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In connection with his work for the New Jersey Historical So- ciety, Mr. Folsom conducts a department ou historical matters in tlie Newark Evening News, familiarly known as the column by the "Lor- ist."
He is a member and director of the Carteret Book Club, and has been engaged to write a history of Philip Carteret, the first Governor of New Jersey, to be published by the Club. At the present time lie is also working on a second volume of the history of the Washington Asso- ciation of New Jersey.
In the poetical field, Mr. Folsom has also done occasional work, his contributions having appeared in 'The Independent", and other publica- tions, but more frequently in the daily Press. At the unveiling of the equestrian statue of Washington at Newark in 1912, lie read "The Horse- man Washington," which he had composed for this event. His poem on the Lincoln statue appears in the volume entitled "The Newark Lin- coln," compiled by John Cotton Dana, and also in oldroyls "The Poet Lincoln," Washington, 1915.
Among the fraternities of which he is a member are the Delta Up- silon, the Masonic and Knights of Pythias. He is Chaplain of Franklin Lodge No. 10. F. & A. M.
ROBERT HAYES FORDYCE-Paterson, (73 Twelfth Avenue.) -Banker. Born in Paterson, in 1855.
Robert H. Fordyce, ex-Mayor of Paterson, has resided in that city all of his life and was educated in its public schools. After graduating from High School, he finished in a private school. His first position was with the firm of Harrell & Hayes, coppersmiths, both members of which firm were his uncles. In 1872 he became shipping clerk for the New York Steam Engine Works in Passaic, and a year later attached himself to the Architectural Department of the Watson Machine Company. He was con- nected with the Paterson post office for eight years, officiating for the last four of the eight as Deputy Post Master. From 1883 to 1890 he was in the employ of the First National Bank of Paterson. With the idea of starting in business there, he went to Seattle but was not favorably impressed with the opportunities and returned to Paterson after a few months absence. In 1891 he became Teller of the Second National Bank, but resigned. after twelve years, to become Secretary and Treasurer of the United States Trust Company, which was then being organized and held that position un- til later when he was made president of the Company.
Mr. Fordyce has been active in political and military circles. He served as Mayor for one term. He was a charter member of the Paterson Light Guards which was organized in 1870, and became the First Battalion of the State National Guard. He had been Captain of Company B. for five years when lie resigned in 1890.
THOMAS FOXHALL, Jr .- Passaic-Manufacturer. Born at Lowell, Mass., on Dec. 21, 1884; son of Thomas Foxhall, of Pas- saic.
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Thomas Foxhall, Jr., was educated in the public schools of Passaic, where he spent the greater part of his life, graduating from the Passaic High School. He entered a law school later to prepare himself for the law profession, but although he completed his course, he never practiced but instead went into business with his father, who was then manufactur- ing engraved copper rollers for textile printers. Seeing the possibilities that would result if narrow fabrics such as ribbons were handled in the like manner, he designated machinery and founded the Passaic Ribbon Printing Company, of which he is now secretary and treasurer. At the fall elections he was re-elected to the State Assembly.
He is a member of the following clubs: Past Exalted Ruler, B. P. O. E., and (exempt) Volunteer Fire Department of Passaic.
LOUIS ROCHESTER FREUND-Verona .- Lawyer and Assem- blyman. Born at Rochester, N. Y., on March 18, 1889, son of Maurice Aaron and Jennie R. (Schargin) Freund ; married at Newark, N. J., Sept. 30th, 1913, to Rebecca B. Herman, daughter of Nathan B. and Hannah Herman.
Children : Miles Abner, born Nov. 16, 1916.
Louis Rochester Freund, democratic Assemblyman from Essex Coun- ty has practically been a lifelong resident of Newark, Although born in Rochester, N. Y., he came to Newark when but six years of age, and in his childhood attended the public schools of that city. In 1904 he entered the Newark High School, but was obliged to leave it the following year and earn a livelihood. After putting in a year as clerk in the law office of Kneeland, La Fetra and Glaze, he resumed his studies at High School so that in 1907 he was able to enter Rutgers College. There, too, he supported himself by working Saturdays, Sundays and certain evenings during the week. At the close of 1908 he left Rutgers and began an evening course at the New York Law School, during the day, earning his living. After the close of the year he entered the New Jersey Law School as the matter of convenience, and in 1910 he graduated with the degree of L. L. B. He was admitted to the bar the same year.
Assemblyman Freund has been interested in politics since he was twenty-one years of age, and has been identified actively as a Democrat in his home city. He has been the Democratic nominee for the Assembly for four years, namely 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1918. In 1917 the ticket came within one thousand of being elected, and last year he carried with a plurality of five thousand votes. He was one of the six assemblymen appointed on the Conference Committee of the House on organization re- cently.
