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 29

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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The Democrats had been in entrenched control of the state since Civil War times when, as the campaign of 1895 was dawning, Mr. Hobart saw an opportunity for Republican success and aided John W. Griggs to get the Republican nomination for Governor. Mr. Hobart was Chairman of the State Committee through the campaign and surprised the country by carrying the State for Griggs by the largest majority it had ever cast for a gubernatorial candidate. The shining Republican triumph in a state that had been steadfastly Democratic came on the edge of the opening of the campaign in 1896 for the Presidency of the United States ; and pointed out Mr. Hobart as one of the most efficient campaigners in the East. The trend of sentiment throughout the country at the time forecast the nomina- tion of Gov. Mckinley of Ohio for President and the geography of politics called for a man from the East to go on the ticket with him. There was none of the prominence into which the election of Gov. Griggs had elevated Mr. Hobart; and the National Convention of 1896 at St. Louis, having put Mr. Mckinley in nomination for Presidency, named Mr. Hobart for Vice President. His popularity in the state was attested by his capture of its electorial vote by close on to 100,000 majority.


*In the Vice Presidency he was regarded as an equal factor in the management of national affairs with the President. It was after consul- tation with him that President Mckinley became convinced in 1898 that the time had arrived for the war with Spain ; and most all of the Executive functions of the nation, in crisis times, were taken as the result of the joint consideration of himself and the President. Mr. Hobart had served only two years and a half of his term when he was stricken with his fatal ill- ness.


Garrett Augustus Hobart, the Vice President's only son, was educated at the local schools and assists Mrs. Hobart, his mother, who is a daughter of Socratas Tuttle. in conducting the large business and financial interests left in their hands by the Vice President at his death and in the distri- bution of the family's generous benevolences.


Mr. Hobart is a member of the Union League Club of New York City. Arcola Country Club, Hamilton Club of Paterson, Automobile Club of America and the New York City Bankers Club of New York City.


FREDERICK L. HOFFMAN-East Orange. (Photograph pub- lished in vol. 1, 1917.) Third Vice President and Statistician of


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the Prudential Insurance Company of America. Born at Varel, Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Germany, May 2, 1865, son of Augus- tus Franciscus and Antoinette (von Laar) Hoffman (n) ; married Ella G. Hay, of Americus, Ga., in Atlanta, Ga., July 15, 1891.


Children : (surviving) Ella Antoinette (Mrs. H. C. Ward), Frances Armstrong, Virginia, Gilbert, Barbara and Victoria.


Mr. Hoffman was educated in the common and private schools of Ger- many and came to the United States in 1884. After a short mercantile career he attached himself, in 1887, to the industrial field service of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York. He subsequently be- came connected with the Life Insurance Company of Virginia, and resigned as Superintendent of the Newport News and Hampton district in 1894, at the suggestion of Mr. John B. Lunger, the then actuary of the company, to accept a position as statistical assistant in the Actuarial Department of the Prudential Insurance Company of America. Six years later he was made statistician of the Company and in 1902 elected an officer, in which position he continues to the present time. He was elected Third Vice Presi- dent and Statistician of the Company in May, 1918.


Mr. Hoffman is widely known throughout the United States and abroad as a statistician and expert in insurance, mortality and public health problems. He has lectured before Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, University of Wisconsin, University of Pennsylvania, University of Cali- fornia, Leland Stanford University, etc., etc. During 1915 he delivered a course of lectures on mortality problems before the students of Yale Uni- versity and he was included in the faculty of that institution for the year 1916-17.


As early as 1892 he contributed an article on the "Vital Statistics of the Negro," to the "Arena," of Boston, which in 1893 was followed by an article on "Suicide in Relation to Modern Civilization." Following'the publication of an interesting and important statistical investigation into the sanitary conditions of the Trinity tenaments, made at the request of the Corporation of Trinity Church in 1895, he published in 1896 a comprehen- sive scientific work on the "Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro," which has become a standard source of reference regarding the physical, moral and economic condition of the negro population as far as ascertainable for the period covered by the investigation. In the same year he published a small treatise on "Tornadoes and Wind Storm In- surance." During the next four years he completed his "History of the Prudential Insurance Company of America." contributed to the social economy exhibit of the Paris International Exposition of 1900. Subse- quently he contributed a number of papers on insurance and mortality problems, chiefly to "The Spectator," a New York insurance periodical, and the "Engineering and Mining Journal." In 1908 he completed the results of two extensive investigations into the "Mortality from Pul- monary Tuberculosis in Dusty Trades," published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, and two years later the same government office issued a comprehensive analysis by Mr. Hoffman on "Fatal Acci- dents in Coal Mining." as a first contribution towards the scientific study of American mining fatalities.


