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As Consulting and Chief Engineer of the Jersey City Water Supply Company, the contractor for the present upland supply of water to Jersey City from the Rockaway Water Shed, 1899-1905, he designed and built the Boonton dam and reservoir and the aqueduct line of some thirty miles to the City, costing $7,500,000. The dam, at the time of completion, ranked among the first twenty in the world in dimensions, being about one half
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mile long, and over one hundred feet high, the lake formed containing about 10,000 millions gallons of water. In building this dam, Mr. Harri- son revived a method of masonry construction which had been largely util- ized by the ancient Romans in heavy work, but for many centuries abandoned. The enormous development in the manufacture and uses of hydraulic cement in recent years, and the discovery of the advantages of wet concrete which can be poured, as it were, into forms, suggested to Mr. Harrison the substitution of dropping from a scaffold or derrick the rough masses of undressed stone, direct from the quarry, in all shapes and sizes into the deep beds of wet concrete previously dumped, the stones sinking into the concrete matrix and bedding themselves. In the Boonton dam no trowels were used, and there was no skilled mason work except in the dressed granite face and copings. The speed of construction was enorm- ously increased and the cost cut in two, while the whole dam became a monolithic mass. Since its erection, practically all the great dams in the world have been built in this way. Its title "Cyclopean Masonry," has gone into engineering nomenclature. Another revival of Roman practice was adopted on this work by using wet moulded reinforced concrete for some four miles of eight foot conduit in the Aqueduct instead of the then almost universal practice of using brick or stone. The new method was afterwards adopted for the Catskill Aqueduct for New York, and in the Passaic Valley Sewer from Paterson to Newark.
In 1892, Mr. Harrison was appointed by the Hudson County Court as Chief Engineer to lay out, open and improve the Hudson County Boule- vard, extending from the Kill Von Kull at Bergen Point, fourteen miles, to the Bergen County line, with a branch along the top of the Palisades and down into Hoboken a total of twenty miles, one hundred feet wide through- out, paved, curbed, drained and lighted, with sidewalks. For the whole line it was wholly or partially laid out over new lands, moving, or taking in whole, several hundred houses. The cost, when completed in 1897, was $2,500,000. The road now forms the first link in the Lincoln Highway to the West, out of New York.
The growing pollution by sewage, of the Passaic River resulted in the enterprise of constructing the Passaic Valley Trunk Sewer, from Paterson to Newark. Mr. Harrison was one of the Consulting Engineers in the in- ception and designing of this great work, and the expert of the State in the litigation and negotiations with the United States as to sanitary and navigation problems involved, and drew the engineering conditions con- tained in the final agreement between the State and the United States' authorities, which are now the basis for the rights to use the navigable waters in New York Bay for a disposal field. As Chief Engineer of the Com- mission, Mr. Harrison located the sewer and prepared the original plans and estimates, resigning in 1911 by reason of not being physically able to assume charge of actual construction. This work is now approaching com- pletion at a cost of about fourteen million dollars. From 1897 to 1910, Mr. Harrison was engaged as expert in fixing the values of all the water front properties in Hudson County, and for all the trunk line railroads there, in settling the values of terminal property before the State Tax Board.
Mr. Harrison, in connection with his partner, the late Frank H. Earle, designed and prepared the specifications for the new draw bridge of the
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New York and Long Branch Railroad over the Raritan; was consulting engineer on terminals, etc., for the Me Adoo tunnel ; consulting engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad in fixing the value of the New York tunnel to that Company ; consulting engineer of the North German Lloyd Steam- ship Company as to piers and properties in Hoboken, their valnation, cost, etc. From 18SS to date, lie has been Director, Engineer, and Vice Presi- dent of the Raritan River Railroad ; has been employed all of his profes- sional life in hydraulic and railroad engineering, as a valuation expert and in construction work for numerous clients in New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Missouri, Michigan and other states.
Mr. Harrison has studied sewerage and road problems in Great Bri- tain, France, Germany and Switzerland.
He served in the Fourth Regiment, N. G. N. J., for fifteen years, from private to commissioned officer. He is connected with St. John's Episcopal Church, on Jersey City Heights, and is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers since 1885, of the American Institute of Consulting En- gineers, of the Sanitary Association of New Jersey, the State Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey, Hudson County Historical Society, the Railroad Club of New York, Carteret Club of Jersey City, and the Yanticaw Country Club of Passaic.