He is a member of the following organizations, Oriental Lodge, No. 51, F. & A. M., Newark Lodge, No. 21, B. P. O. E., Craftsman Club, Rut-
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gers College Alumni. Joel Parker Association and the Lawyers Democratic club of Essex County. Of the latter club he is vice-president.
His business address is 810 Broad street. Newark. N. J.
HENRY J. GAEDE-Hoboken, (91 Washington St.)-Lawyer and Assemblyman. Born at Jersey City, N. J., on June 25, 1884, son of Henry A. Gaede, of Hoboken, N. J.
Henry J. Gaede was educated in the Newburgh Academy, Newburgh, N. Y., where he remained until he entered New York University, to study his chosen profession, law. In 1904, he graduated with the degree of Bach- elor of Laws, and then took a special course at Cornell University.
In June, 1905, he was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney, and in June, 190S, he was admitted as a counselor. In 1911 he was admitted to the New York bar. He began the practice of law and is at present associated with his father, Henry A. Gaede, under the name of Gaede and Gaede, in Hoboken.
At the 1918 fall elections he was re-elected to the State Assembly. He is a member of Hoboken Lodge, No. 74. B. P. O. E., and of the Theta Lambda Phi Fraternity.
FREDERIC A. GENTIEU-Pennsgrove-Member State Board Taxes and Assets. Born at Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 10th, 1872, son of Pierre and Sarah A. Gentieu ; married at Camden, N. J., on April 22. 1892, to Maude E. Willett, daughter of Franklin E. and Har- riet Willett.
Children : Oscar F. E., Fred A., Harriet S., and Esther V.
Frederic A. Gentieu is a descendant of Puritan stock on his mother's side, whose ancestors settled in Norwalk, Conn., in 1631, and later fought in the Revolutionary Army.
His father Pierre Gentieu, born in Orthez, France, came to America from France in May, 1860, served in the Civil War 1862-'65 as a Corporal in Co. B., 13th Conn. Volunteers.
Removing from the place of his birth to Wilmington, Del., at the age of six, Mr. Gentieu was educated in the public schools of the last mentioned city, which he attended in 1880.
He then took up the study of carpentry and architecture, finishing this training with Joseph Seeds & Son, of Wilmington in 1890.
In 1891 he accepted the position of supervising foreman in the erec- tion of the first smokeless powder plant in the United States, which was built by the E. I. duPont de Nemours Powder Company, at Carney's Point, N. J. In 1899 he accepted a position in the chemical laboratory of the same concern, to study the manufacture of guncotton and smokeless pow- der under the personal instruction of the owners. In 1905, Mr. Gentieu was made Assistant Superintendent of the plant and later Superintend- ent.
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He has, since the date of his residence, been interested in the pub- lic affairs of Pennsgrove, and from March 17, 1903 to March 16th, 1909, served two terms as a member of the Board of Education. For three years, 1905-08, he also acted as the President of this Board. On the Republican ticket, in 1907, he was elected Mayor of the Borough and was re-elected in 1909.
In 1908, he was an Alternate Delegate representing the First Con- gressional District at the Republican Convention at Chicago.
Having been appointed in 1913 for a term which expired in 1915, Mr. Gentieu became a member of the old State Board of Assessors. When the new Board was created at the end of that time he was again ap- pointed a member by Governor Fielder for a term of two years, at a sal- ary of $3,000 again in 1917 he was re-chosen by Governor Edge as a mem- ber for a term which will expire July 1, 1920.
Mr. Gentieu is a Past Master of Pennsgrove Lodge No. 162. Free & Accepted Masons, also a member of Crescent Temple, Knights of the Mystic Shrine and other Masonic Bodies, past State Commander of the Sons of Veterans, Past District President of the Patriotic Order, Sons of America. He is President of the Pennsgrove Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Old Colony Club and the Manufacturers Club of Phila- delphia, and other fraternal and social organizations.
His business address is Pennsgrove, N. J.
FREDERICK GILKYSON-Trenton .- Adjutant General. Born at Yardley, Pa., on Dec. 1st. 1868, son of Stephen R. Gilkyson.
Frederick Gilkyson is the son of Col. Stephen R. Gilkyson, who com- manded the Sixth Regiment, Infantry, of New Jersey Volunteers in the Civil War.
General Gilkyson attended the public schools of Trenton and after graduation in 1884, entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. In 1905 he resigned as assistant freight agent at Trenton. He then became vice president and general manager of the Bellmark Pottery Company of Trenton.
