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CHARLES H. ELLIS-Camden .- Mayor. Born in Camden, April 22, 1862 ; son of Charles H. and Hannah A. (Kille) Ellis ; married at Camden, 1883, to Emma, daughter of Stephen T. and Sarah Tay- lor ; (died October 25th, 1897 ; )-2nd on April 29th, 1907, to Hattie H., daughter of John Weber.
Children : Ella T., Frank M., Laura D. and Elizabeth.
Charles H. Ellis is now serving his fifth term as Mayor of Camden and has held the office continuously since 1904.
Mr. Ellis, who was educated in the public schools of Camden, had been previously groomed for the public service in minor local places. He was in the grocery business before Col- lector Moffett named him as Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for the United States Government in the Southern District of New Jersey. That was the beginning of his politi- cal career and he served in that relation for eight years.
His work municipally was, until the time he reached the Mayoralty, in the City Council and in the Board of Education. ¿He was first elected to the local "school board in March of 1891 and served until an act of the legislature ordered the replace- ment of the board by an appoin- tive Commission of Public In- struction. The act was passed on the eve of Mayor Pratt's re- tirement from office ; and, on the day his term expired, the Mayor appointed Mr. Ellis to serve on the new Commission. Mayor Wescott, who took office the next day, contested the right of the former Mayor to appoint the members of the Commission ; and the courts sustained him. That decision, of course, ousted the Commis- sioners whom Mayor Pratt had appointed and gave the power of appoint- ment to Mayor Wescott. Mr. Ellis was one of Mayor Pratt's appointees whom Mayor Wescott selected for the new Board. Mr. Ellis was first President of the new board. In 1892 he was elected to the City Council, made leader on the floor of the Chamber, and in 1894 became the President of the body. In 1903 he was given the republican nomination for Mayor; and, elected then, was re-elected in 1907, 1910, 1913 and 1916.
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Mayor Ellis is a member of Trimble Lodge No. 117 F. & A. M., of Ex- celsior and Perfection Consistory, Scottish Rite, of the Tall Cedars of Lebanon, Consent Temple Knights of Mystie Shrine, Senatus Lodge I. O. O. F., the Leni Lenape, the I. O. R. M., the Woodmen of America, Camden Council No. 17 Order North America, Lydia Dinah Council, Jr. O. U. A. M., Evening Star Council, Sr. O. U. A. M., Washington Camp P. O. S. of A., Camden Lodge No. 111 L. O. O. M., Rebeccah Lodge I. O. O. F. Dewey Temple O. U. A. M. Camden Lodge No. 293 B. P. O. E., and the Young Men's Christian Association, honorary member of the Physicians Motor Club and a member of the Strollers Club of Philadelphia and the Sixth Ward Republican Club of Camden.
ADDISON ELY-Rutherford-Lawyer. Born in Westfield, Mass., May 23, 1853 ; son of William and Emiline (Harrison) Ely ; married in 1874 to Emily A. Johnson of Connecticut Farms.
Addison Ely is descended from families living in Massachusetts since early colonial times. Captain Levy Ely who was killed in the battle of Mo- hawk during the Revolution is of his line ; and his grandfather on his moth- er's side was a cousin of President William Henry Harrison, whose grand- son, Benjamin Harrison, later was also President of the United States. Upon the death of Mr. Ely's mother in '62. the family moved to Bloomfield. Having been educated in part at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, he became at eighteen a teacher in the District School in Connecticut Farms and afterwards principal of the Caldwell High School and of the public school at Rutherford. He was admitted to the Bar as an attorney in 1SSS, becoming a counselor in '91; and has since practiced his profession at his office in Bergen County.
In 1896 he was the Democratic candidate for a seat in the National Congress and in 1900 a delegate to the National Democratic Convention held at Kansas City. Of militant temperment too, he has connected himself with Co. C. 3rd Regiment N. G. N. J. and since 1893 has been Captain of Co. L. 2nd Regiment. In '98 he served in the Spanish-American War and was Provost Marshal of General Lee's Corps at Jacksonville.
JOHN H. ELY-Newark, (67 Pennsylvania Avenue) -Archi- tect. Born New Hope, Pa., June 13th, 1851; son of Matthias C. and Keziah (Stackhouse) Ely : married at Cranbury Neck, (N. J.) Dec. 13th, 1871, to Lydia Helen Wilson, daughter of Dr. Ezekiel and Hannah (Bergen) Wilson.
