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Mr. Little is a member of the Transportation Club, of New York City, the School Masters Club of New York City, the Mystic Shrine of Bridge- port, Conn., and the Temple of Norwalk, Conn.
CHESTER LOOMIS-Englewood .- Portrait and Landscape Painter. Born near Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1852 ; son of Chauncey C. and Lucy S. Loomis; married at Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 23, 1883, to Sarah S. Dana, daughter of Charles S. Dana, of St. Johns- bury, Vt., and later of Kansas City, Mo.
Children : Charles Dana, born in Paris, France, in 1884; John Putnam, born in Englewood, in 1888.
Chester Loomis spent the thirteen years following 1872 almost con- tinuously in Paris, and during his residence there, exhibited five or six times in the annual Paris Salon. He has pictures in many public and pri- vate collections and mural painting in the Alpha Delta Phi House at Cor- nell University and in the Englewood Public Library. He has besides painted many portraits and figure pictures and landscapes.
Mr. Loomis's ancestors on his father's side came from England in 1637, and settled in Connecticut. On his mother's side there is a strain of Holland blood, but there too, the English strain predominates. He acquired his schooling in a private school in Syracuse and subsequently attended Cornell University. It was after leaving the University in 1872 that he spent the years in Paris. Two years after his return to this coun- try he became a resident of this State, and has since made his home in Englewood.
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Mr. Loomis is an associate of the National Academy of Design, and a member of the Society of American Artists, the Mural Pamters, the Archi- tectural League of New York, and the Artists' Fund Society.
CHARLES F. LYNCH-Paterson .- District Attorney. Born at Franklin borough, Sussex county, N. J., January 9, 1884.
Charles F. Lynch attended the public schools of Franklin, N. J., and in 1901 removed to Paterson and entered the law offices of Michael Dunn, (now Prosecutor of the Pleas) as a student and clerk. He remained there for several years, and then entered the law offices of Pierce & Grier, New York City.
In November 1906, he was admitted to the New Jersey bar, a short time later he became associated in the practice of law with William Hughes (the late New Jersey State Senator).
In June 1913, Mr. Lynch was appointed Second United States Dis- trict attorney, and a little more than a year later was promoted to First Assistant District Attorney. On May 29, 1916, he became District At- torney.
WILLIAM B. MACKAY, Jr .- Hackensack .- Lawyer. Born at Greenock, Scotland, on Aug. 21, 1876.
William B. Mackay, Jr., is of Scotch ancestry, and in June, 1899, he was admitted to the New Jersey Bar, and has since practiced law in Hackensack. On April 16, 1915 he was appointed a Supreme Court Com- missioner, and from January, 1915, until January, 1916, he served as coun- sel for the Bergen County Board of Freeholders. He served in no other public office until elected to the State Senate at the fall 1916 elections, when he won with a plurality of 6,930 votes over Arthur M. Agnew, high Democrat.
ALFRED S. MARCH-New Brunswick, 153 Somerset St.)- Lawyer and Member Board of Public Utility Commissioners. Born at New Brunswick, N. J., Mar. 4, 1876 ; son of Joseph H. and Josephine E. (Stanley) March; married at New Brunswick on Nov. 9, 1905 to Anna E. Parsell, daughter of George Kuhl and Imogene (Bartle) Parsell.
Children : Robert Parsell, born Sept. 3, 1907; Jean Stanley, born Feb. 10, 1910.
Mr. March received his early education in the public schools of New Brunswick from which he was graduated in 1894. Upon completing school studies, he read law in the firm of Van Cleef. Daly & Woodbridge until its
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dissolution in 1896. Thereupon, he completed his studies with Hon. James H. Van Cleef, and was admitted to the New Jersey State bar in 1900.
Since then, Mr. March practiced in New Brunswick, first having offices with Hon. Robert Adrain for several years and subsequently alone and later was associated with his brother-in-law, Hon. Freeman Woodbridge, in the firm of Woodbridge & March. When Hon. Freeman Woodbridge was appointed Judge of the District Court of New Brunswick in 1911, the firm was dissolved and Mr. March has since practiced alone.
At present he is a Counselor-at-Law, Special Master in Chancery, and a Supreme Court Commissioner. At one time he was township counsel for Woodbridge, and in 1909 he declined his election as City Attorney of New Brunswick. Mr. March has been greatly interested in civic activities of New Brunswick, however having served in the Board of Aldermen of that city, and also as a member, and secretary of the Advisory Water Commis- sion, of New Brunswick. He has also served as Treasurer of Middlesex County Bar Association.
In 1917, he was appointed as a member of the Board of Public Utility Commissioners by Governor Edge for a term of six years in succession to John J. Treacey.
