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Children : Kenneth Evans, born January 25, 1893; Dor- othy, born February 7, 1894, both in Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. Stockton was President of the New Jersey State Federa- tion of Women's Club 1915-17 as well as a Director of the Gen- eral Federation of Women's Clubs. Her connection with club work in New Jersey began as Vice President of the Ridgewood Woman's Club (1909-'11), of which she was one of the organizers. She was
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President of this club 1911-'13 and became connected with the State Federa- tion work in 1912 as Director and Chairman of the Department of Sociolo- gy. Mrs. Stockton became interested in woman's club work in Chicago where she lived for six years prior to making New Jersey her home, and where she was an active member of the Woodlawn Woman's Club.
Mrs. Stockton was educated in the public schools of Iowa and in Tabor College, Iowa.
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RICHARD STOCKTON -Trenton, ("Ivy Tower.") - Broker. Born in Princeton, on June 4, 1858; son of John Potter and Sara (Marks) Stockton ; married at St. Paul, Minnesota, on Janu- ary 19, 1887, to Clemence E. Finch, daughter of George Ralsey and Mary (Chapman) Finch, of St. Paul, Minnesota.
Children : Richard, Jr. (q. v.), Major U. S. Army, born in Rotter- dam, Holland, January 9, 1888; George Finch, born Princeton, May 27, 1890, (died November 11, 1891) ; Jack Potter, born Prince- ton, September 29, 1891; Violet, born Spring Lake, August 5, 1894; Ellen Rosemary, born Trenton, February 26, 1900.
Richard Stockton is of a family that has been famous for many gener- ations in American annals, representatives of each generation in this country filling State and other important offices, as they also did abroad. He is the fifth Richard of his line. The third Richard, who was his great grandfather, was one of the Signers of the Declaration of In- dependence; the fourth Richard was known as "The Duke." His grandfather, Robert Field Stock- ton, was the famous Commodore of the early history of the United States Navy, first Gover- nor (Military) of the Territory of California, United States Sen- ator from New Jersey and one of the first promoters of railroad building in the State. John Pot- ter Stockton, his father, was United States Senator from New Jersey, United States Minister to Italy and for many years At- torney General of New Jersey.
Mr. Stockton's education was acquired at Young's School and at Columbia College in Washing- ton, D. C. In 1873, while his father was in the United States Senate, he served as his father's secretary at Washington. In 1876-1877, he entered the Navy Department. In 1886, he was appointed Consul of the
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United States to Rotterdam, Holland, and two years later he was made Charge d'Affaires at the Hague, Holland. Three of the later years he served in the Attorney General's office under his father and Samuel H. Grey, who succeeded him. He became a member of the firm of Taylor. Smith & Hard, members of the New York Stock Exchange, in which business he is still ep- gaged.
Mr. Stockton has found time, amid all these engagements, to dabble in literature: and, in 1895, with his story entitled "From the Grasp of a Title," won the first prize in a literary contest conducted under the auspices of the New York "Illustrative American." He developed the first "dollar gas" company in New Jersey, in 1900; and in 1907 was appointed by Gov. Stokes as a Delegate, on behalf of New Jersey, to the Fourth of July re- union at Jamestown, Va., of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declara- tion of Independence. In 1879, he was awarded a Congressional gold medal for life saving on the Jersey coast. He was made Treasurer of the "Amer- ican Cross of Honor" in 1909, and Vice President in 1912, which office he still holds. Mr. Stockton is a direct descendant on his mother's side, of Major Harry H. Marks, to whom was awarded-in recognition of services rendered-the Southern Cross of Honor. In 1915 this award passed to Mr. Stockton through lineal descent.
Mr. Stockton was appointed Commissioner of Charities and Correc- tions of the State of New Jersey in 1915, and served as a Delegate to the National Democratic Convention that in 1916 put President Wilson in re- nomination.
Mr. Stockton is a member of the Metropolitan Club (Washington, D. C.), Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.), Nassau (Princeton, N. J.) and of the Lotus and Trenton Country Clubs of Trenton. the Union Society of the Civil War, the Military Order of America, the Society of the Sons of the Revolu- tion and the Rotary National Association.
RICHARD STOCKTON, Jr. - Bordentown. - Writer ; Soldier. Born in Rotterdam, Holland, on January 9th, 1888; son of Richard (q. v.) and Clemence E. (Finch) Stockton ; married at Camden, on July 24th, 1907, to Helen Beryl Gove.
Children : Richard Finch, born September 23, 190S; Jack Potter, born March 22, 1910; Robert Field, born October 14, 1915; Helen Clemence Carolyn, born January 15, 1917.
