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Mr. Engle, the subject of this sketch, received his education in the Friend's Boarding School at Westtown, Pa., in 1891. and after several years experience in the wholesale dry goods business at Philadelphia,
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he came to the assistance of his father in the management of the ho- tel.
In 1901 when the father died, the property was incorporated into "The Engleside Company," and Mr. Engle became the treasurer and manager of this concern, and which position he has held to date. He is also head and general manager of the "Covington Company" which owns and operates the Covington Apartment Hotel in West Philadelphia. For the past fifteen years, he has been a member of the Council of the Bor- ough of Beach Haven.
On Feb. 27th, 1917, he was appointed for a full term of four years as a member of the Board of Commerce and Navigation by Governor Edge.
His business address is Beach Haven, N. J.
WILLIAM WADSWORTH EVANS-Paterson, (591 East 29th St.) .- Lawyer and Assemblyman. Born at Paterson, N. J., Octo- ber 5th, 1887, married at Paterson, N. J., to Isabel, daughter of William D. Blauvelt of Paterson, N. J.
Children : Barbara born April 10, 1914.
William Wadsworth Evans, republican representative to the Assem- bly from Passaic County is a Patersonian. He attended the public schools of that city, graduating in 1901, and thereupon entering the Paterson High School from which he graduated in 1905. Deciding that law was his chosen profession he entered the New York Law School, graduating from that institution in 1908. The following year he was admitted to the New York Bar, and in November, 1911, he was admitted to the New Jersey Bar.
Assemblyman Evans was secretary to Speaker Thomas F. McCran in 1912 while the latter was assemblyman from Passaic County.
EDWARD D. FARMER-Montclair, (16 Madison Avenue. ) -Manufacturer. Born at Montelair, N. J., Oct. 2, 1877; son of George P. and Helena E. ( Damai) Farmer ; married at Glen Ridge, N. J., Dec. 26th, to Helen H. Hart, daughter of E. C. Hart. Children: Annette Hart and Helen Joyce.
Edward D. Farmer, obtained his principal education in the public schools of Montclair which he attended in 1899 and from which he was graduated.
At the present, Mr. Farmer is a director of the consolidated Safety Pin Company, and President of the Jenkins Manufacturing Company of Bloomfield. N. J., as well as being treasurer of the Pratt & Farmer Com- pany, of New York City, and head of the Farmer Coal Company, of Asbury Park, N. J.
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Mr. Farmer's activities in the commercial world were not confined to manufacturing. He is also a financier, and is a director in the following banks, Bloomfield National Bank, Glen Ridge Trust Company, and the Essex Title Guaranty and Trust Company.
He is a member of the Montclair Club, Inc., Montclair Golf Club, and the Montclair Civic Association.
DUDLEY FARRAND-Newark, (49 Lincoln Park) .- Electrical Engineer. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born in Bloomfield. Feb. 21, 1867 : son of Charles and Anna (Ferrand ) Ferrand; married in Newark, Nov. 9th, 1899, to Jane Cham- penois daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Champenois, of New- ark.
Children : Dudley Champenois, born May 3rd, 1901, (died July 19th, 1901;) Louise Champenois, born May 2, 1903, (died Nov. 11th, 1905) ; Laura Jean, born Feb. 10th, 1907.
The Farrand family comes of the French Hugeunots. Nathan Farrand, first of the family on this side of the sea of whom there is any mention, is noted in an ancient record as having settled in Milford, Conn., in 1645. His son, also Nathan, came to Newark in 1691 and rose to be a Judge of the Essex County Court; and Bethuel Ferrand, great-great-grandfather of Mr. Ferrand, was a lieutenant in the Patriotic Army during the Revo- lution.
Dudley Farrand was educated in the Bloomfield schools, Common and High, and at the Newark Academy. Later, in 1887, he entered Princeton College, but did not take the course. Electricity was then just beginning to burst on the notice of men as a new force of nature that might be harnessed for human use. The rising generation became interested in it ; and young Farrand deciding not to take the course at Princeton accepted a position with the Newark Electric Light and Power Company. He has since filled every position in the electrical department of that company and of the now Public Service Corporation, which absorbed it.
