Scannell's New Jersey first citizens : biographies and portraits of the notable living men and women of New Jersey with informing glimpses into the state's history and affairs, 1917-1918, Vol I, Part 28

Author: Sackett, William Edgar, 1848- ed; Scannell, John James, 1884- ed
Publication date: 1917
Publisher: Patterson, N.J. : J.J. Scannell
Number of Pages: 592


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Tradesmen, American Geographical Society, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Illuminating Engineering Society, Union Society of the Civil War, Institute of Radio Engineers, Inventors Guild, National Institute Social Sciences, France-American Committee, and Museum of French Art.


Mr. Hewitt's club memberships are with the Players, Lambs, Engin- eers, Knickerbocker, University, Union, Tuxedo, Century, Racquet. Man- hattan, Automobile of America, Aero of America, Aero of New York, and the National Golf Links of America.


JOHN GRIER HIBBEN - Princeton. - University President. Born at Peoria, Ill., April 19, 1861; son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Grier) Hibben ; married at Elizabeth, November S, 1SS7, to Jenny Davidson, daughter of John and Adelia S. Davidson.


Children : Elizabeth Grier, born August 11, 1SSS, (married Pro- fessor Robert M. Scoon, of the Princeton faculty, November 17, 1915.) Grandson, John Hibben Scoon, born Oct. 13, 1916.


John Grier Hibben, who has been for years in Princeton University became its head in 1912. The great office had been made vacant by the resignation in October, 1910, of President Woodrow Wilson to accept the Democratic nomination for Gov- ernor of New Jersey.


Dr. Hibben grew up in a church atmosphere, his father having been a ciergyman. He graduated from Princeton with the A. B. degree in 1882, and the College conferred the A. M. degree in 1SS5 and the Ph. D. degree in 1893. He was a stud- ent at the Princeton Theological Seminary from '86 and at the University of Berlin. Ordained to the ministry in 1887, he as- sumed the pastorate of the Pres- byterian Church at Chambers- burg, Pa.


Four years later Dr. Hibben became instructor of logic in Princeton University and was made instructor in logic and psychology in 1892. He became an Assistant Professor in logic in '94 and took the Professor's chair in logie in 1907. He held that chair till his election to the Presidency of the University in 1912.


Dr. Hibben holds the L.L.D. degree from Lafayette College, University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Rutgers, Brown, Pittsburgh and Harvard, and the L. H. D. degree from Columbia.


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He is the author of "Inductive Logic" (1896), "The Problems of Phil- osphy" (1898), "Hegel's Logic" (1902), "Deductive Logic" (1905), "The Philosophy of the Enlightenment" (1909), "A Defence of Prejudice and Other Essays" (1911), and "The Higher Patriotism" (1915) ; and he is the editior of "Epochs of Philosophy" (12 vols.), by authors in United States and Great Britain (1905).


Dr. Hibben's club memberships are with the Nassau Club of Prince- ton, Princeton Club of New York, Princeton Club of Philadelphia, and the Century, Authors and University Clubs of New York.


EDMUND C. HILL-Trenton .- Real Estate. Born near Tren- ton, on May 11th, 1855 ; son of Thomas C. and Susan L. Hill; mar- ried on Sept. 10, 1884 to Jennie C. Richards, daughter of Captain Richard J. Richards of Lawrenceville.


Children : Frederick Seabrook, Dorothy Worthington, John Cad- walader.


Edmund C. Hill's activities have been largely devoted to the develop- ment and betterment of Trenton. On the paternal side he comes of a family of notable English ancestry, a branch of which has been resident in Trenton for more than a cen- tury and a half. On the ma- ternal side he is descended from Dutch and Huguenot sett- lers in East Jersey.


He received his preliminary education in the Academy Street Public School, after- wards attended the State Model School and still later the Tren- ton Academy, where he was graduated at eighteen, expect- ing to enter Yale College. Be- cause of his father's illness, he put off going to college, and took charge of his business af- fairs, expecting to remain for a year only. The business asso- ciation, however, lasted until the death of the parent in 1891.


In 1896 he purchased the controlling interest in the Tren- ton Times, and the circulation grew from 1,700 copies per day to 11,500 copies in 1901 when he sold out his holdings. In 1905 he disposed of his other holdings and entered actively into real estate work. His specialty has been the development of suburban property in and around Trenton. In all he has subdivided and placed on the market 450 acres of land.


