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Dr. Johnson has always been an earnest organization republican, and has frequently been invited to be a candidate for elective or appointive office, but invariably declined until the Spring of 190S, when, on May 8, he was appointed by Governor Fort a member of the State Civil Service Commission, which had just been created by act of Legislature. Upon the organization of the Commission he was elected its President, and he was retained in that position, by successive re-elections at the hands of his colleagues, during the four years of his service. He retired from the Com- mission in May, 1912.
Dr. Johnson is descended from a cousin of Samuel Johnson, the famous Lexicographer, and from the English families of May, Fletcher, Coles and Reeves, and the French family of Paschal. His books besides those already referred to include "Colonel Henry Ludington, a Memoir," "Parsifal and the Holy Grail," "An American Statesman, Life and Works of J. G. Blaine," "Life of General Sherman," "Stanley's Adventures in Africa," and "A Political and Governmental History of the State of New York," in five volumes, octavo, now in course of preparation.
Dr. Johnson is a member and lay preacher of the Methodist Episcopal church.
HENRY T. KAYS-Newton. (38 High St.)-Lawyer and Sen- ator. Born at Newton, N. J., Sept. 29th, 1878.
Mr. Kays, State Senator from Sussex County, was elected to that office last year over his Republican opponent.
Senator Kays attended the public schools of his home city, Newton, graduating in 1896. He entered the English and Classical school, gradu- ating in 1898, and thereupon entered Princeton University, in 1899. He was graduated from that institution in the spring of 1903.
He received his law training in the office of his father, Thomas M. Kays, and in February 1910 was admitted to the New Jersey bar. From May 1910 until June 1911 he served as counsel for the Sussex County Board of Freeholders, and two years later he was elected to the Assembly, which office he lield for three years, and was elected to the State Senate in 1918.
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During the Great War he was named Federal Food Administrator for Sussex County.
EDWARD QUINTON KEASBEY-Morristown .- Lawyer. Born at Salem, July 27th, 1849; son of Anthony Q. and Elizabeth (Mil- ler) Keasbey ; married on October 22, 1885, to Eliza G. Darcy, daughter of Henry G. and Anne Mckenzie Darcy, of Newark.
The father of Edward Q. Keasbey was for twenty-five years United States District Attorney for New Jersey ; and his mother was the daughter of Jacob W. Miller, who was United States Senator for New Jersey from 1841 to 1853.
Mr. Keasbey is a graduate of Princeton College and of the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the Bar of New Jersey as attorney in June, 1872, and as counselor in June, 1875, and entered at once into active practice in Newark. He was associated with his father until the death of the elder Mr. Keasbey in 1895; and Edward Q. and George M. Keasbey are still carrying on the business of A. Q. Keasbey & Sons.
He served in the legislature of New Jersey in 1884 and 1885. He was a United States Commissioner and is a Supreme Court Commissioner and Special Master in Chancery. In 1904 he was a delegate to the Uni- versal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists held at St. Louis. He is a member of the American Bar Association, and in 1918-'19, President of the New Jersey State Bar Association. From 1879 to 1885 he was editor of the "New Jersey Law Journal," and he has contributed legal essays to the Harvard, Yale and Columbia law reviews. He is the author of a book entitled "The Law of Electric Wires in Streets and Highways," Callaghan & Co., 1892, 1900 and also of the first two volumes of "The Courts and Law- yers of New Jersey," Lewis Publishing Co., N. Y., 1912.
Mr. Keasbey is a Director of the North American Company, the Kearny Land Company, the Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines and other corporations, a Trustee of the Howard Savings Institution and of the Hospital of St. Barnabas in Newark and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Episcopal Fund of the Diocese of Newark.
His club connections are with the Essex of Newark, the Morris County Golf and the Morristown.
RALPH NEWTON KELLAM-Merchantville .- Lawyer and As- semblyman. Born at Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 16th, 1878.
