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 25

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


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His business address is, King St., Dover, N. J.


WILLIAM STRYKER GUMMERE-Newark .- Jurist. Born in Trenton, on June 24, 1852; son of Barker and Elizabeth (Stry- ker) Gummere.


William S. Gummere is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey. His father was one of the leaders of the State Bar.


Chief Justice Gummere was educated at the Trenton Academy and the Lawrenceville school and graduated from Princeton in 1870. Having read law in his father's office he practiced for a time in the office of G. D. W. Vroom, who was then Prosecutor of the Pleas for Mercer County. Later in association with ex-Governor Joel Parker, who was his uncle, he prac- ticed in Newark; when that firm was dissolved he became the senior mem- ber of the firm of Gummere & Keon. This partnership was terminated when Mr. Gummere was made Counsel of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany with offices in Trenton to succeed Edward T. Green, who had been appointed Judge of the United States District Court.


Mr. Gummere's first seat on the Bench of the Supreme Court of the State in February, 1895, was given to him on Governor Wert's appoint- ment, to fill out the unexpired term of ex-Governor Leon Abbett, who had died while serving as a member of the Court. Governor Voorhees in 1901 nominated him to the Senate, for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and


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confirmed in February, he took his place as the Chief of the Court in November. He succeeded Chief Justice David A. Depue who had resigned after thirty-five years of service on the Bench. Governor Fort re-appointed him in 1908, and Governor Fielder in 1915 gave him another term of seven years.


HARRY T. HAGAMAN-Lakewood .- Publisher and Assembly- man. Born at Toms River, N. J., June 2, 1869; son of John and Alice M. (Applegate) Hagaman ; married at Toms River, N. J., June 26th, 1895, to Maude Walton, daughter of George L. and Elizabeth Walton, of Toms River, N. J.


Children : C. Lyle, born Jan. 1st, 1898.


Harry T. Hagaman comes from an old Dutch family which emigrated to this country and settled in New Jersey.


Most of his early education, or training was received in Toms River high school.


Although his business interest consumed much of Mr. Hagaman's time, he was also able to find time to take part in the Republican politics of New Jersey. For a period of four years, (1906 to 1910) he was Secre- tary of the Ocean County Tax Board, and in the fall of 1918, he was elected to the Assembly by the largest majority of votes ever received by a candidate in the above-mentioned county.


At the present time Mr. Hagaman is a member of the Lakewood Club, a director of the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce, director of the Lake- wood Trust Company, and is also a Mason of the thirty-second degree, a member of the Salaam Temple of Shriners, at Newark, the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Red Men, and the American Mechanics, as well as being associated in the organization of Daughters of Liberty. He is Vice President of New Jersey Editorial Association and Chairman of the New Jersey Press Club, and is also a stockholder in the Lakewood and Toms River Building and Loans.


Mr. Hagaman's business address is 126 Second street, Lakewood, N. J.


THOMAS G. HAIGHT-Jersey City, (104 Bentley Avenue. )- Jurist. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born at Colts Neck (Monmouth Co.) on August 4, 1879: son of John T. and Mary (Drummond) Haight : married at Freehold, in 1905, to Annie M. Crater, daughter of David S. and Annie Woodhull Crater, of Freehold.


Children : Nancy, born June 24, 1908: Catharine, born April 13. 1913; David Crater, born April 5th. 1917.


Thomas G. Haight is a Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. His father was, at the time of his death, in 1892, County Clerk of Monmouth County, and had always been prominent


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in the councils of the Democratic party. Mrs. Haight's father was Secre- tary of State from 1912, until his sudden death in New York in 1914; and Judge Haight's uncle, General Charles Haight, was a brilliant lawyer and orator. Judge Haight's grandfather, for whom he was named, was, in 1817 prominently mentioned as a Democratic candidate for Governor.


Judge Haight was educated at the Freehold Military Institute and at Princeton University. He read law in the office of Edmund Wilson, once Attorney General of New Jersey, and meanwhile attended the New York Law School, from which he graduated in 1900 with the degree of LL. B. He became an attorney in November of 1900 and a counselor in 1904. For a time after his admission he was managing clerk in the office of Queen & Tennant in Jersey City, but upon the dissolution of the firm he formed a partnership with the junior member and practiced under the firm name of Tennant & Haight. That partnership was dissolved on the ap- pointment of Mr. Tennant by Governor Wilson to be Judge of the Hudson County Common Pleas. In 1911 Mayor Wittpenn appointed Mr. Haight City Attorney of Jersey City but he resigned two years later to become the County Counsel of Hudson County. He was holding that position when, in February, 1914, President Wilson named him to the United States Senate for United States District Court Judge. He was appointed April 1, 1919, United States Circuit Court of Appeals.


