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George T. Vickers is descended from an old Scotch family, the Mac Vicars. Both his father and mother were foreigners, having come to America. Thomas Vickers, father of the subject of this sketch met his wife while studying for the Unitarian ministry at Heidelberg University. Germany. They both returned to London and thence to America, settling at Cincinnati, O. Here they became well known in literary circles, and he became dean of Ohio University, which position he held until he was honored by becoming librarian of the famous Cincinnati library.
George Theodore Vickers was educated at home by private tutors, and in order to complete his education went abroad to study at Heidelberg University. He remained there for six years, returning to America and settling in the west. He stayed some time at Bismark, South Dakota and then went to Arkansas, where he contracted black malaria. He entered Harvard University to take a post graduate course in astronomy, and then accompanied an expedition with the Pickering Brothers, to Araquipa, Peru, staying two and one-half years. On his return from there, he went on another European trip, of short duration, and returning to America he settled in Jersey City. He entered the law offices of Collings and Corbin, deciding to study law, and immediately after his admittance to the bar, was named assistant prosecutor of Hudson County, which office he still fills.
His military career began at the time of the Spanish American War. He joined the Essex Calvary, and was given a Captain's commission, in the Fourth Regiment, Jersey City. He rapidly rose to major, lieutenant, colonel, and as colonel, he took his regiment to the Border at the time of the Mexican trouble, and on his return was given a public ovation for his splendid care of the troops while encamped at Douglas, Arizona. When the mobiliza- tion for the European War began, he at once resigned his position to go with his regiment, but after six weeks of service, he was suddenly mus- tered out, this being in accordance with the plan carried out during the early part of the war, dropping all National Guard Colonels. Over 2,000. telegrams from Hudson County went to Washington, in a vain plea for his reinstatement.
He is a member of the Cartaret Club of Jersey City, the Sag Harbor Yacht Club, Scottish Rites, Union League Club of Hudson County, Bar Association and the Essex Troop Veterans Association.
His business address is Court House, Jersey City, N. J.
DANIEL S. VOORHEES-Morristown, (32 Maple Avenue)- Lawyer. Born at Somerville, on August 15, 1852; son of Daniel
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Spader and Mary Louise Campton (Doty) Voorhees; married on January 28th, 1874, to Frances L. White, daughter of W. W. White, of New Brunswick.
Daniel S. Voorhees was for four years State Treasurer of New Jersey and for more than a quarter of a century County Clerk of Morris county and has long been a recognized force in the republican politics of the State. He was reared in Elizabeth of Holland ancestry and, while attending the schools there, sold newspapers at the local railway station as an on-the- side business diversion. He secured employment in a hardware store in Elizabeth, but at seventeen formed the connection with the County Clerk's office that continued for so long. He began with a clerkship offered to him by County Clerk Richard Spear, and discharged his functions with an ac- ceptability that prompted William McCarty, whom the democrats of the county afterwards selected County Clerk, to select him, notwithstanding that he is a republican, for the position of Deputy County Clerk. At the election in 1898 the republicans put Mr. Voorhees in nomination for the chief office and he was elected. Successive re-elections made him, includ- ing his service as an employee, an incumbent in the County Clerk's office for thirty-seven years.
Meanwhile Mr. Voorhees had served as Town Clerk of Morristown for five years, and the general line of his work in both town and county offices inspired him with an ambition to become a lawyer. He studied successively in the office of John M. Betts, George Forsythe and Quayle & Vreeland. He was admitted to the Bar in 1906; but he had scarcely opened an office for practice before the republican joint meeting of the two Houses of the Legislature at Trenton selected him for the office of State Treasurer. He served until, his term expiring in 1911, at a time when the democrats had acquired control of the joint meeting, he was displaced by Edward I. Edwards, then cashier, now the President of the First National Bank of Jersey City.
State Treasurer Voorhees has been a member of the Republican State Committee since 1903 and had risen to great power in the councils of the party when Woodrow Wilson succeeded to the Governorship of New Jersey.
JACOB J. VREELAND-Dover, (16 West Blackwell St.)- Architect. Born at Dover, N. J., March 9th, 1875; son of Jacob J. and Martha (Cooper) Vreeland ; married at Dover, N. J., May 25th, 1898, to Ella Abbie Tucker. (great-great grandniece of Daniel Webster), daughter of Mathew and Anna (Blish) Tucker.
Children : Francis M., March 15th, 1899; Jacob W., March 5. 1903; Henry W., Nov. 21, 1905; Keneth M., Nov. 7th, 1908; Ma- thew T., Nov. 8, 1913; Robert W., June 24, 1914, and Florence E .. (deceased).
