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General Heppenheimer was re-elected to the House of 'SS, 'S9 and '90, and was chosen Speaker at the session of 1890. Governor Abbett came to the governorship a second time in that year; and in '91, through his in- fluence with the democratic joint caucus in behalf of General Heppen- heimer's election as Comptroller of the State. General Heppenheimer won the caucus nomination and served in that office for three years, closing in 1894.
General Heppenheimer came from New York to Jersey City when he was about four years of age and attended the Hoboken Academy until 1872. Crossing the seas, he studied at Weinheim, near Heidelberg, in Germany, until '76. Upon his return to this country he took a course from 'SS to '90 at Columbia College law school and from '90 to '92 at the Har- vard Law School. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1SS1 and became a practising attorney in New Jersey in 1SS5. He maintained a law office in Hoboken until 1905.
Of late years, however, his attention has been devoted exclusively to banking affairs. He was the founder of the Trust Company of New Jersey in Hoboken and has been its President from the commencement. This Company has four branches, all located in Hudson county.
He is a member of the Banker's Club of America and a former Presi- dent of the New Jersey State Bankers Association and has made frequent addresses on financial topics that have attracted wide attention. He was President of the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce in 1914 and 1915 and is a member of the following clubs : New York Athletic, Carteret, and Union League of Jersey City, Arcola Country, Deal Golf, Blooming- grove Hunting and Fishing and the Bankers of New York.
JOHN WARNE HERBERT-Helmetta .- Manufacturer. Born at Wickatunk, Marlboro Township, August 3, 1853; son of John W. and Agnes Day Runyon (Wright) Herbert of Piscataway Township; married at Jersey City, November 10. 1885, to Olivia Antoinette Helme, daughter of George W. and Margaret ( Appleby ) Helme.
Children : John Oliver, born December 26, 1SS6. (died October 12, 1898) ; Gertrude A .. born November 22. 1892. (Mrs. Edward D. Dunn) ; John Warne, Jr., born January 23. 1899.
John W. Herbert is Chairman of the State Highway Commission ap- pointed by Governor Edge for road construction in New Jersey. under an
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act providing for an outlay of $30,000,000. Prior to this appointment he had been well known in the professional and business life of the state and a factor in its politics.
Mr. Herbert is a descendent of Phillip Herbert, the Fourth Earl of Pembroke, and Sir Thomas Warne, one of the Proprietors of East Jersey. Francis Herbert, the first representative of that name in New Jersey and a grandson of Phillip Herbert, came from Long Island in 1677 with thirty associates, and settled in Middletown, Monmouth Co. He married Hannah, daughter of the celebrated Quaker, John Bowne, who located on Long Island in 1659. Obadiah, one of their sons, in 1729, married Hannah, daughter of William Lawrence, Jr., grandson of Sir Henry Lawrence, President of Cromwell's Council. Obadiah 2nd, one of their nine children, in 1765 married Elizabeth Warne, grand-daughter of Sir Thomas Warne, and settled in Middlesex county. One of their three sons, William, was father of John Warne Her- bert, Sr., born in 1771, who in 1801 married Eleanor. daughter of Benjamin Con- over, of Monmouth county. They had seven children, Obadiah, Conover, William W., John W., Abbey E., Han- nah and Eleanor. Their son, John W. Herbert, father of John Warne Herbert, was one of the leading citizens of his native state. Edu- cated a civil engineer, he was successively township Assessor, county Freehol- der, County Superintendent of Public Schools and Asso- ciate Judge of the County Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions. He was Chairman of the Re- publican County Committee of Monmouth for ten years and for sixteen years its treasurer ; a delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1872 and 1884; tendered the nomination for Congress in 1872, and in 1875 received the nomination for State Senator. He died April 10, 1899.
John Warne, his son, attended school at Old Brick Church School House, near Marlboro, where Vice President Garret A, Hobart was his preceptor for two terms. Later it was Mr. Herbert's privilege and pleas- ure, as delegate to the Republican National Convention at St. Louis, in June, 1896, to take an active and potential part in the nomination of his teacher and warm personal friend for the Vice-Presidency of the United States.
Mr. Herbert attended school for four years at Glenwood Institute, Matawan. He entered the scientific department of Rutgers College in
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1869, and at New Brunswick in November of that year, he participated in the first intercollegiate game of football ever played in this country - between Rutgers and Princeton. He was graduated a B. S. and Civil Engineer, in 1872, and received the degree of M. S. in 1875. In 1902 he was elected an alumni Trustee of the College, and in 1907 a life Trustee.