Richard Stockton, Jr., inherits the militant spirit that had already made previous generations of the Stocktons famous in the American annals of war; and, besides being a soldier himself, has won distinction as a writer on military topics. In 1911 he was made Instructor in Military Science at the Bordentown Military Institute and was in charge of that work until in 1917 he was called into active service as a Major of Infantry, Officers Reserve Corps U. S. Army at the Officers Reserve Camp at Fort Meyer.
Several of his essays on military topics have won awards from the
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Military Service Institution of the United States. He was three times- and with one exception, is the only officer who has won it three times- the gold medalist of the Institution (1912-'15-'16.) He won the award in 1912 for an essay on the manner in which service with the colors may be combined with a period of service as a reservist so as to create a de- pendable reserve for the first line. He won the award in 1915 for an essay entitled, "A Logical Program for Military Legislation," in which, in opposition to the view held by the late Brigadier General Sadler, he advo- cated absolute federal control of all troops intended for national defense and the abolition of the State National Guard system. Another award came to him in 1916 for an essay entitled "What Have We Learned?" pointing out the military lessons the United States should take from the European War and from the na- tional mobilization on the Mex- ican border in 1916. He was al- so Reeve Memorial Prize Essay- ist at the Institution in 1915, with his essay on "Military Training, Valuable and Value- less." The boards of award, in each case where the award went to Major Stockton, consisted of entirely different officers. He was the associate editor of "American Defense" (a New York City monthly) in 19.16, be- ing at the time a member of the Board of Trustees of the Amer- ican Defense Society ; and in 1917 he was editor-in-chief of "The Book of the Services." In 1915 he was appointed by the War Department as a member of the Board that prepared the "Manual for Officers of the Organized Mili- tia and Volunteers of the United States." He has also written articles for "Collier's Weekly," the "North American Review," the "Youths Companion" and the "Infantry Journal," and has lectured frequently on military topics. He is author of the books "Peace Insurance," "Troops on Riot Duty" and "The Guardian's Handbook," all of which are well known to military men.
Major Stockton began his military career as a private in company A Corps of Cadets N. G. N. J. in September, 1901; and when he was discharged, by graduation from the Military Institute in September, 1905, he was Cadet 2nd Lieutenant of Co. A of the Cadets. His first commission was as 2nd Lieutenant, 3rd N. J. Infantry. He afterwards was attached to the 2nd Infantry and had risen in May of 1911 to be Captain of Co. E. Later he was regimental Quartermaster of the 2nd Infantry, and afterward was Inspector of small arms practice of the same regiment. He resigned in 1916 to accept the new commission as Major of Infantry in the Officers Re- serve Corps, U. S. Army.
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Major Stockton qualified as an expert rifleman 1910-1915 both in- clusive, as a long distance expert rifleman and was coach of the B. M. I. rifle team. In that year and 1914 the Military Institute team were the official military school champions of the United States. In 1916 he repre- sented a New York Defense Committee as inspector of Mexican troops, and at the re-inauguration of President Wilson in 1917, he was on the personal staff of Maj. Gen. H. L. Scott, who was Grand Marshal of the Inaugural Parade.
A unique distinction was conferred when in 1914 Gov. Fielder, at the Little White House at Sea Girt, presented him with the American Cross of Honor on behalf of the Board of Governors of the Order, for valor in at- tempting the rescue of a drowning man. In the following year at Sea Girt he plunged into the surf, clad in full service uniform, heavy marching shoes leather puttees and all, to the assistance of persons carried out to sea. He was himself swept by the tide for almost a mile; and, in the water for more than an hour, would have been drowned if a rescue boat had not reached him in the nick of time.
Major Stockton is a member of the Army and Navy Club and also the New Jersey State Rifle Association (Sea Girt), the Society of Colonial Wars, the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, the Society of the War of 1812, the Military Order of Foreign Wars, the Union Society of the Civil War, the United Military Order of America, the National Security League, the American Defense Society and the Army League.
WILLIAM OSBORN STODDARD - Madison, (37 Crescent Road. )-Author. Born at Homer, N. Y., on September 24th, 1835; son of Prentice S. and Sarah A. (Osborn) Stoddard; married in 1873, to Susan E. Cooper, of New York, (deceased.)
Children : William O., Jr.
W. O. Stoddard wrote the first editorial that presented the nomination of Abraham Lincoln for President of the United States, and was Secretary to President Lincoln from 1861 to 1864. From then until 1866, he was United States Marshal to Arkansas; and has since held office occasionally under the New York City Government. For the rest, he has been engaged in railway, telegraphic and other business enterprises, in newspaper work and in authorship.