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The ancestors of the Vreeland family came from Holland in 1636. Michael Jensen Vreeland, accompanied by three sons, settled in Green- ville, New Jersey, now a part of Jersey City. Richard, son of Michael Jensen Vreeland, settled at, or near Pompton Piains, New Jersey. He was the progenitor of the family of which Jacob J. Vreeland is a mem- ber ..
Enoch Vreeland, the grandson of Richard Vreeland, who was the great-great-grandfather of Jacob J. Vreeland. was a resident of Bergen County, New Jersey. His son Jacob, a carpenter by trade, was the first branch of the family to settle in Morris County, New Jersey. His son, Richard J., was born in Stoneybrook, Morris County, New Jersey, June 15, 1810; died 1894. During the Civil War he enlisted in Company E, Fifteenth New Jersey Volunteers. He was prominent in the Whig Party, and afterwards became a Republican. He married Catherine Dey, born at Green Pond, New Jersey, December 12, 1812; died 1881. She was the daughter of John Dey, a native of Scotland.
Their son, Jacob J. Vreeland, Sr., the father of our subject, was born at Stoneybrook, New Jersey, November 2, 1839; died April 12, 1910. He located in Dover in 1866. He was a Contractor and Builder, and spent thirty-eight years in active business, retiring in 1908. He was a staunch Republican and active in local and county politics. He served on the Town Council for twelve years, and was a member of the . Board of Chosen Freeholders for about eight years, and was chosen many times as delegate to County and State Conventions, which were held in the days before the Primary Laws were put in force. He was one of the organizers of the Fire Department of the Town of Dover, and was its Chief for a number of years. After retiring from business he was ap- pointed the Assessor of the Town of Dover. He married Martha Cooper, born in Sparta, New Jersey, December 7, 1841, died April, 1902. He and his wife had the following children : Frances M., Charles E .. , John Edward, Robert C., and Jacob J., Jr.
Jacob J. Vreeland, Jr., was born at Dover. He received his first schooling in the Private Schools of Dr. Halloway and Lucy Magie, and the public school. He took a preparatory course at the Stevens Prepara- tory School at Hoboken, New Jersey, and finished his studies with a special architectural course in the University of Pennsylvania. He has practiced his profession of Architecture for twenty-two years, in which time he has erected a number of school buildings, together with other public buildings and private residences. He has been a life resident of the town of Dover, where he owns considerable real estate.
Mr. Vreeland, like his ancestors, has always been active in public life; he being foremost among that group of men who are doing most for the community of Dover. He is in politics a Republican. He served on the Board of Education; the Board of Water Commissioners; two terms in the State Legislature as Assemblyman; and at the present time is the Assessor of the Town. He was the organizer of the Republican Central Committee of Dover, and was its President for seven years. He got up the list of the charter members of the Dover Lodge of Elks, and is one of its Past Exalted Rulers. He is also affiliated with a number of
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other lodges in the town. He and his family are communicants of St. John's Episcopal Church of Dover, N. J.
PETER DUMONT VROOM-Trenton .- Brigadier-General U. S. A. Born at Trenton, April 18, 1842; son of Peter D. and Matilda (Wall) Vroom.
Peter Dumont Vroom, retiring of his own motion as Brigadier-General, U. S. A. in 1903, brought to a close an active Army service that had cov- ered a period of more than forty years. His father was Governor of New Jersey from 1833 to 1836; and his mother was connected with the family of Garret D. Wall, who was elected Governor in 1829 but declined to serve.
Gen. Vroom graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1862 with the C. E. degree. He was soon afterwards made First Lieuten- ant Adjutant in the New Jersey Infantry. He resigned in September, 1863, and went into the Union service in the Civil War as Major of the 2nd Regiment of New Jersey Cavalry. He was brevetted a Colonel in 1865 and honorably mustered out of service in October of that year. In February, 1860, he was appointed from New Jersey Second Lieutenant, 3rd U. S. Cavalry ; made First Lieutenant in July, '66; Captain in May, '76; Inspec- tor General with the rank of Major in December, 1883; promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 1895; to that of Colonel in '99, and made Brigadier General in 1903.
General Vroom is a member of the New York, Metropolitan, Washing- ton, Army and Navy, and San Antonio Clubs.
HENRY OLIVER WALKER-Lakewood .- Artist. Born in Bos- ton, Mass., May 14, 1843 ; son of Thomas Oliver and Sarah Lucy Walker; married on April 19, 18SS, to Laura Margaret, daughter of John P. Marquand, of New York.
