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Rev. David Stuart Hamilton, who since 1895 has been the rector of the largest Episcopal church in Paterson, N. J., comes from Scotch-Irish stock.
Most of his early education was received in Yeates Institute, of Lancaster, Pa., which he attended in 1880-1882, and later the St. Stephen's College, at Annandale, New York, from which he graduated in 1886 and from the General Theological Seminary, New York City in 1889.
He was assistant rector at Christ Church, Williamsport, Pa., 1889- 1890 and Rector St. Paul's Church Columbia, Pa., 1890-1895. During his pastorate at the St. Paul's Church Rev. Hamilton has taken active part in all religious, civic and welfare movements of Paterson and vicinity.
JAMES HAMMOND-Trenton, (261 Highland Ave.)-Lawyer and Senator. Born at Trenton, N. J., Aug. 21st, 1882.
Senator Hammond was educated in the public schools of Trenton, his birthplace, graduating from the Trenton High School. He thereupon entered the New York Law School. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1909 and has been practicing law since.
Senator Hammond began public life when he was elected to the State Assembly. He was twice re-elected and at the elections in 1916 he was elected to the State Senate by a plurality of 1, 086, votes over S. Roy Health, high Democrat. In 1918 he was appointed Assistant Prosecutor of the Pleas for Mercer County.
He is a member of the following clubs : Sons of St. George, Knights of Pythias, Royal Arcanum, Modern Woodmen, American Mechanics, Pa- triotic Order, Sons of America and Mercer Lodge No. 50, Free and Accepted Masons.
JOHN W. HARDING-Paterson, (437 Ellison St.)-Lawyer. Born at Tunkhannock, Pa., on May 28th, 1863; son of William B. and Cynthia (Ward) Harding married at Tunkhannock on Oct. 24, 1901 to Ruth Guthrie Thomson, daughter of Frank Hamilton and Jennie (Leighton) Thomson.
Children : Jean Guthrie, born Jan. 27th, 1903.
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Jolın W. Harding, comes of a long established Pennsylvania family of English ancestry. He obtained his early education at the Wyoming Seminary, at Kingston, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1SS2, and he also later attended Princeton University, as a member of the class of 1886.
Directly upon completion of his education, he moved to Paterson, N. J., and became associated in 1900 with John W. Griggs in the law firm since known as Griggs and Harding.
Mr. Harding is interested in landscape painting, and was at one time a pupil of Mrs. Rhodes Holmes Nicholls.
'He is a member of the Arcola Country Club, the Hamilton Club of Paterson, and the Princeton Club of New York City.
His business address is 152 Market St., Paterson, N. J.
JACOB HAUSSLING-Newark. (440 High Street) -Manufac- turer. Born in Newark, February 22, 1855; son of Henry Hauss- ling ; married January 11, 1874 to Ellen Elligott.
Children : Henry J., Elizabeth, Jacob and Josephine.
Jacob Haussling served for several terms in the Mayorality of the city of Newark. He was educated in St. Mary's parochial school, and at the Second Ward Grammar School and took a course subsequently at Strattons Business College. His father, from Bavaria, apprenticed him in a marble cutting yard. When the apprenticeship came to an end, he went into the imineral water business which his father has established some years be- fore.
Mayor Haussling's first political venture was in 1889 when he accepted the democratic nomination for County Register, and came within seven- teen votes of being elected. In 1896, when the party of the nation was weakened by the silver coinage agitation, he accepted the democratic nomi- nation for Sheriff; and he suffered defeat by Henry M. Doremus, his republican opponent, which he had anticipated. But when four years later he again measured swords with Mr. Doremus for the same office, he won over him by a majority exceeding 3,000. Meanwhile he had made an unsuccessful campaign for the Assembly.