Children : Wilson C .; Mrs. Ida M. Bemiss.
John H. Ely is of English extraction on his father's side: his mother was of French lineage. Joshua Ely, who came from Dunham. Notting- ham, England, in 1635, purchased four hundred acres of land in what was then called Burlington County. New Jersey. The lot on which the
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State House, Trenton, now stands, adjoined his tract on the south. The father of Mr. Ely was engaged in the lumber business in Pennsylvania for a number of years, but about twenty years before his death he came to this State, where he died, February 8th, 1895.
Mr. Ely attended the public schools in New Hope, Bucks county, Pa., until he was seven years of age, and in White Haven, Lucerne County, Pa., for five years afterwards. He completed his schooling in the public schools of this State, whither he came with his father's family when he was twelve years of age. And when the choice of a life calling became necessary, he chose that of the architect. He has followed his profession, in Newark since 1885. Many important buildings are of his planning. Among these is the great new City Hall in Newark-one of the most imposing and beau- tiful municipal buildings in the country. He also planned and built the city's new hospital. These great public works were accomplished in co- laboration with his son.
Mr. Ely is a worker in the ranks of the Democratic party. He was elected to serve in the Common Council of Newark for two years, 1892 and 1895; and at the organization of the Council in 1895, a unanimous vote, made him its President. He was one of the Committee of 100 that aided in the city's 250th Anniversary festivities : and he has served on some of the city commissions. In 1909 and 1910 he was appointed a member of the Shade Tree Commission ; in 1911 a trustee of the Free Public Library, and in 1912 a member of the Board of Directors of the Newark Museum Association. He is also a member of the Excise Board.
Mrs. Ely is a granddaughter of the Rev. Peter Wilson who was on the circuit embracing Hightstown, Hamilton Square and Trenton early in the nineteenth century. Of Mr. Ely's children, Wilson C., his partner in business, was married on June 2, 1897, to Grace R. Chamberlain, of James- burg. His daughter Ida May, married, in February, 1898, Dr. E. D. Bemiss, of Newark.
Among the professional associations with which he has allied himself, is the American Institute of Architects, and he is one of the charter mem- bers of the New Jersey Chapter of the Institute. He is also a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of Salaam Temple, associated with the Car- taret Book Club, the Newark Board of Trade and the New Jersey His- torical Society and a member of the Essex Club, the Gottfried Krueger Association, the Masonic Club of New Jersey and the Washington Asso- ciation.
AYMAR EMBURY-Englewood .- Architect. Born in New York, August 15, 1880; son of Aymar and Fannie Miller (Bates) Em- bury ; married May 14, 1904, to Dorothy Coe, of Englewood.
Aymar Embury, in his architect work, specializes in country houses. He has planned and supervised the construction of more then 250 of these, and is the author of two or three books on architectural topics. He has also directed the erection of some hotels and library buildings and banks in the country.
Mr. Embury entered Princeton University and, graduated with the C. E. degree in 1900, was given the M. S. degree in 1901. He had been in busi-
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ness for three years in New York when in 1904 he became an instructor in architecture at Princeton University but he was there for only a year, re- turning then to his practice.
Mr. Embury is the author of "100 Country Houses," 1908; "The Dutch Colonial House," 1912; "Country Houses," 1914; "Early American Church- es," 1914. He is a member of the A. I. A., the Architectural League, New York, Princeton Engineering Society, and is connected with The Players, the Englewood Country, the Knickerbocker Country Clubs.
Mr. Embury has a New York office at 132 Madison Avenue.
ALLEN B. ENDICOTT-Atlantic City .- Jurist. Born at May's Landing, March 7, 1857; son of Thomas Doughty and Anne Pen- nington Endicott.
Children : Mrs. H. K. Read ; Thomas Pennington ; Allen Brown ; Paul Davis.
Allen B. Endicott, who is widely known as a jurist in South Jersey, was for eleven years City Collector of Atlantic City, served meanwhile as Collector of Atlantic County for the six years following May of 1883, was Common Pleas Judge of the county for more than six years, Circuit Court Judge for seven years and is President of the Board of Trustees of the Atlantic Rescue Mission, and of the New Jersey Sunday School Council of Adult Bible Class Work. His first appointment as Presiding Judge of the county courts came from Gov. Griggs. He served only the single term at that time but ; in 1898 he was again appointed by Governor Griggs. In December, 1903, Governor Murphy nominated him to the State Senate for Circuit Court Judge to fill a vacancy caused by the death, in November of that year, of James H. Nixon. While he has not been active in the politics of late years, Judge Endicott is republican and Gov. Wilson who was in office at the time, being a democrat, he failed of reappointment, in 1911.
