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KLINE, Jesse Cameron,
Financier, Business Man, Churchman.
With the passing of Jesse Cameron Kline, the community in which he lived lost more than an able business man, as his life had touched closely every depart- ment of the life of the community : Church, Sunday school, fraternity, philan- thropy, all of which benefited through his loyal interest, and no son of Pennsylvania ever stood higher as an exponent of civic righteousness. He was a man of high ideals and in his daily life held closely to his principles and maintained his honor inviolate and his word sacred. His life justified the metaphor of his former pas- tor, Rev. J. E. Eggert, who in his tribute compared him to a piece of coal and a diamond, both composed of the same ele- ment, carbon-Mr. Kline, like the coal, absorbing the light; and like the dia- mond, reflecting and spreading the light about him.
As a financier and business man he was especially strong and able, sagacious and
resourceful. It was the testimony of his associates of the board of directors of the White Haven Savings Bank that it was his pride and aim to make that bank the equal of the best, and that the enviable position the bank now occupies bears wit- ness that his efforts were not in vain. He was a son of John Whiteman and Sarah A. (Lance) Kline, of Columbia county, Pennsylvania, and was a worthy descend- ant of a long line of honorable forbears.
Jesse Cameron Kline was born at Still- water, Columbia county, Pennsylvania, April 7, 1865, and died at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, December 21, 1915, at the age of fifty years, after an illness of several weeks. He received a liberal education in the public schools, the academies at Orange- ville and New Columbus, Pennsylvania, completing his studies at Wyoming Semi- nary, Kingston, Pennsylvania. He sup- plemented his schooling by a continuous study of the best writers on a wide range of subjects. In 1886 he began his busi- ness life in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, as bookkeeper with Whiteman & Patter- son, wholesale grocers. He later aided in closing up the affairs of the old Rocke- feller Bank, and shortly afterward ac- cepted a position with the Wyoming Na- tional Bank as bookkeeper, a position he filled until 1895, in which year he was elected cashier of the White Haven Sav- ings Bank of White Haven, Pennsylva- nia, and on January 11, 1896, was elected a member of the board of directors: He continued as cashier and director of the bank until his death, but his outside business interests were numerous and weighty. He was secretary and treasurer of the White Haven Water Company from May 3, 1897 ; president of the Spring Brook Lumber Company since 1899, and in 1900 with R. P. Crellin purchased the insurance business of T. P. McAndrews, deceased. That business was continued
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under the firm name, R. P. Crellin & Company, and, like the other enterprises with which Mr. Kline was connected, was conducted with the success which at- tended all.
Throughout his entire life, Mr. Kline took an active interest and part in church work. During the years he spent in Wilkes-Barre he was a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, a member of the choir, and after his gradu- ation from the normal course, taught by Dr. L. H. Taylor, for the instruction of teachers, he became a faithful, untiring and efficient teacher in the Sunday school. He was also interested in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association, and was very active in bringing the Wilkes- Barre branch to its present high plane of usefulness. After his removal to White Haven, Mr. Kline became a member of the Presbyterian church, serving as leader of the choir, trustee, treasurer and elder. He there continued his work in the Sun- day school, serving in the capacities of teacher and superintendent, and the pres- ent high attendance and usefulness of that body is largely the result of his loyalty and devotion to that important branch of church work. He was a tower of strength to his pastors and accom- plished great things in the church and all its branches. At a meeting of the session of the White Haven Presbyterian Church, held December 23, 1915, the following resolutions were adopted in memory of Elder Jesse C. Kline :
Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God to take out of the world the soul of our neighbor and fellow worker, therefore be it resolved :
First .- That in the death of Brother Jesse C. Kline, we have sustained a very great loss, but what is cur loss is his glorious gain.
Sccond .- That we have learned to esteem him very highly for his work's sake. He was a most companionable co-worker in the Session. We shall miss him greatly in our work. It behooves
us to redouble our energy and use every means to meet our opportunities.
Third .-- That we extend our heartfelt sympathy to his bereaved and esteemed wife and aged parents, praying that the grace of God may be sufficient for them in their deep sorrow; our brother sleepeth.
Fourth .- That a copy of these resolutions be given to the family.
Fifth .- That the resolutions be recorded in the minute book of the Session.
