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is rather proud of reciting the fact that his first year's salary, in 1851, was the magnificent sum of $25. and "found."
Mr. Kelsey has lived at the Trenton House for forty-seven years. On the death of his wife in 1894, he severed connection with all social organi- zations; but remains a life member of the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Geographical So- ciety, the New Jersey Historical Society and the Sussex County Historical Society.
CALVIN NOYES KENDALL-Princeton, (321 Nassau Street.) -Educator. Born at Augusta, New York, Feb. 9, 1858; son of Leonard J. and Sarah M. Kendall; married on June 30, 1891, at Jackson, Michigan, to Alla P. Field, daughter of Leonard H. Field and Alla R. Field.
Children : David W., born February 11, 1903.
Calvin N. Kendall was graduated from Hamilton College with the de- gree of A. B. in 1882, and has since received the degrees of A. M. from Yale, in 1900, and from the University of Michigan, in 1909; and of Lit. D. from Hamilton College, in 1911 and from Rutgers College, in 1912; and L. L. D. from New York University in 1913.
Mr. Kendall taught in the public schools of New York State for two years and in 1885 and 1886 was principal of the Jackson High School, Jackson, Mich. He became Superintendent of Schools in Jackson in 1886 and continued there until 1890; he was Superinten- dent of Schools of New Haven, Conn., from 1895 to 1900, and Superintendent of Schools in Indianapolis and a member of the State Board of Education of In- diana, from 1900 to July, 1911. Incidentally he has lectured at the summer schools in the Universities of Chicago. Indiana. Wis- consin. Iowa. Illinois, Cali- fornia and at Columbia.
He has been President of the Connecticut Council of Education, of the Connec- ticut State Teacher's Asso- ciation, of the Southern In- diana Teacher's Association and of the Indiana State Teacher's Association ; and when, in 1911. the United States Commissioner of Education appointed
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three investigators to report upon the Baltimore schools, Mr. Kendall was named to serve upon the commission.
Dr. Kendall was Superintendent of Schools in Indianapolis when Gov- ernor Wilson invited him, in 1911, to assume charge of the schools of New Jersey, under a law greatly enlarging the functions of the State School Superintendent and re-creating the office with the title of State Commis- sioner of Education. Dr. Kendall had already declined an offer of the Superintendency of Schools in Washington, D. C., Louisville, Rochester and in Springfield, Mass .; but the functions of the New Jersey Commissioner- ship attracted him and he accepted. The salary of the office, which had been $6,000 a year, was inreased to $10,000 a year with the purpose of in- viting the best educational talent of the country.
Under Commissioner Kendall's administration the school system, which had been theretofore largely local, has been welded into a solid state system. The central idea of the new method of administering the schools is that they are a distinctly state institution. The several communities are re- quired to meet the demands of the State authorities for financial support ; and the standard of school buildings everywhere is set by the State Board of Education.
Commissioner Kendall is a member of the Nassau Club, Princeton.
JAMES KERNEY-Trenton .- Journalist. Born at Trenton, on April 29, 1873 ; son of Thomas F. and Mary C. (Farrell) Kerney ; married at Trenton, on October 4, 1897, to Sarah Mullen, daughter of Thomas and Mary Mullen.
Children : Mary, born December 24, 1899; Thomas Lincoln, Feb- ruary 12, 1902; Katherine, March 19, 1905; James Jr., December 17, 1911; John Edward, March 11, 1913; Margaret Moon, April 29, 1914.
His work as editor of the "Evening Times" in Trenton has made James Kerney one of the influential factors in the public life of the middle and Southern sections of New Jersey. He is of Irish parentage, but his parents came to these shores in their childhood; and he has spent all of his life in Trenton. He was educated in the parochial schools of the city and while learning a trade in a carriage shop, he attended the Trenton Evening High School, where he studied stenography and typewriting. It was through the latter studies that he was enabled to enter the newspaper business, working for several years as a reporter on Trenton dailies and eventually becoming the New Jersey political reporter for the "New York Herald" and "Philadelphia Press," as well as the Trenton correspondent for the "Newark Evening News" and other important state journals.
