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He was serving there when in 1904 he was given the republican nomi- nation for Governor and elected by a majority of 51,644. Gov. Stokes's ad- ministration was signalized by very much important legislation. It was his pen that wrote the approval of the laws establishing the "average rate" system in the taxation of railroad property, a second taking from the State Board of Assessors, the function of fixing the valuations of second class railroad property and transferring it to the local assessors, and another creating the County Boards of Taxation. These acts, with one modifiyng the functions of the State Equalization Board, were largely of his inspira- tion. Their purpose was to equate corporation and individual tax bills under regulations that would safeguard both sides ; and the legislation en- riches the state and local treasuries by some millions of dollars annually.
Gov. Stokes was the first to present himself as a candidate for United States Senator in 1910 under the preferential primary law, and led all the candidates on the republican side by a pronounced plurality. The Legisla- ture which had not yet been divested of the function of electing United States Senators was democratic in 1911 and the majority vote of the two Houses made James E. Martine Senator.
Meanwhile, Gov. Stokes's public activities have not abated his interest in banking affairs. He was made the first President of the New Jersey Bankers Association and in 1899 was elected President of the Mechanics
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National Bank at Trenton. His gifts in oratory bring him in wide demand and he has made many notable addresses before educational and other so- cieties of the state. The ex-Governor is a bachelor.
HARLAN FISKE STONE-Englewood .- Law School Dean. Born at Chesterfield, N. H., on October 11, 1872; son of Frederick Lauson and Ann Sophia (Butler) Stone; married on September 7, 1899, to Agnes Harvey, of Chesterfield, N. H.
Harlan F. Stone has been since September, 1910, Dean in the Columbia University School of Law. He had previously been a· Lecturer on Law and a Professor of Law in the University. He is also a member of the law firm of Satterlee, Canfield & Stone, of New York City.
Mr. Stone graduated from Amherst College in 1894 and later studied at the Columbia University School of Law, graduating from there in 1898. Amherst gave him his degree of M. A. in 1897 and the degree of LL. D. in 1913. He holds the degree of LL. B. from Columbia also. He was ad- mitted to the New York bar in 1898; and a year later began his connection with the educational faculty of the University.
Mr. Stone is a director in the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad Company, the Baker & Taylor Company and the Woman's Hotel Company and a member of the Legislative Drafting Research Fund, New York.
Mr. Stone is a republican in politics, attends the Episcopalian Church and is a contributor to many legal publications. His memberships are with the American Bar Association, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Ph. B. K., the A. D. Ph., and he is connected with the Century Club and the Amherst Association.
EDWARD LUTZ STURGESS-Glassboro .- Senator. Born at Glassboro, N. J., April 29th, 1868.
Senator Sturgess has been identified with State, County, and local politics for years. He was elected to the Gloucester County Board of Freeholders to fill an unexpired term, but did not seek re-election. In- stead, in 1907 he was named County Clerk and served in that office for five years. In 1915 he was clerk to the Committee of Highways of the Senate, and Calendar Clerk in the session of 1916. The following year, the president of the Senate, Gaunt made him his private secretary.
In the fall of 1917 elections he entered the race for Senator, and won by the large plurality of 2,073 votes over Hobday, high Demo- crat.
EDGAR HOWARD STURTEVANT-Edgewater .- Member of Board of Education. Born at Jacksonville, Ill., Mar. 7th, 1875;
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son of Alfred Henry and Harriet (Morse) Sturtevant ; married at Kirkwood, Mo., on July 11, 1903, to Bessie Fitch Skinner, daugh- ter of Lemuel and Anna (Fitch) Skinner.
Children : Grace, born July 14, 1904; Cortland, born April 22, 1907; Julian Monson, born Aug. 9, 1908.
Edgar Howard Sturtevant traces his ancestors back to Samuel Stur- tevant, who resided in Plymouth, Mass., in 1642; William Bradford, second Governor of the Plymouth Colony, and Robert Cushman, agent of the Pilgrim band, who procured the Mayflower.
He was educated in the public schools of Jacksonville, Ill., graduating in 1890 and graduated from the Whipple Academy of Jacksonville, Ill., in 1893. He also studied in Illinois College in 1893-1895, and in 1898 the University of Indiana conferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1901 the University of Chicago gave him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
During the year of 1902-1903 he taught at Maryville College, Mary- ville. Tenn., and then became assistant professor in the University of Missouri, which position he filled until 1905. Then for a short period he taught at the University of Indiana, and in 1907 became assistant pro- fessor at Columbia, which position he still holds.