SAMUEL ALBEE, Clerk of the Session.
Mr. Kline was a member of the Na- tional Geographic Society of Washington, D. C., the Royal Arcanum, and was past master of Laurel Lodge, No. 467, Free and Accepted Masons. He was a worthy cxemplar of the best tenets of the Ma- sonic order, and, when laid at final rest in Laurel Cemetery, White Haven, it was according to the beautiful burial service and ceremonies of the order.
Mr. Kline married, November 9, 1892, Nettie I. Learn, who survives him. She is a danghter of Sterling G. and Sarah A. (Ide) Learn, residents of Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, both of whom died while comparatively young, and were descend- ants of families long resident in the State of Pennsylvania.
When Mr. Kline's labors were finally ended, a special meeting of the board of directors of the White Haven Savings Bank was called on December 24, 1915, when the following minutes were adopted :
The directors of the White Haven Savings Bank in recording on their minutes the death of Jesse Cameron Kline desire to express therein their appreciation of his life, his character and his work. Mr. Kline became cashier of this bank on May 6, 1895, and was elected director on Janu- ary 11, 1896. His relation to the bank has been one of loyal industry and confidence. His busi- ness sagacity, habit of accurate thinking, quick grasp and keen analysis of financial matters and faithful attention to the work of this institution are well known. Throughout the many years during which he was connected with the bank, it
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was his pride and aim to make it equal to the best. The enviable position which the bank now occupies bears witness that his efforts were not in vain. In his death, the board of directors has lost a wise counsellor, a faithful associate and a devoted friend. His presence will long be re- membered, his work will be an inspiration.
BULLOCK, Edward L., Coal Operator, Financier.
Length of years has been granted Mr. Bullock, years which have been honor- ably and usefully spent; not selfishly for his own aggrandizement, although he has been diligent and successful in business, but in the service of his fellowmen in the ways open to him, charity, philanthropy and religion all claiming his interest and support. To chronicle the business activ- ities of a life which from the age of eighteen until sixty-three was crowded with achievement is in its completeness difficult to compress within the limits of a biographical sketch, but doubly hard when in connection with that business activity there was continuous work for the uplift of man.
Mr. Bullock traces descent to an Eng- lish ancestor, John Bullock, of Hull, who prior to 1710 came to the American colo- nies, settling in Burlington county, New Jersey. He married a second wife, and in 1710 is recorded as a beneficiary of his father-in-law's estate. The line of de- scent from John and Sarah (Harrison) Bullock is through their son, Isaac Bul- lock, and his wife, Elizabeth Rockhill; their son, Edward Bullock, and his wife, Hannah Lanning; their son, Joshua Bul- lock, and his wife, Mary Lippincott; their son, Edward L. Bullock, of Hazle- ton, Pennsylvania.
Joshua Bullock was born at Mount Holly, Burlington county, New Jersey, November 11, 1811, and died at Quaker- town, Pennsylvania, July 28, 1901, a nonogenarian. After he had completed
his own education in the public schools, he began teaching in nearby schools, con- tinuing until 1840, when he moved to Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in lumbering on an extensive scale, the virgin forests of that section offering a fine field for his energy. When the great and disastrous floods of 1862 practically swept away his plant, he did not resume, but removed to Quakertown, Pennsylvania, where he passed the re- maining years of his long life. In Mauch Chunk he took a leading part in civic affairs, served as burgess, and filled many other local offices. He was a prominent member of the Society of Friends, faith- ful to its peculiar tenets, and a man of highest character. He married Mary Lip- pincott, April 4, 1843, born November 5, 1813, died April 15, 1891. Of their chil- dren, Edward L., Anna and Alice are yet living.
Edward L. Bullock was born at Mauch Chunk, Carbon county, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1844. He passed the first eighteen years of his life at the paternal home, obtaining a good English educa- tion in the public schools. In 1862 he entered the service of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company as rodman, his first duties being in connection with re- pairs to the canal, which had been badly damaged by the flood of June 2, 1862, the same flood which swept away his father's lumber yards. He remained with that company until 1866, becoming assistant engineer, and aiding in the construction of the Lehigh & Susquehanna railroad from Easton to White Haven, Pennsyl- vania. In 1866 he resigned his position and entered the Polytechnic College of Pennsylvania, pursuing a two years' course in mining, and in 1868 receiving at graduation the degree of Mining Engi- neer. Shortly after obtaining his degree he became engineer and assistant superin- tendent with the Buck Mountain Coal
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Company, remaining two years, going thence to the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company as superintendent and engineer at the Wanamie Colliery near Wilkes-Barre.
