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 36

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 people of Union felt particularly outraged by the invasion of their county, and great mass meetings were held to arrange a demonstration at Trenton that would force the attention of the jockey legislators. The white-haired Parson Kempshall was second only to Mr. Lindabury in firing these monster gatherings to the burning point. The movement became in- fectious ; and an army of indignant citizens stormed the State Capital and took possession of the jockey Speaker's chair. The excitement did not abate until it had culminated in a movement for an amendment to the state constitution that would forever rob the racing resorts of their chief attraction. The proposed new clause of the State's charter forbade gamb- ling in any of its forms.


It was the issue in the campaign of the succeeding fall. Mr. Lindabury in Union was first among those who took the platform in advocacy of the amendment ; and the people, at a special referendum, ordered it into the state constitution. The jockeys were hurled from power, and the democrat- ic party, whose chiefs in the State had countenanced them, lost control of the State for many years afterwards. The race track people attacked the amendment on legal grounds; and Mr. Lindabury was of the counsel who pleaded successfully in the courts for its retention.


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It is in the courts outside the State however that Mr. Lindabury has been most largely in the eye of the nation. He was the chief counsel of the United States Steel Corporation in the suit set on foot by the United States Government to dissolve it as in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. The trial was before Judges Buffington, Hunt, McPherson and Wool- . ley. Associated with Mr. Lindabury were Joseph H. Choate of New York, John G. Johnson of Philadelphia, C. A. Severance of St. Paul, and David A. Reed in the litigation Mr. Lindabury became, by the retirement of Fran- cis L. Stetson, the General Counsel of the Steel Corporation.


Quite as conspicuous were his parts in the New Haven Railroad con- troversies and in the Pujo Congressional Committee's investigation of the "Money Trust." He was the personal counsel of the late John P. Mor- gan in the "Money Trust" investigation and represented both Mr. Morgan and William Rockefeller in the New Haven litigation.


Mr. Lindabury was honored with degree of L. L. D. by Rutger's College in 1904, and by Princeton University in 1915. He has a farm at Bernardsville, covering several hundred acres which is noted for its fine herd of Guernsey cattle.


He is President of the New Jersey Interstate Park Commission and a member of several leading clubs in New York and New Jersey.


GUSTAV LINDENTHAL -- Metuchen .- Civil Engineer. (Photo- graph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born at Brunn, Austria, May 21, 1850; son of Dominik and Franciska (Schmutz) Lindenthal ; married at New York, on July 10, 1902, to Gertrude, daughter of Leopold and Matilda Weil (Mrs. Lindenthal died October 21, 1905) :- 2nd married at Durham, N. C., on February 19, 1910, to Carrie, daughter of Charles M. Herndon.


Children-Franciska, born November 24, 1913.


Gustav Lindenthal had made his name particularly well known among New Jersey people by his advocacy of the construction of a bridge across the North River from the Jersey Heights to New York, as early as 1887. The bridge was planned under the Pennsylvania Railroad auspices by the North River bridge Company, and $100,000,000 was its contemplated cost. In the fall of 1901, however, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company de- cided to enter New York through tunnels under the river and the proposed bridge was postponed to a more propitious time. Mr. Lindenthal was one of the Board of Engineers who designed and directed all of the tunnel work under the North and East Rivers in connection with the large Penn- sylvania Railroad station in Manhattan.


Mayor Seth Low, in 1902, named him Commissioner of Bridges for New York City. In that relation he established the practice of archi- tectural designing of the city's bridge structures, and made plans for the Blackwells Island (now Queensboro Bridge), over the East River, and the Manhattan Bridge and for the reconstruction of the okl Brooklyn Sus- pension Bridge ; also the first design for a gigantic combined Bridge Ter- minal and Municipal Building.


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The Hell Gate Bridge over the East River, designed and built by Mr. Lindenthal. is the largest steel arch bridge in the world. It carries four railroad tracks over a span of 1017 feet between towers. Crossing from Long Island to Wards Island, it forms part of a masonry and steel viaduct three miles long including a long bridge over Little Hell Gate and a Life Bridge over Bronx Kill. The Bridge work contains 90,000 tons of steel and cost about $25,000,000.