Since June, 1908, he has lived in Edgewater. In 1912 he was ap- pointed to the State Board of Education by Governor Fielder, for a term, expiring in 1922.
His business address is Columbia University, New York City.
EDWARD JOSEPH SULLIVAN-Jersey City, (176 5th Street) -Assemblyman. Born in Jersey City, N. J., November 14th, 1876.
Edward Joseph Sullivan was educated in the public schools of Jersey City, and has always taken a leading part in the politics of Hud- son County, and for fifteen years, until the time of his election to the Legislature, was a member of the Democratic County Committee of Hudson County.
At the fall 1918 elections he defeated his Republican opponent May- berry with a plurality of 19,545 votes.
FRANK M. TAYLOR-Hackensack .- Judge of Court of Errors and Appeals. Born at Fairview, Bergen county, N. J., July 23, 1873.
Frank M. Taylor has been a resident of New Jersey since his birth. For the past twenty years he has been a member of the firm of Lasher & Taylor, general agents for Hartford Fire Insurance, having charge of the company's affairs in New York and New Jersey.
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In 1913 he was appointed by Governor Fielder to serve as his personal military aide with the rank of Colonel. He was re-appointed to that position by Acting Governor Taylor, and again re-appointed by Governor Fielder in 1914. In 1915 he was appointed a judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals by Governor Fielder. His term will expire in 1921.
FREDERICK J. TATTERSALL-Paterson .- Assemblyman ; Born in Paterson, N. J., December 24th, 1879.
Mr. Tattersall was educated in the public schools of Paterson, his birthplace, graduating from the Paterson High School. Upon his gradu- ation from high school he engaged in the plumbing trade, and continued it for twenty years. Later he became acting Sales Manager for the John S. Norton Company of Jersey City and Paterson, which position he still holds.
Although Mr. Tattersall has never held another public office, previous- ly to being elected to the Assembly, he has always been identified as an active worker for the republican party. He is now serving his third term in the Assembly, having been returned at the last elections by a plurality of 6,016 votes over Kennedy, high Democrat.
He is a member of the Master Plumbers Association, Benevolent Lodge No. 45, Free and Accepted Masons, and Fabiola Lodge, No. 57, Knights of Pythias.
EZRA SQUIER TIPPLE-Madison .- Seminary President. (Pho- tograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born in Camden, N. Y., Jan- uary 23, 1861; son of Martin and Sarah E. (Squier) Tipple ; mar- ried June 24, 1897, to Edna E. White, daughter of Albert E. F. and Nellie A. White, of Detroit, Mich.
Ezra S. Tipple has been President of Drew Theological Seminary since 1912 and is the author of several books on theological subjects.
Dr. Tipple graduated from Syracuse University in 1884 with the A. B. degree and from Drew Seminary in 1887. In 1SS5 Syracuse Uni- versity conferred the A. M., in 1886 the Ph. D., in 1899 the D. D. and in 1913 the LL. D. degrees upon him.
Upon taking orders in the Methodist Episcopal Church, he became pastor of the St. Luke's Church in New York in 1887, of Grace Church in 1893 and of Saint James Church in 1897. Form 1901 he was the Ex- ecutive Secretary at New York of the Metropolitan Thank-Offering Com- mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church until 1904 when he became Pas- tor again of Grace Church.
Dr. Tipple was appointed Professor of Practical Theology in Drew Theological Seminary in 1905 and held that chair till he was made Presi- dent of the Seminary. He is a Trustee of the Board of Education of the
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Methodist Church, a Trustee of Syracuse University and the Carmel School for Girls, member of the Board of Managers of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Secretary of the Book Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, and of the Delta Upsilon Fraternities.
Besides contributing to the religious press, Dr. Tipple is the author of "Heart of Asbury's Journal" (1905), "The Minister of God" (1906), "Drew Sermons"-first series (1906), second series (1907) "Drew Sermons on the Golden Texts" (1908, 1909, 1910), "Life of Freeborn Garrettson" (1910), "Some Famous Country Parishes" (1911) and "Life of Francis Ashbury" (1916).
WILLIAM ST. JOHN TOZER-Bogota, (39 Beechwood Ave.) -Lawyer and Assemblyman. Born at New York City, N. Y., on November 7th, 1885, son of William and Emily Louise (Wilson) Tozer; married at Union Hill, N. J., August 30th, 1909, to Mary Grace Wissig, daughter of Edward and Martha Wissig.
Children : Mary Grace, born February 10th, 1912; William St. John, Jr., born January 1st, 1913; Ruth, born August 4, 1914; Edward W., born December 6th, 1917.