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During 1911 he completed a treatise on "Insurance Science and Eco- nomics" based upon an address delivered in 1904 on "Insurance as a Science," on the occasion of the International Congress of Arts and Scien- ces held in connection with the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The work includes a separate consideration of insurance as an element of early commerce, the origin and growth of law and legislation on insurance, life insurance supervision and government control in Germany, the taxation of life insurance institutions, etc., etc. During the same year he contri- buted a chapter on the "Practice of Industrial Insurance" to "Dunham's Business of Insurance," a standard work of reference; and an analysis of "Fifty Years of American Life Insurance Experience" to the "Quar- terly Publications of the American Statistical Association." In the year fol- lowing, through the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, he pub- lished a treatise on the "Treatment and Care of Tuberculous Wage-Earn- ers in Germany," and in 1913, through the John Hopkins Hospital, a criti- cal analysis of the medical statistics of that institution for the preceeding twenty years. On the invitation of the New Jersey Academy of Medicine Mr. Hoffman in 1913 read an address on the "Menace of Cancer," which was subsequently enlarged and published by the Prudential Insurance Company of America in 1916, under the title "The Mortality from Cancer Throughout the World."


Among the many minor contributions mention requires to be made of an address on "Industrial Accidents and Trade Diseases," contributed to the proceedings of the 15th International Congress on "Hygiene and Demo- graphy," (1912) ; an address on the "Decline in the Tuberculosis Death Rate, 1871-1912," contributed to the 9th annual meeting of the Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis ; an address on the "Chances of Death and the Ministry of Health," delivered before the Yale Divinity School, New Haven, 1914; an address on the "Significance of a Declining Death Rate," delivered before the National Conference on Race Better- ment, Battle Creek, 1914; an address on "Practical Statistics of Public Health Nursing and Community Sickness Experience," delivered before the National Association for Public Health Nursing, St. Louis, 1914; an address on the "Economic Progress of the United States during the last Seventy-five Years," delivered on the occasion of the 75th anniversary meeting of the American Statistical Association, Boston. 1914. During 1915-16 he contributed monographs on the "Mortality of the Western Hemisphere," "American Public Health Problems" and the "Documentary History of Insurance" to the exhibit of The Prudential Insurance Com- pany on the occasion of the Panama Pacific International Exposition ; also . a monograph on "Industrial Accident Statistics," published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington. 1915: a paper on "Lep- rosy," read on the occasion of the 40th annual meeting of the American Academy of Medicine, and subsequently amplified into a presentation of evidence submitted to the United States Senate Committee on the "Care and Treatment of Persons Afflicted with Leprosy." Washington, 1916: a preliminary report on the "Statistics of Crime and Criminals." as Chair- man of the Committee on Statistics to the American Prison Association, San Francisco, 1915; an address on the "Mortality from Cancer in the Western Hemisphere," delivered on the occasion of the Second Pan Ameri-


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can Scientific Congress, Washington, 1916; a monograph on "Miners' Ny- stagmus," published by the United States Bureau of Mines, Washington, 1916; and, finally, a "Plea for a National Committee on the Eradication of Malaria," delivered before the County Medical Association. Birmingham, Ala., and the American Society of Tropical Medicine, 1916.


In 1904 he contributed an article on "Insurance Economics" to the Encyclopedia Americana and in 1908 an article on "Accidents in Indus- try" to the new Encyclopedio of Social Reform, and in 1914 an article on "Demography" to the Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences, and subsequently to the same work an article on "Suicide." Among more recent contributions are an extended discussion on "Facts and Fallaces of Com- pulsory Health Insurance," originally read before the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Civic Federation: and "A Plea and a Plan for the Eradication of Malaria Throughout the Western Hemisphere," originally read before the Southern Medical Association.


