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FLORENCE MARION HOWE HALL-High Bridge .- Writer and Lecturer. Born in Boston, Mass., on August 25, 1845; daugh- ter of Dr. Samuel Gridley and Julia (Ward) Howe ; married, Bos- ton, on Nov. 15, 1871, to David Prescott Hall, son of David Priestly and Caroline (Minturn) Hall.
Children : Samuel Prescott, born Sept. 13th, 1872; Caroline Minturn, born Aug. 25, 1874, married to Hugh Birckhead; Henry Marion, born April 1, 1877; John Howe, born June 20, 1881.
Besides being the daughter of Julia Ward Howe, famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," Florence Marion Howe Hall is of equal note in the field of literature and in labors for the political advance- ment of women. She has been particularly active in promoting the woman suffrage movement, was for eight years President of the New Jersey State Woman Suffrage Association (now its honorary President) ; has been President also of the Plainfield and North Plainfield Equal Suffrage League, leader of the Woman Suffrage party, Twelfth Assembly District of New York City, and in the season of 1916 acted as General Secretary of the Newport County (R. I.) Woman Suffrage League. Equally inter- ested in women's work in other directions, she was for six years Chair- man of Correspondence for New Jersey of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, has been Vice President and Director of the New Jersey Federation, and for eleven years was President of the Plainfield branch of the Alliance of Unitarian Women. She has been Regent and Vice Re- gent, Continental Chapter D. A. R. and is now Hon. Vice Regent.
Mrs. Hall's father was Surgeon-in-Chief of the Greek fleet in the Revolution of '22-'29. Known as "The Massachusetts Philanthropist" and as "The Cadmus of the Blind," he was the educator of Laura Bridgman, the first blind-deaf-mute taught the use of language. One of Mrs. Hall's books is entitled "Laura Bridgman, Dr. Howe's Famous Pupil." Her mother, besides her literary activities, served as President of the Massa- chusetts State Federation of Women's Clubs, was the founder of many clubs, President of the American Women Suffrage Association and of the "Association for the Advancement of Women," a body of women who did excellent work in many States.
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Mrs. Hall was educated by governesses part of the time and later at- tended Miss Peabody's private school at Jamaica Plain, the Agassiz School at Cambridge and the Clapp School in Boston, graduating in 1863. Her tutor in piano music was Otto Dresel.
Mrs. Hall was brought up in an atmosphere of patriotic, philan- thropic and literary activity. Her best known lecture on the platform, at women's clubs and colleges relates to the distinguished people she has met. Most of Mrs. Hall's books were published by Dana Estes & Co., of Boston, and Harper & Brothers, New York. She is the author of "Social Cus- toms," "Handbook of Hospitality for Town and Country," "Boys, Girls and Manners," "The Correct Thing in Good Society," "Flossy's Play Days," "Julia Ward Howe and the Woman Suffrage Movement," "Social Usages at Washington," "Good Form for all Occasions," "A. B. C. of Correct Speech," "The Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic" and, in collaboration with Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott, "Laura Bridgman, Dr. Howe's Famous Pupil."
Mrs. Hall is also an honorary member of the Monday Afternoon Club of Plainfield, and was its President; Regent and now honorary Vice Regent of Continental Chapter D. A. R .; honorary member of the New Jersey Women's Press Club, and once President, now honorary member of the Garden Club at High Bridge. All of her sons are Harvard graduates and hold Harvard degrees-Samuel Prescott that of B. A., Henry M., B. A. also Ph. D. Columbia, and John Howe that of M. A. and B. A.
CHARLES HENRY KING HALSEY-Elizabeth, (668 North Broad St.)-Banker. Born in New York City, on July 2, 1850; son of Charles Henry and Elizabeth Gracie (King) Halsey ; married at Elizabeth, on Oct. 13th, 1885, to Helen I. Kittle, daughter of Robert G. and Lavinia S. Kittle, of Oyster Bay, New York.
Children : Alfred DeWitt, born on July 5, 18SS; Elize Gracie, born Jan. 20th, 1890; Helen Isabel, born March 17, 1891.
Charles H. K. Halsey is President of the Union County Trust Com- pany of Elizabeth. Though he is a factor in the life of the community, he has never held any public office except when from 1880 to 1883 he served as a member of the City Council in Elizabeth. He was, however, from 1904 to 1913, President of the Elizabeth Board of Trade. In this position, he improved all his opportunities to assist in the movements that make for municipal welfare; and during his term, he was a prominent figure in many public celebrations.
