Scannell's New Jersey first citizens : biographies and portraits of the notable living men and women of New Jersey with informing glimpses into the state's history and affairs, 1919-1920, Vol II, Part 13

Author: Sackett, William Edgar, 1848- ed; Scannell, John James, 1884- ed
Publication date: 1917
Publisher: Patterson, N.J. : J.J. Scannell
Number of Pages: 1454


USA > New Jersey > Scannell's New Jersey first citizens : biographies and portraits of the notable living men and women of New Jersey with informing glimpses into the state's history and affairs, 1919-1920, Vol II > Part 13


Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).


Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80


In Aug., 1917, he was commissioned as a Major in the Medical Corps and served for four months as head of the department of nervous and mental diseases at the base hospital at Camp Dix. When at the request of Governor Edge and the Board of Managers of the State Hospital, he was honorably discharged from military service, on account of six of the medical staff being commissioned in the army, he was re-instated as director of the State Hospital.


His club memberships are, Trenton Club, Trenton Country Club, the Symposium, Philadelphia Art Club, Nassau Club of Princeton, Society of the Cincinnati, Sons of the Revolution, American Medical Association, American Neurological Association, American Medico-Psychological Asso- ciation, New York Psychiatric Society, N. Y. Neurological Society, Na- tional Association for Advancement of Science, New Jersey State Medical


99


Cowenhoven


Society, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Philadelphia Psychiatric So- ciety.


Dr. Cotton's business address is New Jersey State Hospital for In- sane.


CHARLES TIEBOUT COWENHOVEN - New Brunswick. - Lawyer. Born at New Brunswick, Dec. 1, 1844; son of Nicholas Remsen and Anna (Rapalje) Cowenhoven; married in 1870 to Ellen A. Towle, daughter of Henry Towle, an Englishman, and Justine de Ciplet de Groot, of Demarara, West Indies. Mrs. Cowenhoven is a great-granddaughter of Rev. Henry Green, Rec- tor of St. Gregory's Church-Lincolnshire, England.


Children : Charles Tiebout, Jr., counselor-at-law, and a member of the firm Convers & Kirlin, in New York City, who married Emily Kearny Rodgers, of New York; Marie T .; and Nicholas Remsen, attorney-at-law in New Brunswick.


Charles Tiebout Cowenhoven-Lawyer, ex-Judge and ex-Prosecutor of the Pleas-is a descendant of one of the earliest and distinguished Colonial families of America. The founder of the family was Wolfert Gerritsen Van Cowenhoven, who came from Holland in 1630, and founded the colony of New Amersfoot on Long Island. A patent for the lands was granted him by Governor Van Twiller. One of the family was Jacob Van Cowenhoven, delegate to the States-General of Holland. A famous descendant in the American line was Egbert Benson, an eminent jurist. Another ancestor, Nicasius de Sille, was one of the Nine Selectmen in the Council of Govern- or Stuyvesant; also a "Schepen" and mentioned in the list of "Great Citizens" of New York, in the year 1657. Charles T. Cowenhoven is a great grandson of Catherine Remsen, and grandson of Garetta Tiebout.


His father, who came to New Brunswick from Brooklyn, in 1840, was not engaged in professional or business occupation, but lived a retired life, and was recognized as a gentleman of the old school. His family consisted of Garetta T., who married David Bishop, of Bishop Place, New Bruns- wick ; Catherine, who married the Rev. Dr. W. J. R. Taylor, a distinguished clergyman of the Reformed Church; Maria Lefferts, married (second wife) W. J. R. Taylor ; Sarah Lefferts, married Oscar Johnson, of Brooklyn, nephew of Bishop Whitehouse, of Illinois; Cornelia Van Vechten died un- married ; Mary Anna, resides with her brother in New Brunswick; Nicho- las Remsen, died young ; Charles Tiebout was graduated from Rutger's College in 1862, studied law in the office of Abraham V. Schenck, and was admitted to the New Jersey Bar as an attorney in November, 1865, and as counselor in February, 1869. From 1869 to 1874 he served as President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Middlesex County, being the youngest man appointed to that bench; he was Prosecutor of the Pleas of Middlesex County from 1877 to 1882 and was again President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1SS5 to 1890.