In February, 1903, Mr. Kerney acquired an ownership interest in the "Trenton Evening Times," becoming the editor of that newspaper. In 1912, "The Times" purchased the Trenton "Sunday Advertiser," which had long been established as an independent Sunday newspaper, and it was consoli- dated with "The Times" property. Subsequently "The Times" purchased the "Daily True American," which had been issued as a morning news-
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paper at the capital for a century and which in 1912 was changed over to the evening field. The "True American" was merged into the "Evening Times," which now issues a seven day newspaper (evening and Sunday edi- tions). "The Times" led the fight for Commission Government in Trenton and has been an aggressive force in all civic campaigns in its community, noteworthy among them being the successful contests for ninety cent gas and lower trolley fares.
After Woodrow Wilson had become Governor of New Jersey, he was impressed with Mr. Kerney's force as a publicist ; and the relations between the Chief Executive and the Editor became very close. Mr. Kerney was frequently called into consultation concerning public affairs, and, after the Governor had become President. was a frequent visitor at the White House. Through guber- natorial appointment, Mr. Ker- ney became a member of the first New Jersey Civil Service Com- mission, serving from 1909 to 1911, and declining a reappoint- ment at the hands of Governor Wilson, and he was also ap- pointed a member of the com- mission charged with the erec- tion of a suitable memorial at the point in the Delaware River where Washington crossed on the eventful Christmas Eve when he fell upon the Hessians and gave new hope to the Revolutionary cause.
Mr. Kerney is an active official in the Boy Scout Movement, a Director of the Trenton Trust and Safe Deposit Company and of the Interstate Fair Association.
His club memberships are with the Lotos, Trenton Country, Knights of Columbus, Trenton Rotary (President 1916-'17) and Spring Lake Golf.
EUGENE F. KINKEAD-Jersey City .- Advertising. Born at Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland, on March 27th. 1876; son of Thomas C. and Nora Barrett Kinkead; married at Jersey City, on September 29th, 1909, to Anna O'Neill, daughter of Thomas and Mary Kerwin O'Neill, of New York.
Children : Eileen, born November 5th, 1914.
Eugene F. Kinkead was for three terms a member of the National House of Representatives in Washington and is now the Sheriff of Hudson
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county. He was educated in St. Peters College in Jersey City and Seton Hall College, South Orange, graduating from the latter institution in 1895, with the degree of A. B.
In 1898 he was elected Alder- man from the Tenth Ward of Jersey City, and was elected President of the Board of Alder- men in 1907. While serving on the Board, he started the play- ground movement by establish- ing outdoor gymnasiums and playgrounds for the youth of Jersey City. He was elected to Congress from the Ninth Dis- trict of New Jersey in 190S; served two terms as Represen- tative of this district and in 1912 was elected as the Repre- sentative in Congress of the Eighth District of New Jersey, comprising the seventh ward of Jersey City, Bayonne, East New- ark, Harrison and Kearny in Hudson county; the eighth, eleventh and fifteenth wards of Newark, and the towns of Belleville, Bloomfield and Nutley in Essex coun- ty. He was elected Sheriff of Hudson county in 1914; and in July, 1915, settled the strike at the plant of the Standard Oil Company in Bayonne, as a result of which this company, for the first time in its history, conceded an eight-hour day to its employees.
Mr. Kinkead has been in the street car advertising business since 1901, and at the present time is President of the Jersey Railways Advertising Company, which controls the advertising in the street cars of New Jersey.
WILLIAM BURNET KINNEY-Newark .- Lawyer. Born in Newark, April 30th, 1871; son of Thomas T. and Estelle (Condit) Kinney ; married at Newark, on June Sth, 1901, to Helen M. Murphy, daughter of Franklin Murphy.
