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Mr. Kendall taught in the public schools of New York State for two years and in 1885 and 1886 was principal of the Jackson High School, Jackson, Mich. He became Superintendent of Schools in Jackson in 1886 and continued there until 1890; he was Superintendent of Schools of New Haven, Conn., from 1895 to 1900, and Superintendent of Schools in Indian- apolis and a member of the State Board of Education of Indiana, from 1000 to July, 1911. Incidentally he has lectured at the summer schools in the Universities of Chicago, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, California and at Columbia.
He has been President of the Connecticut Council of Education, of the Connecticut State Teachers' Association and of the Southern Indiana State Teachers' Association ; and when, in 1911, the United States Commissioner of Education appointed three investigators to report upon the Baltimore schools, Mr. Kendall was named to serve upon the commission.
Dr. Kendall was Superintendent of Schools in Indianapolis when Gov- .ernor Wilson invited him, in 1911, to assume charge of the schools of New Jersey, under a law greatly enlarging the functions of the State School Superintendent and re-creating the office with the title of State Commis- sioner of Education. Dr. Kendall had already declined an offer of the Superintendeney of Schools in Washington, D. C., Louisville, Rochester and in Springfield. Mass. ; but the functions of the New Jersey Commissioner- ship attracted him and he accepted. The salary of the office, which had been $6,000 a year, was increased to $10,000 a year with the purpose of in- viting the best educational talent of the country.
Under Commissioner Kendall's administration the school system, which had been theretofore largely local, has been welded into a solid state sys-
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tem. The central idea of the new method of administering the schools is that they are a distinctly state institution. The several communities are re- quired to meet the demands of the State authorities for financial support ; and the standard of school buildings everywhere is set by the State Board of Education.
Commissioner Kendall is a member of the Nassau Club, Princeton.
JAMES KERNEY-Trenton .- Journalist. ( Photograph pub- lished in Vol. 1, 1917) Born at Trenton, on April 29, 1873; son of Thomas F. and Mary C. (Farrell) Kerney ; married at Trenton, on October 4, 1897, to Sarah Mullen, daughter of Thomas and Mary Mullen.
Children : Mary, born December 24, 1899; Thomas Lincoln, Feb- ruary 12, 1902; Katherine, March 19, 1905; James, Jr., December 17, 1911; John Edward, March 11, 1913; Margaret Moon, April 29, 1914.
His work as editor of the "Evening Times" in Trenton has made James Kerney one of the influential factors in the public life of the middle and Southern sections of New Jersey. He is of Irish parentage, but his parents came to these shores in their childhood; and he has spent all of his life in Trenton. He was educated in the parochial schools of the city and while learning a trade in a carriage shop, he attended the Trenton Evening High School, where he studied stenography and typewriting. It was through the latter studies that he was enabled to enter the newspaper business, working for several years as a reporter on Trenton dailies and eventually becoming the New Jersey political reporter for the "New York Herald" and "Philadelphia Press," as well as the Trenton correspondent for the "Newark Evening News" and other important state journals.
In February, 1903, Mr. Kerney acquired an ownership interest in the "Trenton Evening Times," becoming the editor of that newspaper. In 1912, "The Times" purchased the Trenton "Sunday Advertiser," which had long been established as an independent Sunday newspaper, and it was consoli- dated with "The Times" property. Subsequently "The Times" purchased the "Daily True American," which had been issued as a morning news- paper at the capital for a century and which in 1912 was changed over to the evening field. The "True American" was merged into the "Evening Times," which now issues a seven day newspaper (evening and Sunday edi- tions). "The Times" led the fight for Commission Government in Trenton and has been an aggressive force in all civic campaigns in its community, noteworthy among them being the successful contests for lower gas and trolley fares.
Mr. Kerney was a member of the first New Jersey Civil Service Com- mission, serving from 1909 to 1911 and declining a reappointment at the hands of Governor Wilson. Early in February, 1918, he went to France, at the suggestion of President Wilson, where he established a Bureau of American Information, dealing with the facts and purposes of the United States in the war, and gathering and distributing throughout European
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countries, the accomplishments of the American Expeditionary Forces. This work kept him abroad for nine months and has been warmly com- mended by General John J. Pershing, General Tasker H. Bliss, Vice Ad- miral Henry B. Wilson, Ambassador William T. Sharp-the chiefs of the U. S. military, naval and diplomatic service in France.
His club memberships are with the Inter-Allied, Paris, Lotos, Trenton Country, Knights of Columbus, Trenton Rotary (President 1916-17) and Spring Lake Golf.