Mr. Halsey was educated at the parochial school of Christ Episcopal Church in Elizabeth and the Pingry School. In 1873 he entered the Na- tional City Bank at 52 Wall street, New York, as a runner and worked up to the position of assistant to the Paying Teller. The National State Bank of Elizabeth offered him in 1882 the position of Paying Teller and he accepted it. He left there in 1901 to go to the First National Bank of Elizabeth as its Vice President and Manager. The Union County
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Trust Company, organized in that year, purchased the First National Bank and he continued with the consolidated Trust Company as Secretary and Treasurer until 1905 when the Board of Directors elected him Presi- dent.
Mr. Halsey is a member of the Elizabeth Club, Baltusrol Golf, and the Down Town Club of Newark, and the Rotary of Elizabeth.
The father of Mr. Halsey's mother was President of Columbia College, New York.
AUGUSTUS V. HAMBURG-Newark, (324 Clifton Avenue, ) - Manufacturer. Born in St. Louis, Mo., July 4, 1858; son of Augus- tus and Margaret (Bremer) Hamburg ; married at Newark, Feb- ruary 23, 1882, to H. Ella Hedden, daughter of Ephraim and Elizabeth Hedden, of Newark.
Children : Mabel J.
The parents of Mr. Hamburg returned to Newark from St. Louis when he was two years of age. He acquired his early education in the public schools of the City and finished with a business course in the New Jersey Business College. His first employment was in the dry goods business in Newark, and after five years with the knowledge he acquired he accepted a position with a firm en- gaged in the wholesaling of dry goods and notions in New York where he ob- tained an expert knowledge of handling and selling of buttons. His experience as a salesman combined with the knowledge he obtained of the button industry led to the organization of the Hamburg Button Company of Newark, in 1896, of which he became President. This Company was one of the first to engage in the manufacture of "Mother of Pearl" buttons and nov- elties, and under his man- agement and guidance it became one of the leaders in this industry.
As a member of several Committees and Chairman of some, in the Newark Board of Trade-the representative civic organization of the City-Mr. Hamburg was brought into such close touch with the methods
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and policy of the Board that he was elected as its President, and he has been re-elected for four consecutive terms, an honor which had not been conferred upon any of his predecessors. During his administration many projects aimed to improve civic conditions have been given impetus and direction. He has been called upon to assist in various civic movements during the recent five years, serving the City as a member of the City Plan Commission since 1913, and contributing to the work of developing general plans for the improvement and betterment of the City, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church, helping to broaden its field of labors.
As a member of the Citizens' Committee of 100 appointed under Legis- lative act by the Mayor to formulate and carry out plans for the observance of the 250th Anniversary Celebration of the founding of the City, Mr. Hamburg's advice and support were given in various directions and he assumed, as Chairman of the Sub-committee on Manufactures and Trades, the responsibility of arranging and carrying out a successful three weeks exposition of industrial products made in Newark, which brought together a display of exhibits of a highly educational character. On the outbreak of infantile paralysis in 1916, he was selected by Mayor Raymond to serve as Chairman of the Citizens' Health Committee, in co-operation with the health authorities of the City.
Mr. Hamburg is Vice-President of the Ironbound Trust Company, trustee of the Presbyterian Hospital, and a Director of the New Jersey Automobile Club. He has just retired from the Presidency of the Associ- ated Automobile Clubs of New Jersey. As Director of the Federation of the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce, he helped to weld together a powerful body of influential citizens representing the various civic organi- zations in all parts of the State of New Jersey. He is also a Trustee in the Newark Institute of Arts and Sciences and in various other organi- zations working for public betterment and civic welfare.
When the problem of road construction and traffic regulations became acute he was selected by Governor Fielder to serve as a member of a State Commission to study and report recommendations to the Legisla- ture. The Commission's work resulted in the preparation of laws and the adoption of traffic regulations which are regarded as comprehensive, work- able and an advance over those in effect in other States.
Mr. Hamburg has refused to become active in the political life of Newark, having once declined to accept the nomination for the office of Mayor.
His club memberships are with the Essex, the Down Town and the North End Clubs.
JAMES A. HAMILL-Jersey City, (239 Washington Street. ) Lawyer. Born in Jersey City, March 31, 1871.
James A. Hamill has been a Member of the National House of Repre- sentatives in Washington, representing the now 12th district of New Jersey, since 1909. He had previously served in the state legislature. Mr. Hamill
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attended the Sixth Ward public school and entered St. Peter's College in Jersey City in 1890, graduating from there in 1897 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. For a year following he took the post graduate course in Philosophy and received the degree of Master of Arts. He read law in the office of Isaac Taylor, who was at one time a partner of Chancellor Alexander T. McGill and meanwhile attended the lectures at the New York Law School, where he became a Bachelor of Laws. Admitted to practice at the June term of 1900, he opened an office in Jersey City and has been practicing there ever since.
