. A. and is now one of its managers. For several years he served the New Jersey Society, Sons of the American Revolution, as its Secretary.
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Mr. Thorne's club memberships are with the Essex and Union of New- ark, and the Baltusrol Golf Club. He is a member of The Washington Association.
EUGENE THWING-Englewood .- Author, Publisher. Born in Quincy, Mass., January 17, 1866; son of Edward Payson and Susan Maria (Waite) Thwing : married on June 26, 1890, to Mary Eva Steinmetz, daughter of Conrad F. and Catherine E. Steinmetz, of New York.
Children : Grace Eva, born May 24, 1892; Walter Eugene, born March 28, 1895; Gertrude Dorothy, born January 2, 1899.
Eugene Thwing was educated first in the public schools and after- wards at Adelphi College in Brooklyn. When he was eighteen years of age, he became connected with the Funk & Wagnalls Company of New York and under its auspices founded 'The Circle Magazine" in 1906. A year later he bought the magazine; and, founding The Thwing Company, Publishers, in 1910, consolidated it with the magazine, "Success" and "National Post" in 1912 and issued them under the title of "The Circle and Success Magazine."
Interested in the pure food movement, he organized the Purity Products Company in 1913 and became its President and Treasurer. For several years past he has been giving courses of lectures to men at the West Side Y. M. C. A. on business correspondence, advertising, salesmanship, etc.
Mr. Thwing's father was a Congregational clergyman ; Mr. Thwing himself is of the Methodist faith.
His books are: "The Red Keggers" (1903), "The Man From Red-Keg" (1905), "Thwing's Business Letters" (1911), and "The Life and Meaning of Roosevelt," (1919).
His war service editorials and special articles, published in The Lit- erary Digest and as full pages in more than a hundred of the leading papers of the United States and Canada, have reached some ten millions of readers, and have brought acknowledgements by letter and telegram from many United States, British, and Canadian government and military officials, including His Majesty, King George, H. R. H. the Duke of Con- naught, the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, the Governor General of Canada, Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig, and scores of others.
Mr. Thwing is a member of the New Jersey Militia Reserve.
JOSEPH H. TILLOTSON-Englewood, (123 Tenafly Road.)- Editor and Publisher. Born at New York City, May 12, 1855; son of Daniel and Phebe A. (Folliet) Tillotson ; married at Engle- wood, N. J., Dec. 5, 1887, to Mary E. Springer. (deceased May 5. 1910) , daughter of Moses E. and Mary A. (Golding) Springer ; 2nd. February 17, 1912, to Eva A. Dale, daughter of Thomas and Phebe Dale.
Children : J. Howard, born Sept. 12, 1888; George D., born May 12, 1890.
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Joseph H. Tillotson's ancestors were of English origin. His great great grandfather, Moses Tillotson, settled in Putman county, N. Y., in Revolutionary time.
He was educated in the public schools of Brewster, N. Y., and Engle- wood and graduated from the Englewood Grammar School.
At the age of fourteen, he entered the printing business in the em- ploy of Eben Winton, founder of the "Bergen County Democrat." He remained in his employ until January 4, 1879, when he founded the Engle- wood Standard, and at the end of six years, he purchased the "Engle- wood Times." This he conducted until 1890, when he sold his interest in the paper, and thereupon founded the "Englewood Press," which he still conducts. "The Times" was discontinued about ten years ago, so that "The Press" is now the only publication in the City of Englewood.
Although Mr. Tillotson has never held any political office in his home town, he has been active in politics in Bergen county. From 1901-02 he was a member of the Legislature and for six years he was a member of the Bergen County Republican Committee and a member of the Execu- tive Committee. He is president of the Englewood Board of Trade, a trus- tee of the Englewood Hospital, a trustee of the Englewood Methodist Epis- copal Church. On January 4th. he celebrated his fortieth anniversary as a publisher in Englewood.
He is a member of the Englewood Club, the Englewood Lodge of Elks and the Union League Club of Hackensack.
His business address is 16 Engle Street, Englewood.
EDWARD WATERMAN TOWNSEND-Monclair, (246 Upper Mointain Avenue. )-Author. (Photograph published in Vol. 1. 1917.) Born in Cleveland, Ohio, February 10, 1855 ; son of Horace Gilbert and Anna Eliza (Thornton) Townsend ; married on April 16, 1884, to Annie Lake, daughter of Judge Delos and Myra (Clarke) Lake, of San Francisco, Cal.
Edward W. Townsend's best known books are collections of his "Chim- mie Fadden" stories, though he is the author of other works. Since he came to New Jersey he has interested himself in the politics of the state on the democratic side and represented the 7th New Jersey District in the 62nd Congress and the 10th New Jersy District in the 63rd Congress. Upon the completion of his second term. President Wilson appointed him Post- master of Montclair and he is still holding that position.