ARCHIBALD CHAPMAN HART-Hackensack, (173 Main St.) -Lawyer. Born at Lenoxville, Canada, P. Q. on February 27th, 1873; son of R. M. and Isabel Caroline (Antrobus) Hart ; married at East Orange, on June 4, 1901, to Lily L. Fenwick, daughter of Arnold A. G. and Geor- gy Louise Fenwick, of East Orange.
Children : Arnold, 14 years of age ; Bruce, 13 years of age; Cecil, 11 years of age, and Doug- las, 9 years of age.
Archibald C. Hart repre- sented the sixth Congres- sional District (old and new) in the 62nd. 63rd and 64th Congresses of the United States. He declined renomination to the 65th Congress. He was a Dele- gate to the Democratic Na- tional Convention in Den- ver, in 1908, and is now a member of the New Jersey State Committee, representing Bergen County. In the 62nd and 63rd Congresses he was a member of the House Commit-
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tee on the District of Columbia and Chairman of its Labor Sub-Committee, and had much to do with child labor legislation. He was a member of the Naval Affairs Committee, the most important Committee of the House in the 64th Congress.
Congressman Hart's family on both father's and mother's side was dis- tinguished for years in the Legislation of Canada and England. His father is now Seigneur of the Manors Becancour and Gaspe. He came to Brook- lyn in 1881, residing there until he moved to Hackensack in 1894. He studied law in the office of late Governor Bedle and was admitted to practice in New Jersey, in 1896, and in the United States Supreme Court in 1910.
Congressman Hart is a Free and Accepted Mason, Past Exalted Ruler of Hackensack Lodge, B. P. O. E., Past Noble Grand of Bergen County Lodge, I. O. O. F., a member of the Foresters of America. He is President of the First National Bank of Lodi, a Director of the Lodi Trust Company and of the Merchants & Manufacturers Bank of the Town of Union, and, interested in home-making, is an active Director of several Building and Loan Associations. He is a Director of the Hudson Navigation Company, the "Democrat" Publishing Company, William Campbell Wall Paper Com- pany, the Imperial Color Works of Glens Falls, N. Y .; Plattsburg Wall Paper Company and the Underwood Paper Mills of Plattsburg, N. Y .; Higrade Belting & Weaving Company of Newark, and the Imperial Dye- wood Company. He is interested, besides, in the New York & New Jersey Cremation Company and the New York and New Jersey Mausoleum Com- pany of North Hudson county. He is also a large holder of real estate in Bergen County, being President of the Maywood Company, the Hart Realty Company and the Hart Teaneck Company.
Mr. Hart is a member of the important Hackensack Clubs and con- nected also with the Canadian Club of New York, the Walkill Valley Hunt Club, and the Wawonaissa Hunting and Fishing Club of the Adiron- dacks. He is a veteran of the Twenty-third Regiment, N. Y. N. G., and of the Second New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, with which he served in the Spanish-American War.
GEORGE (BRINTON MCCLELLAN) HARVEY-Deal .- Editor and Publisher. Born at Peacham, Vt., on February 16th, 1864; son of Duncan and Margaret S. (Varnum) Harvey ; married on October 13th, 1887, to Alma A. Parker.
George Harvey's name is one that is widely known in the public and newspaper and literary life of the United States. His newspaper work, even in his early days, was of such note that Governor Abbett gave him the position of Colonel on his personal staff and induced the Legislature to create the office of State Insurance Commissioner, just that he might name Col. Harvey to fill it.
At that time Col. Harvey was in editorial charge of the New Jersey edition of the "New York World," and his work there gave the paper great prestige in State affairs. Later he became Managing Editor of "The
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World," and his high newspaper station brought him, unavoidably into contact with the leading men of the City-of the country, indeed. His acquaintance with William C. Whitney, who was equally a force in the finances and politics of the nation, were very close, and it was not long be- fore the Colonel himself was a rising power in the financial district.
He was made Receiver of the publishing house of Harper & Brothers, when that company failed, and became President of the company upon its re-organization. He purchased, and is the editor of the "Northern Amer- ican Review," and there made the first prediction of Woodrow Wilson's eventual rise to the Presidency of the nation. It was in Col. Harvey's office, then on Franklin Square, (N .Y.), that the meeting at which Dr. Wilson was prevailed upon to consent to the use of his name in connection with the democratic nomination for Governor of New Jersey, was held and the campaign that made Governor Wilson President of the United States planned.
