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Mr. Ridgway is a member of the American Golf Association and Advertising Interests, the Periodical Publishers Association of America and the Ohio Society of New York and is connected with the Yale, Lotos, Sphinx and Aldine Clubs, the Delta Upsilon Fraternity of New York, the
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Country Club of Lakewood, and the Outlook and Commercial Club of Montclair.
EMMOR ROBERTS-Moorestown .- Fruit Grower and Assem- blyman. Born at Moorestown, N. J., Mar. 13th, 1890; son of Horace and Emma (Thomas) Roberts; married at Merchantville, N. J., May 19th, 1917, to Marion Coles, daughter of Samuel T. and Marianna (Lippincott ) Coles.
Children : Emmor, Jr., born June 11th, 1918.
Emmor Roberts is of Quaker parentage. His father, Horace Roberts is a very extensive farmer and fruit grower of Moorestown. His grand- father, Emmor Roberts, was prominent as a farmer and educator.
Assemblyman Roberts graduated from the Moorestown Friends High School in 1907. In 1911 he graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree of Bachelor of Arts, and the following year he spent taking a course at the Cornell Agricultural College.
He owns and directs five large fruit farms in Burlington County, being one of the most extensive fruit growers in the state. He is active in public affairs in his county and since 1916 has retained his seat in the- House of Assembly, being re-elected each year, with increased majorities .. He is chairman of the committee on Agriculture as well as of the com- mittee on Ways and Means.
He is a member of the State Library Commission, County Committee, Young Men's Christian Association, as well as a director of the Moores- town Trust Company. Besides being a member of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity of Swarthmore College, he is a member of the "Book and Key," an honorary senior society.
CHARLES B. ROBINSON, Sr .- Salem .- Assemblyman. Born in Mannington Township, Salem County, July 12th, 1858.
Charles B. Robinson, Sr., received his education in the public schools.
Assemblyman Robinson has been prominent in the public and civic affairs of Salem County. For three years he served as a constable in Mannington Township for the like period served as constable in Pilesgrove Township. For six years he was a member of the Pilesgrove Township Board of Education. From August 1908 until December 1915 he served as an inspector on the State Board of Health, at Trenton, and was elected to the State Assembly. He was re-elected at the fall 1918 elections, winning by a plurality of 1,310 votes over Spiegel, high Democrat.
WILLIAM R. ROGERS-Paterson, (117 East 21st Street)- Lawyer and Assemblyman. Born at Paterson, N. J., in 1881.
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William R. Rogers was educated in the public schools of Paterson, his birth place, graduating from the Paterson High School.
Assemblyman Rogers began his public career in 911 when he was elected an alderman of the city of Paterson, an office which he held for one year. He was re-elected to the assembly over Kennedy, in 1918, with a plurality of 6,225 votes.
He is a member of the B. P. O. E., No. 60.
His business address is Paterson Savings Institution Building, Pater- son, N. J.
JESSIE NAUDAIN ALEXANDER ROPES (Mrs. William T.) - Montclair, (19 Gates Avenue)-Singer; Home maker. Born in Chicago, Ill., on July 8th, 1872; daughter of Hugh Alexander and Ann Campbell (Magill) Ropes ; married at Montclair, on June 10, 1899, to William Townsend Ropes, son of Elihu Harrison and Jose- phine Townsend Ropes, of Elizabeth.
Children : William Alexander, born April 25, 1900; Marian, born January 8, 1904.
Mrs. Ropes has been President of the New Jersey Federation of Women's Clubs and is State Secretary of the Federation to the General Federation. For eight years she was a concert soloist and since 1900, has been the contralto soloist of the Montclair Congregational Church and of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Montclair.
The Naudians of France from whom she is descended were of Hugue- not stock and they founded the Naudain family of Delaware. Other branches of her line lead to Herman Schee of Holland and to the Alexan- ders of Scotland. The first five years of her life were spent in Chicago. She had resided later in Pensacola, Fla., Atlanta, Ga., Washington, D. C., and in Brooklyn before in 1897 she came to New Jersey to make her home. Her first residence in this state was in Orange. She was educated at private schools in the cities in which her parents lived and at St. Agnes Episcopal School in Haddonfield, this state. Between 1890 and '98 she became widely known on the concert platform and her church connections as contralto soloist followed.
