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Mr. Gray is a member of the Essex County Country Club, the Essex Club, the Athletic Club, the Jeffersonian Club, the Gottfried Krueger Association, the Joel Parker Asso- ciation, the Lawyers' Club, the Reform Club, the Democratic Club of New York, and the Lake Hopatcong Club.
He was married, August 16, 1864, to Mary L., daughter of Augustus R. Ball, a former member of the firm of J. M. Quinby & Co., carriage manufacturers of Newark, N. J. Mrs. Gray is a representative of an old colonial family, an an- restor of which was one of the founders of Newark.
The chief characteristics of Mr. Gray are a quiet deter- mination and masterful power, which go straight forward to the goal, overcoming every obstacle and hindered by no delay; a persistent performance of strict duty; an intuition of the right moment when to seize opportunity; and a self- poise which, combined with inherent qualities of mind and intention, teach when and how to act in any difficult emer- gency.
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AARON K. BALDWIN, M.D., a prominent physician of Newark, was born in that city on the Sth of June, 1849. His father, Milton Baldwin, M.D., was also born in New- ark, October 22, 1821, and was the son of Aaron Baldwin, a grandson of David Baldwin and Elizabeth Reeve, and a great-grandson of Captain Enos Baldwin, a soldier in the French and Indian War in Canada, who, at the close of that struggle, was awarded a coat-of-arms by King George III. A copy of this coat- of-arms is now in the possession of Dr. Aaron K. Baldwin, the orig- inal being owned by the Captain's great-grand- son, A. M. French. Cap- tain Enos Baldwin's wife was Sarah Wood- ruff. Aaron Baldwin, grandfather of Dr. Aaron K. Baldwin, was in the Commissary's De- partment at Sandy Hook in the War of 1812. he being too young ( then only seven- teen) to enlist in the regular army. Ilis widow, Ann Baldwin. AARON K. BALDWIN, M.D. drew a pension until her death. Dr. Milton Baldwin was graduated from the Med- ical Department of the University of New York in 1843, and at once began active practice in Newark, where he soon rose to the head of his profession. He was a public spirited citi- zen, a Democrat as his father was before him, and a natural leader in local affairs. He was elected and re-elected to city and county offices, but after retiring from the presidency of the Common Council in 1858 declined all public honors. In October, 1862, he entered the Medical Department of the Union Army as acting assistant surgeon, having pre-
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viously (in May of that year) visited Fortress Monroe as a member of the commission composed of Dr. William Gor- man, E. P. Nichols, J. A. Cross, J. H. Love, J. S. Daily, and himself, under appointment of Governor Olden, to look after and bring back the sick and wounded New Jersey soldiers. After the establishment of the Ward United States General Hospital at Newark, N. J., Dr. Baldwin was assigned to duty therein and continued in this service until June, 1865, also keeping up his private practice. He was a member and President of the Essex District Medical So- ciety. He married Evelina King, daughter of John and Anna (Gould) King.
Dr. Aaron K. Baldwin was graduated from the Newark High School and then entered his father's office as a student of medicine. In 1871 he was graduated with the degree of M.D. from the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York, receiving a prize for excellent scholar- ship. He at once began active practice in Newark and rapidly gained a high standing in the profession. Dr. Bald- win has also been prominent in civil and military affairs. He was appointed police surgeon in 1875 and again in January, 1884, and in November, 1877, was appointed sur- geon of the First Regiment, N. G. N. J., with the rank of Major. On July 4, 1886, he became surgeon of the First Brigade, N. G. N. J., with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and subsequently he was brevetted Colonel by the State Legislature.
Dr. Baldwin was house surgeon of St. Michael's Hos- pital, Newark, from 1873 to 1880, a member of the Newark Board of Education in 1SSS and 1889, a member of the Board of Charities and Corrections in 1890, and a member of the Board of Medical Examiners of Newark from 1891 to 1900.
He is a member and former President of the Jeffer- sonian Club and of the Military Order of Surgeons of New Jersey, President (1901-02) of the Essex District Med- ical Society, one of the staff of the Newark City Hospital, and a member and former President of the Practitioners' Club of Newark. No man is better known in Newark and
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vicinity. His long and active career in the general practice of medicine, his services in various important capacities, and his unfailing courtesy and integrity of character have won for him the confidence and respect of all classes of citi- zens and a leading place in the community.
Dr. Baldwin was married, April 29, 1874, to Elizabeth .J. Ketcham, and has one daughter, Ella K.