In 1906, he accepted the nomination of the democratic city convention for Mayor. He was elected and re-elected in 1908, 1910 and 1912. The city officialism during his administration passed entirely into the hands of the democrats ind many considerable improvements were made under its auspices. The most important of these was the laying out, on the river front, of a large area of upland for dockage and warehouse uses. The anticipation is that when this territory shall have been put in order for business, it will become the scene of a new industrial city and add largely to the Newark ratables.
ELROY HEADLEY-East Orange, (123 North Park St.)-Law- yer and Assemblyman. Born at Unionville, N. J., April 7, 1879 ;
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son of William C. and Rosetta A. (Ayres) Headley : married at East Orange, N. J., Nov. 25th, 1919; to Ethel B. Whitman, daugh- ter of Harris B. and Mary (Bosch) Whitman of East Orange. N. J.
Children : Elroy Whitman, born Nov. 26, 1904; Carey Baldwin, Jan. 13th, 1917.
Elroy Headley traces his lineage back to the first settlers in New England when Leonard Headley came over from England, landing at Boston. From there, the family moved to Long Island, and then to Elizabethtown, Union county, N. J., in 1664, where a tract of land was apportioned to him as one of the sixty original settlers of New Jer- sey. Direct descendants were active in the Revolutionary War.
Assemblyman Headley attended the public schools at Irvington, grad- uating in 1894. In the meantime the family moved to East Orange and he entered Newark Academy, graduating in 1897. He prepared for his chosen profession by taking a course at the New York Law School im- mediately after graduating at Princeton University in 1901. In 1903 he completed his course at Law School and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and thereafter in the November term court he was admitted to practice as an attorney-at-law and in 1906 as a counselor-at-law.
He has always taken a great interest in public activities, and at- tended the Plattsburg Military Training Camp, receiving an honorable dis- charge on September 6, 1916 as a sharpshooter.
He is a member of the East Orange Rifles and Company A, East Or- ange Battalion, State Militia Reserve, and served in the coal relief ac- tivities as well as at the Morgan explosion. He also served on the Legal Advisory Committee to the East Orange Questionaire Board. In Novem- ber. 1918, he was elected to the General Assembly from Essex county, and is chairman of the Military and Printing Committees.
He is the author of "Patriotic Essays," which has reached the third edition, and has also written many articles on "Defending Constitutional Guarantees." As an orator he took first prize in the Senior -Junior prize Essay contest at Clio Hall, Princeton University on December 13th, 1899, and second prize in the Senior Oratorial Contest at Clio Hall on March 18. 1901, and was one of the Baird Prize Orators in Senior year.
He is a member of Orange Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, Board of Stewards of the Ferry M. E. Church of East Orange. Ophir Lodge, No. 186, F. and A. M., Ophir Chapter No. 60, Eastern Star, Elmwood Chap- ter. No. 306, J. O. U. A. M., Apex Lodge, No. 14S, Knights of Pythias, Crescent Lodge No. 1, Court of the Orient, East Orange Lodge, No. 242. I. O. O. F., Essex Encampment, I. O. O. F., East Orange Lodge, No. 630, B. P. O. E .. Lawyers Democratic Club, Princeton Association of the Oranges, Lawyers Club of Essex county and the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Princeton University.
His business address is 800 Broad St. Newark, N. J.
WILLIAM HENRY-Haddonfield. (406 Mansion Ave. )-Manu- facturer. Born at Easton. Pa., Aug. 29th, 1853; son of Matthew
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Sehropp and Esther Tyrill (Berg) Henry ; married at Philadel- phia, Pa., May 15, 1876, to Sarah Anna Plum, daughter of Samuel Thornton and Isabella ( Brunt ) Plum, of Philadelphia, Pa.
Children : Margaret T. and Esther Berg, born Feb. 18th, 1877 ; William, born Sept. 10th, 1878; Vernon Russell, born July 31, 1882; Morton Howard, born Dec. 5, 1884; Robert Thornton, born Feb. 28th, 18SS; Isabella J., born May 17th, 1890; Charles Cline, born Dec. 15th, 1893.