Judge Haight rose rapidly to professional recognition after he had begun the practice of law in Jersey City. He became interested in the politics of the state at the time when Woodrow Wilson was first proposed for Governor. He entered enthusiastically into Governor Wilson's canvass; and was a delegate from the 12th Congressional District to the Baltimore Convention of 1912.


Judge Haight is a member of the Carteret Club and Down Town Club of Jersey City, the Nassau Club of Princeton, the Cannon Club of Prince- ton University, the Princeton Alumni Association of Hudson County, the Arcola Country Club, Bergen Lodge No. 47, F. & A. M., the American Bar Association of New Jersey, State Bar Association and the Hudson County Bar Association.


JOSHUA C. HAINES-Camden .- State Senator. Born at Swedesboro, Gloucester County, N. J., July 1st. 1868 : son of Chalk- ley Haines and Sarah J. Haines ; married at Mullica Hill, N. J., on Jan. 7th, 1890, to Maggie A. Sherwin, daughter of James and Rachel C. Sherwin.


Children : Miriana T., born April 1st, 1892; Elizabeth S., born July 5th, 1909.


Joshua C. Haines is of Quaker descent. He received his education at the public schools and Henry J. Russell's Friends' School at Wood- bury, Gloucester County, N. J.


From Jan. 1907 to Nov. 1914, he was a inember of the City Counsel at Camden, and at the end of this time was elected Sheriff of Camden county and held this office until November, 1917. Just as his term expired he was chosen by a remarkable plurality of votes, State Senator on the Republican ticket over Wilfred B. Wolcott.


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Senator Haines is a member of the following organizations : Camden Lodge No. 293, B. P. O. E., Ionic Lodge No. 94, F. & A. M., Excelsior Con- sistory , 32nd degree, Crescent Temple A. A. O. N. M. S., Tall Cedars of Lebanon, Senatus Lodge. I. O. O. F., Y. M. C. A., Board of Trade, Alpha Club, Sixth Ward Republican Club, Whitman Park Improvement Asso- ciation. He is also an ex-President of the Camden Rotary Club and a member of the first Presbyterian Church. He is also owner of the Camden Van Company.


His business address is 602 Walnut St., Camden, N. J.


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CHARLES HENRY KING HALSEY-Elizabeth, (668 North Broad St.)-Banker. Born in New York City, on July 2, 1850; son of Charles Henry and Elizabeth Gracie (King) Halsey ; married at Elizabeth, on Oct. 13th, 1885, to Helen I. Kittle, daugh- ter of Robert G. and Lavinia S. Kittle, of Oyster Bay, New York.


Children : Alfred DeWitt, born on July 5, 1888; Elize Gracie, born Jan. 20th, 1890; Helen Isabel, born March 17, 1891.


Charles H. K. Halsey is President of the Union County Trust Com- pany of Elizabeth. Though he is a factor in the life of the community, he has never held any public office except when from 1880 to 1883 he served as a member of the City Council in Elizabeth. He was, however, from 1904 to 1913, President of the Elizabeth Board of Trade. In this position, he improved all his opportunities to assist in the movements that make for municipal welfare; and during his term he was a prominent figure in many public celebrations.


Mr. Halsey was educated at the parochial school of Christ Episcopal Church in Elizabeth and the Pingry School. In 1873 he entered the Na- tional City Bank at 52 Wall street, New York, as a runner and worked up to the position of assistant to the Paying Teller. The National State Bank of Elizabeth offered him in 1882 the position of Paying Teller and he accepted it. He left there in 1901 to go to the First National Bank of Elizabeth as its Vice President and Manager. The Union County Trust Company, organized in that year, purchased the First National Bank and he continued with the consolidated Trust Company as Secretary and Treasurer until 1905 when the Board of Directors elected him President.


During the war he served as Chairman of the local Committee of the Red Cross to take care of soldiers' families and was also a member of the Bankers' Committee raising money for the four United States Liberty Loans.


Mr. Halsey is a member of the Elizabeth Club, Baltusrol Golf, and the Down Town Club of Newark, and the Rotary of Elizabeth.


The father of Mr. Halsey's mother was President of Columbia College, New York.


