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 32

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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Colonel Janeway's club and society memberships are with the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Pennsylvania, and the New Brunswick Country Club. He is Treasurer and Trustee of the Francis E. Parker Memorial Home, Treasurer for the


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Corporation for the Relief of Poor Children, and Director of the Children's Home in New Brunswick.


JAMES N. JARVIE-Montclair, (150 Upper Montelair Avenue.) -Coffee Merchant. Born in Manchester, England, on December 13th, 1853; son of William and Isabella (Newbegin) Jarvie; mar- ried at Bloomfield, on August 28, 1909, to Helen Vanderveer New- ton, daughter of John and Emma (Westervelt) Newton, of Bloom- field.


James N. Jarvie, for many years a world leader among sugar refiners and coffee importers, came, when less then two years old, to this country with his parents and has lived in Montclair since 1904. His father was born in Perth, Scotland ; his mother in Bellford, Northumberlandshire, England. He retired in 1906 from the firm of Arbuckle Bros., who are engaged in the sugar refining and coffee importing business and along other mercantile lines, and with which he had been associated. He has been connected at different times with The Mutual Life Insurance Company, Guaranty Trust Company, Central Trust Company, National Bank of Commerce, Bank of America, New York Mutual Gas Light Company of New York, and the Southern Pacific Company, and is a Trustee of The London Assurance Cor- poration.


Mr. Jarvie is a member of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, and has been connected with the Westminster Presbyterian Church of Bloomfield since its inception. As a memorial to his father and mother, he gave, under the management of its Trustees, a Public Library for the town of Bloomfield in 1901. It has something like over twenty thousand books on its shelves, and a circulation of between forty and fifty thousand per annum. In 1917 he offered, to the Church's Board of Trustees, to pur- chase the property of the late William H. White adjoining the church grounds on Franklin Street and to erect upon it a parsonage to be known as "Helen's Manse", in memory of his wife. He had previously given the church a sunday school and library building, known as Jarvie Memorial Hall, as a tribute to his parents. And he has just given $100,000 toward the new School of Dentistry connected with Columbia University as a memorial to his brother, Dr. William Jarvie.


Mr. Jarvie is a member of the Metropolitan Club, New York Yacht Club, Down Town Association, Jekyl Island Club, Robins Island Club, Mont- clair Club, Montclair Art Association, Glen Ridge Golf Club, The Metro- politan Museum of Art, and various other Associations.


UPTON SAGER JEFFERYS - Camden. - Editor. Born at Trenton, April 14, 1864; son of the Rev. William H. and Beulah


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Clayton (Turner) Jefferys ; married at Crestmont, Pa., December 16, 1914, to Mary Francis Pieper.


Upton S. Jefferys is a South Jersey publicist. His father was a mem- ber of the New Jersey M. E. Conference and served as pastor of its leading churches. His ancestry runs back to the New Jersey Colonial period. One of his fore-bears on his father's side was among the earliest settlers of Con- necticut Farms, then a part of Essex county, but now of Union. His ma- ternal ancestors were early land owners in Gloucester county. He was educated in the public schools of Camden and Gloucester county and in a private school in Camden.


Mr. Jefferys has been engaged in newspaper work all of his life. Hav- ing learned the printer's trade, he became a reporter for Camden and Phila- delphia dailies, published a daily and subsequently a weekly newspaper in Camden, was New Jersey editor of the "Philadelphia Inquirer" for nine years, and since 1900 has been editor of the "Camden Post-Telegram", the leading daily Republican newspaper in the south part of the State.


Interested, and a factor, in Republican politics, he was, when the late Senator William J. Bradley of Camden was Speaker of the House, his Sec- retary for two terms. He sub- sequently became Assistant Clerk of the House of Assem- bly, serving several terms, and was elected Clerk of the House in 1912 and again in 1915-1916- 1917. In 1913 and 1914, during the legislative sessions, he con- ducted the Republican State Committee's publicity work, and he assisted in Governor Walter


E. Edge's publicity campaign, in 1916.


Mr. Jefferys was for sixteen years connected with the National Guard of the State. He has taken an active part in public movements, especially social welfare work. Largely through his efforts the playground movement was established on a permanent basis in Camden and he was the first Presi- dent of the Board of Playground Commissioners, appointed by the Mayor. He assisted in preparing a revision of the playground laws of the State.


When a state of war with Germany was declared, Mr. Jefferys was ap- pointed a member of the Committee of Public Safety of Camden, was made Chairman of the Publicity Committee and served in the Executive Council.