Judge Endicott acquired his early education in the local schools, and, subsequently attending the Peddie Institute at Hightstown, graduated in June, 1876, with the Ph. B. degree. He read law with Peter L. Voorhees of Camden and graduated from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1879.
Judge Endicott was President of the New Jersey Bar Association in 1905-1906. He is the organizer and teacher of the four hundred members of the Allen Brown Bible Class of the First Presbyterian Church and is super- intendent of Adult Bible Class Work in Atlantic County. Besides the Ph. B. degree conferred by Peddie Institute he holds the LL. B. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Board of Gover- nors of Peddie Institute and of the Board of Governors of the Atlantic City Hospital and President (since its organization in 1889) of the Union National Bank of Atlantic City.
BRITTON D. EVANS-Morris Plains .- Alienist. Born in Caro- line County, Md., October 1, 1858 son of Dr. Lewis W. and Lucinda
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(Boone) Evans; married in 1889 to Addie E. Dill, a native of Maryland, but at that time a resident of Wilmington, Del.
Children : Britton Buckley, Margaret Snow, Helen Sothern, and Louise Duroc.
Dr. Britton D. Evans, who has been Medical Director of the New Jersey State Hospital at Morris Plains, for more than twenty-five years and who is in high repute as an authority on mental diseases, is a direct descendant, on his father's side, of Christman Evans, eminent Welsh divine, and, on his mother's side, of Daniel Boone, the celebrated Kentucky pioneer. His father, a graduate of two of the medical schools of Phila- delphia and a practitioner for many years in that city, was first married to a Miss Patton ; Lucinda Boone was his second wife. Dr. Evan's grand- father, Colonel Britton Evans, served under General Harrison in the war of 1812, with the rank of lieutenant of artillery, took part in the war with Mexi- co, and in the Florida war and at the time of his death was organizing a company to go to Greece to help her in her strug- gle for independence against Turkey. His original commis- sion, signed by Presidents Mon- roe and Madison, and also the original credentials which en- abled him to organize a company in aid of the Greeks, are in the possession of Dr. Evans.
Doctor Evans was reared to manhood in his native State, acquiring an academic educa- tion which prepared him for the activities of life. Later he be- came a student in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore, from which he was graduated in the class of 1885. He located for active practice in Millington, Kent County, Md., and continued thus employed for two years, when he was appointed upon the staff of surgeons of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. With- out solicitation on his part, he was called to the position of Assistant Medi- cal Superintendent of the Maryland Hospital for the Insane at Catons- ville, in which capacity he served for nearly five years, gaining a valuable experience. He then resigned in order to accept the position of Medical Superintendent of the Maryland Institution for the Feeble-minded ; and after a very short period he was offered the position of Medical Director of The New Jersey State Hospital at Morris Plains - this being tendered to him for his efficiency and ability in psychistry and the care and treatment of the insane.
He entered upon his duties there on June 1, 1892. He had not been
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there a year when he promoted the change of the name of the institution from "The Morristown Asylum" to "The New Jersey State Hospital at Morris Plains." The term "asylum" signifies a place where mentally in- firm persons are kept and protected against the vicessitudes incident to the struggle of life, while a "hospital" is, in addition, an institution where per- sons who are ill, whether mentally or physically, are treated by the most up-to-date methods. For this purpose numerous infirmaries and operating rooms have been opened, where patients are treated in bed and receive all the nursing care and medical attention their cases need. He has also, with the co-operation of the Board of Managers, established a training school for nurses from which, since October 30, 1894, 240 have been graduated. A new dormitory building with a capacity for 600 patients, a home for the nurses, and buildings for the isolation and treatment of the insane of the hospital suffering from tuberculosis, have been erected; and a number of new departments established. The number of patients on June 1, 1892. when Dr. Evans assumed the office of Medical Director was 939 and at the present date is about 2700.
Dr. Evans has appeared as witness in many cases both in New York State and New Jersey, the most important of which being the Prussor case in Albany, N. Y., the Teranova case in New York City, the James Joseph Gallagher case, the J. Armstrong Chaloner case and in the two Thaw trials and the subsequent haebus corpus proceedings. His contribution to the medical literature of the world on nervous and mental diseases have been numerous and valuable.