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EUGENE F. KINKEAD-Jersey City .- Advertising. (Photo- graph published in Vol. 1, 1917.) Born at Buttevant, County Cork, Ireland, on March 27th, 1876; son of Thomas C. and Nora Barrett Kinkead; married at Jersey City, on September 29th, 1909, to Anna O'Neill, daughter of Thomas and Mary Kerwin O'Neill, of New York.
Children : Eileen, born November 5th, 1914; Jean, born October 29th, 1917.
Eugene F. Kinkead was for three terms a member of the National House of Representatives in Washington and is now the Sheriff of Hudson county. He was educated in St. Peters College in Jersey City and Seton Hall College, South Orange. graduating from the latter institution in 1895, with the degree of A. B.
In 1898 he was elected Alderman from the Tenth Ward of Jersey City, and was elected President of the Board of Aldermen in 1907. While serv- ing on the Board, he started the playground movement by establishing outdoor gymnasiums and playgrounds for the youth of Jersey City. He was elected to Congress from the Ninth District of New Jersey in 1908; served two terms as Representative of this district and in 1912 was elected as the Representative in Congress of the Eighth District of New Jersey, comprising the seventh ward of Jersey City, Bayonne, East Newark, Har- rison and Kearny in Hudson county; the eighth. eleventh and fifteenth wards of Newark, and the towns of Belleville. Bloomfield and Nutley in Essex county. He was elected Sheriff of Hudson county in 1914; and in July, 1915, settled the strike at the plant. of the Standard Oil Company in Bayonne, as a result of which this company, for the first time in its history, conceded an eight hour day to its employees.
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Mr. Kinkead has been in the street car advertising business since 1901, and at the present time is President of the Jersey Railways Advertising Company, which controls the advertising in the street cars of New Jersey.
In 1918 he was commissioned Major, attached to the General Staff, U. S. A., and assigned to the Executive Branch of the Military Intelligence Division.
WILLIAM BURNET KINNEY-Newark .- Lawyer. (Photo- graph published in Vol. 1, 1917) Born in Newark, April 30th,
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1871; son of Thomas T. and Esteile (Condit) Kinney ; married at Newark, on June 8th, 1901, to Helen M. Murphy, daughter of Franklin Murphy.
Children: Janet, born April 8th, 1902: Mai, born September . 10th, 1903; Constance, born July 6th, 1905; Margaret Condit, born Aug. 23rd, 1909.
William B. Kinney's line is traceable back to the twelfth century in Fifeshire near Dundee, Scotland. The first immigrant ancestor arrived in this country about the middle of the eighteenth century and two of his sons were baptized in 1760 in the First Presbyterian Church in Morristown. William Burnet Kinney, Mr. Kinney's grandfather and for whom Mr. Kinney was named, was one of the original Abolitionists of the country and a delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1860, that nominated Abraham Lincoln for President of the United States. President Fillmore appointed him Minister to Sardinia in 1851. He was one of the oldest stockholders in the Morris and Essex Railroad, a Trustee of Princeton College and established the "Newark Daily Advertiser," the first daily newspaper published in New Jersey.
Mr. Kinney's father, while in Princeton College was an assistant during his senior year to Professor Henry, who made the discoveries that eventu- ated in the electro-magnet. He studied law in the office of Joseph P. Bradley, who was afterwards an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He never practiced however, but followed William Burnet Kinney into the newspaper field in connection with the "Newark Daily Advertiser," and built it up into the most powerful single newspaper in- fluence the state has ever known.
William B. Kinney was educated at the Newark Academy and Prince- ton University, class of 1894. He read law in the office of McCarter, Wil- liamson & McCarter in Newark, and took a course at the New York Law School. He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in June of 1896.
Among the more important Newark institutions with which Mr. Kinney is identified are the National State Bank, The Howard Savings Institu- tion, the Firemens Insurance Company and the Kinney Realty Company. He is an hereditary member of the Cincinnati Society and a member of the Essex Club, the Rumsen Country, all of New Jersey, and the Union League Club of New York.
Mrs. Kinney is a daughter of ex-Governor Franklin Murphy.
EDGAR ALBERT KNAPP-Elizabeth. (760 Broad Street.)- Insurance. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917.) Born at Eliza- beth, on January 3, 1877; son of Arthur Winslow and Christine (Byron) Knapp; married at Elizabeth, on June 12, 1909, to Eliza- beth Dimock, daughter of George Edward and Elizabeth (Jor- dan) Dimock.
