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Mr. Buchanan took an active part in the Municipal Ownership and Independence party movements in New York, 1905 to 1908, inclusive. In 1906 he organized and headed on its tour through New York State the famous "Flying Wedge," which stumped the State for William R. Hearst, candidate of the Democratic and Independence parties for Governor, in 1906. He organized the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania for the Independence Party in 1908 and was largely instrumental in the organi- zation of the party in Delaware, Colorado and New York.
Never in full accord with the old management of the Democratic party in New Jersey, Mr. Buchanan welcomed the leadership of Woodrow Wilson in this State. In 1912 he supported Governor Wilson for the Presidency, in 1916 was a forceful advocate of his re-election and has since been a
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consistent, zealous and outspoken champion of the President and his policies.
JAMES MONROE BUCKLEY-Morristown .- Clergyman of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, Editor, Author. Born at Rahway, on Dec. 16, 1836; son of John and Abby L. (Monroe) Buckley ; married at Detroit, Michigan, August 2nd, 1864, Eliza Burns, died February 27th, 1866-2nd at Detroit, Michigan, April 22nd, 1874, Mrs. Sarah Isabella (French) Staples, died November 29th, 1883- 3rd at Dover, N. H., August 23rd, 1886, Adelaide S. Hill, died April 23rd, 1910.
Children : 2nd marriage-Monroe, born August 2, 1875, married to Ethel Cantlin; Sarah Isabella, born July 16, 1883, married to Ernest Edward Pignona.
James Monroe Buckley was elected Editor of "The Christian Advo- cate". New York, in 1880, and successively re-elected every four years until he declined re-election in 1912. He was a Delegate to the General Con- ferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church from 1872 to 1912; and to the Ecumenical Conferences at Lon- don in 1881, Washington in 1891 and Toronto in 1911. For many years he was a member of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, serving as Vice President for a large part of that time and for three years as its President.
Dr. Buckley's father, a minis- ter of the Methodist Episcopal Church was a native of Eng- land. Dr. Buckley was educated at Pennington Seminary and Wesleyan University in Middle- town, Conn; but his health failed in his second year in the University, and he studied later under private instructors. He holds the Honorary degrees of A. M. and D. D. from Wesleyan, L. L. D. from Emory and Henry College, Va., and L. H. D. from Syracuse University.
Prior to his election as editor of "The Christian Advocate", Dr. Buck- ley held pastorates in New Hampshire from '59 to '63, in Detroit, Mich. from '63 to '66, and in Brooklyn, N. Y. and Stamford, Conn. from '66 to 'S0.
Dr. Buckley was President of the Methodist Episcopal Hospital in Brooklyn from its foundation in 1882 to 1917 and is now President Emeri-
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tus. He was President of the Board of Managers of the New Jersey State Village for Epileptics from its foundation till he resigned in 1903. He was a member of the Board of Managers of the New Jersey State Hospital for Insane, at Morris Plains, for twenty years, its Vice President for six years and President for three years until he resigned four years ago. He was also a member of the Board of Managers of the New Jersey State Hospital for Insane at Trenton for five years. He is Vice President of the New York Society for the Prevention of Vice, honorary member of the Medico-Psycho- logical Society of America, and a member of the New England Society, (N. Y.), the New Jersey Society Sons of American Revolution, the Society of Colonial Wars, the Methodist Historical Society and others.
Dr. Buckley is the author of "Oats or Wild Oats", "Faith Healing, Christian Science and Kindred Phenomena", "Christians and the Theatre", "The Midnight Sun, the Czar and the Nihilist", "Supposed Miracles", "Travels in three Continents-Europe, Asia and Africa", "History of Methodism in the United States", "Fundamentals of Religion and their Contrasts", "The Wrong and Peril of Woman Suffrage", "Theory and Practice of Foreign Missions", "Constitutional and Parliamentary History of the Methodist Episcopal Church."
WILLIAM GEORGE BUMSTED-Jersey City, (48 Glenwood Ave.)-Lawyer. Born in Jersey City, December 23, 1855; son of William H. and Mary (Arbuckle) Bumsted; married in 1885 to Minnie G. Gale, daughter of Diedrich and Julia Gale of New York City.
William G. Bumsted, while a lawyer professionally, is more largely interested in real estate operations and in corporation directorates. Of English ancestry, his fore-bears have been people of importance in the Hudson section of the state for generations. His father, Wm. H. Bum- sted, was for many years an important factor in the republican politics of the county.