Mr. Jefferys is a member and ex-President of the New Jersey Legis- lative Correspondents Club and a member of the New Jersey Press Associ-


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ation, the Camden Republican Club, the Young Men's Republican Club of the Second Ward, Camden and of Camden Lodge, No. 293, B. P. O. E., and Camden Y. M. C. A.


RICHARD C. JENKINSON-Newark .- Manufacturer. Born in Newark, April 14, 1833 ; son of George Bestall and Jane (Stringer) Jenkinson ; married at Newark, December 21, 1876, to Emily Pendleton Coe, daughter of George Villers and Mary (Blair) Coe.


Children : Louise Emily, born June 10, 1878; Charlotte M., born April 14, 1880 ; Margaret Blair, born February S, 1882.


Richard C. Jenkinson's father was a manufacturer of trunks, bags and leather goods in Newark, and was President of the Newark Electric Com- pany and Vice President of the Newark Gas Company.


Mr. Jenkinson was educated in the public schools of Newark, and, having graduated from high school, pursued a course of instruction in German and French under private tutors. Five years later he went abroad for the larger information travel would bring to him. In 1869 he engaged in the wholesale dry goods commission business in New York City. In 1876 he started in the business of manufacturing metal goods and hardware and is still engaged in that line.


Mr. Jenkinson is a republican, and the city convention of that party in 1900, nominated him for Mayor. The city was at that time of demo- cratic leaning, but, in spite of his defeat, Mr. Jenkinson made an agreeable showing at the polls. He has since been solicited to permit the use of his name in connection with other nominations but has steadily declined. At the same time he is deeply interested in the public and civic affairs of Newark, and scarce a citizens' movement is undertaken without his parti- cipation. His last connection was with the Committee of 100 that arranged and conducted the six months celebration of Newark's 250th Anniversary.


Mr. Jenkinson's club memberships are with the Union League, the Republican and the Lotos Clubs of New York and the Essex Club of Newark.


WILLIS FLETCHER JOHNSON-New Providence, ( Firleigh Hall.)-Editor, Author and Publicist. Born in New York, on October 7th, 1857; son of William and Alathea Augusta (Coles) Johnson ; married at Tuckerton, in 1878, to Sue Rockhill, daughter of Captain and Mrs. Z. Rockhill, of Tuckerton.


A few weeks after his birth the family of Willis Fletcher Johnson re- moved to a large estate at New Providence where it has since been settled. Dr. Johnson began his education at home under his father, a man of high attainments ; later attended the Ladd School at Summit, near his home, and also Pennington Seminary, where he was graduated with high honors. He was next matriculated at New York University and remained there for some time, but, owing to impaired healthlı, left before the completion of his


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course. In 1876 he was the Centennial Fourth of July orator at a great union celebration held by a number of towns in Burlington and Ocean counties, and for a time thereafter was principal of a public school at Tuckerton.


Soon after his marriage to Miss Rockhill, who is a relative of the late Ambassador to Russia, William Woodville Rockhill, Dr. Johnson began work as a lecturer, and also as a journalist, his first writing having been done for the Toms River "Courier." In 1879 he was for a time city editor of the "New York Daily Wit- ness," and early in 1SS0 he be- came a member of the editorial staff of the "New York Tri- bune," being now its literary edi- tor and the senior member of the staff.


During the administration of President Arthur he became deeply interested in civil service reform, and has since been an earnest advocate of the merit system, and a frequent writer and speaker upon it. He has al- so concerned himself with civic affairs. He was one of the foun- ders and first President of the Republican Club of New Provi- dence township, and has fre- quently been a speaker in politi- cal campaigns.


He has written and published a number of books, chiefly bi- ographical and historical. In 1903 he published "A Century of Expansion," which is recognized as the standard treatise on the territorial growth of the United States and its con- stitutional, diplomatic and political results. In 1904 Dr. Johnson accom- panied Secretary Taft on a visit to Panama, and later published "Four Centuries of the Panama Canal," which has been republished in other countries and is accepted as the authoritative history of the isthmian canal enterprise. In 1916 he published his magnum opus, "America's Foreign Relations"; a two-volume history of the foreign relations of the United States from the earliest times to the present, which has been generally ac- cepted in America and Europe as the authoritative and standard work upon that subject. In 1917 appeared his "America and the Great War for Humanity."