Children : Christine, born November 6th. 1912; Elizabeth, born December 3, 1913; and Honora Marie, born October 25, 1914.
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Edgar A. Knapp was one of the first ten men to sign a pledge for the support of the Progressive Party and is Chairman of the Elizabeth branch of the National Security League; Secretary of the Committee of Public Safety in Elizabeth; Chairman of the Home Guard Committee, and bas supervision over a uniformed and armed force of 300 men; and is a. Veteran of the Spanish American War.
The militant spirit has always prevailed in the Knapp family. Mr. Knapp's grandfather, Ora II. Knapp, was Major General in command of the Ohio National Guard in 1837 ; and his father, a soldier in the Union army during the Civil War, was severely wounded at the battle of Shiloh.
Soon after his graduation from the Pingry schools in 1894, Mr. Knapp enlisted in the First United States Volunteer Calvary (Roosevelt Rough Riders) for service in the Spanish American War. He took part in the battles of Las Guasimas, July 24th, 1898, and of San Juan Hill, July 1, 2, 3, 1898, and the siege of Santiago de Cuba resulting in the surrender of the city on July 17, 1898.
Mr. Knapp came back from the war full of Roosevelt enthusiasm ; and when the ex-President became the leader of the Progressive element in the Republican party, he fell into the ranks as his political lieutenant. A dele- gate from the Fifth Congressional district to the historical Republican National Convention of 1912, that was the scene of the struggle between Col. Roosevelt and President Taft for the Presidential nomination, he was an ardent supporter of Mr. Roosevelt's claims; and when the convention gave a renomination to President Taft, he was a delegate to the Progres- sive National Convention, held in Chicago a month or two later, that put Mr. Roosevelt afield against him. During the campaign Mr. Knapp induced ex-President Roosevelt to visit him in Elizabeth and make speeches there. Mr. Knapp still represents Union county in the Progressive State Com- mittee and is Vice Chairman of the Committee; he was again a delegate to the National Progressive Convention in Chicago in June, 1916, but co- operated later with the Republican State Committee during the campaign and supported the republican candidates.
Mr. Knapp is a member of Squadron A and of the Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba and of the Baltusrol Golf and the Elizabeth Town and Country Clubs.
Mr. Knapp does a general insurance business with offices at 73 Maiden Lane, New York City.
HENRY BARNARD KUMMEL -- Trenton .- Geologist. Born in Milwaukee, Wis., May 25th, 1867; son of Julius M. F. and Annie (Barnard) Kummel ; married June 20th. 1899, to Charlotte. daugh- ter of Henry and Lucy Proctor Coe, of Painesville, Ohio.
Children : Charlotte, born January, 1903; Lucy, born March. 1907.
Mr. Kummel was educated in the public schools of his native city, grad- nated from Beloit College, Wisconsin, in 1889, and took post-graduate courses at Harvard and the University of Chicago. He won the A. B.
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degree at Beloit College with validictorian honors. Three years later the A. M. degree was conferred by both Beloit and Harvard; and in 1895, the University of Chicago conferred the Ph. D. degree. He taught for two years in Beloit College and was for a time Professor of Physiography in Lewis Institute, Chicago.
In 1891 Dr. Kummel was engaged on the U. S. Geological Survey in Connecticut. In 1892 he was connected with the Geological Survey of New Jersey and for several seasons made surveys for this department chiefly in Warren, Hunterdon and Sussex counties. In 1898 he spent the part of one season in travel abroad and studied the geology of Scotland. When he returned he was made Assistant State Geologist of New Jersey ; and, when Dr. John C. Smock resigned in 1901, Dr. Kummel went to the head of the Department. During Governor Stokes' administration Dr. Kummel was active in advocating constructive legislation for the protection and conservation of the forests and water supply of the State; and on its organization became executive officer of the State Forest Commission in addition to being State Geologist. With the organization of the Depart- ment of Conservation and Development, Dr. Kummel was continued as State Geologist and became Chief of the Division of Geology and waters, and acting Director of the Department in the absence of the Director.
For several years Dr. Kummel was President of the American Asso- ciation of State Geologists-its first President. In 1907 he went to the City of Mexico as a member of the International Geological Congress, and was a delegate again to that in Toronto, Canada. He was one of the five. citizens chosen by Governor Fort to attend the famous Conservation Meet- ing summoned by President Roosevelt to convene at the White House, and later he was a member of several subsequent conservation congresses.