Mr. Stoddard was educated at the University of Rochester, graduating in 1858 with the A. B. degree and receiving in 1861 the A. M. degree. His editorial espousal of Lincoln's nomination appeared in the "Central Illinois Gazette," in May, 1859, and a little later in the same month he had an article of the same tenor in McElraths "New York Century." He served three months in the first company of Volunteers sworn in, in 1861.
Mr. Stoddard's books are "Scanderoon" (Verse) (1870). "Verses of Many Days" (1875), "The Heart of It" (1880), "Esau Hardery" (1881), "Dab Kinzer" (1SS1), "Wrecked" (1882). "The Quartette" (1882), "Sal-
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tillo Boys" (1883), "Among the Lakes" (1884), "Life of Abraham Lincoln" (1884). "Winter Fun" (1885), "The Volcano Under the City" (1885), "The Talking Leaves" (1885), "Two Arrows" (1886), "Chuck Purdy" (1887), "The Captain's Boat" (1888), "Lives of the Presidents" (10 vols. 1888-'S9), "Crowded Out O'Crofield" (1890), "The Red Mustang" (1890), "Miss Eaton's Romance" (1890), "The White House in War Time" (1890), "Gid Granger" (1890), "Little Smoke" (1891), "Table Talk of Lincoln" (1892), "Men of Business" (1892), "Battle of New York" (1892), "The White Cave" (1893), "Guert Ten Eyck" (1893), "On the Old Frontier" (1893), "Chris the Model Maker" (1894), "The Partners" (1895), "Chumley's Past" (1895), "The Windfall" (1896), "The
Swordmaker's Son" (1896),
"Walled In" (1897), "Lost Gold of the Montezumas" (1897), "The Red Patriot" (1897), "The Whistle Dispatch Boat" (1898),
"First Cruiser Out" (1898), "Success Against Odds" (1898),
"With the Black Prince" (1898), "The Young Financier" (1899), "Running the Cuban Blockade"
(1899), "Lincoln at Work" (1899), "Ulric the Jarl" (1899), "Ned, Son of Webb" (1900), "The Noank's Log" (1900), "Montanye" (1901), "Jack Mor- gan" (1901), "Boys of Bunker Academy" (1902), "Voyage of the Charlemagne" (1902), "Er- rand Boy of Andrew Jackson" (1902), "Ahead of the Army" (1902), "The Spy of Yorktown" (1903), "The Fight for the Val- ley" (1904), "Long Bridge Boys" (1904). "The Boy Lincoln" (1905), "Dan. Monroe" (1905), "Two Cadets With Washington" (1906) and "In the Open" (1908).
Mr. Stoddard is a member of the G. A. R., the Society of the Genesee, the Union Society of the Civil War, etc.
Mr. Stoddard's son, William O. Jr., who also resides in Madison, is, like his father, an author.
V EDWARD CASPER STOKES-Millville .- Banker. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., on December 22, 1860; son of Edward H. and Matilda G. (Kemble) Stokes.
Edward Casper Stokes was Governor of New Jersey for the term be- ginning in January, 1905. The majority by which he had been elected in the
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fall of 1904 is the largest ever given to a candidate in the history of the state. In the Legislature of 1902, he came within one vote of receiving, at the hands of the majority joint caucus of the Legislature, the republican nomination for United States Senator. The enactment of the Senatorial preferential primary law was of his inspiration ; and, at the republican primaries for the choice of United States Senators in 1913, he was the lead- ing candidate. He served for some years as Chairman of the Republi- can State Committee ; and altogether his public activities have given him national conspicuousness.
Gov. Stokes's forebears on both sides are of Jersey stock. There are seven generations between the ex-Governor and the Thomas Stokes who is the first of the family to be chronicled on this side of the seas. On his mother's side he is connected with a family that has lived in Burlington county since the close of the seventeenth century. His father's people were Quakers and native Jerseymen. Edward H. Stokes, the ex-Governor's father, studied pharmacy at the start in Medford. but took afterwards to banking, and, settling finally in Millville, became the President of one of the banks there. Edward C. Stokes's preparatory schooling was at the public schools in Millville, and in the Friends School in Providence, R. I. He sub- sequently entered Brown University and graduated from there, second honor man, in 1883. Soon after graduation, he accepted a clerkship in the bank in which his father was at the time serving as cashier.