AUGUSTUS V. HAMBURG-Newark, (324 Clifton Avenue. ) --- Manufacturer. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born in


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St. Louis, Mo., July 4, 1858; son of Augustus and Margaret (Bremer) Hamburg; married at Newark, February 23, 1882, to H. Ella Hedden, daughter of Ephraim and Elizabeth Hedden, of Newark.


Children : Mabel .J.


The parents of Mr. Hamburg returned to Newark from St. Louis when he was two years of age. He acquired his early education in the public schools of the city and finished with a business course in the New Jersey Business College. His first employment was in the dry goods business in Newark, and after five years with the knowledge he acquired he accepted a position with a firm engaged in the wholesaling of dry goods and notions in New York where he obtained an expert knowledge of handling and selling of buttons. His experience as a salesman combined with the knowledge he obtained of the button industry led to organization of the Hamburg Button Company of Newark, in 1896, of which he became Presi- dent. This company was one of the first to engage in the manufacture of "Mother of Pearl" buttons and novelties, and under his management and guidance it became one of the leaders in this industry.


As a member of several Committees and Chairman of some, in the Newark Board of Trade-the representative civic organization of the City-Mr. Hamburg was brought into such close touch with the methods and policy of the Board that he was elected as its President, and he has been re-elected for four consecutive terms. an honor which has not been conferred upon any of his predecessors. During his administration many projects aimed to improve civic conditions have been given impetus and direction. He has been called upon to assist in various civic movements during the recent five years, serving the City as a member of the City Plan Commission since 1913, and contributing to the work of developing general plans for the improvement and betterment of the City, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church, helping to broaden its field of labors.


As a member of the Citizens' Committee of 100 appointed under Legis- lative act by the Mayor to formulate and carry out plans for the observance of the 250th Anniversary Celebration of the founding of the City, Mr. Hamburg's advice and support were given in various directions and he assumed, as Chairman of the sub-committee on Manufactures and Trades, the responsibility of arranging and carrying out a successful three weeks' exposition of industrial products made in Newark, which brought together a display of exhibits of a highly educational character. On the outbreak of infantile paralysis in 1916, he was selected by Mayor Raymond to serve as Chairman of the Citizen's Health Committee, in co-operation with the health authorities of the city.


Mr. Hamburg is Vice President of the Ironbound Trust Company, trustee of the Presbyterian Hospital. and a Director of the New Jersey Automobile Club. He has just retired from the Presidency of the Asso- ciated Automobile clubs of New Jersey. As Director of the Federation of the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce, he helped to weld together a powerful body of influential citizens representing the various civic organizations in all parts of the State of New Jersey. He is also a


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Trustee in the Newark Institute of Arts and Sciences and in various other organizations working for public betterment and civic welfare.


When the problem of road construction and traffic regulations became acute he was selected by Governor Fielder to serve as a member of a State Commission to study and report recommendations to the Legisla- ture. The Commission's work resulted in the preparation of laws and the adoption of traffic regulations which are regarded as comprehensive, work- able and an advance over those in effect in other states.


Mr. Hamburg has refused to become active in the political life of Newark having once declined to accept the nomination for the office of Mayor.


His club memberships are with the Essex, the Down Town and the North End Clubs.


OGDEN HAGGERTY HAMMOND-Bernardsville .- Insurance. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born at Louisville, Ky., October 13, 1869; son of John Henry and Sophia Vernon ( Wolfe) Hammond; married at Hoboken, April 8, 1907, to Mary Picton Stevens, daughter of John and Mary ( McGuire) Stevens.


Children : Mary Stevens, born May 22, 1908; Millicent Vernon, born Feb. 25th, 1910; Ogden H., Jr., born Sept. 17th, 1912.


Ogden H. Hammond is Vice President of the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company. His wife was of the Stevens family of Castle Point. He has always evinced a warm interest in public affairs. He resided before coming to New Jersey at St. Paul, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin. In Superior he was for two years a member of the Board of Aldermen, chairman of its finance committee; and for three years First Lieutenant of Co. 1, Third Regiment, Wisconsin National Guard.


Mr. Hammond is of Scotch-Irish descent on his father's side and of English and French admixture on his mother's. He was educated at Exeter Academy, whence, in 1889, he entered Yale, graduating with the class of 1893.


