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 A Souvenir of the Twenty fifth Anniversary of the 
 Graduation from Rutgers College, n. j., 
 OF the Class of 1876 
 
 I 876- I 90 I 
 
 PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE CLASS 
 
 NEW YORK 
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REV. WILLIAM HENRY CAMPBELL, D.D.. LL.D. 
 President of Rutgers College, 1863-1882 
 
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Preface 
 
 IN JUNE LAST the Rutgers class of 1876 observed, in a quiet way, the twenty- 
 fifth anniversary of its graduation. This little book is an echo of that re-union, 
 and is printed, under class auspices, as a souvenir of the occasion. It is not 
 intended for the public eye. It appeals simply to a few friends who were brought 
 into close and happy fellowship in the days of their youth, and to whom college 
 memories are among the most sacred and precious of their lives. 
 
 The natural interest they still have in one another will account for the 
 attempt which is here made to tell, in brief, the story of each man's life, and to 
 indicate, so far as possible, his present whereabouts and employment. The 
 portraits which accompany the biographical sketches are for the most part from 
 recent photographs, and fairly represent the men of the class as they appear to-day. 
 That of Governor Voorhees is from a cut which has been kindly furnished us by 
 the magazine Success, in which appeared recently an interesting article on that 
 subject from the pen of our distinguished classmate. For the pictures of the college 
 buildings we are indebted to Mr. Irving S. Upson, and for those of our old pro- 
 fessors to members of their families. 
 
 The compiler takes this opportunity of conveying his thanks to those of the 
 class who in various ways have assisted him in his task, and, by these presents, 
 also, freely forgives the fellows whose sins of procrastination and omission have 
 prevented him from bringing it to completion at a much earlier day. 
 
 H. M. C. 
 New York, November i^, 1901. 
 
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 PROF. GEORGE H. COOK, LL.D. 
 
 ^-President of Rutgers College, 1864- 
 
GEOLOGICAL HALL 
 
Introduction 
 
 ON A BRIGHT DAY in the early autumn of 1872 the bell in old Queen's 
 College rang out a cheery welcome to the student throng who were 
 returning, after the long summer holiday, to resume their wonted tasks. Scattered 
 here and there about the campus were little groups of Seniors, Juniors and 
 Sophomores, exchanging friendly greetings and otherwise engaged in familiar 
 conversation. On that particular morning, however, the interest centered chiefly 
 in the band of raw recruits, numbering somewhat over fifty, whom everybody 
 recognized, from their manner and appearance, as belonging to the incoming 
 Freshman class. 
 
 What a motley company it was. Some were mere boys, who, if they had 
 attained the age required for admission to the college, certainly gave no evidence 
 of the fact in their countenances. Others, more mature in years, had already 
 reached the verge of young manhood. Some had tarried long enough in Jericho, 
 or elsewhere, for their beards to grow, but few of them, at that time, laid claim to 
 any such distinction. In other respects, as in the matter of age, it was rather a 
 heterogeneous looking crowd. There were men among us — two at least — who, 
 even then, were preachers of the gospel, and divided their time between the 
 college and the churches which they served. Another looked enough like a 
 minister to be mistaken for one occasionally, although his bent was not exactly in 
 that direction. But then, as now, sanctity and side-whiskers were regarded by 
 some people as standing in rather close relationship. There were fellows fresh 
 from the farm and from the workshop. One or two had been teachers in country 
 schools. Several had served their time as clerks, bookkeepers or salesmen in 
 mercantile establishments, while a goodly number, perhaps the majority, had had 
 no sterner experience of life than falls to the lot of the average boy in comfortable 
 circumstances, who has always gone to school and is now ready for college. 
 
 But what a change was witnessed in those four eventful years that we were 
 together. Some of us were youthful enough and verdant enough when we began, 
 but every one of us had donned the toga virilis long before we reached the point 
 
PROF. T. SANDFORD DOOLITTLE, D.D. 
 
INTRODUCTION 
 
 of graduation. The rough edges, which were somewhat conspicuous in Freshman 
 year, had perceptibly worn off. The Faculty had hard work with some of us, but 
 by the time thev were ready to cast us loose upon the world they had succeeded 
 tolerably well, in " knocking us into shape," and when the time came to say 
 " Good-bye " we were ready to go, and they were willing enough to have us go. 
 In fact, it is generally believed that they heaved a deep and long-drawn sigh of 
 relief when the class of '76 was fairly off their hands. What a noisy, rollicking, 
 jolly set of fellows they were, full of fun, but with enough of sober sense to serve for 
 ballast and to hold them to their tasks; in some instances with a positive genius 
 for hard work that served them well when hard work was no longer a matter of 
 taste but a stern necessity. 
 
 It is a far cry from this day of grace to which we have come, to that other 
 day, that day of terror, when we satin fear and trembling before those arch inquisi-, 
 tors who conducted the college entrance examinations. And what havoc they 
 made with our hopes and our ambitions. Scarcely a dozen passed through the 
 ordeal unscathed. The distinguished divine who sits enthroned to-day, in one of 
 the most conspicuous pulpits in the land, can laugh now at the professor who 
 conditioned him in English grammar: and the statesinan who presides over the 
 commonwealth of New Jersey can smile as blandly as the quondam instructor 
 who once regarded him as somewhat deficient in the history of his country. 
 Time has evened up some of those old scores. In spite of such sad incidents, 
 however, and they were numerous enough, the college gales swung open to 
 receive us, and after we had solemnly sworn that we would neither play cards, 
 drink whiskey, nor keep any means of gaming in our rooms, we were duly 
 matriculated by the venerable President, dear old Dr. Campbell. It is true these 
 ancient requirements were somewhat liberally interpreted by certain members of 
 the class, but then, there is always room for difference of opinion on constitutional 
 questions, even between students and professors. 
 
 We were now fairly launched upon the stream of college life. We had our 
 troubles, to be sure, but we had our joys and compensations also, with rather 
 more of joy than sorrow, for those were the halcyon days of our lives. 
 
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 irksome, there was always a brief interim, between the acts, when our pent-up 
 feelings found relief in song — or otherwise. It did not take a great while to 
 discover that there were a number of men in the class who could do somewhat 
 more than carry a tune. We were only Freshmen then, but were there ever 
 Freshmen who could sing like Lyali, and Taylor, and Lefferts, and Van Deusen, 
 and Osborn, not to speak of others, whose voices rang out strong and sweetly 
 whenever there was "music in the air" ? Taylor, Kelly and Prince sang first bass, 
 and Lefferts second bass, and if there were a third bass, Colburn and Staats must 
 have taken that part, for no song with an extra de profuiidis twist to it could ever 
 have been complete without their voices. When our singers found themselves, 
 the organization of the Glee Club followed, as a matter of course. Lefferts was a 
 prime mover in that movement, and to his executive ability and love of music 
 much of its success was due. At first it was purely a class affair, but out of it 
 grew the College Glee Club, which is singing yet the songs of Rutgers with the 
 same gusto as of old, and to audiences equally enthusiastic and appreciative. May 
 its shadow never grow less. 
 
 Some other things happened during Freshman year, of equal interest to 
 ourselves, though possibly of less importance to the world. It was at this period 
 that a certain famous treatise on "'The Animal Kingdom " first saw the light. It 
 was not precisely a composite essay, but, like the Declaration of Independence, 
 was prepared by a committee appointed for the purpose, and duly signed, sealed, 
 and delivered to the properly constituted authority, as an individual and official 
 expression of the sentiments of the class on the scientific aspects of that important 
 question. It served by implication also to suggest our views on another question, 
 not scientific but intensely personal, and affecting our rights as free and inde- 
 pendent Freshmen. Booth was our Thomas Jefferson, and when his paper was 
 submitted to our approval, we signed it, to a man, realizing, as someone suggested 
 with reference to the other matter, that if we did not all hang together we were 
 liable to hang separately. Of course we hung together, and survived. That was 
 "a way we had at old Rutgers." Sometimes it appeared to be the only way by 
 which we could effectually impress our ideas upon the ruling powers. We were 
 not seeking for fame just then, but George William Curtis thrust it upon us when 
 he told the story, not long afterwards, in the Editor's Drawer of Harper's Maga- 
 
INTRODUCTION 1 5 
 
 line, and supplemented it, if we remember rightly, witli liberal extracts from 
 our essay. 
 