Mr. Bumsted received his early education in the public schools of Jersey City and in Hasbrouck Institute. Entering Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., he graduated from there in 1875 with the intention of go- ing to Yale University. But the death of his father in 1874 had left the care of a large estate upon his mother's hands, and he abandoned a further collegiate career to assist her in looking after it.
Mr. Bumsted read law in the office of William Brinkerhoff, afterwards State Senator from Hudson county and was admitted to practice in 1879. Shortly afterwards he associated himself in business with Hamilton Wallis, a son of the President of the First National Bank of Jersey City, and with William D. Edwards afterwards State Senator from Hudson County, under the firm name of Wallis, Edwards & Bumsted. The firm devoted itself largely to a real estate office practice, and was dissolved upon the death
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of Mr. Wallis and the expression by Mr. Edwards of a desire to take a larger part in litigated practice.
The real estate patronage of the firm fell largely to Mr. Bumsted after the dissolution and he acquired special recognition for capacity as an advisor in that line of enterprise.
Gradually Mr. Bumsted drifted into the line himself and became largely interested in plans for the upbuild of the city. Incidental to his real estate operations he was brought into such close relations with the financial in- stitutions of the locality that he eventually became a Director of many of them. His rule of accepting a directorship in the directorate of no com- pany to whose affairs he cannot give close personal attention is a healthy variation from the rule of the "know-nothing," "I didn't-do-it," "'T wasn't- me," directors of some companies that have from time to time been charged with short comings. He is one of the charter members of the New Jersey Title Guarantee and Trust Company and one of its original Directors. He has large investments on the Hackensack water front, in the faith of even- tual dock improvements there ; and for sometime was a promoter of build- ing and loan associations. Upon the death of Frank H. Earle he succeeded to the Presidency of the Raritan Railroad Company which runs through the rich clay districts of Middlesex County from Perth Amboy to New Bruns- wick, and is a part owner of that Company.
Mr. Bumsted is a republican without political ambitions ; and a Direc- tor of Christ (Episcopal) Hospital, of the Colonial Life Insurance Com- pany, of the Provident Institution for Savings, of the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company and of the Pavonia Trust Company, all of Jersey City.
JOHN OSCAR BUNCE-Glen Rock .- Architect ; Sculptor. Born in New York City, July 14th, 1867.
John Oscar Bunce was identified with the restoration of Paterson after its awful visitation of fire in 1902, planning and supervising the erection of some public and private buildings.
Mr. Bunce pursued his art studies in the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League and is now engaged in architectural work. Incidental to his architectural engagements he devoted some time to sculpture.
Mr. Bunce has an office at 286 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
HENRY ANSON BUTTZ-Madison .- Theologian. Born in Mid- dle Smithfield, Pa., on April 18, 1835; married on April 11, 1860, to Emily Hoagland, of Townsbury, (N. J.)
Henry A. Buttz is President Emeritus of Drew Theological Seminary at Madison, and has been for nearly a half century conspicuous in the
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larger fields of church work. He was a member for many years of the Foreign Missions Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Trustee of the Centenary Collegiate Institute at Hackettstown. He served as a dele- gate to all of the Methodist Episcopal General Conferences from 1884 to 1912, inclusive, and represented the General Conference at the Methodist Episcopal Centennial Conference held in Wahington, D. C. in 1884, and was in that held in Toronto in 1912. He is also an author and editor.
Dr. Buttz graduated from Princeton, class of 1858, with the A. B. degree. He studied afterwards in the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church at New Brunswick and also at New York University. He entered the ministry in 1858 and was appointed pastor in that year of the Methodist Church in Millstone. He subsequently served at Irvington in '59, at Wood- bridge in '60 '61, Mariners Har- bor (S. I.), in '62 and '63 at Paterson, from '64 to '66 and at Morristown from '67 to '69. He held the position as instructor in Drew Theological Seminary in 1867 and 1868, and later was made Adjunct Professor in Greek and Hebrew, He became Professor of Greek and Exegesis in 1871. In 1880 he was elected President of the Seminary Fa- culty, and he filled that posi- tion until 1912 when he became President Emeritus. He is still Professor of New Testament Ex- egesis.
Dr. Buttz received from Princeton the A. M. degree in 1861 and the D. D. degree in 1875; from Wesleyan the A. M. degree in 1863 and the D. D. degree in 1903; Dickinson College had conferred the L. L. D. degree in 1885.
