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Mr. Barbour was educated in the local schools until 1886 in which year he became a student at Steven's nstitute where he was graduated in 1890.
Mr. Barbour is now President of the Allentown Spinning Company, Allentown, Pa., manufacturers of carpet yarns, and also of the Suther- land & Edwards Company, of Paterson, N. J., manufacturers of wrapping twines. He is also a director in the Paterson & Hudson River Railroad Company, the Paterson National Bank, the Paterson Safe Deposit & Trust Company, and the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of Amer- ica.
Ilis club memberships are the Union League Club of New York, Bankers Club of New York, India Honse, Hamilton Club, Paterson, N. J., and the Arcola Club.
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Mr. Edward Barbour's business address is 200 Crooks Ave., Lake- view, N. J.
ROBERT BARBOUR -Paterson (6 Park Ave.)-Manufacturer.
Born at Monmouth Beach, N. J., July 5th, 1886; son of Col. Wil- liam and Julia Adelaide (Sprague ) Barbour.
Robert Barbour's father was Colonel William Barbour, who received his title while serving on the personal staff of Governor Griggs, of New Jersey, who later became Attorney-General of the United States.
Mr. Barbour was educated at the Browning School from 1897 to 1905 and later in the Columbia University from 1905 to 1910.
His activities have been chiefly confined to the realm of finance, where he has held many leading positions. At the present time he is President of the Employers Association of Paterson, N. J., Vice President of the Hamilton Trust Company, director of the First National Bank and Vice President of the Parrett Tractor Company, director in the United Shoe Machinery Company, the Paterson Industrial Development Company th? Paterson and Ramapo Railroad Company, and The Linen Thread Com- pany. Ltd., of Lisburn, Ireland.
Mr. Barbour was appointed by Governor Edge as a member of the Exposition Commission of New Jersey for the permanent National In- dustrial Exposition, which will soon be opened in New York City.
He is also a member of the following clubs: the Rumson Country Club, Arcola Country Club, North Jersey Country Club, and the Hamilton Club of Paterson, The Princess Anne Club, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, the Union League of New York, the University Club of New York City, the Society of Automotive Engineers, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Mr. Barbour's business address is, 418 Grand street, Paterson, N. J.
NATHAN BARNERT-Paterson. - Retired. Born in Posen, Prussia, on Sept. 20, 1838; son of Meyer and Ida (Newfelt) Bar- nert ; married on Sept. 2, 1863, to Miriam Phillips, daughter of Henry L. and Jane (Chapman) Phillips (deceased March 31, 1901.)
Nathan Barnert, former Mayor of Paterson, 12 years in public office, and widely known through his philanthropies was brought to this country by his parents in 1848. Settling first in New York the family removed in 1861 of Paterson where Mayor Barnert's father died twenty years later. He was schooled in Prussia and New York City; but started early in life at the tailoring trade in which his father was engaged.
The family arrived on this side several years before the outbreak of the California Gold Field excitement ; and young Barnert was lured, by the promise of the fabulous wealth of gold digging promised, to the Pacific coast. The prospect did not "pan out," as he anticipated and he had to content himself with mercantile engagements in San Francisco. A trip to the Hawaiian Islands and to the gold regions on the Frazer River gave him an acquaintance with that section of the world, that however brought
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no wealth with it; and in '56 he returned to the East, and in Paterson, in partnership with Marks Cohen, opened a merchant tailoring establish- ment. During the Civil War he was awarded large contracts for clothing for the Federal army. Fortunate real estate investments added to his stores ; and in '76 he retired from mercantile pursuits to devote himself to his property interests.
For a side line he organized with Robert A. Healy and William C. Martin the Annandale Screen Plate Company for the furnishing of supplies to paper mills. One of his unique speculative enterprises was the crection of buildings for rental to mill operators. The first of the structures, at Railroad Avenue, Grand Street and Dale Avenue, Paterson, was completed in 1882 and was followed later by the erection of a group of other mills.
Meanwhile Mr. Barnert found time to engage in the affairs of the com- munity about him. In 1870-71 the Paterson Board of Alderman commis- sioned him to examine the accounts of the city's financial and tax officers : and the prosecution and imprisonment of a number of officials who had been faithless to their trusts, followed. His work in that direction brought him into the eyes of the people; and in 1876 the democrats of the sixth ward put him forward as their candidate for Alderman. His service in the Board attracted sufficient attention to make him conspicuous as the candi- date for the mayoralty ; and in 1883 he was given the democratic nomina- tion. Notwithstanding the normal Republican majority of the city, he achieved an election and in 1889 was elected for a second time.