 No class organization is ever complete until a poet has been chosen. We had 
 read enough Latin by this time, to have become familiar with the ancient dictum, 
 Poeta nascitur, orator fit. There was one man among us whom we recognized 
 as possessing all the necessary qualifications of both poet and orator. There was 
 no doubt whatever that he was '-nascitur,'' and subsequent developments 
 proved conclusively that he was "/?/." There was only one thing to do, and 
 forthwith we clapped the laurel wreath upon the brow of Freddy Paul. He has 
 worn it worthily ever since, and to this day, is our poet par excellence. He does 
 not court the muse for fame, but whenever his poetical services are required for 
 class purposes the divine afflatus is never lacking. 
 
 During our second year in college we began to enter into competition with 
 one another for literary and oratorical honors. Van Deusen carried off the first 
 prize, and Sutphen the second, at the Sophomore Exhibition. Their competitors 
 were Taylor, Lyall, Price, Milliken, Lefferls and Staats. 
 
 A leaf from the historian's diary recalls the tact that there were some athletic 
 contests, also, in which we were, about that time, successfully engaged. In the 
 autumn of Sophomore year we vanquished the Juniors, our traditional foe, upon 
 the football field, and thereby became the champions of the college. It took two 
 exclamation marks to describe our enthusiasm over that victory, and about three 
 zero marks to cool our ardor on the following day, when we were obliged to 
 admit that a fellow can't usually put up a winning game of football and strike ten 
 three times in succession at recitations the day after. 
 
 There was one text-book in use at that time, for which we had no great 
 affection, viz. : Freeman's Outlines of History. It was accordingly decided that 
 when the time came to lay it aside, the circumstance should be attended with some 
 ceremony. An elaborate programme of cremation and funeral exercises was 
 prepared, and on June i6, 1874, Freeman was committed to the tomb. 'With 
 flaming torches and demoniacal yells, the mourners advanced, in solemn proces- 
 sion, to the campus, where the funeral rites were celebrated. 'Winfleld delivered 
 a historical address and Sutphen a eulogistic oration. A hymn which he had also 
 prepared for the occasion, was then sung, aftei' which, Cox preached his first 
 
INTRODUCTION 1 7 
 
 funeral sermon, from the familiar text, "Things have now come to a head." The 
 exercises were concluded with a dirge, whereupon we dried our tears and went 
 home. 
 
 " In Junior year we played our parts " very much after the time-honored tradi- 
 tion of the song. There was some love making and some heart smashing. Cupid 
 invaded our ranks and snatched from us one or two of our handsomest men, who, 
 all too soon, were sacrificed upon the hymeneal altar. Then came the summer 
 solstice, and with it the crowning glory of the year, the Junior Exhibition. Sut- 
 phen, Taylor, Cox and Van Zandt were the orators, who represented the Peithes- 
 sophian Society, while Milliken, Bradley, Pierce and Vredenburgh appeared as thestan- 
 dard bearers of the Philocleans. What they said, no one remembers now. What they 
 did, was to face the music, and the mighty throng that filled the old Opera House, 
 from pit to dome, pronounce their little speeches, and retire behind the scenes, 
 laden with the spoils of their latest oratorical triumph — the fruits and tlowers which 
 were lavished upon them by fair friends, with unstinted generosity. There were 
 no prizes then for eloquence. The occasion furnished all the inspiration that was 
 necessary, and every man was happy in the plaudits of admiring friends. A year 
 later we stood once more upon the same platform for the final alignment. Taylor, 
 F. M. Voorhees, Walser, Pierce — these were the men who graduated with the 
 highest rank, while Milliken, Lyall, Kelly, Cox, Duryee and John S. Voorhees 
 followed in something like the order named, and were duly initiated into Phi Beta 
 Kappa. The others, who shared with them the honors of the commencement 
 stage, were Staats, Wintleld, Nevius, Minor and Sutphen. The prize men of the 
 class, in the final round-up, were F. M. Voorhees, Winfield, Kelly, Pierce, Staats, 
 Lyall, Kuehnle and Cox. Voorhees bagged the Broadhead Prize for Classics (ist), 
 and the Appleton Prize for Moral Philosophy ; Pierce, the Suydam Prize for Natural 
 Science, and the Bradley Prize for Mathematics; Lyall, the Van Doren Prize for 
 Missions; Kuehnle, the Bowser Prize for the best Thesis; Winfield and Kelly, the 
 Cooper Prize for Classics (2d); and Staats and Cox, the Suydam Prize for Compo- 
 sition. Then Billy Taylor pronounced the valedictory. The curtain fell upon the 
 last scene. The play was ended, the lights were out, and we were adrift upon the 
 world, and face to face with our destiny. 
 
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 them, the individual records of the class, which follow, only faintly indicate. Some 
 promises have been realized, some hopes have been blasted, some ambitions satis- 
 fied, but the end is not yet. Death has repeatedly invaded our ranks. Casper 
 was taken from us in the early part of our college course, and Ross only a few 
 weeks before graduation. Walser died at the very threshold of his career, and 
 before his talents had had full opportunity for development. Johnson lived to win 
 the gratitude and affection of those who knew him as a good physician and a 
 faithful friend. John Woodbridge, who was with us during Freshman year, and 
 of the Scientific Section of the class, Aumack, Devan, Roe, and Jerome Johnson, 
 have all passed into the silent land. Of our old instructors, President Campbell, 
 clarnni et venerabile iioiiieii, and Professors Cook, Doolittle, and Reily, are no 
 more. The only members of the Faculty of our day who are still identified with 
 the college, are Drs. Cooper, Myers, Van Dyck and Bowser. These and others 
 like them were the men who helped to make us what we are, and whose names 
 we still hold in grateful and affectionate remembrance. We have been growing 
 since we laid aside the swaddling clothes of college infancy and so has our beloved 
 Alma Mater. New evidences of material prosperity have been springing up from 
 time to time. Some of the things we longed for as students, our sons are now 
 enjoying, or have in prospect, if they have not already entered college halls. The 
 elegant dormitory, known as Winant's Hall, is one of them. The beautiful and 
 well equipped gymnasium, erected by the munificence of Robert F. Ballantine, is 
 another, while New Jersey Hall, a costly and beautiful structure of recent date, has 
 added immeasurably, not only to the attractiveness of the college grounds, but to 
 the more complete equipment of the School of Science. If we cannot rear to the 
 honor of the college a monumental structure such as these, let us hope that 
 before another quarter century has run its course, we may be able to express in 
 terms, substantial and enduring, our love and fealty to the common mother of us 
 all, and in so doing, make history that shall last for coming generations, when 
 our names are all forgotten, and this little souvenir shall be left to gather dust in 
 the musty archives of the college library. 
 
 HENRY M. COX. 
 
Cbe eia$$ of i$76 
 
 CLASSICAL SECTION 
 
 Walden, N. Y. 
 
 178 Bluff, Yokohama, Japan. 
 
 18 James Street, Newark, N. J. 
 
 1 1 S3 Park Avenue, New York City. 
 
 Niskayuna, N. Y. 
 