Mrs. Ropes's Presidency of the New Jersey State Federation of Wo- men's Clubs covered the years 1913,-'14-15. In 1913, also, she was elected President of the Montclair Federation of Women's Organizations and held that position until 1917. She is also President of the Montclair Women's Club, elected in 1915, and of the Montclair All-round Club. From 1915 to 1917 she was President of the Ex Club of the New Jersey State Feder- ation.
Mrs. Ropes's other connections reflect the diversity of her activities. From 1910 to 1917 she was Chairman of the Essex County Committee of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association ; and she is Chairman of the Montclair Dramatic Club, one of the Board of Managers of the Camp Fire Girls Association, the Children's Home Association and the Homeopathic Society of Montclair and vicinity ; a Director of the Montclair Co-operative
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Society and a member of the Montclair Civic Association, the Montclair Musical Club, the Scout Mothers Association and the Montclair branch (its Vice-President for a time) of the Needlework Guild. She is also Vice Presi- dent of the Unity Forum and a member of the New Jersey State Housing Association.
CONRAD ROSSI-DIEHL-Glen Ridge, (42 Hawthorne Avenue.)
-Artist. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born at Rhenish, Bavaria, in 1842; son of Conrad L. and Therese (Rossi) Diehl ; married to "Mignon" Rossi-Diehl.
Children : Two sons and four daughters.
The father of Conrad Rossi-Diehl was a government official in high standing until he became a leader in the "Revolution of '48." For his activ- ities in that behalf he was condemned to death, his estates were confiscated and he was compelled to seek refuge in America. With his family he settled on a farm in Illinois, but when the gentle-bred mother succumbed to the ravages of malaria the four young children were distributed among relatives abroad, while the two older boys were sent to a boarding school in Missouri.
One of these two was Conrad. Having inherited the synthetic gift of poetic imagery from the mother and of analytic temperament from the father, he was equipped to take the initiative in thought and action when thrown upon his own resources. Though he was compelled to leave the common school even before he had completed the primary course, he readily found the helping hand of competent masters while serving apprentice- ships in the various walks of life. This assistance is never denied by true masters to youngsters whom they find striving onward and upward. The first to extend such friendly aid was Karl Schmolze, an historical painter of note who was also a refugee and a friend of the family.
At this time the boy lived in Philadelphia where he was apprenticed to a lithographer. One day he was asked by a little friend to accompany him on an errand to John Sartain, President of the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts; and that gentleman, in his casual talk with the boy, dis covered his talent and ambition and persuaded him to enter the evening class for drawing from the antique. He consented, but here he was again thrown upon his own resources, because there was no instructor in charge.
In 1856 he joined his father in Chicago; and, after working at his trade and studying meanwhile under the friendly guidance of Karl Merck, portrait painter, he fell in with a firm of Fresco painters. There it became his privilege to design and paint the several heads and figures for the walls in Governor Mattison's new mansion in Springfield, Ill. In 1858, for a fourth of July celebration, he painted a transparency-larger than any picture he had ever seen-allegorically representing Columbia and Ger- mania joining hands in celebration of the national holiday. The work, though somewhat crude, attracted so much attention that his father, now a Justice of the Peace, decided to send him to Europe to study art. Kaul- bach was his ideal; and he went to the studio of that famous historical painter in Munich to pursue his studies. Kaulbach tried to dissuade him
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from entering upon art for a profession, but, within three months, had taken him under his immediate charge, although he had not had a pupil for more than ten years. When prepared to enter a Composition Class he had the good fortune to become a pupil of Philip Foltz, the real back- bone of the Munich Academy in its halycon days; and it was here he painted his first original composition-the trial scene in Hamlet-and won high praise for it from the "Muenchener Kunst-Anzeiger." The work was first exhibited in the Darby Gallery in New York City where it had an enthusiastic reception, and afterwards in Chicago where he made a free gift of it to the public as the nucleus of a city collection.
It was this work that prompted George P. A. Healy, portrait painter, to raise a fund to enable Rossi-Diehl to complete his studies in Paris, where, in order to acquaint himself with French methods, he entered the atelier of Leon Gerome. It was here that he produced a life size picture of Macbeth taking the fatal step from the high state of a dauntless hero to that of a craven, which, when exhibited in New York City, evoked columns of com- ment in the daily press. Its subsequent exhibition in Chicago attracted equally wide attention. When the great fire of '77 broke out, Rossi-Diehl rushed to the Academy building, and, finding no other way to save his picture, cut it from its frame and carried it through the burning city to a place of safety. Its gift afterwards to St. Louis led to the formation of an Art Society, and, under its auspices, the organization of an art school over which Rossi-Diehl presided. Several of his pupils from the Chicago Acad- emy of Design joined him upon its opening; and, through the influence of Dr. William T. Harris, then Superintendent of the St. Louis public schools but later for several years chief of the National Bureau of Education, the artist's attainments were utilized in the local schools. Here he developed the well known "Grammar of Form and Form Composition," which was. promoted further in Columbia, Mo., where he, for six years, occupied the Chair of Art in the Missoiri State University.