Children : Janet, born April Sth, 1902; Mai, born September 10, 1903; Constance, born July 6th, 1905; Margaret Condit, born Aug. 23, 1909.
William B. Kinney's line is traceable back to the twelfth century in Fifeshire near Dundee, Scotland. The first immigrant ancestor arrived in this country about the middle of the eighteenth century and two of his sons were baptized in 1760 in the First Presbyterian Church in Morristown. William Burnet Kinney, Mr. Kinney's grandfather and for whom Mr.
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Kinney was named, was one of the original Abolitionists of the country and a delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1860, that nominated Abraham Lincoln for President of the United States. President Lincoln appointed him Minister to Sardinia. He was one of the oldest stockholders in the Morris and Essex Railroad, a Trustee of Princeton College and estab- lished the "Newark Daily Advertiser," the first daily newspaper published in New Jersey.
Mr. Kinney's father, while in Princeton College was an assistant during his senior year to Professor Henry, who made the discoveries that eventu- ated in the dauguerreotype, the first form of photographing. He studied law in the office of Joseph P. Bradley who was afterwards an Associate Justice of the Unit- ed States Supreme Court. He never practiced however, but followed William Burnet Kinney into the newspaper field in con- nection with the "Newark Daily Advertiser," and built it up in- to the most powerful single newspaper influence the state has ever known.
William B. Kinney was edu- cated at the Newark Academy- and Princeton University, class: of 1894. He read law in the of --- fice of McCarter, Williamson & McCarter in Newark, and took a course at the New York Law School. He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in June of 1896.
Among the more important Newark institutions with which Mr. Kinney is indentified are the National State Bank, The Howard Savings Institu- tion, the Firemens Insurance Company and the Kinney Realty Company. He is an hereditary member of the Cincinnati Society and a member of the Essex Club, the Essex County Country, the Rumson Country, the Lake- wood Country, all of New Jersey, and the Union League Club of New York.
Mrs. Kinney is a daughter of ex-Governor Franklin Murphy.
IRA A. KIP, Jr .- South Orange .- Manufacturer. Born in Pas- saic, on April 22, 1876; married in 1893, to Katherine Flower.
Ira A. Kip, Jr., is one of the rising men in New Jersey politics, and prominent as well in industrial circles. From 1907 to 1913 he was Gover- nor of the New York Stock Exchange; and he has been a delegate to the three Republican National Conventions and a Presidential Elector.
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Mr. Kip was eighteen years of age when he began his business career in the office of H. H. Crocker & Co., East India importers and brokers. He is now President of the Duratex Company on Frelinghuysen Avenue, Newark, and Vice President of the Salts Textile Co., Inc. The Textile company manufactures pile fabrics ; and it has factories in Europe as well as here. He became a member of the New York Stock Exchange in 1901 continuing the connection until 1913.
Mr. Kip first evinced his interest in politics by participating in the public affairs of South Orange. He was twice President of the Village. During his administration, he participated in the movement for a joint trunk sewer system, and largely improved the South Orange water service. The first of the National Conventions to which he was a delegate was that which at Chicago in 1904 nominated Theodore Roosevelt for the Presidency. He was one of the Electors who cast the vote of the state for William H. Taft for President in 1908. He served as a delegate from his Congres- sional district to the Chicago Convention of 1916 that nominated ex- Justice Charles E. Hughes, and was an ardent worker for the election of the Hughes ticket. In 1917 Gov. Edge appointed him a member of the State Highway Commission.
Mr. Kip was connected with the Seventh Regiment of New York City. Besides belonging to the Holland Society is a member, and for two years was President, of the Essex County Country Club, and is also a member of the Morris County Golf Club, the Calumet Club, the New York Yacht Club, the Thousand Islands Yacht Club and the Stock Exchange Luncheon Club.