William Henry comes from a long line of manufacturers. His father, Matthew Schropp Henry, born in Nazareth in 1790, was an extensive iron manufacturer at Jacobsburg, near Nazareth, while his grandfather, Wil- liam Ilenry. also in his time made guns at Bolton, near Belfast, Pa. His great grandfather, William Henry, of Lancaster, Pa., was a manufac- turer of rifles and was also armorer during the American Revolution. This forebear was later a commissary general, a member of the Committee of Safety. treasurer of the Lancaster Company, and was a member of the Continental Congress. He also invented the screw auger, and built a steamboat at the early date of 1763. The first member of the family to land in America was his great-great grandfather who emigrated from Scot- land and settled at New Castle Del., in 1722. and later lived at West Caln township, Chester County, Pa.
Mr. Henry obtained most of his early education in the public schools of Bethlehem and Philadelphia which he attended until about ten years old, and then studied at Girard College until 1871, when, at seventeen he was graduated.
Upon leaving college he was employed as an office boy by Seth B. Stitt, a large wool merchant, and woolen manufacturer, who was also sole owner of the Camden Woolen Mills of Camden, N. J., and the Saxony Woolen Mills, of Little Falls, N. Y., and also connected with various other outgrowths of this concern, in such firms as the Camden Woolen Mills Company, the Mirion Worsted Mills, of West Conithocken, Pa., and the Highland Woolen Mills, of Camden, N. J.
After forty-five years of faithful service he retired from active participation in the business as secretary and treasurer of the Highland Worsted Mills of Camden, but at the present time still remains a mem- ber of that concern as a member of the Board of Directors.
Although his business activities have consumed much of his time, Mr. Henry, always took an earnest interest in civic and religious mat- ters, particularly the latter. From 1894 to 1904, he was a member of the Board of Education of Haddonfield. For a period of thirty-four years (1885-1919) he has been clerk of the congregation of the First Presby- terian Church, as well as being ruling elder in the same church for thirty years (1888-1919) and also clerk of Session for more than twenty- five years (1893-1919).
He has also been prominent in the Logan Memorial Presbyterian Church of Audubon, N. J., at the present time being a member of its Board of Trustees and of which body he was also president for twenty- three years. He was also superintendent of the Bible School of that church from the date of its organization. 1894. when there were en-
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rolled but seven scholars, until 1914, when the membership numbered three hundred. For the past two years, he has been superintendant of the Presbyterian Bible School at Ashland, N. J.
Mr. Henry is a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Moravian Historical So- ciety of Bethlehem, Pa.
His club memberships are Manufacturers Club of Philadelphia, Past Master of Haddonfield Lodge, No. 130, N. J. F. & A. M., Siloam Chapter, No. 19, R. A. M., Excelsior Consistory S. S. R. S., and Thirty-second de- gree, Cyrene Commandery No. 7, Knights Templar.
L. EDWARD HERRMANN-Jersey City, (96 Danford Ave. )- Counsel Board of Public Utility Commissioners. Born at Jersey City, N. J., on July 6th, 1876.
Mr. Herrmann attended the public schools of Jersey City and gradu- ated from the High School of the same. He then took up studies in the New York University from which he graduated in 1898. While a law stu- dent in the New York Law School he also taught in night schools of Jersey City, and at the same time was connected as a reporter with the Jersey City News, and the Jersey Journal.
After completing his education, he later studied law in the offices of John L. Keller, John W. Heck and Augustus Zabriskie. In June 1901, he was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney, and in November 1908, as a counselor.
He filled two terms as a member of the Board of Education and served as secretary to James F. Fielder, during his terms as President of the Senate, Acting Governor and Governor of New Jersey. As a counsel to the Board of Public Utility Commissioners, in May 1916, Mr. Herrmann suc- ceeded Frank H. Sommer.