Ralph Newton Kellam was educated in the public schools of Camden, and entered the Friends Central High School of Philadelphia. In 1900 he was graduated from the College Department of the University of Pennsyl- vania with the degree of Bachelor of Science, and three years later from the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. The same year he was admitted to the bar of Pennsyl-
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vania and in 1906 to the New Jersey bar. He has since been practicing law, both in Camden and Philadelphia. He is solicitor of the County Building and Loan Association, the Westmont Building and Loan Asso- ciation, and is a director of the Economy Building and Loan Association. Since 1910 he has been a solicitor for the Board of Health of the Borough of Collingswood.
His interest in public and civic life began in 1905 when he was named a member of the Board of Education of Haddonfield which office he held for three years. He was a member of the Camden County, Republican Committee for the Borough of Merchantville in 1915, 1916, 1917, and 1918. Assemblyman Kellam is now serving his third term in the Legis- lature, having been re-elected at the fall of 1918 elections with a plurality of 10,236 votes over Nicholson high Democrat.
His club memberships are: New Jersey Society, Sons of the Revolu- tion, Camden Lodge ; Lodge No. 293, B. P. O. E .; Merchantville Lodge No. 119, F. & A. M .; Siloam Chapter, No. 19, R. A. M .; Law Association of the City of Philadelphia; Law Academy of the City of Philadelphia ; University Club of Philadelphia ; Delta Kappa Epsilon Club of New York.
WARREN CHARLES KING-Bound Brook, (East Union Ave. ) -Chemical Manufacturer. Born at Binghamton, N. Y., Dec. 8, 1876; son of Charles Artemus and Mary Helen (Bevier) King; married at Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 4, 1899; to Jessie Calhoun Cald- well, daughter of Joseph B. and Alexine S. (Frossard) Caldwell, of Atlanta, Ga.
Children : Joseph Caldwell, born October 5, 1900, graduated from Lawrenceville June, 1918, entered Princeton University Sept., 1918, U. S. Military Academy, West Point, Nov. 2, 1918; Charles Arte- mus, born February 27, 1904; Kalbryn Virginia, born Sept. 6, 1907. .
Warren Charles King is a descendant of the King family which early settled in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
His ancestor, James King, was granted a large tract of land in the vicinity of what is now known as Suffield, Conn., and who settled there in 1678. Mr. King's paternal ancestors all lived in and around Suffield, Conn., and some of the land is still owned by members of the king family.
His father, Charles Artemus King moved from Suffield to Binghamton, N. Y. about 1870. He entered the customs service in New York in 1887, and was Deputy Collector of Customs for more than twenty years.
Warren Charles King was educated in the public schools of Bing- hamton, N. Y. and Brooklyn, N. Y. He later studied at the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, from which he was graduated in June, 1899. On Jan. 2, 1896 he entered the employ of Martin Kalbfleisch Chemical Company, and when the General Chemical Company was formed in April,
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1899, he was placed in charge of the New York City and Export depart- ments.
While still with this concern, he organized in 1907 the Independent Chemical Company, of New York, to handle imported products. In 1913, he became the president and treasurer of the company, and severed his other business connections.
Mr. King has also organized a considerable number of other plants. In July, 1915, he started the King Chemical Company at Bound Brook, N. J., and became its president and treasurer. In 1916 he organized, and is now the president and treasurer of, the Sterling Color Company of New York, and in September, 1916, began the Peerless Color Company at Bound Brook, and is now the treasurer of that firm.
But his list of organizing activities have not yet been fully recorded, for, in 1901 he started the Pratt Institute Chemical Alumni, and served as its first president for two years, and in 1916 he organized the Manu- facturers Association at Bound Brook; one year later the Bound Brook Committee of Public Safety, and again in 1918 he continued his work, and organized and is now serving as its first president the Manufacturers Council of New Jersey.