William St. John Tozer is of English-Scotch descent. In his early days he attended the public schools of New York City, his birthplace, and later those of New Jersey. He entered the New York Preparatory School, which he attended from 1905 to 1907 and thereupon took a course at the New York Law School.
He was admitted to Bar in New York in March 1910, in New Jer- sey as attorney in 1913 and as counselor in 1916, and is also member of Bar of United States Supreme Court.
He was a member of the borough council of Bogota from 1916 to 1919, and at the fall elections was elected to the State Assembly.
He is a member of the Union League Club of Hackensack, the New York County Lawyers Association, Bergen County Lawyers Association and the Royal Arcanum.
His business address is 42 Broadway, New York City,
WALKER WHITING VICK-Rutherford, (16 Addison Avenue) -Exporter. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born at Wilmington, N. C. August 16th, 1878; son of Samuel W. and Katherine (Rothwell) Vick; married at New York City, on Octo- ber 15th, 1902, to Sadie Averill Plunkitt, niece of former Senator George W. Plunkitt, of New York.
Children : Helen M., born August 5th, 1903; Walker W. Jr., born April 29th, 1905; Sally P., born December 19th, 1908; Rosemary P., born June 5th, 1912; Ruth M., born July 29th, 1917; Irene- Wilson, born Dec. 28th, 1918.
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Walker W. Vick was Receiver General in 1913-'14 of Santo Domingo; and, becoming convinced as to the attempt to exploit this small nation for which we acted responsibly in a fiduciary capacity, he initiated and forced the investigation into the course pursued by James Mark Sullivan, the United States Minister there, which attracted national and international attention, and assisted in the settlement of the revolutionary disturbances on the Island. The findings of U. S. Senator James D. Phelan, of Cali- fornia, Special Commissioner of President Wilson, more than confirmed all of Mr. Vick's contentions. The Dominican Chamber of Commerce, prominent merchants and managers of various enterprises on the Island, many of the Dominican Senators and Deputies as well as all of the American business interests, joined in a public testimonial to Mr. Vick for his work there and President Wilson himself sent him a warm letter of appreciation. While in Carribean waters Mr. Vick visited Hayti also and made a report that clearly indicated that American occupation of the Island and treaty control was the only method of ending internal dis- turbances. Furthermore, Mr. Vick recommended for some years changes in Santo Domingo which have recently been affected through American military occupation.
All of these activities of Mr. Vick in the West Indies followed un- selfish and enthusiastic work for the political advancement of Woodrow Wilson. He had known President Wilson's father intimately and the Presi- dent himself during their residence in Wilmington, N. C., and he was deep- ly interested in Dr. Wilson's gubernatorial canvass in 1910. He became first lieutenant to William F. McCombs in 1911 and aided him till after the close of the National campaign of 1912, probably having been more inti- mately acquainted with the campaign than anyone. He officiated as Mal- ager of the General Headquarters of the Woodrow Wilson pre-Convention campaign Committee and served as Assistant Secretary of the Democratic National Committee in 1912 and until the St. Louis Convention 1916. One of the features of Mr. Vick's work during the 1912 campaign was the or- ganization of the savings and strict business system conducted at the Na- tional Headquarters, in such marked contrast to other campaigns. When preparations were being made for Wilson's inauguration as President, Mr. Vick was sent to Washington as Secretary of the Inaugural Committee to supervise them and was accorded much of the credit for the success of the imposing function of 1913. Mr. Vick was a delegate from the Sixth New Jersey District to the St. Louis Convention that renominated Presi- dent Wilson in 1916.
The Vick family line is an old one. It is of Norman origin and is quoted in Burke's and other established works on heraldry. The family came to Virgina in the early sixteenth century ; but Mr. Vick's immediate branch moved to Edgecombe, now Nash County, North Carolina, and served in the American Revolution from that State. Some of his forebears after- wards went to Mississippi and established the town of Vicksburg. The fam- ily is also related to the Vicks of Canada and of Rochester, N. Y., who came here about a century ago.
Mr. Vick has traveled extensively in South America, Mexico, Southern Spain, throughout the West Indies and over other sections. He came to New York eighteen years ago. He was engaged for years in mining,
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smelting and industrial enterprises and was a contributor to magazines and newspapers. During the Spanish American War he served in the United States Navy; in 1912 was President of the United Spanish War Veterans Encampment Commission ; and in 1917 was appointed Assistant Quartermaster General of the Spanish War Veterans. He was active in the campaign resulting in the Panama Exposition in San Francisco. In 1915 he actively engaged in the extension of exports and import trade to South America, Central America, the West Indies. Australia, the Philippines and the Far East as well as throughout Europe. He is the general manager of the Factory Products Export Corporation and Manufacturers' Agents Company, Inc., of New York, Vice President of The Cuyahoga Stamping & Machine Co. of Cleveland, Ohio; Vice President of the Taft Kitchen Corp., New Haven, Conn., and Vice President and Director of B. A. Cheney & Co., of New York.
