The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-21
OUR Ia v MAKERS.
Pen and Ink Portraits Of.
Members Of the Present
Legislature.
PLENTY OF LAWYERS As USUAL
Many Native ~Jerseymen Among
the Legislators - Senator
s~langer's Extreme
Modesiy.
PLENTY OF LAWYERS AS USUAL

50 plA1pSu III tHs olAle manual Tor 1871,
are amlisingly picked to pieces in a Tren-
ton letter in the Newark Evening News
as folIows:-
There is always considerable interest
manifested in the new members of the
State Legislature. The seasoned law
makers are naturally DESTROYS Of learning
as much as possible of the recent ar
rivals, that they may the better under
stand them, and the people generally are
anxious to become informed, with the
view Of Judging what they may expect
from the latest acquisitions to the law
making body. So all hands await with
eagerness the advent of Thomas F. Fitz-
gerald's Legislative Manual, for in that
book are published sketches of the Sena-
tors and A~ssemblymen, furnished by
themselves. The sketches are, as a con-
sequence, presumed to be correct.
Of the twenty-one members of the Sen
ate fifteen are recorded in this years
issue Of the Manual as they were set
down in last years number. This is be-
cause thirteen are holdover Senators and
two were re-elected-Ketcham of Essex
and Voorhees, of Union. OF the six new
members three Senators-Francis of Mon
mouth, Reed of Somerset, and Stranger of
Gloucester-occupied seats in the House
of Assembly last year. and Reed and
Francis, are pictured as they We're then,
while Stranger poses as a more notable
parsonage. When only an Assemblyman
he was described simply as always close
ly identified with the Republican party
while his record reads has always been
closely identified with and is a leader of
the Republican party. having at heart it's
principles and doing all in his power to
promote the same
While in the lower House the new SEN
ator from Gloucester was known simply
as a working MEMBER, who did not
play a very conspicuous part in its delib-
erations, and 1T remains to be seen
whether or not his elevation to the posi-
ton of Republican leader" will cause a
One OF the brand-new Senators-Isaac
Barber. of Warren-is a Democrat, a fact
which Haasasa leS IS 1nsI interest rest IN Nth his b,,t iff5d Y
say in the way of shaping legislation. 1t
would make but Slight difference any
way, for the Senator is presumably a
modest mar who would have but little
to say even If the opportunity afforded
itself. He is forty-two years old, was
born in Forty Fort, Pa, where his father,
moved in the early ~forties, returning to
Warren county in 1855. Senator Barber is
a physician. Il.
senator RtcHdru ". MlltGT, tuG htWly
elected representative from Salem county,
never held public office before. and is re-
ferred to as accepting his present posi-
ton against his own wishes. He was born
in AlloWay, Salem county, in 1S4S, and
lives there now. What he will do in a
Legislative way can only be surmised from
the determined stand ne made for Salem
county representation In the distribution
of Senatorial offices.
Senator Herbert w. Johnson, of Cam
den, the. last Of the newly elected Sen
man than a politician, is 10 novice in po-
litical affairs. He served three terms in
the Common Council and was Chief Bur
CESS Of the borough, Of M~erchantvilie,
ing his second term as a. member of the
Camden County Board of Freeholders.
He is the senior meraber of the firm Of
ural house of Philadelphia, which he es-
tablished in 1880, and is a member of the
Commercial Exchange of Philadelphia
n of the Philadelphia Bourse.
Hudson county for the first time In its
history has eleven new representatives,
all Republicans, without former legislative
Uncertain elernent in the House, compris
ing as they do, one-fifth of the majority,
and being pretty well filled with the idea
that the political future of the State is
dependent on the success Of measures adj
vocated by them. 1t Is always so with
Republican members from Hudson, and
wear. -Four Of The eleven members are
lawyers, -.and each of them has enough
reform measures in store to occupy the
Elmer William Demarest, who heads the
list, is an attorney and counsellor-at-law,
who was born in Bergen county less than
i fwe offics be seaes a agp: his 81 feg aeXsr ne, exp pa9-
ence consists in having been one of a
appointed by the Hudson
Wosa5yl e ksPaaoGa affeeting tse o oo lsye' 70
Isaac Faerber Goldenhorn was born in
New York City in October, 1872, and is
flIst y9engeHTt st m sas ave ct the in p Je : I clfy
ted to the bar in 1891. and is actively iden-
'f sis aks Wdin RRMsR rl a@o affalfs, A IS : pdIisic tG
orator OF much ability. he has been on
the stump in three political campaigns,
and he worked r very hard for the election
William M. K1ink says not a word of
his political prowess,. but merely an
nean'e ago 6ha eal ns was Ea bern gerss IN d Inaiap Mbs e
seven years old, has lived there since.
and was admitted to the bar in 1892,
Clement Der Leonard was born in Red
with the ii interests Of the ' State for fern more
than 2 censsury; His great grand-father
Jersey III III and his grandfather wa
appointed Minister to Spain by President
Jefferson and remained in that position
- $500 ~ - At-fN@ ~ aA4ft VI
after graduating from Seton Hall College
was admitted to the bar in 1876, removed
to Jersey City from Red Bank one year
later and has lived there since. He never
held pubic office but has takenSan active
part in Republican politics in Hudson
county for several years.
Theodore c. WildTilan Is a native of Com
necticut, where he was born in 1910, He
began the study Of law at the age of
eighteen, abandoned it in 1861 to enlist in
the C~on1lecticut Volunteers, served with
Distinction for three years. and was retired
then he has been engaged in newspaper
work and is at present ar editor. He set
tied in Arlington, Hudson County, ten
years ag3, has resided there ever since
and never held public office before.
William George Nelson is a fire insur-
anee broker, who was born in New York
city forty-otle years ago, and has hved in
chairman of the delegation, served six
years in the Hudson County Board of
Freeholders, and is identified with the
Hudson County Autobiography League,
from which erna1atGs. as q rule, a food of
reform measures Annually.
Robert Donaldson urquhart was born in
Scotland fortyzthree yearstfago. He anne
Regal Csnadian Artillery and took up a
residence In Jersey City In 1887. He is en-
gagged In the harness trade and never held
public office before.
John q, Macarthur Is another Scotchman.
He was born In Glasgow in 1856. Accord
ing to hiis sketch, when nineteen years Of
age. he had entire charge Of and complet-
renee, Mass. Two years later he had
charge Of a big engineering scheme for an
English syndicate in the San joaquin
.Riven. California. AT pERsept yne-iS,- a ,csaAc