Through the last mentioned organization. Mr. King voices his op- position to the abrogation of contracts by the Public Service Corporation, and he opened a bureau at Washington, D. C., to place the facilities of Manufacturers of New Jersey at the disposal of the Government. III June 1918 he launched a movement to organize the manufacturers of the United States along the lines of the Federation of Labor, and at present, is a member of the Committee on Readjustments after the War of the National Association of Manufacturers.
Mr. King's memberships in fraternal and commercial organizations are, president of the Bound Brook Council Boy Scouts of America, chair- man of the Manufacturers Association and the Manufacturers Club of Bound Brook; member of the Executive Committee of the Red Cross Chapter ; Liberty Loan Committee; United War Work Campaign; Presi- dent of the Bound Brook Board of Trade; member of the War Service Committee of the Resource and Conversion section, War Industries Board, in Region No. 3 and Region No. 4; member of the sons of the American Revolution ; National Marine League, National Security League; Aerial League of America; Travel Club of America; National Geographic So- ciety ; Academy of Political Science; American Society for the Advancement of Science; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Society of Chemical Indus- try ; American Chemical Society ; United States Chamber of Commerce; New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce; Railroad Club; The Meridian and Chemists clubs of New York; the Hamilton Club of Paterson; the Raritan Valley Country Club : Middlebrook Country Club; Automobile Club of America, and the International Motor Club.
His business address is 122 West Street, New York City.
ANDREW KIRKPATRICK-Highland Park, (233 Lawrence Ave.)-Real Estate; Assemblyman. Born at New Brunswick, N. J., in 1887.
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Andrew Kirkpatrick, was educated in the public schools of New Brunswick. Upon graduating he attended Coleman's National Business College at Newark.
His father was the late J. Bayard Kirkpatrick who conducted a real estate and insurance business. It was there that upon completion of his school work, young Kirkpatrick served his apprenticeship. Upon the death of his father, the business was incorporated under the name of J. B. Kirkpatrick Company, and he filled the position of secretary and treasurer.
Assemblyman Kirkpatrick is prominent in building and loan circles and has taken an active part in movements for the promotion of the war.
He was elected to the assembly in the fall 1918 election.
IRA A. KIP, Jr .- South Orange .- Manufacturer. Born in Pas- saic, on April 22, 1876 ; married in 1893, to Katherine Flower,
Ira A. Kip, Jr., is one of the rising men in New Jersey politics and prominent as well in industrial circles. From 1907 to 1913 he was Gover- nor of the New York Stock Exchange; and he has been a delegate to the three Republican National Conventions and a Presidential Elector.
Mr. Kip was eighteen years of age when he began his business career in the office of H. H. Croker & Co .. East India importers and brokers. He is now President of the Duratex Company on Frelinghuysen Avenue, Newark, and Vice President of the Salts Textile Co., Inc. The Textile company manufactures pile fabrics ; and it has factories in Europe as well as here. He became a member of the New York Stock Exchange in 1901 continuing the connection until 1913.
Mr. Kip first evinced his interest in politics by participating in the public affairs of South Orange. He was twice President of the Village. During his administration, he participated in the movement for a joint trunk sewer system, and largely improved the South Orange water service. The first of the National Conventions to which he was a delegate was that which at Chicago in 1904 nominated Theodore Roosevelt for the Presidency. He was one of the Electors who cast the vote of the state for William H. Taft for President in 1908. He served as a delegate from his Congres- sional district to the Chicago Convention of 1916 that nominated ex- Justice Charles E. Hughes, and was an ardent worker for the election of the Hughes ticket. In 1917 Gov. Edge appointed him a member of the State Highway Commission.
Mr. Kip was connected with the Seventh Regiment of New York City. Besides belonging to the Holland Society is a member, and for two years was President, of the Essex County Country Club, and is also a member of the Morris County Golf Club, the Calumet Club, the New York Yacht Club, the Thousand Islands Yacht Club and the Stock Exchange Luncheon Club.