Dr. Buttz is a member of the American Philological Association and of the American Exegetical Association of the Committee on Versions of the American Bible Society and Trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Hospital and of Drew Theological Seminary. Among his works is "Epistle to the Romans in Greek", with textual and grammatical references and he edited the "New Life Dawning" (by Dr. B. H. Nadal with Memoir) and "Students Commentary on the Psalms" (by Dr. James Strong with Memoir).
JOHN ALEXANDER CAMPBELL-Trenton. - Manufacturer, Banker. Born in Shushan, N. Y., Jan. 31, 1856; son of Peter Campbell and Mary J. (McIntosh) Campbell ; married at Shushan,
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N. Y., on Oct. 30, 1879, to Fannie Cleveland, daughter of William Clark and Minerva Lyons Cleveland.
Children : Mrs. Fannie Cleveland Aitkin, born Feb. 10, 1884.
John Alexander Campbell is one of the factors in the building up of the pottery industries of Mercer County. His paternal grandfather was a native of Scotland. On his mother's side, he traces his ancestry back to pre-Revolutionary times. His mother's grandfather served in the War for Independence. His father served in the Union army during the Civil War.
The first seventeen years of Mr. Campbell's life were spent in Wash- ington, D. C. He studied at the Collegiate School in New York City and graduated from Princeton University in 1877 with the degree of A. B., later receiving the A. M. degree. He came to Trenton in 1880 as part owner of the International Pottery Company. In 1896 he was associated with the Trenton Potteries Company, the largest manufacturers of sanitary pottery in the country and was elected President of the Company in 1908. He was a Director for several years of the Trenton Banking Company, in 1900 was made Vice President and in 1904 elected President.
Mr. Campbell has interested himself in the affairs of the state and of the locality. He is particularly absorbed in the tenement house problem and has been President of the State Board for Tenement House Super- vision since its organization. He is also President of the Commission charged with the elimination of toll bridges. He is also President of the School of Industrial Arts in Trenton and of the Trustees of the Trenton Free Public Library.
Mr. Campbell's club memberships are Princeton Club, New York, the Nassau Club, Princeton and the Country Club of Trenton.
PALMER CAMPBELL-Hoboken, (1 Newark St.)-Storage and Real Estate. Born at New Orleans, La., on Dec. 25th, 1856; son of William Patrick and Caroline E. (Beers) Campbell ; married at Plymouth, Pa., in 1882, to Jeannette Eno.
Children : Eno, born in 1895.
Palmer Campbell is General Manager of the Hoboken Land & Improve- ment Company, Vice President of the Hudson County Park Commission, was President for seven years of the Hoboken Board of Health, became, on Gov. Edge's appointment in June, 1917, member of the Hudson River Bridge and Tunnel Commission, and has been closely identified with the business, civic and social life of Hudson County for several decades. The Hoboken Land & Improvement Company, which at one time owned nearly all of Ho- boken, still has enormous property interest there. The Park Commission is engaged in laying out parks throughout the county.
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At the September term of the Hudson County Courts in 1911, when Supreme Court Justice Swayze found it necessary, because of a dereliction on the part of the Sheriff, to place the drawing of the grand jurors in other hands, Mr. Campbell was appointed by the Court as one of the Elisors entrusted with the discharge of the function. He served six years in Troop I., N. G. N. J. and is a member of Essex Troop Veterans Associ- ation.
Mr. Campbell is deeply interested in the Citizens Federation of Hudson County and served for four years as President of the organization. The objects of the Federation are to examine into public affairs and the conduct of officials throughout the County ; to effect betterments in governmental conditions by co-operation with officials or otherwise ; to promote the selec- tion of properly qualified individuals for official places ; to prosecute official delinquents ; to secure equal taxation on the basis of true value; to urge needed public improvements and to secure the legislation that will promote these aims.
Mr. Campbell is of Scotch and English descent. His father's father was a Scotchman and his father's mother English. On the maternal side he is of New England stock with lines running back to the days of the Revo- lution. Before coming to Hoboken, Mr. Campbell lived for his first five years in New Orleans, the next two years in Bermuda, the next three years in Liverpool, England, and for the next two years in Edinburgh, Scot- land.
