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Newark, which came to him unsolicited. In 1876 he re- signed this vice-presidency and was appointed the State
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agent of the last named company in the City of New York, which position he has since held. He has attained a high
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rank in life insurance circles throughout the whole coun- try, and in 1890 was elected President of the Life Insur- ance Association of New York, in which position he served with great acceptability.
While most actively engaged in his chosen life work he has not been unmindful of his duties as a citizen of the com- munity where he resided. From 1868 to 1873 he was a mem- ber of the Board of Education of Newark, and in 1872 and 1873 was its President. He has also been prominent in the Newark Library Association and the New Jersey Historical Society as an officer in both institutions. Notwithstanding the trying demands of an active, useful life and large re- sponsibilities, the passing years have touched him but light- ly, leaving him a courteous, able gentleman with a seeming- ly inexhaustible fund of both valuable information and geniality, unusually well preserved both physically and mentally, enjoying excellent health and exceptional vigor.
LEWIS G. LOCKWARD was born July 14, 1839, in Cald- well, N. J., where he still resides. His father, John T. Lock- ward, M.D., born in New York City in 1808, was graduated from the Maryland State Medical College in 1833, and sue- cessfully practiced his profession in Caldwell from 1835 un- til his death in 1843. Dr. Lockward was a skillful physi- cian and surgeon and built up an extensive business. His wife, Charlotte, was the daughter of Abram Personette, of Caldwell, N. J., whose family was of Huguenot descent.
Lewis G. Lockward was educated in the schools of Cald- well and vicinity. In 1867 he engaged in the manufacture of tobacco and cigars in that town as a member of the firm of Campbell, Lane & Co. He withdrew from the business in 1874, but returned in 1879, and is still engaged in it, the present style of the firm being Lane & Lockward. The busi- ness, which is a large and profitable one, has been carried on continuously at the present location since 1806. It extends throughout Northern and Central New Jersey and into the adjoining sections of New York and Pennsylvania.
Mr. Lockward is a prominent Democrat, active in local affairs and in the public schools, and has filled a number of
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offices with ability, fidelity, and satisfaction. He was a member of the Township Committee of Caldwell in 1872 and again in 1886, before the Township of Verona and the Borough of Caldwell were set off from it. He was Collector in 1877-79 and a member of the Board of Chosen Freehold- ers of Essex County in 1874-76. He was elected the first Mayor of the Borough of Caldwell, February 9, 1892, and filled that position until May, 1894, declining a re-election. For nineteen years, from 1882 to 1901, he has been a mem- ber of the Board of Education of Caldwell, and for the past twelve years he has been its President. He was President of the Caldwell Building and Loan Association in 1891-93. He is a leading member of the Masonic fraternity, having been raised in Caldwell Lodge, No. 59, F. and A. M., Febru- ary 6, 1863. He served as Junior Warden in 1864 and filled the position of Worshipful Master in 1865, 1867, 1878, 1879, and 1890. He joined Union Chapter, No. 7, R. A. M., of Newark, October 8, 1866, Damascus Commandery, K. T., of Newark, September 1, 1870, and the Masonic Veterans' As- sociation of New Jersey on January 2, 1891.
On the 5th of October, 1871, Mr. Lockward was married to Miss Anna M., daughter of Zenas C. and Mary ( Harrison) Crane. The Crane and Harrison families are among the oldest in this part of New Jersey. They came originally from Connecticut and located in Newark and vicinity in 1666, purchasing their lands from the Indians. Mr. and Mrs. Lockward have had three children : Lewis Gibson, born August 7, 1872, died December 28, 1875; Robert Crane, born June 19, 1874; and Lynn Grover, born June 15, 1878. They are members of the Caldwell Presbyterian Church and prominent in religious and social matters. Mr. Lockward has been President of the church Board of Trustees.
EUGENE HOLDEN GOLDBERG, M.D., of Kearny, born in Newark, N. J., on the 1th of October, 1868, is the son of Eugene S. Goldberg and Sarah Caroline Ward, daughter of Stephen Nye Ward, of Morris County. His mother was born at Madison, N. J., and died at Harrison, November 22, 1896-a kind, true, Christian friend, a charitable and loving
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mother. Dr. Goldberg attended the public schools of Afton, Morris County, and of Harrison and Kearny, Hudson Coun- ty, and pursued a col- lege preparatory course at the Newark Military Academy. He was grad- nated with the degree of M.D. from the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, New York City, in June, 1889, and then served three months on the staff of Bellevue Hospital, New York, and one and one-half years as resident phy- sician and surgeon at the Newark City Hos- pital, graduating there- from in October, 1890. In October, 1891, he be- gan and has ever since EUGENE H. GOLDBERG, M.D. continued the active practice of medicine in Kearny, where he now resides.