Congressman Townsend was educated in the public and private schools of Cleveland and, moving to New York City, became attached to the edi- torial department of the "New York Sun." He was still in that relation when he achieved his great success with "Chimmie Fadden." Other works of which Mr. Townsend is author are "Major Max" (1895), "A Daughter of the Tenements" (1896), "Near a Whole Cityful" (1897), "Days Like These" (1901), "Lees and Leaven" (1903), "A Summer in New York" (1903), "Reuben Larkmead" (1905), "Our Constitution-Why and How
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It Was Made, Who Made It, and What It Is" (1906). "Beaver Creek Farm" (1907), and "The Climbing Courvatells" (1909).
THOMAS WHITAKER TRENCHARD-Trenton, (810 Riverside Avenue. )-Jurist. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917.) Born at Centreton, Salem Co., December 13. 1863: son of Wmn. B. and Anna M. Golder Trenchard : married at Red Bank, on November 9. 1891, to Harriet M., daughter of Rev. Dr. Joseph K. and Beulah Young Manning.
Thomas Whitaker Trenchard acquired his education in the public schools of Bridgeton and at the South Jersey Institute. Bridgeton is the county seat. and Justice Trenchard's father, who was the Clerk of the County for many years, made his home there. Meanwhile Justice Trench- ard finished his school years at the South Jersey Institute, graduating with the class of 1882. Selecting the law for his profession, he went into the office of Potter & Nixon as a student, and at the November term of 1886 was admitted as an attorney and seven years later took his certificate as a counselor.
Practicing his profession in Bridgeton, he was made Solicitor of the City by the Bridgeton Council in 1892, and he continued in that relation until 1899. when he was appointed Common Pleas Judge. From 1893 to 1899 he was counsel also to the Board of Health of the City of Bridgeton. During these years he represented as counsel many of the smaller munici- palities of Cumberland county.
He was elected in 1888 to a seat in the House of Assembly of 1889, and seven years later he was named by the Republican State Convention as a candidate for Presidential Elector. The Republicans carried the state at the poll, and he was one of them whose votes made William McKinley President and Garret A. Hobart, of Paterson. Vice President of the United States.
Justice Trenchard's connections with the Bench began in 1899, when Gov. Voorhees appointed him Law Judge of Cumberland county. Gov. Murphy reappointed him in 1904, but before the expiration of his term on the County Bench. Gov. Stokes sent his name to the Senate for Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. The death of Justice Jonathan Dixon had made a vacancy on the Bench of that court. After he had filled Justice Dixon's unexpired term. Gov. Stokes re-named him for the full term of seven years. Gov. Fielder reappointed him for a third term in 1914.
For some years he presided in the First Judicial Circuit, but in 1911 a vacancy occurring in the Third Circuit, he selected that Circuit, embracing the counties of Mercer, Hunterdon and Warren, and has since presided there.
Justice Trenchard was one of the organizers of the Cumberland County Bar Association and is connected with the Sons of the Revolution and with the Trenton Country Club.
ROBERT JOHNS TREVORROW-Hackettstown .- Clergyman. (Photograph published in Vol. 1. 1917.) Born at St. Ives, England,
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May 21, 1877 ; son of Anthony and Dorcas Quick (Johns) Trevor- row ; married on October 25, 1905, to Edith Carpenter, daughter of L. Everett and Mary Westlake Carpenter, of Newburgh, N. Y.
Children : Robert Johns, Jr., born August 27, 1908.
Robert Johns Trevorrow was, in 1917, elected President of the faculty of Centenary Collegiate Institute at Hackettstown and ceremoniously in- stalled as the head of the Institute in May of that year. The chairman at the installation function was Egbert J. Tamblyn, President of the Board of Trustees. Greetings were extended by President E. S. Tip- ple, of Drew Theological Seminary, for the Board of Education, by Dr. J. Ackerman Cole for the Newark M. E. Conference and by Dr. James R. Joy for the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Rev. Dr. Ralph B. Urmy read letters of congratulation from Presidents Hibben of Princeton Uni- versity, Pendleton of Wellesley, and Guth of Goucher College and from Bishops Henderson, Nicholson and others.
Dr. Trevorrow came to these shores very early in life. He graduated in 1898 from the University of the Pacific at San Jose, Cal., with the A. B. degree, three years later received the A. M. degree and in 1913 the D. D. degree from the College. In 1903 the Drew Theological Seminary at Madi- son conferred the B. D. degree. Ordained to the Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1898, he became pastor of the Methodist Church at Stockton, Cal. In 1900, he became Associate in St. Paul's Church, New York City, re- maining in the pastorate there until 1905. Thence till 1913 he officiated in churches at Elmhurst. (L. I.), Carmel, Modena, Central Valley and Wood- lawn Heights, N. Y. Meanwhile, in 1911 and '12, he was a student in the Union Theological Seminary.
In 1913, Dr. Trevorrow became President of Drew Seminary for Young Women at Carmel, N. Y. His work there directed attention to him when the death of President Meeker created the vacancy at Centenary Collegiate Institute and his election as President of the Institute followed. Centenary Institute has been, since 1910, a school for girls only.
Dr. Trevorrow's clubs are the Sussex Country, Country Club of North- ampton County, the Inter-Church Clergy and the Adelphi.