He is a member of the following clubs, University Club, of Hudson County, Cartaret club and the Down Town club of New York.
His business address is 15 Exchange Place, Jersey City.
HENRY G. HERSHFIELD-Pompton Lakes .- Lawyer and As- semblyman. Born at St. Louis, Mo., in 1876, son of Lewis Harris Hershfield.
Henry G. Hershfield, is the son of Lewis Harris Hershfield, a pioneer of Montana, and a grandson of Harris Hershfield, one of the early settlers of Kansas.
He was educated in the public schools of Helena, Montana. He later entered Columbia University, New York City, taking both Academic and Legal Courses.
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At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War Assemblyman Hersh- field entered the service of the Government and was detailed to the In- dian Reservations. He resigned in 1900 and took up newspaper work with the New York Morning Journal. He gave up this work, however, and engaged in law practice and fire insurance business, as agent for Northern New Jersey, with offices in Pompton Lakes and New York City.
Mr. Hershfield has been active in public and civil work in his home town as well as Passaic County, and it was largely through his efforts while Mayor of Pompton Lakes, that the borough built and operated one of the few successful municipally owned water and electric light plants. He is now serving his fourth term as Mayor of Pompton Lakes, being at every election both the Republican and Democratic nominee. He is the organizer of the First National Bank of Pompton Lakes, and the Pompton Lakes Building and Loan Association.
In 1914 he was appointed foreman of the first chancellor-drawn grand jury in Passaic County and in 1916 he was elected to represent the Seventh Congressional District at the Republican Convention in Chicago. He is now serving his third term in the Assembly, having been re-elected at the fall 1918 elections.
He is a member of the Old Guard Veteran Battalion, N. Y., Masons,. Graduate Club, N. Y., Odd Fellows, Mechanics, and the Theta Delta Chi. fraternity.
JAMES F. HYLAND-Newark, (100 South St.)-Real Estate and Assemblyman. Born at Newark, N. J., Aug. 19th, 1867; son of William and Jane (Doran) Hyland ; married at Newark, N. J., Jan., 1895, to Elizabeth Asher, daughter of Theodore and Matilda Asher.
Children : Elizabeth, Jan. 1900; William F., July, 1901; Jo- seph, Feb. 1903; Dorothy, Jan., 1906; James Jr., 1908; Luke, 1909.
James F. Hyland has lived in Newark all his life and in his early days he attended St. Joseph's Parochial School, from 1872 to 1881.
In 1898 he was elected to the Essex County Board of Freeholders and served until 1900. For ten years thereafter, he was under-sheriff of Essex County, serving under William Nicols, Frank Sommers, William Horrigan and John F. Monohan. He was elected to the New Jersey State Assembly in 1918 from Essex County.
He is a member of the Joel Parkers association, and the Knights of Columbus.
Mr. Hyland's business address is 20 Clinton Street, Newark, N. J.
MRS. ROBERT ARCHIBALD IRVING-Haddonfield, (401 Man- sion Ave.)-Social Worker. Born at St. Louis, Mo., Oct., 18th, 1876, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Jones (Winslow) Shippen,
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married at Chicago, Ill., Feb., 21, 1899, to Robert A. Irving, son of Archibald and Ellen (Taylor) Irving.
Children : Helen Elizabeth Feb., 10, 1900; Margaret Shippen, Feb. 16th, 1901 ; Robert Shippen, June 15, 1909; Edward Winslow, Jan. 7, 1911.
Mrs. Robert Archibald Irving's mother is a direct descendant of Edward Winslow of Worcestershire, England, whose son Keneln Winslow came over to this country in the Mayflower. His brother, Edward Winslow later became the third Governor of Plymouth. In the ninth generation, she is descended from Peter Folger, one of the first settlers of Nantucket, who was Benjamin Franklin's maternal grandfather.
