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He is a member of the Orange Club and the Essex County Country Club, and one of the Governors of the South Orange Field Club and of the Orange Riding Club. He still attends to his professional duties to a limited extent, and keeps np his old New York connections, where he is attending sur- geon to the Colored Hospital. He is a member of the New York Pathological Society, the New York Academy of Medi- cine, the Hospital Graduate Society, the Manhattan Surgi- cal Society. the Psi Upsilon Club, the New York Club, the New York Athletic Club, and the Wool Club.
CYRUS FROST LAWRENCE, of Newark, was born in the village of Sing Sing (now Ossining), N. Y., February 26, 1846, his parents being John Lawrence and Harriet Cox. He was educated in the common schools of his native place, and there, at the age of sixteen, began active life in the
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grocery business, in which he continued two years. He then went to Jersey City, N. J., and engaged in the board- ing and sale stable business on the corner of Montgomery and Henderson Streets. His establishment there was a large one, running through from street to street, and having ac- commodations for two hundred and twenty-five horses on the first floor and storage for car- riages, etc., on the sec- ond.
After selling out this stable he went to New York and engaged in the harness and saddlery business under the firm name of Knorr & Law- rence. He sold his in- terest in this concern to Mr. Knorr and engaged CYRUS F. LAWRENCE. in the manufacture of bits in Newark, N. J., with David A. Hall as his partner.
In 1885 Mr. Lawrence purchased five lots on Austin Street, Newark, and built his present boarding and sales stables, where he has since conducted a successful busi- ness. In 1894 he also built a large boarding and sales stable on Clinton Avenue under the firm name of Lawrence & Wright. Mr. Lawrence has achieved marked success, and is considered one of the best judges of horses in Newark. He is a public spirited citizen, widely known and very popu- lar, and respected by the entire community. During his en- tire career he has enjoyed the confidence and respect of all who know him.
He married Edna, daughter of Willet Griffin, of Ossining, Westchester County, N. Y., and has had two children : Genevra Lawrence and Walter G. Lawrence, both deceased, the latter dying aged twenty-one years and six months.
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WILLIAM B. GUILD, of Newark, is a son of Hon. Will- iam B. Guild, for a number of years editor and proprietor of the Newark Daily Journal. He was born in Denville, Warren County, N. J., September 5, 1829, received a thor- ough preparatory education, was graduated from Princeton College in 1851, and soon afterward began the study of law with Hon. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, of Newark. He was licensed as an attorney in June, 1854, became a counsellor in February, 1859, and ever since his admission has successfully prac- ticed his profession in - Newark,, where he soon succeeded Hon. Theo- dore Runyon as City At- torney, which office he held one year. In 1865 he was appointed City Counsel . and served twelve months, and in March, 1875, again as- sumed the duties of that office for a similar period. In 1884 he was appointed to that posi- tion for a third term and served two years, and WILLIAM B. GUILD. was again appointed in 1894 for a like term.
Mr. Guild is an admirable trial lawyer, excelling most lawyers in one important respect, that of cross-examination. . He never fails in securing the good will of the court and of - the jury. He likes a jest, enjoys a pun, is quick and ready at retort, and never fails in imparting life and spirit to every occasion. He is an excellent member of society, cheerfully responding to every demand made upon him as a citizen.
HARRY FERDINAND BARRELL, lawyer, of Old Short 'Hills and Newark, was born December 6, 1858, at Warwick,
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Orange County, N. Y. His parents were Henry F. Barrell and Elizabeth Wisner, his paternal grandparents were George Barrell and Elizabeth Leayeraft, and his great- grandparents were Joseph Barrell, of Boston, and Sarah Webb. Ilis maternal grandparents were Henry B. Wisner and Mary A. Wood and his great-grandfather was Gabriel Wisner. He comes of most distinguished an- eestry through both his father and mother. His great-grandfather, Joseph Barrell, 1740- 1804, was a prominent merchant of Boston, an ardent patriot during the Revolution, and one of the committee of three appointed to re- ceive Washington on his visit to Boston after the war. The velvet coat which he wore at the reception was pre- sented to the Washing- ton Association of New Jersey and is now on ex- HARRY F. BARRELL. hibition at the Head- quarters in Morristown. Joseph Barrell aided in fitting out several privateers to prey on British vessels during the Revolution. In 1790-92 he was the principal owner of the ship " Columbia " and sloop " Lady Washington," which discovered the Columbia River and added Oregon and the Northwest Coast to the territory of the United States. The "Columbia" was the first American vessel to circumnavi- gate the globe.
