Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-09

third vice-president and comptroller
Wilbur s.. Johnson; fourth ~vlce-presi-
dent, Edward Gray. and secretary,
willard I. Hamilton.
In the morning the annual meeting
of the stockholders was held and the
following board of directors chosen:
Theodore c.. e. Blanchard, Edward Ka-
mouse, Forrest B.. Dryden. Jerome Tay-
Tor, William r. Carter, Jacob E. Ward,
Anthony r. Kuser, Uzal H.. McCarter.
Wilbur s. Johnson, Richard V. Linda
bury, John X. Gore, William ]. Magic,
Bennett Van Syckel, Gilbert Collins and
Edward Gray.
The new members of the board are:
Bennett Van Syckel, of Trenton; Gilbert
Collins, of Jersey City, and Edward
Gray. One of these was chosen TO sue
coed Frederick Blanchard, who declined
a reelection.
Mr.. Dryden was born at Bed
ford, Ohio. December rs, 1864
He entered the service OF the Pru-
dental at the age of Is after a course
at Phillips-Andover. His service has
comprehended wide experience in the
home office and the field work of the
Prudential, first as a clerk and then
as field superintendent.
In 1890 he was elected a member OF
the board of directors and assistant
secretary and later in the SAINT year
he was elected secretary. In 1903 he
was elected third vice-president: in
1906, second vice-president. and in 1911
was elected viee-president to succeed
the late Or, Leslie D.. Ward.
Mr.. Dryden's work in life insurance
has attracted much attention from the
insurance world in general and one
Of the insurance publications, the Elk
positor, has this to say of him as
an insurance executive:
Mr.. Dryden has a splendid record in
life insurance Acknowledgement and Is
known throughout North America, his
duties for many years having taken
him from one end of the United states
and Canada to the other on frequent
tours. Everywhere his worh has mani
tested itself in decisive development
Of business and a strong bond of per-
soma esteem between territorial and
local managers and himself.
"A peculiarly personal trait of en-
thusiastic persistence, energy and
tenacity. and an ever broadening view
of Eis opportunities describes the attri-
butes erhaps chiefly responsible for
AIls III oCh . SoAANoS- ~ los 1850
faithful to his company and indefati-
gable in training himself to fill the
duties devolving upon him. His adj
vancement has been due solely to a
mastery of detail and the production
of a large increase of the business
placed in his charge.
He is today recognized as n OF
the most successful field generals in
the industrial insurance line and many
of the most useful methods now uni
versally in operation in the conduct
of that Ii Of business were originally
introduced by him. The personal equa-
ton counts much in Mr.. Dryden's
scheme of progressive development;
it is said of him that he knows by
name practically every field worker
he has ever met. He judges men by
their work and ability and plays no
favorites."
Mr.. Dryden is a director of the Union
National Bank and the Fidelity Trust
Company, of this city; the South
Jersey Gas, Electric and Traction Com
pany, and other financial institutions.
He also took his fathers place in the
executive committee of the Life In
surance residents Association. Mr..
Dryden has taken an active interest in
tic Nollofdl 1udl0 anu lDldS Ut ahAh
of Observation-Disclosures and is chief COM
missary on the staff of Major-General
Wans.r. of New Jersey.
Mr.. Dryden married Miss Grace
Carleton, daughter of DR.. Isaac N.
Carleton, of Bradford, Mass. They have
three children. John F. Dryden, Cd,
now at Yale, and Dorothy and Eliza
beth B. Dryden. Mr.. Dryden lives at
SO Lincoln Park, this city, and has a
country home at Bernardsville. AT
the home office Of the company it was
said hat Mr.. Dryden's election to the
presidency of the Prudential, which
company row has ten million policies
in force, and two billions of insurance,
presages a continuation of the careful
administration of the since
its inception In Newark in 1875 by his
father, John F. Dryden, known as the
Father of Industrial Insurance In
America"
The men named yesterday to fill the
other executive offices of the Pruden-
tial are also generally known and are
warmly esteemed in the Mr..
Gore entered the service of the COM
pany as a clerk in the actuarial de-
partment in 1891. He was appointed
assistant actuary in 1895 and elected
actuary In 1897. He was elected a
member of the board of directors in
1907.
Both Mr.. Ward and Mr.. Johnson have
been in the service of the ompany for
a number of Years the former for the
last few years occupying the position
of third vice-president and the latter
the position of fourth vice-president
and comptroller.
MIR. Gray has been with the Pruden-
tial twenty years and for nine years
has been its secretary. having formerly
filed various other positions. Mr..
Hamilton, promoted from the position
Of assistant secretary to that of secre-
tary, has held different positions with
the company and has beer in it's ser
vice for many years.
From behind a desk piled high with
papers that bespoke a multitude of
duties, Mr.. Dryden cooked up with a
smile of greeting whose cordiality could
not be mistaken yesterday afternoon
when a caller came to congratulate him
on the recognition given through his
election to the presidency of the Pru-
dental.
Tt is an honor that / appreciate" he
said simply. when the caller had
spoken, land it is also q tribute to my