He served as clerk to the Trenton Park Board Commissioners, in 1904-'OS, as tax receiver for two terms in Trenton. At the end of this period, he was appointed Commissioner of Public roads for a term of three years.
General Gilkyson's military experience began on March 2, 1885, when he entered the National Guard of New Jersey as a private of Company A. Seventh Regiment. Years later, on July 9, 1894, he was commissioned as Battalion Adjutant, and afterwards served as Adjutant of the Second Regiment, and Adjutant of the Second Brigade. On Dec., 30th, 1907, with the rank of colonel he was appointed adjutant of the State. While this country was at war with Spain, he served as Battalion Adjutant of the Fourth Regiment, New Jersey National Guard Volunteer Infantry, which was mustered out on April 6, 1899.
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When war was declared on Germany, April 6, 1917, he was detailed to duty in the Adjutant-General's office, and assigned as Chief of the Bureau of Enrollment. At this time he was also in charge of operation of the Selective Service Law, and was appointed, Acting Adjutant-General on July 25th, 1917, when Brigadier General Charles W. Baker was muus- tered into Federal Service.
JOHN E. GILL-Trenton, (831 West State St. )-Assemblyman. Born at Quincy, Ill., June 19th, 1872.
John E. Gill since coming to Trenton has taken a keen interest in the public and civic affairs of the city and entire county as well. Hle was the first president of the Trenton Playground Association, and also of the Trenton Junior City Baseball League, which was the largest of its kind in America under his administration. In 1907 he was a candidate for Mayor of Trenton on the Republican ticket, and in 1912, he was elected to serve his first term in the Legislature. He was re-elected in 1917, and last year was again re-elected to serve a third term with a. plurality of 3,582 votes over Smith, high Democrat. In 1912 Assembly- man Gill represented the Fourth Congressional District as a delegate to the National Republican Convention.
Assemblyman Gill is now vice-president of the Rider-Moore & Stewart School of Accounts, Banking and Secretarial Training. He is a director and one of the organizers of the Dural Rubber Company and the Mer- cer Mortgage & Securities Company. He is a trustee of the Prospect Presbyterian Church, the Mckinley Hospital, ex-president and now chair- man of the advisory board of the Trenton Chamber of Commerce, presi- dent of the City Rescue Mission, president of the Trenton League on Urban Conditions among Negroes, and former president of the Eastern Commercial Teacher's Association, and the Eastern Gregg Shorhand Association.
In 1908 Governor Fort appointed him a trustee of the New Jersey State Home for Boys at Jamesburg, and he was re-appointed by Govern- or Wilson. He resigned from the position in 1914 at the end of six years of service.
W. IRVING GLOVER-Englewood, ( Woodland Ave) .- Real- Estate. Born at Brooklyn, N. Y., on October 2, 1879.
W. Irving Glover is treasurer of the Whitmore Realty Company of New York City.
His public life began in 1915 when he was elected a member of the Bergen County Board of Freeholders. He is now serving his third term.
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'in the Legislature, having been re-elected at the 1918 fall elections with a plurality of 4,048 votes over Hitchcock, high Democrat.
GEORGE WASHINGTON GOETHALS-Trenton .- State Engi-
neer. Born at Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1858.
Mr. Goethals in 1880 was graduated from the United States Mili- tary Academy. At the end of this time he was appointed as a Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers, and in 1909 reached the rank of Colonel. From 1885 to 1889, he also served as an assistant professor of civil and military engineering. During the Spanish-American War, he was a Lieutenant -Colonel and Chief Engineer in the First Army Corps.
The chief work of Mr. Goethals life, and an attainment which will perpetuate his name, was his supervision of the construction of the Panama Canal. In 1907 he was appointed chairman and chief engineer of the commission in charge. On April 1, 1914, he was also appointed governor of the Panama Canal zone.
In March, 1917, after his return to New Jersey upon the completion of the above mentioned gigantic task, he was appointed State Engineer with the concurrence of State Treasurer Read and State Comptroller Bugbee, comprising the State House Commission.
EDRIC CLARENCE GREAVES-South Orange, (118 Mulligan Place)-Assemblyman. Born at Barbadoes, B. W. I., August 31st, 1877.
Edric Clarence Greaves is of British descent, his ancestors being a family of orators, jurists and executives of the British Empire. Several magistrates of the British Isles are his ancestors. He is a paternal descendant of Sir Herbert Greaves, Chief Justice of Barbadoes, West Indies, and a first cousin of his maternal side is Sir Henry Powell, attorney- general of British Guiana.