Mr. Hill was elected a member of Common Council in 1887 and served until 1890. The extension of the city limits, the creation of a park and


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sewer systems and the general re-organization of the city departments were matters treated during his term of office. He is best known in Tren- ton for his efforts in securing the acquisition of Cadwalader Park and the development of a general park system for the city. He personally selected the site for Cadwalader Park and succeeded in effecting the passage by Common Council of the ordinance providing for its purchase. He was the first chairman of the Park Commission, and practically organized the department. He was president of the Board of Trade, in 1893-4, and was largely instrumental in obtaining a settlement of a strike in the Trenton potteries, involving about five thousand employes. For fifteen years successively he was one of the delegates from the Trenton Board of Trade to the National Board of Trade. In 1893 he was a delegate to the International Water Ways Congress held in Chicago.


He was a member of the Trenton Art School Board for several years, and was one of the committee appointed by Mayor Sickel to establish the Free Public Library. He was also Chairman of a committee of fifty citi- zens appointed by Mayor Madden as a Tuberculosis Commission, which brought about the establishment of the Tuberculosis Hospital. He was for five years connected with the Trenton Playground Commission, was Chair- man of Mayor Madden's Committee of 25 to make an investigation into the city government, one of the Chamber of Commerce Committee that brought about the Commission form of Government, Chairman of Mayor Sickel's Committee for the deepening of the Delaware River, and represented the city of Trenton at the Carnegie Peace Congress in New York. He was for twenty-five years a director of the Trenton Trust and Safe Deposit Com- pany, and for many years a Director of Mercer Hospital. At one time he was President of the New Jersey Children's Home Society.


Mr. Hill has traveled extensively, and, among those whom he has enter- tained at his home in Trenton have been Prince Paul Troubetskoy and Princess Troubetskoy of Russia ; Count Ilya Tolstoy and Count Leo Tol- stoy, Jr., of Russia ; Marquis de Polignac of France; ex-President Castro and Senora Castro of Venezuela; ex-President William H. Taft; Ion H. Perdicaris, Consul to Morrocco; Lorin A. Thurston, Ambassador from Hawaii to the United States; William H. Powell, American Minister to Hayti; Hudson Maxim, American inventor; Miss Helen Keller, the blind genius ; John Hays Hammond, the engineer, and Hery Clews, the banker.


He is an active Republican, a member of the Young Men's Republican Club of Trenton, and was the Treasurer of the State Republican League for twenty-five years. He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, in which his great-great-grandfather was an elder, is active in the Masonic and other fraternal orders, and a member of the Sons of the Revolution, New Jersey Historical Society, Trenton Natural History Society, Manu- facturers' Club of Philadelphia, and the Twilight Club of New York City.


THOMAS J. HILLERY-Boonton, (195 North Main Street) - Lawyer. Born at Hibernia. Morris County, on Nov. 18. 1871.


Thomas J. Hillery whose name was for some years familiar in the public places of New Jersey because of his political activities is President


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of the American Trust Company at Morristown, and at one time, during the absence of Governor Fort was acting Governor of New Jersey.


Senator Hillery attended the public school at Hibernia up to the age of twelve years, and the following two years at the Rockaway public school, graduating from the latter place. He then entered the merchantile establishment of B. K. & G. W. Stickle, where he spent four years. In 1890 he entered the office of Lewis Van Duyne, civil engineer, and engaged in engineering work for the next eight years. During a portion of this time he studied law in the office of N. S. Kitchell, later attended the New York University Law School, and was admitted to the bar as an attorney in 1901, and as counselor in 1904.


In the fall of 1902 he was elected to the New Jersey House of Assem- bly, and returned again in 1903. In 1904 he was elected to the Senate of Jersey, and became leader of the Republican majority, which position he held for two years, when he was made President of the Senate. It was while in the Senate Presidency that he officiated, for a short time as Acting Governor.


He was appointed a member of the Public Utility Commissioners of New Jersey in 1909 and served until May 1st, 1915.


ABRAHAM LINCOLN ARTMAN HIMMELWRIGHT-Stock- holm .- Consulting Engineer. Born in Milford Square, Bucks county, Pa., on February 7, 1865; son of Charles R. and Susan Artman Himmelwright ; married at Albany, N. Y., January 25, 1895, to Harriet Sage Hamlin, (died April 22, 1897) .- 2nd at Oakland, Cal., May 3, 1916, to Adeline Dagmar Nielsen, daughter of A. D. and Anna S. (nee Jensen) Nielsen.