Meanwhile, he was taking a deep interest in public affairs. His special interest in educational problems led to his appointment as Superintendent of the Millville schools. He was elected to the New Jersey House of As- sembly in 1890 and again in '91. His speech on a pending local option bill during his second year in the Assembly gained him wide repute as an orator. In 1592, he was elected to represent Cumberland county in the State Senate and re-elected in '95 and '98. He was a leader in the anti-race track move- ment that eventuated in the anti-gambling amendment to the State consti- tution ; and, during the excitements over the attempt of what is known as "The (democratic) Rump Senate" to exclude republican senators-elect from the Senate chamber in 1894, he exerted a large influence in the move- ments that resulted in their admission. He served as Chairman of the Committee that revised and codified the State school law system-a codification that has brought about a contribution of nearly $3.000,000 an- nually for school purposes out of the State's General Fund; and forced through the Legislature the act requiring the payment of weekly wages in cash. The wage legislation grew out of the habit of the mine-owners and glass-blowers of paying their employees in orders upon the "company's stores." After the close of his Senate term. Gov. Voorhees appointed Sena- tor Stokes clerk of the Court of Chancery.
He was serving there when in 1904 he was given the republican nomi- nation for Governor and elected by a majority of 51,644. Gov. Stokes's ad- ministration was signalized by very much important legislation. It was his pen that wrote the approval of the laws establishing the "average rate" system in the taxation of railroad property, a second taking from the State Board of Assessors, the function of fixing the valuations of second class railroad property and transferring it to the local assessors, and another creating the County Boards of Taxation. These acts, with one modifying
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the functions of the State Equalization Board, were largely of his inspira- tion. Their purpose was to equate corporation and individual tax bills under regulations that would safeguard both sides; and the legislation en- riches the state and local treasuries by some millions of dollars annually.
Gov. Stokes was the first to present himself as a candidate for United States Senator in 1910 under the preferential primary law, and led all the candidates on the republican side by a pronounced plurality. The Legisla- ture which had not yet been divested of the function of electing United States Senators was democratic in 1911 and the majority vote of the two Houses made James E. Martine Senator.
Meanwhile, Gov. Stokes's public activities have not abated his interest in banking affairs. He was made the first President of the New Jersey Bankers Association and in 1899 was elected President of the Mechanics National Bank at Trenton. His gifts in oratory bring him in wide demand and he has made many notable addresses before educational and other so- cieties of the state. The ex-Governor is a bachelor.
HARLAN FISKE STONE-Englewood .- Law School Dean. Born at Chesterfield, N. H., on October 11, 1872; son of Frederick Lau- son and Ann Sophia (Butler) Stone ; married on September 7, 1899, to Agnes Harvey, of Chesterfield, N. H.
Harlan F. Stone has been since September, 1910, Dean in the Columbia University School of Law. He had previously been a Lecturer on Law and a Professor of Law in the University. He is also a member of the law firm of Satterlee, Canfield & Stone, of New York City.
Mr. Stone graduated from Amherst College in 1894 and later studied at the Columbia University School of Law, graduating from there in 1898. Amherst gave him his degree of M. A. in 1897 and the degree of LL. D. in 1913. He holds the degree of LL. B. from Columbia also. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1898; and a year later began his connection with the educational faculty of the University.
Mr. Stone is a director in the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad Company, the Baker & Taylor Company and the Woman's Hotel Company ' and a member of the Legislative Drafting Research Fund, New York.
Mr. Stone is a republican in politics, attends the Episcopalian Church and is a contributor to many legal publications. His memberships are with the American Bar Association, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Ph. B. K., the A. D. Ph., and he is connected with the Century Club and the Amherst Association.
V ROBERT B. STOUTENBURGH -- Newark, (98 South 10th St.) -Realty Operator. Born in Newark, March 13, 1883 ; son of Fred-
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erick D. and Carrie (Bartholomew) Stoutenburgh ; married at Montclair, in June, 1908, to Ethel Alice King, daughter of William H. and Alice A. King.
Children : Sylvia, born May, 1909; Virginia, born October, 1911.
Robert B. Stoutenburgh's father is the son of Robert Stoutenburgh, founder of the widely known clothing house of Stoutenburgh & Co. His mother's father, the Rev. John G. Bartholomew, was the first minister of the Church of the Redeemer ( Universalist ) at Broad and Hill Streets, Newark. Mr. Stoutenburgh was educated at the Newark Academy, and at Princeton University, graduating from the Academy in 1901, and taking his A. B. degree at the University with the class of 1905.
For five years after his graduation, he was in the clothing business. In 1910 he decided to make a new departure in business, and began operat- ing as a real estate broker, at Market and Broad Streets, Newark, later moving to Clinton Street, same city, where the Robert B. Stoutenburgh Agency, is still conducting business. Mr. Stoutenburgh is President of the Agency.
