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He was married, in 1866, to Isabella Wildrick, daughter of Abram Wildrick, a former State Senator, of Warren County, N. J.
FRANKLIN MURPHY was born in Jersey City on the 3d of January, 1846, his father, William Hayes Murphy, be- ing one of the leading business men of that city. His great grandfather, Robert Murphy, was a soldier in the Revolu- tion, enlisting from Bergen County in the Continental Army at the age of seventeen and serving under General Greene.
William Hayes Murphy was born in Newark. April 15, 1821, and received a public school education. He has been active in furthering the interests of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he is an honored member. He served four years as Alderman, one term as a member of the Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders, and two terms in the New Jersey House of Assembly. He is a member of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He has been twice married and has four sons and one daughter.
Franklin Murphy was preparing for college at the Newark Academy when the War of the Rebellion broke out. He en-
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listed in the Thirteenth New Jersey Volunteers and served three years, leaving the army with the rank of First Lien- tenant. Returning to Newark, Mr. Murphy became the founder of the Murphy Varnish Company, now one of the most extensive concerns of the kind in the United States.
He has been an active Republican ever since he attained his majority. In 1883 he was elected a member of the Board of Aldermen of Newark and was re-elected to the same office in 1885. In 1884 he was elected to the New Jersey House of Assembly. He has served as Chairman of the Republican State Committee. Ile is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and has been President of the National Society.
JAMES AARON COE, of Newark, N. J., merchant, was born in that city on the 2d of February, 1847. His parents were Aaron and Julia ( Baldwin) Coe, and he is a grandson of Sayres Cor and JJ. J. Baldwin and a great-grandson of Benjamin Coe.
Mr. Coo received his education at the New- ark Academy. He sub- seqnently engaged in business and became prominent in the iron and steel trade. He is President of the well known firm of James A. Coe & Company.
Mr. Coe is conspicuous as a citizen of Newark, honored and respected by all who know him, JAMES A. COE. and known as a man of integrity and uprightness of character. He married Miss M. Louise Sears, of Newark, and has six children.
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EDWARD STELLE CAMPBELL, of Newark, a well known citizen and prominent in financial circles, was born in New Brunswick, N. J., January 8, 1854. His parents were David Freeman and Susan Runyon ( Stelle) Campbell, and he is a grandson of Neil Campbell and Edward Taylor Stelle. His paternal ancestry is traced back to the Scotch clan Campbell. On his mother's side he is a descendant in the Stelle line of French Huguenot forefathers, and in the Runyon branch
he comes from the same family as the distin- guished Chancellor Runyon, his ancestors having been New Jersey residents for more than two hundred years.
He was educated in the public schools of his native town, New Brunswick, graduating from the New Bruns- wick High School in 1868. Immediately aft- er leaving school he entered the office of the Gas Light Company of New Brunswick as a EDWARD S. CAMPBELL. clerk, but left that es- tablishment in March, 1870, to become a clerk in the National Bank of New Jersey, at New Brunswick. He was promoted to the position of Cashier in September, 1884, and continued to serve in that capacity until January, 1894, when he went to Newark and became Vice-President of the National New- ark Banking Company. He still retains the latter posi- tion. He is one of the most esteemed members of the finan- cial community of Newark. At various times he has acted as trustee and executor of estates.
While living in New Brunswick Mr. Campbell served as Treasurer of the Board of Trade of that city, and also as
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Treasurer and later as President of the New Brunswick Young Men's Christian Association. He is at present a Director of the Newark Board of Trade, a member of the State Executive Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association, and of the Newark Athletic Club.
He was married, May 8, 1877, to Elizabeth Mundy Mecker, daughter of David Edward Meeker, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
EDWARD PAYSON ALLING, of East Orange, banker and broker in New York City, was born at Lyons Farms, N. I., November 19, 1848. His parents were Stephen B. and Jane H. ( Weir) Alling ; his paternal grandfather was David Alling. He received his early education in the public schools of Newark, and was graduated from the Freehold ( N. J.) Institute in 1864. He then obtained employment as a clerk with the house of Fisk & Hatch in Wall Street, New York City, remain- ing with that firm for twenty years. In 1885 he engaged in business for himself, and is now at the head of the bank- ing and brokerage firm of Alling. Reynolds & Co., 30 Pine Street, New York City.