Col. Harvey was educated at the Peacham Academy ; and the Universi- ty of Nevada, the University of Vermont and Middlebury and Erskine Col- leges have since conferred the L. L. D. degree upon him. Entering upon newspaper work he was first employed as a reporter on the "Springfield, (Mass.) Republican," and afterwards served in the same capacity on the "Chicago News" and the "New York World." He was Managing Editor of the "New York World" from 1891 to 1893. Since 1899 he has been owner and editor of the "Northern American Review," and President of the Northern American Review Publishing Company. His Presidency of Har- per & Brothers covered the years between 1900 and 1915. Besides having had the title of Colonel bestowed upon him by Governor Abbett, he was Colonel and Aide-de-Camp on Governor Green's staff and was honorary Colonel and Aide on the staffs of Governors Howard and Ansel of South Carolina.
Colonel Harvey is a Director of the Audit Company of New York, a Trustee of Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, and honorary mem- ber of the Phi Beta Kappa of William and Mary College and of the College Club of Princeton. His other club memberships are with the Metropolitan, the Lotos, the Raquet, the Lawyers', the Turf and Field, all of New York ; the Devonshire and the Savage, of London, and the Travelers, of Paris.
PETER HAUCK, Jr .- East Orange .- Brewer. Born in Harri- son, 1872; son of Peter and Mary (Kurz) Hauck; married at Newark, November 24th, 1896 to Elizabeth C. Smith, daughter of James Smith, Jr., of Newark.
Children : Mary, Elizabeth, Peter 3rd, Katharine, James, Joseph- ine, and Anna Cecile.
Peter Hauck, Jr. is the head of the brewery established in Harrison by his father, Peter Hauck, who died February 21st, 1917. The elder Mr. Hauck, who was a native of Klin Munster in Germany, had been active in the political and social life of Newark, as well as in the business life of the community. He came to New York, in 1844, with his father, who
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first established a brewery in New York City, but moved the business to Harrison in 1869. He became a democratic member of the Town Council, later a member of the Board of Freeholders of Hudson County, and was one of the State Commissioners to the World's Fair at Chicago. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1884 and a candidate for Presidential Elector on the democratic ticket in 1904. Gov. Murphy appoint- ed him to serve on the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission and he was still holding that position at the time of his death.
Peter Hauck, Jr. was educat- ed at the Newark Academy and at St. Benedict's College and at the Scientific School of Chem- istry in New York. Upon leav- ing school, he was associated with his father in the Harrison brewery, and upon the elder Mr. Hauck's death succeeded to the Presidency of the company that conducts it. He was elected President of the Essex County Brewing Company and in 1898 President of the Home Brewing Company, both of which are in Newark. His wife is a daughter of Ex-United States Senator James Smith, Jr., and one of his sisters is the widow of Ex-State Senator Michael T. Barrett.
Mr. Hauck is a director in the Federal Trust Company, of Newark, and the West Hudson County Trust Company of Harrison, and a member of the Essex Club, Essex County Country Club, Rumson Country Club, Bloom- ing Grove Hunting & Fishing Club and the Whippany River Club.
JACOB HAUSSLING-Newark, (440 High Street)-Manufact- urer. Born in Newark, February 22, 1855; son of Henry Hauss- ling ; married January 11, 1874 to Ellen Elligott.
Children : Henry J., Elizabeth, Jacob and Josephine.
Jacob Haussling served for several terms in the Mayoralty of the city of Newark. He was educated in St. Mary's parochial school, and at the Second Ward Grammar School and took a course subsequently at Strattons Business College. His father, from Bavaria, apprenticed him in a marble cutting yard. When the apprenticeship came to an end, he went into the mineral water business which his father had established some years be- fore.
Mayor Haussling's first political venture was in 1889 when he accepted
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the democratic nomination for County Register, and came within seven- teen votes of being elected. In 1896, when the party of the nation was weakened by the silver coinage agitation, he accepted the democratic nomi- nation for Sheriff ; and he suffered the defeat by Henry M. Doremus, his republican opponent, which he had anticipated. But when four years later he again measured swords with Mr. Doremus for the same office, he won over him by a majority exceeding 3,000. Meanwhile he had made an unsuccessful campaign for the Assembly.