Mr. Hoffman is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and an ex-President thereof ; a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society of Lon- don and a charter member and Fellow of the Casualty and Statistical So- ciety of America ; a member of the German Society for Insurance Science; an Associate Fellow of the American Medical Association; an Associate Member of the American Academy of Medicine and an Honorary Member of the Essex County Anatomical and Pathological Society. He is also a member of the American Economic Association, the American Academy of Political and Social Science in the City of New York, the National In- stitute of Social Sciences, the American Sociological Society, the Southern Sociological Congress, the National Conference on Charities and Correc- tions and the American Association for the advancement of Science. He is a charter member and Vice President of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, a member of the Royal Sanitary In- stitute and of the American Public Health Association ; a charter member and trustee of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, and charter member and third Vice President of the National Safety Council and a member and trustee of the American Institute of Safety.


Mr. Hoffman was a member and speaker at the British Congress on Tuberculosis, London, 1901. . He was also a member and speaker at the International Actuarial Congress held in New York, 1903; in Berlin, 1906 : in Vienna, 1909; and in Amsterdam, 1912. During the same year he was a member and speaker at the first International Congress on Eugenics, held in London, and the International Congress on Industrial Accidents held in Dusseldorf. In 1909 he officially represented the United States government on the occasion of the International Actuarial Congress held in Vienna that year and at the International Statistical Institute held in Paris in the same year. In 1908 he was appointed by the Secretary of State a member of the Committee on Organization of the International Congress on Tuber- culosis held in Washington. He was also appointed to the same position on the Committee on Organization of the International Congress on Hygiene and Demography held in Washington in 1912. In 1915 he was a mem- ber and speaker at the World's Insurance Congress held in San Francisco, and in 1915-1916 he was a member and speaker at the Second Pan Ameri- can Scientific Congress held in Washington.


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Among his more recent publications are "The Malaria Problem in Peace and War," a consolidation of papers read at the Annual Meeting of the National Committee on Malaria, 1917, and the Annual Convention of the New Jersey Mosquito Eradication Commission, 1918; "Army Anthro- pometry and Medical Rejection Statistics," a consolidation of papers read before the National Academy of Science, 1917, and the American Statistical Association, 1917; "Failure of German Compulsory Health Insurance-A War Revelation," address delivered at Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents, 1916; "Autocracy and Paternal- ism vs. Democracy and Liberty," address at Annual Meeting of the Inter- national Association of Casualty and Surety Underwriters, 1918; and "A Plan for a More Effective Federal and State Health Reorganization," read before the American Public Health Association, 1918.


In 1911 Tulane University of Louisiana conferred upon him the honor- ary degree of LL. D. Following the declaration of war, Mr. Hoffman was appointed Chairman of the National Committee on Statistics and Informa- tion, of the Advisory Commission on Labor and Welfare, of the Council of National Defence and a member of the Committee on Anthropology of the National Research Council.


HORACE HOLDEN-Madison .- Educator ; Author. ( Photo- graph published in Vol. 1 -- 1917). Born in Madison, on May 24, 1880 ; son of Horace and Abigail (Rankin) Holden.


Horace Holden is an Educator and writer of short stories and of articles on educational topics for the magazines. He is still a resident of the New Jersey borough in which he was born, although business obliga- tions and travel have permitted little time at home during recent years. He lived as a boy in East Orange, attending first the "Dearborn-Morgan School," and later the East Orange High School. Upon moving to New York in 1897, he entered Hamilton Institute, graduating with highest honors in 1899 and then entering the Engineering School at Columbia University. He had scarcely entered Columbia when an opportunity for practical work presented itself, in draughting and constructing for the Tripler Liquid Air Company. While connected with this concern, Mr. Holden designed their large exhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1900.


Mr. Holden spent the winter of 1908-1909 at Harvard University, fea- turing graduate work in the Division of Education and in English. This was followed by a period at New College, Oxford, after which he became connected with one of our New Jersey schools. At present Mr. Holden is a Master at Saint Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, but he hopes that before long conditions will permit him to establish a school of his own for young boys, preferably in New Jersey.


In 1902 Mr. Holden was elected to membership in the New York Con- solidated Stock Exchange, continuing this membership until the close of 1916, though since 1906 his interests have centered in educational and liter- ary work. As an author his short stories are based upon experiences in Wall Street and in the Canadian woods, and have appeared in various


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periodicals. He is also a contributor of articles on educational topics and the author of a book entitled "Young Boys and Boarding School."


