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Records show, Mr. Fitzpatrick to have also been one of the founders, and the first president of the St. Peter's Club, an organization which cost $100,000 and which is considered one of the best social and educational institutions of the country for Catholic young men and women. Its night schools has an enrollment of 1500 men and women.
With this, however, his organization work did not end, for he as- sisted in beginning and was president for three years of the Hudson County Federation of the Holy Name Society. At the present date he is serving a second term as president of the Newark Diocesan Federation of the Holy Name Society.
He was employed seven years in commercial and manufacturing lines. For one year he was secretary to the director of Revenue and Finance in Jersey City, and for four years deputy director of Revenue and Fi- nance, during which time he collaborated with the directors of Revenue and Finance in the compilation of a manual on taxation that has been circulated throughout the United States.
During the World's War, Mr. Fitzpatrick was chairman of the Jer- sey City Exemption Board No. 5, and also head of the Council of all such boards in that city. In the seventh Provisional Battalion of New Jersey, he was second Lieutenant.
He is a member of the following clubs besides those already mentioned, Columbian Club, St. Peters Club, Lodge No. 211, B. P. O. E., Knights of Columbus. Jersey City Club and Carteret Club all of Jersey City.
Mr. Fitzpatrick's business address is the Court House, Jersey City, N. J.
JOSEPH FULFORD FOLSOM-Newark, (912 South 16th St.) Minister. Born at Bloomfield, N. J .; son of John F. and Sophia E. (Harvey) Folsom ; married at Newark, N. J., to Isabel M. Kirk, daughter of Ransford A. Kirk.
Children : Joseph Kirk, Isabel, and Evelyn Fulford.
Rev. Joseph Fulford Folsom is a direct descendant of the Puritan, John Folsom, of Hingham. England, who came with his family to Amer- ica on the ship "Diligent," landing at Boston, August 10th, 1638, and also Major John Fulford, who was in command of the defences at Annap- olis, Maryland, during the Revolution.
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Mr. Folsom throughout his minority lived in his native town, Bloom- field, . N. J., where he received his common school education. After leaving high school he was engaged in office work in the city of New York for a few years and part of 1885 was spent in Fargo, Dakota, where he was employed in a real estate.
He later took up a course of theological study under guidance of his pastor, Rev. Henry W. Ballantine, D. D., of the First Presbyterian Church of Bloomfield, and eventually entered the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. from which he was graduated in 1892.
He was ordained as pastor of the Pound Ridge Presbyterian Church, Westchester County, New York, in June 21, 1892, and served in this pas- torate for three years.
His next charge was the Knox Presbyterian Church of Kearney, Hud- son County, New Jersey, where he was installed, July 8, 1895, and where he remained until his removal by the Presbytery of Newark, to Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, in order to take ministerial charge of an unorganized field in the Clinton Hill section of the city. Here he com- menced his duties, November 21, 1904, in a commodious chapel previously erected by the committee of Presbyterial church extension, and on Feb- ruary 15th, 1906, the congregation was organized as the Clinton Avenue Presbyterian church, and Mr. Folsom was unanimously elected the first pastor. In 1912, with a membership of over five hundred, this church merged with the Third Presbyterian Church of Newark, and became the . Collegiate Third Church. South. Under this arrangement the chapel was enlarged for Sunday school and social work, and a new church edifice for religious services exclusively was erected.
In 1895 Mr. Folsom was elected the first chaplain-general of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, and served two years ; and being re-elected to the same office in 1907, he served another two years. He is also a member of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. In 1904 he was elected recording secretary of the New Jersey Historical Society, which office he is still holding at the present time. In 1909 he was appointed librarian of this society, and when the office was made elective in 1912, he was chosen to fill it. He is the editor of the "Proceedings" of the New Jersey Historical Society issued quarterly. For a number of years he has been greatly interested in the state and local history of New Jersey. He made researches for ma- terial on the folk lore of the state, and wrote a number of articles on witchcraft, omens, magic and illusions. He has written many articles on colonial history, biography and bipliography. For a number of years Mr. Folsom has been the Chaplain of Franklin Lodge F. & A. M., of Irvington, New Jersey. In 1916 he was a member of the Committee of One Hundred on the celebration of the 250th Anniversary of the City of Newark.
Mr. Folsom called attention to Daniel Bray and other New Jersey patriots who. in 1776. at great peril to themselves, brought down the Dela- ware River the boats needed for Washington's attack on Trenton and also wrote the "Ballad of Daniel Bray." This poem, printed in the "Patriotic Poems of New Jersey." compiled by W. C. Armstrong, was also published by the Free Public Library of Newark.
