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He is one of the prominent and representative business men of Orange, and to the development of that section he has devoted great energy and ability. He is a member of the New England Society of Orange, of the American Insti- inte of Mining Engineers, and of the First Presbyterian Church of Orange.
Mr. Lindsley married Katharine Elizabeth Merrill, daughter of John Leonard Merrill, a descendant of Na- thaniel Merrill, the ancestor, one of the founders in 1635 of Newburyport, Mass. Their children are George Leon- ard, Lucy Merrill, Alice, Horace Nelson, and Girard.
ANDREW WATSON BRAY, of Orange, is descended from a sturdy Revolutionary stock, three generations of his family having fought in the War for Independence. An- drew Bray, his great-grandfather, who married Cornelia Traphagen, was a private in the Hunterdon County ( N. J.) militia. John Bray, his great-great-grandfather, married Susan Bray, and served as a Lieutenant of Hunterdon Coun- ty militia. And his great-great-great-grandfather, Andrew Bray, was a private in the New Jersey Line, Continental Army. This Andrew was the son of JJohn and Susanna Bray, and himself married Margaret Watson. The official records of these Revolutionary patriots are in the Adjutant- General's office at Trenton, and constitute one of the most remarkable exhibits in this connection in the history of New Jersey.
Andrew W. Bray has inherited and developed all the
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sterling qualities of his race-a race that has been resident in the colony and the State for many generations, and one which has always been active in patriotic and commercial capacities. He is the son of Andrew W. Bray, Sr., and Sarah Thompson; a grandson of John T. Bray and Euphemia
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Armstrong; and, as previously stated, a great-grandson of Andrew Bray, one of the trio of Revolutionary patriots. Mr. Bray was born in Rockaway, Morris County, N. J., July 24, 1855. 1Ie received his education in the public schools of Belvidere, Warren County, and subsequently held the position of ticket agent at the Broad Street station, New-
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ark, from 1875 to 1887. Since that date he has been the New Jersey State manager for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company of Springfield, Mass. In this lat- ter position he has displayed great exeentive ability and built up a large and snecessi'nt business. He is one of the best known life insurance managers in the State.
In public life Mr. Bray has also been prominent. He has served three terms as President of the Republican Club of Newark and was a member of the Newark Board of Edu- ration from 1887 10 1891, removing subsequently to Orange, where he now lives. He is a member and manager of the Sons of the American Revolution and a member of the New Jersey Historical Society and the East Orange Republican ('lub.
He was married, December 12, 1883, to Phillefta Crane Dalton, and has a stepdaughter, Gertrude Dalton Bray.
CHARLES FRANCIS LIGHTHIPE is descended from the well known Lighthipe family noticed on page 115. Hle is the eldest son of Charles Alexander Lighthipe and Sarah Smith, daughter of Caleb and Sarah (Garthwaite) Smith, and a grandson of Charles Lighthipe and Maria Condit. His ancestors on both sides were among the first settlers of the Passaic Valley.
He was born May 25, 1853, in Orange, Essex County, N. J., where he still resides. He received his education in the private school of Rev. F. A. Adams in Orange, N. J., at Phillips Academy in Exeter, N. H., and at Harvard Uni- versity. Cambridge, Mass., graduating from the latter insti- Iation in the class of 1875. Taking up the study of law in the office of Blake & Freeman, of Orange, he was graduated from the Columbia University Law School, New York City, in 1878, with the degree of LL. B., and was admitted to the bar of New York in May and to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in June of the same year. In November, 1881, he was admitted in this State as a conusellor. Since 1878 he has been actively and successfully engaged in the gen- oral practice of his profession in Orange, and has served as City Counsel, as Township Counsel of West Orange, and
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as counsel of the Orange National Bank. His natural abil- ity combined with sound judgment and constant applica- tion has brought him into more than local prominence as a lawyer and advocate.
He was married on the 20th of April, 1880, to Effie Plumer Reed, of Orange, N. J. They have no children.
JOHN DANE, JR., was born in Westford, Mass., Septem- ber 22, 1835. Having read law with W. A. Webster, of Lowell, he was admitted to the bar of that State in 1859, and thereafter to practice in the United States Supreme and various other Federal courts in different parts of the Union.
