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He was married, in 1891, to Lillian E. Whiting, of Roches- ter, N. Y., daughter of the late Lientenant A. Delafield Whit- ing, and has two children : Emma Eugenia, born in 1892, and Ruth Backus, born in 1893.
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WILLIAM DIMOND, D.V.S., of Newark, is the son of William Dimond, Sr., and Catharine Smith, daughter of Charles Smith, and a grandson of John Dimond, and on his father's side is descended from a Huguenot family who were driven from France and settled near Dublin, in Ireland. He was born September 15, 1859, in New York City, where he attended the public schools and New York University. He became an apprentice to the printer's trade and fol- lowed his vocation as compositor, which en- abled him to acquire a course of study in the American Veterinary College in New York City, from which he was graduated with the de- gree of D.V.S. in 1883. He became house sur- geon and assistant to Professor A. F. Liau- tard in the American Veterinary Hospital. In 1885 he began the active practice of his profes- sion in New York City, and in the latter part of 1886 entered the em- WILLIAM DIMOND, D.V.S. ploy of the United States Government as an inspector in the Bureau of Animal Industry of the De- partment of Agriculture. He was made Chief Inspector for New Jersey in 1887, at a time when the contagious disease of pleuro-pneumonia was prevalent among cattle in various parts of the State, and in stamping out this disease he was very energetic and successful.
Resigning his position in 1889, he went to Oregon and re- sumed the practice of his profession, but returned to Newark in 1891, where he has since resided, being actively and suc- cessfully engaged in veterinary practice and in the livery business.
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Dr. Dimond has also been prominent in political and pub- lie affairs. He was nominated for member of Assembly in 1899, served one term (1898-99) in the Newark Board of Al- dermen, received the nomination for Commissioner of the Board of Public Works in the spring of 1900. and in June, 1900, was appointed by Mayor James M. Seymour Commis- sioner of Excise for a term of two years. lle is a member of the Essex County Democratie Committee from the Sey- enth Ward of Newark, a Director of the Lincoln and Soy- enth Ward Building and Loan Associations, and a member of the Jeffersonian Club, the doet Parker Association, the Gottfried Kreuger Association, the Free and Accepted Ma- sons, the Order of Heptasophs, the Golden Star fraternity, and the Ancient Essenie Order. In every capacity he has displayed ability, integrity of character, patriotism, and a deep interest in the advancement of the community.
Ile married Emeline Smith, daughter of Charles Smith, of Putnam County, N. Y., and has had five children : Helen, Grace (deceased), Thomas, Catharine, and William, Jr.
EDGAR E. BOND, one of the leading real estate and fire insurance men of Newark, is a native of that city and the son of the late Sammel W. Bond, for many years an honored and respected citizen of Essex County. The business was established in 1845 by Moses R. King and James F. Bond, and the next year Samuel W. Bond became a partner. Ed- gar E. Bond entered the office as a clerk in 1862 and in 1868 was admitted to partnership, the firm name being King & Bond. After the death of Moses R. King his brother, Aaron, joined the firm, in 1856, and remained a member un- til 1885, when he retired. The firm then assumed its pres- ent style of E. E. Bond & Co. Eugene W. and Ward R. Bond, sons of Edgar E. Bond, are associated with their father in the business. Their offices have been located at 791 Broad Street, Newark, ever since the business was es- tablished, in 1845.
Mr. Bond is a member of the Essex Club and the Wash- ington Association of New Jersey, and is a Director in the
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Firemen's Insurance Company, of which Moses R. King was the first President and Samuel W. Bond the first Secretary.
FRANK H. SOMMER was born September 3, 1872, in Newark, N. J., where he still resides. His parents are Henry Sommer and Mary Haefeli. He received his educa- tion in the public and private schools of his native city, at the Metropolis Law School in New York, and at the New York University Law School. taking the degree of L.L.B. in 1893. In the same year he took his attorney's examination. He was appointed instructor in the Metropolis Law School in October, 1893, and in 1894 was made professor of law. In 1895 he became a pro- fessor in the New York University, and has since served in that ca- pacity. He became the editor of the University Law Review in 1897, a position he still holds, and in the same year he was admitted to the bar as a counsellor. He is a member of the Bar Asso- ciation of Essex County, Vice-President of the Lawyers' Club of Essex County, President of the Roseville Improvement FRANK H. SOMMER. Association, a Trustee of the Roseville Athletic Club, and a member of the Reform Club of New York. In 1900 the New York University con- ferred upon him the degree of LL.K., and in 1901 he ac- cepted the appointment of professor of history of the law at Bryn Mawr College.
