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Since completing her schooling she has been active in religious edu- cational work. For seven years she was Educational Director in the First Congregational Church at Gloversville, N. Y .; Maverick Congre- gational Church, East Boston, Mass .; First Congregational Church, Mari- etta, Ohio. She has also taught at the Summer Schools at Northfield, Narragansett Pier, Lake Brome, Canada, Winona Lake, Indiana, Asbury Park and others.
She has been very active in Sunday School work, being a member of the State Association Board. She is also active in Red Cross work in her home city and in Woman's Club work. From 1916 to 1917 she was State Elementary Superintendent of Sunday School Work for New Jersey.
She is also widely known as a writer and author, among the books she has written being "The Good Samaritan," a book of twelve bible stories, dramatized for children to be acted. A number of short stories have also been written by her and used in church and Sunday School papers extensively.
JAMES MADISON STEVENS-Ocean City, (619 Wesley Ave.) -Superintendent of Public Schools. Born at Philadelphia, Pa., September 28, 1865; son of Theodore and Mary Anne (Biggs) Stevens ; married at Madison, Wis., June 26, 1900, to Caro Louise Bucey, daughter of John and Mary (Slater) Bucey.
Children : Theodore Bucey, born February 10, 1902; James Madison, born October 30, 1905; Robert Bucey, born December 21, 1912.
James Madison Stevens is descended from an old English family of which one William Stevens came to America in 1614, and who in 1652 settled in Talbot county, Maryland. The Stevens family has been prominent in that section of the country until recent years, and one member of the family was governor of the state. In 1887 a brother of his mother, B. T. Biggs, was governor of Delaware.
In his early life, he attended the public schools of Philadelphia, leav- ing the Central High School in 1882 to read with a private tutor. In 1883 he entered Wesleyan University of Middletown, Conn., from which he graduated in 1887. In 1890 he was granted the degree of Master of Arts.
Mr. Stevens was principal of Niantic, Conn., High School, 1888- 89; principal of Saguache, Coto., public schools, 1889-'93; superintendent of Darlington, Wis., public schools, 1826-1901; superintendent of public schools at Ocean City, N. J., since July, 1903; principal of Ocean City State Summer School, 1913 to date.
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He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity of Wesleyan University, and Delta Kappa Epsilon.
His business address is High School Building.
LILLIAN JOSEPHINE STOCKTON (Mrs. Charles W.)- Ridgewood, (Paramus Road. )-Women's Clubs. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917.) Born in Clarinda, Ia., on June 10, 1864; daughter of Thomas Richard and Elizabeth Pierce Stock- ton ; married at Longmont, Col., on September 17, 1891, to Charles William Stockton, born at La Grande, Ore., June 6, 1863, son of William M. and Nancy Farrie Stockton.
Children : Kenneth Evans, born January 25, 1893; Dorothy, born February 7, 1894, both in Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. Stockton was President of the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Club 1915-17, as well as a Director of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Her connection with club work in New Jersey began as Vice President of the Ridgewood Woman's Club (1909-'11), of which she was one of the organizers. She was President of this club 1911-'13, and became connected with the State Federation work in 1912 as Director and Chairman of the Department of Sociology. Mrs. Stockton became interested in woman's club work in Chicago, where she lived for six years prior to making New Jersey her home, and where she was an active - member of the Woodlawn Woman's Club.
Mrs. Stockton was educated in the public schools of Iowa and in Tabor College, Iowa.
EDWARD CASPER STOKES-Millville .- Banker. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., on December 22, 1860; son of Edward H. and Matilda G. (Kemble) Stokes.
Edward Casper Stokes was Governor of New Jersey for the term be- ginning in January, 1905. The majority by which he had been elected in the fall of 1904 is the largest ever given to a candidate in the history of the state. In the Legislature of 1902, he came within one vote of receiving, at the hands of the majority joint caucus of the Legislature, the republican nomination for United States Senator. The enactment of the Senatorial preferential primary law was of his inspiration; and, at the republican primaries for the choice of United States Senators in 1913, he was the lead- ing candidate. He served for some years as Chairman of the Republi- can State Committee; and altogether his publie activities have given him national conspicuousness.
