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Dr. Lusk was ordained on March 26, 1881 in the United Presbyterian Church, known as the Scotch Church, the site of which, in Clinton Street, Newark, is now occupied by a commercial building. He served this Church until in the summer of 1883, he was called to the Seventh United Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, where he served until the Spring of 1885. On April 1, that year, he accepted a call to the Sixth Presby- terian Church, Newark. During his pastorate in the Sixth Church, a new church edifice with institutional appointments was erected in a new location, and the beginning made for a permanent endowment. Its motto at the entrance-"This Church is conducted in the interest of the people outside of it"-has made it known across the country. During Dr. Lusk's pastorate more than eleven hundred members were received into the Church, mostly on confession of faith.
Dr. Lusk was one of the principal founders of the Presbyterian Union
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and served for nineteen years as its Executive Director. In 1908 he was Moderator of the Synod of New Jersey. Previously he had served as Moderator of the Presbytery of Newark. He has served as Commissioner to the sessions of the General Assembly of the Church held at Saratoga, Los Angeles and Atlanta, and is recognized as an authority on Church matters, specially relating to his own city and community.
Dr. Lusk served on the Grand Jury, of which Frederick Freling- huysen was foreman, during the administration of Sheriff Frank Sommer, and afterwards on the petit jury. He is a member of the Governing Board of the Bloomfield Theological Seminary, life member of the New Jersey Historical Society, represents the Newark Presbytery on the Committee of Synodical Home Missions, is a member of the Committee on the Exami- nation of Theological Students in the Presbytery, of the Men's Evangelistic Committee of Newark, of the Negro Welfare League of New Jersey and of the Society of Social Service Workers of Essex County ; an Honorary member of the Forest Hill Golf Club; the oldest member of Kappa Chi, the oldest literary club among ministers in Newark; and connected with Eureka Lodge F. & A. M.
Of his children, Mary Edith is his secretary, Davis Winans is a Forester and Mildred Dickerson a teacher.
ADRIAN LYON-Perth Amboy, (84 Gordon Street.)-Lawyer. Born at Village Pluckemin, Somerset Co., on July 25, 1869; son of William L. and Ursula (Sebring) Lyon; married at Athenia, on May 8, 1895, to Cornelia Post, daughter of John C. and Catherine E. Post, of Athenia.
Children : Howard S., born 1896.
Adrian Lyon has been closely identified with the Progressive move- ment of recent years in the National Republican party, and is also con- spicuous in Y. M. C. A. circles. He is President of the State Y. M. C. A. and was largely instrumental, besides, in the founding, and became the first President of the Perth Amboy Y. M. C. A. The political con- troversies of the day made him a delegate from the Third Congressional District to the National Republican Convention at Chicago that renominated President Taft, and to the National Progressive Convention held two months later, in Chicago also, that put Theodore Roosevelt in nomination against him. Retaining his alliance with the Progressive party. he was a delegate also to the National Progressive Convention of 1916.
The name of Henry Lyon, one of his direct forebears was the eighth on the agreement of the New Milford settlers of June 16. 1667, on which Robert Treat was the first, and he was the first Treasurer of the Town of Newark. Mr. Lyon is a member of the Society of the Sons of the Ameri- can Revolution, admitted because his great-great-grandfather on his mother's side. Captain James Hill, was of the Sussex county militia in that
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struggle. He was educated in the public schools and qualified for the practice of law at the New York Law School, graduating from there in 1894 with the LL. B. degree. He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1892, made a counselor in 1895 and opened an office in Perth Amboy.
Mr. Lyon's public activities are almost co-incident with his profes- sional work. He was Superintendent of the schools in Perth Amboy in '94, '95, and in '95 became City Attorney. He served in the New Jersey
House of Assembly, sessions of 1900-01. In the latter year Gov. Voorhees appointed him Judge of the local District Court, and. serving there till 1909, he was appointed by Gov. Fort. Law Judge of Middlesex county to fill the unexpired term of Theodore B. Booraem. Since January, 1913, he has been Ref- eree in Bankruptcy for the dis- trict of Middlesex county.
Judge Lyon has been an elder in the First Presbyterian Church at Perth Amboy for nearly twen- ty years. Since 1899 he has been President of the Perth Am- boy Savings Institution ; since 1893 Registrar, and a member. of the Board of East Jersey Proprietors, and was President of the New Jersey Bankers' As- sociation in 1910. He is a mem- ber of the Masonic lodges, including Chapter, Commandery and Salaam Temple of Mystic Shrine, of the Royal Arcanum and of the East Jersey Club of Perth Amboy.
