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 26

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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Of Mr. Hardin's three children. Chas. Roe, is a graduate of Princeton, 1915, and is now in Harvard Law School; John R., Jr., is a graduate of Princeton, 1917, and Elizabeth A. is a graduate of Vassar, class of 1916.


Mr. Hardin is a member of the Essex Club (Newark), Essex County Country Club, University (New York), Baltusrol Golf Club, Somerset Hills Country Club, the Princeton (New York), and is Director of the National Newark & Essex Banking Company, the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, and American Insurance Company. He is a Mason, connected with St. John Lodge No. 1, Newark.


RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING (Mrs. John W.)-Paterson., (437 Ellison St.)-Poet. Born at Tunkhannock, Pa., Aug. 20th. 1882: daughter of Frank Hamilton and Jennie (Leighton) Thomson ; married at Tunkhannock on Oct. 24, 1901, to John Ward Harding, son of William B. and Cynthia ( Ward) Harding.


Children : Jean Guthrie, born Jan. 27th, 1903.


Mrs. Ruth Guthrie Harding is of Scotch ancestry. She was educated at the Wyoming Seminary at Kingston, Pennsylvania, and by private tu- tors, and studied piano and composition with Dr. Elysee Aviragnet, a noted French musician.


Mrs. Harding began writing for publication in 1906, and of recent years much of her verse has appeared in magazines and has been copied in anthologies and newspapers.


Her most important work, a volume of poems entitled "A Lark Went Singing," was published in 1916 (with an introduction by Dr. Richard Burton of the University of Minnesota) and has been reviewed exten- sively by American critics. Both the American and English editions were completely sold within a year.


Mrs. Harding is an active anti-suffragist, and is the author of several articles on the subject of Woman's vote, that appeared in the Philadelphia Public Ledger and elsewhere in 1915.


She is a member of the Woman's Club, and the College Club, both of Paterson, N. J., as well as the Poetry Society of America, which is affiliated with the National Arts Club of New York.


PHILANDER ABBEY HARRIS-Paterson. (453 Park Avenue) -Gynecologic and Abdominal Surgeon. (Photograph published in


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. Vol. 1-1917). Born in a Quaker settlement in Warren County on January 29th, 1852; son of Cummins Q. and Abigail Roberts (Wintermute) Harris; married in Paterson, on November 15th. 1876, to Margaret Rowson, daughter of Thomas Rowson, of Mac- clesfield, England.


Children : Grace Abbey.


Dr. Harris is one of the foremost specialists in Abdominal Surgery in the state. Beginning his schooling in the district schools of the Quaker settlement in which he was born and of Johnsonburg, he attended the Seminary in Schooley's Mountain and graduated from the University of Michigan. In 1873 he graduated from the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of Columbia University, New York.


Dr. Harris was Health Commissioner of Paterson for several years, has been President of the Passaic County Medical Society, and in 1912 was first vice president of the American Medical Association. He is a Fellow of New York Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Medicine, the American College of Surgeons and the American Gynecologi- cal Society, member of the Society of Surgeons of New Jersey, and the Lehigh Valley Medical Association, Hon. member of the Morris County Medical Society, Corresponding member of the Gynecological and Obstet- ric Society of Paris, (France), Visiting Gynecologist and Obstetrician to the Paterson General Hospital (since 1892), Consulting Gynecologist to the Barnert Memorial Hospital. of Paterson, Consulting Gynecologist to the Passaic General Hospital, Passaic, and to the New Jersey State Hos- pital at Greystone Park. In the Public Library at Paterson and in the library of the Academy of Medicine, New York City, there can be found thirty or more monographs on gynecological and surgical subjects written by Dr. Harris.


Dr. Harris' lineage is American for several generations back and all have been residents of Northern New Jersey. His paternal grandfather was Isaac Harris and paternal grandmother, Abbie Howell. His grand- father on his mother's side was Charles Wintermute, and grandmother was Anna Shotwell.


Dr. Harris is a member of the Hamilton Club, Paterson.


EDLOW WINGATE HARRISON-Jersey City, (15 Exchange Place.)-Civil and Consulting Engineer. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born in New York City, May 9, 1851; son of Samuel E. and Sarah Edlow ( Williams) Harrison ; married 1885, to Martha A. Bumsted, daughter of William H. and Martha Bum- sted, of Jersey City, (died October, 1886)-2nd, in 1889, to Har- riet Taylor Mclaughlin, daughter of Edward Tunis and Elizabeth (Heller) MeLaughlin, (died November, 1910.)


