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gan, 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. Hili, died April 23rd, 1910.
Children : 2nd marrige-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 London 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 minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church was a native of England. Dr. Buckley was educated at Pennington Semi- nary and Wesleyan University in Middletown, 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 Brooklyn, N. Y., and Stamford, Conn., from '66 to '80.
Dr. Buckley was President of the Methodist Episcopal Hospital in Brooklyn from its foundation in 1882 to 1917 and is now President Emeri- 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."
JOHN OSCAR BUNCE-Glen Rock .- Architect ; Sculptor. Born in New York City, July 14th. 1867.
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John Oscar Bunce was identified with the restoration of Paterson after its awful visitation by 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. Incident to his architectural engagements he devoted some time to sculp- ture.
Mr. Bunce has an office at 286 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
LEO. J. BURNES-Westfield, N. J .- Banker. Born at New Brunswick, N. J., Nov. 18th, 1880; son of James Robert Burnes and Jennie Burke Burnes ; married at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 11, 1915, to Maude Wallder, daughter of John and Eliza- beth Blackman Wallder of New York.
Children : Maude Wallder Burnes, born at Brooklyn, July 8, 1916
Leo J. Burnes's early education was secured in the public and private schools at New Brunswick, N. J., and in St. Agnes' Academy, from which he was graduated in June, 1897.
At the age of eighteen he entered the banking business with the National City Bank of New York, with which he now holds the office of assistant cashier.
In 1900 Mr. Burnes moved to Brooklyn and remained there until 1916, when he returned to New Jersey and took up residence at Westfield. While living at New Brunswick, Mr. Burnes was particularly prominent in Catholic circles at one time holding office in the Catholic Club of that city.
His club memberships are the Westfield Golf, the Crescent Athletic, of Brooklyn, former member of the Board of Governors, Nautilus Boat Club at Bath Beach, and he was also connected with the executive com- mittee of the Four-Minute Men of New Jersey.
Mr. Burnes' business address is National City Bank, 55 Wall street. - New York City .
HENRY ANSON BUTTZ-Madison .- Theologian. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born in Middle 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 half a century conspicuous in the 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
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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 Washington, 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 Re- formed Church at New Brunswick and also at New York University. He entered the ministry in 1858 and was appointed pastor in the year of the Methodist Church in Millstone. He subsequently served at Irvington in '59, at Woodbridge in '60 '61, Mariners Harbor (S. I.), in '62 and '63 at Paterson, from '64 to '66 and at Morristown from '67 to '69. He held the position of instructor in Drew Theological Seminary in 1867 and 1868, and later was made Adjunct Professor in Greek and Hebrew. He be- came Professor of Greek and Exegesis in 1871. In 1880 he was elected President of the Seminary Faculty, and he filled that position until 1912, when he became President Emeritus.
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, 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 industry 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 190S. He was
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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 elmination of toll bridges. He is also President of the School of Industrial Arts in Trenton and one 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, ( 1Newark 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.
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 1, N. G. N. J., and is a member of Essex Troop Veterans Associa- tion.
Mr. Campbell is deeply interested in the Citizens Federation of Hud- son 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 govern- mental conditions by co-operation with officials or otherwise; to promote the selection of properly qualified individuals for official places : to prose- cute official delinquents; to secure equal taxation on the basis of true value : to urge needed public improvements and to secure the legislation that will promite 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 a lineage dating back to the days of the Revolution. Before coming to Hoboken, Mr. Campbell lived for his first five years in New Orleans, two years in Bermuda, three years in Liverpool, England, and two years in Edenburgh, Scotland.
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Besides his connection with the Federation and with the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company, Mr. Campbell is President of the Camp- bell Stores, a Director of the First National Bank of Hoboken and of the Hoboken Trust Company, Vice President of the Hoboken Building and Loan Association, General Manager of the Hoboken Railroad Ware House and Steamship Connecting Company (Hoboken Shore R. R.), Treasurer Hoboken Paper Mills Co., Director Hackensack Water Co., and of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. of Newark, N. J.