Gov. Stokes's forebears on both sides are of Jersey stock. There are seven generations between the ex-Governor and the Thomas Stokes who is the first of the family to be chronicled on this side of the seas. On his mother's side he is connected with a family that has lived in Burlington
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county since the close of the seventeenth century. His father's people were Quakers and native Jerseymen. Edward H. Stokes, the ex-Governor's father, studied pharmacy at the start in Medford, but took afterwards to banking, and, settling finally in Millville, became the President of one of the banks there. Edward C. Stokes's preparatory schooling was at the public schools in Millville, and in the Friends School in Providence, R. I. He subsequently entered Brown University and graduated from there, second honor man, in 1SS3. Soon after graduation, he accepted a clerk- ship in the bank in which his father was at the time serving as cashier.
Meanwhile, he was taking a deep interest in public affairs. His special interest in educational problems led to his appointment as Superintendent of the Millville schools. He was elected to the New Jersey House of As- sembly in 1890 and again in '91. His speech on a pending local option bill during his second year in the Assembly gained him wide repute as an ora- tor. In 1892, he was elected to represent Cumberland county in the State Senate and re-elected in '95 and '98. He was a leader in the anti-race track movement that eventuated in the anti-gambling amendment to the State constitution ; and during the excitements over the attempt of what is known as "The (democratic) Rump Senate" to exclude republican senators-elect from the Senate chamber in 1894, he exerted a large influence in the move- ments that resulted in their admission. He served as Chairman of the Committee that revised and codified the State school law system-a codification that has brought about a contribution of nearly $3,000,000 an- nually for school purposes out of the State's General Fund; and forced through the Legislature the act requiring the payment of weekly wages in cash. The wage legislation grew out of the habit of the mine-owners and glass-blowers of paying their employees in orders upon the "company's stores." After the close of his Senate term, Gov. Voorhees appointed Sena- tor Stokes clerk of the Court of Chancery.
He was serving there when in 1904 he was given the republican nomi- nation for Governor and elected by a majority of 51,644. Gov. Stokes's ad- ministration was signalized by very much important legislation. It was his pen that wrote the approval of the laws establishing the "average rate" system in the taxation of railroad property, a second taking from the State Board of Assessors, the function of fixing the valuations of second class railroad property and transferring it to the local assessors, and another creating the County Boards of Taxation. These acts, with one modifiyng the functions of the State Equalization Board, were largely of his inspira- tion. Their purpose was to equate corporation and individual tax bills under regulations that would safeguard both sides; and the legislation en- riches the state and local treasuries by some millions of dollars annually.
Gov. Stokes was the first to present himself as a candidate for United States Senator in 1910 under the preferential primary law, and led all the candidates on the republican side by a pronounced plurality. The Legisla- ture which had not yet been divested of the function of electing United States Senators was democratic in 1911 and the majority vote of the two Houses made James E. Martine Senator.
Meanwhile, Gov. Stokes's public activities have not abated his interest in banking affairs. He was made the first President of the New Jersey Bankers Association and in 1899 was elected President of the Mechanics
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National Bank at Trenton. His gifts in oratory bring him in wide demand and he has made many notable addresses before educational and other so- cieties of the state. The ex-Governor is a bachelor.
HARLAN FISKE STONE-Englewood .- Law School Dean. Born at Chesterfield, N. H., on October 11, 1872; son of Frederick Lauson and Ann Sopbia (Batler) Stone; married on September 7, 1899, to Agnes Harvey, of Chesterfield, N. H.
Harlan F. Stone has been since September, 1910, Dean in the Columbia University School of Law. He had previously been a Lecturer on Law and a Professor of Law in the University. He is also a member of the law firm of Satterlee, Canfield & Stone, of New York City.
Mr. Stone graduated from Amherst College in 1894 and later studied at the Columbia University School of Law, graduating from there in 1898. Amherst gave him his degree of M. A. in 1897 and the degree of LL. D. in 1913. He holds the degree of IL. B. from Columbia also. He was ad- mitted to the New York bar in 1898; and a year later began his connection with the educational faculty of the University.
Mr. Stone is a director in the Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad Company, the Baker & Taylor Company and the Woman's Hotel Company and a member of the Legislative Drafting Research Fund, New York.
Mr. Stone is a republican in politics, attends the Episcopalian Church and is a contributor to many legal publications. His memberships are with the American Bar Association, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Ph. B. K., the A. D. P., and he is connected with the Century Club and the Amherst Association.
EDWARD LUTZ STURGESS-Glassboro .- Senator. Born at Glassboro, N. J., April 29th, 1868.
Senator Sturgess has been identified with State, County, and local politics for years. He was elected to the Gloucester County Board of Freeholders to fill an unexpired term, but did not seek re-election. In- stead, in 1907 he was named County Clerk and served in that office for five years. In 1915 he was clerk to the Committee of Highways of the Senate, and Calendar Clerk in the session of 1916. The following year, the president of the Senate, Gaunt made him his private secretary.