VICTOR MAPES-Short Hills .- Playwright and Anthor. Born in New York City, March 10, 1870: son of Charles Victor and Martha ( Halsted ) Mapes ; married in 1900, to Anna Louise Hoeke, daughter of William H. and Elizabeth Hoeke, of Wash- ington, D. C.
Children : James Jay, born October 3, 1902.
Victor Mapes is a grandson on his father's side of Prof. James Jay Mapes, an emminent scientist and agriculturist. Major General Jonas Mapes, in chief command of the New York state forces in the war of 1812. is also of the father's line. His grandfather on his mother's side was Oliver Spencer Halsted. a widely known New Jersey lawyer, an intimate
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friend and adviser of Abraham Lincoln and himself a son of Oliver S. Halsted, once Chancellor of the state of New Jersey. He is a nephew of Mary Mapes Dodge, the founder and editor of the "St. Nicholas Maga- zine," and the author of much juvenile classic literature.
Victor Mapes has lived in Short Hills, since 1907. Previous to that he lived in New York, with the exception of five years (1892-1896) which he spent in Paris, France. He prepared for college at Morse's School in New York City, entered Columbia University (New York) in 1887, and was graduated in 1891 at the head of his class. From 1892-1896 he studied dramatic literature and the art of play writing at the Sorbonne University, in Paris.
Mr. Mapes began his literary career in 1891, when he became a reporter on the "New York Sun" under Charles A. Dana. From 1892 to 1896, he acted as special correspondent of "The Sun" in Paris. Meanwhile, in 1895, he had written a three-act play in French entitled, "La Comtesse de Lisne," which was produced at the Theatre Mondain in Paris, where it was favorably criticised and had a successful run-this being the first time a play written in French by an Anglo-Saxon was ever performed at a regular French theatre.
In 1897 Mr. Mapes be- came Stage Manager for the Lyceum Theatre Com- pany in New York under Daniel Frohman and later went to Daly's theatre as general Stage Director for Daniel Frohman's enter- prises. From 1900 to 1902 he was the "New York World's" dramatic critic, under the nom-de-plume, "Sidney Sharp." In 1906 and 1907 he was induced to go to Chicago to become the first Director of the New (endowed) Theatre of Chicago. Since that time he has devoted himself ex- clusively to the writing of plays and books.
Mr. Mape's best known play is "The Boomerang" (written in collabora- tion with Winchell Smith.) This play, produced at the Belasco Theatre, New York, on August 10, 1915, had a consecutive run at that theatre of fif- teen months. Other well known plays of his are "Don Caesar's Return" (in which James K. Hackett was the star) : "Captain Barrington" (with Charles Richman) ; "The Curious Conduct of Judge Lagarde" (with Wil- ton Lackaye) ; "The Detective" (with Douglas Fairbanks) ; "The Under Current" (with Lena Ashwell) ; "The New Henrietta" (in collaboration with Winchell Smith) and "Gallops" (in collaboration with David Gray).
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Mr. Mapes is also the author of two novels, "Partners Three" and "The Gilded Way"; a book of criticism, "Duse and the French" and a number of magazine stories and articles.
Mr. Mapes is a member of the University, Columbia and Lambs Clubs. the Phi Beta Kappa and the American Dramatists Society, all of New York, the Maidstone Club of Long Island and the Baltusrol Golf Club.
WILLIAM PARMENTER MARTIN-Newark, (314 Sixth Ave.) -Born in Virginia City, Nev., October S, 1871,
William P. Martin was head and front of the Progressive movement in the republican party of New Jersey and an active worker for the cause until he went on the Bench as Presiding Judge of the Essex County Courts.
Mr. Martin's first political position was as a member of the Common Council of Newark. For many years he was one of the most energetic in- fluences in the chamber and for six years was President of the Board. He made himself a recognized force in the republican politics of the State. when what is known as the "New Idea" movement started in the party. The movement had its inspiration in the effort to overthrow Major Carl Lentz, Chairman of the local County Committee. It was alleged that Ma- jor Lentz had assumed and acquired autocratic power in the matter of making nominations in Essex county and also in directing the policy of the local party and so not only dominating in county affairs but also exerting an influence in state affairs. It was chiefly through Mr. Martin's efforts that the Colby revolt that eventually overthrew Major Lentz was organized for its successful campaign work.