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Mr. Kip's home is Walnut Gate in the fashionable section of the Oranges, and he has a summer place, Leek Island, among the Thousand Islands, of the St. Lawrence River.
ANTHONY R. KUSER-Bernardsville .- Member of State High- way Commission. Born at Newark N. J., May 12th, 1862.
When he was five years old, Mr. Kuser's parents moved to Trenton, where he spent his boyhood, and where he consequently received his early education. He attended the public schools of Trenton.
In 1889 he was appointed by Governor Leon Abbett, as a member of his personal staff, with the rank of Colonel, and later was also a mem- ber of the staffs of Governor Werts, and Governor Griggs. In 1892, upon his appointment by Governor Abbett, he began his four-years mem- bership of the State Board of Assessors.
At present, he is considerably interested in gas, electric and traction companies. He is a vice-president and director of the Public Service Cor- poration of New Jersey. His activities are not confined to these however, for he is also connected with a number of banks and trust companies and is also a director in a number of them.
On March 14th, 1917, he was appointed by Governor Edge as a mem- ber of the State Highway Commission.
MARK LAKE-Ocean City, (639 Central Ave.) .- Assemblyman. Born at Bargaintown, N. J., on Aug. 13, 1863.
Mark Lake was educated in the public schools. In April 1880 he came to Peek's Beach, Cape May County, which at that time was a wilder- ness, to lay out Ocean City. He has lived there ever since, and taken an active part in the public and civic activities of not only the city, but the entire county.
From 1898 to 1902 he served on the city council, one year as president of that body. He also served one year as acting Mayor of Ocean City. In 1908 he was elected Coroner of Cape May County, and in 1913 he was re-elected. He held that office until 1916 when he was elected to the State Assembly on the Republican ticket. He was re-elected in 1917 elections.
EDMUND B. LEAMING-Moorestown, (618 Chester Ave.)- Vice Chancellor. Born at Seaville, Cape May County, N. J., on May 24th, 1857, son of Jonathan F. and Eliza ( Bennett) Leam- ing ; married at Brookline, Mass., on June 4, 1907 to Edith Hand, daughter of Dr. Daniel Whildin and Sue Edgerton Hand.
Children : Edmund B. Jr., born January 26, 1913.
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Edmund B. Leaming is the son of former Senator, Dr. Jonathan F. Leaming, who occupied a seat in the Senate from 1862 to 1865, and again from 1877 to 1880, and also the brother of the late Dr. Walter S. Leaming, who was Senator from Cape May, from 1SS9 to 1892.
Mr. Leaming received most of his early education under private tu- torage, but later in 1877 and 1878 attended the University of Pennsylvania as a post graduate.
Upon completion of his studies at this institution he began the reading of law in the offices of the late Judge and one time Congressman, Jas. Buchanan in Trenton. Among the notables who prepared them- selves for the bar in Trenton at the same time, were United States Judge William M. Lanning, Congressman Ira Wood, Prosecutor of the Pleas Eugene Emley, Alfred L. Black, Samuel W. Beldon, and Samuel Walk- er, Jr.
In February, 1881, Mr. Leaming was admitted to the New Jersey State Bar as an attorney, and in February, 1SS4, as a counselor.
He practiced in Camden, N. J., from 1881 to 1891; at Bellingham, Washington, from 1891 to 1896, and at San Francisco, Cal., from 1896 to 1903, when he returned to New Jersey. On his return in 1903 he formed a law partnership in Camden with Samuel W. Beldon. When that firm was dissolved upon the appointment of Mr. Beldon as general counsel of the Fidelity Trust Company, at Newark, N. J., Mr. Leaming practiced alone.
On September 21, 1906, he was appointed Vice Chancellor to fill the va- cancy caused by the death of Martin P. Grey. In 1913, he was re-appointed for another term which expires in 1920, by Chancellor Walker.
Mr. Leaming is a member of the Union League of Philadelphia.