In the fall of 1917, elections he entered the race for Senator, and won by the large plurality of 2,073 votes over Hobday, high Demo- crat.
EDGAR HOWARD STURTEVANT-Edgewater .- Member of Board of Education. Born at Jacksonville, Ill., Mar. 7th, 1875;
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son of Alfred Henry and Harriet (Morse) Sturtevant ; married at Kirkwood, Mo., on July 11, 1903, to Bessie Fitch Skinner, daugh- ter of Lemuel and Anna (Fitch) Skinner.
Children : Grace, born July 14, 1904; Cortland, born April 22, 1907; Julian Monson, born Aug. 9, 1908.
Edgar Howard Sturtevant traces his ancestors back to Samuel Stur- tevant, who resided in Plymouth, Mass., in 1642; William Bradford, second Governor of the Plymouth Colony, and Robert Cushman, agent of the Pilgrim band, who procured the Mayflower.
He was educated in the public schools of Jacksonville, Ill., graduating in 1890 and graduated from the Whipple Academy of Jacksonville, Ill., in 1893. He also studied in Illinois College in 1893-1895, and in 1898 the University of Indiana conferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1901 the University of Chicago gave him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
During the year of 1902-1903 he taught at Maryville College, Mary- ville, Tenn., and then became assistant professor in the University of Missouri, which position he filled until 1905. Then for a short period he taught at the University of Indiana, and in 1907 became assistant pro- fessor at Columbia, which position he still holds.
Since June, 1908, he has lived in Edgewater. In 1912 he was ap- pointed to the State Board of Education by Governor Fielder, for a term, expiring in 1922.
His business address is Columbia University, New York City.
EDWARD JOSEPH SULLIVAN-Jersey City, (176 5th Street) -Assemblyman. Born in Jersey City, N. J., November 14th, 1876.
Edward Joseph Sullivan was educated in the public schools of Jersey City, and has always taken a leading part in the politics of Hud- son County, and for fifteen years, until the time .of his election to the Legislature, was a member of the Democratic County Committee of Hudson County.
At the fall 1918 elections he defeated his Republican opponent May- berry with a plurality of 19,545 votes.
FRANK M. TAYLOR-Hackensack .- Judge of Court of Errors and Appeals. Born at Fairview, Bergen county, N. J., July 23, 1873.
Frank M. Taylor has been a resident of New Jersey since his birth. For the past twenty years he has been a member of the firm of Lasher & Taylor, general agents for Hartford Fire Insurance, having charge of the company's affairs in New York and New Jersey.
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In 1913 he was appointed by Governor Fielder to serve as his personal military aide with the rank of Colonel. He was re-appointed to that position by Acting Governor Taylor, and again re-appointed by Governor Fielder in 1914. In 1915 he was appointed a judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals by Governor Fielder. His term will expire in 1921.
FREDERICK J. TATTERSALL-Paterson .- Assemblyman ; Born in Paterson, N. J., December 24th, 1879.
Mr. Tattersall was educated in the public schools of Paterson, his birthplace, graduating from the Paterson High School. Upon his gradu- ation from high school he engaged in the plumbing trade, and continued it for twenty years. Later he became acting Sales Manager for the John S. Norton Company of Jersey City and Paterson, which position he still holds.
Although Mr. Tattersall has never held another public office, previous- ly to being elected to the Assembly, he has always been identified as an active worker for the republican party. He is now serving his third term in the Assembly, having been returned at the last elections by a plurality of 6,016 votes over Kennedy, high Democrat.
He is a member of the Master Plumbers Association, Benevolent Lodge No. 45, Free and Accepted Masons, and Fabiola Lodge, No. 57, Knights of Pythias.
EZRA SQUIER TIPPLE-Madison .- Seminary President. (Pho- tograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born in Camden, N. Y., Jan- uary 23, 1861; son of Martin and Sarah E. (Squier) Tipple ; mar- ried June 24, 1897, to Edna E. White, daughter of Albert E. F. and Nellie A. White, of Detroit, Mich.
Ezra S. Tipple has been President of Drew Theological Seminary since 1912 and is the author of several books on theological subjects.
Dr. Tipple graduated from Syracuse University in 1884 with the A. B. degree and from Drew Seminary in 1887. In 1885 Syracuse Uni- versity conferred the A. M., in 1886 the Ph. D., in 1899 the D. D. and in 1913 the LL. D. degrees upon him.