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He married Katie, daughter of Edward Royce, of Bell- vale, N. Y., and has two children: Florence Catharine and George Raymond.
DUDLEY FARRAND, of Newark, was born in Bloomfield, Essex County, N. J., February 21, 1869. He is the son of Charles and Anna ( Farrand) Farrand, daughter of Henry D. Farrand, and a grandson of Samuel Farrand. He re- ceived his preparatory education in the Newark Academy, and after graduating from that institution entered Prince- ton University, but did not complete the course.
Since 1887 Mr. Farrand has been engaged in the electric light and power busi- ness as an electrical en- gineer, holding various important and responsi- ble positions. At the present time he is gen- eral manager of the United Electric Com- pany of New Jersey and general manager of the Central Electric Com- pany. He has acted and still acts as consulting engineer for a muuber of large electrical plants, and has gained for himself a high repn- tation.
Mr. Farrand is one of the leading younger DUDLEY FARRAND. electrical experts in Newark. He is a member of the American Society of Me- chanical Engineers, of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and of several important local organizations, in- einding the Essex Club, the Essex County Country Club, the University Club, the Newark Athletic Club, the New Jersey State Rifle Association, and the Blooming Grove Park Asso-
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ciation of Pennsylvania. He served for five years as a member of the First (Essex) Troop, N. G. N. J., retiring in 1898.
In 1899 Mr. Farrand married Miss Jane Champenois. They have had one son, Dudley Champenois Farrand, who died in infancy.
WILLIAM ADGATE LORD, a young and popular lawyer of Orange, Essex County, and a member of the New Jersey Legislature, was born in Jersey City, October 7, 1870. He is the son of the late Charles Douglas Lord and Lucy Ann Fay (daughter of Joel Wood Fay and granddaughter of Joel Fay), a grandson of Joshua A. Lord, a great-grandson of Major Joseph Lord, a great-great-grandson of Joseph Lord, Sr., and a great-great-great-grandson of the Rev. Benjamin
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Lord, D.D. Through his father he is descended from William the Con- queror, Henry I., Henry II., John, Henry III., and Edward I., Kings of England; from Sir Gil- bert de Clare, third Earl of Gloucester; and from Ralph and Hugh Staf- ford, first and second Earls of Stafford. He is also descended from Ralph de Nevill, first Earl of Westmoreland; from Sir Thomas Dacre, sixth Lord of Dacre; from Sir Richard Fienes; and from Sir Thomas Fienes, eighth Lord Dacre.
William A. Lord has lived in Orange since he was ten years of age. He attended private school and was grad- uated from the Orange High School in 1899, having com-
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pleted the usual three years' course in two years. He imme- diately entered the newspaper profession, writing for the Orange Journal, the Orange Evening Mail, the Newark Sun- day Standard, the Newark Daily Advertiser, the Newark Times, the New York Sun, the Newark Evening News, and the New York Times successively. He was appointed Clerk of the Orange District Court at the time it was established, April 1, 1896, and was admitted to the bar in February, 1899, resigning his position as District Court Clerk in June of that year to begin the active practice of law in Orange, with an office in the National Bank building.
Mr. Lord became a private in Gattling Gun Company A, N. G. N. J., April 27, 1895, and at the time of the outbreak of the Spanish American war was Second Lieutenant of Company H of the Second Regiment, having been elected to that office March 1, 1898. He served in the same capacity during the war when his regiment became the Second New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, stationed during most of the time at Jacksonville, Fla.
Ile was elected a member of the New Jersey General As- sembly from Essex County in November, 1900, on the Re- publican ticket, by over 19,000 plurality, and served on the important Committees on Revision of Laws and Militia. He is a Past Archon of Orange Conclave, No. 475, Improved Order Heptasophs, Commander of Colonel Emerson H. Lis- cum Camp, No. 94, Spanish American War Veterans, and a member of Orange Lodge, No. 135, Benevolent and Protect- ive Order of Elks, of Corinthian Lodge, No. 57, Free and Ac- repted Masons, of the MeKinley and Roosevelt Club of the Oranges, of the Frelinghuysen Lancers Association, the Orange Maennerchor, the Orange High School Alumni As- sociation, and other clubs. Ile is unmarried.
LEROY A. GIBBY, of Summit, lawyer, was born in Princeton, N. J., April 12, 1870, his parents being William J. and Helen ( Bndd) Gibby. His paternal grandparents were William and Frances Gibby; his maternal grandpar- ents were John and Charlotte E. Budd. His maternal grandfather was a soldier in the War of 1812.