Mr. Kip's home is Walnut Gate in the fashionable section of the Oranges, and he has a summer place, Leek Island, among the Thousand Islands, of the St. Lawrence River.
EDGAR ALBERT KNAPP-Elizabeth, (760 Broad Street.)- Insurance. Born at Elizabeth, on January 3, 1877 ; son of Arthur Winslow and Christine (Byron) Knapp; married at Elizabeth, on June 12, 1909, to Elizabeth Dimock, daughter of George Edward and Elizabeth (Jordan) Dimock.
Children : Christine, Elizabeth and Honora Marie.
Edgar A. Knapp was one of the first ten men to sign a pledge for the support of the Progressive Party and is Chairman of the Elizabeth branch of the National Security League; Secretary of the Committee of Public Safety in Elizabeth; Chairman of the Home Guard Committee, and has supervision over a uniformed and armed force of 300 men; and is a Veteran of the Spanish American War.
The militant spirit has always prevailed in the Knapp family. Mr. Knapp's grandfather, Ora H. Knapp, was Major General in command of the Ohio National Guard in 1837; and his father, a soldier in the Union army during the Civil War, was severely wounded at the battle of Shiloh.
Soon after his graduation from the Pingry school in 1894, Mr. Knapp enlisted in the First United States Volunteer Cavalry (Roosevelt Rough Riders) for service in the Spanish American War. He took part in the
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battles of Las Guasimas, July 24th, 1898, and of San Juan Hill, July 1, 2, 3, 1898, and the siege of Santiago de Cuba resulting in the surrender of the city on July 17, 1898.
Mr. Knapp came back from the war full of Roosevelt enthusiasm; and when the ex-President became the leader of the Progressive element in the Republican party, he fell into the ranks as his political lieutenant. A dele- gate from the Fifth Congres- sional district to the historical Republican National Convention of 1912, that was the scene of the struggle between Col. Roose- velt and President Taft for the Presidential nomination, he was an ardent supporter of Mr. Roo- sevelt's claims; and when the convention gave a renomina- tion to President Taft, he was a delegate to the Progressive Na- tional Convention, held in Chi- cago a month or two later. that put Mr. Roosevelt afield against him. During the cam- paign Mr. Knapp induced ex- President Roosevelt to visit him in Elizabeth and make speeches there. Mr. Knapp still repre- sents Union county in the Pro- gressive State Committee and is Vice Chairman of the Commit- tee ; he was again a delegate to the National Progressive Convention in Chi- cago in June, 1916, but co-operated later with the Republican State Com- mittee during the campaign and supported the republican candidates.
Mr. Knapp is a member of Squadron A and of the Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba and of the Baltusrol Golf and the Elizabeth Town and Country Clubs.
Mr. Knapp does a general insurance business with offices at 73 Maiden Lane, New York City.
GOTTFRIED KRUEGER-Newark .- Brewer. Born in Germa- ny, in 1840.
Gottfried Krueger sat on the Bench of the State Court of Errors and Appeals for the eleven years between 1892 and 1903. In the long line of Court of Appeals Judges, only one, Edmund L. B. Wales, (1861-'S1) sat for a term covering a longer period of time. Judge Krueger was first appointed by Gov. Leon Abbett, and reappointed by Governors Green, and Werts. Governor Griggs failed to renominate him to the Senate.
Mr. Krueger had not long been operating his brewery in Newark when
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he was elected to a seat in the Assembly to participate in one of the most exciting contests over the United States Senatorship New Jersey has ever seen. In the Legislative joint meeting, which was to choose the United States Senator to succeed Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, the democrats had a bare majority of one. The House was a tie, and the Senate seats were held by eleven democrats and ten Republicans. In the discussions this situ- ation provoked Mr. Krueger's vote was courted by the rival aspirants for the Senatorship; it was finally cast for John R. McPherson, the nominee of the Democratic legislative caucus. Mr. Krueger's rise to power was very marked and very rapid after that session of the legislature and even- tually he came to exert a wide influence throughout the state, of a business as well as of a political character. Apart however from his service on the Bench, he has declined all offers of official preferment.