Upon coming to New Jersey in 1907, he moved to Bernardsville. He was made a member of the Bernardsville Township Committee, serving in 1912- '13-'14. In 1913 the Republicans of Somerset county put his name on their ticket for election to the New Jersey House of Assembly, but he was defeat- ed. In 1914 he was put in nomination again and elected by a plurality of 86S over his Democratic opponent. At the election of 1915 he was nominated for a second term and his plurality rose to 1303, with a popular Democrat in the poll against him. In 1916 he was a delegate to the Republican Na-, tional Convention, that nominated Charles E. Hughes against President Wilson.


In the Assembly Mr. Hammond served as a member of the Commis- sion charged with the erection of the new Hospital for the Insane and of the Municipal Finance Commission and Chairman of the Civil Service Investigating Commission. He served on the Appropriations Committee


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and on the Committee on Militia and was Chairman of the Committee on State Prisons, Acting Chairman State Poard Charities & Corrections, and Treasurer Republican State Committee, New Jersey.


Mr. Hammond's club memberships are with the Union, Yale, Racquet, Riding, St. Anthony, Somerset Hills Country, Somerville Country and Essex Fox Hounds.


AARON WILLIAM HAND-Cape May City, (11 Perry St.)- County Superintendent of Schools. Born at Camden, N. J., Feb. 10th, 1857; son of Noah and Jane A. (Hannah) Hand; married at Cape May, N. J., on March 6th, 1877, to Letitia Byers Reeves, daughter of Abijah D. and Amanda (Deprefontaine) Reeves, of Cape May City, N. J.


Children : Albert R., born March 24th, 1878; Bernard, born Jan. 18, 1880; Rue A., born April 7, 1882; Ellwood S., born Aug. 9th, 1884; Jeannette R. and Anita R., born June 17, 1890.


Aaron William Hand comes from old Colonial stock. Among his an- cestors is John Hand, who was born in Stanstede, Eng., and became a member of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691, later of the New Haven Colony, and still at another date, one of the five original proprietors of the town of East Hampton, or Maidstane, as the place was first called. Another progenitor is John Bancroft, who settled at Lynnfield, Mass., (now Reading) about 1632, and who was a member of the Bancrofts of Warston-on-Trent, Darby, England.


Mr. Hand received most of his education in the public schools of Camden, which he attended from 1862 to 1868, the public schools of Phila- delphia, which he attended from 1868 to 1871, and lastly at the United States Military Academy, where he studied for one year, from 1877 to 1878. He has since taken summer school courses at Columbia University.


He was an educator for a period of eleven years in the schools of Cape May County (1878 to 1889) concluding this portion of his career as principal of the Cape May City schools (1887 to 1889).


From 1889 to 1912 Mr. Hand was editor of the "Cape May Daily Star" and the "Star of the Cape and Daily and Weekly Star and Wave." During this time he was also correspondent for Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Chicago newspapers.


In 1896 he accepted the position of County Superintendent of Schools for Cape May County and served in that capacity to date, with the exception of three years' absence from 1906-1909. While filling this office, Mr. Hand has made efforts to secure the best possible school conditions in the county of which he has been in charge. At present there remains but one school building in the county which does not conform in all essentials with the requirements of the State's building code. The high schools have been consolidated and the number reduced to six, each with an approved four years' course curriculum.


In 1915, largely through his efforts, a county vocational school in Agriculture and Household arts, of which he is now director, was or'


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ganized, to assist the agricultural development of the county, and this has proven very successful.


Other county school developments, the result of his initiative, in which Mr. Hand takes a great interest are the Annual County School Contests in Agriculture and Household Arts, an annual county school field meet, a county high baseball league, a county grammar school base ball league, an annual county school spelling contest, and an annual coun- ty high school English contest.


Mr. Hand is a member of the National Educational Association, New Jersey State Teachers Association, South Jersey Schoolmasters' Associa- tion, Cape May County Supervisors' and Principals' Association, Cape Island Lodge No. 30, F. & A. M., Adoniram Chapter R. A. M., Cape May County Elementary Teachers' Association, Cape May County Teachers' Association, Cape May County Association of Boards of Education, and the Cape May County Board of Agriculture.


His business address is Cape May Court House, N. J.


JOHN WARREN HARDENBERGH-Jersey City. - Banker. Born in Jersey City, on August 16th, 1869 ; son of Augustus A. and Catharine (Van Horne) Hardenbergh; married at New York City, on December 8, 1886, to Lillian Williams Wilson, daughter of Legrand K. and Anna M. (Williams) Wilson, of Cold Spring, N. Y.