Mr. Alling is one of the conspicuous citizens of East Orange, Ile is Vice-President of the People's Bank and Treasurer of the Sav- ings Investment and Trust Company of that place. He is a Repub- lican, active in town EDWARD P. ALLING. affairs, has held the of- tive of Town Committeeman, and is now a member of the Excise Board. He is a member of the Essex Club of New-
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ark, the Essex County Country Club, the Riding Club of East Orange, Hope Lodge of East Orange, and the Brick Presbyterian Church of East Orange.
He was married, June 1, 1871, to Oliveretta C. Secor, and
RESIDENCE OF EDWARD P. ALLING, EAST ORANGE.
has two children : Bertha, wife of Herbert B. Atha, of New- ark, and Jenny, wife of John S. Hawley, Jr.
ERWIN DEAN FARNSWORTH, of Newark, N. J., son of Joseph and Elmira Smith (Dean) Farnsworth, was born in the City of New York, October 7, 1853. He is a descend- ant in the seventh generation of Matthias Farnsworth (born in 1612), a native of Lancastershire, England, who married Mary Farr, one of the early settlers of Lynn, Mass. The
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Farnsworths in this country are nearly all the direct de- scendants of this Matthias. The name was formerly writ- ten Fferneworth, of Fferneworth Hall, Par- ish of Dean, near Man- chester, England. Mat- thias came to America with the Dorchester Company soon after the Pilgrims - probably C abont 1628-and set- tled at Dorchester, Mass. The line of de- scent to Mr. Erwin Dean Farnsworth is as follows: 1. Matthias, born in 1612, married Mary, daughter of George Farr; 2. Jona- than, born in 1675, mar- ried Ruth Shattnek; 3. Jonathan, born in 1701, ERWIN D. FARNSWORTH. married Mary Burt; 4. Joseph, born in 1732, married Hannah Flynt; 5. Jonathan, born in August, 1767, married Hitty Parker, of Groton, Mass .; 6. Joseph, married Elmira Smith Dean; 7. Erwin Dean.
Joseph Farnsworth, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born at Sharon, N. H., afterward living at Fitch- burg, Mass .. and Keene, N. H. He entered Dartmouth Col- lege in 1839. He was for some years connected with Phil- lips Academy. Andover, Mass., and later was professor in the Mount Prospect School at West Bloomfield (now Mont- clair), N. J., the Irving Institute of Tarrytown, N. Y., and the Mechanics' Institute of New York City. He was an ac- tive member of the Sullivan Street and Carmine Street Churches in New York, and, removing to Roseville, N. J., was for many years an elder of the Roseville Presbyterian Church and was the organizer and superintendent of the Bruce Street Mission work. He was a good public speaker,
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a graceful prose writer, and the author of many poems of merit which found their way into print, but anonymously, as he was too unassuming to permit his name to appear. The mother of Mr. E. D. Farnsworth, Elmira Smith (Dean) Farnsworth, was the daughter of John Dean, of Dean's Pond, N. J., and Mary (Mead) Dean, of Pompton, N. J. In addition to the Meads, the Hanlenbeck, Sloat, and Earl families are represented in the collateral branches of his maternal line.
Erwin Dean Farnsworth has spent nearly his entire life in the section of Newark which is known as Roseville. He was educated in the public schools of Newark, and at an early age entered the insurance office of John Dean & Son (his grandfather and uncle) in Jersey City. He was then for sixteen years-until 1889- in the National State Bank of Newark; and he has since been connected as Cashier with the Second National Bank of Newark and more recently as Treasurer of the Dime Savings Institution.
He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, the Board of Trade of Newark, the East Orange Republican Club, and the Cen- tral Presbyterian Church of Orange. For many years he was connected with the Roseville Presbyterian Church.
He was married, in 1878, to Harriet M. Gould, of Newark, daughter of Lucius D. and Phebe Elizabeth (Gardner) Gould. They have two daughters, Helen Elmira and Eliza- beth Gould, and one son, Erwin Dean, Jr.
JOSEPH COULT, one of the ablest members of the New- ark bar, is descended from an early Connecticut family who came to New Jersey about the middle of the eighteenth century and first settled in Sussex County. He was the youngest of ten children, and was born in Frankfort, N. J., May 25, 1834. In the common and classical schools of his day he received a thorough preparation for college, but after considerable delay a collegiate course was abandoned, much against his cherished hopes and ambitions. All induce- ments held out for him to enter mercantile life were of no avail; he was determined to take up the study of law and adopt that as his profession. In 1858 he became a student
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in the law office of Thomas N. MeCarter, then of Newton, Sussex County. A little later he entered and was regularly graduated from the Albany ( N. Y.) Law School, and upon his admission to the bar of that State in 1858 he began ae- tive practice in New York City.