He is a member of the American Manufacturers Export Association, Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. Pan-American Society, the Merchants' Association of New York. Italian-American Society, American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico, National Foreign Trade Council, and the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
Mr. Vick is a member of the Rocky Mountain Club and the Lawyers Club of New York, the Club Union and Casino de Juventud, Santo Domin- go, the New York Press, the New York Southern Society, the North Caro- lina Society of New York, the Japan and Mexico Societies, John T. Hilton Camp No. 3 United Spanish War Veterans, No. 547, B. P. O. E. and the Democratic of Rutherford, the National Security League and the Navy League of the United States.
RHEUA GUSSIE VICKERS-Jersey City, (22 Duncan Ave.)- Club Woman and Social Worker. Born at Mt. Vernon, N. Y., daughter of John V. and Anne (Miller) Bauchelle, married at Elizabeth, N. J., 1896, to George T. Vickers, son of Thomas Vickers, of Cincinnati, O.
Children : George T., born 1904.
Rheua Gussie Vickers is a descendant from French Bauchelles, who emigrated to Germany and thence to America at the time of the Huguenot persecutions in France. Her maternal ancestors can be traced back to Lord Radcliffe of England.
She was educated in the public schools of Elizabeth. As a child she was very fond of music and cultivated it in later years. For years, she only worked for charity and private musical affairs in Jersey City, but when the suffrage movement swept the state she came to the fore- ground. Together with Mrs. Everett Colby, Mrs. P. M. Garrison she went to Trenton before the Legislature, in an effort to force action of the government bodies, which of course was against suffrage. It was she who conducted a Music Festival in Jersey City which over three thou- sand people attended.
She is a member of the Woman's Club of Jersey City, the Choral Society, Afternoon Music Club, Jersey City Suffrage Association, the
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Board of St. Katherine's Home and the board of Whittier House Aux- iliary.
GEORGE THEODORE VICKERS-Jersey City, (22 Duncan Ave.)-Lawyer. Born at Cincinnati, O., 1871, son of Thomas and Caroline (Seeberger) Vickers, married at Elizabeth, N. J., in 1898, to Rhena Gussie Bauchelle, daughter of John U. Bauchelle. Children : George T. Jr., born 1904.
George T. Vickers is descended from an old Scotch family, the Mac Vicars. Both his father and mother were foreigners, having come to America. Thomas Vickers, father of the subject of this sketch met his wife while studying for the Unitarian ministry at Heidelberg University. Germany. They both returned to London and thence to America, settling at Cincinnati, O. Here they became well known in literary circles, and he became dean of Ohio University, which position he held until he was honored by becoming librarian of the famous Cincinnati library.
George Theodore Vickers was educated at home by private tutors, and in order to complete his education went abroad to study at Heidelberg University. He remained there for six years, returning to America and settling in the west. He stayed some time at Bismark, South Dakota and then went to Arkansas, where he contracted black malaria. He entered Harvard University to take a post graduate course in astronomy, and then accompanied an expedition with the Pickering Brothers, to Araquipa, Peru, staying two and one-half years. On his return from there, he went on another European trip, of short duration, and returning to America he settled in Jersey City. He entered the law offices of Collings and Corbin, deciding to study law, and immediately after his admittance to the bar, was named assistant prosecutor of Hudson County, which office he still fills.
His military career began at the time of the Spanish American War. He joined the Essex Calvary, and was given a Captain's commission, in the Fourth Regiment, Jersey City. He rapidly rose to major, lieutenant, colonel, and as colonel, he took his regiment to the Border at the time of the Mexican trouble, and on his return was given a public ovation for his splendid care of the troops while encamped at Douglas, Arizona. When the mobiliza- tion for the European War began, he at once resigned his position to go with his regiment, but after six weeks of service, he was suddenly mus- tered out, this being in accordance with the plan carried out during the early part of the war, dropping all National Guard Colonels. Over 2,000 telegrams from Hudson County went to Washington, in a vain plea for his reinstatement.
He is a member of the Cartaret Club of Jersey City, the Sag Harbor Yacht Club, Scottish Rites, Union League Club of Hudson County, Bar Association and the Essex Troop Veterans Association.