Mr. Hamill's first nomination for the Assembly was given to him by the Democratic County Convention of 1901 and he served in the Houses of 1902-1903-1904-1905. At that time the question of the equal taxation of railroads with individual property owners was the topic of the hour, and Assemblyman Hamill took a showy part in the debates. In 1906 Allan L. McDermott, who had represented the district in the three prior Con- gresses, declined to stand for re-election, and Assemblyman Hamill was given the nomination. The democratic majority of the county made the nomination as good as an election and he has been re-elected at every cam- paign since.
OGDEN HAGGERTY HAMMOND-Bernardsville. - Insurance. Born at Louisville, Ky., October 13, 1869; son of John Henry and Sophia Vernon (Wolfe) Hammond ; married at Hoboken, April 8, 1907, to Mary Picton Stevens, daughter of John and Mary (Mc Guire) Stevens.
Children : Mary Ste- vens, born May 22, 190S ; Millicent Vernon, born Feb. 25th, 1910; Ogden H., Jr., born Sept. 17th, 1912.
Ogden H. Hammond is Vice President of the Ho- boken Land & Improvement Company. His wife was of the Stevens family of Cas- tle Point. He has always evinced a warm interest in public affairs. He resided before coming to New Jer- sey at St. Paul, Minnesota and Superior, Wis. In Su- perior he was for two years a member of the Board of Aldermen, chairman of its finance Committee; and for three years First Lieutenant of Co. I Third Regiment, Wisconsin National Guard.
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Mr. Hammond is of Scotch-Irish descent on his father's side and of English and French admixture on his mothers. He was educated at Exeter Academy whence in 1889 he entered Yale, graduating with the class of 1893.
Upon coming to New Jersey - in 1907 - he removed. immediately after his marriage to Miss Stevens, to Bernardsville. He was soon made a member of the Bernardsville Township Committee, serving in 1912-'13-'14. In 1913 the Republicans of Somerset county put his name on their ticket for election to the New Jersey House of Assembly, but he was defeated. In 1914 he was put in nomination again and elected by a plurality of 868 over his democratic opponent. At the election of 1915 he was nominated for a second term and his plurality rose to 1303, with a popular democrat in the poll against him. In 1916 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, that nominated Charles E. Hughes against President Wilson.
In the Assembly Mr. Hammond served as a member of the Commis- sion charged with the erection of the new Hospital for the Insane and of the Municipal Finance Commission and Chairman of the Civil Service Investi- gation Commission. He served on the Appropriations Committee and on the Committee on Militia and was Chairman of the Committee on State Prison.
Mr. Hammond's club memberships are with the Union, Yale, Racquet, Riding, St. Anthony, University, Somerset Hills Country, Somerville Country, Essex Fox Hounds and the Middlebrook Country.
JOHN WARREN HARDENBERGH-Jersey City. - Banker. Born in Jersey City, on August 16th, 1860; son of Augustus A. and Catharine (Van Horne) Hardenbergh ; married at New York City, on December S, 1886, to Lillian Williams Wilson, daughter of Legrand K. and Anna M. (Williams) Wilson, of Cold Spring, N. Y. .
Children : Katharine Warren, born October 19th, 1887.
John W. Hardenbergh is President of the Commercial Trust Company of New Jersey, the offices of which are in Jersey City, and of the Registrar & Transfer Company of New York. He has been President of the Trust Company since 1900 and of the New York Company since 1906. He has served as a member of the Board of Finance of Jersey City and was one of the Hudson County Park Commissioners.
Mr. Hardenbergh was brought up in a banking atmosphere. His father. who was also distinguished in the political life of the county. was for many years President of the Hudson County National Bank, and a director of several other financial Institutions. He was also a member of the Board of Finance of Jersey City, a Presidential Elector and for many years a Member of Congress. Augustus A. Hardenbergh was a son of Cornelius L. Hardenbergh, L. L. D., of New Brunswick, a lineal descendent of Major Johannes Hardenbergh of Albany, N. Y., born in 1670.
Mr. Hardenbergh was educated at the Hasbrouck Institute, Jersey City, and in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College, graduating from there in 1880 with the Ph. B. degree. After leaving college he devoted
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himself to civil engineering for a time, and served as Assistant Engineer of the West Shore Railroad Company from 1880 to 'S2. Then he entered his father's bank as a clerk, became Assistant Cashier in 1887, Cashier in '99 and served as President from 1912-'16.