His profession of civil engineer not congenial, he began the study of law in the office of Capt. Albert S. Cloke, at Jersey City. In 1874 he entered the Columbia Law School and for two years was under the tuition of Theo- dore W. Dwight. In 1876 he received his degree as an L. L. B., was ad- mitted as an attorney and counselor at law of New York in May, 1876; in the following June as an attorney, and three years later as a counselor, of New Jersey.
Beginning the practice of law at Jersey City in 1876, he soon had a lucrative practice. He was appointed a Master in Chancery in 1879, Special Master in Chancery in 1886. Though an ardent republican, Mr. Herbert has persistently refused to be a candidate for any public office, with the exception of Mayor of Helmetta, to which office he was elected in 1890 and in which he served continuously to 1902.
Mr. Herbert abandoned the active practice of law in the Fall of 1889 to engage in the manufacturing business at Helmetta, where he re- mained until 1900. Major Gen. George W. Helme, his father-in-law, had established there one of the largest tobacco manufacturing plants in the country, and had founded the town that grew up around it. Mr. Herbert had meanwhile become largely interested in trolley properties, and having acquired controlling interest in the old Niagara Central R. R., a steam railroad, running from Niagara Falls to St. Catharine, Ont., converted it into an electric railroad. He bought the Niagara Falls, Wesley Park & Clifton Tramway Company, the Port Dalhousie, St. Catharines & Thorold Electric Railway Co. and the Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto Navigation Co., and, consolidating all into the Niagara St. Catharines and Toronto Railway Co., was elected its President. In 1902 he was elected the first vice-president and chairman of the executive committee of the Hudson Valley Railway Company. This electric railroad, covering 125 miles of main line, is one of the longest trolley systems in the United States.
He is also President of the Peoples Realty Company, Vice President and Director of the Tanana Valley R. R. Co., Vice President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Dyestuff & Chemical Corporation, and a Director in the Freehold & Jamesburg Agricultural R. R. Co., the American Snuff Co., the Columbia Gas & Electric Co., the American La- France Fire Engine Co., Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co., the Colonial Life Insurance Co., the Texas & Pacific Coal Co., and many other corpora- tions.
In 1916 he was appointed by Governor Fielder a member of the Com- mission on "Good Roads" Legislation and was made Chairman of the Com- mission. In 1917 Gov. Edge made him a member of the State Highway Commission.
Mr. Herbert is a warden of St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church, of Helmetta, and of St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church, New York. He is a member of the Lawyer's Club and the Union League of New York,
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(now Chairman of the Executive Committee), the Sleepy Hollow Country, the Oakland and Sewaren Golf and Freehold Golf and Country Club.
His New York home is at Fifth Avenue and Forty-fourth Street, and his office at 31 Nassau Street, New York.
RICHARD W. HERBERT - Wickatunk. - Farmer. Born at Wickatunk, in 1859; son of John W. and Agnes D. (Wright) Herbert.
Richard W. Herbert was Governor Murphy's appointee as one of the Commissioners to the St. Louis Exposition of 1904. In 1907 Gov. Stokes selected him to serve on the Commission to the Jamestown Exposition. In 1908 Gov. Fort named him to attend the International Tax Conference held in Milwaukee, and he has since attended the succeeding Conferences each year, by appointments of Governors Wilson and Fielder. He acted as Presi- dent and Manager and Treasurer of the Freehold & Keyport Plank Road Company, and of the Manala- panville and Pattens Corner Turnpike and was the first per- son to advocate the sale of turn- pikes to the County Board of Freeholders in Monmouth.
Mr. Herbert's father was ac- tive in Monmouth county poli- tics, and Mr. Herbert has lived in Wickatunk all of his life. He was educated at the Glenwood Institute, Matawan; and after- wards took the classical course at Rutgers College, in the class of 1878. Since leaving College he has been engaged in scien- tific farming on a large scale, finding time however to devote to public affairs. In 1908 he ac- cepted Gov. Fort's appointment as a member of the County Board of Taxation. Governors Wilson and Fielder respectively reappointed him in 1911 and in 1914. He also held the office of Monmouth County Collector for, a year. Besides the other state distinctions con- ferred upon him, he was made by Gov. Fort a member of the commission to ascertain the cost of land needed to build the inland waterways, and was chosen its Chairman.
Mr. Herbert is also a Director of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Matawan and Director of several corporations. He is a member of
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the Freehold Golf and Country Club and a life member of the Union League of Jersey City.