Mr. March is connected with numerous civic organizations and also several fraternal orders and is a member of the membership committee of the N. J. State Bar Association and also a trustee of New Brunswick Public Library.
His office address is National Bank of New Jersey Building, New Brunswick, N. J.
GEORGE F. MARTENS, Jr.,-Olderick .- Lawyer and Senator. Born at Brooklyn, N. Y., on Feb. 21, 1867.
Senator Martens began the political career in 1897 when he was elected to the State Assembly, and twice re-elected in 1898 and 1999. He holds the distinction of being the only Senator in Hunterdon County who was ever given a fourth term. In 1904 he was elected to the Senate for first time, and re-elected in 1913, 1915 and 1918. Last year his plurality was 133 over Thomas, his Republican opponent.
THOMAS F. MARTIN-Trenton .- Secretary of State. Born at Hartford, Conn., Jan. 30th, 1868.
Thomas F. Martin is a newspaper editor and publisher by profession, at present being owner and editor of the Hudson Dispatch which is pub- lished in Union Hill, Hudson county.
In 1911 Mr. Martin's legislative career began when he was elected a member of the House of Assembly. He was re-elected in 1912 and again in 1913. Two years later he was again chosen a member of the House, and.
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during this fulfillment of offices acted as leader of the Democratic members on the floor.
After the death of David S. Crater, Governor Fielder on April 5, 1915, appointed Mr. Martin secretary of State for a term of five years.
His memberships in fraternal and other organizations are, Palisade Council No. 483, Knights of Columbus, the Carteret Club of Jersey City. He is also a charter member of the North Hudson Board of Trade.
ANDREW McLEAN-Passaic, (111 Passaic Ave.)-Merchant and Manufacturer. Born at Troy, N. Y., May 12, 1861, son of Andrew and Virginia (Kip) McLean; married at Troy, N. Y., Oct. 9, 1889 to Sarah Belle Cridge, daughter of Edmund L. and Jane Warr Cridge.
Children : Andrew, Jr., born April 27, 1894; George Edmund born January 4, 1897; Virginia and Belle, born January 6. 1901.
Andrew McLean is a descendant on his maternal side, of Lieut. Abraham Van Kueren, Poughkeepsie Minute Man, who served all through the Revolution 'under General George Washington. His mother is a descendant of the Dutch who settled in New York about 1650.
He was educated in the public schools of Jersey City, N. J., and he later studied at the University of New York.
Soon after his father died in 1888, Mr. McLean succeeded him as the third generation in the family in the Andrew McLean Company, manu- facturers of Finished Cotton Goods at Passaic. This business was es- tablished in New York City in 1826, by his grandfather, Andrew McLean, who emigrated from Scotland in 1824, and at whose death his son, also named Andrew McLean, succeeded him in 1852.
By an unusual coincident,the fourth generation of the family is also represented in the business in the person of Andrew McLean, Jr., who is now superintendent. Mr. Andrew McLean, Sr., is president of the concern.
In addition to his interests in this branch of the manufacturing in- dustry, Mr. McLean has served as president, director and trustee in other business connections.
He was elected Mayor of Passaic for two terms, one in 1895 and the other in 1897, on the Republican ticket. Since 1889, the date of its or- ganization, he has been director in the People's Bank and Trust Company of Passaic, and in 1913 was elected vice-president. He has also been the President of the Guarantee Mortgage & Title Insurance Company of Passaic since its inception in 1905. In 1891 when the Passaic Board of Trade was organized he was elected vice-president for two years, and at the end of that time was chosen president and served for an equal amount of time. Mr. McLean was one of the first governors of the Passaic General Hospital, started in 1892, he also served as president for two years.
While he was residing in New York City he became a member of the Seventh Regiment of New York in 1886 and continued as such until 1892.
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He is a member of the Union League Club, of New York, the Aquack- anonk Club of Passaic, Passaic City Club, Thousand Island Yacht Club, Alexandria Bay, New York, Veterans Association, 7th Regiment, New York, St. Andrews Society of New York and New Jersey Society, Sons of the American Revolution.
Mr. McLean's business address is 12-14-16 East 22nd St., New York City, and Passaic, N. J.
CHARLES P. MESSICK-Trenton, (131 Monmouth St.)-Chief Examiner and Secretary of Civil Service Commission. Born near Georgetown, Sussex County, Del., June 4th, 1882: son of John T. and Julia West Messick ; married at Philadelphia, Pa., on June 30, 1909, to Maude Louise Sharpley, daughter of Albert T. and Mar- garet E. Sharpley.
