The Jersey City news., 1905-10-28

tth~ihe.A sSoiie tSso, tooh dii dct1fe pHAt
in framing the State Constitution in
1T7G, and married daughter of Will
liam Livingston, the first daughter of
New Jersey; Daniel Haines, also Gov
ernor of he State; Martin Ryerson, who
was graduated from Princeon in 1888,
studied law under Governor Pennington,
of Newark, and became pustice of the
Supreme Court in 1873. The other jas
tices were Martin c. Ryerson, great
grandson of former Justice Ryerson;
Manning NJ. Knapp and Francis j.
Swayze, who is the youngest justice of
the Supreme Court.
It is impossible to name the long list
of men who distinguished themselves in
military circles. A shining light was
General Judson Fitzpatrick, who organ
lied almost exclusively in Sussex the
famous Harris Light Cavalry and rem
dered during the Civil War almost heroic
service to his country.
In journalism Sussex produced former
Governor Bross. owner and editor of the
Chicago Tribune; William A. Stiles, who
was editor of the New York Tribune and
founder and editor of Garden ana Forest.
member of the New York Park Com
mission, and one of the most versatile Of
men; William A. Linn, for twenty years
editor of the New York Evening Post,
magazine writer and outhor; Lawrence
$. Mott, founder Of the Newark Evening
News and Trenton Times, Edwin De
Witt, business manager of the Evening
Telegram; Joseph Miller, for many
years on the staff of the Advertiser, and
John S. Gibson, who wa salso connected
with that paper; Congressmon NJ. D.
Stiyers, founder and editor of the Mid
dletown Daily Press and Times; George
Lowrey, founder and editor of the New
York Clothier and Furnisher, the largest
trade paper in the United States; C. A.
Wilson and John Stanton. editors of the
Sussex Independent, and John j tSan-
ton, founder and editor of the Milk Re-
porter and the Peach Growers Journal:
Charles E. Stickney, editor of the Wan
tage Recorder and many others which
space foIbids to mention
In financial matters the county fur
nished men of brains and ability. The
McCarters, of Newark; Griggs. Nelden
and Bell of Paterson; William NJ John
son, of Hackensask; Samuel Price, presi-
dent of the National Bank at Scranton,
Pa; Charles Chr,ssy. president of the
National Bank at Warwick, M q;
Charles Van Wegen, president Of the
Port Jervis National Bank; Martin Ev-
eritt, president of the First National
Bank of Port Jelvis; Charles Cooper, Oil
City, Pa, one of the organizers of
Standard Oil''; NJ D. Stivers, founder
of the Orange County Trust Company;
Lewis S. Hoyt, president Of the Second
National Bank, New Castle. Pa; G. A.
Wilson, founder and president of the
First National Bank at Butler; Theo-
dore Morford, president of the Sussex
National Bank, and oldest living director
of the New York Mutual Life Insurance
Company; William Linn, president of the
Peoples Bank, Hackensaek; the late
John A. Whitaker, president of the Far
mers National Bank of Sussex, and
Theodore Margarum now president of
the same institution.
In railroading the names of Ross Wi
mans, Alfred Dennis. Edgar Van Etten
and William H. Bell occupy a conspic
uous place. All We're poor boys, without
influence or special opportunities. Ross
Winans lived in sheltered nook of the
Hamburg Mounains, and yet such was
his inventive genius that he really solved
many difficult problems in railroading
without ever seeing railroad or visiting
a large machine shop. He went to Bal
timore, bashful. penniless fellow, TO
show Charles Carroll, of Carrollton his
model engine, which was the original and
progenitor of the camel back engines.
The swivel axe used under passenger
coaches is his invention.
Alfred E. Dennis, who succeeded John
P. jackson as manager of the New Jer-
sey Railroad, and also succeeded General
]. S. Darcy as president, was born In
Newton. At 12 years of age he left his
home with bundle under his arm ard
a mothers blessing. He came fo New
ark and secured a position as a groeer's
errand boy and later entered the employ
of Mr.. Tuttle, who kept book store at
Broad and Academy streets. This friend
less, penniless boy by his fidelity to duty
and business ability beeamles. the fiscal
and executive agent Of the Pennsylvania
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