Mr. Lindenthal obtained his college education in Brunn and Vienna. He began his professional career as an assistant in the engineering depart- ment of the Austrian Empress Elizabeth Railroad in 1870. He was assis- tant engineer of the Union Construction Co. (Union Baugesellschaft) in Vienna, engaged in building an inclined plane and railroad (1872-'73), and was division engineer of the Swiss National Railroad, in charge of location and construction during 1873/74. In 1874 he emigrated to America and has achieved a foremost place among the leading engineers of the United States. He was first engaged as assistant engineer in the erection of the Centennial Exhibition permanent buildings in Philadelphia during 1874- 1877 : then with the Keystone Bridge Co. until 1879, engaged on bridge con- struction in Chicago and Pittsburgh, and during 1879-'S1 was bridge engi- neer of the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad. now known as the New York. Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad of the Erie System. . Thereafter Mr. Lindenthal established himself as an independent engineer with his main office in Pittsburgh, where he had a large professional practice. It in- cluded the building of many inportant bridge structures, too numerous to mention, the surveys and construction of railroads, trolley lines, wharves, tunnels and difficult foundations. In 1892 Mr. Lindenthal transferred his office from Pittsburgh to New York, but his practice as advisory and con- sulting engineer on bridge, tunnel and railroad construction extends to all parts of the continent and also abroad.


Mr. Lindenthal is the author of numerous professional papers and re- ceived the Rowland prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1883. He received from the Polytechnical School in Dresden the degree of Doctor of Engineering honoris causa, the only American Engineer so honored by a German University. Mr. Lindenthal also received the gold medal at the International Technical Art Exhibition in Leipzig in 1913 for his plans of the Hell Gate arch bridge. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers of London, of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, Corresponding Member of the Ingenieur and Architekten-Verein in Vienna, member of the Verein Deut- scher Maschinen Ingenieure and of other professional societies, member of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York and of the State of New Jersey. and of the Merchants Association of New York, and of several social clubs in New York. His country estate near Metuchen is known as "The Lindens."


EDWIN STEVENS LINES-Newark .- Bishop of Newark. Born at Naugatuck. Conn., November 23, 1845; son of Henry W. and


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Harriet (Bunnell) Lines : married Mary L. Morehouse of West Haven, Conn., May 4, 1880.


Children-Surviving are Edwin M., born 1881; Harold S., born 1889.


Bishop Lines is at the head of the Diocese of Newark of the Episcopal Church, and is the author of several historical papers. He was educated at the Episcopal Academy of Connecticut, and graduated from Yale with the A. B. degree in 1872 and from the Berkeley Divinity School two years later. Yale conferred the D. D. degree in 1897, Berkeley in 1904. Princeton University in 1911, and Rutgers in 1917.


Dr. Lines was made Deacon and Priest of the Episcopal Church in 1874; and, became at once the rector of Christ Church in West Haven. In 1879 he accepted the rectorship of St. Paul's Church, New Haven. Conn., and continued there until 1903. The Diocesan Convention of Newark 1903 elected him Bishop of Newark to succeed the late Right Rev. Thomas A. Starkey, D. D.


While in New Haven, Bishop Lines was for years President of the New Haven Colony. Historical Society and of the Trustees of the Pub- lic Library and active in the Board of Organized Charities. He was a delegate to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church for several sessions, from the Diocese of Connecticut and held various Diocesan of- fices. He was Chaplain of the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Since coming to Newark he has been a member of the General Board of Missions and of the Board of Religious Education and of the Commission on Social Service of the Episcopal Church, and the President of the Synod of New York and New Jersey. In the celebration of the founding of the city of Newark he was one of the Committe of One Hundred and he was on the Newark Committee on the raising of the Liberty Loans. He is a trustee of the New Jersey Historical Society and Chaplain of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revo- Intion.


Bishop Lines is a member of the General Missionary Board and of various commissions of the Episcopal Church.


JACOB GOODALE LIPMAN-New Brunswick .- Soil chemist and Bacteriologist. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born in Friedrichstadt, Russia, on November 18th, 1874; son of Michael and Ida (Birkhahn) Lipman ; married at New York City, Novem- ber 26th, 1902. to Cecelia Rosenthal, daughter of Herman and Han- nah Rosenthal.


Children-Leonard Herzl, born 1904; Edward Voorhees and


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Daniel Hilgard, born 1911.


Jacob G. Lipman is Director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experi- ment Station and Dean of Agriculture in Rutger's College and of the State University of New Jersey.


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His early schooling was obtained under private tutors in Moscow and in the classical gymnasium in Orenburg. After coming to the United States in 1888, he was for a time employed in a law office in New York City. In 1891 he removed with his parents to Woodbine (Cape May Co.) and became one of the pioneer farmers in that locality. Having become in- terested in agriculture he decided to take up the study of the agriculture sciences, and, accordingly, after a period of preparation at the Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School, entered Rutger's College in the fall of 1894. He took the degree of B. Sc. at Rutgers in 1898, and by Cornell was given the degree of A. M. in 1900 and Ph. D. in 1903.