Dr. Goldberg is one of the ablest and hest known younger members of the profession in his section, and through his energy, sound judgment, and integrity of character has es- tablished an honorable standing. He was First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon of the Third Battalion of Orange, N. G. N. J., in 1892 and 1893, was appointed Treasurer of the Town of Kearny in 1896 and again in 1897, and in 1898 was elected a member of the Board of Aldermen by the largest majority in the history of the town. He has served as Presi- dent of the Alumni Association of the Newark City Hospital and as lecturer in the Training School for Nurses at that in- stitution, and is a member of the Widows' and Orphans' So- ciety of Medical Men of New Jersey, the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Improved Order of Heptasophs, the Daughters of Lib-
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erty, the Jr. O. U. A. M., the Royal Arcanum, and the Forest- ers of America.
He was married, June 10, 1891, to Miss Bessie Burtis, daughter of Barnet Burtis, of Kearny, by whom he has three children : Eleanore Hughson, born May 23, 1893; Burtis Eugene, born May 23, 1894; and Karolyn Christine.
STEPHEN S. DAY, of Morristown, was born in New Providence, N. J., June 16, 1850, his parents being Samnel Thomas Day, born December 13, 1813, and Elizabeth, daugh- ter of John Crane, born April 27, 1815. He is a grandson of Stephen Day, born in December, 1778, and Betsey Wood; a great-grandson of Benjamin Day, who died in Septem- ber, 1783; and a great-great-grandson of Jonathan Day, who was the son of Joseph Day, whose father, George Day, was an early settler on Long Island. Mr. Day's ma- ternal grandfather, John Crane, was born June 10, 1764, and mar- ried Betsey, daughter of Jonathan Mulford, Jr .; and his great- grandfather, Joseph
Crane, married Ruth Miller, and settled in the Passaic Valley. Jonathan Mulford, Jr., was born November 6, 1748, and was the son of Captain Jonathan Mul- ford, who was born September 29, 1718.
Stephen S. Day was STEPHEN S. DAY. educated at the State Normal School in Al- bany, N. Y., graduating therefrom in February, 1876. He commenced teaching on Long Hill in Morris County, New Jersey, and in the fall of 1876 became Principal of the pub-
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lie school at Scotch Plains, Union County, where he re- mained until January, 1880. Ile then went to Newark and served three years as Principal of the South Tenth Street School and eight years as Principal of the Newton Street Grammar School. In these various positions he attained conspicuous success as a teacher of ability.
In 1891 Mr. Day became General Agent for the Pruden- tial Life Insurance Company. He continued in that capa- city until July, 1896, when he accepted the Newark Dis- triet Agency for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Com- pany, which position he still holds. Mr. Day is well known and highly respected in New Jersey life insurance circles, and has achieved marked success in the insurance field. He is a member of Cincinnati Lodge, No. 3. F. and A. M., of Madison Chapter, No. 27, R. A. M., of Ode de St. Amand Commandery, No. 12. K. T., of Mecca Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of New York, of the Tapkeow Club of Morristown, of the New Jersey Historical Society, of the Washington Association, and of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the Revolution. He has also been a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since 1864.
Mr. Day was married, in 1879, to Hattie A. De Voursney, daughter of Marcus L. De Voursney, of Newark. They have four children : Mabel B., Louis DeV., Clarence M., and Made- leine M.