Dr. Evans is a member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, the American Medical Association, the Medical Society of New Jersey, the Medico-Legal Society of New York, the American Medi- co-Psychological Association, the National Society for the Study and Care of Epileptics or Insane, the National Conference of Charities and Correc- tion, ex-President of the Morris County Medical Society, and an honorary member of the Temperance Reform League of Boston, a society organized for the scientific study and cure of inebriety, a member of the staff of All Souls Hospital, Morristown, ex-President of the Tri-County Medical So- ciety, Councillor of the American Congress of Internal Medicine for the State of New Jersey, and Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He is also a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, Improved Order of Red Men and the Royal Arcanum. He is a member of the Methodist church, as is also his wife.
MARK M. FAGAN-Jersey City, (527 Jersey Avenue.)-Under- taker. Born in Jersey City, in 1864; married in 1911.
Mark M. Fagan was an assistant in his uncle's undertaker establish- ment when, in 1903, he was elected Mayor of Jersey City. When the people of Jersey City changed the form of local government by the acceptance of
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the Commission Rule system, he was elected one of the members of the Commission and chosen by his colleagues on the Commission to perform the functions of a Mayor.
Mayor Fagan has been a member of the Board of Freeholders and of the State Tax Board, and has held other county and state offices. He is a republican in politics and an attendant of the Catholic Church.
DUDLEY FARRAND-Newark, (49 Lincoln Park) .- Electrical Engineer. Born in Bloomfield, Feb. 21, 1867; son of Charles and Anna (Farrand) Farrand; married in Newark, Nov. 9th, 1899, to Jane Champenois, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Champenois, of Newark.
Children : Dudley Champenois, born May 3rd, 1901, (died July 19th, 1901 ;) Louise Champenois, born May 2, 1903, (died Nov. 11th, 1905 ;) Laura Jean, born Feb. 10th, 1907.
The Farrand family comes of the French Hugeunots. Nathan Farrand, first of the family on this side of the sea of whom there is any mention, is noted in an ancient record as having settled in Milford, Conn., in 1645. His son, also Nathan, came to Newark in 1691 and rose to be a Judge of the Essex County Court ; and Beth- uel Farrand, great-great-grand- father of Mr. Farrand, was a lieutenant in the Patriot Army during the Revolution.
Dudley Farrand was educated in the Bloomfield schools, Com- mon and High, and at the New- ark Academy. Later, in 1887, he entered Princeton College but did not take the course. Elec- tricity was then just beginning to burst on the notice of men as a new force of nature that might be harnessed for human use. The rising generation be- came interested in it ; and young Farrand, deciding not to take the course at Princeton, accepted a position with the Newark Elec- tric Light and Power Company. He has since filled every position in the electrical department of that com- pany and of the now Public Service Corporation, which absorbed it.
Mr. Farrand had been with the Electric Light and Power Company for only two years when he was made Assistant Secretary of the Company ;
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and two years afterwards was promoted to the position of Assistant Mana- ger, with charge of the operating department; in 1892 he was placed in charge of Design and Construction. Thence his rise to higher positions was rapid. He became Assistant Manager of the company in 1896, and a year later was made General Manager. The supervision of the company's work all over New Jersey was given to him in 1899; and in 1903, when the company had gone under the wing of the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey, he was made General Manager of its electric department. Later, when the energies of the Public Service Corporation were differentiated, it established the Public Service Electric Company to take over and operate all of its electric properties. Mr. Farrand was made Vice President and General Manager of that company ; and when, at the outbreak of hostilities between United States and Germany, Gen. Hine was given a leave of ab- sence, Mr. Farrand was made Assistant to President McCarter of the Public Service Corporation.
Mr. Farrand's skill and expertness as an electrical engineer have com- manded wide attention. He assisted the Board of Engineers, in an advisory way, in compiling data for the use of the National Conservation Commis- sion appointed by President Roosevelt ; and later was invited by the Presi- dent to represent the electric interests in the first Conference of Governors, held at the White House in May, 1908.
Mr. Farrand was a private in the First Troop of Cavalry of New Jersey (Essex troop) from 1893 to 1898. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a Fellow of the American Institute Elec- trical Engineers and Past President of the National Electric Light Associa- tion. His club memberships are with the Engineers (N. Y.), Essex (New- ark), Essex County Country Club (West Orange), Rumson Country and the Sea Bright Beach, and he is one of the Sons of American Revolution.
Mr. Farrand's summer home is at Fair Haven, (Monmouth Co.)