In 1871 he was appointed superintend- ent of the Beaver Brook Coal Company near Audenreid, Pennsylvania, and there remained thirty-seven years. During that period he was in charge of the com- pany's affairs, also opening and superin- tending two extensive collieries at Morea and Kaska William, in Schuylkill county. He became one of the well known and efficient coal operators of the anthracite district, and bore a very high reputation both for engineering and executive abil- ity. In 1907 Mr. Bullock retired from part of his business engagements and has since resided at his home in Hazleton. He, however, retains official connection with several important corporations, serving as executive head of the Garret Mining Company of Maryland, the Caro- lina-Georgia Lumber Company of Savan- nah, Georgia, and is a member of the board of directors of the Dodson Coal Company and the Beaver Brook Coal Company of Pennsylvania, the Hazleton National Bank, and the Hazleton Iron Works. These are all corporations in which he has taken prominent part since organization and with some of them his connection has been of long standing.
The side lights to be thrown upon this life now past man's allotted "threescore years and ten" are many and varied. In 1862, when a lad of eighteen, he enlisted for thirty days' service in a Wilkes-Barre military company, and in 1863 enlisted in Company I, Thirty-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, to defend Penn- sylvania against Lee's invasion. In 1872 he married, and until 1907 resided at Beaver Brook, Pennsylvania. He early became a member of the Presbyterian church, and for the past thirty years has
been a trustee of the First Presbyterian Church of Hazleton. His work for the uplift of his fellowmen has been con- tinuous, and is in no wise diminishing in its value. He is vice-president of the board of trustees of Hazleton State Hos- pital ; a trustee of the Young Men's and the Young Women's Christian associa- tions ; director of the United Charities of Hazleton; and privately is ever zealous in good works.
He delights in the social joys of life, and is associated with his fellows in sev- eral organizations, serving as treasurer of the Hazleton Country Club, president of the Wallops Island Association, East- ern Shore, Virginia, and belongs to the University Club of Philadelphia. In poli- tics he is identified with the Washington party, an organization striving to break the bonds in which Pennsylvania is held politically. He has traveled extensively in Europe, the West Indies and the United States, and is a gentleman of most entertaining quality.
Mr. Bullock married, October 10, 1872, Emma Brandriff, born July 11, 1848, with whom he walked earth's pathway forty- three years ere separated by her death, November 9, 1915. Four of their children died in infancy, three growing to mature years: Allyn, married Lillian Platt, and has a son, Edward L. (3d); Ethel, mar- ried Harold K. Beecher, of Pottsville, and has children : Carol, Harold K. (2d), John W .; and Edward L. (2d), an architect of Washington, District of Columbia.
KAISER, Julius A., Civil War Veteran, Chess Expert.
A veteran of the United States navy and of the Civil War, retiring from serv- ice in 1873, Captain Kaiser had a large acquaintance among military and naval men ; in business and financial circles in Philadelphia he was long active and gen-
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erally known ; but he was most renowned throughout the nation and the world as a champion chess problem composer and solver. He was the owner of several medals and prizes won by his prowess as a solver of chess problems, and was equally noted as a maker of problems that literally went to all parts of the earth. In his prime as a problem solver, Captain Kaiser had no superiors and but few equals, and his percentage of prizes won to the number of problems submit- ted has been rarely duplicated.
Captain Julius Adam Kaiser was born at Washington, District of Columbia, July 22, 1845, died at his residence, No. 508 Locust avenue, Germantown, Penn- sylvania, January 20, 1915. He was for a time a student at Gonzaga College, in Georgetown, then entering the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, and on September 8, 1863, he was commis- sioned third assistant engineer in the United States navy. During the Civil ·War he was a member of the crew of the iron-clad "Sangamon," of the Moni- tor type, blockading in the James river, Virginia, and off the coast of Charleston. After the close of the war, on July 25, 1866, he was raised to the post of second assistant engineer, being appointed past assistant engineer October 13, 1868, with the rank of lieutenant. He served on home and foreign stations, abroad under the command of Admiral Farragut, and in 1873, while on duty at an Asiatic sta- tion on the steamer "Ashuelot," he re- ceived severe injuries to his left arm, at that time retiring from the service. He had been ordered on the "Oneida," but his accident the day before sailing pre- cluded his going. The day after sailing the "Oneida" was sunk with all on board.