 765 Broad Street, Newark, N. J. 
 
 308 Varick Street, Jersey City, N. J. 
 
 . New Brunswick, N.J. 
 
 Aycrigg, John Bancker, A. M., M. D., . 
 Booth, Eugene Samuel, A. M., Rev., 
 Bradley, Charles, A. M., 
 Cox, Henry Miller, A. M., Rev.. 
 DiTMARS, Cornelius Peterson, A. M., Rev 
 DuRYEE, Edward Henry, A. M., LL. B., 
 GiLLMORE, William Budd, A. M., 
 ''Johnson, Henry Niles, A. M., M. D. 
 Kelly, Haydn Clarke, A. M., LL. B., . 
 LiMEBURNER, Charles Abbott, A. M., M. D., 79 Danforth Avenue, Jersey City, N. J. 
 Lyall, John Edward, A. M., Rev., . . . South Millbrook, N. Y. 
 
 Milliken, Peter Houston, A. M., Ph. D., D. D., Rev., 
 
 1737 West Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 Minor, Albert Dod, A. M., Rev Mohawk, N. Y. 
 
 Murray, David, A. M., . . . 3s Nassau Street, New York City. 
 
 Nasholds, William Hosea, A. M., Rev., .... Selkirk, N. Y. 
 
 Nevius, George Luther, A. M., LL. B., . 610 Temple Court, Minneapolis, Minn, 
 Price, William Horton, A. M., . 2S5 Burnet Street, New Brunswick, N. J. 
 Prince, John Duffield, Jr., A. M., LL. B., 213 Montague Street, Brooklyn, N. Y, 
 RoMEYN, James Augustus, A. M., . . 357 Union Street, Hackensack, N.J 
 
 ScHOMP, William Wyckoff, A. M., Rev Walden, N. Y, 
 
 Staats, Bergen Brokaw, A. M., Rev., . 592 Broadway, Long Branch City, N. J 
 SuTPHEN, Paul Frederick, A. M., D. D., Rev., 757 Prospect Street, Cleveland, O 
 Taylor, William Rivers, A. M., D. D., Rev., 1 3 Prince Street, Rochester, N. Y 
 
 LL. D., . 142 Broad Street, Elizabeth, N. J 
 Bishop Place, New Brunswick, N, J 
 
 VooRHEES, Foster McGowan, A. M. 
 Voorhees, John Schenck, A. M., . 
 "'Walser, Theodore Havelock, 
 WiNFiELD, Harry Westbrook, A. M. 
 
 LL. B., 
 
 259 Washington Street, Jersey City, N. J. 
 

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THE CLASS OF 1 876 
 
 ''Casper, John P. 
 CoLBURN, Edwin Everett, 
 Lefferts, John. Jr., LL. B., . 
 Moore, Thomas Morrell, 
 MuNDY, Frank Jarvis, A. M., D. D., Rev., 
 OuTSKA (Utsuka), Nagateru Yasujiro, 
 Stubbs, Roland Henshall, A. B., M. D., . 
 Van Deusen, Courtland Calvin, 
 Van Zandt, William Armitage, . i 
 
 Vredenburgh, La Rue, 
 ^Woodbridge, John Eliot, A. B.. Rev. 
 WooDBRiDGE, Samuel Isett, A. B., Rev., . 
 
 45 First Street, Albany, N. Y. 
 
 164 Montague Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 . 718 Ellicott Square, Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 Atlantic City, N. J. 
 
 (?) Imari, Japan. 
 
 . 10 Broad Street, Waterford, N. Y. 
 
 . Canaan Four Corners, N. Y. 
 
 76 West 137th Street, New York City. 
 
 . Somerville, N. J. 
 
 . Chinkiang, China. 
 
 scientific section 
 
 KuEHNLE, George William, M. Sc. 
 Pierce, Carlton Brownell, M. Sc, 
 
 137 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, N.J. 
 1 13 Broadway, New York City. 
 
 *AuMACK, William. 
 
 Cutler, Willard Walker, 
 *Devan, Spencer Cone. 
 *JoHNsoN, Jerome. 
 
 Osborne, William Hubert. 
 
 Palmer, Joseph Godfrey, 
 *RoE, Charles S. 
 *Ross, Edwin Forrest. 
 
 Vanderpoel, Isaac Denman. 
 
 Warren, John, Jr., M. D., 
 
 Wortendyke, Nicholas Dorenius, 
 
 24 Washington Street, Morristown, N. J. 
 
 Colorado Springs, Col. 
 
 106 East 29th Street, New York City. 
 . City Hall, Jersey City, N. J. 
 
Biograpbical Sketches 
 
 WAS BORN in 
 Jersey. He pre- 
 pared for college at the Rut- 
 gers Grammar School. After 
 completing the course at Rut- 
 gers, he studied medicine at 
 the College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons in New York, and 
 graduated from that institution 
 in 1879 with the degree of 
 M. D. He practiced medicine 
 for a number of years, but 
 afterwards became interested 
 in stock farming and dairying. 
 This business he is still carry- 
 ing on near Walden, Orange 
 County, N. Y. In 1879 he 
 married Lottie B. Carryl. They 
 have two children, a girl, Lot- 
 tie C, and a boy, Benjamin M. 
 
 3obn Bancker Eycrigg 
 
 New 
 
 3obn P. Casper 
 
 EVERY MEMBER of the class will readily recall his form and features. He 
 was tall and commanding in appearance, with a face that plainly betokened 
 the devout and sober earnestness of the man. He entered college with the view 
 of preparing himself for the gospel ministry, but died before he had completed 
 the first year of his course. His remains were conveyed to his old home at Howe's 
 Cave, N. Y., by a committee of the class, whose presence at his burial was an 
 expression of the general feeling of respect for his memory and of sorrow at his 
 taking off. This was the first break that death made in our ranks. 
 
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 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 Eugene Samuel Bootb 
 
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 lORN AT Trumbull. 
 
 Fairfield County. Con- 
 
 ^^mb^ necticut, August 16, 1850, the 
 
 j[fipr^nB|k only son of Samuel L. Booth 
 
 M "**' '^ ^% and Abigail Coan, daughter of 
 
 ^ ■« the Hon. Albert S. Coan, of 
 
 Trumbull. He prepared for 
 college at Fort Edward Colle- 
 giate Institute, Washington 
 County, N. Y., then under the 
 principalship of the Rev. Joseph 
 E. King, D. D., and graduated 
 in due course, from Rutgers in 
 1876, and from the Theological 
 Seminary at New Brunswick, 
 N. J., in 187Q. In the same 
 year, he was licensed and or- 
 dained by the Classis of New 
 Brunswick, and shortly after 
 wards, entered upon his life work as a missionary to Japan under the commission 
 of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in America. 
 
 In December, 1879, he opened a school for Japanese boys at Nagasaki, but 
 failing health soon made a change of residence imperative. He removed to Yoko- 
 hama in 1881, and in the following year, was appointed Principal of Ferris Semi- 
 nary, a school for Japanese girls and young women, located in that city. This 
 position he still holds. In 1886-7, on the occasion of a visit to this country, he 
 succeeded in raising $15,000, for the purchase of the site on which the school 
 stands, and the erection of Van Schaick Hall and dormitories, which form the chief 
 accommodations of the seminary. 
 
 in February, 1900, he became pastor of the Union Church at Yokohama, a 
 church whose mission it is to minister to the spiritual needs of the English-speaking 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 25 
 
 residents and sojourners in that city. This work he is carrying on, in addition to 
 his principalship of the seminary and the duties incident to his missionary work. 
 
 He is President of the North Japan Mission; Director of Meiji Gakuin, Tokyo; 
 Honorary Secretary for Yokohama of the Asiatic Society of Japan: Member of the 
 Executive Committee of the American Asiatic Association of Japan, etc., etc. 
 