He is also a member of the Engineers Club, New York, the Somerset Hills Country Club, the Elks Club of Hoboken, the Masonic Club of Hoboken, the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Commerce of the state of New York, Vice President Lincoln Association of Jersey City, member Cartaret Club Jersey City, Director Hoboken Chamber of Commerce and member of the Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commis- sion.
CHARLES JJ. CARPENDER-New Brunswick. (George St.)- Retired. 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.
Mr. Carpender devoted himself until 18SS 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- cated in the school taught by Professor Gustavus Fisher 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 1SSS 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 of New Brunswick, of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, New York, and of the St. Nicholas Society of New York.
HENRY KING CARROLL-North Plainfield .- Clergyman, Edi- tor, Author. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born in Dennisville, Cape May County, November 15, 1848; son of Henry
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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 school- ing 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 and aluminus of Syracuse University which conferred on him at the early age of thirty-seven, the highest degree in its gift, that of LL. D.
Gruff old Samuel Johnson said the best outlook for Scotland was the road to London. The ambitious youths 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 distinctly 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 terminated and the echoes of the great scandal were growing faint. A corps of con- tributors, unequaled in number, character and brilliancy, 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, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendall Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, Joaquin Miller, Stedman, Stoddard and others came to the editorial sanctum with articles by the best prose writers on all subjects. Later on the magazines absorbed most of these choice productions. The Cape May man was an active
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editor, developing the religious department especially and writing editorials weekly on all conceivable subjects.
Appointed in 1890 by the Federal Government to take the census of the religious bodies, he brought to & successful conclusion the first complete work in this line by the Census Office, previous efforts having failed in completeness. He has kept up this work ever since on his own account and his annual statistics are universally accepted as authoritative. His book, published by Scribners, entitled "The Religious Forces of the United States," was the first of a series of historical works, issued under the auspices of "The Christian Literature Society," is still circulated in re- vised form, and used as a text-book in thological seminaries.
At the close of the Spanish-American war, President Mckinley ap- pointed Dr. Carroll as bis Special Commissioner to Porto Rico to investi- gate and report on the political, social, economic, agricultural and other industries, schools, finances, courts, system of government, etc., and to formulate a system for the government of the Island. The result was a report of 800 pages or more, of which the Government printed three edi- tions. Most of the recommendations concerning a system of civil govern- ment have been favorably acted upon by Congress.
After completing this work, he was elected as one of the Corresponding Secretaries of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, serving in this capacity eight years and making official visitation to several of the fields of the Society, including South America and Mexico. He published a book during his occupancy of this office on "Missionary Growth of the Methodist Episcopal Church." He served as organizing secretary of the American section of the World Missionary Congress, held at Edin- burgh, Scotland, in 1910, of which he was a member, and of the Ecumenical Methodist Conference of 1911. at Toronto, of which he was Chief Secretary. He was also Chief Editor of the volume of proceedings of the Conference, published in 1912.
From 1913 to the close of 1917 Dr. Carroll was Associate Secretary of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, with an office in Washington, D. C., where he represented the religious, moral and social interests of the thirty denominations which have officially united in creat- ing and supporting the Council. These Protestant bodies embrace 103,000 ministers, 139,000 churches and seventeen and three quarter millions of communicants.
Dr. Carroll's life has been an extremely busy one. He is an officer of his local church, a member of its boards and various committees, an or- dained minister who has served as pastor of churches for limited periods, a member of denominational boards, a delegate to the quadrennial General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church four times in succession, Secretary of the Ecumenical Methodist Commission, of the Asbury Memori- al Association. of the Religious Welfare League for the Army and Navy, and of various other organizations, and President of the Methodist Histori- cal Society of New York. He was one of the editors of the Schaff-Herzog Biblical, Ecclesiastical and Theological Encyclopedia, and author, in ad- dition to the books already mentioned, of "The Francis Asbury Centenary Volume," and "The First Methodist Society in America," also a contributor
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to the "Cyclopedia Americana," "the American Year Book," and other publications.