Children : Kenneth Hamlin, born April 21, 1897, (died August 11, 1911.)


A. L. A. Himmelwright, in his business as Consulting Engineer, has specialized on fire-proof construction and fire problems (including both life and property hazards), and is a recognized authority on these sub- jects. He is the author of notable technical works and reports and has contributed important articles in his special field to the "North American Review," "Architectural Record," "Engineering News," and other tech- nical and scientific periodicals. He has been a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers since 1898.


Mr. Himmelwright is of Western Prussian ancestry, though he can trace his line back in this country for six generations. His ancestors fought through the Revolution and the War of 1812. He was educated at the State Normal School in Millersville, Pa., at Shortledge's Academy in Media, Pa., and graduated with the degree of Civil Engineer from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., in 1SSS. The following year he accepted a position as Assistant Engineer of the Northern Pacific Rail- road and conducted preliminary surveys, etc., in the Coeur d' Alene (Idaho) mining district. In the fall of 1889, he was engaged in mine surveying in the bituminous coal fields of Cambria county, Pa. In 1890, he went to


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Oswego, N. Y., as Designing and Computing Engineer for the Rome, Water- town & Ogdensburg R. R. In 1891 he was in charge, as Supervising Engi- neer, of extensive improvements near Moorefield, W. Va., which included the development of a valuable lime stone property, the location of a quarry and the construction of a gravity railway, rock erushing and lime burning plants. In this connection he also designed a half mile circular race track, constructed new highways and bridges and a surface draining system for a large stock corral. In 1891 the Phoenix Phosphate Company engaged him to make an examination of "hard rock" phosphate properties in Levy county, Fla., and he supervised the development and purchase of nine tracts, aggregating 3300 acres. This embraced besides other things. the location and construction of a standard gauge railroad from Raleigh. Fla .. to Morristown, Fla., that is now part of the Atlantic Coast Line and Sea Board Air Line Rail- ways.


From 1895 to 1910 he was General Manager of the Roeb- ling Construction Company. His duties in that capacity embraced responsible charge of the main office in New York City and the twelve branch offices in various parts of the country, in Mexico. City and Montreal, Canada ; al- so of the shop and factory at: Weehawken and the New York City storehouse.


In his specialty of building construction he has acted in the capacity of umpire and arbitra- tor in settling fourteen building construction cases involving owners, architects and contrac- tors. In 1911, he was associated with H. F. J. Porter as expert, on the life hazard, to the New York State Factory Investigating Commission. In 1912, he served on the Advisory Board of the Building Code Committee of the New York Board of Aldermen. Since 1912, he has been engaged in reporting on factory, institutional and other buildings of large occupancy and supervising the improvements and alterations, resulting in increased safety to life and property. His most notable recent work in this field has been the improvement of all the build- ings of the Department of Public Charities in New York City, numbering: over 200.


Mr. Himmelwright is the patentee of numerous inventions and devices ;: and the author of "In the Heart of the Bitter Root Mountains"; "Tests" ;: "The Baltimore Fire"; "The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire"; "The- Pistol and Revolver"; "A Model Fire-Proof Farm House or Country Home"; and "Pistol and Revolver Shooting."


Mr. Himmelwright has always been interested in exploration, the map-


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ping of new country and the experiences incidental to such undertakings. He is a successful photographer of mountain scenery, having many striking photographs of Mt. Shasta, Cal., which he climbed on August 26, 1901. At his own expense in 1903, he made a reconnoissance and map of the un- charted central portion of Idaho, west of the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, embracing an area of about 600 square miles. The data thus ob- tained was presented to the U. S. Coast & Geodetic Survey. Mr. Himmel- wright is a life member of the American Geographical Society, member of the National Geographical Society, etc.


Mr. Himmelwright inherited a love for fire-arms, markmanship, etc., and from early boyhood indulged in rifle and revolver shooting. Later much of his time devoted to recreation was spent in the study and development of pistol and revolver shooting in which he became very skilfull, winning numerous prizes and medals and the Revolver Championship of the United States in 1900. He is a life member of the New York State Rifle Associa- tion and the United States Revolver Association. He was one of the char- ter members of the latter Association and its President for five years. He was the Captain of the victorious American Team of fifteen men in the famous International Revolver Match with France in 1903. For twenty years, Mr. Himmelwright has been a prominent member of the Manhattan Rifle and Revolver Association of New York, participating in the Club's matches and serving as Chairman of the Revolver Committee.