GEORGE W. JAGLE, a well known young business man of Newark, was born in New York City on the 6th of June, 1867, his parents being Herman Jagle and Sophia Hocken- jos. He was educated ai the German and English school on Green Street, Newark, at the Chestnut Street Grammar School, and at the Newark High School. In 1885 he began his active business life as a clerk in Newark for .J. J. Hlockenjos, dealer in painters' and manu- facturers' supplies. Ile continued in that capac- ily until 1895, when he succeeded Mr. Hocken- jos in the business, which he has since con- dneted with success.
Aside from his grow- ing business interests Mr. Jagle takes an ac- tive part in the affairs of the community. He is a member of St. John's Lodge, No. 1, F. and A. M., of Union Chapter, No. 7, Royal GEORGE W. JAGLE. Arch Masons, of Newark Lodge, No. 21, B. P. O. Elks, and of Corinthian Council, No. 644, Royal Arcanum.
He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Iffland, of New- ark, and has two children : George and Helen.
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JOHN H. PERRY, of Newark, is a native of London, Eng- land, where he was born January 2, 1840. His father, Henry Perry, son of Adam, was a manufacturer of patent leather in that country, and after his removal to Newark, N. J., with his family, in 1844, successfully carried on the same business. James Perry, a brother of Henry, was also prominently engaged in the manufacture of patent leather in Newark. Henry married Matilda Clark.
Coming to Newark with the family in 1844, John H. Perry received a public and high school educa- tion in that city and early mastered the busi- ness of manufacturing patent and enamelled leathers with his father. He has continuously followed that industry, and is now President of the United States Pat- ent Leather Company, one of the largest cor- porations in its line in Newark. This com- pavy manufactures pat- ent and enamelled leathers for the furni- ture, carriage, shoe, and harness trade. Mr. Per- JOHN H. PERRY. ry is not only an able business man, but is thoroughly practical in every detail connected with the various processes of manufacture.
He is also an influential, public spirited citizen, and has been somewhat active in political affairs. He is a liberal Democrat and ever ready to advance the best interests of his party. He is a member of the New Jersey Leather Manufacturers' Association, of the Episcopal Church, and of Trilumina Lodge, A. F. and A. M., and was a charter mem- ber and for years officially connected with the Order of United Friends.
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Mr. Perry married, first, Miss Mary Lovatt, daughter of James Lovatt, a well known silk manufacturer of Newark. Of their three daughters only one survives, viz. : Mary, wife of William Vollmer, Chief of Police of South Norwalk, Conn., who has two sons: William and Wallace Vollmer. Mr. Perry married for his second wife Mrs. Mary Lovatt, by whom he has one daughter, Henrietta.
IRVING SMITH, of East Orange, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., November 27, 1859, his ancestors having lived for sey- eral generations in the upper part of that Siate. His fath- er, Ira Smith, a native of New York City, married Anna Wyckoff Hayes, daughter of Captain William Henry Hayes, who was the adopted son of Commodore Decatnr. Captain Hayes fought in the War of 1812, and was lost at sea in the clipper ship " Rainbow," going to China in 1848. Mrs. Anna (Hayes) Smith was of old Dutch Quak- er stock, her ancestors being among the first settlers of New Jersey and her great-grand- father being one of Gen- eral Washington's aides in the battle of Mon- month.
Irving Smith at- tended school in Brook- lyn until the age of fourteen, when he was sent to Celle, Germany. where he remained at school for two years. Afterward his first ex- perience in the indns- trial world was brought IRVING SMITH. about by his entering a silk manufacturing concern in Lyons, France. The prac- tical knowledge and general experience he secured during
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his early youth in the Old World laid the foundation for the successful business career he has since followed, and each change he has made in a business way has been one of advancement and progress. After remaining in Europe for three years he returned to his native country, and in 1878 entered the employ of the American Waltham Watch Company in their New York office. In 1886 he was elected a Director of the company and placed in charge of their sales office in Boston. In 1887 he became a partner in a wholesale jewelry house in Boston, and remained thus con- nected until 1892, when he left Boston to associate himself with the Crescent Watch Case Company in Newark, of which concern he is now Treasurer and General Manager. He is also First Vice-President and a Director of the City Trust Company of Newark.
