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Among the modified forms of the Moore Light exhibited at the Electri- cal Show in New York in 1916, were a unit provided with Neon gas, and
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another using carbon dioxide gas, the color of the light of which is exactly the same as that of the best quality of daylight and it is therefore used as the standard of color values throughout the world, and is particularly valu- able to the great textile industry. In 1910, he was awarded by the City of Philadelphia, through the Franklin Institute, the John Scott medal and premium, and in 1912, Sir William Ramsay, the world's greatest chemist, presented Mr. Moore, in recognition of his work, with a very valuable bottle of Neon gas, the element which he has discovered.
Mr. Moore is a member of a score of organizations and is a public spirited citizen. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, member and past Chairman of the Illuminating Engineering Society. the New York Electrical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of the Society of the War of 1812 and is Vice President of Orange Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. He is a republican and a Presbyterian elder and is interested in all local movements from the schools, local option, the Red Cross, the Boy Scouts, etc., to the Home Guard, and was New Jersey State Secretary of the 2nd Red Cross Industrial Drive during May, 1918.
Mr. Moore's office is at the General Electric Company, Harrison, N. J.
EMMA MeD. MOORE (Mrs. W. G.)-Haddonfield, (257 Kings Highway West) Homemaker. Born at Philadelphia, Pa., June 5th. 1873; daughter of William J. and Anna (Mercer) McDevitt, married at Westmont, N. J., June 6th, 1901, to William Garrett Moore, son of Henry Dyer and Mary J. (Smith) Moore, of Had- donfield, N. J.
Children : Katharine, born July 9, 1902; Elizabeth, born June 20, 1904; step children-Helen, born June 3, 1897, and John Doughty, born May 14, 189S.
Emma McD. Moore (Mrs. W. G.), on her maternal side is a descen- dant from the same forebears as General Hugh Mercer, her great grand- father, David Mercer, of Blackburn, England, being a first cousin of Gen- eral Hugh Mercer of Revolutionary fame.
Mrs. Moore spent her very early life in Philadelphia, where she was educated in the public schools. When, in 1884, her parents removed to Westmont, N. J., she continued her studies in the schools of that place and Philadelphia.
Despite the fact that she is the mother of four children and was kept busy rearing them, she also found time to take active interest in church and club work. From 1907-1917 she was secretary of the Woman's club, "Haddon Fortnightly," and is now vice-president of the same organ. She has been president of the Ladies Aid Society of the First Presbyterian Church of Haddonfield since 1910 and has also been chairman of the War Relief Committee of the same church since 1915. During 1917-1919, she was recording secretary of the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs. At present she is also vice-president of the Haddonfield branch of the Needlework Guild. She is also a member of and a director
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of the West Jersey Homeopathie Hospital, and a member of the New Century Club of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Moore's son, John Doughty Moore, although not nineteen years old, when the United States entered the World War, enlisted from the University of Pennsylvania, May 15, 1917, in the Ambulance service, training at Allentown, Pa. He is a member of Ambulance Corps Section 554, arriving in France January 12, 1918. He was awarded the Dis- tinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism in the battle of Somne Pye Oct. 29, 1918.
DWIGHT WHITNEY MORROW-Englewood .- Lawyer and Banker. Born at Huntington, West Va., January 11, 1873; son of James E. and Clara (Johnson) Morrow ; married on July 16, 1903, to Elizabeth Reeve Cutter. of Cleveland, Ohio.
Children : Elizabeth, born 1904; Anne, born 1906; Dwight,Jr., born 1908; Constance, born 1913.
Dwight W. Morrow is a member of the banking firm of J. P. Morgan & Company, Wall Street, New York. He graduated from Amherst College in 1895, with the A. B. degree and from Columbia College in 1899, with the LL. B. degree. Entering the law office of Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett in New York immediately after his graduation from Columbia, he was ad- mitted as a member in 1905 and continued in that relation until 1914, when he retired to become a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co
Mr. Morrow is chairman of the New Jersey State Board of Charities and Corrections, and was Director of the War Savings Campaign for the State of New Jersey until July 11, 1918, when he resigned to go abroad on the American Shipping Mission. Mr. Morrow remained in Europe during the year 1918, serving part of the time as a civilian member of General Pershing's staff. For his services abroad in connection with the war, General Pershing, in the name of the President, awarded him the Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious and distin- guished service.