Mr. Hardenbergh is a member of the Holland Society of New York, the Hudson County University Club, the Carteret Club, Jersey City, and The Graduates Club, New Haven, Conn.
JOHN R. HARDIN-Newark .- Lawyer. Born in Sussex County, April 24th, 1860; son of Chas. Hardin and Abbie M. (Hunt) Hardin ; married at Newton, Feb. 1st, 1894, to Jennie Josephine Roe, daughter of Chas. Roe, of Newton.
Children : Chas. Roe, Elizabeth A. and John R., Jr.
John R. Hardin has long been known in the public and professional life of New Jersey; and he has been sought at various times for high political and judicial honors. But the opportunities of his profession proved to be more tempting. He found time however in his early profes- sional days to serve professionally as attorney of the Newark Board of Health and, politically, as a member of the Newark Board of Aldermen, and he was a member of the state legislature in 1891-'92. Although his political activities ceased many years ago, he has since been solicited to allow the use of his name as the candidate of his party, (the Democratic) for Governor, and once or twice was urged for United States Senator. He has refused all offers of office that might take him away from his rapidly growing practice - even those of a professional character. He declined to accept Governor Murphy's offer of a seat on the Bench as Circuit Judge and Governor Stokes's subsequent offer of an appointment as Justice of the State's Supreme Court ; and when Chancellor Magie, also, tendered him a Vice Chancellorship, he again found it unadvisable to accept.
Others, honorary in their character, he has accepted. In 1900 he was appointed by Governor Voorhees to be one of the Managers of the New Jersey State Village for Epileptics, and served on that Board until 1903. He was also a member of the Commission that prepared the judiciary amendments to the state constitution in 1905; and since 1897 has been, by gubernatorial appointment, a member from New Jersey of the National Conference on Uniform Legislation. In 1903 Chief Justice Gummere ap- pointed him to a seat on the Essex County Park Commission, of which he has become treasurer, and he became in 1904 a member of the Newark Sinking Fund Commission ; he is still connected with both of these local commissions.
Mr. Hardin was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1904 and again to that of 1908; and was chairman of the State Convention that nominated Chas. C. Black for Governor in 1904, and the later one (1910) that put Woodrow Wilson before the people of the state as a guber- natorial aspirant.
Mr. Hardin's earlier education was secured at the Chester Institute, Chester (Morris Co.) He graduated from Princeton in 1SS0, with the A. B. degree, and was given the A. M. degree in 1883. He was admitted to
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the New Jersey Bar, as attorney, at the June term 1884, and became a counselor at the term of 1887. He practiced law alone in Newark until 1902, when he formed a partnership with J. O. H. Pitney under the firm name of Pitney & Hardin, to which firm subsequently ex-Judge Alfred F. Skinner was admitted ; and the firm is now doing business under the title of Pitney, Hardin & Skinner.
The practice of the firm is in all lines - except the criminal branch. It has a large corporation business, but is not under regular retainer by any. It has been the policy, rather, to keep itself free for a general practice. Mr. Hardin has been associated at times with Attorney Generals McCarter, Wilson and Westcott in important litigations between the state and the railroad companies and has been frequently engaged in municipal litigations.
Of Mr. Hardin's three children, Chas. Roe, is a graduate of Princeton, 1915, and is now in Harvard Law School; John R. Jr., is a graduate of Princeton, 1917, and Elizabeth A. is a graduate of Vassar, class of 1916.
Mr. Hardin is a member of the Essex and North End Clubs (Newark), Essex County Country Club, University (New York), Baltusrol Golf Club, Somerset Hills Country Club, Somerville Country Club, the Prince- ton (New York), and is Director of the Essex County National Bank, the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, and American Insurance Com- pany. He is a Mason, connected with St. John Lodge No. 1, Newark.
PHILANDER ABBEY HARRIS-Paterson, (453 Park Avenue.) -Gynecologic and Abdominal Surgeon. Born in a Quaker settle- ment in Warren County on Jan. 29th, 1852; son of Cummins Q. and Abigail Roberts (Wintermute) Har- ris ; married in Paterson, on November 15th, 1876, to Margaret Rowson, daughter of Thomas Rowson, of Mac- clesfield, England.
Children : Grace Abbey.
Dr. Harris is one of the fore- most specialists in Abdominal Surgery in the State. Begin- ning his schooling in the dis- trict schools of the Quaker set- tlement in which he was born and of Johnsonsburg, he attend- ed the Seminary in Schooley's Mountain and graduated from ,the University of Michigan. In 1873, he graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Colum- bia University, New York.