Captain Kaiser had taken up his resi- dence in Philadelphia in 1870, and at the end of his naval service made this city his permanent home. His business identifi-
cations were chiefly with brokerage firms, first with William H. Hurley & Com- pany, afterward with Norman McCloud & Company. He was associated with this latter house until its disastrous failure, when he formed a connection with Win- throp, Smith & Company, a concern suc- ceeded by Butcher, Sherrerd & Hansell, with whom Captain Kaiser remained until his death. His business associates honored him with the highest confidence and respect, of which strong executive ability, faithful devotion, and tireless energy made him eminently worthy. Honesty was one of his predominative traits.
Always interested in political and pub- lic affairs, and a believer in Republican principles, Captain Kaiser took but little active part in party affairs. He was twice connected with the United States Bureau of the Census in the compilation of the Philadelphia statistics, the first time as assistant, the second time in full charge of the work. Under Mayor Stuart he was the incumbent of an important and re- sponsible office in connection with the department of highways, at all times giv- ing of the best of his service to his city.
His chess activities afforded him not only most pleasurable relaxation from business cares, but a field that offered a wide range for his ingenuity and inven- tion. He always ranked as an over-the- board player of marked ability, and until his death remained a dangerous opponent, but excelled in the composition and solu- tion of chess problems. But for the handicap of an impetuous temperament, which was even a drawback in his corre- spondence play, he would have ranked undoubtedly as one of the ablest players of the century. He was the composer of about one hundred chess problems of high order, and in each of four tourna- ments in which he entered his composi- tions he was awarded a prize, capturing
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first prize in both the "Southern Field Gazette" and the "Brooklyn Chronicle" tournaments, and, respectively, the first and fourth prizes in the "Chicago Mirror of American Sports" and the "Tenownie News" tournaments. Among the noted solvers whom Captain Kaiser met and defeated may be mentioned Professor Berger, of Austria ; B. G. Laws, C. Plank and James Raynor, of England ; C. Kock- elhorn, of Germany ; Joseph Ney Babson, C. D. P. Hamilton, Samuel Lloyd, C. W. Phillips, George E. Carpenter and W. Steinitz, of America. He contested in five great solving tournaments, the sec- ond, third and fifth, with international entries, with this result: In 1885, "Chi- cago Mirror of American Sports," eighty entries, tied for third place ; in 1886, "Chi- cago Mirror of American Sports," one hundred and nine entries, tied for fourth place ; 1888, "Baltimore Sunday News," first prize ; 1889, "Sunny South," Atlanta, Georgia, first prize ; 1907, Lasker's Inter- national Solving Tournament, forty-five entries, first prize.
In the Rice Gambit Correspondence Tournament, with over two hundred entries, Captain Kaiser obtained first place in each of the preliminary rounds, while in the Continental Correspondence Tournament, in which seventy of the leading players of this country and Can- ada competed, he finished ninth in the final round. Probably his best over-the- board chess was played in a series of games from 1880 to 1885 with Captain O. E. Michelis, who ranked as the strongest player in the United States army. While there was no actual match between those two players, yet the series was a test be- tween the ablest players in the United States navy and the United States army, Captain Kaiser winning the series by a fair majority.
He was a member of the Franklin Chess Club from the date of its incorporation
over thirty years ago, and served many times on its board of directors. He be- longed to the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, was held in high esteem by his comrades and greatly beloved by all who knew him intimately. He was also a member of the Union League, and the Military Order of Foreign Wars, and the United Service Club. He was a member of the Episcopal church, for twenty-five years vestryman of the House of Prayer of Branchtown.
Captain Kaiser married Miss Emma L .. Bringhurst, daughter of Rev. George Bringhurst, rector of House of Prayer, Branchtown, who survives him with one son: George Bringhurst Kaiser, a botan- ist, and secretary of the Botanical Society of the University of Pennsylvania. He lectures on botanical subjects and in 1914 he took a tramp of 858 miles through the country studying nature.