Mayor Barnert's beneficences are scattered all over the city of Pater- son. The Temple of the Congregation Bnai Jeshurum is one of his notable gifts. He also built a free school for Hebrews. Later he established and endowed the Miriam Barnert Hospital as a memorial to his deceased wife. To all the uplift movements of the city and to the charities he has always been a large contributor.
Mayor Barnert is a member besides others of the Independent Order of the Bnai Brith, of the Free and Accepted Masons, of the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is President of the Hebrew Temple and of the Hebrew Free School.
FRANK BATEMAN-Grenloch .- Manufacturer. Born at Gren- loch, N. J .. Feb. 12th, 1842; son of Stephen and Maria ( Benham ) Bateman : married at Haddonfield, N. J., Sept. 9th, 1865, to Alice R. Marshall, daughter of David E. and Rebecca ( Harlan) Mar- shall, of Blackwood, N. J.
Children : Alice R., Sept. 5th, 1868: Frederick Il., May 7th. 1873 : Harriet C., July 16th, 1875.
Frank Bateman not only belongs to a family which can trace its descent from the original New England Puritan stock, but is also a descendant of a long line of distinguished manufacturers. The Bato- mans settled in Concord, Mass., during the seventeenth century, later migrated to Connecticut and eventually to New Jersey in 1836. His father, Stephen Bateman, was related to several prominent families in Southbury, Conn .. among them being the Goodyears, particularly Charles Goodyear, the rubber inventor, and Charles Goodyear. Jr .. of shoe ma-
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chinery fame. On his mother's side, Frank Bateman is a direct lineal descendant from John Benham, who landed at Dorchestor, Mass., in 1630.
Practically all of Mr. Bateman's life to the present day has been spent in New Jersey where he has resided for the most part in the old homestead built by his father in 1836.
After graduating from the Blackwood Academy in 1860, he entered the manufacturing business with his father, and later, when his father retired, Mr. Bateman with his brother, Edward S. Bateman, assumed control of the industry, and successfully managed it under the title of E. S. & F. Bateman until 1893, when the company of which Frank Bate- man is now head and which is known as the corporation of Bateman Manufacturing Company, was established.
The original business was established at Grenloch (then known as Spring Mills) by the father, Stephen Bateman, in the year 1836, since which time the plant has been in continuous operation in the manu- facture of agricultural implements. His work has been principally the invention and designing of modern improved implements. In the year 1875 he adopted and applied the trade mark "Iron Age" to the products of the plant which name has been used extensively in advertising and has become known the world over while the corporation of Bateman Manufacturing Company is recognized as one of prominence in their line of manufacture. It has, as a subsidiary company, The Bateman-Wilkinson Company, Ltd., Toronto, Canada,
Mr. Bateman has been somewhat prominent in local Railroad matters, being for twenty-seven years director of the Atlantic City Railroad and also the Port Reading Railroad.
At present he is President of several manufacturing corporations which are as follows: The Bateman Manufacturing Company, Grenloch, N .J., the Bateman-Wilkinson Co .. Ltd., Toronto, Canada, Camden Motors Corp., Camden, N. J., and is also head of the First National Bank, Black- wood, N. J.
His organization memberships are the Pennsylvania Society of New Jersey, Phila., the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Phila., the G. A. R., Post No. 37, of Camden, N. J., the Board of Managers of the Vineland Home for Old Soldiers. He has also been a member of the Presbyterian Church for over half a century.
GEORGE RAIMES BEACH-Jersey City, (75 Montgomery St.) Lawyer and Financier. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917.) Born in Jersey City, March 14. 1873 ; son of Marcus and Mary R. (Jackson) Beach ; married in Jersey City. April 30, 1901, to Lucy McBride, daughter of Harry and Amelia McBride, of Jersey City.
Children : George R. Beach, Jr., born May 27, 1903; Katharine L., born February 3rd, 1908.
Marcus Beach, the father of George Raimes Beach, was for many years a prominent factor in the business and political life of Hudson County. The family, come from Connecticut and New York, had been prominent in those parts of the country for years. Records of his marriage to Sarah
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Pratt, daughter of Mary and Richard Pratt, of Milford, show that a Thomas Beach was in Connecticut, from England, as early as 1650. Suc- cessors of his line were afterwards in Wallingford, Conn., and Goshen, New York. Adna 2nd, born 1757, in Wallingford and married in 1781 to Mary, daughter of Captain Timothy Stanley of Winchester, Conn., was the grandfather of Marcus Beach. His son, Fisk Beach, born in Litchfield, Conn., and married to Rosey Fyler, daughter of Steven and Catherine Fyler, members of an old Connecticut family, moved to Hunter, Groene County, New York, and was engaged in farming in that Catskill region till he died in 1875.