Mr. Holden is a member of the American Universities Club of London, the Harvard Club of New York City and the Western Nova Scotia Yacht Club; a Fellow of the American Geographical Society, and connected in New Jersey with the Harvard Club, Order of Founders and Patriots, Colonial Governors, Colonial Wars, American Wars, Sons of the American Revolution and the War of 1812. Of the last named society he is State President, and he was the President of the Morris County Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution during 1916.


Mr. Holden, when not abroad, spends his summer at his country place, "Aldercliff" Weymouth, Nova Scotia, where fourteen boys are received to enjoy the life of the woods and sea together with himself and his assist- ants.


ALFRED T. HOLLEY-Hackensack, (320 Union St.) -Merchant and Banker. Born at Hackensack, N. J., Feb. 15th, 1872; son of the Rev. Dr. William Welles and Katherine Ann (Wyse) Holley ; married at Hackensack, N. J., April 22, 1914, to Alice Beatrice Herbert, daughter of George H. and Liza (Upton) Herbert.


Col. Holley, on his father's side, is descended from the Holleys who came to this country and landed at Saybrook, Conn., in 1634, and of an old Connecticut family of Revolutionary times -- the Welleses. On his mother's side from the Summers of Massachusetts, and the Morgans of Vermont.


Col. Holley received his education in the public schools of Hacken- sack and the Hasbrouck Institute, Jersey City. After leaving school he studied law for two years in the New York Law School. About this time (February 24, 1903), he received an opportunity to go into a business with the Frank S. De Ronde Co., 46 Cliff St., New York, which necessi- tated his traveling into the Far East, China and Japan. In returning home he arranged his journey so that he circumnavigated the world.


For eighteen years (1891-1909), he was senior partner of Holley & Smith, coal, hay and grain merchants of Hackensack, and in 1909, upon that business's incorporation as a stock company was elected President.


Commerce, however, has only been one phase of Col. Holley's life. In 1889 he enlisted as a private in the National Guard, and after nineteen years' service, including the Spanish-American War, he retired in 1908, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. For a period of eighteen years he was also active in the political life of New Jersey and for five years he was the President of the Hackensack Democracy. In 1902 he declined the nomination to Congress which was later tendered to William Hughes, of Paterson, who was elected. In 1912 Col. Holley was appointed by Gov. Woodrow Wilson (now President) for a five-year term a member of the State Board of Equalization of Taxes, which expired in April 3, 1917.


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Col. Holley was President of the Board of Health, in Hackensack, and is now president of Holley & Smith Inc., of Hackensack, N. J., of the United Building and Loan Association, Hackensack, the Holley Securi- ties Corporation, N. Y .. He is also a director in the Peoples Trust and Guaranty Company, of Hackensack and the First National Bank, of Ridgefield Park, N. J.


His memberships of fraternal organizations are: Oritani Field Club, Hackensack Golf Club, Hackensack Lodge No. 658, B. P. O. Elks, Pioneers Lodge, F. & A. M., Junior Order of U. A. M., Sons of the American Revo- lution, and is scheduled to become a hereditary member of the Society of the Cincinnati, Major John Eagle Camp No. 5, U. S. W. V.


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EDWIN HOLMES-Englewood-Physician. Born at Hudson, N. Y., May 6th, 1869 ; son of John McC. and Frances ( Van Vran- ken) Holmes; married at Berlin, Germany, Feb. 14th, 1899, to Frieda Boise, daughter of Otis Bardwell and Annie (Stockley) Boise, of New York City.


Children-John McClellan, Dec. 16th, 1899, Edwin, Jr., Jan. 23, 1901, Robert, Dec. 3, 1904.


Edwin Holmes descended from George Holmes who came from Nazedy, England, and settled in Massachusetts in 1694, and from ancestors who were mostly clergymen and physicians.


Dr. Holmes' education was obtained in Rutger's College grammar school, at New Brunswick, N. J., which he attended until eighteen years old when he entered Williams College. From this institution he was graduated in 1891 with a degree of A. B. He also attended the John Hopkins university, and the P. & S. (N. Y.), where in 1895 he received the degree of M. D.