WILSON FARRAND - South Orange. - Head Master. Born Sept. 22, 1862; son of Samuel Ashbel and Louise (Wilson) Far- rand, and brother of Max Farrand, Professor of History, Yale Col- lege, and of Livingston Farrand, President University of Colorado ; married at Boston, on Nov. 23, 1889, to Margaret Washburne Wal- ker, daughter of James P. and Mary A. Walker, of Boston, Mass.
Children : Margaret L., Katharine, and Dorothy W.
Wilson Farrand is Head Master of the Newark Academy, which was founded in 1792, and of which his father became head in 1859. He is one of a family of brothers who are distinguished in the educational and scho- lastic life of the country. Mr. Farrand achieved a high reputation in col- lege for his literary proficiency, and bore away the first Lynde Debate prize when he graduated from Princeton University with the class of '86 ; and has been a frequent speaker at dinners and on other public occasions. He was
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for six months Assistant Editor of Scribner's Magazine, edited Carlyle's "Essay on Burns" in 1896 and Tennyson's "Princess" in 1898; and has writ- ten and lectured considerably on literary topics.
Those, however, of his papers that have attracted most attention have been on educational topics. He has been particularly effective in the move- ment to bring about uniformity in the matter of college entrance require- ments and in establishing the relations of the schools to the colleges. His address before the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the Middle States and Maryland in November, 1893, described by the "Edu- cational Review" for January, 1894, as "a lucid and cogent paper on the work in preparatory schools in English," resulted in the appointment of a committee (with Mr. Farrand for a member) to secure uniformity in col- lege requirements in English. The adoption of the first uniform entrance requirement in any subject by the American colleges followed ; and Mr. Farrand, since its foundation, has been a member of the National Con- ference on Uniform Entrance Requirements in English-for a number of years past, its Secretary. With President Butler, of Columbia University, he was on the committee that planned the organization of the College Entrance Examination Board, and is yet chairman of its Committee on Examination Ratings and a member of the Committee of Review.
A paper which he read before the School Masters' Association in 1905 on the question whether college requirements are too great in quantity led the Asso- ciation to devote all of its meet- ings for a year to the considera- tion of the subject ; and as the result of a second paper, laid before the New England Asso- ciation of Colleges and Prepara- tory Schools, a halt was called on the tendency to increase col- lege requirements and in many cases they were distinctly re- duced.
Dr. Farrand was President of the School Masters' Association of New York (1895-6) ; and in his inaugural speech made a plea for a reform of college entrance requirements that moved President Seth Low, of Colum- bia, and President Eliot, of Harvard, to unite in calling a conference for a discussion of the problem. The conference was attended by representatives of Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Cornell and the University of Penn- sylvania, and by representatives of the secondary schools. Mr. Farrand was chairman of the committee charged with the selection of the Secondary School representatives, and participated, besides, in the general work of the Conference. At the annual meeting, at Johns Hopkins University, of the
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Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, Mr. Farrand returned to the subject with a striking address.
When in 1906 a new committee, known as the National Conference Committee on Standards of Colleges and Secondary Schools, was organized. Mr. Farrand was named to represent the College Entrance Examination Board, which, with the Carnegie Foundation, the Association of State Uni- versities and the various associations of colleges and secondary schools, had delegates in attendance. Mr. Farrand, as First Vice-President, be- came President of the Conference. Its influence is felt throughout the College system of the country ; and Mr. Farrand's position on it has en- abled him to establish intimate relations and co-operation with some of the leading educational authorities of the nation.
In 1909 Mr. Farrand was elected Alumni Trustee of Princeton Uni- versity for a term of five years, and in 1914 was re-elected for a second term. His educational experience and wide acquaintance with school and college men especially qualify him for work of this kind, and ever since his first election to the Board he has been one of its most active and influen- tial members.
Dr. Farrand's early education was acquired at the private school con- ducted by his father in New York City, and at the Newark Academy. Upon his graduation there in 1878, he passed entrance examinations for admission to Princeton University, but, because of his health, decided to suspend his studies for a while and connected himself with a banking establishment in New York City. Returning to his books in 1882, he grad- uated at Princeton University, with the class of '86. His brief connection with Scribner's Magazine followed. Six months later he was made a Master in the Newark Academy. In '89 he was appointed Associate Head Master and in 1901 became the Head Master of the Academy. His ad- ministration has built it into one of the leading educational institutions in the East. It has had a long waiting list for years past.
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