JOIIN LAWRENCE JOHNSON, of Verona, Essex Coun- ty, and a practicing lawyer in Newark, is the son of Will- iam Pitt Johnson and Abigail Adaline Bell, and was born at Heuvelton, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., May 16, 1847. Ilis advantages for education in his native town were lim- ited, but he secured the best that could be gained at that time and fully improved them. Early in life he showed an aptitude for scholarly pursuits and especially for the abstruse science of mathematics. This latter branch of study he easily mastered in a very surprising manner, and most thoroughly. After gaining all the educational ad- vantages to be obtained from the schools of his native town, and still craving for more, he attended the New York Gov-
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ernmental School and subsequently entered the State Nor- mal Academy at Albany, from which he was graduated Jan- uary 31, 1871. Soon after this he made his way to Verona,
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N. J., where he now resides, and there for a time taught school. Later he became a teacher of mathematics in Stev- ens's School of Technology at Hoboken, a very popular edu- cational institution. In 1873 he was offered and accepted
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the position of teacher of mathematics in the High School at Newark. This position he tilled with great credit to himself and satisfaction to the officers in charge of that school. Hundreds of his pupils are to be found to-day among the citizens of Newark, many of them filling situa- tions of honor and credit, who delight to number themselves among his former scholars and to recall the benefit derived from his tuition.
Mr. Johnson was not satisfied, however, with this limited area for the exercise of his talents. He had turned his at- tention to the study of the law, and in 1876 made his way to Iowa, where in the same year he was admitted to the bar. But the West, great as it was and numerous as seemed the opportunities there for advancement, did not meet his ambition. He remained in Iowa for six months, and then returned to Newark and again became professor of mathematics in the High School. He retained this posi- tion until 1883, when Governor George C. Ludlow appointed him one of the lay judges of the Essex County Court of Common Pleas for a term of five years. Meanwhile he en- tered his name as a student-at-law in the office of Aram G. Sayre, now deceased, and was licensed to practice by the New Jersey Supreme Court February 7, 1886. He retired from the bench in 1888, immediately opened an office in Newark, and has since practiced his profession with unvary- ing success. Some few years ago he admitted Scott Ger- man, a former student, to partnership, and the business is now conducted under the name of Johnson & German.
Very soon after opening his office Mr. Johnson secured an excellent clientage, some of them very large business establishments of the county, who entrusted to him im- portant interests involving some abstruse legal principles. He has met the duties involved in these cases with marked ability and to the entire satisfaction of his clients. In this way he has acquired an excellent reputation and a credit- able position among his brethren of the profession. His habits of thought, resulting from his accurate mathematic- al bent of mind, have given him a power of keen analysis which materially aids him in grasping the salient points in- volved in the cases placed in his charge. His addresses (o
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juries are marked by the power of presenting the points in- volved in the discussion with great clearness and convinc- ing ability.
While professor in the High School he introduced many improvements in the system of instruction which have been approved by competent judges and have been adopted by other institutions. Judge Johnson is a public spirited man, supporting at all times any proper appliance for the good of the community. Since he has resided at Verona, which was only a hamlet when he selected it for a resi- dence, that locality has grown into a large village and has recently been incorporated with borough privileges. In this movement Judge Johnson took a prominent part and has since, as before, aided the people in every movement tending to improvement, whether moral or religious. He is a Knight Templar Mason and a Past Master of St. John's Lodge, No. 1, F. and A. M., of Newark.
Judge Johnson was married, in 1872, to Sarah Alice, daughter of Stephen Personette, by whom he had two chil- dren. She died in 1879. In November, 1880, he married Miss Alice L. Thornton, who has borne him one child, Maria J.
JOHN MORRIS LINDSLEY was descended from one of the oldest families in the Passaic Valley. The family name is variously spelled Linle, Linley, Linsley, and Lindsley. It was originally Linesley, and there is a town of that name in County Lancaster, England, where the family had their seat. They bore Arms- Sable, a lion rampant between eight crosses pattee fitchee argent. Crest .- An arm in armonr, embowed, holding in the glove a sabre, all ppr. John and Francis Linle settled in New Haven, Conn., about 1640. John took the oath of fidelity to the New Haven Colony July 1, 1644.