Judge Cowenhoven has always practiced his profession in New Bruns-


100


Cowles


wick, and has wide nete as a trial lawyer in criminal cases. He is a mem- ber of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity.


ALFRED HUTCHINSON COWLES - Sewaren. - Metallurgist. . (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 8, 1858; son of Edwin Cowles, (founder, publisher and editor of the Cleveland "Leader," "Evening News," and "Herald") and Elizabeth Caroline (Hutchinson) Cowles ; married on October 25, 1906, at Akron, Ohio, to Helen J., daughter of James Mortimer Wills, of Akron, Ohio.


Alfred Hutchinson Cowles is a descendant of John Cowles who came to these shores about 1636, settting in Farmington, Conn. The Rev. Thomas Hooker and Peregrine White of the Mayflower were also in the family line.


Mr. Cowles studied chemistry and physics for two years at the Ohio State University ; specialized in science at Cornell University for four years, finishing in 1882: was of the S-oared Freshman crew that out-rowed Harvard in 1878, of the winning 4-oarded crew at Lake George in 1880, of the crew at Henley, England, for Steward's Challenge Club in 1881, and on the Danube the same year; and captain of the "Varsity" 4-oarded crew in 1882.


Interested with his father and brother in a large deposit of copper zinc ore at the head waters of the Pecos River, N. M., Mr. Cowles designed an electric furnace to volatilize and catch the zinc in the ore. He discovered that this furnace was capable of reducing theretofore irreducible metallic oxides. In subsequent suits for patent infringement it was shown that the Cowles brothers were the first to use the electric furnace in the production of aluminum, carborundum, silicon, calcium carbide, phosphorous, and various alloys. With a 35 e. h. p. generator that gave the largest amperage current of any generator made up to that time, the Messrs. Cowles made 10% aluminum bronze early in 1885 and sold it at 55 cents per pound.


The litigations that confirmed the prior claims of the Cowles brothers was notable in the jurisprudence of the U. S. Courts for many years. Ac- cording to a letter, over the signature of Gen. Counsel McMillin, for the Cowles Company. in the Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, the secret of the Cowles invention was taken out of the factory by em- ployees who went over to the service of a company organized to operate under it.


The Cowles Electric Smelting and Aluminum Co. was organized with a capital stock of $200,000 (increased to $1,000,000) and in 1886 a water- power plant was completed at Lockport, N. Y., where the largest generator in the world at the time, designed by Charles F. Brush, of the Brush Electric Co:, was installed; and the plant was the pioneer for electric smelting. In England the Cowles Syndicate Co. was organized in 1SS7 and the British Aluminum Co. developed from it. Announcements of the invention were made to the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute of Mining Engineers before other Societies. The Franklin Institute awarded to the Cowles brothers the John Scott Legacy medal and the Elliott Cresson medal.


A patent for the process of reducing aluminum from alumina was ap- plied for Dec. 24, 1884, by the Cowles brothers and was issued June 9, 1885.


101


Crane


In a specific form of the broad invention they had been anticipated in date of application by Charles S. Bradley, who, though he had applied for a patent Feb. 23, 1883, did not take it out till Feb .. 1892; but the Cowles Company purchased Bradley's application in 1885, thus controlling the elec- tric process for manufacturing aluminum commercially. Meanwhile, the Pittsburgh Reduction Co., organized in 1SSS by Charles M. Hall and Romaine C. Cole, both of whom had been with the Cowles Co., at their factory in Lockport, began the manufacture of aluminum in Pittsburgh and later at Niagara Falls and Massena, N. Y., on a large scale. After the litigation showing that the priority of the invention belonged to the Cowles Company, royalties and damages amounting to $1,350,000 were paid by the Aluminum Co., of America, successors to the Pittsburgh Reduction Co. This invention has not only made possible the production of aluminum on a large scale and at a much reduced cost for a great variety of articles, but it has resulted in the great carborundum works at Niagara Falls and in Europe and the graphite business, both developed by E. G. Acheson. The carbordum company paid the Cowles Company over $300,000 on award of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals.