Besides his connection with the Federation and with the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company, Mr. Campbell is President of the Campbell Stores, a Director of the First National Bank of Hoboken and of the Hobo- ken Trust Company, Vice President of the Hoboken Building and Loan Association and General Manager of the Hoboken Railroad Ware House and Steamship Connecting Company (Hoboken Shore R. R.).
He is also a member of the Engineers Club, New York, the Somerset Hills Country Club, the German Club of Hoboken, the Elks Club of Hobo- ken, the Masonic Club of Hoboken, the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Commerce of the state of New York, the Mari- time Association of the state of New York and Vice President Lincoln Association of Jersey City.
ROBERT CAREY-Jersey City, (75 Montgomery St.)-Lawyer. Born on Sept. 16th, 1872; son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Dillaway) Carey ; married in 1889 to Cora, daughter of William Gurney of Jersey City.
Children : Robert, Anna.
While Robert Carey was from 1908 to 1913 the Presiding Judge of the County Courts in Hudson, he is more widely known because of his activ- ities in promoting the establishment of the system of Commission Rule in
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the municipalities of the state, and has been heard upon the platforms in every city in which the new system of City Rule has been agitated. His participation in the Progressive movement in the Republican party is an- other feature of his career that has contributed to his promi- nence.
Judge Carey is a graduate of grammar school No. 20 and the High School in Jersey City, and took a course in law at the New York Law School while enrolled as a student in the offices of Hudspeth & Puster iu Jersey City. Soon after his admission he became a member of the - firm; and the connection, after Mr. Puster's death, with Judge Hudspeth continued till he was appointed to the Judgeship by Governor Fort. By Governor Fort's appointment he has also served on the State Board of Taxation. Prior to that he served six years as Corporation Attorney of Jersey City. Judge Carey's father was a lawyer practicing in New York and Jersey City and some years ago a member of the New Jersey House of Assembly.
Judge Carey is a member of numerous clubs, is identified with the several charity organizations in Hudson County and is a Trustee of the Home of the Homeless, Christ Hospital and The State Home for Boys. He was the author of the New Jersey Juvenile Court Act under which the Courts of Essex and Hudson County are operating.
CHARLES J. CARPENDER-New Brunswick, (George St.)- Manufacturer. Born at New York City in 1847; son of Jacob Stout and Catharine (Neilson) Carpender ; married at Richmond. Va., on June 9th, 1875 to Alice B. Robinson, daughter of Edwin and Frances Brown Robinson, of Richmond, Va.
Children : One daughter and four sons.
Charles J. Carpender is President of the Norfolk and New Brunswick Hosiery Co., and till 1888 had devoted himself to the up-build of the busi- ness of Janeway & Carpender, whose wall paper manufacturing plant at New Brunswick is one of the noted industrial establishments of the State. Mr. Carpender is of English ancestry on his father's side, and on his mother's an admixture of Irish, Dutch and Spanish. He came with his parents to New Jersey when he was about five years old and was edu-
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cated in the school taught by Professor Gustavus Fischer at New Bruns- wick.
The wall-paper making establishment was originally the enterprise of the firm of Belcher & Nicholson. In January of 1870 Mr. Carpender purchased Mr. Belcher's business and continued the business with Mr. Nicholson under the firm name of Nicholson & Carpender. In 1872, Col. Jacob J. Janeway took Mr. Nicholson's place in the firm, and the business was run under the name of Janeway & Carpender. Although in 1888 Mr. Carpender sold out his interest to Col. Janeway, the firm is still known by the former title.
Mr. Carpender is President of the Middlesex General Hospital and a member of the Union Club at New Brunswick, of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, New York and of the St. Nicholas Society of New York.
HARRIET FRANCES CARPENTER - Millington. -- Educator and Author. Born at Lyons, Iowa, on June 6th, 1875, daughter of Abraham and Mary Carpenter.
Harriet Frances Carpenter, is of an old colonial Pennsylvania family ; and the eighth lineal grand daughter of Madam Feree, the French Hu- geonot colonizer of Lancaster county, from whom the late Admiral Schley claimed descent. Her ancestors were loyal patriots and Revolu- tionary heroes, dwelling for sev- en generations in the big, stone mansion "Carpenter Hall" on the lands deeded to them by William Penn. The place was sold when the grandfather moved west. Later Miss Car- penter's father owned large wheat ranges at Fargo and at Island Lake, North Dakota; and, being a delicate child, she was taken there to romp over the prairies and to ride the bronchos brought, unbroken, from Montana. It was here that the love for nature, that has colored her life, first developed.