Marcus Beach was born in Litchfield, Conn., December 5, 1819, and spent his early years there. He came to New York City at twenty, and engaged in the live stock trade. He concluded eventually that Jersey City offered larger facilities for handling his growing business, and in 1850 he established a cattle yard there in partnership with Thomas E. Bray and John R. McPherson, under the firm name of Beach, Bray and McPherson. Mr. Bray was, till his death, one of the most influential financiers in Hudson County. Mr. McPherson afterwards served in the State Senate and was a United States Senator. His eighteen years there is the longest senatorial term in the state s history.
Senator McPherson had, long before, invented a model car for the transportation of cattle, the use of which in the business of the firm ex- tended its lines all over the country ; and for many years it controlled the cattle trade in New York and northern New Jersey. Mr. Beach was fol- lowed across the river by a number of other stock dealers, and Jersey City grew to recognition as a great cattle yard and held it for a good many years. Quite as conspicuous in politics as in business, Mr. Beach became one of its largest tax-payers, and served as a member of the Jersey City Board of Finance (its President part of the time) for some years. till Governor Abbett appointed him to a seat on the bench of the county Courts, which he filled for years.
George Raimes Beach was carefully educated. He attended No. 6 school, Jersey City ; and at the Stevens Preparatory School and completed his general studies at Columbia University. He equipped himself for the bar at Columbia University Law School: became a member of the New York bar, and was admitted in New Jersey in November, 1897. He is a Referee in Bankruptcy and a Special Master in Chancery, Vice President of the Hudson County Bar Association and was one of the Trustees of the New Jersey State Bar Association. He has been receiver of a num- ber of large companies, the International Mercantile Agency and the Columbia Real Estate Company among them. As the receiver of the latter company he signed the longest deed ever recorded in Bergen County. became the largest single lot owner in the county and made more con- veyances of land through the County Clerk's office than any other indi- vidual since the establishment of the office.
Notwithstanding the cares the management of the large estate his father left, impose on him, Mr. Beach exhibits the same interest in public, church and charity affairs Judge Beach had displayed. In the Jersey City Board of Trade, of which he was for three years Vice President, he was
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Chairman of the Committee on Municipal Affairs; and, when Jersey City prepared to hail the opening of the under-river tunnel into New York City, he was one of the Committee of Fifteen appointed by Mayor Wittpenn to arrange a fitting celebration.
His activities in church and charity work are very varied, His father was a Vestryman in Holy Trinity P. E. Church, Jersey City. George R. Beach has connected himself with St. Pauls P. E. Congregation, being Vestryman, and Chairman of the Finance Committee there; and in 1912-'13-'17. was a Delegate to the Annual Convention of the Newark Episcopal Diocese.
He was a Trustee and President of the Board of the Poor, appointed by the Mayor of Jersey City; President of the Organized Aid Association, one of the trustees and Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Home for the Homeless and a Trustee of the Legal Aid Society. He is also a Director of the New Jersey Title Guarantee & Trust Company of Jersey City ; President of the Court House Realty Company, the West Beach Bathing Company and the Beach Land Company ; Secretary, Treasurer and Director of the Carteret Land Company ; a Director of the Glenridge Land Company, the Hyannisport Associates; Trustee of the Glendale Cemetery Association ; on the Executive Committee and Vice President of the Chap- ter and Chairman of the Committee on Chapter Development, County Chairman Second Red Cross War Fund Drive, and Chapter Chairman of ยท the Christmas Roll Call, all of the American Red Cross.
Mr. Beach was Grand Marshal of Commencement Exercises at Colum- bia University at graduation in June, 1897: Chairman of Class Decennial Celebration ; Vice President of Class of 1895, and Treasurer of the Twenty- fifth Anniversary Fund of the Class of 1895 Columbia University. His club memberships are with the Carteret of Jersey City, the Columbia Univer- sity of New York, Down Town, Jersey City, Hudson County Automobile Club, Blooming Grove Hunting and Fishing Club. He has a Country home at Hyannisport. Mass., and there, is a member of the Hyannisport Golf and Country Club and President of the Hyannisport Village Improvement Association.