Mr. Farrand had been with the Electric Light and Power Company for only two years when he was made Assistant Secretary of the Company ; and two years afterwards was promoted to the position of Assistant Mana- ger, with charge of the operating department : in 1892 he was placed in charge of Design and Construction. Thence his rise to higher positions was rapid. He became Assistant Manager of the company in 1896, and a year later was made General Manager. The supervision of the company's work all over New Jersey was given to him in 1899; and in 1903, when the company had gone under the wing of the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey, he was made General Manager of its electric department. Later, when the energies of the Public Service Corporation were differen- tiated, it established the Public Service Electric Company to take over and operate all of its electric properties. Mr. Farrand was made Vice Presi- dent and General Manager of that company ; and when, at the outbreak of hostilities between United States and Germany, Gen. Hine was given a
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leave of absence, Mr. Farrand was made Assistant to President McCarter of the Public Service Corporation.
Mr. Farrand's skill and expertness as an electrical engineer have com- manded wide attention. He assisted the Board of Engineers, in an advisory way, in compiling data for the use of the National Conservation Com- mission appointed by President Roosevelt ; and later was invited by the President to represent the electric interests in the first Conference of Governors, hield at the White House in May, 1908.
Mr. Farrand was a private in the First Troop of Calvary of New Jersey (Essex troop) from 1893 to 1898. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a Fellow of the American Institute Elec- trical Engineers and Past President of the National Electric Light Associa- tion. His club memberships are with the Engineers (N. Y.), Essex (New- ark), Essex County Country Club (West Orange), Rumson Country and the Sea Bright Beach, and he is one of the Sons of American Revolution.
Mr. Farrand's summer home is at Fair Haven, (Monmouth Co.)
CHARLES LE ROY FARRELL-Newark, (624 Clifton Ave.)- Banker. Born at Britol, Ind. Nov. 14th, 1874: son of John W. Mary J. (Maffit ) Farrell : married at Indianapolis, Ind. Oct. 12th, 1898, to Nellie May Richards, daughter of Edward N. and Serena H. Richards of Indianapolis.
Charles Le Roy Farrell received most of his early education in the public and high schools of Bristol, Ind. He later studied at the Transyl- vania University, at Lexington, Kentucky, for one year.
Mr. Farrell resided in his native state until eight years of age, when his parents moved to Chicago. In 1908 he came to New York and lived in that city until 1910. Mr. Farrell's date of taking up residence in New Jersey, dates back eight years, when he made his home in Newark, N. J.
At the present writing, he is president and director of the National Newark and Essex Banking Co., as well as being director of the Secur- ing Savings Bank, Newark, American Insurance Co., Newark, American Foreign Banking Corporation, New York City, and trusteee of Babies Hospital, Newark, N. J. He is also treasurer Anti-Tuberculosis Associa- tion of New Jersey and a director of the Board of Trade, Newark, and of the American Red Cross, Newark Chapter. He is Governor and treas- urer of Essex County Country Club, West Orange, N. J., and also of the Down Town Club, Newark, and a director of the Newark Music Festival Association.
Mr. Farrell's club memberships are the Union League Club, New York, City Essex Club, Newark ; Down Town Club, Newark : Baltusrol Golf Club, Short Hills ; Rumson Country Club, Rumson, and the Seaview Golf Club Absecon.
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His business address is the National Newark & Essex Banking Co., Broad Street, Newark, N. J.
JOHN J. FARRELL-Trenton-Executive Clerk. Born at New York City on Aug. 31st, 1864, son of John and Bridget (Reilley) Farrell, married at Newark, N. J., on Jan. 27, 1897 to Lucy Young daughter of William and Anne (Carey) Young.
Children : Lucy V., born Nov. 7, 1897 ; John J., Jr., born August 28, 1899; Anne, born May 6, 1901; William, born July 24, 1905.
John J. Farrell is a descendant of John Farrell who lost his life while superintendent of the Morgan Iron Works New York, in fitting out the Monitor which sank the Merrimac and his father was the fifth genera- tion of Farrell's who settled in New York City.
He attended the public schools of Newark in 1871 to 1878.
Early in life, Mr. Farrell became interested in newspaper work. In 1883 doing special work for various papers and in 1892 he joined the staff of the Newark Evening News.
For many years almost continuously from his entrance into the newspaper field he was legislative correspondent at Trenton for the New- ark News and other papers.
From 1899 to 1904 when he served as State Riparian Commissioner, however, he discontinued his regular work in the newspaper profession. At the end of this period, he again became a legislative correspondent for the Atlantic City Review until Feb. 20th, 1913, when he was engaged as Executive Clerk of the State of New Jersey to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Charles A. Ransom.
Mr. Farrell is a member of the following clubs: Elks, National Cor- respondence and New Jersey Legislative Correspondents.
His business address is Statehouse, Trenton, N. J.
