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The real estate patronage of the firm fell largely to Mr. Bumsted after the dissolution and he acquired special recognition for capacity as an adviser in that line of enterprise.
Gradually Mr. Bumsted drifted into the line himself and became large- ly interested in plans for the upbuild of the city. Incidental to his real es- tate operations he was brought into such close relations with the financial institutions of the locality that he eventually became a Director of many of
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them. His rule of accepting a directorship in the directorate of no com- pany to whose affairs he cannot give close person attention is a healthy variation from the rule of the "know-nothing," "I didn't-do-it." " "T wasn't- me," directors of some companies that have from time to time been charged with short comings. He is one of the charter members of the New Jersey Title Guarantee and Trust Company and one of its original Directors. He has large investments on the Hackensack water front, in the faith of even- tual dock improvements there ; and for sometime was a promoter of build- ing and loan associations. Upon the death of Frank H. Earle he succeeded to the Presidency of the Raritan Railroad Company which runs through the rich clay district of Middlesex County from Perth Amboy to New Bruns- wick, and is a part owner of that Company.
Mr. Bumsted is a republican without political ambitions ; and a Direc- tor of Christ (Episcopal) Hospital, of the Colonial Life Insurance Com- pany, of the Provident Institution for Savings, of the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company and of the Pavonia Trust Company, all of Jersey City.
WALTER J. BUZBY-Atlantic City .- Hotel owner. Born at Masonville, Burlington county, N. J., Oct., 12, 1865.
Walter J. Buzby spent his boyhood on his father's farm in Burling- ton County. At the age of twenty, in 1885, he entered the employ of Mit- chell, Fletcher & Company, fancy grocers, of Philadelphia, and remained with this concern for fifteen years. During this time he rose from a po- sition as the lowest salaried clerk in the store to one of the junior mem- berships in the firm.
After severing his connections with the grocery business, Mr. Buzby purchased Hotel Dennis, Atlantic City, from Joseph H. Borton, and enlisted as an associate the services of a well known Philadelphia archi- tect. Since 1900, he has continued to operate the hotel on an open-all-year basis. Mr. Buzby, since his residence in Atlantic City, has interested him- self in the public affairs of that place, having been twice elected a mem- ber of the City Council. At present he is a director in two banks.
In 1915, he was appointed a member of the Board of Conservation and Development by Governor Fielder for a term of two years, and on March 24, 1917, a member of the State Highway Commission for a three year term, by Governor Edge.
ERNEST CADGENE-Paterson, (669 14th Ave.)-Chemist and Inventor. Born in Lyons, France, March 31st, 1879; son of Jacques and Lucis Cote Cadgene; married at Cormaranche, on July 28th, 1909, to Mary Pervilhac, daughter of Henry Pervilhac and Bertha (Preaud) Pervilhac.
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Children : James, born March 2, 1911; Henry, born June 22, 1913; George, born Feb., 15, 1919.
Dr. Ernest Cadgène, president of the Lyons Piece Dve Works of Pat- erson, comes from French stock.
Dr. Cadgène received most of his early education in Switzerland where he studied at the Polytechnikum at Zurich, from which institution he re- ceived his diploma as a chemist. He later obtained the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Zurich.
After completing his education, he entered the dye trade under the direction of his father. During this period, Dr. Cadgene received a thor- ough training in the dyeing business, and also gained valuable experience in the finishing and printing of silks.
Before coming to the United States in 1904, Dr. Cadgène was an ex- pert on the subject of dyes and manufacture. He had made a thorough study of this chiefly in Switzerland.
Upon locating in this country, Dr. Cadgène became connected with a large dyeing concern of Paterson, and remained in this employ until 1907. At the end of this time, he began business for himself.
As show by statistics, the Lyons Piece Dye Works is now one of the largest plants of its kind in the United States and in fact is ranked as one of the three largest.
Dr. Cadgène is also the president of the Lyons Ignition Company, manufacturers of a French Spark plug, and the Lyons Velvet Company, both of which he organized. He is also head of the Lacharnay Carburetor Company of Paterson, which manufacturers a carburetor which has great success in Europe.
His club memberships are: the Hamilton Club, Paterson ; Automobile Club of America ; Arcola Country Club, and he has also taken an active interest in civic and commercial movements.
Dr. Cadgène's business address is, Lyons Piece Dye Works, Fifth Avenue, and Boulevard, Paterson, N. J.