In 1861 he was admitted to the New Jersey bar and the same year he opened an office in Newton, where he practiced successfully for thirteen years. In 1874 Mr. Coult removed to Newark, N. J., where he has since resided and followed his profession, and where for a time he was a partner of his distinguished preceptor, Hon. Thomas N. MeCarter. Later he formed a copartnership with James E. Howell, who had been a student in his office in Newton, and thus organized the law firm of Coult & Howell, one of the oldest, best known, and most successful in the State.
For a time Mr. Coult served as Prosecutor of Pleas for Sussex County, and from 1884 to 1892 he was City Counsel of the City of Newark. It was largely due to his efforts while acting in the latier capacity that the new and present water supply for Newark was accomplished; and it was also mainly due to his indomitable efforts and personal di- rection that the law known as the " Martin Act" was passed. He prepared the original draft for this act, and worked incessantly to secure its passage by the Legislature; and, by its operation, many cities of the State were relieved from burdensome indebtedness. Mr. Coult has always been a Republican, and has represented his party in several im- portant political conventions, both State and National. He was a delegate to the Baltimore Convention, at which Lin- roln was for a second time nominated for President; to the Philadelphia Convention, which nominated General Grant for that high office; and to the Cincinnati Convention, which gave the presidential nomination to Rutherford B. Hayes.
Mr. Coult is properly placed among the most sagacious and reliable lawyers in New Jersey. A man of rare legal attainments, courteous, dignified, and honest, his great force of character and unerring grasp of fundamental prin- ciples make him a powerful advocate. He has few equals as a counsellor, and of late years he has been often called upon to act as counsel by prominent lawyers who recognize
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his special powers. As a citizen he is highly esteemed and universally respected, and takes a lively interest in all pub- lic affairs.
Mr. Coult was married in May, 1859, to Miss Frances A., daughter of Joseph A. Osborne, of Frankfort Township, Sussex County, N. J. They have four children : Margaret, Eliza, Lillian, and Joseph, Jr.
EDGAR B. WARD, of Newark, lawyer and prominent in insurance circles, was born in Afton, Morris County, N. J. His parents were Moses D. and J. Louisa (Sayre) Ward; his paternal grandparents Jacob and Abigail Ward; his maternal grandparents Elias and Abby Sayre. He was educated at the Bloomfield (N. J.) Academy and at Cor- nell University, and was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in 1872, as an attorney, and in 1875, as a counsellor. He engaged in the practice of his profession in Newark, and became prominent at the bar. In 1880 he was ap- pointed counsel of the Prudential Insurance Company of America, and several years later was made Second Vice- President of that com- pany. He still con- tinues in both these positions.
Mr. Ward is a prom- inent resident of East Orange. He has repre- sented the Thirteenth Ward in the Board of Education of Newark, EDGAR B. WARD. and is a member of the Essex County Country Club, the Essex Club, the Lawyers' Club of Newark, the Newark Athletic Club, the University
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Club of Newark, and the Riding and Driving Club of Orange.
lle was married, in 1877, to Harriett Newell Jnbe, daugh- ter of John P. JJube, of Newark. Their children are Edgar Perey, Newell J., and Kenneth B.
JOHN EASTWOOD, of Belleville, Essex County, New Jersey, is a native of Lancashire, England, his parents be- ing Peter Eastwood and Elizabeth Moon. He received his education in the Lancashire common schools. When a young man he came to America, settled in Belleville, Essex County, New Jersey, and in 1847 established himself as a manufacturer in the chemical business, which a few years since he incorporated as the Eastwood Chemical Company. lle is also President and principal owner of the Eastwood Wire Manufacturing Com- pany, and for twenty years has been one of the Trustees of the Newark Celluloid Com- pany.
In his various bnsi- ness connections Mr. Eastwood has been very successful, and through his honesty, integrity, and uprightness of character has always maintained the confi- dence and respect of all who know him.
For over twenty JOHN EASTWOOD. years he was a vestry- man of Trinity Episcopal Church of Newark. resigning .re- cently on account of his health.
Mr. Eastwood married Mary, daughter of JJoseph Sefton, of Leeds, England.