In 1906, he accepted the nomination of the democratic city convention for Mayor. He was elected and re-elected in 1908, 1910 and 1912. The city officialism during his administration passed entirely into the hands of the democrats and many considerable improvements were made under its auspices. The most important of these was the laying out, on the river front, of a large area of upland for dockage and warehouse uses. The anticipation is that when this territory shall have been put in order for business, it will become the scene of a new industrial city and add largely to the Newark ratables.
ALEXANDER JULIAN HEMPHILL-Spring Lake, (Howell Avenue)-Financier. Born at Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 23, 1856 ; son of William Kerr and Sarah Jane (McCune) Hemphill ; mar- ried on April 29th, 1880 to Jeanette Cadmus, daughter of Frederick and Sarah Thomas Cadmus, of Philadelphia.
Having graduated in 1875 with the sixty-fifth class of the Central High School, Philadelphia, Mr. Hemphill became a clerk for the Penn- sylvania Railroad Company and rose to be Secretary of the Norfolk and Western Company. In 1905 he became Vice President of the Guaranty Trust Company, its President in 1909, and in 1915 was made Chairman of the Board of Directors. Mr. Hemphill is also Vice President of the Friendly Aid Society of New York City and Trustee of the Society for the Relief of Poor Women. He is associated with the New York City Chamber of Commerce, with the Pennsylvania Society, and the Japan Society, and is a member of the American Bankers Association, and of several clubs.
Mr. Hemphill's business connections are, as director, with the Adams Express Company, the American Surety Company, the Audit Company of New York, the California Railway & Power Company, the Electric Bond & Share Company, Fidelity & Casuality Company, the Guaranty Safe De- posit Company, the Hastings Square Hotel Company, the Hudson & Man- hattan Railroad Company, the New York Dock Company, the Richmond Light & Railroad Company, the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company, the Securities Corporation, the Southern Cotton Oil Company, the South- field Beach Railroad Company, the United Gas & Electric Corporation, the United Railways Investment Company, the United States Safe Deposit Company, the Utah Securities Corporation, the Valier, Montana Land & Water Company, the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company, the Wachovia Bank & Trust Company and in New Jersey of the Mechanics Trust Com- pany.
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Mr. Hemphill is President of the Automobile Club of America, and a member of the Century Association, the Down Town Association, the Economic, the Bankers, the Metropolitan, the Recess, the Rittenhouse Clubs and the Union League, all of New York; the Rittenhouse of Phila- delphia, the Rocky Mountain Club and of the Rumson Country Club.
CHARLES O'CONNOR HENNESSY-Hackensack .- Writer and Savings Society Manager. Born in Waterford, Ireland, on Sep- tember 11, 1860; son of John Collins and Annie (Cunningham) Hennessy ; married on December 26, 1882 to Emma Louise Han- cock, daughter of Henry and Louisa (Atwell) Hancock, of Troy N. Y.
Children : Frank Hancock.
Charles O'Connor Hennessy is an earnest believer in the philosophy of Henry George and enjoyed the friendship of that distinguished man as well as that of Thomas G. Sherman, William Lloyd Garrison 2nd, Tom L. Johnson, Father McGlynn and other noted Single Taxers. He also repre- sented the "New York World" in London in its effort in 1893 to secure the release of Dr. Gallagher and other Irish-American political prisoners serving life sentences in Port- land Prison. His public ex- posure of the brutality with which these prisoners were treated led to a Parlimentary inquiry and the subsequent re- lease of some of them. But he is best known in New Jersey through his five years of service in the legislature-two years in the Assembly and three years in the Senate-where he made an unusual record for independ- ence and devotion to progress- ive legislation.
Mr. Hennessy comes of Irish Revolutionary stock. His father, who came to New York in 1870, had to leave Ireland on account of political activi- ties. An uncle died as a result of confinement in an English prison for alleged complicity in a conspiracy against British rule in Ireland. Mr. Hennessy takes his middle name from the mother's side of his family, she being of the O'Connors' of Kerry. Like his father and his two brothers, Joseph P. and John A., Mr. Hennessy was trained as a New York newspaper man, after education in the Brooklyn public schools. He served as City Editor of the "Daily News" for ten years and was for a time New York cor-
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respondent of the "Boston Globe." Between times, and since, he has done much magazine writing. He eventually became interested in other direc- tions, and has been for years President of the Franklin Society for Home Building and Savings, the largest co-operative savings institution in New York City. Having come to Bergen County to live about 1898, he is held chiefly responsible for the growth of Haworth, the interesting residential town on the West Shore Railroad where he makes his home.