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Mr. Gibby received his education in part in the public schools and in part from a private tutor. At the age of fourteen he entered his father's law office. Three years later his father died, and he was obliged to obtain re- munerative employ- ment. For two years he worked as a messenger for the Adams Express Company, and during the next three years he was employed in the of- fice of the treasurer of Princeton University. lle commenced the study of the law in 1892, took the lecture course at the New York Law School, and was LEROY A. GIBBY. admitted to the bar of New Jersey in Novem- ber, 1895, as an attorney, and in June, 1899, as a counsellor. He has since been practicing at Summit, N. J., and in addi- tion has an office at Newark. He has been successful in his profession.
Mr. Gibby is Regent of Summit Conneil, No. 1042, R. A., a Supervising Deputy Grand Regent of that order, and a member of Crystal Lodge, No. 250, I. O. O. F.
He was married, November 10, 1897, to Nellie H. Hayes, of Brooklyn, N. Y. They have a son, born December 12, 1898.
WILLIAM MUNSON GOODWIN, M.D., of Newark, N. J., physician, was born in Waterbury, Conn., February 15, 1870. He is a descendant in the paternal line of Ozias Goodwin, who emigrated from Braintree, England, to this country in 1632; and on his mother's side he traces his an-
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cestry to Thomas Munson, who came from Ipswich, Eng- land, in 1634. His paternal line of descent is as follows: Ozias Goodwin (1), William (2), Nathaniel (3), Abraham (4), Thomas (5), Uri (6), Charles (7), Charles H. (8), and William Mun- son (9). The following is his maternal pedi- gree: Thomas Munson ( 1), Samuel (2), Samuel (3), William (4), Peter (5). Levi (6), Benjamin F. (7), Alice B. (S) ( married Charles 11. Goodwin), and William Munson Goodwin (9). Ile numbers among his ancestors soldiers of the Revolutionary and Pe- quot Wars. His father was a soldier in the Ro- bellion.
Dr. Goodwin received WILLIAM M. GOODWIN, M.D. his early education in the public schools of Waterbury, Conn., was graduated from Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mass,, and attended Yale College for one year. He left the latter institution to enter upon the study of medicine, and in 1894 was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City. After receiving his diploma he took a course of pri- vate instruction in surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Roosevelt Hospital. He then served for eighteen months as interne at St. Barnabas Hospital, New- ark, N. J., and in JJuly, 1896, began the private practice of his profession in Newark. Soon afterward he was ap- pointed assistant physician at St. Barnabas Hospital and «linie and house surgeon to the Women's Department of St. Michael's Hospital. From 1897 until January, 1901, when he resigned, he was physician of the Third District of New- ark.
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He is a member of the Essex District Medical Society, the New Jersey State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He is also a member of the Episcopal Church, the Odd Fellows, and the Newark Camera Club.
Dr. Goodwin was married, October 11, 1899, to Caroline Ellis Blodgett, of Ware, Mass. They have one son, Ellis Munson Goodwin, born December 29, 1900.
JOHN SAMUEL VOEGTLEN, D.D.S., of Newark, N. J., dentist, was born June 27, 1869, being the son of Samuel and Mary Voegtlen. Both his parents were born in this country. He was educated in the public schools of Newark and began the study of dentistry with Dr. Enos H. Bunting in June, 1883, and was with him about five years. Then he entered the class of 1888 at the New York College of Dentistry and passed his junior year, when he entered the class of 1890 at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Sur- gery and graduated
with honor. In the meanwhile he had been boarding in German- town, Philadelphia, and when graduated lie opened an office in Ger- mantown. But after trying it there for three years he decided to come home to his native city, so in 1896 he bought the practice of Dr. R. Kull, 113 How- ard Street and Spring- field Avenue, Newark, and here he is now an JOHN S. VOEGTLEN, D.D.S. active practitioner, en- joying a large and se- lect clientage. He was married to Miss Clara A. Thibaut, of New York City, on December 27, 1899.
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He is a member of the New Jersey State Dental Society and the Central Dental Association, and is also a member of the JJunior Order of American Mechanics and the West End Club, and President of the Mercury Bowling Club.