He is a Trustee of Amherst College, a Director of the New York Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor, President of the Englewood Free Public Library and President of the Civic Association of Englewood. His club connections are with the University, Century, City, Metropolitan of New York and the Englewood Country.
JAMES H. MULHERON-Trenton-Keeper of State Prison. Born at New York City, 1854. .
James H. Mulheron is descended of Scotch-Irish ancestry. At the age of six, Mr. Mulheron removed with his parents to Jersey City, where he received his education in the public schools from which he graduated, and where he later obtained his training in the art of pottery.
At the age of twenty-four he changed his residence to Trenton where he became connected with the Cook Pottery firm as secretary and mana- ger. After twenty-two years' service with this concern he retired in 1910, holding the position of manager.
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In 1886, Mr. Mulheron was elected to the Common Council of Tren- ton, and served three years in that body. While a member he is credited with having helped to re-organize the police department and inaugurate the patrol system, and also to have aided in establishing the fire depart- ment, park system, and electric lighting for the city.
In 1891, he occupied a seat in the Legislature, representing the for- mer Second District of Mercer county. For five years he served as Tax Commissioner, and for a period of seven years, acted as chairman of the Republican county committee. He resigned from the latter office in Feb., 1917, when he was appointed, and accepted the position as principal keeper of the New Jersey State Prison, by Governor Edge, for a term of five years.
Mr. Mulheron's memberships in fraternal organizations are the Re- publican Club of Trenton, Carteret Club, Knights of Pythias, Brotherhood of the Union, Elks, and Fraternal Lodge of Masons and a member of Crescent Temple.
His office address is New Jersey State Prison.
FRANKLIN MURPHY-Newark, (1027 Broad Street.) -Manu- facturer. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917.) Born at Jersey City, on January 3, 1846; son of William Hayes and Abby Eliza- beth (Hagar) Murphy; married at Newark, in 1868, to Janet Colwell, daughter of Israel D. and Catherine Gale (Hoagland) Colwell, of Newark. (Mrs. Murphy died in 1904.)
Children : Franklin, Jr. ; Helen M., wife of William B. Kinney.
Franklin Murphy is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Murphy Varnish Company, one of the imposing manufacturing establishments of the country ; has been Governor of New Jersey, and, at the Republican Na- tional Convention of 1908, received 158 votes for Vice President of the United States; has been a member for seventeen years of the Executive Committee of the National Republican Committee, a delegate to five Repub- lican National Conventions, and upon three occasions, pressed by his friends for a seat in the United States Senate ; and is a veteran of the Civil War.
Governor Murphy's father was a distinguished layman of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church. The first of his New Jersey ancestors came from Connecticut to Bergen county in 1766, and participated in the Revolution- ary War. Gov .Murphy was educated at the Newark Academy but left school when only sixteen years of age to enlist as a private in Co. "A," Thirteenth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers. The Regiment was en- gaged in nineteen battles-first with the Army of the Potomac and later with Sherman to Atlanta and the sea. Mustered out as First Lieutenant, after three years of service, at the close of the War, he entered the var- nish business, and the Murphy Varnish Company is the sequel.
With a taste for public affairs, Mr. Murphy entered politics, and from 1883 to 1886 was a member of the Newark Common Council, President of
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the body in the latter year. In the Council he was chiefly instrumental in improving the lighting and paving conditions in the city. While he was still serving there he was elected to the House of Assembly, in 1885. From 1886 to 1889 he was a Trustee of the Reform School for Boys at James- burg. In 1901 he was unanimously nominated by the Republican State Convention for Governor and was elected over Seymour, Democrat, by 17,133 plurality.
Among the products of Governor Murphy's three year administration were the first primary law, the first child labor law, and the first law regu- lating ventilation in work shops, the tenement house commission act, an act establishing the Glen Garden Sanitarium for Tuberculosis patients, an act making the first appropriation for the erection of the Bordentown Indus- trial School for colored children, acts for the abolition of the fee system in state and county offices, one establishing a complete audit system of state expenditures and one compelling banks to pay interest on state deposits, from the last of which up to 1915 the state had realized $1,139,935.
The primary reform law was a particularly notable feature of Gov. Murphy's administration. The party organizations had been left free to pick their candidates as they saw fit: Interference with the machinery they set up to carry out their plans had the aspect of an interference with family affairs ; and the legislature had yielded to the theory that the men of the parties had a right to go about the selection of their nominees in their own way. Governor Murphy's insistence, however, that their origani- zations had become an integral part of the state's election machinery and should be taken under state supervision resulted in the law, requiring that the primaries proceed with the election officers of the state in charge of the voting booths, which is the foundation stone upon which all the primary re- forms made in later years in the nominating systems, rest.