Upon taking orders in the Methodist Episcopal Church, he became pastor of the St. Luke's Church in New York in 1887, of Grace Church in 1893 and of Saint James Church in 1897. Form 1901 he was the Ex- ecutive Secretary at New York of the Metropolitan Thank-Offering Com- mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church until 1904 when he became Pas- tor again of Grace Church.
Dr. Tipple was appointed Professor of Practical Theology in Drew Theological Seminary in 1905 and held that chair till he was made Presi- dent of the Seminary. He is a Trustee of the Board of Education of the
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Methodist Church, a Trustee of Syracuse University and the Carmel School for Girls, member of the Board of Managers of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Secretary of the Book Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, and of the Delta Upsilon Fraternities.
. Besides contributing to the religious press, Dr. Tipple is the author of "Heart of Asbury's Journal" (1905), "The Minister of God" (1906), "Drew Sermons"-first series (1906), second series (1907) "Drew Sermons on the Golden Texts" (1908, 1909, 1910), "Life of Freeborn Garrettson" (1910), "Some Famous Country Parishes" (1911) and "Life of Francis Ashbury" (1916).
WILLIAM ST. JOHN TOZER- - Bogota, (39 Beechwood Ave.) -Lawyer and Assemblyman. Born at New York City, N. Y., on November 7th, 1885, son of William and Emily Louise (Wilson) Tozer; married at Union Hill, N. J., August 30th, 1909, to Mary Grace Wissig, daughter of Edward and Martha Wissig.
Children : Mary Grace, born February 10th. 1912; William St. John, Jr., born January 1st, 1913; Ruth, born August 4, 1914; Edward W., born December 6th, 1917.
William St. John Tozer is of English-Scotch descent. In his early days he attended the public schools of New York City, his birthplace, and later those of New Jersey. He entered the New York Preparatory School, which he attended from 1905 to 1907 and thereupon took a course at the New York Law School.
He was admitted to Bar in New York in March 1910, in New Jer- sey as attorney in 1913 and as counselor in 1916, and is also member of Bar of United States Supreme Court.
He was a member of the borough council of Bogota from 1916 to 1919, and at the fall elections was elected to the State Assembly.
He is a member of the Union League Club of Hackensack, the New York County Lawyers Association, Bergen County Lawyers Association and the Royal Arcanum.
His business address is 42 Broadway, New York City,
WALKER WHITING VICK-Rutherford, (16 Addison Avenue) -Exporter. (Photograph published in Vol. 1, 1917). Born at Wilmington, N. C. August 16th, 1878; son of Samuel W. and Katherine (Rothwell) Vick; married at New York City, on Octo- ber 15th, 1902. to Sadie Averill Plunkitt, niece of former Senator George W. Plunkitt, of New York.
Children : Helen M., born August 5th, 1903: Walker W. Jr., born April 29th, 1905: Sally P., born December 19th, 1908; Rosemary P., born June 5th, 1912; Ruth M., born July 29th, 1917; Irene Wilson, born Dec. 28th, 1918.
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Walker W. Vick was Receiver General in 1913-'14 of Santo Domingo; and, becoming convinced as to the attempt to exploit this small nation for which we acted responsibly in a fiduciary capacity, he initiated and forced the investigation into the course pursued by James Mark Sullivan, the United States Minister there, which attracted national and international attention, and assisted in the settlement of the revolutionary disturbances on the Island. The findings of U. S. Senator James D. Phelan, of Cali- fornia, Special Commissioner of President Wilson, more than confirmed all of Mr. Vick's contentions. The Dominican Chamber of Commerce, prominent merchants and managers of various enterprises on the Island, many of the Dominican Senators and Deputies as well as all of the American business interests, joined in a public testimonial to Mr. Vick for his work there and President Wilson himself sent him a warm letter of appreciation. While in Carribean waters Mr. Vick visited Hayti also and made a report that clearly indicated that American occupation of the Island and treaty control was the only method of ending internal dis- turbances. Furthermore, Mr. Vick recommended for some years changes in Santo Domingo which have recently been affected through American military occupation.