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SYDNEY NORRIS OGDEN, of Newark, youngest son of Morgan Lewis Ogden and Eliza Glendy MeLaughlin, is a direct descendant of John Ogden, who was born in Stam- ford, Conn., in 1641, moved to Hempstead, Long Island. in 1644, and was one of the patentees of that town. About 1650 he established the settlement of Northampton, Long Island. He was made a " freeman " of Southampton, March 31, 1650, and was chosen by the General Court of Hartford, Conn., May 16, 1656, and again in 1657 and 1658, as one of the magis- trates of the colony. He sat in the General Court as a representative from Southampton in May, 1659, and in the Upper House in May, 1661, and afterward. The Dutch having taken possession of New York, John Og- den was appointed "Schout " for the six towns - Elizabeth- towne, Middletown, New Yorke, Woodbridge, Pis- cattaway, and Schrus- bury, his commission SYDNEY NORRIS OGDEN. dating September, 1673. At this time he was vir- tually Governor of the English towns of New Jersey. He died in 1688, the acknowledged pioneer of the town, in whose house the first white child of the settlement was born. Sydney Norris Ogden's father, Morgan Lewis Ogden, was born in. New York City, January 7, 1809, and died in Newark, N. J., December 23, 1876. He was the son of Samuel Gouverneur Ogden and Eliza Lewis, daughter of Francis Lewis, of New York City, and a granddaughter of Francis Lewis, one of the signers of the Declaration of In- dependence. Morgan Lewis Ogden's grandfather, Rev. Uzal Ogden, married Mary Gouverneur, and figured prominently
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in the early history of Newark. The Rev. Uzal Ogden's great-grandmother, Elizabeth Ward, wife of David Ogden. was the daughter of Samuel Swaine and the widow of Josiah Ward. She was the traditional heroine who was the first to land on our Passaie shores from the Pilgrims' vessel. Eliza. Glendy MeLaughlin. (his wife) was born September 28, 1817, in Baltimore, Md .. and died December 23, 1862, in Washington, D. C. She was the daughter of Matthew Me- Laughlin and Sydney Raevely Norris.
Sydney Norris Ogden was born in New York City, August 7, 1853. In 1855 he moved with his parents to Washington, D. C., where his father engaged in the practice of law in the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1863 the family moved to Newark, N. J., where they passed the summer in the " Old Kearny Mansion " on Belleville Avenue, whose twenty-five acres bordered on the Passaic River. In 1865 the Ogden family became regular tenants of the Kearny estate, and have had uninterrupted possession of the same until the fall of 1900, when the subject of this sketch por- chased a residence on Third Avenue.
Mr. Ogden received a common school education and was graduated from the Newark Academy in 1869. He received an appointment on July 1, 1870, in the United States Coast Survey, where he served with marked distinction as a hy- drographer and topographer until 1876, when he resigned to accept a position of assistant in the mathematical de- partment of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of Newark, N. J. For twenty-five years he has been identi- tied with the actuarial department of this company,-one of the largest and oldest companies in the country .- and is at present assistant in charge of the department. His pro- fession is that of an actuary, and he has appeared as an expert in several important law snits, where the services of an actuary have been required in order to determine the value of a life when considered in the light of an annuitant.
In politics Mr. Ogden is a stanch Republican. He has never sought political preferment, but has always taken a deep interest in the success of the Republican party. When, after a bitter struggle in the primaries during an all-night session, in the spring of 1894, he was nominated as Alder-
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man of the then Fifth Ward of Newark, he promptly ac- cepted and worked night and day to roll up as large a majority as possible in that strong Republican ward. And notwithstanding the fact that the home of the Democratic candidate for Mayor was in the same ward, the ward never gave a larger Republican majority than it did in April, 1894. Mr. Ogden became prominent immediately upon taking his seat in the Common Council by beginning an aggressive campaign against the railroad corporations for moneys long overdue the city, and which he had the satisfaction of seeing paid before the year was out. In the spring of 1895, when the Republican Council came into power, Mr. Ogden was chosen by his colleagues as leader on the floor and Chairman of the Finance Committee, to guide the party and carry out the wishes and desires of the so-called reform administra- tion, which trust he faithfully fulfilled. He was re-elected Alderman of the Eighth Ward (re-districted) in 1896, and was prominently mentioned as a candidate for the mayor- alty nomination in the City Convention of 1898. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Republican County Committee of Essex County and Chairman of the Committee on Municipal Affairs.