Mr. Himmelwright's activities extend also into the realm of merciful and charitable work. Since 1913, he has served as a Trustee and Director of the Board of Managers of the Artman Home for Lutherans at Sellersville, Bucks county, Pa.


EDWIN W. HINE-Newark .- Corporation Manager. Born in Warren, Litchfield Co., Conn., March 17th, 1854; son of David and Harriet Amelia (Bridges) Hine; married March 23rd, 1874, to Nellie, daughter of David and Margaret (Rockafeller) Sturte- vant.


Children : Helen Blanche, born February 15th, 1876, died in in- fancy ; Walter Robbins, born December 1st, 1877, married Anna- bel Bagley ; child, Walter Robbins, Jr., born May 6th, 1908; Mar- guerite, born September 20th, 1879, died March 17th, 1885; James Sayers, born July 14th, 1882.


General Edwin W. Hine, acting in the capacity of Assistant to the President of the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey and a leading factor in the varied interests of Newark, his adopted city, is a representa- tive of a family of Scotch-Irish descent, long seated in this country, he being a member of the seventh generation. His father was for a number of years .Principal of Mahoney Academy, Canfield, Ohio, later holding a position in the office of the Second Auditor of the Treasurer in Washington, D. C., which post he filled acceptably until his death, January 12th, 1872. Gener- al Hine was taken by his parents to the State of Ohio during his infancy, and he resided there until thirteen years of age, when his parents re-


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moved to Washington, D. C. He obtained his education in the public schools of both places, and after completing his studies accepted a position in a stationery store in Washington, his next employment being as entry clerk in the firm of George A. Olney & Company, of New York, stationers, with whom he remained until their failure. In 1872 he removed to Orange. entering the employ of Thomas P. Bayes, dealer in books and stationery, and two years later engaged in business on his own account. establishing a flour and feed business in the old Academy building on Main Street.


In 1877 he purchased the stock and good will of W. B. Tichonor & Company, who were in the same line of business, and continued conducting the same until 1890, when he became interested in and a Director of the Harvey Steel Company, and associated with Mr. H. A. Harvey, who was the inventor of the Harveyized armor plate. This company developed and pro- moted the Harveyized armor plate, finding among its first customers the United States Navy Department, and after- wards substantially all of the naval powers of the world. In May, 1890, in partnership with Mr. Harvey, he organized The American Washer and Manu- facturing Company, of which he was elected and remained for many years the President, then disposing of his former business. In 1903 he became associated with the Public Service Corpo- ration of New Jersey as Assis- tant to the President, which office he is filling at the present time.


General Hine has always evinced a keen interest in poli- tics and has been active and prominent in the service of his party, the Republican. In 1878 he was elected for a term of three years to represent the First Ward of Orange in the Common Council. and being the only Republican in that body at that time was given the, sobriquet of the "Lone Star." In the following year he was elected to the Board of Chosen Freeholders, continuing his membership until 1887. when he was elected to the office of Sheriff of Essex county, from which he retired in 1890. From 1883 to 1886 he was Chairman of the Essex County Republican Committee, for three years was Chairman of the Orange Republican Com- mittee. and for twelve years its Treasurer. From 1884 to 1887 he was Director of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Essex county.


General Hine began his military career in 1882. as the organizer of the Orange Rifles, of which he was elected First Lieutenant. On January 11th. 1886, he was commissioned as First Lieutenant and Adjutant of the Third Battalion of the National Guard of the State of New Jersey by


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Governor Leon Abbett, which position he held for five years, until the re- organization of the First Brigade, which resulted in the consolidation of the First, Second and Third Battalions, forming the Second Regiment. On June 25th, 1892, Lieutenant Hine was commissioned as Captain and Judge-Advocate of the Second Regiment, under Colonel J. Vreeland Moore. On April 25th, 1893, Colonel Moore was retired on his own application ; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel V. S. Muzzy was promoted to the office, and Captain Hine was chosen Lieutenant-Colonel to fill that vacancy. On No- vember 8, 1897, Colonel Muzzy retired as Brevet Brigadier-General, and Lieutenant-Colonel Hine was elected to take his place, his commission bearing date of December 7, 1897, and served as Colonel of the regiment, the Second New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, during the war with Spain, assigned to First Brigade, Second Division, Seventh Army Corps, under command of Major-General Fitzhugh Lee. On May 2nd, 1899, the Second Regiment was disbanded, and Colonel Hine was retired; but on Septem- ber 19th, 1902, he was unanimously elected to the command of the Fifth Regiment, which he held until March 15th, 1911, being then elected Briga- dier-General to command the First Brigade. In June, 1917, he forwarded to Gov. Edge a letter resigning his commission as Brigadier-General.