Dr. Lipman was made Assistant Chemist at the Agricultureal Experi- ment Station in 1898, and in 1901, Soil Chemist and Bacteriologist. From 1902 to 1906 he was instructor in Agricultural Chemistry, and then for a year was assistant Professor of Agriculture in Rutger's College. In 1906 he became associate Professor and in 1907 Professor of Soil Chemistry and Bacteriology. He was made Professor of Agriculture in 1913 and Dean of Agriculture in 1915. Incidental to his work at the Experiment Station and in the College, he was lecturer at the University of Illinois and Cornell University in 1906, at the University of Tennessee in '09, '10, at the Iowa Agricultural College in 1910 and at the University of Nebraska in 1911.


Dr. Lipman is a Fellow of the A. A. A. S., member of the National Research council, the American Public Health Association, the American Chemical Society, Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science, the American Society of Agronomy, the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, the Society of American Bacteriologists, the Washington Academy of Science, the New Jersey State Sanitary Association, the New Brunswick Scientific Society, the New Jersey Science Teachers' Associa- tion, the Sigma XI, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Gamma Delta.


Dr. Lipman has written much upon the subject of which he has made a special study. He is the author of "Bacteria in Relation to Country Life," (190S) : "Labratory Guide of Soil Bacteriology. (1912) : one of the authors of Marshall's Microbiology and numerous technical papers on soils, soil bacteriology and agronomy. He is editor-in-chief of "Soil Science," a technical monthly devoted to problems in soil fertility. He is also as- sistant editor of the "Journal" of the American Society of Agronomy, mem- ber of the editorial board of the Journal of Agricultural Research, mem- ber of the National Research Council, member of the New Jersey Co-oper- ative Industrial Commission and of the Rutgers Faculty Club.


FRANK T. LLOYD-Camden .- Jurist. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born at Middletown, Del., on October 29. 1859: son of Horatio Gates and Caroline Elizabeth (Newell) Lloyd : married at Camden, on February 22, 1887, to Mary E. Pelouze, daughter of John A, and Anna B. Pelouze, of Philadelphia.


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Children : Ethel Lea, born December 22, 1887; Frank T. Jr., born June 25, 1895; Mary P., born July 30, 1899.


Frank T. Lloyd had already become interested in prblic affairs when New Jersey was torn by the excitements attending the excesses of the "Jockey Legislature" of 1893. The race track men had captured control of both houses; and Thomas Flynn, Speaker of the Assembly, was the starter at Thompsons track in Gloucester City. Gloucester City is in the immediate vicinity of Camden and the people there were particularly agi- tated. The demonstrations against them, begun in Elizabeth, found ready echo at the other end of the State; and Mr. Lloyd was a large factor in organizing the sentiment for action, and crystalizing it into a law and order body which finally brought the gamblers to book in prosecutions under the laws passed in 1895-'96.


In later years when Mr. Lloyd was in the legislature the "marrying business" of parsons of Camden and other parts of the State had risen into a scandal of scarcely less magnitude. He was elected to the Assembly for the two terms at '96 and '97, being in the latter of these years Chair- man of the house Judiciary Committee. The states of New York and Pennsylvania had, then, just both passed laws requiring marriage license ; and couples who, for one reason or another, did not care to comply with the regulations, swarmed across the ferries from Philadelphia and New York to avail themselves of the easier marrying system prevalent here. Some ministers at the two ends of the state found a bonanza in the wed- ding fees. Their rivalries for wedding fees in the end made an unwhole- some scandal that in time forced the Legislature to drastic suppressive measures.


The fore-shadow of these conditions came during Judge Lloyd's term in the Assembly; and he planned and drew and secured the passage of new laws regulating the marriage ceremony. The act, requiring among other things the license that had already been enacted in New York and Pennsylvania, has since been known as the "Lloyd Marriage Law." The more scandalous conditions that arose later required the enactment of even more drastic legislation for their suppression.