JOSEPH FEWSMITH-Newark, (72 Washington Street.)- Physician and Surgeon. Born at Auburn, N. Y., on Jan. 31, 1851 ; son of Joseph and Emma C. (Livingston) Fewsmith ; married at Newark on April, 1880, to Jean A. Hendry, daughter of Hugh Hendry of Scotland.
Children : Jean, born in 1897.
Joseph Fewsmith, widely known among the physicians and surgeons of the state, is of English lineage on his father's side; his paternal ancestors were of Quaker stock and figured during the Revolutionary period. On his mother's side he is of Dutch and Scotch origin. His father, a D. D., was for thirty-seven years Pastor of the Second Presbyterian church in Newark, of which Dr. Fewsmith is now one of the trustees.
Dr. Fewsmith's earlier education was acquired at the Newark Academy and at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. He graduated from Yale Col-
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lege in 1871, from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1874 and pursued his medical and surgical studies at Roosevelt Hospital in 1875, at Vienna (Austria) in 1877 and at Woolwich Military hospital in London. He established himself as a practitioner in Newark, and has since been engaged there.
Dr. Fewsmith is connected professionally with a large number of hos- pitals. He has been President of the Medical Board of St. Michael's Hos- pital in Newark for a number of years, is surgeon for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company and examiner for the Mutual Benefit Insurance Company of Newark and for the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. He is attending physician at the Protestant Foster Home, consulting physician to the Home for Crippled Children and for eight years was a Trustee of the Newark City Home at Verona.
Dr. Fewsmith is a member of the Essex County Country Club. of Newark. the New Jersey Automobile Club, and many medical societies.
WILLIAM H. F. FIELDER-Newark, (171 Littleton Avenue.) Read Estate .- Born in New York, August 25th, 1874 (Deceased Jan. 1, 1919, see Vol. 1, 1917) ; son of Christian F. and Eliza- beth J. (Roemer) Fielder ; married Jan. 2nd, 1871, to Catherine Petronella Moeller.
Children : W. C., born June 18, 1875; Ernest J., born May 2nd, 1878 ; Bertha (Mrs. Frank R. Sanford) born Sept. 5, 1885.
JAMES FAIRMAN FIELDER-Jersey City, (139 Gifford Ave.) -Lawyer. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born Feb- ruary 26th, 1867 ; son of George B. and Eleanor A. (Brinkerhoff) Fielder ; married June 4th, 1895, to Mabel Cholwell Miller, daugh- ter of Mary E. and Charles B. Miller, of Norwalk, Conn.
James Fairman Fielder, Governor of the State 1913-1917, was reared in the atmosphere of a family that, on the side of both father and mother, has long been active in the public affairs. The Brinkerhoff family, from which his mother comes, were among the early settlers of the "Old Ber- gen" section of Jersey City, and owned in the early days large farming tracts included within the corporate limits of Bergen. They had a prom- inent part in all the movements of their times; and the old Bergen Dutch Reformed Church, which they aided to establish, still stands, on Bergen Avenue, one of the oldest shrines in the state. John Brinkerhoff, Mr. Fielder's grandfather, on his mother's side was for many years Director of the County Board of Freeholders, and a Common Pleas Judge, and William Brinkerhoff, who represented Hudson County in the State Senate in 1884- '85-'86, is the Governor's uncle. His paternal grandfather was a Republi- can leader in the days of the old Commission Government in Jersey City
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and was a member of the Assembly from Hudson County in 1871. George B. Fielder, his father, was for years the Register of Hudson County, and in 1893-'94 represented the Hudson County district in Congress.
Mr. Fielder was educated at the public and high schools of Jersey City, and finished in the Selleck school at Norwalk, Conn. He took a course at Columbia University Law School, graduating in 1887 with the degree of L. L. B. After a period of study in the law office of his uncle, ex-Senator Brinkerhoff, he was admitted to the Bar in 1888. The degree of L. L. D. was conferred on him by Rutgers College in 1914.
Public affairs were an every-day topic in the house of his parents. He naturally acquired a deep interest in the subject, and was early drawn into the swim of politics. He was elected to the Assembly in 1903 and again in 1904: and in 1907 chosen by its voters to represent the county in the State Senate. When, in 1910, he stood for re-election, he was given an overwhelming majority. In both the Senate and the House he was called to serve upon the most important committees. At the organization of the Legislature in January of 1913 he became President of the Senate. Wood- row Wilson, then Governor of the state, had in the previous November, been elected President of the United States, and was about to lay down his state office for the greater one at Washington. Mr. Fielder's elevation to the Presidency of the Senate was made with the knowledge that, under the constitution, the President of the Senate was to serve as Acting Gov- ernor until a new Governor could be elected by the people.