For many years Dr. Johnson has been actively interested in educa- tional affairs. He was one of the organizers and President of the Board of Trustees of the Priscilla Braislin School for Girls, at Bordentown. For a number of years he was President of the Board of Trustees of Penning- ton Seminary, and is a member of the Council of New York University. For thirty years he has been a popular lecturer, delivering many occasional


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lectures and orations, as well as educational addresses at Pennington Semi- nary, the Lawrenceville School, the Priscilla Braislin School, the Borden- town Military Institute, and the public schools of Newark, Jersey City, Hoboken, Bayonne and other places in this State. He has also been in demand as a lecturer in New York, Washington and other cities, and at New York University, Wesleyan University, Dickinson College, Amherst College and elsewhere, and since 1903 has been one of the staff lecturers of the New York City Board of Education. In 1914 he was elected Honorary Professor of the History of Foreign Relations in New York University. In recognition of his literary and scholastic attainments, he has received from New York University the honorary degree of Master of Letters, (L. H. M.) and from Dickinson College the degrees of Master of Arts (M. A.) and Doctor of Humane Letters (L. H. D.)


Dr. Johnson has always been an earnest organization republican, and has frequently been invited to be a candidate for elective or appointive office, but invariably declined until the Spring of 1908, when, on May 8, he was appointed by Governor Fort a member of the State Civil Service Commission, which had just been created by act of Legislature. Upon the organization of the Commission he was elected its President, and he was retained in that position, by successive re-elections at the hands of his colleagues, during the four years of his service. He retired from the Commission in May, 1912.


Dr. Johnson is descended from a cousin of Samuel Johnson, the famous Lexicographer, and from the English families of May, Fletcher, Coles and Reeves, and the French family of Paschal. His books besides those already referred to include "Colonel Henry Ludington, a Memoir," "Parsifal and the Holy Grail," "An American Statesman, Life and Works of J. G. Blaine," "Life of General Sherman," "Stanley's Adventures in Africa," and "A Poli- tical and Governmental History of the State of New York," in five volumes, octavo, now in course of preparation.


Dr. Johnson is a member and lay preacher of the Methodist Episcopal church.


WILLIAM M. JOHNSON-Hackensack, (Main Street.)-Lawyer. Born in Newton, (Sussex Co.,) December 2nd, 1847; son of Whit- field S. Johnson and Ellen Green ; married on October 22, 1872, to Maria E. White, daughter of William and Hannah (Haines) White.


Children : George W., born July 25, 1877; William Kempton, born February, 1883.


William M. Johnson, was First Assistant Post Master General under President Mckinley. For years previously he had been a leading member of the New Jersey State Senate.


The Johnson family name has appeared conspicuously in the records of the past. Senator Johnson's great grandfather. Capt. Henry Johnson, was an officer in the Revolutionary War. His father, Whitfield S. John- son, a prominent lawyer of Newton, was Secretary of State of New Jersey from 1861 to 1866. The functions of that office demanded Secretary John-


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son's presence at the State Capitol, and he made his home there after his appointment. William M. graduated from Princeton in 1867 ; and, admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1870, practiced in Trenton till 1875, when he re- moved to Hackensack where he became a busy and successful lawyer.


Mr. Johnson was soon active in politics ; and in 1884 was designated as the Bergen county member of the Republican State Committee. The State Conventions of 1888 and 1904 named him as a delegate to the Republican National Conventions of those years. His election to the State Senate in 1895 is memorable in Bergen county annals because he was the first repub- lican that county had ever sent to the Upper House of the State Legisla- ture. Re-elected in 1898. he became leader of the party, and in 1900 was chosen President of the Senate. When, in the summer of 1900, Gov. Voor- hees made a trip across the sea, President Johnson became Acting Gover- nor, by virtue of his office. All of the legislative work of the sessions, when Senator Johnson was in the Senate, bears the impress of his suggestion and judgment. He was particularly active in guarding the State treasury against improvident raids; and he first suggested legislation for the elimination of the grade crossings of the railroads. One act offered by him and the discussions it aroused drew public attention to the subject, and opened the door to the remedial legislation that has since been perfected.


In 1900 President Mckinley invited him to accept the post of First Assistant Post Master General of the United States, and Senator Johnson undertook the labors of the office. One of his achievements was the build- ing of the Rural Free Delivery Service, then in its infancy, in- to a robust branch of the Post Office Department. Ill health compelled him to resign the of- fice in 1902. The nomination for Governor, which was drifting to him in 1907 without opposition, would have been equivalent to his election, if Mr. Johnson's health had permitted its acceptance. His not over-robust constitution accounts, too, for his refusal of judicial honors afterwards tendered to him.