Nathaniel Barrell, an elder brother of Joseph, resided all ยท his life at York, Me., where his descendants still live, in the same house once occupied by him. He was a field offi- eer with General Wolfe at the taking of Quebec, and after
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the Revolution became a member of the Massachusetts Legislature from his native State, then belonging to Massa- chusetts. He died within a few weeks of completing his one hundredth year. He was also a member of Governor Went- worth's Council during the colonial period.
Harry F. Barrell's maternal great-grandfather, Lieuten- ant George Leaycraft, was a Lieutenant in the famous New York artillery company of Colonel Lamb and served in it through the whole of the war, and afterward became a mem- ber of the Society of the Cincinnati. His great-great-grand- father, Henry Wisner, was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Orange County militia in New York during the Revolution, serving all through the war. He was a member of the New York Legislature after the declaration of peace in 1783. John Wisner, father of Henry, served for many years in the French and Indian Wars as a Captain in the New York militia and was with Sir William Johnson in the re- lief of Fort William Henry.
Mr. Barrell, besides his father's line, has seven other an- cestral lines of honorable descent :
I. The Durland or D'Eilon, as the name was written in France, from whence it originally came, a Huguenot family who fled to Holland to escape persecution. The first D'Eilon or Durland settled near Leyden and married the daughter of one of the professors in the university of that place. Their son, Jan Garretse, came to America and took the oath of allegiance to the British government in New York in 1687, and from him came Mary A. Wood, who married Henry Wisner, and their daughter, Elizabeth, was the mother of Harry F. Barrell.
II. Peter Van Schuyler, first President and Director of the Colony of Van Rensselaerwick, in 1646, and commander of the fort at that colony. Elizabeth Board is descended from Peter Van Schuyler, and she was the grandmother of Henry B. Wisner, the grandfather of Harry F. Barrell.
III. Richard Leaycraft, grandson of Christopher Leaycraft, an Englishman and a sea captain, of Bermuda. Elizabeth Leaycraft, the grandmother of Harry F. Barrell, was a lineal descendant of Richard Leaycraft.
IV. Richard Webb, admitted a freeman at Boston in 1632. From him came Sarah Webb, the mother of George Barrell, Harry F. Barrell's grandfather.
V. Johannes Wisner, or Weesner, a Swiss officer in Queen Anne's contingent from Switzerland in the Marlborough wars. He received a grant of land in Warwick, Orange County, N. Y., near Mount Eve, from the English crown for his services, and settled upon these lands in 1713. Elizabeth Wisner, the mother of Harry F. Barrell, was lineally descended from Johannes Wisner.
VI. John Nott, a Sergeant and commander of a squad of men in the Pequot Wars. From him came Sarah Webb, the great-grandmother of Harry F. Barrell.
VII. Thomas Beach, an Englishman, came from England to New Haven in the middle of the seventeenth century and took the oath of allegiance there in
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1654. His son Zophar went to Newark and is found there as early as 1685. Elizabeth Board, the wife of Gabriel Wisner and the great-grandmother of Harry F. Barrell, is descended in a direct line from Thomas Beach.
The Barrell family originated in Kent, England, but George, the first immigrant of the name to America, came from Herefordshire in 1630. His brother, Abraham, was a member of the court which sentenced Charles I to death, but he opposed this decision with great earnestness. An- other of the family, Sir William Barrell, was Lieutenant- General at the battle of Culloden and for several years Gor- ernor of the Castle of Pendennis.
Harry F. Barrell, although born at Warwick, N. Y., has spent the most of his life in Essex County, N. J., at Orange, East Orange, and Short Hills. He was prepared for col- lege in private schools in Orange and East Orange, entered Columbia College in 1878, and was graduated in 1882, tak- ing his degree of M.A. in 1884 and that of Ph.D. from the Columbia College School of Political Science in 1885, and another of LL.B. cum laude from the Columbia College Law School in the same year. After finishing his course of legal education at the Columbia College Law School he en- tered the office of Hon. John R. Emery, now one of the Vice- Chancellors of New Jersey, but then practicing in Newark. In 1889 he was licensed as an attorney, and in 1892 as a counsellor, by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and has since practiced law in Newark with success. Ile has also been admitted to practice in the courts of the United States.