He has lived nearly all his married life in North Plainfield, where he has a comfortable home and family of wife and four children.
He has always taken an interest in civil affairs and was active in se- curing the incorporation of the borough of North Plainfield. He has been a delegate to State and Congressional Conventions and has always been interested in state and national politics.
Dr. Carroll's association and organization memberships are with the American Geographic Society, the League to Enforce Peace, etc.
HOWARD CARROW-Camden .- Jurist. Born in Kent Coun- ty, Del., 1860; son of Edward and Margaret Carrow; married in 1886 to Emma, daughter of Captain Robert S. Bender of Camden, (died in 1909) ; 2nd, married in 1913 to Margaret A. Helm, of Trenton.
Children : (first marriage) James Russel, Acting Prosecutor of Cape May County ; Margaret Linda, (since deceased) ; and Helen.
Howard Carrow's forebears were of Scotch-Irish and English ex- tractions. They were principally farmers and lived in Maryland and Dela- ware for several generations. Mr. Carrow's family came to Bridgeton right after the Civil War and resided there until 1873 when they moved to Camden. Mr. Carrow has ever since been a resident of Camden County.
He was educated in public and private schools and by tutors. He was prepared for college, but circumstances prevented his going. He was made an attorney in 1882 and a counselor in 1885. In 1891 he was ap- pointed Judge of the District Court of the city of Camden by Governor Leon Abbett, and served in that position for a term of five years. He was offered the Prosecutorship of Camden County by Governor George T. Werts in 1894 but business reasons prompted him to decline.
In 1895 Judge Carrow was Permanent Chairman of the Democratic State Convention which nominated the late Chancellor Alexander T. McGill for Governor ; and in 1898 he was made a Member-at-large of the Democratic State Committee, where he served until 1912. In 1894 he was a member of the commission appointed by Governor Werts to suggest amendments to the state constitution respecting the judiciary system. He was a Delegate-at-Large to the National Democratic Conventions of 1904 and 1908, and also a member of the National Democratic Committee in 1908, but declined re-election.
In 1911 he was President of the New Jersey Bar Association. In 1912 he retired from the bar and politics to accept an appointment from Gov- ernor Wilson as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Camden County. He resigned that position in 1913 to become Circuit Court Judge. His circuit comprises all the counties south of Trenton, excepting Camden.
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Before going on the bench, in 1912, he practiced law successfully in South Jersey but he now devotes his entire time to his judicial duties.
WILLIAM TUTTLE CARTER-Newark, (1021 Broad St.)- Jewelry Manufacturer. Born in Newark, N. J., Sept. 28th, 1849; son of Aaron and Elizabeth Camp (Tuttle) Carter; married in Newark, N. J., June 2nd, 1875, to Sophie A. Condict, daughter of Stephen Hayes and Sophie (King) Condict of Newark, N. J.
Children : William Tuttle, Jr., July 10th, 1876, Elizabeth, Dec. 22nd, 1880, Joseph Nelson, Sept. 25th, 1882, Kenneth King, Oct. 15th, 1895.
William Tuttle Carter's earliest traceable ancestor in this country is Nicholas Carter who came from England and settled about the year 1652 in Stamford, Conn., but later moved to Long Island, and thence to Eliza- beth port, in 1865, where he made his permanent home.
Mr. Carter has lived all his life in New Jersey. He was educated in the Newark Academy, Newark, N. J., and later attended Philipps Aca- demy in Andover, Mass., but finally was graduated from Princeton Uni- versity, N. J., June 1871.
Early in life, soon after his education was completed, he entered the manufacturing jewelry business which was established by Aaron Carter in 1841, and after many years' service, Mr. Carter was taken as a partner into the business of Carter, Gough & C'o., of Newark.
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