That he might more intelligently and successfully serve his clients in general commercial and patent litigation Mr. Dane proceeded, after his admission to the bar, to make himself familiar in a practical way with the methods of general commercial business, engineering, practical sciences, and the construction and operation of general ma- chinery, in all the de- tails pertaining to such matters, with the result that he received as re- wards for proficiency in the latter branches no less than five medals. In 1871 he established offices in the City of JOHN DANE, JR. New York, since which time he has been con- tinually in active practice, and has been and is now counsel for a number of extensive manufacturing and other cor- porations engaged in industrial and general commercial
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pursuits, whose business extends to nearly every part of this country and Europe. Consequently his personal ap- pearance is required more or less in the principal cities throughout the entire country, attending to the litigations of his clients. His clientage embraces some of the most extensive and best known business concerns of the New England, Middle, and Western States, and also some Euro- pean concerns, some of which he has served continuously for more than twenty-five years. Ilis labors in their behalf have been so satisfactory that several of them secure his services as counsel year after year by the payment of annual retainers.
Mr. Dane is an indefatigable worker, fond of his profes- sion, and seldom wearies of his labors, notwithstanding the fact that for the last twenty years, owing to the pressing demands for his services, he has been compelled to devote largely of his nights as well as days to the interests of his clients. Although his health has been brought low more than once because of excessive overwork, a remarkable constitution which he appears to possess has doubtless saved him.
He has the reputation of being a most careful, thorough, conscientions, and faithful counsellor, never advising liti- gation if it is possible to avoid it and maintain or secure the proper and rightful interests due to them. For this reason he is extremely careful in giving opinions until after a caro- ful and exhaustive investigation of all the facts connected with and relating to the subject under consideration. Even then, it is said, that his opinions, as a rule, are nsnally re- duced to writing and submitted in order that there should be no misunderstanding between client and counsel ro- specting conclusions, nor of the basis upon which such are arrived at; and it is said that these cautious methods have crowned his efforts with unusual success. Because of his thoroughness, fairness, and well known integrity he has, during the last twenty years, been frequently employed to arbitrate between disputants for the purpose of adjusting their differences out of court. In some cases even after causes had been docketed for trial they were withdrawn, submitted to, and satisfactorily disposed of by him. Some
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of them have involved several hundred thousand dollars, and it is said that in every instance the adjustments by him of such cases have been considered fair and reasonable, and accepted as sound and just by the parties in interest. Of late years his practice has been confined almost exclusively to suits in the United States courts in different parts of the country, relating chiefly to general corporation and patent litigation, for which he had especially prepared himself. His success has been most gratifying to his clients and friends. During the last twenty-five years he has, single- handed and successfully, conducted a large number of very important and extensive litigations involving large inter- ests, in many of which he has been opposed by an array of adversaries composed of some of the most distinguished lawyers of this country.
He descends from a puritanical stock noted for their hon- orable characteristics, strict integrity, and fairness. His father was born in Lowell, Mass., in April, 1799, a descend- ant of Dr. John Dane, a physician and surgeon of consider- able note, who with his brother, Francis Dane. emigrated to this country from England in 1636 and settled at Agawam (now Ipswich). Francis was the second minister of An- dover, Mass., and was there ordained in 1648. He took the lead against the persecutions of the so-called witches of that period with so much vigor as to effectually terminate the proceedings which for a time were so unmercifully waged against them. Hon. Nathan Dane, LL.D., the founder of the " Dane Law School " of the Harvard Uni- versity, the author of " Dane's Abridgment of American Law," and one of the founders of the first temperance so- cieties in this country, who also was the author of the cele- brated ordinance for the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio River forever prohibit- ing involuntary servitude therein, was a son of Dr. John Dane, as was also Hon. Joseph Dane, of Maine.
John and Francis descended from that branch of the Danes of France of whom Peter, born at Paris in 1497, was one. Peter Dane became a professor of Greek in the Royal College, and was an active member of the Council of Trent, a preceptor to the Dauphin (afterward Francis II), Bishop
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of Lavan in 1557, a noted author, a speaker of commanding eloquence, renowned for his charity to the poor, and the embodiment of unaffected piety. He died in 1557.