Judge Lloyd's line runs back into Colonial history The Lloyds and Newells are familar names in its history. He was educated at the Middle- town Academy ; and, going to Camden, in 1875, with a view of becoming a lawyer, took up the work of a printer for the means of livelihood mean- while. While he was "at the case," he entered his name in the law office of James Otterson in Philadelphia and was admitted in 1882 as a mem- ber of the bar of the State of Pennsylvania. Fifteen years later he was admitted to the bar of New Jersey and became a counselor in February, 1900. In 1889 the Prosecutor of Camden County died ; and the court de- siguated Mr. Lloyd to serve ad interim. Gov. Voorhees in 1900 named him to the Senate for Prosecutor for the full term. and Gov. Stokes in 1905, reappointed him. A year later Gov. Stokes promoted him to the Bench of the Circuit Court, and his reappointment by Gov. Fielder in 1914. is noted as the first instance in which a Governor has given reappointment in that court to a member of the opposite party. The bar of Judge Lloyd's Circuit was unanimous in requesting it.


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Judge Lloyd was also a member of the Franchise Commission whose recommendations were subsequently enacted into law. His memberships are with the American Institute for Scientific Research, the English So- ciety for Physical Research, the American Geographical Society, and the American Defense Associations. He is connected with the Presbyterian Church.


WILLIAM ADGATE LORD-Orange, (246 Park Ave.)-Law- yer and soldier. Born at Jersey City, N. J., Oct., 1870; son of Charles Douglas and Lucy Ann (Fay) Lord; married at Engle- wood, N. J., April 16, 1903, to Sarah Horner Roberts, daughter of William Henry Harrison and Martha (Fyfe) Roberts.


Children-William Adgate Jr., born Feb. 15, 1904, Mary Rob- erts, born Aug. 5, 1905, Genevieve Fay, Sept. 20, 1906, Sarah, Feb. 15, 1908.


William Adgate Lord is a great grandson of Major Joseph Lord and a descendant of Rev. Dr. Benjamin Lord of Connecticut. He also traces his ancestry back to William the Conqueror, and Kings Henry I, Henry II, Henry III, John I, and Edward I, of England.


Major Lord received his education in the public schools of Orange, N. J., and was graduated from the Orange High School in 1889. He was a reporter on Orange Journal, Newark Daily Advertiser, Newark Evening News, New York Sun and New York Times at different times. In 1895 he was appointed clerk at the Orange District Court, and during the four years he held this office he prepared himself for law. 1899 he was admitted to the bar as an attorney and three years later as a counselor. He was appointed a special master in Chancery in 1912 by Chancellor Walker and later in 1915 was made a Supreme Court Commissioner. From 1901-'03 he represented Essex County as a member of the House of As- sembly ; and for nine years, (1904-'13) he was City Counsel for Orange.


At the Republican Conventions at Chicago, in 1912, and 1916, he was a delegate from the 9th Congressional District.


His military experience began in 1895, when he enlisted as a private in Gatling Gun Company A, New Jersey National Guard. Three years later he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in Company H, Sec- ond New Jersey Infantry and held that rank for one year during which time he served in the war with Spain in the Second New Jersey Voluun- teer Infantry. Again in 1902, he was elected first lieutenant of Company H. Fifth New Jersey Infantry and captain in 1903 in which year he re- signed but was recommissioned captain of the same company in 1909. From 1912-'17 he was a Major in the Fifty Infantry.


In 1916. he served as Major of the last mentioned organization on the Mexican border. When the Fifth was called in the regular service on March 25. 1917, at the beginning of the war with Germany, he retained his rank but was transferred and placed in command of the Motor Sec- tion, First Corps Artillery Park, in Feb., 1918. This Park sailed for France on May 22, 1918, and participated in the second battle of the


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Marne, in July of the same year and in the battle of the Orcque River. Major Lord was transferred to the Twenty-Eighth Division shortly after this, in August, and served as adjutant of the Fifty-fifth Brigade in the battle of Fisme and the Vesle River. During the battle of the Argonne Forest, which began on Sept. 26, 1918, he was at the head of the First Battalion, 109th Infantry. He was not wounded but some days after the battle started was sent to the base hospital at Neufchateau for an operation and then transferred to Brest where he sailed for home, ar- riving in New York on Dec. 24, 1918. and was finally honorably discharged from the service on Jan. 8, 1918, at Camp Dix.


He is a past New Jersey Department Commander and a member of the United Spanish War Veterans. He is also a member of the Military and Naval Order of the Spanish American War, Military Order of For- eign Wars, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Sons of the American Revolution, as well as belonging to the Lawyer's Club of Essex County, the New England Society of Orange, Corinthean Lodge, No. 57, F. & A. M., Jersey Commandery, No. 19, Knights Templar, Salaam Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., Laurel Chapter, No. 30, Order of the Eastern Star, Orange Y. M. C. A., Orange Lodge No. 135, B. P. O. E., Orange Court, No. 112, Foresters of America, and the Equal Suffrage League of the Oranges.