She is a paternal descendant from Robert Shippen, vice chancellor of Brasenose College, Oxford University, which office he filled for thirty- five years. An anscestor, William Shippen, known in history as "Down- right Shippen", was sent to the Tower of London by King George the first, for attacking the monarch in a speech before the House of Commons. Mrs. Irving's paternal great grandfather was Edward Shippen, one of the founders of the College of New Jersey in 1746-'48, which was later in 1753 moved to Princeton. For twenty years (1747 to 1767) he was senior trustee of Princeton University. He was also one of the founders of the Philadelphia Academy which became the University of Pennsylvania. Dur- ing the year 1744 he was Mayor of Philadelphia. During the French and Indian War he was paymaster for the British and Provincial forces.
Judge Joseph Shippen, of Seattle, Washington, is a graduate of Har- vard University. During the Civil War he was appointed by the Gov- ernor of Philadelphia as a commissioner to hospitals and sick and wounded soldiers, and became an active member of the United States Sanitary Commission. During the presidential campaign for Lincoln in 1860 and 1864 he stumped the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware for the martyr president. Delegate and speaker at 16th International Peace Conference, Munich, 1907 and International Peace Conference, Lake Mohonk, N. Y.
Mrs. Irving attended the public schools of Chicago, and later private schools in Heidelberg and Stuttgart, Germany ; Paris, France, and Geneva, Switzerland. In all she spent seven and one-half years in Europe. For two years she assisted in English and Music classes at Hull House, Chicago, under Jane Adams and Julia Lathrop.
Mrs. Irving has been an active worker in the cause of Women Suf- frage. During the campaigns of 1915, in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, she was a speaker and lecturer. Also during the 1917 campaign in the state of New York. She is chairman of the Camden County Suffrage Association, and for two years, from 1915 to 1917 she was chairman of the Third Congressional District of New Jersey. She is also an active worker and speaker in the cause of Prohibition and Prison Reform. She is president of the Parent and Teachers Associa- tion and a lecturer for the State Mothers Congress. During the Great War she was appointed Camden County chairman for the Women's committee of the Council of National Defense.
She is a member of the following clubs and other organizaztions :
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Daughters of the American Revolution, United States Daughters of 1812, Legislative Committee of the State Federation of Women's clubs, W. C. T. U., New Jersey Women's Suffrage Association, Motlfers congress of New Jersey, Philadelphia Music club, State Council of National Defense, a member of the State Executive Board of the Consumers League, Music Manuscript Society of Philadelphia and other organiza- tions.
While a child, she was studying at Stuttgart, Germany, and when on one occasion the grandfather of the ex-Kaiser and his staff visited, she was delegated by her class to present flowers to the former monarch, William I. his son Frederick, his grandson, the ex-Kaiser, and Chancellor Bismarck and Von Moltke.
RICHARD C. JENKINSON-Newark .- Manufacturer. Born in Newark, April 14, 1833, son of George Bestall and Jane (Stringer) Jenkinson ; married at Newark, December 21, 1876, to Emily Pendleton Coe, daughter of George Villers and Mary (Blair) Coe.
Children : Louis Emily, born June 10, 1878; Charlotte M., born April 14, 1880; Margaret Blair, born February S, 1882.
Richard C. Jenkinson's father was a manufacturer of trunks, bags and leather goods in Newark, and was President of the Newark Electric Com- pany and Vice President of the Newark Gas Company.
Mr. Jenkinson was educated in the public schools of Newark, and, having graduated from high school, pursued a course of instruction in German and French under private tutors. Five years later he went abroad for the larger information travel would bring to him. In 1869 he engaged in the wholesale dry goods commission business in New York City. In 1876 he started in the business of manufacturing metal goods and hardware and is still engaged in that line.