ALTHEA FITZ RANDOLPH BEDLE (Mrs. Joseph Dorsett) - Jersey City ( Fairmont Hotel) .- Writer. Born in Freehold, N. J., March 30th, 1842; daughter of Benjamin Fitz and Eliza Hender- son Forman Randolph ; married at Freehold, July 10th, 1861, to Joseph Dorsett Bedle, son of Thomas I. and Hannah Dorsett Bedle.
Children : Bennington Randolph, born July 7th, 1862, died Aug. 13th, 1917: Joseph Dorsett, Feb. 18th, 1863, died Sept. 20th, 1917, Thomas F., Aug. 1st, 1865: Althea Randolph (Mrs. Adolphe Rusch), April 18th, 1871; Mary. Feb. 4th, 1873. died Sept. 17, 1883: Randolph, Jan. 3rd, 1875.
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Althea Fitz Randolph Bedle (Mrs. Joseph Dorsett Bedle), besides being the widow of the late Governor Joseph Dorsett Bedle, who died in 1894, bears the distinction of being the daughter of a Judge (Bennington Fitz Randolph) and the mother of a Judge. She is a lineal descendant of Rolf, the Norman Conqueror and also of Lord Fitz Randolph, Lord of Middleham, who married Gisell, a daughter of King Charles of France, among many other ancient notables, some of whom came to America in the Mayflower, Elizabeth, daughter of Deacon Blossom, who married Edward Fitz Randolph.
Mrs. Bedle lived in Freehold, N. J., for twenty-six years and in Jersey City from 1875 to 1906, at which time she went to New York and lived there until 1910, when she returned to Jersey City and leased an apartment in the Fairmont Hotel, where she now resides.
Most of Mrs. Bedle's early education, which covered a period of eleven years, was obtained in the Freehold Young Ladies Seminary. the Lawrenceville Seminary and the Lydia F. Wadleigh Association Normal College. New York City.
On July 10th, 1861, Mrs. Bedle who was then Althea Fitz Randolph, became the wife of Joseph Dorsett Bedle, who later was elected Governor of New Jersey, in January, 1875, after he had resigned as New Jersey Supreme Court Judge, which office he held from 1865. Governor Joseph Dorsett Bedle died October 21, 1894. Joseph D. Bedle, Jr., their son. was at one time Judge of the First District Court at Jersey City : Ben- nington, the elder, was Consul to England (1892-'96).
Mrs. Bedle has been an enthusiastic collector of curios and memos. She has the photographs of most of the castles of England and Scot- land, and of the coat of arms and shields of the Fitz Randolphs, Forman, Wyckoff, Henderson and the Burrough families. Most of these were se- cured while she was traveling extensively abroad. She has resided in Paris, Munich, and London, and spent considerable time in Switzer- land. Twice has Mrs. Bedle visited Oberamergen and has also been over every battlefield of France, having lived in that country for some time at Berlin, Potsdam and Brussels. During this period (1900-1910) she was present on occasions with Edward VII, of England, the Emperor of Germany, and also of Austria, as well as with the members of the royal families and presented to Loubet, of France, and his staff of officers. (residing in Paris). Mrs. Bedle has led a long and eventful life. Be- sides her great activity in the field of prose and poetry, she has taken a great part in religious work. Among the many organizations in which she was at one time a member and in which she held prominent offices are Presbyterial Foreign Missionary Society, Home Mossionary Society of which she was Recording Secretary, the Colonial Dames of America. of which she is a charter member, and was at one time President and Vice President General N. S. & A. R. (1902-1906( also Vice Directress Daugh- ters of Holland. She organized the Paulas Hook Chapter, D. A. R., and of which she was Regent and Honorary Regent (after being Vice Regent in Newark, of the Mother Chapter of D. A. R. ). Mrs. Bedle has always been very active in civic work of all kinds. She represented New Jersey at
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the Paris Exposition in 1900 and assisted in Presentation of General Washington Equestrian Statue to France.
DANIEL H. BEEKMAN-Somerville (103 West End Ave.)- Lawyer. Born at North Branch, Somerset County, on May 29th, 1874 ; son of John H. and Mary Elizabeth (Lane) Beekman ; mar- ried at Oldwick (formerly New Germantown) on Nov. 15th, 1899, to Emetta, daughter of Henry C. and Catherine (Reinhart) Hoff- man.
Children : John H., Oct. 27th, 1903, and Mabel Elizabeth, Aug. 23, 1909.