John Dane, Jr., has resided in Essex County continuously for more than thirty-five years, and is the owner of consider- able valuable property in New Jersey. He strongly en- dorses the public park scheme of Essex County as being one of the most important, timely, and wise undertakings for the future well-being of the eastern part of that State that has ever been attempted. During the winter months he occupies with his family his capacious house on Park Avenue in the City of Orange, and in summer his beautiful park home, " Hollywood," on Orange Mountain, which is said to be one of the most beautiful private parks in that part of the State. The main grounds were purchased by him about twenty-two years ago, at which time he com- menced to arrange by laying out lawns, flower sections, walks, drives, deer paddocks, and lakes, the erection of vari- ous buildings, including conservatories for the supply of flowers and tropical plants required about the grounds, the planting of flowering shrubbery in profusion, which, to- gether with an extensive area of natural forest of grand old trees in great variety, form a home park of unusual diver- sity and beauty. Mr. Dane has also a large and valuable law library, and in addition a very extensive and choice library of carefully selected standard literature, consisting in part of historical, biographical, scientific, travel, discov- ery, prehistoric research, ancient and modern art in gen- eral, natural history, religion, etc., with many very valuable rare works, amounting in all to several thousand volumes. He is passionately fond of music and of the fine arts gen- erally.
lle married Miss Frances Whitney, of Augusta, Me., in 1860. His only daughter living is the wife of J. E. Whit- ney, a merchant, of Boston, Mass., where they reside. Two of his sons, Charles Francis and Herbert Evelyn Dane, are also members of the New York bar in full practice. Mr. Dane has two other sons: Frederic Willis, a builder, and Clifford Franklin, the youngest, in the United States Navy.
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CHARLES FINNEY UNDERWOOD, M.D., a prominent physician of Newark, was born in that city on the 1st of February, 1849. lle is the son of Rev. Almon Underwood and Elizabeth Scofield and a grandson of Nehemiah Under- wood and Mary Shaw. His maternal grandparents were Rufus Scofield and Susan Campbell. His ancestors were English, Scotch, and Irish.
Dr. Underwood received a good preparatory education at the Wesleyan Academy, at the Clinton Classical Institute, and at the Williston Academy in Easthampton, Mass., and then entered Will- iams College, from which he was grad- uated with the de- gree of A.B. in 1871. In 1874 he was grad- uated with the degree of M.D. from the Belle- vne Hospital Medical College, New York, and after spending a year in the Infant and Nursery Hospital on Randall's Island he entered upon CHARLES F. UNDERWOOD, M.D. the active and success- ful practice of his pro- fession in Newark, where he has won a high reputation.
He is a man of great force of character, active and in- fluential in the community, and respected by all who know him. He is a member and former President of the Essex District Medical Society, a member and former President of the Newark Medical Association, and is now President of the Newark Medical and Surgical Society. He has been for over twenty years surgeon of the old Street Railway Company, now the North Jersey Street Railway Company. He is also a permanent delegate to the New Jersey State Medical Society, President of the University Club, and a
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member of the Medical Board of the Newark City Hospital, of which he is also Secretary and one of the visiting physi- rians.
lle was married, June 16, 1875, to Elizabeth Paterson Belcher, and has five children: Charles Frere, Caroline Elizabeth, Ethan Rogers, Helen Scofield, and Kenneth.
FRANK C. WARD, of East Orange, is one of the best known real estate operators in his locality. He is a native of Montelair, N. J., and there received a good literary education in the public and high schools, completing his studies with a practical commercial course at the New Jersey Busi- ness College in Newark and with a classical course in the Riverview Military Academy in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In these institutions he ac- quired a training which admirably equipped him for the active affairs of life.
For several years Mr. Ward has been success- fully engaged in busi- FRANK C. WARD. ness in East Orange as a real estate broker and operator. Ilis broad and accurate knowledge of real estate values, his energy and good judgment, and the interest he has mani- fested in the development of the community have gained for him a high reputation.
CALEB CARTER was for many years one of the leading business men of Newark. He was of English descent, and
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in Old England the family bore arms described as follows : Argent a chevron between three cartwheels vert. Crest- On a mount vert, a greyhound sejant argent sustaining a shield of the last charged with a cartwheel vert.