It was under Edlow W. Harrison's supervision as engineer that the values of the railroad properties in the state were first fixed. after Gor- ernor Abbett had overthrown their "irrepealable contracts" and subjected their properties to the taxing laws of the state.


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Leon Abbett in 1883, made his canvass for the governorship on a pledge to see that the railroads bore something like an equal share of the public burden, and he was elected. He went to the governorship with the belief that the railroads ought to pay at least a million dollars a year. The result was the passage of the tax of 1884. The act was contested in the Courts, and every item in the state's inventory of their taxable assets was disputed. In the end both the act and the valuations were sustained by the courts and the act went into full operation.


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As the state's Chief Engineer, Mr. Harrison had a new problem to confront in the effort to fix the valuations. There was no precedent as to what constituted the franchise of a railroad, and more doubt as to the method of ascertaining its tax value. It was a question, too, whether the real estate holdings of the companies should be assessed as parts of a great continental system or as part of the surrounding farm and city lands. Mr. Harrison found a safe basis for the assessment of both values ; and his in- ventory included specifically the valuation not only of every railroad struc- ture in the state, but every rail and spike in the road-beds of the rail- ways. The state's railroad receipts the first year of the new tax act ran up to $1,000,000. The basic data theories and methods as determined by Mr. Harrison's investigations and appraisal still remain as the basis of railroad tax value in the state.


Mr. Harrison is of English descent, his father having been born in London and his mother in Kent. His two given names are those of two old Kentish families in his father's line. The Harrison's trace their descent back to the Rev. Thomas Harrison, who was. Chaplain and Secretary to Henry Cromwell when Lord Deputy for Ireland under his father, The Protector. His maternal grandfather was of Welsh and West of England stock who were large ship owners and builders in Bristol from the earliest days of the East India trade. His grandparents came to New York about ninety years ago, and engaged in manufacturing in the then suburban neighborhood of Twenty-fourth street and Eighth Avenue.


Mr. Harrison was educated in the public schools of New York, with a supplementary course in mathematics, drawing, etc., at the New York Free Academy from 1862 to 1869. He attended the engineering classes at the Cooper Union from 1869 to 1872, and took courses in mechanical engineering, construction, strains, etc., under tutors at the same time. He commenced work as assistant engineer in the office of Bacot, Post & Camp, of Jersey City in 1869, and assisted Robert C. Bacot, for many years Sec- retary of the State Riparian Board, in riparian work. He was later em- ployed by Leon Abbett in the celebrated Hoboken street and water front litigation in the United States courts, as expert in the preparation of the engineering data. As assistant engineer of the Water Department of Jersey City, he afterwards engaged in the examination and study of the growing pollution of the Passaic River, with a view to securing a remedy, and took conspicuous part in the change of the City water supply.


As Consulting and Chief Engineer of the Jersey City Water Supply Company, the contractor for the present upland supply of water to Jersey City from the Rockaway Water Shed, 1899-1905, he designed and built the Boonton dam and reservoir and the aqueduct line of some thirty miles to the city. costing $7,500,000. The dam, at the time of completion, ranked


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among the first twenty in the world in dimensions, being about one-half mile long, and over one hundred feet high, the lake formed containing about 10,000 million gallons of water. In building this dam, Mr. Harri- son revived a method of masonry construction which had been largely util- ized by the ancient Romans in heavy work, but for many centuries aban- doned. The enormous development in the manufacture and uses of hydraulic cement in recent years, and the discovery of the advantages of wet concrete which can be poured, as it were, into forms, suggested to Mr. Harrison the substitution of dropping from a scaffold or derrick the rough masses of undressed stone, direct from the quarry, in all shapes and sizes into the deep beds of wet concrete previously dumped, the stones sinking into the concrete matrix and bedding themselves. In the Boonton dam no trowels were used, and there was no skilled mason work except in the dressed granite face and copings. The speed of construction was enorm- ously increased and the cost cut in two, while the whole dam became a monolithic mass. Since its erection, practically all the great dams in the world have been built in this way. Its title "Cyclopean Masonry," has gone into engineering nomenclature. Another revival of Roman practice was adopted on this work by using wet moulded reinforced concrete for some four miles of eight-foot conduit in the Aqueduct instead of the then almost universal practice of using brick or stone. The new method was afterwards adopted for the Catskill Aqueduct for New York, and in the Passaic Valley Sewer from Paterson to Newark.