Mr. Cowles is President of the Electric Smelting and Aluminum Com- pany-re-organized by him in 1895 from the Cowles Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company ; for eight years before assuming the Presidency he had been its metallurgist. Between 1904 and 1907 Mr. Cowles individually developed the deposits of ore exposing in sight about 360,000 tons, and organized the Pecos Copper Company of which he has remained Presi- dent until the present day. In April 1916 the mining property thus de- veloped was sold, to large benetit to the few parties who were associated with Mr. Cowles. This mine promises to become one of the very few great mines of the world.


He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, a founder member of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, a member of the U. S. Naval Institute, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Franklin Institute, and one of the founders, and a past vice-president of the American Electro Chemical Society, and a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and of the Zeta Psi College fraternity.


WILLIAM MONTGOMERY CRANE-Beechhurst, L. I .- Mer- chant. Born in "Roselle, N. J., June 14th, 1852; son of Richard Montgomery and Maria (Coles) Crane; married at Kutztown, Pa .. Jan. 10th. 1907, to Beulah Bieber, daughter of Walter B. and Ella C. Bieber.


Children : Richard Jasper, Sept. 15th, 1908: Howard Bieber, Feb. 20th. 1910.


Mr. Crane is a descendant of an old English family, sons of which were staunch Puritans, and were forced to flee to Holland, on account of religious persecution, and eventually came to America. Among them were General Josiah Crane, who settled in Massachusetts in 1639. and Jasper Crane, who was one of the first settlers in New Haven, and took an active part in electing the first officers of that place in June 4. 1639.


.


102


Currier


Among other members of Mr. Crane's genealogy is found Jasper Crane, Sr., who was associated with Robert Treat (afterwards governor of Connecticut) and both were first magistrates of Newark. Jasper's son, Azarial, married Mary, daughter of Governor Robert Treat. and Mr. Crane*is a direct descendant of them. This ancestor was also one of the purchasers of the "Kingsland Farm," an immense estate of Belle- ville, N. J.


Although now dwelling in New York City, Mr. Crane is really a citizen of New Jersey by all ties of birth and education. After receiving his education in the public schools of Elizabeth, N. J., and Roselle. N. J., it was not until he was thirty-eight years old, or in 1890, that he left the state for New York City. In that place he laid the foundation of his experience in the mercantile business. At sixteen Mr. Crane secured em- ployment with a wholesale hosiery house in New York (John J. Hinch- man & Co.) and remained with it for nineteen years. At the end of that time he formed the firm of William MI. Crane Co., of New York City, manufacturers of gas ranges and appliances, which since has grown to large proportions.


For fourteen years about (1876 to 1890) he was a member and treasurer of the Roselle Baptist Church, at Roselle, N. J., and is now a member and treasurer of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church of New York City.


As a result of his being interested in the gas industry, Mr. Crane became a member of the American Gas Institute, and was director for a number of years of the National Gas Association.


He was also president of the National Gas Appliance Manufacturers Exchange, and is chairman of the War Service Committee of the Na- tional Gas Appliance Manufacturers of the United States.


In 1898, with associates, Mr. Crane bought the old Peekskill Gas Company at Peekskill, N. Y., erecting in its place an entirely new plant. This was sold at a later date.


His activities in the gas industry have not been confined to the north-eastern section of the country, however, as he is also President of the New Bern Gas & Fuel Company of New Bern, N. C., and the Golds- boro Gas & Fuel Company of Goldsboro, N. C.