RUDOLPH HERING-Montclair, (40 Lloyd Road. )-Hydraulic Engineer. Born in Philadephia, Pa., on February 26, 1847; son of Constantin and Therese (Buchheim) Hering; married in Phila- delphia, on January 2, 1873, to Fannie Field Gregory, daughter of I. N. Gregory, of Philadelphia; - 2nd. in Zittau, Germany, on March 27, 1894, to Hermine Buchheim, daughter of Prof. Rudolph Buchheim, of Giessen, Germany.
Children : Oswald Constantin, born January 12, 1874; Ardo, born March 7, 1880; Dorothea P., born August 25, 1895; Paul E., born July 26, 1898; Margaret, born May 22, 1902.
Rudolph Hering is engaged in private practice as Consulting Engi- neer. Incidental to his practice, he has acted as Chief Engineer of the Water Supply and Drainage Commission of Chicago; as Consulting Engi- neer for the improved sewerage works, proposing and recommending the new water supply surveys for Philadelphia, and, as Consulting Engineer for New York City, proposing and recommending the Catskill water supply im- provements, sewerage system, street cleaning and refuse dis- posal.
He has acted also, either as designing or advising or con- sulting engineer, for water sup- ply, sewerage and refuse dis- posal works in, besides cities of less account, Boston, Balti- more, Washington, New Orleans, San Francisco, Toronto, Mon- treal, Mexico City, Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus, O., Indi- anapolis, Milwaukee, Charles- ton, Savannah, Atlanta, Mont- gomery, Trenton, Albany, Min- neapolis, Duluth, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Honolulu, Tacoma, Victoria, Winnipeg, Ottawa, St. Johns, (N. F.), and Santos, Brazil. He has also written much in the way of reports, pamphlets, etc., upon the problems to which he has given his attention. With Mr. Trautwine, he- translated Kutter's work on "The Flow of Water in Open Channels" and was largely instrumental in introducing the use of the "Kutter formula" in the United States. He made frequent trips to Europe to study new de- signs and practice in his profession, and brought to the attention of United
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States engineers, the Imhoff tank for sewerage treatment, improved refuse incinerators and other novelties.
Mr. Hering's family went from Poland to Germany in the 16th cen- tury, bearing the name Hrinka. His father, born in Germany in 1800, was sent to South America by the Saxon Government in 1826 for zoological and botanical research. He settled in the United States in 1830 and founded at Allentown, Pa., the first college of homeopathic medicine in America.
Mr. Hering was educated at the private schools in Philadelphia to 1860, and thence until 1867 studied in preparatory schools and college at Dresden, Germany. Upon his return to this country he took a course in a business college. The University of Pennsylvania in 1907 conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Science. Immediately after leaving the busi- ness college, he became rodman in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, and a year later was made Assistant Engineer at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. In 1872 he was engaged in topographical work in Yellowstone Park for the United States Geological Survey. Returning to Philadelphia in 1873 he was engineer in charge of building the Girard Avenue bridge crossing the Schuylkill river, and later until 1880, was Assistant City Engineer of the Pennsylvania metropolis. In 1881 he was engaged by the National Board of Health to prepare a report on European sewerage systems. He was a member of the firm of Hering & Fuller from 1901 to 1911, and of the firm Hering & Gregory until April, 1917.
Mr. Hering is a member of the American Institute of Consulting Engi- neers, American Society Civil Engineers (Vice President), Institution of Civil Engineers of England, Verein Deutscher Ingenieure, Canadian So- ciety Civil Engineers, New England Water Works Association (Honorary Member), Western Society of Engineers, Engineers Clubs of Philadelphia (President) and of Trenton, New Jersey Sanitary Association (Presi- dent), the American Public Health Association (President), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Inst. of Arts & Sciences and member of the Century Club of New York City.
HERMAN CHRISTIAN HENRY HEROLD - Newark, (1012 Broad Street. )-Physician and Surgeon. Born in New York City, on March 4, 1854; son of Herman Louis and Maria Katrina (Oltman) Herold; married in Newark, November 6, 1SS2, to Louise C. Kurfess, daughter of Thomas and Rosina (Starck) Kurfess.
Children : Florence, born December 12, 1884; Herman C. H., Jr., born January 26, 18S6; Walter F., born October 29, 1890.
Dr. Herold's parents were born in Germany but the family had moved to the United States and were living in New York when Dr. Herold was born. In 1856 they moved to Newark; and here Dr. Herold attended the German English school, founded by his father, the Newark grammar school and the High School. He studied medicine at the Bellevue Hospital Medi- cal College of New York, graduating in the Class of 1878; and was soon in the enjoyment of a lucrative practice in Newark.