His business address is Court House, Jersey City, N. J.
DANIEL S. VOORHEES-Morristown, (32 Maple Avenue) - Lawyer. Born at Somerville, on August 15, 1852; son of Daniel
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Spader and Mary Louise Campton (Doty ) Voorhees; married on January 28th, 1874, to Frances L. White, daughter of W. W. White, of New Brunswick.
Daniel S. Voorhees was for four years State Treasurer of New Jersey and for more than a quarter of a century County Clerk of Morris county and has long been a recognized force in the republican politics of the State. He was reared in Elizabeth of Holland ancestry and, while attending the schools there, sold newspapers at the local railway station as an on-the- side business diversion. He secured employment in a hardware store in Elizabeth, but at seventeen formed the connection with the County Clerk's office that continued for so long. He began with a clerkship offered to him by County Clerk Richard Spear, and discharged his functions with an ac- ceptability that prompted William McCarty, whom the democrats of the county afterwards selected County Clerk, to select him, notwithstanding that he is a republican, for the position of Deputy County Clerk. At the election in 1898 the republicans put Mr. Voorhees in nomination for the chief office and he was elected. Successive re-elections made him, includ- ing his service as an employee, an incumbent in the County Clerk's office for thirty-seven years.
Meanwhile Mr. Voorhees had served as Town Clerk of Morristown for five years, and the general line of his work in both town and county offices inspired him with an ambition to become a lawyer. He studied successively in the office of John M. Betts, George Forsythe and Quayle & Vreeland. He was admitted to the Bar in 1906; but he had scarcely opened an office for practice before the republican joint meeting of the two Houses of the Legislature at Trenton selected him for the office of State Treasurer. He served until, his term expiring in 1911, at a time when the democrats had acquired control of the joint meeting, he was displaced by Edward I. Edwards, then cashier, now the President of the First National Bank of Jersey City.
State Treasurer Voorlees has been a member of the Republican State Committee since 1903 and had risen to great power in the councils of the party when Woodrow Wilson succeeded to the Governorship of New Jersey.
JACOB J. VREELAND-Dover, (16 West Blackwell St.)- Architect. Born at Dover, N. J., March 9th, 1875; son of Jacob J. and Martha (Cooper) Vreeland ; married at Dover, N. J., May 25th, 1898, to Ella Abbie Tucker, (great-great grandniece of Daniel Webster), daughter of Mathew and Anna (Blish) Tucker.
Children : Francis M., March 15th, 1899; Jacob W., March 5, 1903; Henry W., Nov. 21, 1905; Keneth M., Nov. 7th, 1908; Ma- thew T., Nov. 8, 1913; Robert W., June 24, 1914, and Florence E., (deceased).
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The ancestors of the Vreeland family came from Holland in 1636. Michael Jensen Vreeland, accompanied by three sons, settled in Green- ville, New Jersey, now a part of Jersey City. Richard, son of Michael Jensen Vreeland, settled at, or near Pompton Plains, New Jersey. He was the progenitor of the family of which Jacob J. Vreeland is a mem- ber.
Enoch Vreeland, the grandson of Richard Vreeland, who was the great-great-grandfather of Jacob J. Vreeland, was a resident of Bergen County, New Jersey. His son Jacob, a carpenter by trade, was the first branch of the family to settle in Morris County, New Jersey. His son, Richard J., was born in Stoneybrook, Morris County, New Jersey, June 15, 1810; died 1894. During the Civil War he enlisted in Company E, Fifteenth New Jersey Volunteers. He was prominent in the Whig Party, and afterwards became a Republican. He married Catherine Dey, born at Green Pond, New Jersey, December 12, 1812; died 1881. She was the daughter of John Dey, a native of Scotland.
Their son, Jacob J. Vreeland, Sr., the father of our subject, was born at Stoneybrook, New Jersey, November 2, 1839; died April 12, 1910. He located in Dover in 1866. He was a Contractor and Builder, and spent thirty-eight years in active business, retiring in 1908. He was a staunch Republican and active in local and county politics. He served on the Town Council for twelve years, and was a member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders for about eight years, and was chosen many times as delegate to County and State Conventions, which were held in the days before the Primary Laws were put in force. He was one of the organizers of the Fire Department of the Town of Dover, and was its Chief for a number of years. After retiring from business he was ap- pointed the Assessor of the Town of Dover. He married Martha Cooper, born in Sparta, New Jersey, December 7, 1841, died April, 1902. He and his wife had the following children : Frances M., Charles E .. , John Edward, Robert C., and Jacob J., Jr.
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