Dr. Kummel is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science and of the Geological Society of America. He has con- tributed many papers to geological journals and reports, relating chiefly to the geological and natural resources of New Jersey.
CLARA SCHLEE LADDEY (Mrs. Victor H. G.)-Newark .. (493 Summer Ave.) Lecturer and Woman Suffragist. (Photo- graph published in Vol. 1, 1917.) Born at Stuttgart, Wurtem- berg, Germany ; daughter of Adolf T. and Pauline H. B. (Steimie) Schlee; married at Stuttgart, Germany, on May Sth, 1875, to Victor H. G. Laddey.
Children: John V., Erich C., Paula.
Besides being of note as a lecturer on the German Poets. Clara Schlee Laddey is an ardent advocate of suffrage for women. Even before she came from Stuttgart, and when she was only seventeen years of age, she had attended a meeting for the organization of the first women's club ever established there. When she came to this country in 1888, she became as deeply interested in the "new woman" movement here. She was elected President of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association in 1908, and, serving till 1912, was made honorary President and has ever since cam-
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paigned for the cause. She is a life member of the Association and also of the National Association. In 1911 she was a member of the Joint Legis- lative Committee of the Woman Suffrage organization iu the state and of the National Woman Suffrage Executive Council from 1912 until 1914, marched at the head of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage delegation in the first suffrage parade in New York City and was an American delegate to the International Woman Suffrage Congress held at Budapest, Hungary, in 1913. In her home town too, she is active in spreading the propaganda ; and was chairman of a joint committee of all the women organizations in Arlington in a campaign to promote the election of a woman as a member of the local school board.
Mrs. Laddey's father was a descendant of Dr. Franz Joseph Gall, the founder of phrenology; on her mother's side she is a descendant of the Rev. C. Blumhart, who was a famous Lutheran preacher. Her husband is a merchant (retired). She was educated in the schools at Stuttgart, tak- ing a classical lecture course, and was instructed in vocal and instrumental music, visiting the Finishing School in Fribourg, in French Switzerland.
Mrs. Laddey was for a time soprano in the Hoboken synagogue and the leader of a Glee Club connected with the Women's Club of Arlington. She is first Vice Chairman of the New Jersey division of the National Womans Peace Party. She was the first President, from 1905-1909, of the Civic Club of Arlington, is a member also of the Women's Club ; the Study Club; the Ladies Circle (Church of the Redeemer) ; Women's Alliance (Universalist Church) ; and the Chapin House Auxiliary, all of Arling- ton ; and of the W. C. T. U. and of the Contempary Club of Newark.
Mrs. Laddey's son, John V. (LL. M.), and her daughter, Paula (LL. B) are lawyers ; and her son Erich C. is a private secretary.
THOMAS WILLIAM LAMONT-Englewood .- Banker. Born at Claverack, N. Y., September 30, 1870; son of Thomas and Caroline Deuel (Jayne) Lamont; married at Englewood, October 31, 1895, to Florence Haskell Corliss, daughter of Wilbur F. and Julia P. Corliss.
Children : Thomas S., born January 30, 1899; Corliss, born March 28, 1902; Austin, born February 25, 1905; Eleanor Allen, born April 15, 1910.
Thomas W. Lamont is a member of the banking firm of J. P. Morgan & Company, of New York City. After graduation from Harvard College in 1892 he entered the editorial department of the "New York Tribune," and for a time was Assistant City Editor. The business and financial life of New York held stronger attractions for him however. After several years' experience in the exporting and importing business, he was in 1903 elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Bankers Trust Com- pany, New York City ; in 190S became Vice President of the First National Bank of New York, and in 1910 formed his connection with J. P. Mor- gan and Company. He has contributed frequently to press and magazines ou financial and educational topics.
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Mr. Lamont is of Scotch-Irish extraction on his father's side and Eng- lish on his mother's. His first paternal ancestor in this country was Robert Lamont who came from Scotland in 1750. The first here of his mother's line was William Jayne, who had been a chaplain to Oliver Crom- well. Mr. Lamont's father was a clergyman, and the son spent his earlier life in the Hudson River towns. He prepared for College at Phillip's Exeter Academy, at Exeter, N. H.
Mr. Lamont is a member of the Board of Harvard Overseers, a Trustee of Smith College and Vice President and Trustee of the Academy of Political Science. Some of his clubs are the Century Association, the Harvard, University, Metropolitan, Players, Sleepy Hollow Country and . the Englewood Country. He is a Director of many important corporations.