Assemblyman Greaves is secretary of the Newark Diocesan Federation of Holy Name Societies of Essex County, and is prominent as an orator. When ex-President Grover Cleveland was chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Mr. Greaves was his private secretary.
Aside from the seat in the Legislature which he is now holding, he has never held a public office. He was elected at the fall of 1918 elections with a plurality of 4.760 votes over Davenport, high Republican.
CHARLES HENRY GREEN-Ridgewood, (123 Spring Avenue.) -Industrial Promoter. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born at Albion, Mich, April 17th, 1867; son of Henry S. and Mary E. (Ketchum) Green; married on July 16, 1890, to Ada May
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Kernaghan, (deceased Oct. 19, 1917), daughter of William G. and Hester A. Kernaghan, of Detroit, Mich.
Charles H. Green had much to do with the International Exposition held at San Francisco in 1915 in commemoration of the opening of the Panama Canal; and as the result of his work as an exposition manager, he has since 1903 been Managing Director or President of more than Forty Industrial Expositions. He was chief of the Department of Manu- facturers and Varied Industries of the Panama-Pacific International Ex- position and active for two years before the Exposition opened in making preparations for the display. He was appointed United States Commis- sioner to Japan and China in the interest of the Exposition, was President of the Department Jury and a member of the Superior Jury of the Inter- national Jury of Awards. For his labors in connection with the Exposition and in special recognition of his distinguished services, he received from the Emperor of China in 1916 the Chia Ho Decoration.
Mr. Green comes from sturdy Vermont ancestry, his grandfather, White Ketchum, having been the first white man to locate as far West as Marshall, Michigan. Orator H. Green, his other grandfather, was one of the founders of Albion, Michigan. Mr. Green's parents both graduated from the Albion Seminary, now know as Albion College, and these two pioneer families were united through their marriage, in the early sixties.
Mr. Green was educated at the Homer Academy, Calhoun county, Michigan, and became a registered chemist of that state. He was after- wards. from 1900 to 1902, advertising and sales manager of the Shredded Wheat Company of Niagara Falls, N. Y. He next turned his atten- tion to the sales and advertising promotion for a number of large indus- trial concerns through the medium of Trade Expositions in various parts of the country, including the Brooklyn Automobile Show, the Brooklyn Food and Industrial Exposition, the New York Food and Industrial Expo- sition, the New England Industrial Exposition in Boston, the Boston Mechanics Exposition, the National Music Show and others of which he is still Managing Director.
Mr. Green is an enthusiastic Jerseyite and was an organizer and President of the New Jersey Society of California during the Exposition period and took active interest in the participation of New Jersey.
In politics Mr. Green is a Republican and in religion an Episcopalian. His clubs are the Sphinx and the Hardware of New York, the Ridgewood Country, and the Olympic of San Francisco. He has offices at 105 West 40th Street.
JOHN GRIFFIN-Jersey City .- Vice Chancellor. Born at Jersey City, N. J., June 26. 1858; married at Jersey City, on September 30, 1884, to Agnes V. Stanley.
Children : John Stanley and William L. (Both practicing law in Jersey City-Griffin & Griffin.)
John Griffin received most of his education in the public school. At an early age, he entered the law offices of Bedle. Muirheid & McGee, as a student.
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In June, 1881, he was admitted to the New Jersey State Bar as an attorney, and three years later was made a counselor. Later he became a partner of James A. Romeyn, and subsequently was taken into the old firm headed by the late Governor Bedle as a junior partner.
Mr. Griffin during this period specialized in studying and practicing admiralty law, and ultimately became recognized as an authority. He has had wide experience in all the higher courts of the state and also in the Supreme Court of the United States. Many municipal laws have been framed by him. For seventeen years he was counsel to the Board of Freeholders in Hudson county.
On March 20, 1913, Mr. Griffin was appointed a vice-chancellor for a term of seven years by Chancellor Walker at a salary of $12,000. In politics, he has also been a Democrat.
FLORENCE MARION HOWE HALL-High Bridge .- Writer and Lecturer. Born in Boston, Mass., on August 25, 1845 ; daugh- ter of Dr. Samuel Gridley and Julia (Ward) Howe; marricd, Bos- ton, on Nov. 15, 1871, to David Prescott Hall, son of David Priestly and Caroline (Minturn) Hall.
Children : Samuel Prescott, born Sept. 13th, 1872; Caroline Minturn, born Aug. 25. 1874, married to Hugh Birckhead : Heury Marion, born April 1, 1877; John Howe, born June 20, 1881.