Henry O. Walker studied art under Bonnat in Paris and established a studio in New York City. His specialty has been composition in figures. Some of the decorative pictures in the Library of Congress Building on Capitol Hill in Washington are the product of his brush. Others of his works are seen in the decorations in the Appellate Court House in New York City, the State House in Boston, Mass., the Minnesota Capital Build- ing in St. Paul and the Court House in Newark.
Mr. Walker is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Let- ters.
JOSEPH F. WALLWORTH-Haddonfield, (113 Redman Ave.) -Assemblyman. Born at Philadelphia, Pa., February 24th, 1876.
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John F. Wallworth is a member of the firm of J. Wallworth & Sons, of Philadelphia, manufacturers of cotton and wool waste. He has been a member of the executive committee of the Camden County Republican Committee for the past three years, and was elected assemblyman from Camden County at the fall of 1918 elections, with a plurality of 9,986 votes, over Nicholson his Democratic opponent.
He is a member of the following clubs : Haddonfield Republican Club of which he is president; Camden Lodge of Elks; Crescent Temple and Mystic Shrine fraternities of the Masonic Order; and the Union League Club of Philadelphia.
FRANK WANSER-Vineland .- Superintendent of Weights and Measures. Born at New Brunswick, N. J., on April 5, 1861.
Frank Wanser was educated in the public schools of New Brunswick and Trenton. At the age of thirteen, he became a page in the House of Assembly and in 1875 and 1876 the two following years, he was a page in the State Senate. During the session of the fifty-fourth congress he was a bookkeeper in the Government publication department of the House of Representatives at Washington, D. C.
In 1899 he went into the real estate and insurance business with his father in Vineland, which business he has conducted since. In 1884 he became special agent and adjuster for New Jersey and Eastern Penn- sylvania for a Boston Fire Insurance Company, which position he fills in conjunction with his business.
From March 1902 until July 1910, Mr. Wanser was postmaster of Vineland, but resigned from that position so as to be able to devote more time to his business. On February 27th, 1917. Governor Edge ap- pointed him State Superintendant of Weights and Measures, for a period of five years.
JOHN M. B. WARD-Paterson, (661 East 18th Street ) .- Law- yer, Born at Paterson, N. J., on December 16, 1880, son of Z. M. and Kate E. (Smith) Ward.
Children : John Z. M.
John M. B. Ward is a descendant of Polatiah Ward, who was born in December. 1689, and who came to this County with four brothers, settling in the colony of Massachusetts Bay, and from the Marcy and Smith families of New York State. Mr. Ward's father, Captain Zebulon M. Ward, Civil War veteran, was one of the most distinguished lawyers Paterson has ever produced.
Mr. Ward obtained his early education in the Paterson Public Schools and in New York Preparatory schools, finally entering Columbia Uni- versity. He took a law course in the New York University Law School and was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1901. At the time of his
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admission to the bar he became associated in his profession with his father Captain Zebulon M. Ward, wbieb association continued until his father's death in 1904. In 1904 be forincd a partnership with Senator Peter J. McGinnis under the firm name of Ward & McGinnis, the firm having continued since that time under that name. Mr. Ward has been actively engaged in trial work and has participated in most of the im- portant trial litigations in the northern section of the State. He was appointed a member of the Board of Commerce and Navigation by Governor Fielder, which term of office expires on July 1, 1919.
He is a member of the following organizations: Masons, No. 45; B. P. O. Elks, No. 60; Loyal Order of Moose, No. 353; Lincoln Club ; Central Republican Club ; Order of America : Royal Arcanium; Junior Order of American Mechanics; Sons of Veterans, and others.
His business address is Second National Bank Building, Pater- son, N. J.
BENJAMIN BRECKINRIDGE WARFIELD-Princeton-Theo- logical Seminary Professor. Born near Lexington, Ky., November 5, 1851; son of William and Mary Cabell ( Breckinridge) Warfield ; married on August 3, 1876, to Annie Pearce Kinkead, daughter of George Blackburn and Eliza Pearce Kinkead, of Lexington, Ky.
Benjamin B. Warfield is Professor of Didactic and Polemical Theology in Princeton Theological Seminary and has been twice-in 1911 and 1914- Acting President of the Seminary. The first trace of his line in this country is found in the immigration to Annapolis, Md., of Richard Warfield, in 1680. Ethelbert Dudley Warfield, who has been President successively of Miami University, of Lafayette College and of Wilson College in Chambers- burg, Pa., is a brother of Dr. Warfield.