MERRIT LANE-Jersey City, (75 Montgomery St.)-Jurist (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917.) Born in Jersey City, on January 2, 1881; son of Joseph M. and Emma (Cokelet) Lane.
Merriet Lane is a Vice Chancellor of the State Court of Chancery. He graduated from the High School in Jersey City, and attended the New York Law School before his admission to the Bar at the February term of the Supreme Court in 1902. He is also a member of the New York Bar and of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Mr. Lane's rise to recognition in the profession was very rapid. He devoted himself particularly to the equity practice and to problems in municipal law and taxation, and has been retained by almost every local government in Hudson county to act as special counsel in important cases in which they had become involved. At the time when the Prudential Insurance Company underwent its change from a stock company to a mutual concern, Mr. Lane was associated with John W. Griggs, ex-At- torney General of the United States, as counsel for the policy holders. In October of 1916 Vice Chancellor Howell died, and in November of that year, Chancellor Walker named Mr. Lane to succeed him on the Bench.
Vice Chancellor Lane's ancestors on both sides have been in this country since long before the Revolution.
Vice Chancellor Lane retains membership only in the Lawyers Club of New York and the Essex Club of Newark. He has never held a political office.
ADOLPH LANKERING-Hoboken, (1229 Park Avenue) -Post- master. Born at Verden, Germany, January 9, 1851; son of Hein- rich and Mathilde (Germann) Lankering ; married at Chicago, Ill., November 10, 1882, to Louise Fisteat, daughter of William and Louise Fisteat of Milwaukee, Wis.
Children : Fred, born January 6, 1891; George, born March 6, 1894 (died August 8, 1597).
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Adolph Lankering is a grandson of a cavalry officer, Heimich Ger. mann, who served under General Wellington at Waterloo, and received a gold medal and life pension for exceptional bravery in action. His father, Heinrich Lankering, held an administrative position under the Hannoveri- an government until 1866, when the Kingdom of Hannover became a Prussian Province, and later, disgruntled over the treatment of the new rulers, he emigrated with his family to America.
Mr. Lankering received his education chiefly in the public schools and gymnasium of Luechow, Germany, which he attended up to 1867.
At the age of twenty-four, in 1875, he took up residence in Chicago, · and engaged himself in the leaf tobacco business, and five years later be- came the partner in the firm of Sandhagen & Co. During this period, Mr. Lankering traveled extensively throughout the Middle West and West, and eventually severed his business connections in Chicago. He was still interested in the tobacco business. however. and established at Hoboken and Paterson, with his brothers, George and Fred, the Lankering Cigar Company.
He also took an active part in civic and political affairs as a Demo- crat. In 1899 he was appointed Police Commissioner of Hoboken by Mayor Fagan. Two years later he became a candidate for the mayoralty him- self, and defeated his apponent, and former Mayor Fagan. Two years later, in 1903, he was re-elected by a large majority.
In 1909 he became an enthusiastic supporter of Woodrow Wilson while he was Governor, and is still a firm believer in his principles and doctrines. In 1915 he was Wilson's personal choice as postmaster of Hoboken and fills that office at the present writing.
Mr. Lankering is a member of the Hudson Lodge, No. 71, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite Mason of the Valley of Jersey City, 32nd degree, Hoboken Lodge No. 74, B. P. O. E .; he is also an active member of the Chamber of Commerce of Hoboken.
His business address is: Post Office, Hoboken, N. J.
GEORGE HALL LARGE-Flemington .- Lawyer. Born at White House, ( Hunterdon county ), December 1, 1850 ; son of John Knowles and Elizabeth (Rockafellow) Large; married at Flem- ington, November 15, 1877, to Josephine Ramsey, daughter of John and Catherine Brokaw Ramsey, of Flemington.
Children : George Knowles, born February 3, 1879; Edwin Kirk. born August 14, 1880; Helen Brokaw, born August 12, 1889.
George H. Large was Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third District of New Jersey from 1877 to 1885, and Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fifth District of New Jersey from 1888 to 1893. Though he was an ardent republican, he was elected in the fall of 1885 to repre- sent the democratic county of Hunterdon in the New Jersey State Senate and served in the Legislatures of 1886-'87-'S8. In 1888 he was President of the Senate. Since 1893 he has devoted himself to his private practice in Flemington.
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Senator Large's father was a son of Ebenezer Large of the Society of Friends of Bucks county, Penn. The Senator has lived all of his life in Hunterdon county ; and after being tutored in the private schools there entered Rutgers College, graduating with the class of 1872. While in Rut- gers he was Associate Editor of "The Targum."
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