 On July 24, 1879, he was married to Emily, youngest daughter of the late 
 James R. Stelle, of New Brunswick, of which union have been born the following: 
 Frank Stelle, May 15, 1880: Walter Andrews, August i, 1883 (deceased): Eugenie 
 Coan, March 27, 1885; Stanley Middlebrook, July 5, 1888 (deceased); Ferris Cobb, 
 October 12, 1891 ; Hugh St. Leger, May 12, 1893. 
 
 Charles Bradley 
 
 BORN IN Newark, N. J., 
 August ^i, 18S7. Son 
 of Hon. Joseph P. Bradley, of 
 the Rutgers class of 1836. As- 
 sociate Justice of the Supreme 
 Court of the United States, and 
 Mary Hornblower, daughter of 
 Chief-Justice Hornblower, of 
 New Jersey. 
 
 His education, prior to en- 
 tering college, was received 
 partly in private schools and 
 partly in the Newark Academy, 
 and in the Rutgers Grammar 
 School, where he spent three 
 years, under the care and tui- 
 tion of the late Professor D. T. 
 Reiley. After graduation, he 
 attended, for a short time, the 
 Columbian Law School, in Washington, D. C, and in 1877, entered the United 
 States Custom House in New York, where he remained for about a year. Later, 
 
26 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 he became associated with the firm of H. V. Butler, Jr. & Co., wholesale paper 
 dealers, in New York, and in 1883, became the Secretary of P. Ballantine & Sons, 
 brewers, of Newark, N. J., and has been connected with that business ever since- 
 taking an active part in the management of its large interests, and being closely 
 identified with the business interests of Newark generally. He either is, or has 
 been, a Director of the Essex Passenger Railway Company, the Newark City 
 National Bank, Newark Board of Trade, Newark Library Association, State Director 
 of the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Company, Trustee of the New Jersey 
 Historical Society, Delegate to the Republican National Convention at St. Louis, 
 June, 1896, Governor of the University Club of Newark, and President of the 
 Rutgers College Alumni Association. He has edited a genealogical history of the 
 Bradley family, and has discussed public and current affairs, from time to time, 
 editorially, in the columns of the city press. He is not only a trustee, but a very 
 active member of the New Jersey Historical Society, and of the " Sons of the 
 Revolution," and is identified with many clubs, including the University, of New 
 York; University, of Newark; Essex, of Newark; Newark Athletic; EssexCounty 
 Country, of Orange: Morris County Golf, etc. His ecclesiastical affiliations are 
 with the old North Reformed Church, of Newark, of which his father was one of 
 the founders, and for many years, an active and honored member. In the summer 
 of 1900, after twenty years of arduous labor, he took his first protracted vacation, 
 spending three or four months in Europe and returning home, feeling " like a 
 boy," as he expresses it. 
 
 On April 12, 1882, he married Julie E. Ballantine, daughter of Robert P. 
 Ballantine, a trustee of the college, and donor of the Ballantine Gymnasium. They 
 have four children (i) son, 18 years; (2) son, 15 years; (3) daughter, 7 years, and 
 (4) son, 4 years. 
 
 mniiatn Jlrmitdde Uan Zandt 
 
 BORN AT Albany, N. Y. Prepared for college at the Rutgers Grammar 
 School. He \et\ college a short lime before graduation, and has since been 
 engaged in business. His name appears in the New York Directory of 1901 as a 
 resident of that city and a broker. He is married and has a family, but no further 
 information regarding him has been elicited. 
 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
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 l)enrv miller €ox 
 
 BORN IN Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 July s, i8s4. Son of 
 James B. Cox, a New York 
 merchant, and Emily E. Miller, 
 daughter of the Rev. George 
 B. Miller, D. D., for many 
 years Professor of Theology at 
 Hartwick Seminary, N. Y. 
 
 He prepared for college at 
 the Pavonia Grammar School, 
 Jersey City, N. J., Hartwick 
 Seminary, N. Y., and the Rut- 
 gers Grammar School, New 
 Brunswick, N. J. 
 
 After completing the col- 
 lege course at Rutgers, he en- 
 tered the Theological Seminary 
 at New Brunswick, from which 
 he was graduated in 1879. He 
 
 began his ministry in Jersey City, and was pastor of the South Bergen Reformed 
 Church, on Jersey City Heights, from 1879 to 1882. From 1882 to 1890 he was 
 pastor of the Reformed Church of Herkimer, N. Y.. and from 1890 to 1899 of the 
 Union Reformed Church of Highhridge, in the Citv of New York. In 1901, he 
 became identified with the Prospect Hill Reformed Church, in New York, in whose 
 service he is still engaged. 
 
 Throughout his ministry, he has been active in the work ofthe denomination 
 to which he belongs, and in other religious and benevolent enterprises. 
 
 For a number of years he was Secretary, and afterwards President, of the 
 Herkimer County Bible Society. He has also been President of the Particular Synod 
 of Albany, Stated Clerk of the Classis of Montgomery, Member of the Board of 
 Managers of the Herkimer Y. M. C. A., which he was largely instrumental in 
 
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 organizing, and a Member of the Board of Superintendents of the Theological 
 Seminary at New Brunswick. For six years, he was Chairman of the Permanent 
 Committee on Systematic Beneficence, of the General Synod of the Reformed 
 Church, and has represented the Synod at various times, as Corresponding Dele- 
 gate to other religious bodies. He is, at present, a member of the Board of 
 Publication of the Reformed Church, of the Phi Beta Kappa Association of New 
 York, the Rutgers Club, and other organizations. 
 
 In addition to numerous reports, leaflets and newspaper articles which have 
 appeared, from time to time, in the religious and secular press, he has published a 
 History of the Reformed Church of Herkimer, N. Y., half a dozen sermons, some 
 sketches of foreign travel, and an address delivered at the funeral of Gen. Francis 
 E. Spinner, together with a number of other discourses, good, bad and indifferent, 
 which, at the request of friends, have been allowed to see the light. 
 
 He married Lizzie Randall Burst, of Brooklyn, N. Y., October 28, 1886. 
 They have four children, viz.: a son, Henry Randall, 14 years old; and three 
 daughters, Frances Sheldon, Emily Miller, and Elizabeth Howard, between the 
 ages of 8 and 12 years. 
 
 Jobn barren 
 
 BORN IN New Brunswick, N. J., September 24, 1856. Son of T. Rob- 
 inson Warren. Prepared for college at the Rutgers Grammar School. 
 Entered with the class of '76, but left college at the end of the Sophomore year. 
 For two or three years he was in business in Wall Street, New York, but began 
 the study of medicine, in 1877, with Dr. Henry R. Baldwin, of New Brunswick, 
 N. J., and graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Uni- 
 versity, New York, in 1881, with the degree of M. D. He served for two years 
 on the medical staff at Bellevue Hospital, New York, 1880-1882, and has since 
 practiced medicine in New York. In 1886 he was appointed Medical Examiner 
 for the Equitable Life Assurance Society, of New York, and has ever since been 
 connected with that institution. In December, 1898, he went to London, England, 
 as Medical Director for the Society for Great Britain and Ireland, and served in 
 that capacity until December, 1900, when he was appointed Assistant Medical Direc- 
 tor at the home office in New York, which position he still holds. He is unmarried. 
 