In 1892 Mr. Harrison was appointed by the Hudson County Court as Chief Engineer to lay out. open and improve the Hudson County Boule- vard. extending from the Kill Von Kull at Bergen Point, fourteen miles, to the Bergen County line, with a branch along the top of the Palisades and down into Hoboken a total of twenty miles, one hundred feet wide through- out, paved, curbed, drained and lighted, with sidewalks. For the whole line it was wholly or partially laid out over new lands, moving or taking in whole, several hundred houses. The cost. when completed in 1897, was $2.500,000. The road now forms the first link in the Lincoln Highway to the West. out of New York.


The growing pollution by sewage, of the Passaic River resulted in the enterprise of constructing the Passaic Valley Trunk Sewer, from Paterson to Newark: Mr. Harrison was one of the Consulting Engineers in the in- ception and designing of this great work, and the expert of the State in the litigation and negotiations with the United States as to sanitary and navigation problemis involved, and drew the engineering conditions con- tained in the final agreement between the State and the United States' authorities, which are now the basis for the rights to use the navigable waters in New York Bay for a disposal field. As Chief Engineer of the Commission. Mr. Harrison located the sewer and prepared the original plans and estimates, resigning in 1911 by reason of not being physically able to assume charge of actual construction. This work is now approach- ing completion at a cost of about fourteen million dollars. From 1897 to 1910. Mr. Harrison was engaged as expert in fixing the values of all water front properties in Hudson County, and for all the trunk line railroads there. in settling the values of terminal property before the State Tax Board.


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Mr. Harrison, in connection with his partner, the late Frank H. Earle, designed and prepared the specifications for the new draw bridge of the New York and Long Branch Railroad over the Raritan; was consulting engineer on terminals, etc., for the McAdoo tunnel; consulting engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad in fixing the value of the New York tunnel to that Company ; consulting engineer of the North German Lloyd Steam- ship Company as to piers and properties in Hoboken, their valuation, cost, etc. From 18SS to date, he has been Director, Engineer, and Vice Presi- dent of the Raritan River Railroad ; has been employed all of his profes- sional life in hydraulic and railroad engineering, as a valuation expert and in construction work for numerous clients in New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Missouri, Michigan and other states.


Mr. Harrison has studied sewage and road problems in Great Britain, France, Germany and Switzerland.


He served in the Fourth Regiment, N. G. N. J., for fifteen years, from private to commissioned officer. He is connected with St. John's Episcopal Church, on Jersey City Heights, and is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers since 1885, of the American Institute of Consulting En- gineers, of the Sanitary Association of New Jersey, the State Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey, Hudson County Historical Society, the Railroad Club of New York, Carteret Club of Jersey City, and the Yanticaw Country Club of Passaic.


Mr. Harrison devoted a large part of his time during the world strug- gle to war work activities.


ARCHIBALD CHAPMAN HART-Hackensack, (173 Main St.) -Lawyer. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born at Lenoxville, Canada, P. Q. on February 27th, 1873; son of R. M. and Isabel Caroline (Antrobus) Hart; married at East Orange, on June 4, 1901, to Lily L. Fenwick, daughter of Arnold A. G. and Georgy Louise Fenwick, of East Orange.


Children : Arnold, 14 years of age; Bruce, 13 years of age ; Cecil, 11 years of age, and Douglas, 9 years of age.


Archibald C. Hart represented the sixth Congressional District (old and new) in the 62nd, 63rd and 64th Congresses of the United States. He declined renomination to the 65th Congress. He was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, in 1908, and is now a member of the New Jersey State Committee, representing Bergen County. In the 62nd and 63rd Congresses he was a member of the House Commit- tee on the District of Columbia and Chairman of its Labor sub-Committee. and had much to do with child labor legislation. He was a member of the Naval Affairs Committee, the most important Committee of the House in the 64th Congress.


Congressman Hart's family on both father's and mother's side was distinguished for years in the Legislatures of Canada and England. His father, Seigneur of the Manors Becancour and Gaspe, died in February, 1918. He came to Brooklyn in 1881, residing there until he moved to


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Hackensack in 1894. He was admitted to practice in New Jersey in 1896, and in the United States Supreme Court in 1910.