Mr. Crane's association memberships are, the Jersey City Chamber of Commerce, of which he is a director, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Merchant's Association of New York City, the Sons of the American Revolution and the New York Athletic Club.


Mr. Crane's business address is Gates & Garfield avenues. Jersey City, N. J.


RICHARD DUDLEY CURRIER-Montclair, (21 Highland Avenue)-Attorney. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born Bridgeport, Conn., Aug. 25th, 1877; son of Levi Wheeler aud Sarah Elizabeth (Ayer) Currier; married in New York City,


103


Curry


Oct. 20th, 1909, to Adele Ames, daughter of Edward G, and Adele (Deshons) Ames of Brooklyn, N. Y.


Children : Elizabeth Adele, born Oct. ith, 1912.


Richard Currier who founded the Currier family . in this country came from England to Salisbury, Mass., in 1640. Hannah Dustin, of Haverhill, Mass., who became famous during the Indian Wars of the Colonial times for having broken from captivity after scalping ten of the Red Skins, was of his line.


Richard Dudley Currier was educated at the Bridgeport High School, graduating there in 1896, at Yale where he won his degree in 1900 and at the Boston University Law School and the New York Law School. At graduation from Yale he was awarded the James Gordon Bennett prize for the highest work in history and economics in the College course. Following his graduation' from the New York Law School in 1902, he opened an office in New York City for the practice of the law, and was engaged there until 1908 when he came to New Jersey to organize the New Jersey Law School. He was made the President of its Faculty and still holds that position. The Law School has about 250 students at present.


He has found time, apart from his profession in New York and from his labors in the New Jersey Law School, to prepare a number of legal books. Among them is the "Sailor's Log," a compilation of laws relating to seamen ; and in collaboration with Professor Bate he was author of an- other important volume-"Cases on the Law of Torts."


Mr. Currier is a member of the American Bar Association, American Society of International Law, American Society for the Judicial Settle- ment of International Disputes, the St. Anthony Country Club, (Benning- ton, Vt.), Yale Club, (N. Y.) In politics he is a Republican, and has been an active worker in the ranks of the party.


Mr. Currier has a summer home at Shaftesbury, Vt., where he mian- tains a farm and a summer camp for girls, Camp Avalon.


MARCUS ALBERT CURRY -- Greystone Park .- Physician and Psychiatrist. Born at Warrenburgh, N. Y., May 2nd, 1878; son of Marcus M. and Elizabeth (Moore) Curry.


Dr. Curry is a descendant of Irish ancestry. His father, Rev. Marcus M. Curry, was a Methodist minister of the old school, connected with the Troy Conference, 2 lover of books and a man of a logical and analytical mind. Two of his three sons are lawyers in New York state, while Dr. Curry, the third has specialized in Psychiatry, that branch of medical science most closely akin to the law.


Dr. Curry was educated at the Troy Conference Academy, Poult- ney, Vermont, and at Albany Medical College, from which he was gradu- ated in 1904. He then served as interne in the Albany General Hospital for a year, and in 1905 accepted a position as physician at Gien Mary Sanitarium, Owego, where he remained for two years. Then, after three


104


Cutler


1


months of special duty in the Cobalt region, Canada, he entered the New York State Hospital service, and was assistant physician at Central Islip State Hospital from 1907 to 1909.


After passing a competitive examination he became a member of the staff of the New Jersey State Hospital at Morris Plains in 1909, where he has since remained continuously, and where he is now senior assistant physician, serving the state of New Jersey as an experienced psychiatrist.


Dr. Curry is a Republican in politics, a member of the American Medico-Psychological Association, The New Jersey State Medical So- ciety, the Morris County Medical Society, and the Morristown Medical Club. He belongs to the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity, is a Mason, and past Exalted Ruler of the Morristown Lodge of the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks.