Francis Linle came with the first settlers to Newark, and his name appears among the forty additional settlers who signed the " Fundamental Agreement " June 24, 1667. In the first division of " home lotts " he drew No. 44. He also had his division of meadow land and a " lot in the Great
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Neck." He obtained patents for several traets of land, part of which was in the right of Ebenezer Canfield. Among the records of the New Jersey Historical Society are copies of several deeds of Francis and Ebenezer, his son. He was
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a large landholder, but does not appear to have taken a prominent part in the town affairs. His " home lott " was on the corner of the present Market and High Streets. His children were Deborah, born in 1656; Ruth, born in 1658; Ebenezer, born in 1665; John, born in 1667; and Benjamin,
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Joseph, and Jonathan. Ebenezer Lindsley's children were Hannah, born in 1693; Ebenezer, born in 1696; Josiah; Elihu; and Benjamin, born in 1715. Benjamin Lindsley lived and owned property in what is now Orange. He was one of the subscribers to the amount of £6 to the " second meeting-house " in 1753. He married Mary, daughter of John Morris, son of Captain John Morris, and had issue John, known as " Judge John," born in 1752, Sarah, and Elizabeth. John Lindsley's name appears among the sub- scribers to the "Parish Sloop" in 1784. He and Aaron Munn were appointed to meet the committee of the Newark church to try and adjust the difference existing between the Newark church and the church of Orange respecting the lower parsonage. " At the usnal Fourth of July celebra- tion," held in 1814, John Lindsley, Esq., with Major Abra- ham Winans, were the " Bearers of the National standard." This honor was always accorded to the leading men in the town. In the early records he is mentioned as " Judge John." He was a Justice of the Peace for a number of years and afterward an Associate Judge of one of the county courts until his death. He married Phebe Baldwin, dangh- ter of Israel Baldwin, and had issue Lydia, Sarah, Mary, Matilda, John Morris, Benjamin, Phebe, and Eliza.
John Morris Lindsley, son of Judge John and Phebe (Baldwin) Lindsley, was born in Orange in 1784. He was a leading man in the community and was one of the first to start a country store. He was associated with his broth- er-in-law, Stephen D. Day, until 1806, when the firm was dissolved and the business continued by Mr. Lindsley in the store built for the firm on the easterly corner of Cone Street, the site of which is now occupied by the Orange Savings Bank. He continued to do a thriving business for many years, and was recognized as one of the leading and most enterprising merchants in Essex County. When his sons Nelson and George arrived at the proper age they were taken into partnership and the business continued as John M. Lindsley & Sons until his death. In 1850 Nelson and George established the coal business, being the first to in- troduce its use in Orange. They built up an extensive busi-
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ness in this line and gradually reduced their stock of gen- eral merchandise, limiting it to that of coal and hardware.
While taking no prominent part in politics Mr. Lindsley encouraged improvements in every direction, and had great faith in the ultimate development of his native town. He witnessed its growth from a simple farming district to a township, which developed into a prosperous city.
He married Charlotte Taylor, a descendant of Rev. Daniel Taylor, the first pastor of the Mountain Society. His ehil- dren were Nelson, born August 23, 1808; Romana A., who married Philip Kingsley, the first lawyer of Orange, and afterward Locke Catlin; John N .; Ann E., who married Ed- ward Truman Hullyer; James Girard; and George.
JOHN NICOL LINDSLEY, fourth child of Nelson Linds- ley and Ann Harrison, was born in Orange, N. J., November 23, 1846. Nelson Lindsley was the eldest child of John Mor- ris Lindsley and Charlotte Taylor, and was born on his father's homestead, on the corner of Main and Cone Streets, in Orange, August 23, 1808, and died JJuly 1, 1888. He at- tended the public schools and Orange Academy, entered his father's store as a clerk, and with his brother George sur- ceeded to the business. In 1862 the new brick building was erected on the opposite corner, and for twenty years the firm was the most prosperous of any in the county outside of Newark. In 1883, owing to increasing weakness, Nelson withdrew from the firm, the business being continued by his brother. Mr. Lindsley was a stanch Republican, always a leader in town affairs, and especially active in the move- ment made in 1857 to secure better facilities on the Morris and Essex Railroad. He was one of a committee which waited upon the managers of the road to protest, in the name of Orange, against an increase of fares to New York and Newark. He continued to agitate the matter until the objeet was accomplished. He also assisted in securing the incorporation of Orange as a town, calling to order the first public meeting held to consider that question in Willow Hall, November 17, 1859. He was elected to represent the Third Ward in the following year, when the first Town
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Committee was organized, and served one term of three years. Mr. Lindsley was for many years President of the Rosedale Cemetery Association. Under the old militia sys- tem he took an active interest in military affairs and was Adjutant of the Fifth Regiment, Essex Brigade. There were few men who occupied a more important position or exercised greater influence in the community. He married Ann Harrison, daughter of Caleb Harrison (son of Caleb, son of George, son of George, son of Sergeant Richard), and had issue Charlotte, Edward, Anna, John N., and Walter.