Congressman Hart is a Free and Accepted Mason, Past Exalted Ruler of Hackensack Lodge, B. P. O. E., Past Noble Grand of Bergen County Lodge, I. O. O. F., a member of the Foresters of America. He is a Director of the Lodi Trust Company and interested in home-making, is an active Director of several Building and Loan Associations, Vice President of the Fenwick-Reddaway Manufacturing Co. and the Emperial Dyewood Co. He is a Director of the "Democrat" Publishing Company, William Camp- bell Wall Paper Company, the imperial Color Works of Glens Falls, N. Y .; Plattsburg Wall Paper Company and the Underwood Paper Mills of Platts- burg, N. Y .; Higrade Belting & Weaving Company of Newark, and the Imperial Dyewood Company. He is a large holder of real estate in Bergen County, being President of the Maywood Company, the Hart Realty Company and the Hart Teaneck Company:


Mr. Hart is a member of the important Hackensack Clubs and con- nected also with the Canadian Club of New York, the Walkill Valley Hunt Club, and the Wawonaissa Hunting and Fishing Club of the Adiron- dacks. He is a veteran of the Twenty-third Regiment, N. Y. N. G., and of the Second New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, with which he served in the Spanish-American War.


GEORGE (BRINTON MCCLELLAN) HARVEY-Deal .- Editor. and Publisher. Born at Peacham, Vt., on February 16th, 1864; son of Duncan and Margaret S. (Varnum) Harvey ; married on October 13th, 1887, to Alma A. Parker.


George Harvey's name is one that is widely known in the public and newspaper and literary life of the United States. His newspaper work, even in his early days, was of such note that Governor Abbett gave him the position of Colonel on his personal staff and induced the Legislature to create the office of State Insurance Commissioner, just that he might name Colonel Harvey to fill it.


At that time Colonel Harvey was in editorial charge of the New Jersey edition of the "New York World," and his work there gave the paper great prestige in state affairs. Later he became Managing Editor of "The World," and his high newspaper station brought him, unavoidably into contact with the leading men of the city-of the country, indeed. His acquaintance with William C. Whitney, who was equally a force in the finances and politics of the nation, were very close, and it was not long before the Colonel himself was a rising power in the financial district.


He was made Receiver of the publishing house of Harper & Brothers. when that company failed, and became President of the company upon its re-organization. He purchased, and is the editor of the "Northern Ameri- can Review," and. there made the first prediction of Woodrow Wilson's eventual rise to the Presidency of the nation. It was in Col. Harvey's office, then on Franklin Square (N. Y.), that the meeting at which Dr. Wilson was prevailed upon to consent to the use of his name in connection


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with the Democratic nomination for Governor of New Jersey, was held and the campaign that made Governor Wilson President of the United States planned.


Col. Harvey was educated at the Peacham Academy, and the Univer- sity of Nevada, the University of Vermont and Middlebury and Erskine Colleges have since conferred the LL. D. degree upon him. Entering upon newspaper work he was first employed as a reporter on the "Springfield, (Mass.) Republican," and afterwards served in the same capacity on the "Chicago News" and the "New York World." He was Managing Editor of the "New York World" from 1891 to 1893. Since 1899 he has been owner and editor of the "Northern American Review," and President of the Northern American Review Publishing Company. His Presidency of Harper & Brothers covered the years between 1900 and 1915. Besides having had the title of Colonel bestowed upon him by Governor Abbett, he was Colonel and Aide-de-Camp on Governor Green's staff and was honorary Colonel and Aide on the staffs of Governors Howard and Ansel of South Carolina.


Colonel Harvey is a Director of the Audit Company of New York, a Trustee of Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, and honorary mem- ber of the Phi Beta Kappa of William and Mary College and of the College Club of Princeton. His other club memberships are with the Metropolitan, the Lotos, the Requet, the Lawyers', the Turf and Field, all of New York ; the Devonshire and the Savage, of London, and the Travelers, of Paris.


PETER HAUCK, Jr. - East Orange .- Brewer. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born in Harrison, 1872; son of Peter and Mary (Kurz) Hauck; married at Newark, November 24th, 1896, to Elizabeth C. Smith, daughter of James Smith, Jr., of Newark.


Children : Mary, Elizabeth, Peter, 3rd, Katharine, James, Jose- phine, and Anna Cecile.