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Dr. Harris was Health Commissioner of Paterson for several years, has been President of the Passaic County Medical Society, and in 1912 was first Vice President of the American Medical Association. He is a Fellow of New York Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Medicine, the American College of Surgeons and the American Gynecological Society, member of the Society of Surgeons of New Jersey, and the Lehigh Valley Medical Association, Hon. member of the Morris County Medical Society, Corresponding member of the Gynecological and Obstetric Society of Paris, (France), Visiting Gynecologist and Obstetrician to the Paterson General Hospital (since 1892), Consulting Gynecologist to the Barnert Memorial Hospital of Paterson, Consulting Gynecologist to the Passaic General Hospital, Passaic, and to the New Jersey State Hospital at Greystone Park. In the Public Library at Paterson and in the library of the Academy of Medicine, New York City, there can be found thirty or more monographs on gynecological and surgical subjects written by Dr. Harris.
Dr. Harris's lineage is American for several generations back and all have been residents of Northern New Jersey. His paternal grandfather was Isaac Harris and paternal grandmother, Abbie Howell. His grand- father on his mother's side was Charles Wintermute, and grandmother was Anna Shotwell.
Dr. Harris is a member of the Hamilton Club, Paterson.
EDLOW WINGATE HARRISON-Jersey City, (15 Exchange Place. )-Civil and Consulting Engineer. Born in New York City, May 9, 1851; son of Samuel E. and Sarah Edlow (Williams) Har- rison ; married 1885 to Martha A. Bumsted, daughter of William H. and Martha Bumsted, of Jersey City, (died October, 1886, ) -2nd. in 1889 to Harriet Taylor Mclaughlin, daughter of Edward Tunis and Elizabeth (Heller) Mclaughlin, (died November, 1910.)
It was under Edlow W. Harrison's supervision as engineer that the values of the railroad properties in the state were first fixed, after Gover- nor Abbett had over-thrown their "irrepealable contracts" and subjected their properties to the taxing laws of the state.
Leon Abbett in 1883, made his canvass for the governorship on a pledge to see that the railroads bore something like an equal share of the public burden, and he was elected. He went to the governorship with the belief that the railroads ought to pay at least a million dollars a year. The re- sult was the passage of the tax act of 1884. The act was contested in the Courts, and every item in the state's inventory of their taxable assets was disputed. In the end both the act and the valuations were sustained by the courts and the act went into full operation.
As the state's Chief Engineer, Mr. Harrison had a new problem to confront in the effort to fix the valuations. There was no precedent as to what constituted the franchise of a railroad, and more doubt as to the method of ascertaining its tax value. It was a question, too, whether the real estate holdings of the companies should be assessed as parts of a great continental system or as part of the surrounding farm and city lands. Mr.
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Harrison found a safe basis for the assessment of both values; and his in- ventory included specifically the valuation not only of every railroad struc- ture in the state, but every rail and spike in the road-beds of the rail- ways. The state's railroad receipts the first year of the new tax act ran up to $1,000,000. The basic data theories and methods as determined by Mr. Harrison's investigations and appraisal still remain as the base of railroad tax value in the State.
Mr. Harrison is of English descent, his father having been born in London and his mother in Kent. His two given names are those of two old Kentish families in his father's line. The Harrison's trace their descent back to the Rev. Thomas Harri- son, who was Chaplain and Sec- retary to Henry Cromwell when Lord Deputy for Ireland under his father, The Protector. His maternal grandfather was of Welsh and West of England stock who were large ship own- ers and builders in Bristol from the earliest days of the East In- dia trade. His grand-parents came to New York about ninety years ago, and engaged in manu- facturing in the then suburban neighborhood of Twenty-fourth Street and Eighth Avenue.
Mr. Harrison was educated in the public schools of New York, with a supplementary course in mathematics, drawing, etc., at the New York Free Academy from 1862 to 1869. He attended the engineering classes at the Cooper Union from 1869 to 1872, and took courses in mechanical engineer- ing, construction, strains, etc., under tutors at the same time. He com- menced work as assistant engineer in the office of Bacot, Post & Camp, of Jersey City in 1869, and assisted Robert C. Bacot, for many years Secre- tary of the State Riparian Board, in riparian work. He was later em- ployed by Leon Abbett in the celebrated Hoboken street and water front litigation in the United States courts, as expert in the preparation of the engineering data. As assistant engineer of the Water Department of Jer- sey City, he afterwards engaged in the examination and study of the grow- ing pollution of the Passaic River, with a view to securing a remedy, and took conspicuous part in the change of the City water supply.
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