WILLIARD W. CUTLER-Morristown .- Jurist. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born at Morristown, on Nov. 3, 1856; son of Augustus W. and Julia R. (Walker) Cutler; married to Mary B. Hinchman, of Brooklyn, N. Y. (deceased July 28, 1918).


Children : Genevieve W., Julia H., Ethel, Williard W. Jr., Edith and Ralph H.


Willard W. Cutler bears a name that has long been familiar to the people of New Jersey. His father served in Congress for some years and was the sponsor for the act that created the Department of Agriculture and placed a new portfolio on the President's Cabinet desk. The Depart- ment of Agriculture has grown into one of the most important of the executive divisions of the National Government. It embraces the Weather Bureau and the Labor Department as well as contributing to the develop- ment of the farming industry throughout the country. Mr. Cutler achieved distinction in his first campaign for Congress in having defeated William Walter Phelps, the Republican who had represented the Fifth District in the previous Congress and who was afterwards United States Ambassa- dor to Berlin. Congressman Cutler's subsequent campaign for the Gov- ernorship was widely supported in the convention that eventually nomi- nated Chancellor Alexander T. McGill against John W. Griggs.


The family had already been distinguished in the annals of war and statesmanship. Congressman Cutler's grandfather, Abijah Carter, achieved distinction in the Revolutionary struggle : and his father was a Colonel in the State Militia, and his mother was the grand-daughter of Silas Condit who was delegate to the Continental Congress, President of the New Jersey Committee of Safety and Speaker of the New Jersey As- sembly.


Willard W. Cutler acquired his education at the public schools of Morristown and studied law in his father's office. He was admitted to the Bar as an attorney and afterwards as a counselor. He was counsel for the Morristown Board of Sewerage while it was in existence: and in later years was a member of the Democratic State Committee, but re- signed to accept judicial functions. Upon the resignation in 1882 of


-


105


Dalrymple


George W. Forsyth, Prosecutor of the Pleas of Morris County, the Court named Mr. Cutler to take up the duties of that office; and he held it by successive reappointments from Governors Ludlow, Green and Werts until 1893. He resigned then to accept the office of Presiding Judge of the Morris County Courts tendered to him by Governor Werts. Upon the completion of his term in '98 he resumed the practice of his profession at Morristown and continued until Governor Fielder in 1916 appointed him a Circuit Court Judge. His present circuit is Bergeu, Monmouth, Hunterdon, Morris, Essex and Hudson counties.


Judge Cutler was one of the organizers of the Morristown Trust Co., and has been its Vice President for over twenty years. For some years he was President of the Y. M. C. A. of Morristown and is yet a member of its Board of Trustees. Some years ago he was the Superintendent of the South Street Presbyterian Church Sunday School and he has long been President of the church's Board of Trustees. He is also a Past Master of Cincinnati Lodge No. 3, F. & A. M .. and a member of the Whippany River Club.


Judge Cutler's daughter, Genevieve, is the wife of Charles M. Marsh, Jr., of Washington, D. C .; his daughter, Julia H., wife of John H. Salter, of Glen Ridge; his daughter, Ethel, wife of Leon S. Freeman, of Morris- town ; his daughter, Edith, is wife of Charles W. Phelps, of Morristown ; his son Willard W., Jr., is a geologist and mining engineer, and his son Ralph is a Lieutenant in the U. S. Navy.


LEONA DALRYMPLE - Passaic, (45 Summer St.) -- Author. ( Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born at Trenton, daugh- ter of George H. and Carrie Virginia (Dean) Dalrymple.