JOHN C. CAMPBELL-Newark, 125 Heller Pky. ) .- Manufac- turer. Born at Belleville. N. J., April 4th, 1860 ; son of John and Margaret (Wilson) Campbell ; married at Newark, N. J., May 30th, 1885, to Mary E. Widmer, daughter of Jacob Widmer, of Newark, N. J.
Children : Alvin Allen, Feb. 9, 1887; Ruth, March 5th. 1890 ; Leggett Charles, June 15, 1892; Eleanor Wilson, March 18. 1895 ; Mary Evelyn, July 14, 1897.
The grandfather of Mr. Campbell was court musician at Sterling Castle, Scotland, and was one of the first land masters to come to Ameri- ca.
As a life-long resident of New Jersey, he was educated in the pub- lic schools of Belleville, and soon after graduation began to build the frame work of his future success in the mercantile business, by seeking
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employment in Newark. Until 1905, he was employed by the De Witt Wire Cloth Co., and Eastwood Wire Works, but at the end of that time, with his two sons, organized the American Wire Cloth Company at New- ark, N. J., out of which grew the better equipped and larger Newark Wire Cloth Company which to-day is one of the few, outside of Germany, manu- facturing the finer grades of material.
Although undoubtedly most of Mr. Campbell's activities have been confined to the mercantile field, he has also interested himself to a con- siderable extent in civic affairs. In 1895 he was elected Justice of the Peace in Belleville, N. J., and during the past several years, as a resident of Newark, N. J., Mayor Gillen of that city has appointed him chairman of most of the large civic committees, although there is a radical difference of politics between the two men. At the present time Mr. Campbell is the director of the Newark Board of Trade.
His club memberships are Hardware Club, N. Y., Downtown Club, Newark, N. J., Executive Chairman Boy's Community Work (Y. M. C. A.), chairman League of Churches, N. J., member Anti-Saloon League, N. J., Grand Council Royal Arcanum, elder Belleville Dutch Reformed Church.
Mr. Campbell's business address is 224 Verona Avenue, Newark, N. J.
LUTHER A. CAMPBELL-Hackensack .- Jurist. Born in Ber- gen County, N. J., Nov. 28th, 1872, son of Abraham D. Camp- bell.
At an early age, Mr. Campbell began reading law with his father, the late Abraham D. Campbell, and at the age of twenty-two, in 1894, was ad- mitted to the New Jersey Bar. He almost immediately became a partner of A. D. & L. A. Campbell, which remained until his father's death in Oct., 1896.
In addition to representing a number of other municipalities in Ber- gen County he served as counsel to Hackensack for twelve years in suc- cession, and also as counsel to the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Ber- gen County for six years.
On January 6th, 1914. he was made a Judge in Circuit Court by Acting Governor Taylor, on an ad interim appointment, and when on Jan- uary 20th, Governor Fielder sent his name to the Senate for a full term, which will expire in 1921, he was confirmed.
Judge Campbell's circuit is composed of the counties of Hudson and Bergen.
ROBERT CAREY-Jersey City, (75 Montgomery St.)-Lawyer. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born on Sept. 16th, 1872; son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Dillaway) Carey; married in 1889 to Cora, daughter of William Gurney of Jersey City.
Children : Robert, Anna.
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While Robert Carey was from 1908 to 1913 the Presiding Judge of the County Courts in Hudson, he is more widely known because of his activ- ities in promoting the establishment of the system of Commission Rule in the municipalities of the state, and has been heard upon the platforms in every city in which the new system of City Rule has been agitated. His participation in the Progressive movement in the Republican party is an- other feature of his career that has contributed to his prominence.
Judge Carey is a graduate of grammar school No. 20 and the High School in Jersey City, and took a course in law at the New York Law School while enrolled as a student in the offices of Hudspeth & Puster in Jersey City. Soon after his admission he became a member of the firm; and the connection, after Mr. Puster's death, with Judge Hudspeth con- tinued till he was appointed to the Judgeship by Governor Fort. By Governor Fort's appointment he has also served on the State Board of Taxation. Prior to that he served six years as Corporation Attorney of Jersey City. Judge Carey's father was a lawyer practicing in New York and Jersey City and some years ago a member of the New Jersey House of Assembly.
Judge Carey is a member of numerous clubs, is identified with the several charity organizations in Hudson County and is a Trusteee of the Home of the Homeless, Christ Hospital and The State Home for Boys. He was the author of the New Jersey Juvenile Court Act under which the Courts of Essex and Hudson County are operating.