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In connection with his work for the New Jersey Historical So- ciety, Mr. Folsom conducts a department on historical matters in the Newark Evening News, familiarly known as the column by the "Lor- ist."
He is a member and director of the Carteret Book Club, and has been engaged to write a history of Philip Carteret, the first Governor of New Jersey, to be published by the Club. At the present time he is also working on a second volume of the history of the Washington Asso- ciation of New Jersey.
In the poetical field, Mr. Folsom has also done occasional work, his contributions having appeared in 'The Independent", and other publica- tions, but more frequently in the daily Press. At the unveiling of the equestrian statue of Washington at Newark in 1912, he read "The Horse- man Washington." which he had composed for this event. His poem on the Lincoln statue appears in the volume entitled "The Newark Lin- coln," compiled by John Cotton Dana, and also in oldroyls "The Poet Lincoln," Washington, 1915.
Among the fraternities of which he is a member are the Delta Up- silon. the Masonic and Knights of Pythias. He is Chaplain of Franklin Lodge No. 10, F. & A. M.
ROBERT HAYES FORDYCE-Paterson, (73 Twelfth Avenue.) -- Banker. Born in Paterson, in 1855.
Robert H. Fordyce, ex-Mayor of Paterson, has resided in that city all of his life and was educated in its public schools. After graduating from High School, he finished in a private school. His first position was with the firm of Harrell & Hayes, coppersmiths, both members of which firm were his uncles. In 1872 he became shipping clerk for the New York Steam Engine Works in Passaic, and a year later attached himself to the Architectural Department of the Watson Machine Company. He was con- nected with the Paterson post office for eight years, officiating for the last four of the eight as Deputy Post Master. From 1SS3 to 1890 he was in the employ of the First National Bank of Paterson. With the idea of starting in business there, he went to Seattle but was not favorably impressed with the opportunities and returned to Paterson after a few months absence. In 1891 he became Teller of the Second National Bank, but resigned, after twelve years, to become Secretary and Treasurer of the United States Trust Company, which was then being organized and held that position un- til later when he was made president of the Company.
Mr. Fordyce has been active in political and military circies. He served as Mayor for one term. He was a charter member of the Paterson Light Guards which was organized in 1870, and became the First Battalion of the State National Guard. He had been Captain of Company B. for five years when he resigned in 1890.
THOMAS FOXHALL, Jr .- Passaic-Manufacturer. Born at Lowell, Mass., on Dec. 21, 1884; son of Thomas Foxhall, of Pas- saic,
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Thomas Foxhall, Jr., was educated in the public schools of Passaic, where he spent the grearer part of his life, graduating from the Passaic High School. He entered a law school later to prepare himself for the law profession, but although he completed bis course, he never practiced but instead went into business with his father, who was then manufactur- ing engraved copper rollers for textile printers. Seeing the possibilities that would result if narrow fabrics such as ribbons were handled in the like manner, he designated machinery and founded the Passaic Ribbon Printing Company, of which he is now secretary and treasurer. At the fall elections he was re-elected to the State Assembly.
He is a member of the following clubs: Past Exalted Ruler, B. P. O. E., and (exempt) Volunteer Fire Department of Passaic.
LOUIS ROCHESTER FREUND-Verona .- Lawyer and Assem- blyman. Born at Rochester, N. Y., on March 18, 1889, son of Maurice Aaron and Jennie R. (Schargin) Freund ; married at Newark, N. J., Sept. 30th, 1913, to Rebecca B. Herman, daughter of Nathan B. and Hannah Herman.
Children : Miles Abner, born Nov. 16, 1916.
Louis Rochester Freund, democratic Assemblyman from Essex Coun- ty has practically been a lifelong resident of Newark, Although born in Rochester, N. Y., he came to Newark when but six years of age, and in his childhood attended the public schools of that city. In 1904 he entered the Newark High School, but was obliged to leave it the following year and earn a livelihood. After putting in a year as clerk in the law office of Kneeland, La Fetra and Glaze, he resumed his studies at High School so that in 1907 he was able' to enter Rutgers College. There, too, he supported himself by working Saturdays, Sundays and certain evenings during the week. At the close of 190S he left Rutgers and began an evening course at the New York Law School, during the day, earning his living. After the close of the year he entered the New Jersey Law School as the matter of convenience, and in 1910 he graduated with the degree of L. L. B. He was admitted to the bar the same year.