His office address is Camden Court House Building, Camden, New Jersey.
LEWIS LEVI-Paterson, (70 Carroll St.)-President Manhat- tan Shirt Co. Born at Brucken, Germany, July 11, 1844, son of Abraham and Rebecca (Mayer) Levi, married at Paterson, N. J .. April 4th, 1869, to Bertha Ellenbogen, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Lowenstein) Ellenbogen.
Children : Abram L. Leeds, Jan. 14th, 1870; Juleo C. Leeds. Dec. 1, 1871 : Elsie (Mrs. Jacob Samuels) April 13, 1875; Lillian (Mrs. Charles M. Weil) Aug. 20th, 1879; Thelka (Mrs. Albert J. Sperry) Dec. 18, 1883.
Coming to New York from Brucken in 1857, at the age of thirteen, Lewis Levi, immediately started in business with his oldest brother, Jacob Levi, who had already established a small business of manufacturing shirts and overalls.
Mr. Levi's education as his start in life was secured after a struggle. He attended the public schools at Brucken, Germany, but was com- pelled to leave at the age of thirteen to assist in his brother's busi- ness.
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After ten years residence in New York City, in 1867, Mr. Levi came to Paterson and established a shirt manufacturing business. At that time the concern employed only 100 persons, but to-day has 3,000 on its pay rolls, with branches in Passaic, N. J., Kingston, N. Y., Albany, N. Y., Fort Edward, N. Y. Greenwich N. Y .. Salem, N. Y., Poultney, Vt., and Paw- tucket. R. I. All of Mr. Levi's sons are assisting him.
During the latter part of his life, Mr. Levi has been doing a great deal of charity work in giving to various institutions regardless of reli- gious denomination.
At present he is a director of the Paterson Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Paterson, N. J.
His club memberships are, Arcola Country Club, North Jersey Coun- try Club, Hamilton Club of Paterson, and the Hallywood Golf Club.
Mr. Levi's business address is 195-237 River Street. Paterson, N. J.
THOMAS LLOYD LEWIS-Asbury Park .- Broker and Assem- blyman. Born at New York City on March 30, 18SS.
Assemblyman Lewis is active in the interests of the Anti-Saloon League. In 1917, when first elected to the Legislature, he won on the Republican ticket with a plurality of 985 votes, although Monmouth Coun- ty then elected a Democratic senator, sheriff, surrogate and freeholder. In 1918 he won with a plurality of 801 over Pearce, high Democrat.
Although entitled to deferred classification in the 1918 draft, he waived it, and was sent to Camp Lee, Virginia, to the Central Officers' Training School. It was while there that he was nominated for his second term in the Legislature. He was honorably discharged when the armistice was signed.
For several years he was connected with Foster & Adams, stock brokers of New York City. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Ocean Grove, of Asbury Lodge, No. 142, F. and A. M .; Goodwin Chapter, No. 36, R. A. M. : Tall Cedars of Lebanon, and Company D. New Jersey State Militia.
JOSEPH CROSBY LINCOLN-Hackensack, (370 Summit Ave.) -Author. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born at Brew- ster, Mass., February 13, 1870; son of Joseph and Emily (Crosby ) Lincoln; married on May 12, 1897, to Florence E. Sargeant, of Chelsea, Mass.
After leaving school in Chelsea, Mr. Lincoln entered the office of a Boston mercantile house, where he remained for some years. Having a fondness for drawing, in 1896, he entered the illustrating class of Henry Sandham, then President of the Boston Art Club, and one of America's foremost illustrators. Mr. Lincoln studied with Mr. Sandham for a year,
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and during that time did some illustrating work for advertising purposes and for the lesser magazines.
During that time also he began to write verses and hamorous sketches. His work in these lines attracted the attention of Sterling Elliott, Presi- dent of the League of American Wheelmen an organization with 125,000 members. As President of the League, Mr. Elliott was publisher of the "L. A. W. Bulletin," its official organ. He offered Mr. Lincoln an editorial position on the "Bulletin," and the offer was accepted.