HARRIET FRANCES CARPENTER-Millington .- Educator and Author. Born at Lyons. Iowa, on June 6th, 1875, daughter of Abraham and Mary Carpenter.
Harriet Frances Carpenter, is of an old colonial Pennsylvania family ; and the eighth lineal grand daughter of Madam Feree, the French Hu- geonot colonizer of Lancaster county, from whom the late Admiral Schley claimed descent. Her ancestors were loval patriots and Revolutionary heroes, dwelling for several generations in the big stone mansion "Car- penter Hall" on the lands deeded to them by William Penn. The place was sold when the grandfather moved west. Later Miss Carpenter's father owned large wheat ranges at Fargo and at Island Lake, North Dakota ; and, being a delicate child, she was taken there to romp over the prairies and to ride the bronchos brought, unbroken, from Montana. It was here that the love for nature, that has colored her life, first developed.
After careful tutoring, Miss Carpenter went to Chicago to finish her education and was graduated from the Chicago Kindergarten College, toward the end of the nineteenth century, with the highest honors of her class. The same year she became Superintendent of the Cincinnati Free Kintergarten Training School and Supervisor of its thirty kindergartens. She was a charter member of the Cincinnati Woman's Club; and to mem- bers of the Educational Department gave her first course of lectures on Children's Literature and on the interpretation of music drama for which her several trips to Beyreuth had fitted her.
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After a few years, she resigned to seek rest and to continue the study of interpretive art, coming to New York for the purpose. But Newark was in need of an enthusiastic leader for the kindergartens then newly put into the public school system there, and she was persuaded to take charge of this work in the city normal school now the New Jersey State Normal School. The general courses in story telling which Miss Carpenter con- ducts there led to the publication of her two volumes, entitled, "Mother Play in Story", and several children's dramas and other child literature so much in use in modern school life.
Miss Carpenter is opposed to the idea of taxation without representa- tion, and on principle an advocate of Equal Suffrage. In 1912, to help the cause, she sued the state for the right to vote as a property holder. Her insistment was that the right once exercised by the women of New Jersey had been taken away illegally. The Supreme Court of the State did not agree with her.
Miss Carpenter lives in her country home on the Long Hill Road. at Millington.
CHARLES B. CASALE-Newark-Assemblyman. Born at New York City, January 9, 1867.
Mr. Casale received his principal early education in the public schools of New York, from which he graduated while yet a young man, his fam- ily removed to Newark.
On January 1, 1895, he was appointed Excise License Inspector and he occupied that office until December 31, 1902. Afterward, he was ap- pointed under sheriff jurisdiction, and served for twelve years.
In 1918 Mr. Casale was elected to the Assembly on the Democratic ticket.
BEN. E. CHAPIN-Newark, 204 N. 6th St.) .- Editor and Pub- lisher. Born in Gt. Barrington, Mass., March 12th, 1867; son of Norman C. and Sarah J. (Blodgett ) Chapin ; married at Newark, N. J., March 12th, 1895, to Tillie S. Schermerhorn. daughter of Harry and Mary (Van Ness) Schermerhorn, of Newark, N. J.
Ben. E. Chapin traces his ancestry back to Deacon Samuel Chapin, who was one of the founders of Springfield, Mass., and also Amos Cha- pin, who was one of the Minute Men in the Revolution, and a Corporal of Col. John Ashley's Massachusetts Regiment.
Most of Mr. Chapin's early education was obtained in Great Barring- ton, Mass., when he was graduated from the High School, and from which town he moved to Newark more than thirty-five years ago.
He commenced in business life as a messenger in the station of the Housatanic railroad in Great Barrington, and at the age of seventeen accepted a position as a timekeeper in the repair shops of the Lackawanna
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railroad at Kingsland, N. J. From here he was transferred to the office of Superintendant Andrew Reasoner at Hoboken, and served there in a confidential capacity until 1899. At the end of this time he resigned to devote himself to publication work, having in 1891 established the "Rail- road Employee."
As a Republican in politics, Mr. Chapin, in the national campaigns of 1908-'12 and 1916 was in charge of the railroad labor bureau of the Re- publican National Committee. He has never held elective office but in the congressional campaign of 1918 was mentioned for the Republican Congressional nomination in the eighth New Jersey District, but declined on the grounds that if he were made a candidate it would necessitate his severance with war work he was engaged in.