Mr. Messick received his early education in the rural schools of Sus- sex County, Delaware, which he attended from 1888 to 1899. Receiving a certification as a teacher at the age of seventeen, he began teaching in the country schools of his native county and continued for a period of four years, during which time he prepared himself for entrance to col- lege. In 1903, he entered Delaware State College and was graduated with high honors in 1907, with the degree of A. B. Two years after, he was awarded the degree of Master of Arts from the same institution, and in 1910 he received the degree of Master of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania. While in college, Mr. Messick took a prominent part in athletics.
In 1907. Mr. Messick removed to New Jersey and was for one year instructor in History and Civics at Wenonah Military Academy, Wenonah, N. J., and in 1908 he joined the faculty of the Trenton High School, where for almost five years he was in charge of the Department of History.
Since 1910, he has been associated with the New Jersey State Civil Service Commission and since 1912 he has devoted his entire time to civil service work. In his position of Assistant Examiner, he had directed and developed the examination work of the Commission in such a way as to attract the attention of civil service workers throughout the country. In 1914 he was tendered the office of Chief Examiner of the Municipal Civil Service Commission of Philadelphia, but declined, preferring to re- main with the New Jersey Commission.
Mr. Messick has continued his interest in educational and civic affairs, and in 1916 acepted the position of Supervisor of the Trenton Evening Schools. Under his direction. the evening school work was reorganized and extended, and a most vigorous program of Americanization of for- eigners was started. His work in this connection was unusually suc- cessful.
On his promotion to the position of Chief Examiner and Secretary of the New Jersey State Civil Service Commission on November 15, 1917, he gave up his evening school work.
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He is a member of the Honorary Fraternity, Phi Kappa Phi, the Sigma Nu Fraternity (being the organizer of the local chapter at Delaware Col- lege), the School Masters' Club, Trenton, and other fraternal organi- zations.
Mr. Messick's office address is State House. Trenton, N. J.
. HERVEY STUDDIFORD MOORE-Trenton, (714 West State St.)-Assemblyman. Born at Trenton, N. J., Oct. 14, 1884; son of William Randolph and Mary (Bradley) Moore; married at Trenton, N. J., on Feb. 11, 1914, to Lilian Mary Field, daughter of William H. and Sarah A. Field.
Children : Hervey Studdiford, Jr., born Dec. 2, 1916.
Hervey Studdiford Moore, republican assemblyman from Mercer county, is of Irish-Scotch descent. In his early days, Assemblyman Moore attended the public schools of Trenton, and the Trenton High School, from which he graduated. He entered the University of Pennsylvania after graduating. He then took up a course at George Washington University.
He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 190S, and as counselor-at- law in 1911. He was a member of the New Jersey Legislature in 1913 and 1914, and Republican candidate for Speaker in the House in 1914. He was re-elected in 191S.
He is a member of the following organizations : Trenton Country Club, Republican Club of Trenton and the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity.
His business address is Suite 411, Broad Street, National Bank Build- ing, Trenton, N. J.
OLIVER JAMES MORELOCK-Maplewood, (42 Clarement Ave.)-County Supt. of Schools. Born at Silver Run, Md., March S, 1871; son of Dennis A. and Rebecca (Slyder) Moorelock ; married at Rose, N. Y., June 26, 1895, to Ellen Thomas Closs, daughter of Frank H. and Zadora (Thomas) Closs of Rose, N. Y.
Children : Dorothea Thomas, born July 10, 1899; Elizabeth Elton, born October 30, 1900: Oliver James, Jr., born June 12, 1908.
Oliver James Morelock's grandfather was Joseph Morelock, a school teacher and farmer, in Westminister, Md. His great grandfather, Michael Morelock, was born in Pennsylvania while his great-great-grandfather of the same name emigrated from Baden, Germany, and settled in America about 1767. On his mother's side, his grandfather was Jacob Slyder and his grandmother Elizabeth Bankert, who were botlı born near Silver Run, Md.
Mr. Morelock attended country school near Silver Run from 1877 to 1885 when he entered the Edgehill Family School in Littleton, Pa., to prepare for college. In 1889 he was matriculated in the Franklin and
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Marshal College, Lancaster, Pa., as a member of the sophomore class, receiving the degree of A. B. in 1892, and the degree of A. M. in 1895. In 1906, 1907 and 1909, Mr. Moorelock added to his scholastic education and professional training by attending the summer session at Teachers College, Columbia University. He also spent the academic year 1908-1909 as a graduate student in the same institution, devoting his time to the study of educational subjects and majoring in school administration and so- ciology.