Mr. Lincoln remained with the "Bulletin" for two years, contributing to its columns verses and jokes, as well as editorial matter. Many of the verses written for the "Bulletin" are now included in his book of verses, "Cape Cod Ballads."
His work attracted attention and he received requests from the editors of various periodicals for contributions. In 1899 he gave up his position with the "Bulletin," and decided to enter the literary field as a "free lance." He and Mrs. Lincoln left Chelsea, where they had resided, and came to New York, living in Brooklyn for some months, and then re- moving to Hackensack, which has since been their home.
Mr. Lincoln, although then, as now, a regular contributor to the leading magazines, did not attempt the writing of a long story until 1904, when "Cap'n Eri" appeared. Since then, his novels have occupied the most of his time.
From 1903 to 1906, he was the editor of the "Bulletin of the American Institute of Bank Clerks," the educational organization conducted by the American Bankers' Association. As his literary work became more con- fining, he gave up all editorial labors. He is the author of "Cape Cod Bal- lads," (1902) ; "Cap'n Eri" (1904) ; "Partners of the Tide," (1905) ; "Mr. Pratt," (1906) ; "The Old Home House," (1907) ; "Cy Whittaker's Place," (1908) ; "Our Village," (1909) ; "Keziah Coffin," (1909) ; "The Depot Mas- ter." (1910) "Cap'n Warren's Wards," (1911) ; "The Woman Haters," (1911) ; "The Postmaster," (1912) ; "Rise of Rosecoe Paine," (1912) ; "Mr. Pratts Patients," (1913) ; "Cap'n Dan's Daughter," (1914) ; "Kent Knowles, Quahaug," (1914) ; "Thankful's Inheritance," (1915) ; and "Mary Gusta," (1916).
Mr. Lincoln's writings all deal with Cape Cod and Cape Cod people. As a boy he lived on the Cape, knew the old sailors and ship masters and imbibed the 'long-shore and salt water atmosphere.
With Mr. William Danforth, of Chicago, he is the author of one play, a dramatization of his novel, "Cy Whittaker's Place," in which Thomas Wise, the well-known actor, appeared as the star.
He is a member of the Author's League and the Dutch Treat Club of New York and of the Hackensack Golf Club.
Mr. Lincoln has a summer home at Chatham, Mass.
WILLIAM FRANCIS LITTLE-Rahway, 110 Elm Ave.) .- Su- perintendent of Schools. Born at Loysburg, Pa., Nov. 24th, 1864; son of William and Kate Pepple Little; married at Kingston,
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Mass., July 21, 1910 to Marou S. Brown. daughter of Thomas and Sophia Yunetchi Brown, of Boston, Mass.
Children : William Francis Jr., born July 21, 1911; Richard Wal- ter, May 8, 1917.
William Francis Little is a descendant of a family which traces back to the eleventh century in England. On his maternal side his an- cestors came from Holland in the early part of the 18th Century and settled in Friend's Cove, Bedford county, Pa.
He received his education chiefly in the Dickinson Seminary at Wil- liamsport, Pa., from which he was graduated in 1888, and the Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Conn., where he received his diploma, A. B. in 1892. He also took a post-graduate course at the Columbia University and the University of Heidelberg, Germany in 1899-1901.
He taught in private schools of Stanford, Conn., from 1892 to 1899, when he went abroad to study for a doctor's degree. In 1901, he re- turned to this country, and, deciding to enter public school work, he at- tended the Teachers' College, at Columbia for one year (1901-1902). At the end of that time, he obtained a Master's Diploma in Education. He then resumed his work in private schools until 1905 when he came to Elizabeth, N. J., as principal of Battin High School, where he resided until 1916. At about this time he accepted the position as superintendent of public schools at Rahway, N. J., and is still in that capacity.
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