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 Cornelius Petmon Ditmars 
 
 BORN AT Roycefield, Somerset County, N. J., April 2-^, 1853. Son of 
 Ralph T. Ditmars and Sarah Brokaw. His parents were of Danish and 
 Holland stock, mingled, as in the case of so many of the old Dutch families, with 
 that of the Huguenots of France. After receiving a thorough common-school 
 education, he entered the Rutgers College Grammar School at New Brunswick, in 
 1871, where he completed his preparation for college. In 1876, he entered the 
 Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, from which he graduated in 1879. He 
 was ordained the same year to the gospel ministry, and became pastor of the 
 Reformed Church at Leeds, N. Y., where he remained for four years. In 1883, he 
 
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 was called to succeed the late Rev. John A. De Baun, D. D., as pastor of the 
 Reformed Church of Niskayuna, N. Y. In this field, in which he has been 
 eminently useful, he still abides. His long and successful pastorate is the best 
 proof of the esteem in which he is held by his people. In addition to his parish 
 work, he has rendered much and efficient service to the church at large, in both 
 official and unofficial ways. Since i88s, he has been the Stated Clerk and Treas- 
 urer of the Classis of Schenectady, and since 1889, has held the same offices in the 
 Particular Synod of Albany. He has been, for a number of years, a member of 
 the Board of Superintendents of the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, and 
 is, at present, serving his third term, of five years, in that office. In 1884, he 
 became a contributor to The Christian Intelligencer. Since that time, nearly seventy 
 articles from his pen, have appeared in its columns. A discourse which he 
 preached on the occasion of the i soth anniversary of the Church of Niskayuna, 
 October 4, 1900, entitled " A Chapter in Church History," has also been published 
 recently in the form of a pamphlet. 
 
 He was married December 2^, 1879, to Leah Van Duyne, of Newark, N. J. 
 Their children are as follows: Charles P., aged 20 ; Ida Catherine, aged 18. 
 
 €ourtland f^alvin Uan Deuscn 
 
 SON OF John Calhoun Van Deusen and Helen Rachel Rossman. Born in 
 the town of Claverack, Columbia County, N. Y., November 18, 1853. 
 Attended the Hudson River Institute at Claverack, N. Y., in 1868-69, and com- 
 pleted preparation for college at the Hudson Academy, 1870-72. He left college 
 a year or two before graduation, read law in the offices of Newkirk and Chace, at 
 Hudson, N. Y., and was admitted to the bar at the General Term of the Supreme 
 Court, at Albany, N. Y., in November, 1879. He was index clerk in the Columbia 
 County Clerk's office in 1881-1882, and clerk in New York State Insurance Depart- 
 ment in 1882-1883. In 1883 he began the practice of law at Copake, N. Y., and 
 in 1893 removed to Canaan Four Corners, N. Y., where he has since continued 
 practice. He married Mary A. Van De Bogart of the Town of Canaan, N. Y. They 
 have three children — two daughters aged 25 and 14 years respectively, and one 
 son, 17 years of age. 
 
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 edward fieitry Duryce 
 
 BORN IN Newark, N. J., 
 December 4, 1857. Son 
 of Peter Sharpe Duryee, for 
 many years a trustee of Rut- 
 gers, and" one of its warmest 
 friends and benefactors. His 
 mother was Susan Rankin, 
 daughter of William Rankin, 
 of Newark. He prepared for 
 college at Lawrenceville, N. J., 
 and entered the class as a 
 Sophomore, in the autumn of 
 1873. After graduation he be- 
 gan the study of law, and 
 entered the office of Field & 
 Deyo, of New York. He re- 
 ceived the degree of LL. B. 
 from Columbia, and was ad- 
 mitted to practice in New York 
 
 in 1879. In 1881, he became an attorney, and in 1884, a counsellor in New 
 Jersey, and entered into partnership with his brother under the lirm name of 
 George S. & Edward H. Duryee. Since then he has practiced chiefly in New 
 Jersey. He has the management of a number of large trust estates, and at the 
 same time an extensive practice in the courts. 
 
 He is a trustee of the Public Library of Newark, and has been its treas- 
 urer since the organization of that institution. He was also Chairman of the 
 Building Committee, under whose supervision has recently been erected a struc- 
 ture which is said to be one of the largest and most complete, of its kind, in the 
 United States. Such public service has appealed to him more strongly than the 
 allurements of political life, for which he has apparently no special fondness, 
 although often pressed to accept nominations to public office. He is described by 
 
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 one who knows him well, as a hard-working and successful lawyer. He took 
 great interest while in college in all college interests, and was President of the 
 Targum Association and the Football Club. He was a member of the Phi Beta 
 Kappa and Zeta Psi fraternities. He has never married. 
 
 milliatti Budd 6illitiore 
 
 B' 
 
 lORN AT West Point, 
 New York, November 
 14, 1856. His parents were 
 Captain (afterwards Major- 
 General) Quincy A. Gillmore, 
 U. S. A., and Mary Isabella 
 Gillmore, daughter of Timothy 
 O'Maher, who, for many years, 
 was the Commissary Treasurer 
 of the United States Military 
 Academy. At an early age he 
 attended the local day-school 
 at West Point, designed for the 
 instruction of the children of 
 officers and professors. After 
 two years' attendance there, he 
 spent two years at the school 
 of Major Henry C. Symonds, at 
 Sing Sing. There he was pre- 
 pared for his entrance examinations at Rutgers College, where he was matriculated 
 in June, 1872. After graduation, he began studying law, with the firm of Gilchrist, 
 McGill and Gillmore, in Jersey City, his brother (the late Edward D. Gillmore) 
 being the junior partner, the other partners being the late Attorney-General Robert 
 Gilchrist and Alexander T. McGill, who afterwards became distinguished as Prose- 
 
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 cutor and County Judge of Hudson County, and as Chancellor of New Jersey for 
 two terms. 
 
 On being admitted to the bar in November, 1879, he formed a 
 partnership with his brother, the firm being E. D. & W. B. Gillmore. In 1884, he 
 began practice on his individual account, and has so continued to the present time. 
 Besides his general practice, he has made a specialty of maritime law and has been 
 engaged in a number of litigations which have attracted wide notice. Among 
 these may be mentioned several actions to recover real estate held by erroneous and 
 void titles, as well as the litigation which, for the first time in New Jersey, settled 
 the legal rights of creditors in the proceeds of insurance policies on the life of a 
 debtor. He has occasionally contributed papers to the legal press on subjects of 
 professional interest, in 1892, he married Aimee Gerardin, of Jersey City, who 
 died a year later. 
 
 Renry Hilcs Jobnson 
 
 SON OF Noble H. Johnson and Anna M. Niles. Born at Coeymans, N. Y., 
 November, 1852. Prepared for college at the Coeymans Academy, under 
 the tuition of Louis H. Bahler. After graduation, he began the study of medi- 
 cine with the late Dr. F. G. Mosher, and received his diploma from the Albany 
 Medical College in 188 1. He was afterwards engaged in the drug business in 
 his native village, practising his profession at the same time. He was a member 
 and officer of Onesquethau Lodge, F. and A. M., also a member of Irving Lodge, 
 K. of P., Treasurer of the R. R. Engine Co., and Examining Physician of The 
 Workingmen's Protective Union. He never married, but resided with his sister 
 until his death, July 12, 1897. 
 
 The following tribute is from the Coeymans Herald of July 14, 1897: 
 "Dr. Johnson was a man of honor and strict integrity. * * * Truthfulness in 
 all relations and conscientiousness were in him marked features. As a physician, 
 he was ever ready to respond with cheerfulness to all demands made upon his 
 professional skill. The sick, whether in homes of plenty or want, received from 
 him patient care and faithful service. He befriended the unfortunate in the liberal 
 
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 spirit of the Good Samaritan. Of modest and agreeable demeanor, his presence 
 was ever welcome in the sici< room, and the success of his ministrations is attested 
 by a multitude of sorrowing patients. His brother physician in this place, 
 Dr. A. T. Powell, who faithfully attended him during his brief illness, speaks 
 of him as a true-hearted, whole-souled man. honest and upright, an earnest 
 pathologist, and a successful practitioner." 
 