ISAAC FIELD ROE, of Newark, manufacturer, was born in Hackettstown, N. J., March 20, 1868, being the son of George and Lizzie ( Miller) Roe. Mr. Roe's paternal grand- parents were Nathaniel and Harriet (Shepard) Roe. His great-grandparents were George and Margaret (Struble) Roe. His maternal grandparents were Jacob B. and Eliza- beth ( Kline) Miller; his great-grandparents were Henry and Margaret ( Baird) Miller.
Ile was educated at Hackettstown and Newark, N. J., and after leaving school was employed for some years as a bank clerk in New York and in con- neetion with manufac- turing interests in New- ark. Since October, 1593, he has been at the head of the firm of Roe & Conover, 200 and 202 Market Street and 21 and 23 Mechanic Street, Newark. manu- facturers and jobbers of hardware, tools, and machinery supplies for mills, railways, machin- ists, power plants, steam fitters, plumbers, and other trades. This ISAAC F. ROE. is by far the largest con- cern of its kind in New Jersey. Mr. Roo is also largely in- terested in other manufacturing enterprises in Newark and New York, and also in advertising enterprises.
He is a member of the Newark Board of Trade, the Build-
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ers' Exchange, the Essex Club of Newark, the Newark Ath- letic Club, the Essex County Country Club of Orange, and the Lotos and New York Athletic Clubs of New York.
ERNEST N. DURYEE, of Newark, is of French Hugue- not descent, his ancestors coming to his country at an early colonial period. He is the son of the late Henry W. Duryee and a nephew of Colonel Gustavus N. Abeel, a graduate of Rutgers College, a distinguished officer in the Rebellion, and Prosecutor of the Pleas of Essex County from 1877 to 1883.
Mr. Duryee was born in Summit, N. J., August 18, 1870, but has spent the most of his life in Newark, where he re- ceived a good public school education. He first entered the employ of the Erie Rail- road, subsequently becom- ing associated with the com- mission firm of Havemeyer & Bruce, of New York. Since 1894 he has been engaged in business in Newark as a dealer in stocks, bonds, and general investment securi- ties.
In politics Mr. Duryee has ERNEST N. DURYEE. always been a Democrat. In 1899 he was elected as one of the representatives from the Fourth Ward in the Newark Board of Aldermen, a position held by his cousin, the late George W. Duryee, in 1887-SS.
HENRY STACY SMITHI, a well known young business man of Newark, was born in that city January 24, 1873. He is the son of Edwin Smith and Ella L. Francisco and a grandson of Alfred Smith and Sarah Marsland.
H. Stacy Smith was educated in the primary, grammar,
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and high schools of Newark, and in 1890 became an assist- ant in the office of JJ. Green & Co., proprietors of a large sawmill and lumber yard at Madison, N. J. Later he was bookkeeper for the New- ark Bark Company in Harrison, becoming sue- cessively assistant su- perintendent, superin- tendent, assistant man- ager, and manager. hu 1894 he established him- self in the bark and bark extract business at Nos. 565 to 575 Ferry Street, Newark, and has since continued in that line of industry.
Mr. Smith has achieved marked suc- cess in his business en- terprises, and through his energy and integrity has gained the confi- H. STACY SMITH. dence of all who know him. He has also been active in public life. serving as a member of the Newark Board of Education from the Fif- teenth Ward. He was acting Major of the Frelinghuysen Lancers' Association at the inauguration of President Mc- Kinley in 1896, and since then has been Captain of the Grenadier Company of that organization. He is a member of the Newark Athletic Club, the Road Drivers' Association of New Jersey, the New York Road Drivers' Association, the Waverly Driving Association, and the Newark Board of Trade. His interest in outdoor sports, especially in con- nection with fine horses, has always been a leading charac- teristic. He is popular, progressive, and active in promot- ing every worthy object.
October 25, 1900, Mr. Smith married Eleanor Whitehead Fisher, daughter of Peter Fisher, Jr., of Sayreville, N. J.
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SIMON J. KLAUBER, of Orange, was born in Bohemia on the 31st of January, 1854, his parents being Abraham Klauber and Marie Stein. He was educated in private Hebrew schools in his native country, and after graduation entered the office of Joseph Steinschneider, LL.D., of Neuge- dein, Bohemia, for the purpose of studying law.
He came to the United States in June, 1871, landing in New York. The same day he settled in Newark, N. J., and has since resided in Essex County. He first adopted the mercantile business, but continued to de- vote every spare moment to the study of law, entering the office of Nathan C. Horton, formerly City Counsel of Orange. He was ad- mitted to the New Jersey bar in No- vember, 1900, and immediately after- ward opened an office for the prac- tice of his profes- sion in the Orange SIMON J. KLAUBER. Bank building in that city. The fact that he had always been known as a reliable, enterprising, and honorable business man soon gained for him a good clientage, and he has already achieved a fair degree of sne- cess at the bar.