Mr. Smith is a member of Hope Lodge, F. and A. M., the Royal Arch Chapter of Masons, the Essex County Country Club, the Orange Club, the Reform Club of New York City, the Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn, the Improvement Society of East Orange, the New England Society of Orange, and the Newark Board of Trade. While a resident of Brooklyn he enlisted in Company E, Twenty-third Regi- ment. N. G. N. Y., and served five years. This regiment has for many years been considered the leading military organization of Brooklyn. He is a man of recognized busi- ness ability and held in high esteem by the entire com- munity.
He was married, March 1, 1883, to Miss Harriet M. Cobb, whose ancestors were natives of Kentucky. They have three children : Irma, born in New York City; Harriet Marguerite, born in Newton, Mass .; and Irving, Jr., born in East Orange, N. J. They are members of the First Unitarian Church of Essex County, of which Mr. Smith is a Trustee.
JOHN ENSTICE, of Newark, has achieved distinction as one of the largest and most successful contractors in New Jersey, where he has resided since he was four years old. He comes from the sturdy old Enstice and Giles families
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of Cornwall, England, where he was born March 20, 1867, his parents being James Enstice and Annie Giles and his grandparents John Enstice and Maria Norway. His moth- er, who survives, is the daughter of James and Amelia Giles, of Cornwall. On both sides he inherits the admirable
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characteristics of people whose broad and liberal attain- ments had an important influence upon the community in which they lived, and who raised by deed and word the high standard of industry, honesty, and fearless fidelity that marks their descendants in both the Old and the New World. In May, 1871, the family left the Cornwall home of
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their ancestors and emigrated to America, to seek, in broad- er fields, a fortune for themselves and their children. They first located in Dover, N. J., where Mr. Enstice's father, James Enstice, successfully prosecuted his business as a foreman and mining contractor until shortly before his death, which occurred March 9, 1883. He had five sons and two daughters, John being the third son.
The Mine Hill Public School No. 2, near Dover, Morris County, which he attended until he was sixteen years of age, furnished John Enstice with his primary education. As a boy he manifested and developed those energetic men- tal qualities which have since won for him honor and dis- tinction. Having laid the basis of an active career in studies best fitted for a business life, he became an appren- tice to the carpenter's trade in Dover, and there and in Mor- ristown followed his vocation with constantly increasing success, winning the respect and confidence of all with whom he came in contact. In the spring of 1886 he moved to Kearny, Hudson County, where he prosecuted his trade for two years, being in charge of important work most of the time. In 1SSS he engaged in the business of contracting and building on his own account. His first attempts were modest and unassuming, but the high reputation which he had made soon followed him to his new field of operation, and within a short time he occupied a foremost place among the prominent contractors in that section. He associated himself with his brothers, William and Edward J., under the present firm name of Enstice Brothers, and many of the finest and most imposing buildings in Kearny, Harrison, Newark, the Oranges, and other towns are the result of their efforts. Dwellings, public edifices, and a variety of work have been erected by them, and bear the distinctive stamp of their skill, energy, and thorough workmanship. In 1899 they completed extensive government contracts at Sandy Hook, which they had commenced in February, 1897, and their work there is among the largest and most im- portant military posts along the Atlantic coast. In the business and financial as well as in the constructive depart- mentsof the firm's business Mr. Enstice has been the leading figure, bringing to the management and detail work great
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executive ability, untiring energy, sound judgment, and un- usual foresight. His success in handling the largest con- tracts, in securing and carrying them to completion, is tangible evidence of his courage and enterprise. His achievements are the result of his own efforts, of constant application, and of the broad and progressive ideas of an able man. In May, 1900, he formed a partnership with John Bohenna, and under the firm name of John Bohenna & Co. engaged in the real estate and insurance business in New- ark.
In February, 1901, the Sanitary Plumbing and Heating Company, under which the Enstice Brothers had for two years previously been doing a general heating and plumb- ing business in the City of Newark, was merged with the firm of John Bohenna & Co. and incorporated under the name of the Eustice Brothers & Bohenna Company, with a capital stock of $100,000, the officers being John Enstice, President; William Eustice, Vice-President; E. J. Enstice, Treasurer; and John Bohenna, Secretary. The new com- pany has a large plumbing and painting department at 133 Summer Avenue, Newark, with offices at 499 Broad Street, and a mill and yard at 205-211 Kearny Avenne in Kearny. They do a general construction business. John Enstice is also President of the Randolph Chemical Company, of New- ark, in which he has large interests.