Beside being the daughter of Julia Ward Howe, famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Florence Marion Howe Hall is of equal note in the field of literature and in labors for the political advance- ment of women. She has been particularly active in promoting the woman suffrage movement, was for eight years President of the New Jersey State Woman Suffrage Association (now its honorary President) ; has been President also of the Plainfield and North Plainfield Equal Suffrage League, leader of the Woman Suffrage party, Twelfth Assembly District of New York City, and in the season of 1916 acted as General Secretary of the Newport County (R. I.) Woman Suffrage League. Equally inter- ested in women's work in other directions, she was for six years Chair- man of Correspondence for New Jersey of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, has been Vice President and Director of the New Jersey Federation, and for eleven years was President of the Plainfield branch of the Alliance of Unitarian Women. She has been Regent and Vice Re- gent, Continental Chapter D. A. R. and is now Hon. Vice Regent.
Mrs. Hall's father was Surgeon-in-Chief of the Greek fleet in the Revolution of '22-'29. Known as "The Massachusetts Philanthropist" and as "The Cadmus of the Blind." he was the educator of Laura Bridgman, the first blind-deaf-mute taught the use of language. One of Mrs. Hall's books is entitled "Laura Bridgman. Dr. Howe's Famous Pupil." Her mother, besides her literary activities, served as President of the Massa- chusetts State Federation of Women's Clubs, was the founder of many clubs. President of the American Woman Suffrage Association and of the
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"Association for the Advancement of Women," a body of women who did excellent work in many States.
Mrs. Hall was educated by governesses part of the time and later at- tended Miss Peabody's private school at Jamaica Plain, the Agassiz School at Cambridge and the Clapp School in Boston, graduating in 1863. Her tutor in piano music was Otto Dresel.
Mrs. Hall was brought up in an atmosphere of patriotic, philan- thropic and literary activity. Her best known lecture on the platform, at women's clubs and colleges relates to the distinguished people she has met. Most of Mrs. Hall's books were published by Dana Estes & Co., of Boston, and Harper & Brothers, New York. She is the author of "Social Cus- toms," "Handbook of Hospitality for Town and Country," "Boys, Girls and Manners." "The Correct Thing in Good Society," "Flossy's Play Days," "Julia Ward Howe and the Woman Suffrage Movement," "Social Usages at Washington," "Good Form for all Occasions," "A. B. C. of Correct Speech," "The Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic," "Mem- ories Grave and Gay," and, in collaboration with Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott, "Laura Bridgman, Dr. Howe's Famous Pupil."
Mrs. Hall is also an honorary member of the Monday Afternoon Club of Plainfield, and was its President ; Regent and now honorary Vice Regent of Continental Chapter D. A. R. ; honorary member of the New Jersey Women's Press Club, and once President. now honorary member of the Garden Club at High Bridge. All of her sons are Harvard graduates and hold Harvard degrees-Samuel Prescott that of B. A., Henry M., B. _ 1. also M. A. and Ph. D. Columbia, and John Howe that of M. A. and B. A., Harvard.
JAMES A. HAMILL-Jersey City, (239 Washington Street.) Lawyer. Born in Jersey City, March 31, 1871.
James A. Hamill has been a Member of the National House of Repre- sentatives in Washington, representing the now 12th district of New Jersey, since 1909. He had previously served in the state legislature. Mr. Hamill attended the Sixth Ward public school and entered St. Peter's College in Jersey City in 1890, graduating from there in 1897 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. For a year following he took the post graduate course in Philosophy and received the degree of Master of Arts. He read law in the office of Isaac Taylor, who was at one time a partner of Chancellor Alexander T. McGill and meanwhile attended the lectures at the New York Law School, where he became a Bachelor of Laws. Admitted to practice at the June term of 1900, he opened an office in Jersey City and has been practicing there ever since.
Mr. Hamill's first nomination for the Assembly was given to him by the Democratic County Convention in 1901 and he served in the Houses of 1902-1903-1904-1905. At that time the question of the equal taxation of railroads with individual property owners was the topic of the hour, and Assemblyman Hamill took a showy part in the debates. In 1906 Allan L. McDermott, who had represented the district in the three prior Con-
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gresses, declined to stand for re-election, and Assemblyman Hamill was given the nomination. The democratic majority of the county made the nomination as good as an election and he has been re-elected at every cam- paign since.
REV. DAVID STUART HAMILTON-Paterson, (452 Van Hou- ten St.)-Clergyman. Born at Wilmington, Del., on Sept., 18, 1864, son of Wilson and Mary (Rooney) Hamilton.
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