Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-09-14
LIFE SKETCHES
Of BOTH PARTIES
MAYOR NOMINEES
Jacob Haussling and Edward E.
Gnichtel Idolized by Democrats
and &. O. P. Respectively.

Mayor Jacob Haussling, nominated
by the Democrats for third term yes
terday as a tribute to his faithful serv-
ice in his present office and to many
years of activity in Democratic politics,
is a lifelong resident of this city and is
known to everyone. Former Assembly
man Edward e. Gnichtel, who will be
the mayors opponent at the general
elections, was unanimously elected
mayoralty candidate by the Republican
party Mr.. Gnichtel is young busi-
ness man and has a host of friends.
Mayor Haussling was born on Febru-
airy %, 1855, in Halsey street, and has
lived in the Second ward all his life.
He received his education in st. Mary's
Parochal School, in the Second Ward
Grammar School and later attended
business college. For while he prac-
tised the trade of marble cutter, at
which he had served his apprenticeship.
but at the age of IL abandoned this
calling to engage in mineral water
business, which his father had founded
for him. and which the mayor has
raised from a humble beginning to its
present status as one of the most pros
porous concerns of the kind in the
State. The mayor is also actively in
terested in a company which manufac-
lures soda water apparatus.
Had to BE Coaxed to Run.
Mayor Haussling's father, Henry
Hausslng, was a prominent man
among the Germans of this city, and
through him the mayor was we'll known
long before he began his career in
a
heen a Democrat, and in 1888. when,
without his knowledge, friends offered
his name for the nomination of sheriff,
he received large vote in the party
convention The following year he
was beaten for the office of county reg
lister by Richard Coogan after hot
. .campaign Coogans majority was
only II out of $1,000 votes cast. In
1890 Mr. Haussling was elected sheriff
over Henry NJ Doremus. In 1896, with
Mr.. Doremus again his opponent, Mr..
Haussling was defeated for the shriev
alty. and in 1899 George Virtue sue
ceeded in beating him for the office
It was in 1906 that Mr. Haussling
consented to make race for the Dem
ocratic mayoralty nomination after his
friends had been unsuccessful several
times Ill attempting W nm
again to run for sheriff. He easily de-
feated his Democratic opponents, and
also triumphed at the general elections.
Mayor Haussling was again elected in
1908, and his record as mayor is too ia
miliar to the voters of the city to make
necessary any review of it.
Edward r. Gnichtel was born in
Newark in 1868 and has lived here all
his life. His parents were among the
early German settlers of the city. For
many years he was a travelling sales
man, representing New York firm
At present he is secretary and treas
Erer of the Newark Brush Company
and president of the w II. Drummond
Company
For years his activity in politics has
given him place among the leaders
of the Republican party in Essex. His
first public office was that of assembly
man, to which he was elected in 1900
He was reelected in 1901 and again in
1902 In 1905 he was appointed member
of the Board of Fire Commissioners of
Newark. After one term he announced