The opponents of Major Lentz in the fall of 1906 put an entire local ticket in the field with Mr. Colby as a candidate for the State Senate and Mr. Martin among the candidates for seats in the Assembly. Mr. Martin organized the anti-Lentz canvass and threw himself with fiery energies in the effort to make it successful. Its triumph first in the nominating primaries and afterwards at the polls marked an epoch in the republican politics of the state. Having thus identified himself with the Progressive wing of the party, Mr. Martin was its consistent supporter to the end ; and, in the his- torical struggle between President Taft and ex-President Theodore Roose- velt, for the republican nomination for the Presidency in 1912, he was the warm advocate of President Roosevelt's candidacy. It was in recognition of his progressiveness that Gov. Wilson named him to the Senate for County Judge of Essex. The nomination was confirmed and Mr. Martin is still serving.
Judge Martin is of an old New England family that came years ago to Union and Middlesex counties to settle. He was educated in the public schools of San Francisco and took a course at Columbia University Law School. In 1882 he entered the offices of Tracy, Boardman and Platt, in New York City ; and after his admission to the New York Bar he opened an office for practice in the Equitable Building. When he was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1893 he opened a branch office in Newark.
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Judge Martin is a member of Lawyer's Club of Essex County, Lincoln Club of Roseville, Roseville Athletic Association, Bar Association of the City of New York, California Society of New York, University Club, Essex County Country Club, Newark Board of Trade, Republican and Lawyers Clubs of New York, and of several bodies in the Masonic Fraternity.
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JAMES EDGAR MARTINE-Plainfield .- Farmer. Born in New York City, August 25, 1850; son of Daniel W. and Anna Maria (Neher) Martine ; married at Plainfield, in October, 1905, to Julia Edgar Rodman, daughter of Scott and Bessie Bayard (Lorillard) Rodman, of New York City.
James E. Martine was the first man in the East to reach the United States Senate, as the result of a popular referendum. He achieved his seat in the Senate under the Preferential Senatorial Law that antedated the amendment to the Federal Constitution providing for the popular elec- tion of United States Senators in all the states, and it was the crowning honor of a life devoted to the public service. Another of his distinctions- somewhat local-is that a large part of the city of Plainfield . rests upon the farm his father owned and in the old home- stead of which, known as Cedar Brook House and erected in 1717, Senator Martine still lives.
Senator Martine who is of French and German origin, was only thirteen years old when his father died, and the cares of his estate devolved upon the young man's shoulders. For thirty years he was engaged in prac- tical farming on the property ; but a large part of its area was eventually set off into city lots, and its sale brought him active- ly into the real estate field.
He found time, however, from his other occupations, to engage in public affairs, and, a forceful orator, was frequently called to the platform in the interest of the democratic party, with which he has always been associated. Even in the first Bryan campaign, when the demo- erats of the East revolted against the so-called "silver heresy" of the demo- cratie National platform. Mr. Martine stood by the party colors, and was not only the warm advocate of Mr. Bryan's election but Mr. Bryan's close personal friend as well.
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Mr. Martine's popularity made his name desirable for party uses, and he was frequently drafted from the ranks to run for political position. His party friends made him its candidate for various city offices. He was can- didate for Congress four times and for county offices and upon one or two occasions for the gubernatorial nomination. But his independence made hiim not entirely acceptable to the ruling powers in the party, and the United States Senatorship is the only one of all for which he was named that he succeeded in achieving.
In the state campaign of 1910 Mr. Martine's friends petitioned him to become a candidate, in the primary to be held under the Preferential Law. for the United States Senate and he entered the list. Some republicans were also candidates on the other side. Mr. Martine had an overwhelming lead on the democratic side ; and, when the legislature of 1911 got together to ballot for a Senator to succeed John Kean, republican, Mr. Martine's claims were pressed upon the attention of the democratic majority. Before the preferential primary was resorted to, the understanding had been that, if the legislature were democratic, the seat in the Senate was to be given to ex-United States Senator James Smith, Jr., of Newark. Mr. Smith had not however gone into the primary, and Gov. Woodrow Wilson demanded that the democratic legislature pay respect to the expressed preference of the party voters and name Martine instead. After a bitter struggle, in which Gov. Wilson participated warmly, Mr. Martine was made the cau- cus nominee ; and, at the joint meeting of the two Houses, elected to repre- sent the state in the United States Senate for the six year term beginning March 4, 1911.
In the Senate, Mr. Martine served on eight prominent Committees, and the records show that only one other senator answered to as many roll- calls. He went to West Virginia as one of the Coal Miners Strike Commis- sion and was active and influential in restoring peace and order among the rioting miners. He was generally a supporter of the Administration, but he refused to follow the President's lead in the movement for the repeal of the Panama tolls law, and on other occasions stood in opposition to some presidential appointments which he felt were more in the interest of the Trusts than of the people.