Assemblyman Freund has been interested in politics since he was twenty-one years of age, and has been identified actively as a Democrat in his home city. He has been the Democratic nominee for the Assembly for four years, namely 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1918. In 1917 the ticket came within one thousand of being elected. and last year he carried with a plurality of five thousand votes. He was one of the six assemblymen appointed on the Conference Committee of the House on organization re- cently.
He is a member of the following organizations, Oriental Lodge, No. 51, F. & A. M., Newark Lodge, No. 21, B. P. O. E., Craftsman Club, Rut-
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gers College Alumni, Joel Parker Association and the Lawyers Democratic club of Essex County. Of the latter club he is vice-president.
His business address is S10 Broad street, Newark, N. J.
HENRY J. GAEDE-Hoboken, (91 Washington St.)-Lawyer and Assemblyman. Born at Jersey City, N. J., on June 25, 1884, son of Henry A. Gaede, of Hoboken, N. J.
Henry J. Gaede was educated in the Newburgh Academy, Newburgh, N. Y., where he remained until he entered New York University, to study his chosen profession, law. In 1904, he graduated with the degree of Bach- elor of Laws, and then took a special course at Cornell University.
In June, 1905, he was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney, and in June, 190S, he was admitted as a counselor. In 1911 he was admitted to the New York bar. He began the practice of law and is at present associated with his father, Henry A. Gaede, under the name of Gaede and Gaede, in Hoboken.
At the 1918 fall elections he was re-elected to the State Assembly. He is a member of Hoboken Lodge, No. 74, B. P. O. E., and of the Theta Lambda Phi Fraternity.
FREDERIC A. GENTIEU-Pennsgrove-Member State Board Taxes and Assets. Born at Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 10th, 1872, son of Pierre and Sarah A. Gentieu; married at Camden, N. J., on April 22, 1892, to Maude E. Willett, daughter of Franklin E. and Har- riet Willett.
Children : Oscar F. E., Fred A., Harriet S., and Esther V.
Frederic A. Gentieu is a descendant of Puritan stock on his mother's side, whose ancestors settled in Norwalk, Conn., in 1631, and later fought in the Revolutionary Army.
His father Pierre Gentieu, born in Orthez, France, came to America from France in May, 1860, served in the Civil War 1862-65 as a Corporal in Co. B., 13th Conn. Volunteers.
Removing from the place of his birth to Wilmington, Del., at the age of six, Mr. Gentieu was educated in the public schools of the last mentioned city, which he attended in 1880.
He then took up the study of carpentry and architecture, finishing this training with Joseph Seeds & Son, of Wilmington in 1890.
In 1891 he accepted the position of supervising foreman in the erec- tion of the first smokeless powder plant in the United States, which was built by the E. I. duPont de Nemours Powder Company, at Carney's Point, N. J. In 1899 he accepted a position in the chemical laboratory of the same concern, to study the manufacture of guncotton and smokeless pow- der under the personal instruction of the owners. In 1905, Mr. Gentien was made Assistant Superintendent of the plant and later Superintend- ent.
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He has, since the date of his residence, been interested in the pub- lic affairs of Pennsgrove, and from March 17, 1903 to March 16th, 1909, served two terms as a member of the Board of Education. For three years, 1905-'08, he also acted as the President of this Board. On the Republican ticket, in 1907, he was elected Mayor of the Borough and was re-elected in 1909.
In 1908, he was an Alternate Delegate representing the First Con- gressional District at the Republican Convention at Chicago.
Having been appointed in 1913 for a term which expired in 1915, Mr. Gentieu became a member of the old State Board of Assessors. When the new Board was created at the end of that time he was again ap- pointed a member by Governor Fielder for a term of two years, at a sal- ary of $3,000 again in 1917 he was re-chosen by Governor Edge as a mem- ber for a term which will expire July 1, 1920.
Mr. Gentieu is a Past Master of Pennsgrove Lodge No. 162, Free & Accepted Masons, also a member of Crescent Temple, Knights of the Mystic Shrine and other Masonic Bodies, past State Commander of the Sons of Veterans, Past District President of the Patriotic Order, Sons of America. He is President of the Pennsgrove Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Old Colony Club and the Manufacturers Club of Phila- delphia, and other fraternal and social organizations.
His business address is Pennsgrove, N. J.
FREDERICK GILKYSON-Trenton .- Adjutant General. Born at Yardley, Pa., on Dec. 1st, 1868, son of Stephen R. Gilkyson.