His energies have won new recognition for the name in his new field of endeavor. He has introduced some novelties in business methods that have attracted wide attention among real estate men. One of these is the holding of weekly auctions for the sale of real estate that have helped to stir the realty market into activity.
Mr. Stoutenburgh is deeply interested in the building and loan move- ment which has done so much for the home makers of the state. The In- dustrial Building & Loan Co., of which he is President, erected the first fire proof ten story modern loft building to be put up in Newark-that at Plane and Academy Streets-at a cost of about $350,000, and he is also Treasurer of the Manufacturers Building and Loan Association and of the Teachers and Improvers Building and Loan Association. He is also con- nected with the Newark Board of Trade, and a member of the Princeton Club, the Wednesday Club, the Automobile Club of America and the Union Club.
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BENJAMIN L. STOWE-Jersey City, (49 Fulton Ave.) -Manu- facturer. Born in Milford, Conn., February 18, 1848; son of Frederick and Lois (Somers) Stowe : married on January 17, 1884. to Helen J. Baulch, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth A. Baulch, of New York City, (died January 18, 1916.)
Children : Helen Lois, born April 26, 1900.
Benjamin L. Stowe is President of the Eureka Fire Hose Manufactur- ing Company and of the Hudson County Parental School Board. He served for two years on the Jersey City Board of Education, and his wide reading made him an exceptionally valuable member of it. For six years he was President of the Board of Trustees of the Jersey City Free Public Library, and he has also been President of the Jersey City Board of Trade.
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Mr. Stowe was one of the founders-in 1875-of the Eureka Fire Hose Manufacturing Company ; and until he became the Company's president in 1907, he managed its factories and invented most of the special products, machinery and appli- ances of that company.
Records published by the City of Boston state that an ancestor of Mr. Stowe's who came to A- merica in 1634, "was probably the first grammar school princi- pal." His great-grandfather and grandfather participated in the War of the Revolution ; his fa- ther served in the War of 1812, and three older brothers were in the Union Army during the War for the Union.
He was educated in the com- mon schools of Connecticut, and from 1871 spent more than three years in Europe. He later lived in New York and Brooklyn un- til he became a resident of Jer- sey City în 1892.
Mr. Stowe is a Vice President of the Greenville Banking & Trust Com- pany and of the Claremont Bank, and is a member of the Union League, the Jersey City, the Carteret and Down Town Clubs of Jersey City.
He is a member of the Sons of the Revolution and of the Society of the War of 1812.
EDWARD STRATEMEYER-Newark, (171 N. Seventh Street) -Author and Editor. Born in Elizabeth, October 4th, 1862; son of Henry J. and Anna (Siegel) Stratemeyer ; married March 25th. 1891, to Magdalene Baker Van Camp, of Newark.
Children : Mrs. Russell Vroom Adams ; Edna Camilla.
Mr. Stratemever was educated in the public schools of Elizabeth. He was valedictorian of his High School class and supplemented this by two years study under a private tutor. He early exhibited a tendency towards literary work, editing and printing an amateur story paper at the age of sixteen. He had just completed his studies when he became a writer for "Golden Days" of Philadelphia and "The Golden Argosy" of New York, penning for these two publications about twenty long serials.
His first venture in New York City was as Assistant Editor of "The Young American," a semi-school journal. Later he was taken into the em- ployment of Street & Smith, publishers of story periodicals, and soon be- came the editor of "Good News," a weekly for boys and girls, to which he
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contributed numerous serials and also a department about "Boys at Work." Later still he became associate editor of "Young People of America." He began injecting new ideas into the juvenile publication business, and it was through him that the publication of "Bright Days," at first a monthly and then a weekly, was entered upon-with marked success.
His first juvenile vohime was issued under the title of "Richard Dare's Venture," and this was followed by a score of other books for boys dealing with every-day life in the country, in the city, and in the West. The Span- ish-American War afforded the background for a run of soldier and sailor stories that enlarged his popu- larity enormously, one book, "Under Dewey at Manilla," rim- ning through twenty-two edi- tions. Under his own name and his noms-de-plume, "Captain Ralph Bonehill" and "Arthur M. Winfield," he has produced a number of series that have had large circulations, the total of the volumes in the "Rover Boys Series" mounting to nearly three millions. In addition to works of this class, Mr. Stratemeyer has written "American Boys' Life of William McKinley" and "American Boys' Life of Theo- dore Roosevelt" and also an ex- tra long story entitled, "Defend- ing His Flag," a true-to-life pic- ture of life in the Union and the Confederate armies during our great Civil War.
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