His business address is 248 Main st., Orange, N. J.


JAMES M. LUDLOW-East Orange, (119 North Arlington Avenue)-Clergyman and Author. Born at Elizabethtown, March 15th, 1841; son of Ezra and Deborah (Crane) Ludlow ; married on July 5th, 1865 at Albany, N. Y., to Emma, daughter of David and Julia (Pierson) Orr, of Albany.


Children : Julia Orr, wife of Theron Rockwell; David O. (died) ; William O .; Eleanor, wife of William J. Hiss; Edith, wife of Spencer S. Marsh; Grace ; Frederick Orr.


The Rev. Dr. James M. Ludlow has filled some of the choicest pulpits in this part of the country and his name as an author is known to large circles of readers. His family is descended on the father's side from one of the founders of the Southampton Colony on Long Island, and on the mother's side from one of the founders of the Elizabethtown Colony.


Dr. Ludlow entered Princeton College in 1858, graduating in 1861, and studied divinity at Princeton Theological Seminary, graduating in 1864. For several months he was assistant pastor of the Second Presby- terian Church, Elizabeth. From 1865 to 1869 he was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Albany, N. Y., and from 1869 to 1877, a minister of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church, Fifth Avenue and Forty-eighth street, New York City. From 1877 to 1885 he was in charge of West- minster Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn; and from 1886 to 1910 pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Munn Avenue, East Orange. On resign- ing this charge he was elected Pastor Emeritus of the Church.


Dr. Ludlow has been given the degree of Doctor of Divinity by Wil- iams College, and also that of Doctor of Literature, by Princeton Uni-


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versity. He has contributed largely to editorial and magazine literature. Among his published books are, "A Man for A' That," "Concentric Chart of History," "The Captain of the Janizaries," (a story of Albania and Constantinople in the Fifteenth Century), "A King of Tyre," (a tale of old Phoenican days), "That Angelic Woman," "The Baritone's Parish," "Incentives for Life," "Discovery of Self," "Deborah," (a story of the Times of Judas Maccabaeus), "Judge West's Opinion," (essays in optim- ism), "Sir Raoul," (a tale of Venice and Constantinople in the Thirteenth Century), and "Avanti !" (the redemption of Sicily in 1860).


Mrs. Ludlow died in 1909. Theron Rockwell, husband of his daughter, Julia Orr, is of East Orange. Dr. Ludlow's son, William Orr, is an archi- tect of the firm of Ludlow & Peabody, New York City; William J. Hiss, husband of his daughter, Eleanor, is a Director-General of the Red Cross, located in Washington D. C. Spencer S. Marsh, husband of his daughter, Edith, is cashier of the Newark and Essex Bank, Newark, and his son, Frederick Orr, is a captain in the Signal Corps in France.


Since his retirement from active ministry, Dr. Ludlow has spent much time in Italy. He is a Director of Union Theological Seminary, a member of the Authors Club, and a life member of the Long Island His- torical Society, the New Jersey Historical Society, the National Historical Society, the Washington Association of New Jersey, and connected with various similar Associations.


Dr. Ludlow has a summer home in Norfolk, Conn.


DAVIS WILLIAM LUSK-Newark, (310 Ridge street.)- Clergyman. Born in Washington County, Pa .; son of Jonathan and Jane N. (Davis) Lusk; married at Newark, October 23, 1883, to Martha Louise Winans, daughter of William H. and Sarah M. (Dickerson) Winans, of Newark.


Children : Mary Edith ; Davis Winans, died Oct. 21, '18; Mildred Dickerson, (now Mrs. Fred P. Lang).


Davis William Lusk is Presbyterial Superintendent of the Presby- tery of Newark, Stated Clerk of the Presbytery, President of the Job Haines Home for Aged People. President of the Presbyterian Hospital in Newark, Secretary of the New Jersey Temperance Society, and since 1887 has been either Secretary, Treasurer or Chairman of the Committee of Presbyterial Church Extension in the Presbytery of Newark. Dr. Lusk's work as Presbyterial Superintendent has to do with the advance work of the Presbytery, especially among the foreign speaking people, and includes Newark. Bloomfield, Montclair. Caldwell, Verona, Arlington, Kearney and Irvington. He entered upon this particular service in 1910 and one year later he relinquished the pastorate of the Sixth Presby- terian Church, Newark, where he had served for twenty-six years.




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