Coming to New York later he was a. co-worker with John Ward Stim- son in building up the Artist Artison Institute. During his leisure hours he- painted a picture entitled "Love and Labor," modeled a floating figure of "Christ" and worked out plates for his new departure in art education in. professional class work.
Notwithstanding his intense devotion to art, Rossi-Diehl has never sought for public or private patronage, nor for a prize, or painted for the market, or placed any of his works on sale; nor has any of his elaborated studies, educational models or charts ever left his hands. Among his elab- orated studies there figure a large penciled cartoon eptomizing the entire movement which led up to the American Revolution, and its counterpart epitomizing the Conquest of Mexico-an elaborated color study, character- izing and reconstituting the principal features, both as regards the mode of warfare, the architecture and costumes, so far as ancient archaeological data reveal them. He is now engaged upon a painting epitomizing the great Life Tragedy, the central feature of which is the "crown of thorns," and all in an art message from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth century.
F. G. R. ROTH-Englewood, (Sherwood Place.)-Sculptor. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born at Brooklyn, N. Y ..
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April 28th, 1872; son of Johannes and Jane Gray (Bean) Roth ; married at St. Lukes Church, New York City, April 29th, 1905, to Madeleine E. G. Forster, daughter of George F. and Gertrude S. Forster, of Bristol, England.
Children : Jack R., born July 1, 1909; Roger F., born June 12, 1915.
Frederick G. R. Roth was one of the first sculptors in this country to develop the making of small bronzes. A predilection for the animal in art led him to special studies in this line of sculpture. In late years however Mr. Roth has given marked attention to the study of the human figure; and his work on the Panama Pacific International Exposition and smaller works and portraits attest his skill in that field. Among his best known work in small bronzes are the "Performing Elephants," the "Polar Bear," and the "Performing Bear" and the "Pigs"-the three last mentioned of which have been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City-and the "Princeton Tigers" at the entrance gate of the athletic fields in Princeton University. His collaborative work on the Kit Carson in Trinidad, and the work done in San Francisco should be classed as his larger work. Mr. Roth is also one of the first to use ceramics in the repro- duction of his work and in pursuing the development of this interesting me- dium in his Englewood studio where the glazing and firing are done by him personally.
Mr. Roth received silver medals at the International Exposition at St. Louis in 1904 and the International Art Exhibition at Buenos Aires in 1910, and a gold medal was awarded his exhibit at the Fine Arts Palace of the Panama Pacific International Exhibition in San Francisco in 1915. Roth is an Academician of the National Academy of Design (elected 1906), a mem- ber of the National Sculpture Society, the Architectural League of New York and the National Institute of Arts and Letters and an instructor in modeling at the school of the National Academy of Design in New York.
Mr. Roth's family originated in the small town of Roth Bavaria. His father's ancestry can be traced back to the Twelfth century, mostly clergy- men figuring in it. His mother's father was a Scotch designer who made his home in Leeds, England, and to him Roth owes his artistic inheritance. Johannes Roth, his father, was a cotton broker in New York, who later conducted his business in Bremen, Germany, where Roth received his schooling and later was apprenticed in his father's office. After many years of misdirected efforts, he was permitted to follow his talents call and started his studies in 1893 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Upon its termination in 1896 he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Ber- lin for a number of years and traveled in Europe until he came to New York where he opened a studio.
T. HARRY ROWLAND-Camden, (1125 Heuwood Ave. )-Law- ver and Assemblyman. Born at Boston, Massachusetts, May 22nd,
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1888, son of William and Elizabeth (Quest) Rowland, married at Haddonfield, N. J., on September 15, 1915, to Veda M. McKonn.
Children : Thomas Henry, born October 22nd, 1916.
T. Harry Rowland was educated in the public schools of Camden, and the Camden High School. Upon his graduation from there he entered Lafayette College and deciding that law would be his profession, he took a course at the Temple University Law School.
He was elected to the assembly last fall over Nicholson, his Demo- cratic opponent, with a plurality of 10,232.
He is also a member of the Board of Education of Camden.