JOSEPH P. TUMULTY-Jersey City .- Secretary to the Presi- dent. Born at Jersey City, May 5, 1870; son of Philip and Alicia Tumulty, of Jersey City; married in 1904, to Mary Byrne, of Jersey City.
Mr. Tumulty comes of a family that has been active for two genera- tions in public affairs of Hudson county. His father was conspicuous in Democratic politics and served in the State Assembly 1886-87; and was later a member of the Jersey City Board of Works.
Secretary Tumulty was educated at St. Bridget's Parochial school and St. Peter's College in Jersey City. He was graduated in 1899, with the
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degree of B. A. With the purpose of entering upon the profession of the law, he studied in the offices of Flavel McGee and Gilbert Collins in Jersey City and was admitted to the Bar of New Jersey in 1892.
Even while he was studying law Mr. Tumulty took an active interest in politics, and in 1906 he was nominated by the Democrats of Hudson county for the House of Assembly at Trenton. In his legislative career, Mr. Tumulty had to a degree imbibed the "progressive" atmosphere that was then beginning to envelop both parties ; and Woodrow Wilson, President of the Faculty of Princeton University, who, in 1910, was elected to the Gov- ernorship on a progressive platform, tendered him the Private Secretary's desk in the Exexcutive Department. Mr. Tumulty accepted and served in that capacity till Gov. Wilson's election to the Presidency of the United States.
Meanwhile in recognition of his services to the State, Gov. Wilson had also named him to fill the vacancy in the office of Clerk of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Mr. Tumulty's nomination was quickly confirmed by the Senate and he served in both capacities till Gov. Wilson resigned his office as Chief Executive of New Jersey, on the eve of his inauguration as President of the United States.
On the day of his inauguration, March 4, 1913, President Wilson ten- dered to Mr. Tumulty the office of Secretary to the President, which he ac- cepted and he moved with his family to Washington.
As Secretary to the President, in all the trying times of President Wil- son's administration, he has been the President's trusted adviser and con- fidante.
WILLIAM EDGAR TUTTLE, Jr .- Westfield .- Merchant. Born at Horseheads, N. Y., on December 10, 1870; son of William E. and Francis M. (Bonham) Tuttle.
William E. Tuttle, Jr., came into the public life of New Jersey when in 1907 as a candidate for the Assembly from Union county he polled the largest vote ever given to a democrat in that county. In the following year he was a delegate to the National Convention at Denver, and eight years later in 1916 represented his district at the convention in St. Louis which renominated Woodrow Wilson for the Presidency.
Mr. Tuttle was elected to the House of Representatives from the Fifth Congressional District in 1910, re-elected in 1912, and, although leading his ticket by large margins, was the unsuccessful candidate of his party in the campaigns of 1914 and 1916. While in Congress he was a member of the Joint Committee on Postage on Second Class Mail Matter and Com- pensation for Transportation of the Mails, which committee evolved the present system of carrying the mails on a space basis. He was also the author of the first Federal legislation fixing standards of weights and measures. In 1915 he was appointed by President Wilson as the sole Commissioner of the United States to the National Exposition of Panama.
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Congressman Tuttle was educated at the Elmira Free Academy and Cornell University. He is engaged in the lumber business at Westfield. He has served several terms as President of the New Jersey Lumbermen's Association.
He has always been devoted to public affairs, and was Chairman of the Union County Democratic Committee for many years. He is Vice- President of the Peoples Bank and Trust Company of Westfield, a Director of the Mutual Building and Loan Association and also of several corpora- tions. He is now serving under appointment by Governor Edge as a mem- ber of the State Board of Conservation and Development. He is a member of the Cosmos Club of Washington.
WILLIAM SEYMOUR TYLER-Plainfield, (520 West 8th St.) -Lawyer. Born at Plainfield, N. J., Oet. 18, 1873 ; son of Mason W. and Eliza Margaret ( Schroeder ) Tyler : married at Plainfield, N. J., Nov. 23, 1899, to Ethel Van Boskerck, daughter of George W. and Elizabethi (Rowe) Van Boskerck, of Plainfield, N. J.
Children : Margaret R., born April S. 1901: William S., born May 16, 1904, and Edith E., born July 31, 1905.
William Seymour Tyler has been a lifelong resident of New Jersey. In his early life he attended the Leal's School of Plainfield, his birthplace. Early in 1890 he entered Williston Seminary, at Easthampton, Mass., and in the fall of the following year Amherst College. He graduated from there in 1895 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and spent the following year taking special courses at Hanover and at Goettingen University. From 1896-99 he attended the Columbia University Law School, and on graduating received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1898 and has been practicing in New York City ever since. From 1899 to 1900 he was in the law offices of Evarts, Choate and Beaman, and since then has been a member of the firm of Tyler & Tyler, attorneys at law.
He is a director and officer of the Rossendale-Redaway Belting and Hose Company of Newark, the Wood Brook Farms of Metuchen, and dur- ing the war was named Federal Food Administrator for New Jersey.
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