Frederick Gilkyson is the son of Col. Stephen R. Gilkyson, who com- manded the Sixth Regiment, Infantry, of New Jersey Volunteers in the Civil War.
General Gilkyson attended the public schools of Trenton and after graduation in 1SS4, entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. In 1905 he resigned as assistant freight agent at Trenton. He then became vice president and general manager of the Bellmark Pottery Company of Trenton.
He served as clerk to the Trenton Park Board Commissioners, in : 1904-'OS, as tax receiver for two terms in Trenton. At the end of this period, he was appointed Commissioner of Public roads for a term of three years.
General Gilkyson's military experience began on March 2. 1SS5, when he entered the National Guard of New Jersey as a private of Company A. Seventh Regiment. Years later, on July 9, 1894, he was commissioned as Battalion Adjutant, and afterwards served as Adjutant of the Second Regiment, and Adjutant of the Second Brigade. On Dec .. 30th. 1907, with the rank of colonel he was appointed adjutant of the State. While this country was at war with Spain, he served as Battalion Adjutant of the Fourth Regiment, New Jersey National Guard Volunteer Infantry, which was mustered out on April 6, 1899.
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When war was declared on Germany, April 6, 1917, he was detailed to duty in the Adjutant-General's office, and assigned as Chief of the Bureau of Enrollment. At this time he was also in charge of operation of the Selective Service Law, and was appointed, Acting Adjutant-General on July 25th, 1917, when Brigadier General Charles W. Baker was mus- tered into Federal Service.
JOHN E. GILL-Trenton, (831 West State St.)-Assemblyman. Born at Quincy, Ill., June 19th, 1872.
John E. Gill since coming to Trenton has taken a keen interest in the public and civic affairs of the city and entire county as well. He was the first president of the Trenton Playground Association, and also of the Trenton Junior City Baseball League, which was the largest of its kind in America under his administration. In 1907 he was a candidate for Mayor of Trenton on the Republican ticket, and in 1912, he was elected to serve his first term in the Legislature. He was re-elected in 1917, and last year was again re-elected to serve a third term with a plurality of 3,582 votes over Smith, high Democrat. In 1912 Assembly- man Gill represented the Fourth Congressional District as a delegate to the National Republican Convention.
Assemblyman Gill is now vice-president of the Rider-Moore & Stewart School of Accounts, Banking and Secretarial Training. He is a director and one of the organizers of the Dural Rubber Company and the Mer- cer Mortgage & Securities Company. He is a trustee of the Prospect Presbyterian Church, the Mckinley Hospital, ex-president and now chair- man of the advisory board of the Trenton Chamber of Commerce, presi- dent of the City Rescue Mission, president of the Trenton League on Urban Conditions among Negroes, and former president of the Eastern Commercial Teacher's Association, and the Eastern Gregg Shorhand Association.
In 1908 Governor Fort appointed him a trustee of the New Jersey State Home for Boys at Jamesburg, and he was re-appointed by Govern- or Wilson. He resigned from the position in 1914 at the end of six years of service.
W. IRVING GLOVER-Englewood, ( Woodland Ave) .- Real- Estate. Born at Brooklyn, N. Y., on October 2, 1879.
W. Irving Glover is treasurer of the Whitmore Realty Company of New York City.
His public life began in 1915 when he was elected a member of the Bergen County Board of Freeholders. He is now serving his third term
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. in the Legislature. having been re-elected at the 1918 fall elections with a plurality of 4,048 votes over Hitchcock, high Democrat.
GEORGE WASHINGTON GOETHALS-Trenton .-- State Engi- neer. Born at Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1858.
Mr. Goethals in 1880 was graduated from the United States Mili- tary Academy. At the end of this time he was appointed as a Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers, and in 1909 reached the rank of Colonel. From 1885 to 1889. he also served as an assistant professor of civil and military engineering. During the Spanish-American War, he was a Lieutenant -Colonel and Chief Engineer in the First Army Corps.
The chief work of Mr. Goethals life, and an attainment which will perpetuate his name, was his supervision of the construction of the Panama Canal. In 1907 he was appointed chairman and chief engineer of the commission in charge. On April 1, 1914, he was also appointed governor of the Panama Canal zone.
In March, 1917, after his return to New Jersey upon the completion of the above mentioned gigantic task, he was appointed State Engineer with the concurrence of State Treasurer Read and State Comptroller Bugbee, comprising the State House Commission.