He is a prominent, public spirited citizen, and in the growth and prosperity of the community has taken an im- portant part, having been a liberal supporter of its chief institutions and lending his influence in favor of every com- mendable object. He served as a member of the Kearny Board of Education while a resident of that town. He is a 32° Mason, holding membership in Kane Lodge, No. 55, F. and A. M., in Union Chapter, No. 7, R. A. M., and in Kane Council, R. and S. M., all of Newark, and in Mecca Temple, A. A. N. O. M. S., of New York. He is a charter member of Ethic Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Harrison, and was for three years an Elder and for two years Treasurer of the Knox Presbyterian Church of Kearny. He is a Director of the Harrison and Kearny Building and Loan Association, and a Republican in politics.
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On the Sth of June, 1899, Mr. Enstice married Nellie May Decker, daughter of Thomas W. and Martha ( Van Duyne) Decker, of Kearny, formerly of Pine Brook, Morris County. Soon after his marriage he moved to South Orange, N. J., whence he subsequently removed to Newark, where he now resides.
EMIL E. GUENTHER, M.D., of Newark, was born in New York City on the 21st of September, 1854. His father, Rev. John U. Guenther, who was for forty-six years the pastor of the First German Presbyterian Church of Newark, was born in Eisenach, Saxony, May 3, 1825, was educated in the Moravian Church, and came to this country in 1850. The following year he was ordained a minister, and for a time did missionary work among the immigrants in Castle Garden. He was mar- ried in New York, in 1852, to Miss Maria Buhle, a native of Ger- many, and moved to Newark in 1854 as pas- tor of the First German Presbyterian Church. In 1900 he retired from active duties in the church, after having served forty-six years continuously in the pas- torate. His wife died September 8, 1892. His death occurred May 10, 1901. Their children were Emil E., the sub- ject of this article; Al- bert T., City Treasurer EMIL E. GUENTHER, M.D. of Newark; Rev. John C. Guenther; Maria and Babette Guenther; and Dr. Charles A. and Elizabeth C., deceased.
Dr. Emil E. Guenther was educated in the parochial
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schools connected with his father's church and in the pub- lie schools of Newark. In 1872 he began reading medicine with Dr. P. V. P. Hewlett, of Newark, with whom he re- mained a year and a half, when he entered the Medical De- partment of the University of the City of New York, from which institution he was graduated in March, 1877, with the degree of M.D. In the spring of 1876, while making a post-mortem examination, he contracted blood poisoning, and, his health failing, he was forced to spend six months in Wisconsin, immediately after his graduation, in rest and recuperation. Returning to his home in Newark, Dr. Guen- ther began the practice of his profession about Jannary 1, 1878. During the first year he was appointed district phy- sician and attending physician at the Newark Dispensary, but failing health compelled him to return to the West, and he located in Forreston, Ogle County, IH., where he continued the prosecution of his profession until 1883, when he again located in Newark and has since been an active and leading member of the medical fraternity there. He is attending surgeon of the German Hospital of Newark, with which institution he has been connected for seventeen years. HIe is assistant surgeon in St. Barnabas Hospital of New- ark, which position he has held since the 5th of October, 1885, and is also Lecturer to the training schools of the St. Barnabas and German Hospitals.
From 1884 to 1887 Dr. Guenther served as one of the coroners of Essex County, being elected on the Republican ticket. He was the medical examiner of the Order of Chosen Friends, and is now examiner of the Order of Home Friends and a delegate for New Jersey to Supreme Coun- vil of that order. He was formerly a member of the Es- sex County Medical Society and is now a member of the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men.
NATHAN CLARENCE HORTON, of Orange, born in Chester, Morris County, N. J., November 1, 1869, is the son of David Lewis and Mary P. ( Dildine) Horton and a great- great-grandson of Nathan Horton, a captain in the Revolu-
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tionary War, through whom he is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.
He received his preliminary education at the Blair Pres- byterial Academy of Blairstown, N. J., and in 1887 was graduated from the State Model School at Trenton, where he was one of the founders and editors of The Signal, now the official organ of that institution. He read law with Arthur W. Horton, of Philadel- phia, Pa., received the degree of LL.B. from the Law Department of the University of Penn- sylvania in 1889, and was admitted to prac- tice in the Philadelphia courts as an attorney and counsellor Novem- · ber 1, 1890, and to the NATHAN C. HORTON. bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in January, 1893. He began practice in Philadelphia, and from 1889 to 1892 also edited and managed the Insurance Necs, a monthly journal devoted to insurance matters. In February, 1892, he was admitted to the bar of New Jersey and in the following September settled in Orange, where he has since practiced his profession, and where he served as City Counsel one year (1893-94).