Dr. Warfield's early schooling was acquired in private schools in his native town. He entered the College of New Jersey, now Princeton Uni- versity and was graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1871, receiving the degree of A. M., in 1874. He studied for the ministry at Princeton Theolog- ical Seminary and was graduated there in 1876. In the following year he was a student at the Leipzig University. He was ordained to the Presby- terian ministry in 1879. He had meanwhile become Instructor in New Tes- tament Language and Literature in the Western Theological Seminary at Allegheny (now Pittsburgh, North side) Pa. Upon his ordination he was given the chair of Professor in these studies, and held it until 1887, when he was called to his Princeton Theological Professorship.
Dr. Warfield's pen has been a busy one. He was the co-editor of the "Presbyterian Review" in 1889 and from 1890 to 1903 editor of the "Pres- byterian and Reformed Reviews." He is frequently called upon to prepare encyclopedia articles, and is an author besides of many books on church topics. These include, "Divine Origin of the Bible" (1882), "Inspiration" (1882), "Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament" (1886), "Augustine's Anti-Pelagian Treatises" (1887), "The Idea of Syste- matic Theology" (18SS). "On the Revision of the Confession of Faith"
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(1890), "The Gospel of the Incarnation" (1893) "Two Studies in the His- tory of Doctrine" (1893), "The Right of Systematic Theology" (1897), "The Significance of the Westminister Standards" (1898), "Acts and Pas- toral Epistles" (1902), "The Power of God, unto Salvation" (sermons) (1903), "The Lord of Glory" (1907), "Calvin as a Theologian and Cal- vinism Today" (1909), "Hymns and Religious Verses" (1910), "How Shall we Baptise?" (1911), "The Saviour of the World" (sermons) (1914). "The Plan of Salvation" (1915), "Faith and Life" (1916), and "Counterfeit Miracles," (1918).
Dr. Warfield received the degree of D. D. in 1880 and the degree of LL. D. in 1892 from Princeton University, the degree of LL. D. from David- son College in 1892, the degree of Lit. D. from Lafayette College in 1911 and the degree of S. T. D. from the University of Utrecht, Holland, in 1913.
ARTHUR EDWARD WARNER-Elizabeth, (37 De Hart Place) -Assemblyman and Secretary-Treasurer, Perth Amboy Printing Co., Born at East Provident, R. I., May 15th, 1878 ;son of Edward P. and Sarah M. (Medbery) Warner ; married at Riverside, R. I., September 4th, 1901, to Nellie Binning Allen, daughter of Samuel and Helen (Reynolds) Allen.
Arthur Edward Warner was educated in the schools of East Providence, Rhode Island, graduating from the Providence High School in 1898. He at- tended Brown University from 1900 to 1901, and Dartmouth College until 1904, graduating with a degree of Bachelor of Science.
He began his business career by being assistant Principal of the Newport, Vermont, Academy, and later he entered the newspaper pro- fession. He was editor of the Lawrence, Mass., "Eagle," Bridgeport, Conn., "Telegram," Hartford, Conn., "Post;" a member of the editorial staff of the Elizabeth Daily Journal ; and later the Newark Evening Star. In 1917 he organized the Perth Amboy Printing Company, purchasing the commercial department of the Perth Amboy Evening News. He is now secretary and treasurer of the concern.
At the fall election in 1917 he was elected a member of the State Assembly and re-elected last year.
He is a member of the University Club of Bridgeport ; the Dartmouth Club of New York City and the Junior Order United American Mechanics of Elizabeth.
His business address is 70 South Street, Perth Amboy.
CATHERINE CARTER WARREN (Mrs. Howard C.)-Prince- ton .- Club Woman. Daughter of Henry Casson and Mary Frances Carter (Jones) Campbell ; married at New York, N. Y., April 5, 1905, to Howard Crosby Warren.
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Catherine Carter Warren is of Scoth-Irish descent. Her great-grand- father, Alexander Foster, served during the war of the Revolution, at the close of the war moving to Lexington, Kentucky, where he married Belle Carter.
Mrs. Warren was educated in public and private institutions. In 1900 she was graduated from the University of Chicago, after having completed a special course there in 1910. She was graduated from the Teachers' College and three years later graduated from Barnard Col- lege, connected with Columbia University, New York City.
During late years, she has taken an active interest in civic affairs in her home city, Princeton. From 1910 to 1911 she was president of the Present Day Club of Princeton, and from 1911 to 1913 she was presi- dent of New Jersey State Federation of Woman's Clubs; from 1910 to 1914 she was a member of the Civil Committee, General Federation of Women's Clubs, and has been a director of the New Jersey Child Labor Committeee since 1900.