Daniel H. Beekman, who comes of Revolutionary ancestry on both sides, is a judge of the County of Somerset, N. J. He received his early education in the public school at North Branch and later in a private school in Somerville. Afterwards he graduated from the Mets private School in 1892. His first training in law was received chiefly in the office of the Honorable Alvah A. Clark, but he later took a course in New York Law School and was admitted to the bar as an Attorney in June, 1898, and as a counselor at law in Feb. 1902:
In 1901 he formed a law partnership with the late Judge John D. Bartine, which partnership continued until the death of Judge Bartine in the year 1908. He then continued in the general practice of his profession alone until his appointment as judge of Somerset County, Court of Common Pleas to fill an unexpired term, by President Wilson, who was at that time Governor of the State of New Jersey. After serving two years, he was re-appointed for a full term by Governor James F. Fielder, which lie is still serving.
He has not only been active in his profession, but also active in religious circles, having served as a deacon and elder in the First Reformed Church at Somerville and has been Superintendent of the Sunday School in the Church for the past five years.
Mr. Beekman is a member of the Masons (Solomon's Lodge No. 46, Somerville), the Raritan Valley Country Club, the Bachelors Club, and the Somerville Athletic Association.
EDWARD THEODORE BELL-Paterson, (294 Broadway )- Banker. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born at Stan- hope, March 26, 1843; son of Edward Sullivan and Catherine Louise (Beach) Bell; married at Newton, on June 9, 1870, to Anna A., daughter of Judge Daniel Stewart Anderson (Mrs. Bell died November 23, 1908.)
Children : Mae Anderson, now Mrs. Edward Van Ingen ; Ed- ward T. (deceased) ; Thornton Beach.
Edward Theodore Bell while professionally a banker, has been the receipient of many public honors, and active besides in civic affairs. He was one of those whom Governor Bedle named in 1876 to represent New Jersey at the International Exposition in Paris ; and, while he was serving in that capacity he was in charge of the arrangements, in the American section, for the banquet to Gen. Grant, who was then making his historical
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tour around the world. His interest too, in the things that make for the beauty of Paterson has been marked. He was one of the original mem- bers of the Park Commission that has provided the city with its recrea- tion grounds. The idea of having a becoming City Hall erected as a cell- tennial memorial, originated with him. His prominence and energy in that work led to his election as chairman of the Commission charged with the erection of the new City Hall. and he served on that commission until 1898 when he resigned.
Mr. Bell's education was begun in the public schools and finished at the Collegiate Institute in Newton. In 1860 when he started out on his banking career, lie began at the foot of the ladder as a messenger for the Hackettstown Bank ; and rose rapidly. Four years later he was made teller in one of the Jersey City banks. Before the end of the year he had been invited by the Directors of the First National Bank of Paterson to become its Cashier. Accepting, he eventually became a member of the Board of Directors and continued to be a Director even after he had retired from the Cashier's desk in 1875. Seven years later he resumed his banking activities as Vice President of the bank, and in 1894 was elected its President.
He had been meanwhile instrumental in the organization of the Pat- erson Savings Institution and in the preparation of its charter and is now its Vice President.
Mr. Bell is an active republican. He is of the Presbyterian faith and President of the Board of Trustees of the Church of the Redeemer, which he attends.
HENRY FRANCIS BELL-Paterson .- Banker. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born at St. Stephen, Province of New Brunswick, Canada, August 27, 1861; son of James and Jennie ( Waddell ) Bell ; married at Paterson, January 23, 1889, to Fannie Livingston Turner, daughter of Ralph and Mary Louise Turner of Paterson.
Children : Florence Hurd, born November 22, 1889: James, born March 14, 1891.
Henry F. Bell has been President of the Citizens Trust Company of Paterson since its organization in 1901 and is otherwise active in the financial life of the community. His parents were born in Ireland, mar- ried in Boston, Mass., and came to Paterson in 1860. He attended Miss Major's School, the public schools, was prepared for College by the late James D. Donnell, and entered New York University in 1878, graduating in 1882 with the degree of A. B.
In the fall of 1882 Mr. Bell was engaged by the firm of Louis Franke, dealers in raw and thrown silks, having a large mill in Paterson. In 1883 he was connected with the People's Gas Light Company of Paterson, which had been organized by his father. In 1SS5 he undertook the manage- ment of the extensive real estate interests of his father and the develop- ment of the Riverside Section of Paterson. In 1900 he rebuilt the Paterson
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Opera House which had been destroyed by fire and, when in 1901 the Citizens Trust Company was organized, he was chosen President, which position he still holds.
Mr. Bell is a member of the Psi Upsilon and Eucleian and also of the Bankers Club of America, the Hamilton Club of Paterson, the Arcola Country Club and of the Passaic County University Club.
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