Mr. Barrell has been an extensive traveler in Europe and South America. He is of scholarly tastes, a great reader, and has gathered together at his home an extensive library of well assorted books. He is a Democrat in politics, and has frequently acted as delegate of his party at State and county conventions. For three years past he has been a member of the Board of Education of the Township of Mil- burn, in which his home is situated. He is a member of the Columbia College Alumni Association, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, a member and Vice-President of the New Jersey Society of the War of 1812, Registrar and Councillor of the New Jersey Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, a member of the Society
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of Colonial Wars in the State of New Jersey, and a member of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Mr. Barrell is unmarried.
WILLIAM E. GLAZIER, a prominent manufacturer of Orange Valley, is the son of August Glazier and Hannah Hemman, and was born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 14, I856. He obtained his education in the public schools of the Nineteenth Ward of that city, and there learned the hat trade.
In 1878 Mr. Glazier moved to Orange Valley, N. J., to take charge of the finishing department of the Stet- son Manufacturing Com- pany, hat manufactur- ers. When that con- cern was incorporated, in 1883, under the style of the No Name Hat Manufacturing Com- pany, he became a part- ner in the business, and has since continued in that capacity. Much of the growth and success of the company are due to his ability. He is energetic and active, not only in promoting the company's interests, but WILLIAM E. GLAZIER. also in the affairs of the community. He was elected a Councilman of West Orange in 1890 and again in 1891, and is a member of Corinthian Lodge, F. and A. M., and of Hillside Council, Royal Arcanum.
Mr. Glazier married Charlotte E. Adamson, of New York City, and has had three children : Edna A. (deceased), Myra A., and Gladys A.
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HENRY STETSON, son of Napoleon and Mary ( Leonard) Stetson, was born January 12, 1857, in Orange, Essex Coun- ty, N. J., where he still resides. He received his education in the Orange public schools, and at an early age entered the establishment of Stetson & Co., of which his father was the head.
There Mr. Stetson mastered the business of hat manufa- turer in all its branches, and obtained a practical expe- rience which has placed him among the leaders in that line of industry. In 1883 the business was incorpo- rated under the present style of the No Name Hat Manufacturing Company, with Mr. Stet- son as President, a posi- tion he has since held. This is one of the fore- most hat maunfacturing concerns in the country, and is noted for the ex- cellence of its goods and its honorable business methods.
Mr. Stetson has taken an active part in local affairs. He served two terms, or five years, as member of the Common HENRY STETSON. Council of Orange and was elected Mayor of the city in 1898 and again in 1900. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Orange Club and a member of Union Lodge, No. 11, F. and A. M. In both business and public life Mr. Stetson has achieved a high standing and an honorable reputation for integrity, enterprise, and patriotism.
He married Cornelia L. Wilson, daughter of James Wil- son, of Orange, and they have one son, Stephen Leonard Stetson.
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GEORGE SPOTTISWOODE, of Orange, is descended from an ancient Scotch family of which Burke, in his " Landed Gentry," says :
The surname of Spottiswoode was assumed by the proprietors of the lands and barony of Spottiswoode, in the parish of Gordon, County Berwick, as soon as surnames became hereditary in Scotland. They are frequently mentioned in donations to the monasteries of Melrose and Kelso, upwards of five centuries ago. The immediate ancestor of the family was Robert de Spottiswood, Lord of Spottiswood, who was born in the reign of King Alexander III., and died in that of Robert Bruce. The family adhered to the fortunes of Kings James II., III., and IV .; and William Spottiswood, a descendant of Robert, fell at the battle of Flodden, in 1513, with King James IV.
John Spottiswood, Archbishop of St. An- drews and Lord High Chancellor of Scotland, inherited the Barony of Spottiswood in 1620. A brother of his was given the Bishopric of Clog- hee, in Ireland, and from him the Irish branch of the family is descended. Robert Spottiswood, a direct descendant of Robert de Spottiswood, Lord of Spottiswood, was appointed Governor of Virginia in 1710.
George Spottiswoode was born in County Tip- GEORGE SPOTTISWOODE. perary, Ireland, Novem- ber 2, 1832. His father was a hatter, and young George early acquired a good. knowledge of the business, also attending the parish school. In 1851 he came to Orange, N. J., and entered Stetson's hat factory as an apprentice, and at the breaking out of the Civil War opened a small place for the sale of periodicals and newspapers.