She is a member of the Present Day Club of Princeton, the Woman's Suffrage Association of Princeton, the College Woman's Club of Prince- ton, the Contemporary Club, of Princeton, the Century Club, of New York and the Post Parliament Club, of New York.
AGNES BOWER WAUTERS (Mrs. William Morris)-Bay- onne, (820 Avenue A.)-Journalist, Speaker, Song Writer, Civic and Patriotic Worker. Born at Albany, N. Y .; daughter of John Spaven and Elizabeth Watson Hogg; married at Bayonne, N. J., Oct. 20, 1886, to William Morris Wauters, son of Stephen Vree- land and Emily (Christopher) Wauters, of Bayonne, N. J.
Children : Alfred, born Dec. 30, 1SS8 (deceased Oct. 19, 1918) ; Bessie Belle, born Aug. 30, 1890 (deceased Feb. 16, 1891) ; also one grandson, John William Wauters, born May 28, 1914.
Agnes Bower Wauters is a paternal descendant of the Stuarts of Scotland, related to the ruling family, the last of which, Mary Queen of Scots, was beheaded by Queen Elizabeth in the sixteenth century. An ancestor, Robert Spaven, was an associate of King Charles the first, of England, and was one of the few people who knew by whom the monarch was beheaded in 1664. On her maternal side she is related to James Hogg, the shepherd poet of Scotland.
Mrs. Wauters was educated in the public schools of Albany, her birthplace, and in 1875 went to England, where she attended a private school for five years. On her return to America she again entered the public schools of Brooklyn, and later completed her education by taking special courses in New York City.
Mrs. Wauters has attained national fame among Women's organiza- tions as a journalist, speaker, song writer, civic and patriotic worker.
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She is best known for her efforts to have the mountain laurel recognized as the National Flower. At the bienniel of the General Federation of Women's Clubs at Chicago in June, 1914. Mrs. Wauters read an original poem, "A Plea for the Laurel." There was such a wide-spread demand from the delegates for copies of it that at the next bienniel, held in New . York City in May, 1916, 20,000 copies of it were distributed as well as an article, "Laurel as Our National Flower." As a result Mrs. Wauters succeeded in having a resolution passed endorsing the laurel as the national flower of the United States by the representatives of the 9,000 women's clubs present.
Through these pamphlets she secured the endorsement of the Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists, and numerous women's organizations for her movement. Others who were favorably impressed by the idea, and who wished Mrs. Wauters success in her efforts were the late Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Admiral Dewey. She also has a written en- dorsement from Edwin Markham, America's poet. It was through her efforts that a bill was introduced in Congress in 1916 asking that the laurel be adopted as the National Floral Emblem. She attended a hearing of the bill on February 2, 1917, and when no action was taken, re-intro- duced the bill last year.
Recently she was appointed chairman of the National Flower Com- mittee of the General Federation of Women's Clubs and as such, on Victory Day sent a large wreath of laurel to President Wilson; also, on Roosevelt Memorial Day, Feb. 9, 1919, with her committee held cere- monies, placing a large wreath of mountain laurel on the grave of Theo- dore Roosevelt, at Oyster Bay Cemetery. She presented General Per- shing with a bronze wreath of mountain laurel on behalf of the National Flower League.
It was Mrs. Wauters who also started the Municipal Christmas Tree Association of United Women's Clubs, of which she has been chairman for six years. She secured the appropriation of money annually from the city treasury of Bayonne, whereby eight hundred children are made happy every Christmas. She also originated the idea of planting honor trees to the living and memorial trees to the dead along Lincoln High- way. At one of these twelve ceremonial excercises President Wilson planted a tree and laurel at Princeton in memory of Lincoln, and Gov. Fielder planted one in honor of President Wilson, at which Mrs. Wauters presided.
She is well known as a writer of short stories, songs, and essays. particularly on the Laurel, which have been published in the leading newspapers and magazines of the country.
She is a member of the following organizations: First President of the Bayonne Council of Organizations, which includes fourteen clubs. Past President Alpha Literary and Musical Club. chairman of the Con- servation Department of the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs, President of the Municipal Christmas Tree Association of Bay- onne, chairman of the Women's Committee of the Council of National Defense of Bayonne, chairman Woman's Liberty Loan Committee. mem- ber of the Mayor's Committee on the Observance of French Day, La-
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fayette Day and the return of the soldiers and sailors, chairman of the National Flower Committee of the General Federation of Women's Clubs.
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