 Colburn, who was more intimate with him than any other member of 
 the class, writes: "Probably no one ever knew the sterling worth and true 
 nobility of his character so well as 1 did, because for years we were closer in 
 our relation than many brothers. There was an undercurrent of humor in his 
 life, hidden by such an air of diffidence, that many thought him proud or cynical. 
 The modest retirement of such a character is rarely appreciated. But underneath 
 the shell of his modesty there was strength, brilliancy, sturdy common sense, 
 and a light-hearted, sunny disposition. His life was gentle, and the elements so 
 mixed in him, that Nature might stand up and say to all the world, ' This was a 
 man!' " 
 
 l)aydn ClarKe Hellv 
 
 SON OF Elijah Kelly, a prominent manuf.icturer of New Brunswick, N. J. 
 Born in New Brunswick in 1855. Prepared for college at the Rutgers Gram- 
 mar School. Studied law at the Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn., and gradu- 
 ated with distinction in 1879. For a number of years he was engaged in the 
 practice of his profession, in New York City, but subsequently removed to New 
 Brunswick, where he still resides. He is unmarried. 
 
 nagatern Vasujiro Outska (UtsuKa) 
 
 HE WAS a native of Japan, and is pleasantly remembered as a diligent 
 student, modest in demeanor, and gifted with all the courtesy and urbanity 
 characteristic of his race. He did not remain long in college, and it has been 
 found impracticable to learn anything of his subsequent career. 
 
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 6eorge Ulilliam Huebnie 
 
 BORN IN New York, 
 November 2}, i8s5, of 
 German parentage; moved to 
 Atlantic County, N. J., in 1858. 
 He was educated in private and 
 public schools, and graduated 
 from Northwest Boys' Gram- 
 mar School, Philadelphia. 
 
 In 1877, he was employed 
 as Division Engineer on con- 
 struction, by the Philadelphia 
 and Atlantic City Railway. In 
 
 1878, he became Assistant En- 
 gineer on location, on the Port- 
 land and Bangor Railroad. In 
 
 1879, he received an appoint- 
 ment as civil assistant in Corps 
 of Engineers, U. S. A., in New 
 York, under General John New- 
 ton, and has since continued in that employment. During that time he has had 
 charge of the works at Hell Gate, improvement of entrance to New York Harbor, 
 and construction of fortifications for the defense of New York. He received the 
 highest rank and pay in the department in 1889, at the age of 34 years, on account 
 of faithful and meritorious services. He is, at present, Assistant Engineer in charge 
 of the construction of fortifications at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. 
 
 On October 11, 1879, he married Bertha Luella Pratt, of New Brunswick, 
 N. J. Children: William L., born in New York, March i, 188 1 ; Rutgers class of 
 1902. George P., born in New York, November 8, 1882; Rutgers Preparatory 
 School, iQOi. Bertha L., born in New York, December 3, 1884; Rutgers Prepar- 
 atory School, 1902. Lester W., born in New York, November 20, 1887; died May 
 1, 1889. Edwin P., born in New York, September 13, 1890. Gertrude W,, born 
 in New York. March 1 1, 1892, 
 
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 Charles JIbbott Cimcburner 
 
 SON of Captain Joseph Lime- 
 burner, and Maria Potter, 
 was born on board the clipper 
 ship Samuel Russell, of which 
 his father was, at the time, in 
 command, November i8, 1854. 
 The following interesting ex- 
 tract, is from the log of the ves- 
 sel, now in possession of Dr. 
 Limeburner: "Ship Samuel 
 Russell, from Foo Chow, to- 
 wards New York, 1854, Sat- 
 urday, November 18. All this 
 24 hours, fine breeze from the 
 N. E. and fine weather. All 
 sails set. At4 A.M., Lat. 1 5.|>8, 
 Long. 53.08. At 5 o'clock and 
 45 minutes in the morning, 
 Charles Abbott Limeburner, 
 born on board Ship S. Russell, on passage from Foo Chow foo, 86 days out." He 
 is the only member of the class, so far as known, whose birth has been recorded 
 with anything like mathematical accuracy. As to his ancestry, his father was of 
 Scotch descent, although born in Maine, and his mother was of pre-Revolutionary 
 Hudson River Dutch stock. He prepared for college at the New Paltz Academy, 
 New Paltz, N. Y., and after his graduation from Rutgers in 1876, entered the Col- 
 lege of Physicians and Surgeons, — the medical department of Columbia University, 
 New York, — from which he received the degree of M. D. in 1879. For eighteen 
 months, he practiced medicine in Brooklyn, and in 1880, moved to Jersey City, 
 where he is still located, and where also he has built up an extensive practice. He 
 is a Freemason, of high degree, and prominently identified with a number of local 
 lodges of Freemasons and Odd Fellows. He is Visiting Physician to thejersey City 
 
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 Hospital, and has been Medical Examiner for several Life Insurance Companies. 
 The demands of his private practice, however, have become sa urgent, that he has 
 been compelled, of late, to withdraw from all outside business and give his atten- 
 tion wholly to it. 
 
 He married Evelyn Frances Edwards, of Brooklyn, in 1884. They have no 
 children. 
 
 John Edward Cyan 
 
 SON OF the Rev. William Lyall. His parents were from Scotland, where 
 his father was an attendant upon the lectures of the celebrated Dr. Thomas 
 Chalmers. He came to America about 1835, and subsequently entered the 
 ministry of the Reformed Church. For a number of years he was located in 
 Columbia Co., N. Y., where, in the village of Copake, the subject of this sketch 
 was born, December 21, 1S52. He received his college preparatory training at the 
 Hudson Academy, N. Y. After his graduation from Rutgers, he enteied the 
 Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, and completed his course there, in 1879. 
 He was licensed to preach by the Classis of Hudson, June sth of the same year. 
 Shortly afterwards, he was ordained by the Classis of New Brunswick, and 
 became pastor of the Reformed Church of Bound Brook, N.J. In 1881, he received 
 and accepted a call from the church at Millbrook, N. Y., succeeding the Rev. 
 Henry N. Cobb, D. D., Secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed 
 Church. This charge he still retains, after a continuous and faithful service of 
 twenty years. It is the longest pastorate, thus far, in the experience of any of 
 the clerical members of the class. For five years, he represented the Classis of 
 Poughkeepsie in the Board of Superintendents of the Theological Seininary, and 
 for twelve years, he has been a member of the Executive Committee, and Treasurer 
 of the Dutchess County Sunday School Association. He has also served as 
 Vice-President of the Rutgers Alumni Association. His publications have con- 
 sisted of occasional articles in the local papers, and a sermon on Prayer. He was 
 married December 7, 1 881, to Sophie Voorhees, daughter of former Sheriff Garret 
 G. Voorhees, of New Brunswick. Six children, two sons and four daughters, 
 have been born to them, all of whom are living. 
 
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 Peter Rouston IHiHiRen 
 
 BORN AUGUST 31, 1831, in the town of Crawfoid, Orange County. N. Y. 
 From his earliest recollection he attended the district school. At the age of 
 sixteen, having a desire for other occupation than farming, he taught school a term, 
 and then entered the academy at Newburgh, N. Y. The next year he again taught 
 until the accumulation of the necessary means enabled him to enter the State 
 Normal School at Albany, N. Y., and after spending two years in that institution, 
 the way was opened for a college course. After a year's study under the direction 
 of the Rev. Jeremiah Searle, then of Peekskill. N. Y., he entered Rutgers College 
 in 1872, and graduated with the class in 1876. His theological education was 
 
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 received in the seminary at New Brunswick, from which he graduated in 1879. 
 He was licensed to preach and ordained by the Classis of Orange and installed 
 pastor of Berea Church, Walden, N. Y., October 28, 1879. In 1882, he became 
 pastor of the Second Reformed Church of Totowa, Paterson, N. J. During 1887, 
 he entered a post-graduate course of study in the University of the City of New 
 York, from which in 1889, he received the degree of Ph. D. In January of the 
 same year, he was installed pastor of the First Reformed Church of Philadelphia, 
 Pa., succeeding, in that charge, his classmate, the Rev. William R. Taylor, D. D. 
 In 1899 he received the degree of D. D. from his alma mater. 
 