About 1866, having accumulated a little capital, Mr. Spottiswoode engaged in the retail coal business in Orange, and from a modest beginning soon established a large and
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profitable trade, which he has ever since maintained, being at the present time one of the most successful coal mer- chants in the Passaic Valley. In 1881 he took his cousin, Thomas M. Cusack, into partnership and the firm name was changed to Spottiswoode & Co. The lumber business was added in the spring of 1887, which has since constantly in- creased. About 1872 Mr. Spottiswoode, in connection with Daniel Brennan, Jr., organized the Telford Pavement Com- pany with the latter as President and himself as Secretary and Treasurer. With the same push and energy which has characterized all his other operations Mr. Spottiswoode be- gan laying this pavement in the Oranges and soon after ex- tended his operations to other points. He opened quarries and erected stone crushers and other machinery in Passaic County at the Great Notch, on the canal at Acquackanonek, at South Orange, and at Plainfield. He had frequently in his employ as many as five hundred men. The company wound up its affairs in 1876 and the entire plant reverted to Mr. Spottiswoode, who subsequently sold out the other places, retaining only the property at West Orange, and the business in this locality is still conducted by him.
Mr. Spottiswoode has been active and prominent in public affairs, serving as Collector of Taxes for the Third Ward of Orange, as a Trustee of the old Girard School District, as a member of the Board of Education, and as a member of the Common Council. In each of these positions he was loyal to the best interests of the city and did much to ad- vance its welfare, especially in connection with an improved water supply and sewerage system. He was one of the founders and is now the Vice-President of the Half Dime Savings Bank, has long been a Director of the Orange Bank, and is a member of Union Lodge, F. and A. M., and Treas- urer of its Corporate Board. His activity in public and business affairs, his sterling qualities of manhood, his in- tegrity of character and sound judgment have won for him a high place in the community as well as the confidence and respect of all classes of citizens.
He married Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Phineas and Sally ( Pierson) Jones and a descendant of old families of Hanover, N. J. She died in 1875, and in 1882 he married
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Sarah Jones, her sister. Their mother, Sally Jones, was a descendant of Joseph Pierson and a direct descendant of Thomas Pierson, Sr., brother of Rev. Abraham and one of the original settlers of Newark. Mr. Spottiswoode's chil- dren were all by his first wife. Of eight only three are liv- ing: Sara C. (a successful homeopathic physician in Orange), Emma Elizabeth, and George, the latter being as- sociated with his father iu business.
CHARLES H. TERRILL, Postmaster of Irvington, Essex County, N. J., was born in that place on the 16th of Decem- ber, 1853. He is the son of David S. Terrill and Mary A. Campbell, the former being a prominent undertaker, having
established him- self in business in Irvington soon aft- er the close of the Civil War.
Mr. Terrill ob- tained a good pub- lie school educa- tion in his native town and then learned the busi- ness of undertaker and embalmer. His father died in 1891. Five years before this he had suc- ceeded to the under- taking business, which he continues to carry on with the CHARLES H. TERRILL. same success that characterized its founder. He has also been active in public affairs, serving for four years as Village Clerk of Irvington and receiving the appointment of Postmaster May 5, 1898. On August 1, 1901, the postoffice of Irvington was consolidated with the
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Newark postoffice, the Irvington office being made a carrier station. Mr. Terrill was appointed superintendent of the Irvington station and his daughter, Miss Laura L. Terrill, was appointed his clerk. He is a member of the Art and Camera Club of Irvington, of Franklin Lodge, No. 10, F. and A. M., and of Council No. 197, dr. O. F. A. M.
He married Mary E. Laing, of Plainfield, N. J., and has four children : Laura L., W. Clifton, Ethel, and Mabel.
GEORGE LANE. of Caldwell, son of William and Jane (Pier) Lane and grandson of Henry Lane, a soldier in the American Revolution, was born in Caldwell, Essex County, N. J., November 6, 1824, and was educated in the schools of that village.
Throughout his life until his retirement from active busi- ness Mr. Lane has suc- cessfully engaged in the tobacco trade in New- ark, N. J., his firm hav- ing been originally styled Campbell, Lane & Co., which was subse- quently changed to Campbell & Lane. He is an eminently respected citizen, active in pro- moting the best interests of the community, and honored and respected by all who know him. In his political attili- ations he has always been a Republican.
Mr. Lane married, first, Sarah A. Brown; GEORGE LANE. second, Sarah C. Hollen- beck; and, third, Sarah E. MePeek. His children are Sarah C., wife of Theodore P. Van Ness, and Georgia ( Lane) Hed- den, a widow. Mrs, Van Ness has two children: Grace
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Lane Van Ness and Herbert Ray Van Ness. Mrs. Hedden has one child, Marjory Inez Hedden.