Following his training of about one year and a half in the New York hospital, he studied for a year in Berlin, Germany and then began practice in New York City where he continued until 1903 when he moved to Englewood where he has remained to the present date.


Dr. Holmes is at present a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, the American Medicine Association, and the Alumni of the New York Hospital. He is also associated with the New York County and Bergen County Medical Society.


In 1913 he was elected president of the Bergen County Medical So- ciety, and in 1913-14 was also President of the Medical Band of Engle- wood Hopital. At the present date, he is still the attending physician at the Englewood Hospital.


Dr. Holmes's club memberships are the Englewood Club, and the Knickerbocker County Club.


GEORGE HOLMES-Jersey City, (71 Crescent Ave.) -Lawyer. Born at Fort Sumpter, South Carolina, Oct. 21, 1857 ; son of Wil- liam and Catharine (Nowotny) Holmes ; married at Jersey City,


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N. J., Nov. 4th, 1882, to Henrietta L. Mclaughlin, daughter of Edward T. and Elizabeth D. Mclaughlin of Jersey City, N. J.


Children-Harold E., born Nov. 24th, 1883, George, born June 10 (Deceased 1886), Elizabeth D. Lockwood, born Sept. 16, 1891.


George Holmes is a product of the American melting pot. His father was born in Reading, Conn., his grandfather at Birmingham, Eng- land. His grandfather, Eunice Gray, was born at Reading, Conn .. and was a direct descendant of the original settlers of that place. Mr. Holmes's mother was the daughter of Ignatues Nowotny, who was born near Prague, Bohemia, a descendant from a long line of Gypsy musicians, and who was for many years musical conductor of the old Bowery Theatre in New York. His maternal grandmother was the daughter of William Haskett, born in Tipperary, Ireland, who was a descendant of a long line of the original kings of that country, and also child of Elizabeth Belden, who was born at Norwalk, Conn., and was a direct descendant from original settlers of the place.


Mr. Holmes obtained his education at the Glenwood Institute, Mata- wan, N. J., which he attended from 1872 to 1877. Upon graduation he studied for two years in the law offices of Dayton & Taylor, at Matawan, and later with Henry S. White at Jersey City, for another period of two years; and still at a later time in the office of DeForest & Weeks, New York City for one year.


In 1881, Mr. Holmes was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney and solicitor, and three years afterward, as a counselor. About the same time he was admitted to the New York Bar as an attorney and counselor. Since that time, he has practiced continuously before the courts of both states and also of the United States.


In 1909 he became the official General Attorney of the Central Rail- road Co. of New Jersey.


He is a member of St. John's P. E. Church, of the Jersey City and Carteret Clubs, the Railroad Club of New York and the Greenwich Car Club, also a life member of the American Red Cross, contributing mem- ber of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, and the Na- tional Geographic Society.


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In connection with his profession, he is also a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, American Bar Association, Hudson County and the New York Bar Associations. He holds directorships in both the New York and Long Island Railroad, and the Raritan River Railroad.


ALISON TURNBULL HOPKINS (Mrs. J. A. H.)-Morristown -Womans Suffrage. (Photograph published in Vol. 1-1917). Born in Morristown, May 20, 1880; daughter of Frank and Marion Louise (Bates) Turnbull; married at Morristown, October S, 1901, to John Appleton Haven Hopkins (Q.V.) son of John Mil- ton and Augusta Haven Hopkins, of New York City.


Children-John Milton, born March 9, 1903; Marion Louise, born November 20, 1904; Douglas Turnbull, born July 31, 1908.


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Alison Turnbull Hopkins is one of the leading figures in the move- ment for the amendment of the United States Constitution so as to permit Woman Suffrage throughout the nation; but she finds time, besides. for notable civic activities. She is State Chairman of the New Jersey Branch of the National Woman's Farty and a member of the National Executive Committee of the National Women's Party. In her civic work she is President of the Morristown "Summer Shelter," a member of the execu- tive committee of the Morris County Branch of the State Charities Aid Society, member of the board of managers of the Speedwell Society, Chairman of the Ladies House Committee of the Morristown Field Club, member of the Executive Committee of the Women's Town Improvement Committee and, too of the Morris County Corn Growing and Industrial Contests.




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