 In addition to his parish work his labors in behalf of the denomination to 
 which he belongs have been abundant. He has long been active and influential in 
 the councils of the Reformed Church, by which he has been honored with numerous 
 positions of responsibility and trust. He has represented his classis in the Board 
 of Superintendents of the Theological Seminary, and has twice been nominated by 
 that body to a professorship in the seininary. He has been President of its Alumni 
 Association, and is at present actively and efficiently interested in the movement to 
 increase its endowment. In June, 1900, he was elected Vice-President of the Gen- 
 eral Synod of the Reformed Church, and for a number of years has been a promi- 
 nent member of its Board of Domestic Missions. 
 
 He is an occasional contributor to the columns of The Christian Intelligencer. 
 
 On August 17, 1881, he married Adelaide Louise Thomson, of Corning, 
 N. Y. Their children are: Conrad Orton, and Margaretta Searle, the former of whom 
 became an alumnus of Rutgers at the last commencement. 
 
 edwitt 6. Colburn 
 
 SON OF Edwin S. Colburn and Jane E. Van Slyke. Born at New Balti- 
 more, N. Y., June 4, 1854. Prepared for college at Coeymans Academy, 
 Coeymans, N. Y. He left college in February, 1875, and engaged for a time in 
 farming, but for many years has been in business in Albany, N. Y., where he still 
 resides. He married Mary M. Beach. September 4, 1878. They have two daughters, 
 Elizabeth V., born April 12, 1880, and Mary B., born July 3, 1885. 
 
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 Jllbm Dod minor 
 
 SON OF the Rev. John 
 Minor, of the class of 
 1842, and Mary B. Dod, sister 
 of the Rev. Albert B. Dod, 
 formerly Professor of Mathe- 
 matics in Princeton College. 
 
 Born inCenterville, Mich., 
 January 12, 1850. His early 
 education vv'as conducted by 
 his parents. He spent two 
 terms in Charlton Academy, 
 Charlton, N. Y., but prepared 
 for college without regular as- 
 sistance, and mainly by his 
 own efforts. He entered Rut- 
 gers as a Freshman with the 
 class of '73. For three years 
 his college course was inter- 
 rupted on account of ill health. 
 In 1875, he returned to New Brunswick and graduated in the following year with 
 the class of '76. 
 
 After graduation, a year and a half was spent as an instructor in the Newark 
 Academy, Newark, N. J., which position he resigned on account of a serious acci- 
 dent which made him, for a time, an invalid. He studied theology, privately, and 
 in 1879, was licensed and ordained by the Classis of Montgomery, and installed 
 pastor of the Reformed Church of St. Johnsville, N. Y. In 1888, he became pastor 
 of the Reformed Churches of Mohawk and Fort Herkimer, N. Y. He resigned the 
 former charge in 1891, and the latter in 189^, owing to ill health. 
 
 In 1898, he was commissioned Chaplain of the 203d Regiment, New York 
 Volunteers, and served in the army until the close of the Spanish-American War in 
 1899, when his regiment was disbanded. 
 
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 He is, at present, a minister of the Reformed Church in America, and a 
 Captain in the National Guard of the State of New York. His publications consist 
 of occasional articles contributed to the local papers, to The Christian Intelligencer, 
 and The Independent, of New York. 
 
 He married Isabelle Hammil Randolph, daughter of Judge Bennington F. 
 Randolph, of Jersey City, N. J., December 22, 1886. They have one child — a 
 daughter — now in the thirteenth year of her age. 
 
 VAN NEST HALL 
 
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 milliatti liosea na$bold$ 
 
 B' 
 
 lORN AT Knox, Albany 
 County, N. Y., Febru- 
 ary 22, 1851. His father was 
 of German, and his mother of 
 Hollandish descent. His early 
 life was spent mostly on the 
 farm. In 1870, he entered the 
 Rutgers Grammar School, 
 where he received his prepa- 
 ration for college. After grad- 
 uation in 1876, he entered the 
 Theological Seminary at New 
 Brunswick, completing his 
 studies there in 1879. He was 
 ordained the same year, by the 
 Classis of Albany, and after- 
 wards installed by the Classis 
 of Paramus as pastor of the 
 Reformed Church of Ramapo, 
 N. J. In 1880, he accepted a call to the Reformed Church of Geneva, N. Y., where 
 he remained until 1882. He was pastor of the Reformed Church of Farmer, N. Y., 
 from 1882 until 1887, and of the church at Schodack Landing, N. Y., from 1887 to 
 1891. In November, 1891, he accepted a call to the First Reformed Church of 
 Bethlehem, N. Y., where he is still laboring. 
 
 In July, 1879, he married Edith Crary, of Knox, N. Y. 
 
 Rowland l)en$ball $tubb$ 
 
 SON OF the Rev. Dr. Stubbs, for many years rector of Christ Church, in 
 New Brunswick. He left college early in the course, and is now a practicing 
 physician at Waterford, N. Y. 
 
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 George Cutbcr ncvius 
 
 SON OF Manning L. Nevius. 
 Born at New Brunswick, 
 N. J. He prepared for college 
 at the Rutgers Grammar 
 School. After graduating from 
 Rutgers he entered the law de- 
 partment of Columbia Univer- 
 sity, New York, from which 
 he received his diploma in 
 1880, and with it the degree 
 of LL. B. He was admitted 
 to practice before the Supreme 
 Court of New Jersey at Tren- 
 ton, in 1881. He remained in 
 New Brunswick only for a 
 short time, then, in 1882, re- 
 moved to Minnesota and set- 
 1 1 e d at Wadena, Wadena 
 County, in that State. He was 
 
 soon afterwards admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Minnesota, and 
 from 1883 to 1886 held the offices of Judge and Court Commissioner. He then 
 removed to Minneapolis, and has been a member of the bar of Hennepin County 
 for the past fifteen years. He is married. 
 
 Cbomas IHorrell IHoore 
 
 HE REMAINED in college only a year or two after entering with the class, and 
 has since been engaged in business pursuits. His home at present, is in 
 Buffalo, N. Y., where he recently held the position of Superintendent of the 
 Machinery Division of the Pan-American Exposition. 
 
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 Carlton Browncll Pierce 
 
 B 
 
 OR.N AT Trenton, 
 N. J., June 22, 1857. 
 Son of Henry B. Pierce and 
 Catherine M. Brownell. He 
 was prepared for college at the 
 New Brunswick High School, 
 of which his father was at the 
 time, and for a number of 
 years, the efficient principal. 
 He pursued the scientific 
 course at Rutgers, graduating 
 with the degree of B. S. He 
 afterwards entered the Albany 
 Law School, from which he 
 received his diploma in 1878. 
 He began the practice of law 
 at Cooperstown, N. Y., where 
 he remained until 1892. Since 
 that time he has been in suc- 
 cessful practice in the city of New York, and is a member of the law firm of Car- 
 rington & Pierce. His home is at Cranford, N. J. 
 
 He was married September 15, 1885, to Annie Prentiss Browning, of 
 Cooperstown, N. Y., recently deceased. They have had four children, three 
 daughters and a son, all of whom are living. 
 
 edwiit forrest Ross 
 
 SON OF the Hon. Miles Ross, of New Brunswick. He belonged to the 
 Scientific section of the class and was one of the best all-round athletes of the 
 college in his day; a prominent member of the Base Ball and Foot Ball teams. 
 He died in 1876, about a month before graduation. 
 