Peter Hauck, Jr., is the head of the brewery established in Harrison by his father, Peter Hauck, who died February 21st, 1917. The elder Mr. Hauck, who was a native of Klin Munster in Germany, had been active in the political and social life of Newark, as well as in the business life of the community. He came to New York in 1844, with his father, who first established a brewery in New York City, but moved the business to Harrison in 1809. He became a Democratic member of the Town Council, later a member of the Board of Freeholders of Hudson County, and was one of the State Commissioners to the World's Fair at Chicago. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1884 and a candidate for Presidential Elector on the Democratic ticket in 1904. Governor Murphy appointed him to serve on the Passaic Valley Sewage Commission and he was still holding that position at the time of his death.


Peter Hauck, Jr., was educated at the Newark Academy and at St. Benedict's College and at the Scientific School of Chemistry in New York. Upon leaving school, he was associated with his father in the


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Harrison brewery, and upon the elder Mr. Hauck's death, succeeded to the Presidency of the company that conducts it. He was elected President of the Essex County Brewing Company and in 1898 President of the Home Brewing Company, both of which are in Newark. His wife is a daughter of ex-United States Senator James Smith, Jr., and one of his sisters is the widow of ex-State Senator Michael T. Barrett.


Mr. Hauck is a director in the Federal Trust Company, of Newark, and the West Hudson County Trust Company of Harrison, and a member of the Eseex Club, Essex County Country Club, Rumson Country Club, Bloom- ing Grove Hunting & Fishing Club and the Whippany River Club.


JULIE WARD HEALY-Newark, (70 Brunswick St.)-Club Woman. Born at Newark, N. J., Oct. 6th, 1867; daughter of George and Ellen Adeline ( Wheeler) Healy.


On the paternal side, Miss Healy is of English descent. The family is related to the Scotch Grahams and Alexanders, which lived for gen- erations in the vicinity of Carlisle, England. Her mother's ancestors also came from England, and were among the Puritan founders of Gloucester and Salem, Mass. Stories of Indian fighting, sea voyages and official po- sitions held by members of the family are related in the annals of that section of Massachusetts down to the last generation. The family genea- logy includes the names of Gardner, Stephens, Millett and Parker of Colonial and Revolutionary prominence.


Miss Healy was educated in schools of Newark, graduating from the Newark high (1885) and normal schools (18S6).


She began her club life as the recording secretary of the Irving Club and later became a charter member of the Contemporary Club, the larg- est of its kind in the state and one of the largest in the country.


She was a member of the Board of Trustees of Contemporary for five years (1911-'15), serving as corresponding secretary and also as treasurer, and now for two years as auditor (1917-19).


Miss Healy is now representing the Contemporary on the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey State Federation, as treasurer. She was also one of the state delegates who attended the bi-ennial of the General Fed- eration of Women's clubs, an organization of two million women at San Francisco in 1912.


Miss Healy was the first treasurer of The New Jersey Bulletin, the official monthly of the State Federation, and held that position for two years (1916-1918).


In January, 1919, Miss Healy received the nomination for President of the Contemporary, which honor she was obliged to decline.


At the present time she holds the position of treasurer of Nova Cae- sarea Chapter, Daughters of American Revolution, and was the delegate to the D. A. R. Congress in Washington, D. C., from that chapter in 1916. In the same year also she was a delegate from the state society to the Congress of the United Daughters of 1812, held in Washington, D. C., and is now a member of the board.


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Always deeply interested in church work and its progress, she was first treasurer of Deaconess Guild of the Presbytery of Newark and is President of Ladies Aid Society of South Park Presbyterian Church. Miss Healy is also member of Women's Branch of New Jersey Historical So- ciety and New York City Colony of New England Women and Colonial DamÄ—s of Vermont.


She was financial secretary to the Newark Young Women's Christian Association (1915).


Miss Healy, as a business woman, began her carreer during the long illness of her father and since his death has managed the business which he had established in Newark over forty years ago, Her own connection with the business now covers a period of more than seven years. Miss Healy has assisted in Liberty Loan, Red Cross, Food Conservation, and War Community Service drives during the present World War.


Her business address is Estate of George Healy, 11 Alling street. Newark, N. J.


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CLARENCE HAMILTON HEDDEN-East Orange, (228 So. Seventh St.)-Manufacturer and Religious Worker. Born at Newark, N. J., July 1st, 1885; son of Clarence Myers and Nellie Frances (Hamilton) Hedden ; married at Newark, N. J., Oc- tober 1, 1917, to Leonora Lutts, daughter of George Bellis and Anna (Adams) Lutts of Newark, N. J.




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