One of Judge Krueger's diversions has been an annual trip across the sea to visit his daughter. Just after his arrival in Berlin on his last trip, in 1914, the great War of the Nations broke out. The excitements of travel were more than he thought his state of health would bear; and as late as until the middle of the summer of 1917 he was still awaiting in Berlin the outcome of the sanguinary contest.
Judge Krueger is President of the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Com- pany ; of the U. S. Brewing Company ; of the German Savings Bank and the Union Ice Company of Newark. He is a director of the Federal Trust Company, the Union National Bank and the German Hospital, all of Newark. The list of his club and society memberships is a very long one. One of the largest of these Associations is that founded by the em- ployees of his own establishment, the Gottfried Krueger Association.
HENRY BARNARD KUMMEL-Trenton .- Geologist. Born in Milwaukee, Wis., May 25th, 1867; son of Julius M. F. and Annie (Barnard) Kummel ; married June 20th, 1899, to Charlotte, daugh- ter of Henry and Lucy Proctor Coe, of Painesville, O.
Children : Charlotte, born January, 1903 ; Lucy, born March, 1907.
Mr. Kummel was educated in the public schools of his native city, grad- uated from Beloit College, Wisconsin, in 1889, and took post-graduate courses at Harvard and the University of Chicago. He won the A. B. degree at Beloit College with valedictorian honors. Three years later the A. M. degree was conferred by both Beloit and Harvard; and in 1895, the University of Chicago conferred the Ph. D. degree. He taught for two years in Beloit College and was for a time Professor of Physiography in Lewis Institute, Chicago.
In 1891 Dr. Kummel was engaged on the U. S. Geological Survey in Connecticut. In 1892 he was connected with the Geological Survey of New Jersey and for several seasons made surveys for this department chiefly in Warren, Hunterdon and Sussex counties. In 1898 he spent the part of one season in travel abroad and studying the geology of Scotland. When he returned he was made Assistant State Geologist of New Jersey ; and, when Dr. John C. Smock resigned in 1901, Dr. Kummel went to the head
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of the Department. During Governor Stokes' administration Dr. Kummel was active in advocating constructive legislation for the protection and conservation of the forests and water supply of the State; and on its organization became executive officer of the State Forest Commission in addition to being State Geologist. With the organization of the Depart- ment of Conservation and Development, Dr. Kummel was continued as State Geologist and became Chief of the Division of Geology and waters, and acting Director of the Department in the absence of the Director.
For several years Dr. Kummel was President of the American Asso- ciation of State Geologists-its first President. In 1907 he went to the city of Mexico as a member of the International Geological Congress, and was a delegate again to that in Toronto, Canada. He was one of the five citizens chosen by Governor Fort to attend the famous Conservation Meet- ing summoned by President Roosevelt to convene at the White House, and later he was a member of several subsequent conservation congresses.
Dr. Kummel is a Fellow of the American Association for the advance- ment of Science and of the Geological Society of America, and a member of the National Institute of Social Science. He has contributed many papers to geological journals and reports, relating chiefly to the geological and natural resources of New Jersey.
CLARA SCHLEE LADDEY (Mrs. Victor H. G.)-Arlington. Lecturer and Woman Suffragist. Born at Stuttgart, Wurtem- berg, Germany ; daughter of Adolf T. and Pauline H. B. (Steimle) Schlee; married at Stuttgart, Germany, on May Sth, 1875, to Victor H. G. Laddey.
Children : John V .. , Erich C., Paula.