General Hine commanded the New Jersey troops, consisting of a provi- sional brigade of 4,500 officers and men, made up of the several branches of the service-cavalry, artillery, signal corps and infantry-during the Mexi- can difficulties in 1916, being stationed at Douglas, Ariz., from June to Octo- ber of that year.


GARRETT AUGUSTUS HOBART-Paterson .- Broker. Born in Paterson, on August 31st, 1884; son of Garrett Augustus and Jennie (Tuttle) Hobart ; married on June 6th, 1906, to Caroline Frye Briggs, daughter of Frank H. Briggs, of Auburn, Me.


Children : Garrett A. III., born August 24, 1907; Katharine Grey, born March 30th, 1912; Elizabeth Frye, born May 31st, 1913.


Garrett A Hobart's father was the twenty-fourth Vice President of the United States. Vice President Hobart had been one of the most con- spicuous figures in the business of politics of the nation for many years before he went to Washington. A graduate of Rutger's College and am- bitious to become a lawyer, he taught at a school in Marlboro for a time while equipping himself. Socratas Tuttle, a noted Paterson lawyer, had been a close friend of Mr. Hobart's father ; and it was to his office that he afterwards went to read law. He specialized in commercial law, was admitted to the- Bar in 1866 and in 1869 made a counselor, became City Attorney of Paterson and County Counsel of Passaic County and, so, started on his career of public service. In the campaign that made Mr. Tuttle Mayor of Paterson, Mr. Hobart was one of his most efficient cam- paign aids.


Mr. Hobart had an interesting legislative career, was Speaker of the House when only thirty years of age, and later became President of the


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Senate. During his service in the Assembly the excitements attending the passage of the General Railroad Law occurred. The Pennsylvania Railroad at that time claimed a monopoly of the right to run trains from one end of the state to the other and the effort to charter an opposing parallel line started one of the most bitter railway warfares the State has ever seen. It culminated in the passage of the General Railroad Law permitting the free building of roads under specified restrictions; and Mr. Hobart was one of the forces that aided its enactment. The act providing for the summary investigation of official accounts under the auspices of the Courts upon the application of twenty-five complaining freeholders, and those concerning the control of the water sheds were of his inspiration, and all the important legislation of the sessions reflected his influence. He was once put in nomination for United States Senator, declined Con- gressional nominations five times and twice resisted the pressure of his party to place him in nomination for Governor. But he served as delegate to all of the National Republican Conventions between '76 and '96 both in- clusive and was Vice Chairman of the National Executive Committee from '84 to '87.


The democrats had been in entrenched control of the state since Civil War times when, as the campaign of 1895 was dawning, Mr. Hobart saw an opportunity for Republican success and aided John W. Griggs to get the Republican nomination for Governor. Mr. Hobart was Chairman of the State Committee through the campaign and surprised the country by carrying the State for Griggs by the largest majority it had ever cast for a gubernatorial candidate. The shining Republican triumph in a state that had been steadfastly democratic came on the edge of the opening of the campaign in 1896 for the Presidency of the United States; and pointed out Mr. Hobart as one of the most efficient campaigners in the East. The trend of sentiment throughout the country at the time forecast the nomina- tion of Gov. Mckinley of Ohio for President and the geography of politics called for a man from the East to go on the ticket with him. There was none of the prominence into which the election of Gov. Griggs had elevated Mr. Hobart ; and the National Convention of 1896 at St. Louis, having put Mr. McKinley in nomination for Presidency, named Mr. Hobart for Vice President. His popularity in the state was attested by his capture of its electorial vote by close on to 100,000 majority.


In the Vice Presidency he was regarded as an equal factor in the management of national affairs with the President. It was after consul- tation with him that President Mckinley became convinced in 1898 that the time had arrived for the war with Spain ; and most all of the Executive functions of the nation, in crisis times, were taken as the result of the joint consideration of himself and the President. Mr. Hobart had served only two years and a half of his term when he was stricken with his fatal ill- ness.


Garrett Augustus Hobart, the Vice President's only son, was educated at the local schools and assists Mrs. Hobart, his mother, who is a daughter of Socratas Tuttle, in conducting the large business and financial interests left in their hands by the Vice President at his death and in the distri- bution of the family's generous benevolences.




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