Nicholas Carter, the ancestor of the New Jersey branch of the family, settled in Stamford, Conn., before 1652. He
removed in that year to Newtown, Long Island, and was among the pur- chasers there from the natives April 12, 1656. His allotment was twenty acres. He is re- peatedly mentioned in the Newtown records among the leading men of the town until 1665, when he removed to Elizabeth, N. J., where he was among the most prominent of the asso- ciates. He acquired large tracts of land and was evidently a man of considerable means. His "home lott" of CALEB CARTER. twenty acres of upland at Watson's Point. adjacent to Edward Case, he sold, in 1675, to Bingham Wade for £30, payable in pipe staves. He sold most of his lands May 18, 1681, to Samuel Wilson, and died shortly after. Samuel, who was probably his eldest son, was one of the Elizabethtown associates. Nicho- las, born in 1658, was no doubt the youngest. Elizabeth, the daughter of Nicholas, Sr., married John Ratcliff, Au- gust 6, 1681. Not one of the name appears on the head- stones in the Elizabethtown cemetery. Either Nicholas or Samuel are supposed to have removed to Morris County, as the Carters are mentioned among the early settlers of the Township of Whippanong, constituted in 1700. The church at Bottle Hill, now Madison, was organized in 1749
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and the records state that Luke Carter, son of Benjamin Carter, declared that if the congregation would not com- plete the meeting-house he would. Captain Benjamin Car- ter and Jeremiah Carter, of the Township of Chatham, were both prominent in the War of the Revolution. Six other Carters served in the war from Morris County, among these being Aaron, the grandfather of the present Aaron Carter, Jr., of Newark.
Aaron Carter, who lived at Union Hill, Morris County, was born about 1750, and was probably a grandson of Bon- jamin, the first of the name mentioned in connection with Morris County. He married Elizabeth Davis, daughter of Caleb Davis (who married Roth, daughter of JJoseph Bruen), son of Caleb, son of Jonathan, son of Thomas ( born in 1660), son of Stephen Davis, who was of Hartford, 1646, freeman of Connectient, 1618, and who had for his second wife a widow of John Ward, JJr. The children of Aaron and Elizabeth (Davis) Cartes were Lewis, Caleb, Hannah, Sarah, and Mary or Polly ( married Samnel Condit, who kept a hotel in Chatham).
Caleb Carter, second child of Aaron and Elizabeth ( Davis) Carter, was born at Union Hill, Morris County, in 1782. He went to Newark abont 1800, learned the busi- ness of carriage painting, and was one of the pioneers in the carriage manufacturing business. Ile did an exten- sive trade with the South. On the muster roll of Captain Baldwin's company in 1802 appears the name of Caleb Car- ter. Mr. Carter was identified with the Whig party and was somewhat of a politician. He was appointed a magis- trate of Newark by Governor W. S. Pennington.
Mr. Carter was a man of perfect uprightness of character, of unswerving integrity, and loyal to every trust. Te al- ways maintained the utmost confidence of his fellowmen and was often called upon to settle estates, of many of which he acted as exeentor or administrator. These duties as well as every obligation he discharged with perfect faith- fulness and satisfaction. His pastor said of him : " He was a model of a Christian gentleman." No man was held in higher esteem, and no one in the community was more trust- worthy.
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He married Phoebe Johnson, daughter of Jotham John- son, son of David ( who married Eunice Crane, great-grand- daughter of Robert Treat, the first Governor of Connecticut under the charter, serving for thirty years), son of Nathaniel (married Sarah Ogden), son of Eliphalet, born in 1658, son of Thomas Johnson, one of the committee of eleven who represented the towns of Milford, Guilford, and Branford in arranging for the settlement of " our Town upon Passaick River, in the Province of New Jersey." Thomas Johnson was one of the signers of the Fundamental Agreement. The town records of Newark state that " the Town agreed that Mr. Thomas Johnson shall have Eight shillings for his Son's beating the drum this Year and Repairing the re- mainder of the Year." The town " Agreed with him and Thomas Luddington to raise the Meeting-house for five Pounds." Thomas Johnson was the son of Robert, who came to New Haven from Hull, England. The children of Caleb and Phœbe (Johnson) Carter were Elizabeth, Har- riet, Mary, James, Horace, Aaron, Catharine, Almira, Anna, and Phœbe.