He was appointed by the Chancellor in 1913 as one of the appraisers to ascertain the value of the stock of the Prudential Life Insurance Com- pany. This important work involving millions of dollars in value was car- ried to a successful completion and the mutualization of the Company be- came effective on the basis of the valuation as fixed by the appraisers.


Senator Johnson has taken a deep interest in the life of the town in


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which he makes his home, and directed some of his energies to its develop- ment. In 1901 he erected, and gave to Hackensack, a handsome public library building, fully equipped, which was designated by the town author- ities as the "Johnson Public Library"; and in 1915 he had erected an ex- tensive addition to the building, making it complete and well adapted to the uses of the town. He is Vice President of the Hackensack Hospital; and another of his publie benefactions is the Home for Nurses of the Hackensack Hospital, a handsome and commodious building of fire-proof construction, erected in 1916. To the Second Reformed Church, of which he has been an officer for many years, he donated a handsome organ. In June of 1916 the citizens of Hackensack tendered him a public dinner in re- cognition of the many helpful things he had done for the town.


Senator Johnson is President of the Hackensack Trust Company and Director of the Hackensack National Bank and of other local corpora- tions. He has for a number of years been a director of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of Newark; is a Director of the General Chemical Co., the American Graphophone Company, and the Hackensack Water Company, and a member of the Washington Association, the New Jersey Historical Society, the Bergen County Historical Society, and the New Jersey Bar Association of which he was President in 1912.


Some of Senator Johnson's clubs are the Lawyers (N. Y.), The Hacken- sack Golf, The Arcola Country and The Oritani Field.


CHARLES VAN DYKE JOLINE-Merchantville .- Lawyer. Born at Princeton, August 7, 1851; son of John Van Dyke Joline and Alice Ann (Voorhees) Jo- line ; married at Camden, December 18, 1878, to Lucie Thomas Cooper, daughter of William Wood and Anna ('ampion Cooper.


Children : Alice Voorhees, born November 27, 1879; Constance Cooper, born Apr. 15, 1881.


Mr. Joline was educated at the Trenton Academy and the State Model School, Trenton. He went thence to Princeton College where he was graduated in the class of 1871. He read law in the office of Peter L. Voorhees, at Camden, and was admitted to the bar as an attorney at the June term of the Supreme Court in 1874 and as a counselor at the June term 1877.


In 1896 he was appointed Judge of the Camden City District Court by Gov. Griggs, and reappointed


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in 1901 by Gov. Voorhees. In 1902 he was appointed Judge of the Camden County Court of Common Pleas by Gov. Murphy and reappointed in 1907 by Gov. Stokes. He served till the beginning of April, 1912. He is now prac- ticing law at 110 Market Street, Camden.


Mr. Joline is a member of the Manufacturers and Princeton Clubs of Philadelphia, Pa., and of the Nassau Club of Princeton. He is one of the State Board Examiners and a member of the Board of Education of Mer- chantville.


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OTTO HERMANN KAHN - Morristown. - Banker. Born at Mannheim, Germany, on February 21, 1867; son of Bernhard and Emma (Eberstadt) Kahn ; married in 1896 to Addie Wolff, daugh- ter of Abraham Wolff of New York.


Otto H. Kahn is of the New York City banking firm of Kuhn Loeb & Co. A citizen at different periods of his life of three nations, he is well informed on international topics and relations. And he has been as con- spicuous in the art life of two worlds.


Mr. Kahn brings his artistic temperment from his home in Germany. He was one of the eight children of a prosperous banker whose house was a center for artists, musicians, singers, sculptors and writers. Young Otto's earliest ambition was to be a musician, and even before graduation he had learned to play several instruments. His father allowed one of the boys to become Professor of Music at the Royal Academy in Berlin, but had other plans for Otto ; and when the boy was seventeen years old he was placed in a bank at Karlsruhe. His next step was to enter the London Agency of the Deutsche Bank, and there he displayed talents that promoted him to second in command. His admiration of the English mode of life, political and social, led him to renounce his German citizenship, and he was naturalized as an English subject. His energies attracted the notice of the Speyers of London and they offered him a position in their New York house.