John N. Lindsley attended the public schools and Orange Academy, and afterward went to New York City and en- tered the employ of the Russell & Erwin Manufacturing Company, where he remained six years. When his father retired from business, in 1885, on account of failing health, he returned to Orange and took his place in the firm, being associated with his uncle George. On the death of the lat- ter Charles A., his youngest son, became his successor, and was associated with John N. for a time in the coal and hardware business. In 1889 there was a division made, Charles A. taking the coal and John N. the hardware branch. He enlarged and made many changes in this line, adding a greater variety of goods and doing a more ex- tensive trade than was carried on either by his father or grandfather.
He is a man of great force, energy, and determination of character. Although taking no active part in politics, he is an ardent Republican and true to the principles repre- sented by his party. He is manager of the Orange Savings Bank, a Director of the Orange National Bank, and a Trns- tee of the First Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Lindsley married Ella, danghter of Napoleon Stet- son, of Orange, a descendant of Robert Stetson, the ances- tor of the family, born in Scotland in 1612, who settled in Scituate, Mass. Three children are the issue of this mar- riage : Mary, Anna, and Isabel.
STUART LINDSLEY was born February 18, 1849, in Orange, N. J., where he still resides. He is the eldest son
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of George and Henrietta Matilda (Munn) Lindsley and a grandson of John Morris Lindsley, who married Charlotte Taylor, and whose sketch appears in this work. He is in the seventh generation from Francis Linle, one of the first settlers of Newark and a signer of the Fundamental Agree- ment, through Ebenezer (1), Benjamin (2), John (3), who married Phebe Bald- win, John Morris (5), and George (6). On his mother's side he is a grandson of William and Matilda (Faitonte) Munn and a great- grandson of Aaron and Sarah ( Baldwin) Munn and of Moses and Abi- gail (Ogden) Faitoute. Ile is also a great- grandson of Rev. Daniel Taylor, the first pastor of the First Presbyte- rian Church of Orange in 1720-47.
Stuart Lindsley at- tended the public schools, the well known GEORGE LINDSLEY. private school kept by the Misses Robinson, and the Newark Academy, and was graduated from the School of Mines of Columbia College, New York City, about 1870. The first year after his grad- uation he was engaged in the private laboratory of Pro- fessor Charles A. Chandler as analytical chemist. He then took up civil engineering, and for the next five years was engineer of the Dundee Water Power and Land Company, having charge of the company's works at Passaic, N. J. During a portion of the time he was also City Engineer of Passaie City and engaged in private work in the line of his profession. In 1873, there being a general business de- pression in the East, he accepted an offer to go as chemist to the Union Consolidated Mining Company, an extensive
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copper mining and smelting company located at Duck- town, Tenn. In 1879 he went to Leadville, Col., and en- gaged as assayer with the Gage Hageman Smelting Com- pany, proprietors of one of the early silver lead smelting works of that place. Subsequently he accepted a similar position with the Chrysolite Silver Mining Company. He afterward successfully filled the positions of superintendent and metallurgist to the De- troit Copper Mining Company at Clifton, Ari- zona, and to the Royal George Smelting Com- pany at Canyon City, Col., also doing other work in the West in the line of expert mining, etc.
Mr. Lindsley returned East in 1887 and soon engaged in business in his native town. He formed a partnership with Robert Wright, STUART LINDSLEY. and the firm, known as Wright & Lindsley, es- tablished an extensive stone quarry and crushing works at the Great Notch in Passaic County for the production of broken stone for roads and other purposes. The firm also established, in connection with the above, a general con- tracting business, the specialty being the construction of Tilford and macadam roads. At the same time, having with his brother, Charles A., succeeded to the coal business of their father, he formed with the latter a new co-part- nership in the same line under the firm name of S. & C. A. Lindsley, his cousin, by mutual consent, having taken the hardware business. About this time the property on the southwest corner of Main and Cone Streets having been left to him and his brother by their father's will, they
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enlarged the building, adding some seventy-five feet on the west side of the corner brick building. Mr. Lindsley in 1888 organized the Essex County Electric Company and occupied the position of General Manager until about the voar 1900, when it was merged with others into the United Electric Company of New Jersey. During its separate ex- istence it supplied electric light to the City of Orange and some of the adjacent townships and furnished power for two of the traction companies in the vicinity. Mr. Lindsley is also Treasurer of the firm of Merrill Brothers, manufac- turers of silver novelties.
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