WILLIAM HAYES MURPHY has been all his long life a resident of the Passaic Valley. He is a Jerseyman on his paternal side for three generations and on his maternal for four or five. He was born in Newark on the 15th of April, 1821. On his father's side he is descended from a soldier of the Revolution, Robert Murphy, an Irishman by birth, but emigrating from England in 1766, who settled in Connecticut soon after his arrival here and became a teacher. When the Revolution broke out he espoused the patriot cause, volunteered in the New Jersey troops, and did good service during the war, serving at the battles on Long Island under General Nathaniel Greene, and at other contests. Through his mother, Sarah Lyon, Mr. Murphy is descended from Henry Lyon, who came very early to New England and assisted in founding Milford, Conn. He was born in 1618, emigrated from Connecticut to New Jersey in 1667, and settled at Newark. On the 27th of June, 1667, in company with Governor Robert Treat, Azariah Crane,
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Ephraim Pennington, and thirty-six others he signed the Fundamental Agreement. Ilis " home " lot, drawn by him in the division of the land at Newark, was on the corner of what are now High and William Streets. It extended from High Street, " the road on the hill," as it was first called by the early settlers, to the " West back lane," by which name Washington Street was first known. Ile took a very prominent part in the affairs of the new colony and is named in the record of almost every town meeting from the time he settled there until 1688, after which he does not again appear. Ile was Town Treasurer for several years, and was charged from time to time with the per- formance of some of the most important duties connected with the town's affairs.
Mr. Murphy was educated in the schools of Newark, in the preparatory school at Wilbraham, Mass,, and in the collegi- ate preparatory school of Carlisle, Pa. His early inclination was for a collegiate education, but the terrible commercial reverses of 1837 and the succeeding years rendered that im- possible, so he turned his attention to trade. For about thirty-four years he was engaged in the retail shoe business, seventeen years of that time in Jersey City and the balance in Newark. For the last twenty-five years he has been connected with the Murphy Varnish Factory, originally established by his son, Hon. Franklin Murphy. While con- nected with this establishment he has filled the offices of Director and Treasurer.
Some years ago Mr. Murphy was elected an Alderman from the ward in the City of Newark where he then je- sided; this office he held for two consecutive terms. After this he was twice elected a member of the House of Assem- bly for Essex County. His religions affiliations from child- hood were always with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he has been a faithful and consistent member for fifty-five years. His church in its ecclesiastical organiza- tions has honored him with the highest position to which a layman can aspire in that denomination. He has been elected a delegate to the General Conference and is at the present time ( August, 1901) on his way to London, England, accredited a delegate from the Methodist Episcopal Church,
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North, of the United States, to the Ecumenical Council of all the branches of that denomination. He is now and for many years past has been greatly interested in the further- ance of a plan to raise an endowment of $100,000, the in- terest of which is to be devoted to the support of super- annuated ministers of the Newark Conference. The amount now raised is over $60,000. Towards the furtherance of this noble benevolence Mr. Murphy has devoted much of his time, and has besides given substantial evidence of his abiding interest in it. Ile has been for many years a mem- ber of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolution and is now one of its Directors. For ten years consecutively he has been a delegate from that association to the annual meetings of the National Society.
Mr. Murphy has been twice married : first, to Miss Abby Elizabeth Hagar, of Bloomfield, N. J., by whom he had five children : William A., Franklin, Howard, Theodore, and Robert; and second, to Miss Sarah Richardson Morgan, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., by whom he has had two children : Hemy M. (deceased) and Florence. Henry left one child, also named Florence.
He is now in the full possession of all his faculties, is hale and hearty, and ready as ever to respond to the de- mand upon his time and purse of any proper object, whether public or private. The dominating attributes of his char- acter are good sound common sense, excellent judgment, and a firm adherence to the right. He is a man of decided opinions on all subjects submitted to him, not rashly formed nor upon impulse, but upon investigation and deliberation. He hates a lie, he despises a fraudulent man; neither of these characters meet with mercy at his hands. He is wisely charitable, but not ostentatious in his gifts. No man endeavors more to obey the Scripture injunction : in the be- stowal of benefactions not to let his left hand know what his right doeth. The church of his love has benefitted by his gifts; the cause of education has been enriched by his liberality-few know to what extent. None can tell how far and to how many objects he has extended his private charities. He has a very decided literary taste, reads much, and selects the very best books. His library is
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