Mr. Kahn came to the United States in 1893 with the intention of remaining here only temporarily but his task and the people here so in- terested him that, though he was offered a seat in the British Parliament, he concluded to make his permanent home in this country. In March of 1917, Mr. Kahn applied to the courts at Morristown for papers of naturalization as an American citizen. "In view of recent developments," he explained, "I feel it my duty now formally to assume the obligations and duties of citi- zenship in this country, in which I have worked and lived these many years and expect to live permanently, in which my children were born and expect to live, and to which I have become deeply attached."


Miss Wolff, his wife, was the daughter of one of the upbuilders of Kuhn Loeb & Co .; and soon after his marriage to her he was admitted to the partnership. He became the intimate of E. H. Harriman and was his right hand man in the task of reorganizing the Union Pacific, which work in its earlier stages had been handled by Jacob H. Schiff, the head of the firm. Other systems which have been treated by him are the Union Pa-


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cific, the Baltimore and Ohio, the Missouri Pacific, the Wabash Chicago and Eastern Illinois, and the Texas Pacific. His rescue from collapse of the famous Pearson & Farquhar Syndicate, which had over-extended itself in a daring attempt to weld together a transcontinental system out of a com- bination of existing lines controlled by powerful interests, and the admis- sion to the Parish Bourse of $50,000,000 Pennsylvania railroad bonds - the first official listing of an American security in Paris - were other notable exploits of his.


The most shining of Mr. Kahn's artistic enterprises was the re- organization of the Metropolitan Opera Company. He overhauled it from top to bottom, purging it of dead wood, introducing valuable reforms, in- fusing new life into it and setting up artistic achievement as its goal in place of mere monetary success, and has besides provided opera of the high- est quality for other leading American cities. In addition to being Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Company, he was Chairman of the Century Opera Company, a popular price enterprise, Treasurer of the New Theatre, de- signed to supply wholesome plays at moderate prices, Vice President and the principal founder of the Chicago Grand Opera Company, Director of the Boston Opera Company, and one of the founders of the French Theatre. He is also Honorary Director of the Royal Opera, Covent Garden London, and equally known in French operatic circles.


Mr. Kahn is devoted to riding, autoing, golfing, sailing and a master of the 'cello. He came to Morristown in 1900 and has an estate in the Normandie Park section. He is a Director in the Equitable Trust Co., the Union Pacific Railroad Co., the Oregon Short Line Railroad Co. and the Morristown Trust Co.


Mr. Kahn's New York home is at 8 East 58th Street.


SAMUEL KALISCH-Newark, (738 Broad Street.)-Jurist. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, April 18, 1851; son of Isidor Kalisch and Charlotte Bandman Kalisch ; married at Newark, April 26, 1877, to Caroline E. Baldwin, daughter of Joseph and Louise Baldwin, of Newark.


Samuel Kalisch is now an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the state of New Jersey. His father and grandfather were noted Rabbis of the Duchy of Posen, in Prussia. His father, who was born in Krotoschin, in 1816, was remarkable for his Talmudical and Hebrew learning even in his ninth year, and became widely known as a scholar, philologist and author. One of his popular songs, dedicated to the Prince of Prussia, was accepted by the Prince, afterwards the Great Emperor William I, in a note to Dr. Kalisch, signed by "Prinz von Preussen." Later, he was conspicuous in the reform movement, designed to root out useless ceremonies, customs and rites of the Jewish service, which that element regarded as the idolatry of the orthodox service. He was chiefly instrumental in bringing about the first Conference of the Rabbis held in Cleveland, 1855 and, to promote the propaganda, he preached all over the country with great effective- ness.


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The family had settled in Cleveland when Samuel Kalisch was born. The future jurist, inbued with the scholastic atmosphere of his father's home, was proficient at twelve in Greek and Latin. He attended the public schools at Lawrence, Mass., and Detroit, Mich., and pursued his law studies in the Columbia Law School. Graduating from there with the L. L. B. degree, he entered the office of the late William B. Guild, Jr., and studied there until his admission to the Bar at the February term, 1871; three years later he was made counselor.


Opening an office in Newark, he rose rapidly to recognition and was retained to act as counsel for the defendant in a number of sensational cases heard in the criminal courts of Essex county. He was the first lawyer in New Jersey to obtain the release of a convict from a state prison upon a habeas corpus writ; and his success in winning acquittals, and reducing murder charges to manslaughter and assault and battery verdicts gave him state-wide reputation as a criminal lawyer.




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