Mr. Klauber is a man of energy, ability, and integrity, a patriotic and public spirited citizen, and actively identi- fied with the affairs of the community. He is President of Washington Lodge, T. O. S. of B., of Newark, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hebrew Congregation of Orange, and a member of Corinthian Lodge, A. F. and A. M.,
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of Orange, and of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of Newark. He was married, in November, 1877, to Bertha Ofner, and has tive children living.
JAMES L. HAYS has been a well recognized and im- portant factor in Essex County for many years past. He was at one time a power in political circles, but for the last fifteen or twenty years has retired from the very prominent position he held in that sphere and devoted himself to the educational interests of the State and to other duties. Ile was born in Philadelphia, his father being Robert Hays and his mother Mary Dudgeon, a native of Philadelphia. Robert Hays was a North of Ireland man by birth, but a Scotchman by de- scent.
James L. Hays was educated in the public schools of his native city and was graduated from its High School. Very soon after that event he came to New- ark, and in 1858 engaged in the dry goods busi- ness. Early in his ca- reer he manifested a de- cided taste for a polit- ical life. He entered very largely into active politics, and it was sup- posed by his large circle JAMES L. HAYS. of admiring friends that he would continue his efforts in that direction. He seemed admirably fitted to lead and destined by his fitting charac- teristics to attain distinction. But after serving one term as a member of the House of Assembly and another in the New Jersey Senate most successfully he retired from such active participation in party politics as he had before mani-
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fested, and has never again sought office. This action was a disappointment to many of his former associates, who foresaw a future for him of distinction. He has, however, not lost, by any means, his interest in political affairs, but continnes to this day to show such interest in a practical manner in all political movements of the time. His zeal in promoting the well-being of the party in which he believes is undoubted, and is manifested at all proper times and in a substantial manner.
In 1873 he retired from his former business, and since that time has employed himself in the performance of fidu- ciary trusts committed to him by the courts, especially by the Court of Chancery, for which he has received many appointments of confidence, such as trustee, guardian, re- ceiver, and assignee, and as adjustment commissioner for Newark. This last named appointment came to him from the Supreme Court. While thus busying himself in the dis- charge of the duties connected with these offices he has de- voted much of his time to beneficent objects. For twenty-one years he has been a member of the Board of Education of Newark and several times its President. For nearly twenty years he has been a member of the State Board of Education and President of that body for nearly all that time. This appointment is particularly to his credit, as it is one made by the Governor, and the re-appointment of Senator Hays to this position has been made by Governors of the party which he has always antagonized. He is also President of the Technical School Board of Newark and a Trustee of Syracuse University. He has always been a pronounced Methodist, has been elected a delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist Church, and is a busi- ness Trustee of the Ocean Grove Association and a Trustee of the Old Ladies' Home of Newark. He is one of the found- ers of the Board of Trade of that city, a member of the Re- publican Club of New York and of the Garfield Club of Newark, and has held the appointment of Postmaster of Newark for over two terms.
Senator Hays is one of the most genial of men, and when among those whom he holds as special friends he delights in mirth and joke. He is a man of good judgment, and adds to
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that characteristic its usual concomitant, sound common sense. He married Henrietta Hedenberg, daughter of Abram Hedenberg, of Newark.
HERBERT W. CHAPMAN was one of the foremost in- ventors of this country. He was the son of William Chap- man and Ann White, and was born in Nottinghamshire, England, April 26, 1847. There, in the schools of Retford, he received his education.
He was a scientific machinist and mechanical genins of the highest order, learning his trade in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, and thoroughly mastering every detail of it by the time he reached the age of twenty-one. When twenty-two years old he came to this country and settled in Newark, N. J., where he resided until his death. For thirty years he devoted his skill and genius to per- feeting inventions and constructing special ma- chinery. In January, 1872, he engaged in busi- ness for himself at No. 11 Mechanic Street, whence he removed in 1880 to the present site of the establishment at Nos. 227, 229, and 231 Mulberry Street. In HERBERT W. CHAPMAN. 1876 Mr. Chapman pro- duced and patented his celebrated bank-note engraving ma- chines, which are now in daily use in the great bank-note and engraving concerns in the large cities at home and abroad as well as in the treasury departments of the United States, England, Germany, and Mexico. He introduced, in 1885, his rotary feed press, and also patented his standard
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