Besides being of note as a lecturer on the German Poets, Clara Schlee Laddey, is an ardent advocate of suffrage for women. Even before she came from Stuttgart, and when she was only seventeen years of age, she had attended a meeting for the organization of the first women's club ever established there. When she came to this country in 1SSS, she became as deeply interested in the "new woman" movement here. She was elected President of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association in 1908, and, serving till 1912, was made honorary President and has ever since cam- paigned for the cause. She is a life member of the Association and also of the National Association. In 1911 she was a member of the Joint Legis- lative Committee of the Woman Suffrage organization in the state and of the National Woman Suffrage Executive Council from 1912 until 1914, marched at the head of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage delegation in the first suffrage parade in New York City and was an American delegate to the International Woman Suffrage Congress held at Budapest, Hungary, in 1913. In her home town too she is active in spreading the propaganda ; and was chairman of a joint committee of all the women organizations in Arlington in a campaign to promote the election of a woman as a member of the local school board.
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Mrs. Laddey's father was a descendant of Dr. Franz Joseph Gall, the founder of phrenology ; on her mother's side she is a descendant of the Rev. C. Blumhart, who was a famous Lutheran preacher. Her husband is a merchant (retired). She was educated in the schools at Stuttgart, taking a classical lec- ture course, and was instruct- ed in vocal and instrumental music, visiting the Finishing School in Fribourg, in French Switzerland.
Mrs. Laddey was for a time soprano in the Hoboken syna- gogue and the leader of a Glee Club connected with the Wom- en's Club of Arlington. She is first Vice Chairman of the New Jersey division of the National Womans Peace Party. She was the first President, from 1905- 1909, of the Civic Club of Ar- lington, is a member also of the Women's Club; the Study
Club ; the Ladies Circle (Church of the Redeemer) ; Women's Alliance (Universalist Church), and the Chapin House Auxiliary all of Arlington and of the W. C. T. U. and of the Contemporary Club of Newark.
Mrs. Laddey's son, John V. (L. L. M.), and her daughter, Paula (L. L. B.), are lawyers ; and her son Erich C. is a Private Secretary.
FRANCIS LAFFERTY-Newark .- Lawyer. Born in Mulica Hill (Gloucester county), on February 20, 1870; son of William and Martha M. (McKibbin) Lafferty; married on June 2, 1892, to Sadie E., daughter of Solomon S. and Sarah Baldwin Denels- beck, of Whig Lane.
Children : Frances Leilah and Elton Braddock.
Francis Lafferty is Solicitor in the law department of the Fidelity Trust Company, Newark. After an attendance in the public school he took a course in law at the Dickinson Law School and read afterwards in the office of Robert S. Clymer, of Woodbury and A. H. Swackhamer. For four years after his admission to the bar in November, 1898, he practiced in Atlantic City and coming subsequently to Newark associated himself first with S. P. Northrop and subsequently with Charles C. Pilgrim.
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Mr. Lafferty is a democrat in politics, a F. & A. M. and is connected with the Lawyers Club of Newark.
ALICE LAKEY-Cranford .- Civic Worker. Born in Ohio; daughter of Charles D. and Ruth F. (Jacques) Lakey.
Alice Lakey prepared for her life work with the view of becoming a professional singer, studied music abroad, sang at concerts in London and the Provinces and was Chairman of the department of music of the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs in 1911-'12; but, compelled by illness to abandon that career, became interested in the movement for pure food. She was a volunteer worker for the cause in 1903, and has devoted herself to it since. She addressed meetings of the State Federations of Women's Clubs and, so, aroused among the women of the country the sentiment that was largely potential in inducing Congress to pass the pure food law. Among the State Federations before which she spoke were those of New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con- necticut and Kentucky. She was heard also in the same behalf at the World's Congress of the W. C. T. U. in Boston in 1916. United States Sena- tors Heyburn and McCumber and Dr. Wiley, Chief at that time of the United States Pure Food Department, wrote per- sonal letters of congratulations to her; and Robert M. Allen, food official of Kentucky, who was doing among the men what she was doing among the women. tendered her his sin- cere thanks for the "noble work" she had done.
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