Governor Murphy was made a member of the Executive Committee of the Republican National Committee in 1900. President Mckinley had, two or three years previously, tendered him the Ambassadorship to Russia, but he declined it, though he later was appointed to represent the United States as Special Commissioner at the Universal Exposition at Paris. He has been as conspicuous in the civic life of the community as in its political life .. A member of the Essex County Park Commission since 1SS5. the great system of county parks has been established at an expense of several mil- lions of dollars, all over the county, during his service : and, when the Citi- zens' Committee of 100, appointed by Mayor Haussling for the preparation of a becoming six months' festive observance of Newark's 250th birthday, organized in 1915. he was made its Chairman and devoted much of his time to its successful labors.
Governor Murphy has been a Trustee of the Drew (Methodist) Theo- logical Seminary at Madison, a member and at one time President of the Board of Managers of the National Soldiers' Home, Chairman of the Re- publican State Committee for twenty years, and was the first President of the Newark Y. M. C. A. He is a member and was at one time President General of the Sons of American Revolution and is a member of the So- ciety of Colonial Wars, the Loyal Legion, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Society of the Cincinnati, and a Mason connected with Kane Lodge No.
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55, and Damascus Commandery No. 5. He is an LL. D. of Lafayette and Princeton.
FRANKLIN MURPHY, Jr .- Newark .- Manufacturer. Born at Newark, on November 29th, 1873; son of Franklin and Janet Colwell) Murphy ; married at Chicago, Ill., on October 17th, 1908. to Harriet Alexander Long, daughter of Eugene C. and Harriet ( Alexander ) Long.
Franklin Mruphy, Jr., is President of the Murphy, Varnish Company, in Newark, which his father, ex-Gov. Franklin Murphy (q. v.) founded and established. During his father's administration as Governor he was per- sonal aide on the Executive's military staff with the rank of Colonel.
Col. Murphy began his studies in the Newark Academy in 1882, in 1888 went to Lawrenceville School and in 1891 entered Princeton Universi- ty, graduating from there in 1895. After his graduation he became con- nected with the Murphy Varnish Company and for two years after 1896, was at its factory in Chicago. Returning to Newark in 1898, he continued his connection with the Company in various positions ; and, when his father retired as President of the Company in 1915, the Directors elected Col. Murphy to succeed him.
Col. Murphy's club memberships are with the Essex and Down Town (Newark), the Union League (N. Y.), University (N. Y.), the Princeton (N. Y.), and the Somerset Hills Country (Bernardsville).
STARR JOCELYN MURPHY -- Montclair, (20 Prospect Ter- race.)-Lawyer. Born in Avon, Conn., on June 17, 1860; son of Elijah Douglas and Harriette Luceannah (Jocelyn) Murphy ; mar- ried at Montclair, on June 9, 1887, to Julia Brush Doubleday, daughter of John Mason Doubleday, of Montclair.
Children : Helen, born June 19, 1888; Margaret, born November 1, 1889; Dorothy Hobart, born May 30, 1893; Julia Mason, born December 12, 1894: Elizabeth Whiting, born March 29, 1897 ; Starr Jocelyn, Jr., born January 27, 1899.
Starr J. Murphy is the personal counsel and representative of John D. Rockefeller in his benevolences. He is a member of the Rockefeller Foun- dation, and of the General Education Board, and a Trustee of The Rocke- feller Institute for Medical Research ..
Mr. Murphy's father was a clergyman, and he traces his descent back to Dr. Comfort Starr who came to this country in 1635. Removing from Avon, Coun., to Brooklyn, Mr. Murphy lived there and in New York City before he came to Montclair in 1887, to make his home. He was educated at the Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn and at Amherst College, and took a course in law at the Columbia University Law School. Upon his admission to the Bar of the State of New York in 1883, he began the practice of his profession there, and has since been identified with the Bar of that city.
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Since he came to the State of New Jersey to live, Mr. Murphy has in- terested himself in the public life of the community so far as his business and professional engagements permit. He was a member of the Town Council of Montelair from 1895 to 1897. He served as a member of the Re- publican County Committee for six years, and for two terms as President of the Outlook Club. He is at present a member of the Executive Commit- tee and Treasurer of the Montclair Council of Defense.