Senator Martine explained to the Senate as to the tolls' bill repealer, that in the previous session he had voted for the toll bill, that the platform of the Convention at Baltimore that had put Gov. Wilson in nomination for the Presidency had endorsed the bill, that the President himself had declared for it, in numerous speeches, and he regarded the repeal of it as against the best interests of the nation.
In the Fall of 1916 Senator Martine filed his petition, as a democratic candidate in the state primaries for re-election. Attorney General. John W. Wescott, filed a petition for senatorial support in the same primary. Mr. Wescott's candidacy had the tacit approval of the Federal Administration and of the democratic state organization, and the State press also largely supported Mr. Westcott. Senator Martine carried the primary by 30,000. On election day the democratic ticket, national and state, was over- whelmed by the republicans, and Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, (rep.) was elected to replace him.
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Ex-Senator Martine is a member of the Army and Navy Club of Wash- ington, D. C.
ADOLPH F. MARQUIER-Newark, (1041 S. Orange Ave.)- Pharmacist, Teacher. Born in 1878, in Easton, Pa .; son of Frank and Katherine (Waldmann) Marquier; married in Newark, on June 1, 1911, to Anna M. Hall.
Children : Frank A., born August 7, 1914.
Adolph F. Marquier is the President of the New Jersey Pharmaceuti- cal Association. He had spent three years in Baden-Baden, Germany, and lived in Easton for two years before he came, thirty-five years ago, to New Jersey to live. He was educated in the public schools of Newark and in the Newark Technical School, in the New Jersey College of Pharmacy, and, in chemistry, by private tutors.
For ten years Mr. Marquier was Quiz Master of Chemistry, and for five years has been a teacher of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, in the New Jersey College of Pharmacy. He is President of the Alumni Association of the College.
Mr. Marquier has been prominent in the work of the New Jersey Pharmaceutical Association, and at its annual meeting in Lake Hopatcong, June, 1917, he was elected President of the Association.
JAMES GILBERT MASON, D. D .- Metuchen .- Clergyman. Born at Jonesboro, Tenn., on October 31, 1841; son of Archibald G. and Lucinda Ryhand Mason; married March 6, 1872, to Sue Tyler, of Virginia, who died in 1875; 2nd. April 4, 1SS1, at Metu- chen, to Anita G., daughter of Henry B. Hanschild and Irene Nichols Hanschild.
Children : Irene; James Gilbert, Jr. The former is a graduate of Wellesley College and now the wife of Rev. Arthur E. Harper, Missionary at Sharakpur, India; the latter who married Irene Jaycox, of Marengo, Ill., is now in business in New York City.
The Rev. Dr. James Gilbert Mason is a prominent man in his church. Six times he has been a Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, and at one time was mentioned for Moderator of that body. He graduated from Williams College in 1863, and three years later from Union Theological Seminary, New York City. He was ordained, July 4, 1866, by the Third Presbytery of New York City. By the Presbytery of Nassau, he was installed as Pastor of the Woodhaven Presbyterian Church, now of Brooklyn, N. Y. Here he preached Sunday afternoons. At the same time he preached in the morning hour in the Memorial Pres- byterian Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., as its first minister. He organized the Woodhaven Church. In 1867 he was called to the church at Jonesboro, his native town. Three years later he was recalled to Woodhaven. This call
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he was compelled to decline because of the need at Jonesboro. Here he preached for five years. In 1872, he was called to the North Presbyterian Church at Washington, D. C. After four years, and the death of his wife, he resigned the Pastorate and made an extensive tour of the Orient. Upon his return to America he was called to a church at Baltimore, and to Se- dalia, Mo., and to Metuchen, this state. The latter call he accepted, and has been pastor there now more than forty years, and is still vigorously active in pastoral work, holding an influence in the community.
Dr. Mason has been active in educational and civic affairs. During his seminary course, he was Principal, for a time, of the High School at Warren, Pa. He was called from this to close up the business of the United States Sanitary Commission in Tennessee. In 1864, he went with Sherman's army to Atlan- ta in the service of the same Commission. He was a republi- can casting his first vote for Lincoln and Johnson, but joined the National Prohibition Party in 1912, and has been one of the most active workers for the Prohibition cause. He is a men- ber of the National Prohibition Party Committee, also a mem- ber of New Jersey Prohibition State Committee. He was named on the Prohibition ticket for State Sena- tor from Middlesex county in 1912, and made a stirring campaign. The following year (1913) he was nominated for Governor and his notable state-wide campaign gained a respectable increase for the Prohibition vote in the state.