At the early age of sixteen, Mr. Moorelock really began his life's work by teaching a country school near Silver Run. After graduation from college, he was instructor in Mathematics in Palatinate College, Myers- town, Pa., for the period of one year, and also held the same position in Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, Pa., for two years, 1893-1895. From 1895-1896 he was the principal of Bloomfield Academy, New Bloomfield, Pa., and from 1896-1901, principal of the public schools of Tunkhannock, Pa., teaching at the same time in the high school seven and eight periods a day. In 1901 he began his seven years principalship of the Lockport High School, Lockport, N. Y., where he also taught College preparatory Greek and medeaveal and modern history. During this period he was Vice President of the Interscholastic Debating League of Western New York and Pennsylvania, and trained debaters who won the League cup twice for the Lockport school.
From 1909-'11 Mr. Morelock was vice-principal of the Newark City Normal school and instructor in class room management and in special methods in the subjects of Geography and History. In 1911 he became principal of the Webster Elementary School, an instutition used for the purpose of giving practise work in teaching to normal school students. In Feb. 1913, he was appointed County superintendant of schools in Es- sex County, N. J., the position which he now holds.
Mr. Morelock is a member of the Tawse Club, Teachers College, New Jersey Council of Education, New York School Masters Club. Newark Schoolmen's Club, the Wednesday Club of Newark, and of the National Educational Association.
His business address is 316 Essex Building, Clinton street. Newark, N. J.
CHARLES LINSCOTT MORGAN-Elizabeth, (224 Rahway Ave.) Assemblyman. Born at Elizabeth, N. J. in 1879.
Assemblyman Morgan has a lengthy record as a legislator, having been returned to his seat in the legislature five consecutive times. He was first elected in 1914 and re-elected each year thereafter. At the fall 1918 elections he was elected with a plurality of 3,982 votes over Songer, high Democrat. During his term in the legislature he has been chairman of many important committees. He was a member of the Civil
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Service Investigation Committee, and many bills on Social Hygiene which he introduced are now laws. He was appointed March 31, 1919, Judge of Elizabeth District Court.
CHARLES A. MORRIS-Toms River .- County Supt. of Schools. Born at Hightstown, N. J., Nov. 10th, 1880; son of Stephen and Mary A. (Johnson) Morris; married at Port Jervis, N. Y., Dec. 15, 1906, to Emma Ethel Space, daughter of George E. Space of Port Jervis, N. Y.
Children : Charlotte Emma, born May 8, 1908.
Charles A. Morris is a direct descendant of one William Morris, of Tintern, Monmouthshire, Eng. Lewis Morris, grandson of Wm. Morris was appointed High Sheriff of Monmouth County, New Jersey, on March 14, 1862. His father was a minister of the Methodist Church.
Mr. Morris attended the public schools at Port Jervis, N. Y., and was graduated from the High of that place in 1899. In 1901 he entered Rutgers College at New Brunswick, N. J., and received his diploma in 1905. He pursued graduate studies while engaged in other activities in 1917 at Columbia University in New York City.
During the period 1899-1901, he was a rural school teacher in New York state but at the end of that time resigned to become the clerk of the New Jersey weather bureau, which he remained for one year. In 1905-1906. he was a high school teacher at Perth Amboy, N. J., and when he resigned from that position he was made County Superintendent of schools of Ocean County.
Mr. Morris was secretary and treasurer of the Ocean County Sunday School Association from 1912 to 1916, and become the president of that organization in 1917.
His business address is Court House, Tom's River, N. J.
GEORGE A. MOTT-Tuckerton .- Director of Board of Shell Fisheries. Born at Tuckerton, N. J., July 2nd, 1864.
Mr. Mott received his early education in the public schools of Tuck- erton which he attended until he was eighteen years old. At the end of that time he changed his residence to Atlantic City where he entered a grocery store for a period of two years. After this he conducted a grocery business of his own at Beach Haven, N. J., and continued in it for eight years, at the same time engaging himself in the planting and ship- ping of oysters.
By an act of Legislature in 1893, he was appointed a member of the first oyster commission for the State. Three years later, he was re- named by the Legislature, and again in 1899, was appointed by Gov- ernor Voorhees. In 1902, Governor Murphy re-appointed, and thus he was able to serve as a member, and sometimes as secretary for the com- mission during its twelve years of existence.
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During this period, Mr. Mott, largely through his own efforts in interesting Professor Julius Nelson in 1900, in taking up the scientific study of oyster propagation. As there was no appropriation made by the Legislature for that purpose at the time, Mr. Mott himself furnished and maintained a suitable station for experiments, and assisted personally in the work.