ABRAHAM VAN WINKLE, of Newark, is descended from one of the oldest families in New Jersey. They came originally from Middleburgh, the capital of the Province of Zealand, in Holland, and settled at what was called Har- simus in this State. Charles H. Winfield says :
I have not ascertained the name of the parents of the three boys and two girls who seem to have made up this family. Their names were Jacob, Waling, Symon, Annetie, and Grietie ; their patronymic being Jacobse-children of Jacob. Jacob was the founder of the family in Hudson County. Waling and Symon were of the Company from Bergen who, in 1679, purchased and after- ward settled " Haquequennnek," Aquackanonek, now Passaic.
They were the founders of the family in New Jersey, and their descendants are very numerous in the western part of Bergen County as well as in Hudson and Essex Counties. Jacob's son Jacob married Egie Paulis in 1702, and Symon's son married Antje Saunders in 1703. Both of these settled at Hackensack, and SO spread the name through the eastern part of the State.
ABRAHAM VAN WINKLE.
Abraham Van Winkle is the son of Abraham Van Winkle, Sr., born in Passaic in 1793, and Anna MeGhangey, a
native of Philadelphia, Pa .; a grandson of Francis Van Winkle, of Passaic; a great- grandson of Abraham Van Winkle; and a great-great-grand- son of Symon Jacobs Van Winkle, whose original deed con- veying a large tract of land extending from the Passaic
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River to the Orange Mountains, and from Newark to the Great Falls at Paterson, is now in his possession. A copy of this deed made from the original document, dated July 29, 1728, appears in Vol. I of this work.
Mr. Van Winkle was born in Bloomfield, Essex County. October 7, 1838, and received his education in the public schools of Newark. Beginning his business life as a drug- gist in that city, he continued in the trade until 1866, when he went to Europe, where he remained for four years. In 1873 he became a member of the Hanson & Van Winkle Company, a corporation of manufacturing chemists, of New- ark, N. J., New York City, and Chicago, of which he was elected President in 1893. He still holds this office. The business of this concern is an old one, having been estab- lished in 1820, and during the more than three-quarters of a century of its existence has held a leading place in the great chemical interests of the country. It is one of the largest in the United States and maintains an extensive trade.
In 1876 Mr. Van Winkle was elected President of the Weston Electric Light Company of Newark, which was the first organized company for electric lighting in the world. He served as its executive head until it was consolidated with the United States Electric Lighting Company, the predecessor of the present Westinghouse Electric and Manu- facturing Company.
He was married. October 7, 1863, to Matilda P. Guerin, danghter of George B. and Maria ( Powles) Guerin, of New- ark, N. J., and has one child living. Anna, wife of Edmund N. Todd, of Newark.
J. HENRY HUNTINGTON, JR., of Newark, was born in that city on the 22d of Jannary, 1870. He comes from a sturdy Revolutionary line of ancestors, heing the son of J. Henry Huntington, Sr., and Eunice, daughter of Stephen Ball Alling and Jane H. Weir; a grandson of Jonathan E. Huntington and Eliza Ann Johnson; a great-grandson of
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Jonathan Huntington and Elizabeth Leeds Comstock, both of Haddam, Conn .; and a great-great-grandson of Mahlon Johnson, of Littleton, N. J., a member of Wash- ington's bodyguard in the Revolution, whose wife was Sarah Baker. On his mother's side he
is a great-grandson of
David Alling, of New-
ark, and Nancy Ball, of
great-great-grandson of Springfield, N. J., and a
Jane
William and (Johnston) Weir, of Ire- land. Mr. Huntington's paternal great-great- grandfather served in the Revolutionary Army, enlisting from Connecti-
cut. Another great- J. HENRY HUNTINGTON, JR. great-grandfather, Ste- phen Ball, also served as a daring partisan patriot in the Revolution and was spite- fully hung by Tory refugees at Bergen Point. N. J., January 29, 1781. Edward Ball, one of his ancestors eight genera- tions removed, was among the first settlers of Newark and owned a large tract of land within the present city limits.
Mr. Huntington received his educational training in the public schools of Newark. He has always been actively engaged in the life insurance business, having been con- nected with the Prudential Life Insurance Company for eleven years. He is now manager of the ordinary policy department of that great concern. In church and Sunday school work he has been especially prominent. Having con- siderable musical ability, he early applied himself to the cultivation of that art, and for some time was organist of the Calvary Presbyterian and North Reformed Churches. For fourteen years he has been the organist and choir mas- ter of the Third Presbyterian Church of Newark, and also
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