EDRIC CLARENCE GREAVES-South Orange, (11S Mulligan Place)-Assemblyman. Born at Barbadoes, B. W. I., August 31st, 1877.
Edric Clarence Greaves is of British descent, his ancestors being a family of orators, jurists and executives of the British Empire. Several magistrates of the British Isles are his ancestors. He is a paternal descendant of Sir Herbert Greaves, Chief Justice of Barbadoes, West Indies. and a first cousin of his maternal side is Sir Henry Powell, attorney- general of British Guiana.
Assemblyman Greaves is secretary of the Newark Diocesan Federation of Holy Name Societies of Essex County, and is prominent as an orator. When ex-President Grover Cleveland was chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Mr. Greaves was his private secretary.
Aside from the seat in the Legislature which he is now holding, he has never held a public office. He was elected at the fall of 1918 elections with a plurality of 4.760 votes over Davenport, high Republican.
CHARLES HENRY GREEN-Ridgewood, (123 Spring Avenue.) -Industrial Promoter. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born at Albion, Mich. April 17th, 1867 ; son of Henry S. and Mary E. (Ketchum) Green; married on July 16, 1890, to Ada May
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Kernaghan, (deceased Oct. 19, 1917), daughter of William G. and Hester A. Kernaghan, of Detroit, Mich.
Charles H. Green had much to do with the International Exposition held at San Francisco in 1915 in commemoration of the opening of the Panama Canal; and as the result of his work as an exposition manager, he has since 1903 been Managing Director or President of more than Forty Industrial Expositions. He was chief of the Department of Manu- facturers and Varied Industries of the Panama-Pacific International Ex- position and active for two years before the Exposition opened in making preparations for the display. He was appointed United States Commis- sioner to Japan and China in the interest of the Exposition, was President of the Department Jury and a member of the Superior Jury of the Inter- national Jury of Awards. For his labors in connection with the Exposition and in special recognition of his distinguished services, he received from the Emperor of China in 1916 the Chia Ho Decoration.
Mr. Green comes from sturdy Vermont ancestry, his grandfather, White Ketchum, having been the first white man to locate as far West as Marshall, Michigan. Orator H. Green, his other grandfather, was one of the founders of Albion, Michigan. Mr. Green's parents both graduated from the Albion Seminary, now know as Albion College, and these two pioneer families were united through their marriage, in the early sixties.
Mr. Green was educated at the Homer Academy, Calhoun county, Michigan, and became a registered chemist of that state. He was after- wards, from 1900 to 1902, advertising and sales manager of the Shredded Wheat Company of Niagara Falls, N. Y. He next turned his atten- tion to the sales and advertising promotion for a number of large indus- trial concerns through the medium of Trade Expositions in various parts of the country, including the Brooklyn Automobile Show, the Brooklyn Food and Industrial Exposition, the New York Food and Industrial Expo- sition, the New England Industrial Exposition in Boston, the Boston Mechanics Exposition, the National Music Show and others of which he is still Managing Director.
Mr. Green is an enthusiastic Jerseyite and was an organizer and President of the New Jersey Society of California during the Exposition period and took active interest in the participation of New Jersey.
In politics Mr. Green is a Republican and in religion an Episcopalian. His clubs are the Sphinx and the Hardware of New York, the Ridgewood Country, and the Olympic of San Francisco. He has offices at 105 West 40th Street.
JOHN GRIFFIN-Jersey City .- Vice Chancellor. Born at Jersey City. N. J., June 26, 1858; married at Jersey City, on September 30. 1884, to Agnes V. Stanley.
Children : John Stanley and William L. (Both practicing law in Jersey City-Griffin & Griffin. )
John Griffin received most of his education in the public school. At an early age, he entered the law offices of Bedle, Muirheid & McGee, as a student.
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In June, 1881, he was admitted to the New Jersey State Bar as an attorney, and three years later was made a counselor. Later he became a partner of James A. Romeyn, and subsequently was taken into the old firm headed by the late Governor Bedle as a junior partner.
Mr. Griffin during this period specialized in studying and practicing admiralty law, and ultimately became recognized as an authority. He has had wide experience in all the higher courts of the state and also in the Supreme Court of the United States. Many municipal laws have been framed by him. For seventeen years he was counsel to the Board of Freeholders in Hudson county.
On March 20, 1913, Mr. Griffin was appointed a vice-chancellor for a term of seven years by Chancellor Walker at a salary of $12,000. In politics, he has also been a Democrat.
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