It was in July 1917 that he was appointed State Director of the New Jersey Division of Four Minute Men, and this position he retained until the national organization was mustered out of service in Jan. 14th. 1919, with 110 local and county chairmen and 926 speakers. At present. how- ever, he is the head of the Minute Men of New Jersey, which organization has succeeded the former organization.
Mr. Chapin is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, Northern Lodge No. 25, F. & A. M., and several other organizations.
His business address is 494 Broad Street, Newark, N. J.
FRANK M. CHAPMAN-Englewood, (Linden Ave. )-Ornitholo- gist. Born in Englewood, June 12, 1864; son of Lebbeus and Mary Augusta (Parkhurst) Chapman ; married at New York on February 24, 1898, to Fannie Miller Embury, daughter of Alfred S. and Lucy W. Bates, of Scarsdale, N. Y.
Children : Frank M., born March 19, 1900.
Frank M. Chapman is the Curator of Ornithology of the American Museum of Natural History, and the author of a number of works on bird life and habits that are regarded as authoritative. He was a founder and is still a Director of the National Association of Audubon Societies that have done so much for bird culture and for the protection of bird life in the United States. The Audubon Society of New Jersey has been more than once called upon, by the menace of hurtful legislation, to pre- vent the destruction of birds.
Mr. Chapman's education was acquired at the Englewood Academy and at Brown University where he graduated with Sc. D. degree in 1913. He had already, in 1887, become the Curator at the Museum of Natural History in New York. In 1917 he returned from an extended professional trip through South America. He is the editor and founder of "Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America"; "Bird Life"; "Bird Studies with a Camera"; "Warblers of North America"; "Color Key to North American Birds"; "Value of Birds to the State"; "Camps and Cruises of an Orni- thologist" and "Travels of Birds."
Mr. Chapman is a Fellow of the American Ornithologists Union (Pres- ident, 1911 to '13) ; member of the Linnaean Society (President, 1897) ;
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Honorary member of the New York Zoological Society ; Vice-President of the Explorer's Club; a member of the British Ornithologists Union, etc .; and is connected with the Englewood Country Club, Century Associa- tion, Society of Colonial Wars and the Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C.
WILLIAM H. CHEW-Salem .- President State Department of Health. Born at Camden, N. J., Sept. 18, 1871.
William H. Chew received his education in the private schools of Camden, which he attended and later the Rugby Academy of Philadelphia, from which he was graduated.
At the age of nineteen, in 1890, he entered business with his father who was engaged in the publication of the West Jersey Press. Ever since this date the son continued in the printing and publishing business, being head at the present date of the Sinnickson Chew & Sons Co., of Camden, and the Standard & Jerseyman Company of Salem.
In 1908, he became connected with the New Jersey National Guard, first serving as a captain and paymaster of the Third Infantry, and later as assistant paymaster general.
He was chosen as the first secretary of the New Jersey Forest Park Reservation Committee, and in 1907, he was appointed a member of the State Sewerage Commission. When the body in 1908 was merged with the State Board of Health he was appointed to the Board by Gov. Fort. He served until July 1, 1915, filling the office of vice president during the last two years of his term.
When the present Department of Health was created he was ap- pointed as a member by Governor Fielder and when the Board was fully organized he was elected president of it. In 1916 he received his appoint- ment to a full term, which will end on July 1, 1920.
For many years, Mr. Chew has taken an active interest in all varieties of public health work, and is a member of a number of societies.
PERCIVAL CHRYSTIE-High Bridge .- Steel manufacturer. Born, at "Solitude" High Bridge, N. J., May 31st, 1868; son of Oliver and Emily (Taylor) Chrystie.
Percival Chrystie is a descendant of a long line of iron and steel manufacturers. His ancestors and family and the company named after it, has been engaged in the business in and around High Bridge, N. J., for about one hundred and seventy-five years and have furnished the Government with material in every war which the United States has been engaged in, including the Revolution. Mr. Chrystie, himself, at present, is vice-president of the Taylor-Wharton Iron & Steel Company and with his cousin Knox Taylor who is president of the firm, represents the fifth generation of the family engaged in this particular industry.
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Mr. Chrystie attended Turners School, in Pittsfield, Mass., and Leal's Academy, Plainfield, N. J., from which he was graduated.
He served as a member of the State Board of Education, and as a member of the Fish and Game Commission. In 1917, he was appointed by Governor Edge a member of the Board of Conservation and Devel- opment, his term of office will expire in 1921.
JOHN CLAFLIN-Morristown-Merchant (retired). Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., on July 24, 1850; son of Horace B. and Agnes (Sanger) Claflin ; married at Monterey, Cal., on June 27th, 1880 to Elizabeth Stewart Dunn.