At Trenton, Mr. Hennessy quickly won the confidence of Governor Wilson and was the chief exponent in the House of Assembly of the so- called "Wilson policies." He introduced and secured the passage of a constitutional convention bill, the bill for the direct election of United States Senators, a bill to ratify the Federal income tax and a bill to throw open the public schools of the state to all sorts of meetings and social gatherings. In the Senate he was noted for his devotion to home rule for municipalities, and especially home rule in taxation, and fought for reform in the highway laws and for a more equitable system of taxation assess- ments. He twice introduced and passed in the Senate a Torrens Land Title Registration Act and was the author of the act abolishing primaries and instituting the preferential system of voting in commission-governed municipalities. The establishment of the so-called requisition system, which put an end to waste and extravagance in the expenditure of state appropriations, was brought about through an act introduced by him while he was chairman of the Committee on Joint Appropriations. He was an advocate of equal political rights for all citizens, which he considered a fundamental democratic reform. In 1916, Mr. Hennessy's friends made him a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor, but a period of illness extending over several months necessitated his withdrawal from the contest.
Mr. Hennessy is a life member of the Haworth Country Club which he founded. He was for years an officer of the New York Press Club. He is a member of the Hardware Club and the Manhattan Single Tax Club, of New York.
ERNEST J. HEPPENHEIMER-Tenafly, (Tenafly Road)-In- surance. Born in Jersey City on Feb. 24th, 1869.
Ernest J. Heppenheimer is President, as the successor of the late Edward F. C. Young, of the Colonial Life Insurance Company of America, the head office of which is in Jersey City and a Judge of the State Court of Errors and Appeals. But he has been active in other business directions and was, for years before he went on the Bench of the Court of Errors and Appeals, a figure in the public affairs of Hudson County. He was one of the Democratic Presidential Electors in 1912; and it was upon Governor Wilson's appointment in 1913 that he secured his judicial office. He was President of the Jersey City Board of Alderman and ex-officio a member of the City Finance Board from 1910 to June, 1913, when the Com mission Rule form of government came into existence. In 1912 and 1913 he was President of the New Jersey Harbor Commission.
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Judge Heppenheimer attended public school No. 8 in Jersey City until he was ten years of age and then spent three years at school in Germany. When he returned to America he was for three years in the Peekskill Aca- demy and finished at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. Upon leaving the Academy he became interested in the firm of F. Heppenheimer Sons, lithographers, in New York, which his father had founded, and continued the partnership until the business was taken over by the American Litho- graphic Company. Retiring, he went to Texas and conducted an extensive cattle ranch there until he returned to Jersey City in 1897. He assisted to found the Colonial Life Insurance Company of America, was made its Secretary, promoted to Second Vice President in 1902 and succeeded to the Presidency in 1906.
WILLIAM CHRISTIAN HEPPENHEIMER-Jersey City .- Banker and Lawyer. Born in New York City on March 27, 1860; son of Frederick and Christine (Hofer) Heppenheimer ; married in New York City, on April 30, 1890 to Blanche Miller, daughter of Charles W. and Johanna Miller, of San Francisco.
Children : Gladys, born May 8, 1891; William C., Jr., born December 9, 1896.
William C. Heppenheimer is President of the Trust Company of New Jersey with offices at Hoboken. For many years he has been a figure among the public men of the State. He came into political view when Governor Leon Abbett was a candidate for United States Senator in 1887. Mr. Heppen- heimer was then a member of the first House of Assembly in which he served. It was part of the democratic joint meet- ing charged with the election of a Senator to succeed William J. Sewell, republican. Governor Abbett was given the caucus nomination of the democratic majority ; but some of the demo- cratic Assemblymen declined to be bound by the party edict. The rupture culminated in one of the most turbulent legislative sessions in the history of New Jersey. The bolting democrats formed a coalition with the re- publican minority ; and, with votes enough to accomplish it, captured the organization of the House, defeated the caucus nominee and sent Rufus Blodgett, then Super-
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intendent of the New York and .Long Branch Railroad, to the United States Senate, in Governor Abbett's stead. Mr. Heppenheimer was a friend, both politically and socially of Governor Abbett, and made stren- nous attempts to defeat the combination formed for Abbett's defeat. Gover- nor Abbett had made him a member of his official military staff; later he became Inspector General of New Jersey by appointment of Gov. Green.
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