Besides holding the organization relations already referred to, Mr. Murphy is a Director and Vice President of the American Linseed Com- pany, Director and Vice President of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com- pany, Director of the Manhattan Railway Company, and is connected as director or officer in other business corporations. His club memberships are with the Montclair Athletic Club, the Whitehall Club of New York City, and he is connected also with the Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Upsilon Fraternities.
C. EDWARD MURRAY-Trenton .- Manufacturer and Soldier. Born in Lambertville, on July 17, 1863 ; son of J. Howard and Wil- helmina (Solliday) Murray.
C. Edward Murray has, since the death of General Donnelly in 1895, been Quartermaster General of the State. Coming to Trenton with his parents, when he was two years of age, he was educated in the local schools, at the state Model school and at the Stewart Business College. When he was twenty years of age he became associated with his father in the mechanical rubber manufacturing business in Trenton, and in 1892 the sole proprietor of the establishment.
The republican City Council of Trenton elected him City Clerk in 1894 and he held the office until he declined further re-election in 1904. He was a delegate in 1900 to the National Republican Convention that re-nominat- ed President Mckinley, and to the Convention of 1904, that put Theodore Roosevelt in nomination for President.
His interest in military affairs has been as deep as that in politics. In December, 1885, he enlisted in Co. A, Seventh Regiment N. G. N. J. Five years later, Col. Skirn, then in command of the Regiment, made him its Paymaster with the rank of First Lieutenant. In June, 1895, he was com- missioned as Captain. The act of 1899 re-organizing the National Guard retired him from service; but on March 8, Gov. Stokes appointed him Quar- termaster General of the state and in the April following gave him the rank of Brigadier General.
SAMUEL VAN SAUN MUZZY-Paterson, (384 15th Ave.)- Merchant. Born at Paterson, N. J., Oct. 2. 1852; ; son of Henry and Elizabeth Van Houten (van Saun) Muzzy ; married at Pat-
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erson, N. J., Jan. 11, 1876, to Lucy V. Halsted (deceased Sept. 2, 1902), daughter of William M. and Mary Thompson Halsted, of Paterson, N. J .; 2nd, at Passaic, N. J., Jan. 19, 1909, to Mar- tha Moore (deceased Feb. 8, 1913), daughter of Thomas Martin and Sarah Wickham Moore, of Passaic, N. J .; 3rd, to Margaret M. Moore, of Sussex, N. J., Nov. 20, 1918, daughter of Dr. John and Ella Pellet Moore, of Sussex, N. J.
Children : Helen, March 24, 1877; Herbert T., June 18, 1881; Betsy Hamilton, September 25, 1910, and Martha Moore, Nov. 3, 1912.
Samuel Van Saun Muzzy is a descendant of John Muzzy who came from England in 1633. The subject of this sketch is of the eighth genera- tion. Amos Muzzy of the 5th generation was in the battle of Concord and Lexington and Ticonderoga in the Revolutionary War.
He attended private schools in Paterson from 1859 to 1861, and then entered the public schools of the same city, and graduated in 1864. From the end of that time to 1867 he took up studies in the Tallman Seminary of Paterson, N. J.
In 1867 he became engaged in business as a merchant in seeds, im- plements, and mill supplies, entering the store of S. A. Van Saun, his grandfather, remaining in his employ until 1873 at which time, in con- nection with Albert Van Saun, an uncle, they purchased the business- continuing it until 1884, at which time Henry and Edward H. Muzzy bought the one half interest from Albert Van Saun-and have continued the same ever since. The business has grown materially, having branched out in other lines.
From 1893 to 1897 he was Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of New Jersey. Enlisted as a private in the Paterson Light Guard, Dec., 1879. which afterward became the 1st Battalion, N. G. N. J. He served successively as Sergeant, 1st Sergeant, 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Lieutenant, Captain, Ma- jor, Lieutenant-Colonel, and Colonel of the 2nd Regiment, having been retired with the rank of Brigadier General in Nov., 1897.
In 1912 he became president of the Board of Trade, which office he held until 1913. Was President of Board of Public Works in 1916.
Mr. Muzzy has taken an active part in politics and in 1912 was elector on the Roosevelt ticket.
At present, he is a Director in the Paterson National Bank. and the Safe Deposit and Trust Co., also elder in the Church of the Redemmer.
His club membership is the Paterson Hamilton Club.
Mr. Muzzy's business address is 136 Main Street, Paterson, N. J.