WILLIAM NELSON RUNYON-Plainfield, (136 East 9th St.) -Lawyer. Born at Plainfield, N. J., March 5th, 1871, son of Nel- son and Wilhelmina F. (Trow) Runyon; married Jan. 1, 1913, to Florence M. MacDonald.
Children : Jane Trow, born Oct. 6, 1913, William N. Jr., born July 18, 1916, Frederic Walter, born Sept. 27, 1918, (deceased).
William Nelson Runyon is a paternal descendant of Vincent Rognion, a French Hugenot. On his mother's side he is of English and Irish an- cestry.
Senator Runyon was educated in the Plainfield public schools, grad- ing from Yale University and was a member of the New York Law School class of 1894.
Senator Runyon has always taken an active part in politics, and from 1897 to 1898 he was a member of the Common Council of Plainfield while from 1899 to 1910 he was city Judge of Plainfield. In 1915 he was elected to the House of Assembly from Union county, and served for three years, 1915, 1916, and 1917. The year following he was elected to the State Senate and last fall was re-elected.
HARRY B. SALTER-Trenton, (140 West State Street) .- Chief Auditor. Born at Brookville, Hunterdon county, N. J., June 4th, 1873 ; son of Malcolm and Fannie (Broughton) Salter, married at Trenton on Nov. 14, 1895, to Ida May Taylor, daughter of W. Scott and Laura (Price) Taylor.
Children : Dorothy May, born November 26, 1896.
Harry B. Salter since 1917 chief auditor of New Jersey, traces his lineage back to Richard Salter, who was Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey during the Colonial period. A more recent descendant, James Salter, was state treasurer of New Jersey in the early part of the nineteenth century.
He received his early education in the public and high school of Tren- ton. In 1888 he entered the newspaper profession and until 1894 he was
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on the staffs of the Trenton newspapers. He was also Trenton correspond- ent for New York and Philadelphia papers. In May 1894 he was appointed deputy clerk of Trenton by C. Edward Murray and held that position until January 1, 1904, when he was elected city clerk. He was re-elected to that position in 1907 and again in 1910. He held that position until August, 1912. From 1914 until April 1917 he was secretary of the Trenton Cham- ber of Commerce, when he was appointed to his present position by Comp- troller Bugbee. For many years (1911 to 1918) he was Lieutenant Colonel Quartermaster on the staff of Quartermaster General C. Edward Murray. In 1905 he was commissioned captain and quartermaster of the second Regiment N. G. N. J., and in 1907, Major of the Second Brigade and in 1908 Deputy Quartermaster General. During the early part of the war with Germany Colonel Salter was placed in active charge of the organiza- tion of the Selective Service Boards under supervision of the Adjutant General and rendered valuable service in the first mobilization of the draft army.
He was also active in the enlistment, organization and mustering in of the new State Militia in 1918, upon which duty he was detailed by the Adjutant General for a long period.
He is a member of Trenton Lodge No. 5, F. and A. M .; Scottish Rite ; Crescent Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S .; Benevelont and Protective Order of Elks; National Union ; Trenton Republican Club ; Carteret Club ; Sons of the Revolution and The Century Club of Philadelphia.
His business address is State House Trenton.
ROBERT LEE SAUNDERS-Irvington, (1156 Clinton Ave. )- City Supt. of Schools. Born at Luzerne, Pa., Dec. 28, 1881, son of Walter Jacob and Cecilia (Hess) Saunders, married at Nanti- coke, Pa., July 23, 1907, to Edith Daniels, daughter of Llewellyn and Anna Thomas Daniels.
Children : Herschel, July 3, 1909 ; Constance, Sept. 8, 1913 ; Rob- ert Lee, Jr., July 10, 1917.
Robert Lee Saunders is of old New England and Pennsylvania Dutch stock. In his early life, he attended the public schools of Wyoming, Pa., graduating from the high school in 1899. He then took a course at the Scranton Business College, from 1899 to 1901 and spent three years at the East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, Normal School. In 1913 he entered the New Jersey Law School and in 1916 the Hamilton College of Law of Chicago, Ill.
He is a member of the Library Commission of Irvington, vice-president of the Home and School League of Irvington, N. J. He is a pioneer in es- tablishing alternating schools in the-state with school savings banks and departmentalization of special subjects in grammar schools. He was su- pervising principal of schools at Metamoros, Pa., Secaucus, N. J., nine years, and has been superintendent of schools, Irvington, N. J .. for the past three years.