In 1912, he was appointed oyster superintendant for Ocean County by Governor Wilson, and in 1915, re-appointed by Governor Fielder. The Board of Shell Fisheries on July 1st, 1915, made his selection as director of shell fisheries unanimous.
ANDREW MURO-Jersey City, (411 York Street)-Assem- blyman. Born at New York City, N. Y., December 13th, 1885, son of Vito and Elizabeth (Pesdland) Muro; married at Jersey City of June 14, 1906 to Angelina Pagliarullo, daughter of Frank Pagliarullo.
Children : Elizabeth, born May 11, 1908; Vito, born Sept. 2, 1911.
Andrew Muro, Assemblyman from Hudson County, was educated in the schools of Jersey City.
Upon completing his schooling he learned the plumbing trade and has conducted a plumbing business in Jersey City for the past ten years.
Assemblyman Muro defeated Mayberry, his Republican opponent at the 1918 election by a plurality of 19,806.
He is a member of the following clubs: B. P. O. Elks, No. 211; Clio Club ; John V. Campana Association ; S. Aremsenio Association, and Colum- bus Democratic League.
His business address is 369 Second Street, Jersey City.
ANDREW EDWARD NOLAN-Jersey City, (69 Poplar Street). -Lawyer and Assemblyman. Born at Jersey City, N. J., Dec. 31st, 1885; son of James S. and Mary Jane ( Fitzpatrick) Nolan ; mar- ried at Jersey City on June 27, 1912, to Gertrude, daughter of Maurice and Susan (Beasley ) Connors.
Andrew Edward Nolan was educated in the St. Paul of the Cross School of Jersey City, and after graduating entered Eagan's School of Business, where he took a business and shorthand course. In 1912 he entered the New Jersey Law School, in order to prepare himself for admission to the bar, and in 1915 he graduated with the degree of Bachellor of Laws. He studied law in the office of Hamill and Cain for four years and in June 1915 was admitted to the bar as an attorney. He has been practicing in Jersey City since.
Aside from his office in the Legislature, which he is now holding for the second term, he has never before held public office. He was re-elected
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to the Assembly at the fall 1918 elections with a plurality of 19,933 votes over Mayberry, high Republican.
His business address is 76 Montgomery St., Jersey City.
JAMES F. NORTON-Jersey City .- Newspaper man. (Photo- graph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born in Jersey City ; son of James F. and Anna Norton; married to Maria Franey.
Children : Daniel (served in U. S. Army, during World War), and Helen.
Though James F. Norton has spent all his life in newspaper work, he is now the Surrogate of Hudson county. The election returns of the fall campaign of 1916 disclosed that in his canvass for the Surrogacy, he re- ceived 15,000 more votes in the county than were cast for President Wil- son's re-election, 10,000 more than were received by H. Otto Wittpenn, Na- val Officer of the Port of New York who was the democratic candidate for Governor, and 9,980 more votes than McGlennon, the democratic candidate for State Senator polled. This demonstration of personal popularity has been followed by events that point Surrogate Norton out as one of the new leaders of the Hudson county democracy.
Surrogate Norton began work, with a common school education, as an errand boy in "The Argus" printing office in Jersey City. Association with newspaper men bred an ambition for newspaper work; it was not long before he was writing items for print and eventually he rose to be a reporter. Twenty-six years ago he became the Hudson county cor- respondent of the "New York World," and is regarded in "The World" office as an authority on New Jersey politics and the political statistics of the state. Upon his election to the Surrogacy he resigned his "World" position ; and the editorial department of "The World" presented him with a testimonial book bearing letters of felicitation from every man in it, from Mr. Pulitzer, the publisher of "The World," down through the entire editorial staff to the copy carriers in the department.
Young Norton took to politics as readily as he did to newspaper work ; and he was regarded by Robert Davis, long the democratic leader of the county, as one of his most valuable lieutenants. When Davis was ready to make known his willingness to join hands with ex-United States Senator James Smith, Jr., of Newark, (with whom he had not been on agreeable terms for some years before) for the support of the candidacy of Dr. Wood- row Wilson, of Princeton University, for Governor of New Jersey, it was Norton who was chosen to make the announcement for him ; and the publi- cation, in a paper in Jersey City which Norton controlled, of an elaborate notice of Dr. Wilson was accepted everywhere as the token of an alliance between the two potential democratic leaders of the state that assured Dr. Wilson's nomination. Dr. Wilson's nomination and election to the Gover- norship was his stepping stone to the Presidency of the United States.
Mr. Norton served as a member of the Hudson County Board of Free- holders in '83 and 'S4; and in '87 and '88 was elected to the House of As- sembly in the legislature of 1888 and '89. When the movement for the-
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