Through her charmingly optimistic stories Leona Daldymple has won her way into the hearts of many readers in the United States, Canada, Australia and England-and she is virtually at the threshold of her ca- reer. Her spectacular achievement in winning a $10,000 prize offered by the Reilly Britton Co. in 1915, for the best popular novel in a competition that called forth competing work from two thousand rivals. bears out the promise shown in her earlier work. Miss Dalrymple had achieved literary distinction before she won the prize with her novel "Diane of the Green Van." which sold over a hundred thousand copies and was included in the Bookman's list of Best Sellers for several months. In England "Diane of the Green Van" was selected as the "jubilee" book of the year. "The Lovable Meddler" published the following year also found its way into the list of Best Sellers. Though Miss Dalrymple is best known by her delightful popular novels, she is most loved by readers who write to her from all parts of the country-for her Christmas stories in book form. These little heart tales that sparkle with tears as well as laughter are loved by rich and poor, young and old alike.


Miss Dalrymple's first book "Tranmerei" was published in the early part of 1912. In the fall of that year appeared her "Uncle Noah's Christ- mas Inspiration," first published in the Ladies "Home Journal" and later


106


Dana


in book form. Other books of hers are "In the Heart of the Christmas Pines," 1913; "Uncle Noah's Christmas Party," 1914; "Jimsy, the Christ- mas Kid." 1914, and "When the Yale-log Burns," 1916. Her novelette, "The Driftwood Adventure," which had magazine publication, will be pro- duced this fall as a play by Cohen and Harris. In July (1917) Miss Dal- rymple's new novel "Kenny," the tale of a lovable, madcap Irishman, will be published by the Reilly Britton Co. of Chicago.


For the past three years Miss Dalrymple has been a weekly contribu- tor of fairy stories for the Newspaper Feature Service and a number of her photo-plays have been produced by the Selig Polyscope Co. and The Vitagraph.


The young author's ancestry is Scotch on her father's side and French on her mother's. Her father is well known in the politics of the upper part of the state. He is one of the active promoters of the progressive movement of the Republican party.


Miss Dalrymple is devoted to music and motoring. She is a part of that Bohemian life which centers in New York and a member of many clubs of actors. illustrators, writers, painters and musicians.


JOHN COTTON DANA-Newark .- Librarian. Born in Wood- stock, Vt., on Aug. 19th, 1856: son of Charles and Charitie Scott (Loomis) Dana ; married on November 15, 1888, to Adine Rowena Wagener, of Russellville, Ky.


John Cotton Dana is Librarian at the Free Public Library in Newark. He graduated from Dartmouth College with the A. B. degree in 1873; studied law in Woodstock, Vt., and was admitted to practice at the New York Bar in 1883. Meanwhile, in 1880 and 1881 he was a land surveyor in Colorado, and in 1886-7 he was a civil engineer in Colorado. He became Librarian of the Denver Public Library in 1889 and continued in that posi- tion until 1897. From 189S until 1902 he was City Librarian at Spring- field, Mass. In 1902 he was made Librarian of the Free Public Library in Newark.


Mr. Dana has been Director of the Newark Museum Association since its foundation in 1909; is a member, and in 1896 was President of the American Literary Association and is connected with the Century Club in New York and with the Essex Club in Newark.


Mr. Dana's official duties have not excluded him from participation in current affairs. He is a frequent participant in community movements, was a member of the Committee of One Hundred that arranged the Newark City 250th Anniversary fete of 1916, and finds time besides, to occasionally make graceful contributions to the literature of the day. Among some of the important works which he has written are: "Modern American Literary Economy Series," "American Art," "The New Museum," "The Gloom of the Museum Libraries," "Addresses and Essays."


1


107


Davis


Mr. Dana's brother, Charles Loomis Dana, is Professor of Nervous Diseases at Cornell University Medical College and ex-President of the New York Academy of Medicine.


J. WARREN DAVIS-Trenton .-- Jurist. (Photograph pub- lished in Vol. 1-1917). Born in Elizabeth City, N. C., March 14, 1867 ; son of John S. and Emma B. (Sawyer) Davis; married at Salem, on June 14, 1913, to Marguerite N. Gay, daughter of Dr. William Gay, of Delaware County, Pa.


Children : Mary Seagrave, born November 15, 1915, and J. Warren Davis, Jr., born July 30, 1918.




Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.