In the National Convention of 1916 at St. Paul, Minn., his name was presented by New Jersey as her first choice as the nominee for the Presi- dency of the United States.
THOMAS L. MASSON-Glen Ridge .- Editor, Author. Born in Essex, Conn., on July 21, 1866 ; son of Thomas L. and Malvina N. Masson ; married on October 24, 1883, to Fannie Zulette Good- rich, daughter of William Henry Goodrich, of Hartford, Conn. Children : He has two daughters and two sons.
Thomas L. Masson (Tom Masson) has been since 1883 the Literary and Managing Editor of "Life", New York City. He edited, besides, in 1904, a selection of "Humorous Masterpieces of American Literature," in 1905
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issued a book of original verses entitled "In Merry Measure." In 1906 came a collection of verse under the title "Humor of Love in Verse and Prose." He has also written a number of humorous novels. Among these are "Yankee Navy," (1899) ; "A Corner in Women," (1905) ; "The Von Blumers," (1906) ; "A Bachelor's Baby," and "Some Grown-ups," (1907), and "The Best Stories in the World" (1913).
Mr. Masson is a member of the Montclair Golf Club. For years he was President of the Board of Education of Glen Ridge, and is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Committee of Public Safety.
PAUL MATTHEWS-Trenton .- Bishop. Born at Glendale, O., December 25, 1866; son of Stanley and Mary Ann (Black) Mat- thews ; married to Elsie Procter, at Glendale, O., May 11, 1897 ; daughter of William Alexander and Elizabeth Procter.
Paul Matthews is the Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey, with jurisdiction extending over the lower end of the State, including Hunterdon, Somerset, and Union counties and all the state to the South.
Bishop Matthews was pre- pared for college at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. (1880- 1883). He graduated from Princeton University in 1SS7, . the valedictorian of his class. He studied for a year at Prince- ton Theological Seminary in pre- paration for the Presbyterian ministry, but was confirmed in the Episcopal Church in 1888, and entered the General Theo- logical Seminary in New York, graduating in 1890.
Dr. Matthews was made a Deacon in 1890 and ordained as a priest of the Protestant Epis- copal Church a year later. While he was still Deacon, he officiated as Assistant at the Church of the Advent, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati. After his ordination as a priest, he entered the Associate Mission in Omaha in charge of St. Paul's and St. John's Churches. In 1896, he became rector of St. Luke's Church, Cincinnati, and, in 1904, Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in that city.
The Rev. D. Matthews was elected Bishop Coadjutor of Milwaukee in September, 1905; but he declined it and continued his ministry at St. Paul's Cathedral until he accepted a like ministry at the Cathedral at Faribault, Minn. While in that ministry, he acted also as a professor in
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the Seabury Divinity School. He was still in that relation when he was elected Bishop of the Diocese of New Jersey, at a Diocesan Convention held in October, 1914, and accepted. His consecration as Bishop took place January 25, 1915.
The Diocese of New Jersey was organized in 1785, but the first Bishop, Rt. Rev. John Croes, was not consecrated until 1815. The Diocese was divided in 1874-the present Diocese of Newark being separated as a new Diocese.
In 1890, Bishop Matthews received the B. D. degree from Seabury Di- vinity School, the D. D. degree from Seabury Divinity School in 1914, and from Princeton University, in 1916, and the S. T. D. degree from the General Theological Seminary in 1915.
HUDSON MAXIM-Landing, (Morris Co.)-Inventor. Born at Orneville, Piscataquis Co., Me., 1853; son of Isaac and Harriet Boston (Stevens) Maxim; married on March 26th, 1896, at Lon- don, England, to Lilian Durban, daughter of the Rev. Win. Dur- ban, (M. A.) and Mary Ann Durban, of London.
Isaac and Harriet Maxim had eight children-six sons and two daughters. Hudson was the fourth son and the sixth child. His parents were very poor, and he had no early educational advantages- not even an opportunity of learning his letters until he was nearly nine years old. He was scantily clothed and scant- ily fed and had no books and no schooling until he was able to pay for all such things hin- self with his meager earnings, working on farms, in stone quarries, and with pick and shovel, and in brickyards. But. having an indomitable thirst for knowledge, he early de- termined to have a good edu- cation. He was able to learn almost anything with wonder- ful ease, and seldom forgot anything which he thought might be useful for him to re- member.
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