Children : Katharine Warren, born October 19th, 1887.


John W. Hardenbergh is President of the Commercial Trust Company of New Jersey, the offices of which are in Jersey City, and of the Registrar & Transfer Company of New York. He has been President of the Trust Company since 1900 and of the New York Company since 1906. He has served as a member of the Board of Finance of Jersey City and was one of the Hudson County Park Commissioners.


Mr. Hardenbergh was brought up in a banking atmosphere. His father, who was also distinguished in the political life of the country, was for many years President of the Hudson County National Bank and a director of several other financial institutions. He was also a member of the Board of Finance of Jersey City, a Presidential elector and for many years a Member of Congress. Augustus A. Hardenbergh was a son of Cornelius L. Hardenbergh, LL. D., of New Brunswick, a lineal descendant of Major Johannes Hardenbergh of Albany, N. Y., born in 1670.


Mr. Hardenbergh was educated at the Hasbrouck Institute, Jersey City, and in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College, graduating from there in 1880 with the Ph. B. degree. After leaving college he devoted himself to civil engineering for a time, and served as Assistant Engineer of the West Shore Railroad Company from 1880 to '82. Then he entered his father's bank as clerk, became Assistant Cashier in 1887, Cashier in '99 and served as President from 1912-'16.


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Mr. Hardenbergb is a member of the Holland Society of New York, the Hudson County University Club, the Carteret Club, Jersey City, and The Graduates Club, New Haven, Conu.


JOHN R. HARDIN-Newark .- Lawyer. Born in Sussex Coun- ty, April 24th, 1860; son of Charles Hardin and Abbie M. (Hunt) Hardin; married at Newton, Feb. 1st, 1894, to Jennie Josephine Roe, daughter of Charles Roe, of Newton.


Children : Charles Roe, Elizabeth A. and John R., Jr.


John R. Hardin has long been known in the public and professional life of New Jersey ; and he has been sought at various times for high political and judicial honors. But the opportunities of his profession proved to be more tempting. He found time, however, in his early profes- sional days to serve professionally as attorney of the Newark Board of Health and, politically, as a member of the Newark Board of Aldermen, and he was a member of the state legislature in 1891-'92. Although his political activities ceased many years ago, he has since been solicited to allow the use of his name as the candidate of his party (the Democratic) for Governor and once or twice was urged for United States Senator. He has refused all offers of office that might take him away from his rapidly growing practice - even those of a professional character. He declined to accept Governor Murphy's offer of a seat on the Bench as Circuit Judge and Governor Stoke's subsequent offer of an appointment as Justice of the State's Supreme Court; and when Chancellor Magie, also, tendered him a Vice Chancellorship, he again found it unadvisable to accept.


Others, honorary in their character, he has accepted. In 1900 he was appointed by Governor Voorhees to be one of the Managers of the New Jersey State Village for Epileptics, and served on that Board until 1903. He was also a member of the Commission that prepared the judiciary amendments to the state constitution in 1905; and since 1897 has been, by gubernatorial appointment, a member from New-Jersey of the National Conference on Uniform Legislation. In 1903 Chief Justice Gummere ap- pointed him to a seat on the Essex County Park Commission, of which he has become treasurer, and he became in 1904 a member of the Newark Sinking Fund Commission ; he is still connected with both of these local commissions.


Mr. Hardin was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1904 and again to that of 1908; and was chairman of the State Conven- tion that nominated Charles C. Black for Governor in 1904, and the later one (1910) that put Woodrow Wilson before the people of the state as a gubernatorial aspirant.


Mr. Hardin's earlier education was secured at the Chester Institute, Chester (Morris Co.) He graduated from Princeton in 1880, with the A. B. degree, and was given the A. M. degree in 1883. He was admitted to. the New Jersey Bar, as attorney, at the June term 1884, and became a counselor at the term of 1887. He practiced law alone in Newark until 1902, when he formed a partnership with J. O. H. Pitney under the firm


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name of Pitney & Hardin, to which firm subsequently ex-Judge Alfred F. Skinner was admitted ; and the firm is now doing business under the title of Pitney, Hardin & Skinner.


The practice of the firm is in all lines, except the criminal branch. It has a large corporation business, but is not under regular retainer by any. It has been the policy, rather, to keep itself free for a general practice. Mr. Hardin has been associated at times with Attorney Generals McCarter. Wilson and Westcott in important litigations between the state and the railroad companies and has been frequently engaged in municipal litigations.




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