When a boy Mr. Ogden was a close companion of Willie and " Teddy " Lincoln, sons of the martyred President, and assisted them in organizing " The Lincoln Zouaves," a boys' regiment of soldiers who had their headquarters at the White House, and whose soldierly bearing was well known to all the residents of Washington during the war. He has been a lifelong Episcopalian. He was one of the in- corporators of the Protestant Episcopal Church of St. James, in Newark, N. J., has always officiated as one of its Vestrymen, and in 1899 was elected its Treasurer, which position he now holds. He is a member of Northern Lodge, No. 25. F. and A. M., and of the Jr. O. of U. A. M. He has always taken a deep interest in athletics and athletic sports, was the organizer of the Triton Boat Club in 1867, and was one of its most active participants until a few years ago, when he retired as an honorary member. He also served as President of the Newark Tennis Club when that club was in its prime several years ago. He is a member of the Acturial
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Society of America, the Wednesday Club, and the Northern Republican Club, and is Vice-President of the North End Club.
Mr. Ogden was married, October 26, 1887, to Mary Stuart Depue, who was born in Newark, N. J., April 13, 1868, the daughter of Chief Justice David Ayres Depne and Delia Ann Slocum, Chief Justice Depne is a direct descendant of Nicholas Dupuis, who came to this country in 1662 and is reputed to have been the first settler in Pennsylvania in the Town of Shawnee. He was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey in 1866 and served in that capacity until 1900, when he was appointed Chief Jus- tice of the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey. Hle was born at Mount Bethel, Northampton County, Pa., Octo- ber 27, 1826, and is of Huguenot descent, his ancestors being among the earliest settlers of Pahaquarry, Warren County, N. J. Delia Ann Slocum, born in Tolland, Mass., is the danghter of Oliver Elsworth Slocum and Polly Mills. There have been born to Sydney Norris Ogden and Mary Stuart Depne five children : Lucy Depue, born August 19, 1888, in Newark; Miriam Woolcott, born January 28, 1890, in Newark; Mary Norris, born January 3, 1892. in Newark; Sydney Norris, Jr., born JJuly 7, 1893, in " Glenside Park," Westfield Township, N. J., died at the same place Septem- her 11, 1894; and David Ayres Depue, born October 16, 1897, in Newark.
WILLIAM SANDFORD PENNINGTON, Governor and Chancellor of New Jersey, was born in Newark, and was a great-grandson of Ephraim Pennington, one of the original settlers of that city. Governor Pennington was a soldier in the Revolution, retiring with the rank of Captain by brevet. He was elected to the General Assembly in 1797 and served three years, was elected a member of the Council in 1801 and re-elected in 1802, and on February 28, 1805, was chosen an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, having been admitted to the bar in May, 1802. He was Reporter of the Supreme Court from 1806 to 1813, when he was elected Governor of the State, to which office he was re-elected in
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1814. In 1815 he was appointed Judge of the United States District Court for New Jersey and served until his death, September 17, 1826.
WILLIAM PENNINGTON, Governor and Chancellor, and son of Governor William S. Pennington, was born in Newark, May 4, 1796, was graduated from the College of New Jersey at Princeton in 1813, and was licensed as an attorney in 1817, and as a counsellor in 1820, having read law with Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen. He was elected a member of the General Assembly in 1828 and was chosen Governor and Chancellor every year from 1837 to 1843.
In 1858 he was elected to Congress and was chosen Speaker. He died February 16, 1862. He married Caro- line, daughter of Dr. William Burnet, Jr., a surgeon in the Continental Army.
AMOS HI. VAN HORN, a representative old citizen and business man of Newark, was born on a farm in Warren County, N. J., November 26, 1840. His parents were George Van Horn, born in 1816, died July 26, 1876, and Mary (Hull) Van Horn (died in March, 1882), daughter of Gershom Hull. On both sides he descends from old families of Warren County. The Van Horns are of Hollandish descent. The first of the name to settle in Warren County was James Van Horn, a respected farmer. Amos HI. Van Horn's maternal grandfather, Gershom Hull, died in Warren County in 1819; his widow survived him until 1859. The children of Ger- shom Hull were Daniel, Caroline, John, James Gershom, Hannah, Hetty, Sarah, and Mary, who married George Van Horn.
Amos II. Van Horn's parents, George and Mary (Hull) Van Horn, were married in 1836. They had ten children : Edward, who served three years in the Rebellion, first as a volunteer in Captain Bean's Artillery Company, from which he was assigned to Battery B, New Jersey Artillery, was honorably discharged, and died in February, 1866, from the effects of exposure; Amos H., the subject of this sketch;
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John, who enlisted in Company K, Second New Jersey In- fautry, under Captain Tay, was taken prisoner at the second
AMOS HI. VAN HORN.
battle of Bull Run, was paroled at Annapolis, and died in 1863 from the effects of hardships; James, a member of Com-
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