LEUF, A. H. P., M. D., Physician, Educator, Author.
Dr. A. H. P. Leuf, prominent medical practitioner, educator and author, of Philadelphia, was born May 2, 1861, in Brooklyn, New York, son of John and Gertrude (Gnad) Leuf. He was educated in a parochial school and the evening high school of his native city, and in the year 1878 entered Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, from which he gradu- ated, June 14, 1881. He immediately entered into general practice in Brooklyn, where he at once launched out upon his busy and interesting career, becoming identified with the various medical soci- eties, and serving in various capacities in well known hospitals in Brooklyn, New York.
Dr. Leuf was Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy in Long Island College Hos- pital, where he also lectured and assisted in the clinic on nervous and mental
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diseases. He was the organizer of the Ki Phi Delta fraternity, which is still in existence; served as acting coroner's physician from 1882 to 1885 inclusive ; and as pathologist to St. Mary's General Hospital and St. Mary's Special Hospital, and the Hospital for Nervous and Mental Diseases; visiting physician to Kings County Lunatic Asylum, and St. Mary's Upper and Lower Hospitals, department of nervous and mental diseases, and dis- pensary physician, department of nervous and mental diseases, Long Island College Hospital. He instituted a summer course at college before graduation, in which he lectured on anatomy, and subsequently became Assistant Demonstrator on Anat- omy. He was secretary of the Brooklyn Pathological Society and editor of its "Transactions." He organized the Asso- ciation of American Anatomists, and in this organization his was the spirit that brought together the various prominent anatomists who met first for this purpose at his call at the Medical Department of Georgetown University at Washington, D. C., in the fall of 1888. Dr. Leuf acted as chairman and called the meeting to order and explained the object and pur- pose of the proposed organization, and at the same time proposed Dr. Harrison Allen as chairman. When a regular organization was effected, Dr. Joseph Leidy was elected president, and Dr. Leuf was elected secretary and treasurer. The by-laws submitted by him were adopted verbatim. At this meeting Dr. Leuf read a paper on the brain.
Dr. Leuf served as general surgeon and later surgeon-in-chief of the Women's and Children's Hospital, Brooklyn, and was surgical editor of the "American Medical Digest." He was gynecologist and later surgeon at the Southern Hos- pital and Dispensary, Brooklyn. He was also a member of the Kings County Medical Society and of the New York
Neurological Society, and taught in the New York Polyclinic in its department of nervous and mental diseases in associ- ation with Dr. Landon Carter Grey.
In the fall of 1886, Dr. Leuf moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which has become his adopted city and the center of his professional, literary, political and social activities. He has served as a director of physical education at the University of Pennsylvania and at Swarthmore College, and was associated with Dr. Charles K. Mills in the depart- ment of nervous and mental diseases in the Philadelphia Polyclinic. He was Demonstrator of Anatomy at the Penn- sylvania School of Anatomy. He was also the physical director of the Third Regiment, National Guard of Pennsyl- vania. Among the many organizations of which Dr. Leuf is or was a member, the following are probably the most im- portant : Kings County Medical Society ; Brooklyn Pathological Society ; Brooklyn Medical Club; the Galen Club; Nassau Athletic Club; Ki Phi Delta fraternity ; organizer and first president of the Phy- sical Education Society of Pennsylvania ; former member of American Academy of Political and Social Science; the Brook- lyn Young Republican Club; District Master Workman, D. A. I., Knights of Labor; First Nationalist Club of Penn- sylvania ; supreme president of the Bene- ficial Loan fraternity ; president of Sten- ton Building and Loan Association; president of the Stenton Athletic Club, having been reëlected for ten consecutive years, and this continued confidence on the part of the Stentonites is a fine tribute to Dr. Leuf, who has, perhaps more than any one else, helped the club maintain a healthy, social and prosperous era ; mem- ber of the Pennsylvania State Sports- men's Association ; Phoenix Lodge, No. 130, Free and Accepted Masons ; Temple Chapter, No. 248, Royal Arch Masons;
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Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association ; Philadelphia Turngenieinde ; Knights of St. John and Malta, and Patriotic Order Sons of America.
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