Mr. Jenkinson is a republican, and the city convention of that party in 1900, nominated him for Mayor. The city was at that time of demo- cratic leaning, but, in spite of his defeat, Mr. Jenkinson made an agreeable showing at the polls. He has since been solicited to permit the use of his name in connection with other nominations but has steadily declined. At the same time he is deeply interested in the public and civic affairs of Newark, and scarce a citizens' movement is undertaken without his parti- cipation. His last connection was with the Committee of 100 that arranged and conducted the six months celebration of Newark's 250th Anniversary.
Mr. Jenkinson's club memberships are with the Union League, the Republican and the Lotos Clubs of New York and the Essex Club of Newark.
WILLIS FLETCHER JOHNSON-New Providence, (Firleigh Hall.)-Editor, Author and Publicist. Born in New York, on
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October 7th, 1857; son of William and Alathea Augusta (Coles) Johnson ; married at Tuckerton, in 1878, to Sue Rockhill, daughter of Captain and Mrs. Z. Rockhill, of Tuckerton.
A few weeks after his birth the family of Willis Fletcher Johnson re- moved to a large estate at New Providence where it has since been settled. Dr. Johnson began his education at home under his father, a man of high attainments ; later attended the Ladd School at Summit, near his home, and also Pennington Seminary, where he was graduated with high honors. He was next matriculated at New York University and remained there for some time, but, owing to impaired health, left before the completion of his course. In 1876 he was the Centennial Fourth of July orator at a great union celebration held by a number of towns in Burlington and Ocean counties, and for a time thereafter was principal of a public school at Tuckerton.
Soon after his marriage to Miss Rockhill, who is a relative of the late Ambassador to Russia, William Woodville Rockhill, Dr. Johnson began work as a lecturer, and also as a journalist, his first writing having been done for the Toms River "Courier." In 1879 he was for a time city editor of the "New York Daily Witness," and early in 1880 he became a member of the editorial staff of the "New York Tribune," a connection which has ever since remained unbroken.
During the administration of President Arthur he became deeply in- terested in civil service reform, and has since been an earnest advocate of the merit system, and a frequent writer and speaker upon it. He has al- so concerned himself with civic affairs. He was one of the founders and first President of the Republican Club of New Providence township, and has frequently been a speaker in political campaigns.
He has written and published a number of books, chiefly biographical and historical. In 1903 he published "A Century of Expansion," which is recognized as the standard treatise on the territorial growth of the United States and its constitutional, diplomatic and political results. In 1904 Dr. Johnson accompanied Secretary Taft on a visit to Panama, and later published "Four Centuries of the Panama Canal," which has been repub- lished in other countries and is accepted as the authoritative history of the isthmian canal enterprise. In 1916 he published his magnum opus, "America's Foreign Relations ;" a two-volume history of the foreign rela- tions of the United States from the earliest times to the present, which has been generally accepted in America and Europe as the authoritative and standard work upon that subject. In 1917 appeared his "America and the Great War for Humanity."
For many years Dr. Johnson has been actively interested in educa- tional affairs. He was one of the organizers and President of the Board of Trustees of the Priscilla Braislin School for Girls, at Bordentown. For a number of years he was President of the Board of Trustees of Penning- ton Seminary, and is a member of the Council of New York University. For thirty years he has been a popular lecturer, delivering many occasional lectures and orations, as well as educational addresses at Pennington Semi- nary, the Lawrenceville School, the Priscilla Braislin School, the Borden- town Military Institute, and the public schools of Newark, Jersey City,
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Hoboken, Bayonne and other places in this State. He has also been in demand as a lecturer in New York, Washington and other cities, and at New York University, Wesleyan University, Dickinson College, Amherst College and elsewhere, and since 1903 has been one of the staff lecturers of the New York City Board of Education. In 1914 he was elected Honorary Professor of the History of Foreign Relations in New York University. In recognition of his literary and scholastic attainments, he has received from New York University the honorary degree of Master of Letters, (L. H. M.), and from Dickinson College the degrees of Master of Arts (M. A.) and Doctor of Humane Letters (L. H. D.).
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