Governor Wilson did not lay down his state office until the very eve of his departure for Washington to take the oath as President. Senator Fielder assumed the office of Acting Governor March 1, 1913, and served until October 28, when he resigned his seat in the Senate. His resignation vacated not only the Senate chair but also the Acting Governorship: and Leon R. Taylor, of Monmouth County, the Speaker of the House of Assem- bly, became the state's second ad interim Governor. At the primary in September Mr. Fielder was nominated by the Democrats as their candi- date for Governor for the full term of three years, and in November he was elected over ex-Governor Edward C. Stokes, the Republican candidate, by a majority exceeding 32,000.
In giving the Great Seal of the State into Mr. Fielder's hands, in the presence of the Senate and of the Assembly on the 1st of March, 1913, Gov- ernor Wilson felicitated the state upon having provided itself with so fitting a chief. Both during his services as Acting Governor, and after his inauguration in January, 1914, for the full term, Governor Fielder devoted himself to the completion of the work Governor Wilson had been obliged to leave behind him, undone; and a mass of constructive legislation which Governor Wilson had initiated, was perfected under his supervision.
Among the achievements of his administration may be noted the in- heritance tax law, which has increased the revenue of the State by a fairly graduated tax upon estates of deceased persons; the bank stock tax act, which brings revenue to the localities from this class of personal prop- erty; reform in the care and employment of inmates of the state's penal institutions ; the strengthening of the pure food laws; a system of traffic regulations, uniform throughout the state; statutes safeguarding the health
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and safety of women and other operators in workshops and factories, and the grade crossing elimination law.
JOSEPH J. FINLEY-Newark, (130 North 11th Street) .- Mer- chant and Assemblyman. Born in Kells, County Meath, Ire- land, May 1st, 1871.
Joseph J. Finley was formerly owner of a chain of grocery stores throughout the state and is now in the wholesale paper and twine busi- ness.
Assemblyman Finley has never held any public office previous to being elected to the office which he now holds.
J. HAMPTON FITHIAN-Bridgeton, (62 N. Pearl St.)-Law- yer and Senator. Born at Greenwich, N. J., Dec. 16th, 1873 ; son of Samuel P. and Margaret K. (Stetser) Fithian ; married at Bridge- ton, N. J., April 26th, 1898, to Mary E. Robbins, daughter of Wil- liam W. Robbins of Bridgeton, N. J.
Children : James H. Jr., born May 10th, 1899; William R,, born April 15, 1900.
Most of Mr. Fithian's education was obtained in the West Jersey Academy, from which he was graduated in 1890.
He has resided within the borders of New Jersey all his life, and with the exception of the first sixteen years which he spent in his native place, the township of Greenwich, he has lived in Bridgeton, N. J.
In 1899, nine years after beginning his practice in law at that place, he became Prosecutor of the Pleas of Cumberland County, and held that office until 1914. He was elected to the Senate in 1918.
Mr. Fithian's club memberships are Welcome Council, Jr., O. U. A. M., Brearley Council, No. 2, F. & A. M., and the Bridgeton Lodge, B. P. O. E.
His business address is 4 Laurel St., Bridgeton, N. J.
JOSEPH FRANCIS STEPHEN FITZPATRICK-Jersey City, (40 Boyd Ave.)-Purchasing Agent, Hudson Co. Born at Jersey City, N. J., March 15th, 1880 ; son of Francis S. and Bridget (Mc- Grath) Stephen.
Joseph Francis Stephen Fitzpatrick comes partly from Irish stock. His mother, still living, emigrated from Tipperary, Ireland, where she was born in 1849, to Jersey City, in 1886. His father, who was born 1844, and is also still living, came to Jersey City from Perth Amboy, one year after his birth with his family.
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Mr. Fitzpatrick was educated chiefly in the St. Peters institution at Jersey City. He attended the parochial school from 1885 to 1892, the high school from 1892 until 1894, and college from 1894 till 1898, at which time he received the A. B. degree, and in 1899 the A. M. de- gree.
Virtually ever since completing his school training, Mr. Fitzpatrick nas been engaged in organization work and education among Catholic young men and women .. Thus, he has served on the Board of Directors of the Columbia Club at Jersey City for five years and as that association's vice president for one year. He also assisted in organizing St. Peter's Holy name Society of which he was later its first president for six years.