After careful tutoring, Miss Carpenter went to Chicago to finish her education and was graduated from the Chicago Kindergarten College, toward the end of the nineteenth century, with the highest honors of her class. The same year she became Superintendent of the Cincinnati Free Kindergarten Training School and Supervisor of its thirty kindergartens. She was a charter member of the Cincinnati Wom-
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an's Club ; and to members of the Educational Department gave her first course of lectures on Children's Literature and on the interpretation of music drama for which her several trips to Beyreuth had fitted her.
After a few years, she resigned to seek rest and to continue the study of interpretive art, coming to New York for the purpose. But Newark was in need of an enthusiastic leader for the kindergartens then newly put into the public school system there, and she was persuaded to take charge of this work in the city normal school now the New Jersey State Normal School. The general courses in story telling which Miss Carpenter conducts there led to the publication of her two volumes, entitled "Mother Play In Story", and several children's dramas and other child literature so much in use in modern school life.
Miss Carpenter is opposed to the idea of taxation without representa- tion, and on principle an advocate of Equal Suffrage. In 1912, to help the cause, she sued the state for the right to vote as a property holder. Her insistment was that the right once exercised by the women of New Jersey had been taken away illegally. The Supreme Court of the State did not agree with her.
Miss Carpenter lives in her country home on the Long Hill Road, at Millington.
HENRY KING CARROLL-North Plainfield .- Clergyman, Edi- tor, Author. Born in Dennisville, Cape May County, November 15, 1848; son of Harry K. and Charlotte (Johnson) Carroll ; married at Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1872, to Annie, daughter of Henry and Mary Elizabeth Barnes.
Children : Alice Jennings, Grace Johnson, Raymond Barnes, Car- roll and Winifred Charlotte Mason.
Henry King Carroll, has always been proud of the fact that he is a Jerseyman by birth. His native village, about half way between Delaware Bay and the ocean, was active in that day in ship-building and in the shipping trade with Philadelphia. The period of his boyhood, (he was thirteen when the Civil War began) preceded the coming of the railroad south of Cumberland County, and he accompanied, as head of a military band, the first company of volunteers that went to the state camp at Bev- erly, in the early sixties. Stages conveyed the men to Bridgeton where they took a train for Camden and the camp.
The country schools of the middle of the last century were quite primitive and covered only three or four months of the year ; but they were thorough in the fundamentals and observed an eight or nine hour day and six days a week. What the boy learned in the rickety old country building he never had to learn again. The teachers of that period were not great scholars ; but they were excellent drill-masters. All the early schooling that Dr. Carroll got was received in the old Ludlam School-house, which was so well ventilated that the boys could make snow-balls from the drifts on the floor. Later he became by adoption an alumnus of Syracuse University which conferred on him at the early age of thirty-seven, the highest degree in its gift, that of L.L. D.
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Gruff old Samuel Johnson said the best outlook for Scotland was the road to London. The ambitious youth of Cape May County set their faces toward Philadelphia known simply as "the City"; but young Carroll went further and found himself in due time settled in the city of New York in journalistic work. He served in subordinate capacities on various news- papers, including the "The Hearth and Home", and occupied for some time a desk in the general office of the Associated Press as telegraphic editor of the dailies of the State of New York outside of the City. He was special telegraphic correspondent for years of the Boston "Traveler" in its palmy days. Believing that his call in life was to journalism and seeking at the same time a more distinctively literary field than daily newspapers then offered, he became a member of the staff of "The Independent", of which the celebrated Henry C. Bowen was the alert and aggressive publisher. "The Independent" was then, 1876, in the height of its glory as a literary, religious and political periodical. The brilliant but erratic Theodore Tilton who had carried it over to the radical camp in matters social, had stepped down and out, the connection of Henry Ward Beecher had been termin- ated and the echoes of the great scandal were growing faint. A corps of contributors, unequaled in number, character and bril- liancy, had been secured and for more than twenty years the Cape May boy was in a center of literature of high character, where poems by Tennyson, Wil- liam Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wen- dell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, Joaquin Miller, Sted- man, Stoddard and others came to the editorial sanctum with articles by the best prose writ- ers on all subjects. Later on the magazines absorbed most of these choice productions. The Cap May man was an active editor, developing the religious department especially and writing editorials weekly on all conceivable subjects.
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