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In 1880 he was appointed a member of the City Board of Health - a position which he held until 1914, when ill-health caused his retirement. During the thirty-four years in which Dr. Herold was a member of this Board, it grew from a position of unimportance in the City into that of one of the most wide-spread and efficient beneficences of the local government. As President of the Board from 1894 until 1914, Dr. Herold was actively instrumental in securing the erection of the present City Hospital and the new Nurses' Home and also in making possible the free distribution of diphtheria antitoxin; while his efforts, effectively supported by Mayor Haynes, brought about the purchase of the Pequannock Water Shed for a new water supply for Newark.
Dr. Herold is a republican and in 1898 he was appointed by President Mckinley as Collec- tor of the United States Internal Revenue in the Fifth District of New Jersey, in which capaci- ty he served by subsequent re- appointments until 1914. The large industrial activities of the. Fifth District make it one of the most important districts in the United States. In 1SSS he was a delegate to the National Republican Convention that named Benjamin Harrison for President ; and he was District Delegate for Newark at the National Conventions of 1892 and 1904.
For fourteen years Dr. Herold was a member of the Fifth Regiment of the New Jersey National Guard, rising by promotions to the rank of Ma- jor ; and he was Treasurer of the Order of Military Surgeons of New Jersey. He is a Director of the Manufacturers' National Bank, the Security Savings Bank, and has been President of the Security Building and Loan Associa- tion for thirty-four years. He is a member of the Essex County Medical Society, the Masonic Fraternity, Knights of Pythias, and was, until re- cently, a member of the Benevolent Order of Elks.
ALFRED M. HESTON-Atlantic City .- Municipal Financier and Author. Born on April 30, 1854; son of I. Morris and Anna (Pat- ton) Heston ; married at Camden, on December 30, 1875, to Abbie Mitchell, daughter of B. K. and Jessie Mitchell, of Camden.
Children : Helen (Mrs. George B. Gensemer) : Jessie; Florence (Mrs. Hobart J. Cavanaugh. )
Alfred M. Heston's literary work has given him a reputation in this and adjoining states as an annalist and local historian, while his work in
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the financial department of Atlantic City has won recognition for him as an expert in municipal finances. He is fond of genealogical studies and has assisted in the preparation of a number of family histories. He published in 1883 a history of his own family, to which he made extensive additions , in 1916. The later compilation he deposited in the genealogical department of the Atlantic City Public Library. In this he traces his line back to 1277. Though of Quaker descent, he is an Episcopalian. One of his for- bears, a Quaker, persecuted and driven out of Massachusetts about 1684, moved to New Jersey and married Dorothy Hutchinson, of Trenton. He af- terwards located in Bucks county, Pa. Mr. Heston's great grandfather, af- ter witnessing the sufferings of the patriot army at Valley Forge, cast aside his antipathy to war, joined the army of Washington, became a
"Fighting Quaker," and was fa- tally wounded on the field of Monmouth.
Mr. Heston spent his boyhood in Philadelphia, and was edu- cated in the grammar and high schools of that city. With a preference for newspaper work, he became interested editorially and financially in South Jersey newspapers. He was city edi- tor of the "West Jersey Press," Camden, at the age of twenty, afterwards editor of the "Salem Standard" and for five years the editor and proprietor of the "Bridgeton Chronicle." In 1884, in connection with John G. Shreve, he purchased the "At- lantic City Review," and re-, mained a resident of that city after disposing of his newspaper interests about 1890. He has since done a variety of writing, but his local historical books and pamph- lets are the most notable of his literary productions. His "Heston's Hand Book," published annually from 1887 to 1907, was circulated extensive- ly throughout the United States. Other productions of his pen are "Outing by the Sea," "Queen of the Coast," "Slavery and Servitude in New Jer- sey," "Defense of Fort Mercer," "Three Hundred Years of New Jersey History," and "Absegami: Annals of Eyren Haven and Atlantic City." This last named work comprises two volumes of over eight hundred pages, and is found on the shelves of the principal public libraries in the East. His latest work is entitled, "The Usurper: Reflections on the Life of Joseph Bonaparte, Gentleman," pronounced by the late Richard Watson Gilder as a finished and entertaining life-story of the exiled king of Spain. This manuscript of five hundred pages is now in the possession of the New Jersey Historical Society and a duplicate copy, with sixty odd plates, is deposited with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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Mr. Heston's public career began when he served as a clerk in the Na- tional House of Representatives during the memorable Fifty-first Con- gress, when Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, was Speaker. In December, 1895, he was made the first Comptroller of Atlantic City and served until 1912, a period of over sixteen years. He was also Commissioner of Sinking Fund from 1896 to 1916, and in those twenty years created and maintained the excellent financial standing of Atlantic City.