Mr. Horton has always done considerable literary work, and while in the University of Pennsylvania was the editor of the law department of the Pennsylvanian, the college paper. He is a member of Union Lodge, No. 11, F. and A. M., of Orange. He enlisted in Company I, Second Regi- ment, N. G. N. J., was promoted to First Lieutenant, and in the summer of 1898, during the war with Spain, was with that regiment of volunteer infantry at Jacksonville, Fla.,
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attached to the Seventh Army Corps, commanded by Major- General Fitzhugh Lee. He was Ordnance Officer of the regiment and Judge-Advocate of the division court martial. Ile is unmarried.
EDWIN RAYNOR CASE, a successful business man of Jersey City, is the son of Menzies Raynor Case and Amanda Malvina Coon, a grandson of Moses and Charlotte ( Miller)
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Case and of Samuel and Hannah (Negus) Coon, a great- grandson of Josiah Case and Robert Negus, and a lineal de- srendant of John Case, who came from England and settled
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in Simsbury, Conn., in 1650. Mr. Case's great-grandmother, the wife of Robert Negus, was a Perry. His father was a Director of the Jersey City Board of Education for five terms, his associates in the board during that time being Joseph McCoy, James L. Davenport, and A. S. Jewell; he was also for sixteen years superintendent of Old Trinity Methodist Episcopal Sunday School in York Street.
Edwin R. Case was born in Jersey City, April 7, 1855. He obtained his education in Public Schools Nos. 1 and 13 and at Hasbrouck Classical and Commercial Institute, which he left in January, 1872, to engage in the tea brokerage busi- ness with his father. He continued in that employment un- til September 10, 1873, and from that time until November 1, 1899, was associated with the People's Gas Light Com- pany of Jersey City, first as a clerk and from October 12, 1880, to October 31, 1899, as Secretary and Treasurer of the company. From the leasing of the gas company to the United Gas Improvement Company, in September, 1886, to the present time, he has been successfully engaged in the stock and bond brokerage business. He is President and a Director of the Fidelity Gas Light Company of Hoosic Falls, N. Y., of the Monroe County Gas Company of Strouds- burg, Pa., and of the New Paltz and Poughkeepsie Traction Company of New Paltz, N. Y. He is also a Trustee of the Lakewood Gas Company of Lakewood, N. J.
Since 1884 Mr. Case has been a member of the Jersey City Club. He is also a member of Unique Council, No. 434, Royal Arcanum, and of Vigilant Council, No. 43, Loyal Addi- tional Benefit Association. He is active and influential in the community and a man of superior business ability and sound judgment.
On September 25, 1876, Mr. Case married Emily Fay Hoyt. They have had three children: Caroline Hoyt Case, Edwin Raynor Case (deceased), and Herbert Hoyt Case.
ERNEST C. EVERTZ, of East Orange, born in the famous cutlery manufacturing town of Solingen, in one of the Rhine provinces of Prussia, October 2, 1854, is the son of Peter Daniel Evertz and Alvena, daughter of Henry and Wilhel-
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mina (Stracher) Konart, both members of old German fam- ilies. His maternal grandfather served in one of the cam- paigns under Napoleon Bonaparte. On December 1, 1859, this Napoleonic soldier, with his wife and two daughters, Alvena and Amelia, sailed from Bremen for America, but on the third day of the voyage he died and his remains were buried at sea. The widow, after fifty-five days, landed in New York and went direct to Newark, N. J., whence she subsequently removed to Roseville. The sec- ond daughter, Amelia, was a widow and had one child, Rosalia. The other daughter, Alvena. and her husband, Peter Daniel Evertz, then had eight children.
Peter Daniel Evertz secured employment with Henry Sauerbeer, afterward working at his trade for some time in the employ of Jacob Wiss, the founder of the firm of Jacob Wiss & Sons, of Newark. His diligence and persever- ance, after two years, ERNEST C. EVERTZ. enabled Mr. Everiz To begin business on his own account in the manufacture of cutlery hardware, and in this he was very successful, con- timmonsty conducting the enterprise until 1865, when, on account of failing health, he was forced to relinquish it. Within the same year he purchased the homestead in East Orange, consisting of a fourteen-acre tract of land, to which he intended to retire with his family; but on the 10th of February, 1866, at his home in Newark, he passed away, at the age of forty-one, his birth having occurred on the 2d of February, 1825. His wife, who was born on the 17th of May, 1827, died September 30, 1881.
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