John Claflin was, till the time of his retirement from business in 1914, the head of the Claflin dry goods establishment in New York. His father who stood at the head of the mercantile men of the country had founded the Claflin Company. John Claflin was educated at the College of the City of New York, graduating from there in 1869. He afterwards traveled in Europe and the East, and in 1887 crossed the South American continent from the Pacific coast at 10 degrees south latitude to the Atlantic coast at the Equator. Upon his return he entered his fathers establishment and be- came a member of the firm in January, 1873. In 1890 the business was organized under the title of The H. B. Claflin Co., and in 1909 re-organized as the United Dry Goods Companies.
WATSON G. CLARK-Tenafly-Engineer. Born at Creskill, Bergen County, N. J., Sept. 1st, 1871; son of Elijah F. and Emma Gerould (Ranney) Clark, married at Tenafly, N. J., on June 18, 1902, to Mabel Marion Palmer, daughter of Henry B. and Kate (Nelson) Palmer.
Children : Watson Gerould, Jr., Henry Bogert Palmer, Mabel Bernice and Nelson Ranney.
Watson G. Clark attended private and public schools of New York till 1886, and the University Preparatory School in 1886-'87. He received his education for engineering in the New Yory University, from which in- stitution he was graduated in 1891 with a degree of B. S., and the degree of Civil Engineer, a year later.
After completing his education he became connected with Charles B. Brush, civil engineer, of Hoboken, N. J., and continued in business with him, until 1896. At that time he established a business of his own, and has since practised general engineering, and specialized on municipal work and foundation tests. In 1912-14, he designed and supervised the construc- tion of the Englewood approach, the roadway leading from the Dyckman street ferry to the top of the Palisades. At present he maintains offices at Tenafly and Edgewater, N. J., and also at 30 Church Street, New York city.
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On March 24, 1917 he was appointed a member of the State Highway Commission by Governor Edge for a three year term, and is now the Chair- man of the Executive Committee.
Mr. Clark is a member of the American Society of Civil Engin- eers.
His business address is 30 Church Street, New York, N. Y.
EVERETT COLBY-West Orange .- Lawyer. (Photograph pub- lished in Vol. 1, 1917). Born in Milwaukee, Wis., on September 10, 1874; son of Charles L. and Anna Sims Colby ; married at Plainfield, on June 30th, 1903, to Edith Hyde, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Hyde.
Children : Elizabeth (died) ; Edith; Anne, Everett, Jr .; Charles Lewis.
Everett Colby came into public view when in 1905 he achieved a nom- ination for member of the State Senate from Essex County over the violent opposition of Major Carl Lentz, chairman of the Republican County Committee, and of the powerful organization at Major Lentz's command. Major Lentz had been regarded all over the state as one of the most auto- cratic leaders in all of the states history ; and, Mr. Colby's capture of the state senatorial nomination, after Major Lentz had said he could not have it. attracted attention all over the east. The Anit-Boss movement which exerted so marked an influence upon the later political history of the country had its birth in this struggle between Colby and Lentz.
Mr. Colby had been a member for three years of the New Jersey House of Assembly, with Major Lentz's countenance, when he sought pro- motion to the State Senate. When the County Chairman set his face against Mr. Colby's nomination, the Assemblyman met him at the prim- aries with a full opposition ticket ; and not only Mr. Colby but every man on his ticket was put in nomination and afterwards elected. One of the local results was the appearance in Trenton of a Republican legislative delegation in both Senate and House defying the regnant republican pow- ers of the state as well as of the county. The movement started out as the "New Idea" party ; but later, when the "Progressives" came into prom- inence, became known as the Progressive Party of the State. Mr. Colby has been consistently in sympathy with that wing of the republican party ever since, and was a warm advocate of Colonel Roosevelt's nomination in the campaign of 1912 in which President Taft sought re-election. His work as a Progressive has helped to tincture the republican party of the United States with the spirit of the Progressive movement.
In the State Senate, apart from promoting legislation aimed at the power of the dominating local political chiefs throughout the state, Mr. Colby's energies were largely directed toward the enactment of laws limit- ing the term of franchises granted by the authorities to the public utility companies. They had been securing, almost for the asking, street and other public right of way in perpetuity; and as the result of the move- ment in which Mr. Colby was most conspicuous, laws were enacted, not
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only in New Jersey, but in other states, forbidding grants that were to run in excess of fifty years.
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