In November, 1914, he was elected City Treasurer by a vote that repre- sented nearly 95 per cent. of all the voters in the city-the largest vote that was ever cast for a candidate in the history of Atlantic City. When doubt was expressed as to the right of the people to elect a City Treasurer, Mr. Heston was appointed by resolution of the Board of Commissioners. He served until January, 1916, when he resigned. While serving as the city's fiscal officer, he introduced many economic reforms. When the form of city government was changed under the Walsh act, in 1912, Mr. Heston became a candidate for election as one of the five ruling commissioners and stood seventh in a poll in which fifty-four aspirants participated.
Mr. Heston is a member of the New Jersey Historical Society, an honorary member of the Monmouth County Historical Association, a mem- ber of the governing board of the Atlantic City Hospital, of which he is Secretary, and various other philanthropic societies. He was identified with the Atlantic City Public Library at its beginning and served as a trustee for thirteen years. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and President of the Business Men's Association, a member of the Masonic fraternity and warden of one of the Episcopal churches in Atlantic City.
CLARENCE EUGENE FRANCIS HETRICK - Asbury Park, (1114 Fifth Avenue.)-Mayor. Born at Van Wert, O., on August 1st, 1873 ; son of Joel Warren and Almira Frances (Evers) Hetrick ; married at Asbury Park, on January 4th, 1906, to Ida Louise Wyckoff, daughter of Charles Fountain and Anna Elizabeth (Brown) Wyckoff, of Asbury Park.
Clarence E. F. Hetrick rose by progressive promotions to the position of Mayor of Asbury Park. He had previously been Tax Collector of Nep- tune Township (1904-1906), City Treasurer of Asbury Park (1907-1908), and Sheriff of Monmouth county (1908-1911). These positions were inci- dental to his activity in the Republican ranks of Monmouth county. For four years he was Chairman of the County Republican Committee; and in 1912 was chosen delegate from the Third Congressional District to the Na- tional Republican Convention at Chicago. It was in that year that ex- President Roosevelt was President Taft's rival for the nomination, and Mayor Hetrick was a warm advocate of Col. Roosevelt's candidacy.
Mayor Hetrick is of American ancestry. The elder Hetrick was a member of the 22nd Ohio Volunteers during the Civil War and served under Grant at Fort Henry and Fort Donaldson, in the battles of Shiloh, and Corinth and at the siege of Vicksburg and for four years in the West-
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ern theatre of war, after the close of the Rebellion, becoming Colonel of the Second Ohio National Guard. His mother was born in Van Wert, O., and
the first of her English ances- try settled in Maryland two cen- turies ago.
Mayor Hetrick attended the schools in Van Wert until the removal of the family to As- bury Park, in January, 1887. Having graduated from the As- bury Park schools he won a free scholarship to Rutger's College as a result of a competitive ex- amination and entered with the Class of '95.
Mayor Hetrick is a member of the Trinity Episcopal Church in Asbury Park. He is connect- ed with the Asbury Park Cham- ber of Commerce, and he is al- so of the Rutgers Alumni Asso- ciation and of the Beta Theta Pi College Fraternity. He is a Ma- son, and member of the Com- mandery, the Asbury Park Wheelmen Club, the Symphonion Club, the Monmouth Club, the Asbury Park fire department, and the Monmouth County Republican Committee.
PETER COOPER HEWITT-Ringwood Manor .- Scientist, In- ventor. Born in New York; son of Abram Stevens Hewitt; mar- ried to Lucy Work, of New York.
Peter Cooper Hewitt bears a family name that has been famous in the business, public and philanthropic life of the country for three generations. His grandfather was the famous Peter Cooper who founded and endowed the Cooper Institute in New York City and who was as widely known for his other benevolences. His father was one of the most aggressive Mayors New York City ever had and also made a notable record as a member of the National Congress. Peter Cooper Hewitt is himself noted for his scholarly attainments and is the patentee of a number of inventions. He graduated from Columbia University, receiving the degree of honorary Doctor of Science in 1903.
Mr. Hewitt is a director of the Cooper Hewitt Electric Co., New York & Greenwood Lake Railway, Cooper, Hewitt & Co., Midvale Water Co., Hexagon Realty Co., Ringwood Co., Hewitt Realty Co., Lehigh & Oxford Mining Co .. Trustee Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art, House of Rest for Consumptives. Member American Institute Electric Engineers, Society Electric Engineers, General Society of Mechanics and
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