All of these activities of Mr. Vick in the West Indies followed un- selfish and enthusiastic work for the political advancement of Woodrow Wilson. He had known President Wilson's father intimately and the Presi- dent himself during their residence in Wilmington, N. C., and he was deep- ly interested in Dr. Wilson's gubernatorial canvass in 1910. He became first lieutenant to William F. McCombs in 1911 and aided him till after the close of the National campaign of 1912, probably having been more inti- mately acquainted with the campaign than anyone. He officiated as Mal- ager of the General Headquarters of the Woodrow Wilson pre-Convention campaign Committee and served as Assistant Secretary of the Democratic National Committee in 1912 and until the St. Louis Convention 1916. One of the features of Mr. Vick's work during the 1912 campaign was the or- ganization of the savings and strict business system conducted at the Na- tional Headquarters, in such marked contrast to other campaigns. When preparations were being made for Wilson's inauguration as President, Mr. Vick was sent to Washington as Secretary of the Inaugural Committee to supervise them and was accorded much of the credit for the success of the imposing function of 1913. Mr. Vick was a delegate from the Sixth New Jersey District to the St. Louis Convention that renominated Presi- dent Wilson in 1916.
The Vick family line is an old one. It is of Norman origin and is quoted in Burke's and other established works on heraldry. The family came to Virgina in the early sixteenth century ; but Mr. Vick's immediate branch moved to Edgecombe, now Nash County, North Carolina, and served in the American Revolution from that State. Some of his forebears after- wards went to Mississippi and established the town of Vicksburg. The fam- ily is also related to the Vicks of Canada and of Rochester, N. Y., who came here about a century ago.
Mr. Vick has traveled extensively in South America, Mexico, Southern Spain, throughout the West Indies and over other sections. He came to New York eighteen years ago. He was engaged for years in mining,
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smelting and industrial enterprises and was a contributor to magazines and newspapers. During the Spanish American War he served in the United States Navy; in 1912 was President of the United Spanish War Veterans Encampment Commission ; and in 1917 was appointed Assistant Quartermaster General of the Spanish War Veterans. He was active in the campaign resulting in the Panama Exposition in San Francisco. In 1915 he actively engaged in the extension of exports and import trade to South America, Central America, the West Indies, Australia, the Philippines and the Far East as well as throughout Europe. He is the general manager of the Factory Products Export Corporation and Manufacturers' Agents Company, Inc., of New York, Vice President of The Cuyahoga Stamping & Machine Co. of Cleveland, Ohio; Vice President of the Taft Kitchen Corp., New Haven, Conn., and Vice President and Director of B. A. Cheney & Co., of New York.
He is a member of the American Manufacturers Export Association, Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. Pan-American Society, the Merchants' Association of New York, Italian-American Society, American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico, National Foreign Trade Council, and the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
Mr. Vick is a member of the Rocky Mountain Club and the Lawyers Club of New York, the Club Union and Casino de Juventud, Santo Domin- go, the New York Press, the New York Southern Society, the North Caro- lina Society of New York, the Japan and Mexico Societies, John T. Hilton Camp No. 3 United Spanish War Veterans, No. 547, B. P. O. E. and the Democratic of Rutherford, the National Security League and the Navy League of the United States.
RHEUA GUSSIE VICKERS-Jersey City, (22 Duncan Ave.)- Club Woman and Social Worker. Born at Mt. Vernon, N. Y., daughter of John V. and Anne (Miller) Bauchelle, married at Elizabeth, N. J., 1896, to George T. Vickers, son of Thomas Vickers, of Cincinnati, O.
Children : George T., born 1904.
Rheua Gussie Vickers is a descendant from French Bauchelles, who emigrated to Germany and thence to America at the time of the Huguenot persecutions in France. Her maternal ancestors can be traced back to Lord Radcliffe of England.
She was educated in the public schools of Elizabeth. As a child she was very fond of music and cultivated it in later years. For years, she only worked for charity and private musical affairs in Jersey City, but when the suffrage movement swept the state she came to the fore- ground. Together with Mrs. Everett Colby, Mrs. P. M. Garrison she went to Trenton before the Legislature, in an effort to force action of the government bodies, which of course was against suffrage. It was she who conducted a Music Festival in Jersey City which over three thou- sand people attended.
She is a member of the Woman's Club of Jersey City, the Choral Society, Afternoon Music Club. Jersey City Suffrage Association, the
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Board of St. Katherine's Home and the board of Whittier House Aux- iliary.
GEORGE THEODORE VICKERS Jersey City, (22 Duncan Ave.)-Lawyer. Born at Cincinnati, O., 1871, son of Thomas and Caroline (Seeberger) Vickers, married at Elizabeth, N. J., in 1898, to Rhena Gussie Bauchelle, daughter of John U. Bauchelle. Children : George T. Jr., born 1904.
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