HENRY J. NEAL- Phillipsburg - City Superintendent of Schools. Born at East Franklin, Pa., March 18. 1867; son of Edwin C. and Caroline (Sopp) Neal; married at Carlisle. Pa., on Sept. 5. 1894, to Grace A. Schuchman, daughter of John C. and Elizabeth Pilkay Schuchman.
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Children : Elizabeth, Aug. 22, 1901; John Roger, Jan. 15, 1904.
Henry J. Neal's grandfather. Edward C. Neal, was born in Lancaster, Pa., where he spent his early life as a farmer; but during the greater part of his life he was mining engineer and coal operator in Schuylkill Co., Pa. Mr. Neal's grandmother was born in Lancanshire, England. ' His maternal grandparents were born in Carisruhe, Germany.
Mr. Neal received his education in Kutztown Normal School, Pa., which he attended in 1885-1886, and in 1888 entered Dickinson College and was graduated in 1891.
Soon after completing his education Mr. Neal began teaching physics and chemistry in the Long Branch, N. J., High School, which position he held for nine years. He afterwards served as superintendent of schools at Lakewood and Bridgeton, N. J.
In 1904 Mr. Neal was elected treasurer of the New Jersey State Teachers' Association which office he held for nine years. He served as president of this organization for the year 1913 and at the close of his term he was elected secretary, which office he still holds. In 1918 he was chosen secretary of the National Federation of State Teachers' Associa- tions.
Mr. Neal is now superintendent of schools at Phillipsburg, N. J., which position he accepted July 1, 1915.
JAMES NEILSON-New Brunswick .- Lawyer. Born at New Brunswick, on November 17, 1844; son of James and Catharine (Bleecker) Neilson ; married in Berlin, Germany, on December 15, 1870. to Mary Putnam Woodbury, daughter of Isaac B. and Mary A. (Putnam) Woodbury.
James Neilson is of a family that figures in the early history of the nation and that is closely identified with the development of the middle section of the State. One of his forebears, James Neilson, came to New Jersey early in the eighteenth century, and, when he died at New Bruns- wick in 1783, was a member of the Colonial Committee of Correspondence. He was engaged in marine enterprises and had ships sailing to the West Indies, Madeira, Portugal, Belfast and other places. He was a large land- owner at New Brunswick and one of the petitioners for the Charter that made New Brunswick a City in 1730; a Presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and a Trustee of Princeton College.
Colonel John Neilson, (1745-1833), his nephew, was in active service in the Revolution as Colonel commanding the troops in the central and northern parts of New Jersey and as Deputy Quartermaster-General from 1780 to the close of the Revolutionary War. He was also a delegate to the Continental Congress and to the Convention that framed the United States' Constitution in 1787 and a Rutgers College Trustee, 1782.
James Neilson, Colonel Neilson's son and father of the present James Neilson, was active in the foundation and management of the Camden & Amboy Railroad and Delaware and Raritan Canal Company. He was
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Treasurer of the Canal Company for many years, and a Director of the Joint Companies until his death. With Commodore Robert F. Stockton, and James C. Van Dyke, he organized the New Brunswick Manufacturing Company in the early eighteen-forties. It was because Colonel Neilson's father, John, who was a physician, died young, that his brother made him a part of his family.
The present James Neilson has been interested in the civic and educa- tion al and business life of Middle Jersey. He has interested himself par- ticularly in the development of his home city and devoted much time to ef- forts to improve its political and financial condition. He took part in the organization and subsequent development of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at New Brunswick and has also been a Trustee of Rut- gers Colleg since 1886. His father, James Neilson, was a Trustee of Rut- gers College from 1833 to the time of his death in 1862. Mr. Neilson is a graduate of Rutgers College, class of 1866, and of Hamilton College Law School, class of 1869. He has since devoted himself to the care of his affairs.
Mary Putnam Woodbury, the wife of Mr. Neilson, who died in 1914, is remembered for her beneficences and for her interest in the welfare of the growing youth of the town. She gathered thousands of children in her Boys' Clubs and Penny Savings Societies ; and many New Brunswick men have found, in the provident habits acquired there, the secret of their sub- sequent success in life. Mrs. Neilson also organized, and from 1884 to 1902 managed, the New Brunswick Charity Organization Society, as well as the New Brunswick Free Circulating Library, the first in the state, and the New Brunswick Free Public Library.
Mr. Neilson's club memberships are with the University Club of New York, Rutgers Club of New Brunswick and the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
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