Records show, Mr. Fitzpatrick to have also been one of the founders, and the first president of the St. Peter's Club, an organization which cost $100,000 and which is considered one of the best social and educational institutions of the country for Catholic young men and women. Its night schools has an enrollment of 1500 men and women.
With this, however, his organization work did not end, for he as- sisted in beginning and was president for three years of the Hudson County Federation of the Holy Name Society. At the present date he is serving a second term as president of the Newark Diocesan Federation of the Holy Name Society.
He was employed seven years in commercial and manufacturing lines. For one year he was secretary to the director of Revenue and Finance in Jersey City, and for four years deputy director of Revenue and Fi- nance, during which time he collaborated with the directors of Revenue and Finance in the compilation of a manual on taxation that has been circulated throughout the United States.
During the World's War, Mr. Fitzpatrick was chairman of the Jer- sey City Exemption Board No. 5, and also head of the Council of all such boards in that city. In the seventh Provisional Battalion of New Jersey, he was second Lieutenant.
He is a member of the following clubs besides those already mentioned, Columbian Club, St. Peters Club, Lodge No. 211, B. P. O. E., Knights cf Columbus. Jersey City Club and Carteret Club all of Jersey City.
Mr. Fitzpatrick's business address is the Court House, Jersey City, N. J.
JOSEPH FULFORD FOLSOM-Newark, (912 South 16th St.) Minister. Born at Bloomfield, N. J .; son of John F. and Sophia E. (Harvey) Folsom; married at Newark, N. J., to Isabel M. Kirk, daughter of Ransford A. Kirk.
Children : Joseph Kirk, Isabel, and Evelyn Fulford.
Rev. Joseph Fulford Folsom is a direct descendant of the Puritan, John Folsom, of Hingham, England, who came with his family to Amer- ica on the ship "Diligent," landing at Boston, August 10th, 1638, and also Major John Fulford, who was in command of the defences at Annap- olis, Maryland, during the Revolution.
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Mr. Folsom throughout his minority lived in his native town, Bloom- field, N. J., where he received his common school education. After leaving high school he was engaged in office work in the city of New York for a few years and part of 1885 was spent in Fargo, Dakota, where he was employed in a real estate.
He later took up a course of theological study under guidance of his pastor, Rev. Henry W. Ballantine, D. D., of the First Presbyterian Church of Bloomfield, and eventually entered the Union Theological Seminary in New York City, from which he was graduated in 1892.
He was ordained as pastor of the Pound Ridge Presbyterian Church, Westchester County. New York, in June 21, 1892, and served in this pas- torate for three years.
His next charge was the Knox Presbyterian Church of Kearney, Hud- son County, New Jersey, where he was installed, July 8, 1895, and where he remained until his removal by the Presbytery of Newark, to Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, in order to take ministerial charge of an unorganized field in the Clinton Hill section of the city. Here he com- menced his duties. November 21, 1904, in a commodious chapel previously erected by the committee of Presbyterial church extension, and on Feb- ruary 15th. 1906. the congregation was organized as the Clinton Avenue Presbyterian church, and Mr. Folsom was unanimously elected the first pastor. In 1912, with a membership of over five hundred, this church merged with the Third Presbyterian Church of Newark, and became the Collegiate Third Church, South. Under this arrangement the chapel was enlarged for Sunday school and social work, and a new church edifice for religious services exclusively was erected.
In 1895 Mr. Folsom was elected the first chaplain-general of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, and served two years ; and being re-elected to the same office in 1907. he served another two years. He is also a member of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. In 1904 he was elected recording secretary of the New Jersey Historical Society, which office he is still holding at the present time. In 1909 he was appointed librarian of this society, and when the office was made elective in 1912, he was chosen to fill it. He is the editor of the "Proceedings" of the New Jersey Historical Society issued quarterly. For a number of years he has been greatly interested in the state and local history of New Jersey. He made researches for ma- terial on the folk lore of the state, and wrote a number of articles on witchcraft, omens. magic and illusions. He has written many articles on colonial history, biography and bipliography. For a number of years Mr. Folsom has been the Chaplain of Franklin Lodge F. & A. M., of Irvington. New Jersey. In 1916 he was a member of the Committee of One Hundred on the celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the City of Newark.
Mr. Folsom called attention to Daniel Bray and other New Jersey patriots who, in 1776, at great peril to themselves, brought down the Dela- ware River the boats needed for Washington's attack on Trenton and also wrote the "Ballad of Daniel Bray." This poem, printed in the "Patriotic Poems of New Jersey," compiled by W. C. Armstrong. was also published by the Free Public Library of Newark.
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