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He is a member of the F. and A. M., Enterprise Lodge, of New Jersey, the Irvington Forum.
His business address is Office of the Supt. of Schools, Irving.on, N. J.
SAMUEL SCHLEIMER-New Brunswick-Lawyer. Born at Washington, D. C., on November 6th, 1873, son of David and Esther ( Fishman) Schleimer ; married at New Brunswick, N. J., on April 20th, 1898, to Louisa M. Terrill, daughter of J. Newton and Mary (Meyers) Terrill.
Children : Mary Louise, born June 30th, 1899.
Samuel Schleimer, although born in Washington, D. C., has spent most of his life in New Jersey. In his early days, he attended the public schools of Elizabetlı, graduating in 1901. He decided upon law as his chosen profession, and after completing his course at New York University in 1904 with the degree of LL. B., he entered the law office of the late P. H. Gilhooly, of Elizabeth, where after four years he was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1896. He has since practiced in New Jersey, with offices in Elizabeth, his home town. His practice includes some of the largest civil and criminal cases, and during his period of practice, he has appeared in the courts of every county of the state.
He has always been active in the public affairs of Middlesex county, and for the past seven years has been president of the Middlesex Demo- cratic Club. In September 1916 he was chairman of the committee in charge of the notification of President Wilson at Shadow Lawn. During the great war he was on the executive committee and state counsel of the Four Minute Men and chairman of the Four Minute Men in New Brunswick. In September 1918 he was appointed by Secretary of State Martin as one of the commissioners to take the votes of the soldiers in the camps.
He is a member of the following organizations: Masons, Elks, and numerous clubs.
His business address is 207 Broad Street, Elizabeth, N. J.
HENRY PARSELL SCHNEEWEISS-New Brunswick, (49 Bay- ard St.) .- Treasurer of Rutgers College. Born at New Brunswick, N. J., July 19th, 1856, son of Franz M. and Mary (Parsell) Schneeweiss; married at New Brunswick, N. J., April 14th, 1892, to M. Cornelia Hardenbergh, daughter of J. Rutsen and Catharine (Van Dyck) Hardenbergh.
Children : Catharine Hardenbergh, born Oct. 5th, 1893.
Henry Parsell Schneeweiss is of Austrian and old Dutch and Hugenot stock. His father, Franz M. Schneeweiss attended the University of Vienna at the time of the uprising under Kossuth. His mother Mary (Parsell) Schneeweiss is descended from old Dutch and Hugenot families that lived in New Jersey and Long Island for the past two hundred years.
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., In his candy life he attended Rutgers Preparatory School and was a member of tr class of 1877 of Rutger's College Classical. Upon complet- ing hi- Smilege course, he joined the International Silver Company, at M. iden Lane, New York City, where he took charge of the accounting depar ment, Later he took charge of the export business. In all he spent thirty five years in the employ of the company from 1880 to 1915. In May, 1915. he was named treasurer of Rutgers College, which position he still holds.
He was for many years Elder in the Second Reformed Dutch Church in New Brunswick and its treasurer and much interested in that denom- nation, being a member of its Board of Education in the City of New York and also in its Permament Committee on Public Morals, as well as Delegate several times to its General Synod.
He was connected with the organized charity work in New Brunswick and for several years Treasurer of the charity organization society.
He is a member of the following clubs: Sons of the American Revo- lution.
His business address is Rutger's College. New Brunswick, N. J.
FRANK D. SCHROTH-Trenton, (23 Delewareview Avenue) .- Secretary of the State Board of Taxes and Assessments. Born at Trenton, October 18, 1884; son of the late Assemblyman John Schroth and Margaret (Donahoe) Schroth; married at Trenton, July 6. 1914, to Loretta E. Nolan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Nolan.
Children : Margaret and Loretta.
Mr. Schroth was educated in the public schools of Trenton. After completing his schooling he entered the newspaper profession as a reporter for the "Trenton True American," then a morning paper. From 1905 to 1915 he was connected with the "Trenton Evening Times," for which paper he was the Legislative reporter for many years. During the Legislative session of 1914 he was Secretary to Speaker of the House, A. M. Beek- man. In 1915 he was the State Supervisor of the Census, named by the late David S. Crater, then Secretary of State. He was continued in that capacity by Secretary of State Thomas F. Martin until the completion of the work in the same year. Mr. Schroth was the Trenton correspondent for many New York and Philadelphia papers. He was appointed as Secre- tary of the State Board of Taxes and Assessments December 14, 1915, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Irvine M. Maguire.
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