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 Olilliam l)orton Price 
 
 SON OF Henry M. Price, a 
 New Brunswick merchant. 
 Born in New Brunswick, July 9, 
 1855. Prepared for college at 
 Hasbrouck Institute, Jersey 
 City, N. J. Studied law with 
 Collins & Corbin, of Jersey 
 City, and was admitted to 
 practice in June, 1879. After 
 two years of professional work 
 in Jersey City, he returned to 
 New Brunswick, and in 188 1 
 became a partner in the firm of 
 Henry M. Price's Sons, with 
 which firm he is still con- 
 nected. In 1884 he was elected 
 a member of the Board of 
 Aldermen of New Brunswick, 
 and again in 1886. He was 
 
 President of the Board for three years. In i88s he was made Deputy Collector of 
 Internal Revenue for the Third District of New Jersey, and served for two years. 
 in 1887 he was appointed Postmaster of New Brunswick by President Cleveland, 
 and continued in the office until 1892. In 1899, he was elected, for the third time, 
 a member of the Board of Aldermen without opposition, a circumstance which is 
 said to be without precedent in the municipal history of New Brunswick. He has 
 never married. 
 
 William l)ubert Osborne 
 
 WAS A MEMBER of the Scientific section of the class. He left college a year 
 or two before graduation. It has been found impracticable to ascertain 
 his present address, or employment. 
 
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 lobn DuTfield Prince, % 
 
 SON OF John D. Prince 
 and Gertrude Martense, 
 was born in the town of Flat- 
 bush, now the Borough of 
 Brooklyn, New York, August 
 2), 1856. He received his 
 early education at Erasmus 
 Hall Academy at Flatbush, and 
 spent the last year at school 
 prior to entering college at 
 the Rutgers Grammar School. 
 After leaving college, he at- 
 -«.«»«»»»_». ^«H_BHH». tended the Columbia Law 
 
 ^- ^^^■^^^H^ %/^^BF School in New York City, and 
 
 graduated in 1878, receiving 
 from Columbia the degree of 
 LL. B. Since that time he has 
 practiced law in the city of 
 Brooklyn and vicinity. Pros- 
 perous in business and happy in his domestic life, he has pursued the even 
 tenor of his way, with no ambition for public honor or preferment, but content 
 with the quiet joys of home. On January 1 3, 1887, he married Mary Martense of 
 Flatbush. They have two children, viz. : a girl of twelve and a boy ten years of 
 age. 
 
 Tsaac Denttian Uanderpoel 
 
 REMAINED in college until the end of the Junior year. Since that time, it is 
 understood that he has been engaged in business. No information regarding 
 him, however, has been received. 
 
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 li)\mm mvckoff Scbomp 
 
 SON OF David G. Schomp. 
 Born at Bedminster, 
 Somerset County, N. J., Nov- 
 ember 13, 1 85 1. After leav- 
 ing the public school, he 
 spent two years in a private 
 school, and then entered the 
 Rev. William Cornell's Classi- 
 cal Institute, at Somerville, 
 N. J., where he devoted two 
 years more to special prepara- 
 tion for college. In 1876, hav- 
 ing completed his collegiate 
 education, he entered the Theo- 
 logical Seminary at New 
 Brunswick, from which he 
 graduated three years' later. 
 His first settlement was at 
 Glenham, Dutchess County. 
 N. Y.. where he began^ his 
 
 ministry. November 18. 1879. 'n '88=' he became pastor of 
 Churches of Marbletown and North Marbletown, Ulster County, 
 field he labored successfully for more than seven years. Then, in 1893. he re- 
 ceived and accepted a unanimous call to the First Reformed Church of Athens. 
 Greene County, N. Y. While pleasantly at work there his services were sought 
 by the Reformed Church of Walden, Orange County. N. Y.. and in response to an 
 urgent call he became pastor of that church in September. 1807. There he remains, 
 the happy and appreciated minister of a large and growing congregation. He is a 
 member of the Holland Society of New York. 
 
 His publications consist of a " History of the Marbletown Reformed Church," 
 covering a period of 150 years, and a patriotic sermon preached in celebration of 
 Independence Day, 1900. 
 
 He was married April 22. 1880, to Marv Eleanor Schott, of Somerville. N.J. 
 They have two children, a daughter aged 19 and a son aged 12. 
 
 the .; Reformed 
 N. Y. In this 
 
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 lames J1udu$tu$ Romeyit 
 
 THE FOLLOWING sketch, prepared by Judge W. S. Banta, of New Jersey, 
 is taken from the History of Bergen County, published by The New Jersey 
 Publishing and Engraving Company, of New York, 1900. 
 
 " The subject of this sketch was born at Blawenburgh, Somerset County, 
 New Jersey, 18^3. He is the only son of Rev. Theodore Bayard Romeyn, D. D., 
 
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 and Amelia (Letson) Romeyn. His mother was the daughter of Johnson Letson 
 and Eliza Shaddle, of New Brunswick, N. J. Mr. Letson was a trustee of Rut- 
 gers College and a liberal contributor to its support and endowment. Dr. and 
 Mrs. Romeyn settled at Blawenburgh in 1850, where James A. attended the public 
 school until 1865, when his father was settled as pastor of the First Reformed 
 Church at Hackensack, N. J., the "Old Church on the Green." He was prepared 
 for college at the academy at Lawrenceville, N. J., and at the Rutgers Grammar 
 School at New Brunswick. In 1872, he entered Rutgers College, and was gradu- 
 ated in 1876. He entered the law office of Bedle, Muirheid & McGee in Jersey 
 City in 1876, took a course of study at Columbia Law School, and was admitted 
 to practice law at the New Jersey State Bar in 1879. He practiced law in Jersey 
 City until 1890, part of which time he was a partner in the firm of Romeyn & 
 Griffin. The practice of law becoming distasteful to him, he abandoned it in 1890. 
 
 "In 1894, he became editor of the Evening Record, an independent daily 
 newspaper, published in Hackensack, the only daily in Bergen County. He 
 entered upon the work of journalism as he would upon one of the high professions 
 with a firm conviction that it was equal to, if not of more importance than, the 
 profession of theology, law or medicine. He has continued this work with great 
 energy and success until his paper has become an important vehicle of news and 
 thought and a necessary institution of the city. 
 
 " His whole thought and discussions have been on the side of good morals 
 and the public welfare. No questionable paragraphs have ever found place in the 
 columns of his paper. His has been a successful effort to make the Evening 
 Record one of the most influential papers in this locality, and with a flattering 
 circulation, he has made an enviable reputation throughout the whole State." 
 
 On October 22, 1901, he sold out his entire interest in the Evening 
 Record, having developed it from a small affair into an enterprise of value. 
 
 He has never taken any active part in politics, though his political principles 
 are positive and fixed. He has been called to fill places in local boards, and was 
 treasurer of the Hackensack Hospital for seven years. He married Flora N. 
 Cochran, of Lancaster, Pa., in 1884, who died in 1891. From his marriage he has 
 two children, Theodore Bayard and Katharine Cochran. In 1894, he married 
 Susie B. Conover, of Newark, N. ]. 
 
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 Bergen BroKau $mt$ 
 
 S 
 
 'ON OF Peter Staats and Susanna S. 
 Quick. Born at Fair Hill, Cecil County, 
 Maryland, April 15, 1853. Though born in 
 Maryland, he comes of old Somerset County 
 Dutch stock. His education, preparatory to 
 entering college, was received primarily in the 
 public schools of Somerset County, N. J. He 
 afterwards spent a year in a private class, and 
 two years in the Rutgers Grammar School. 
 His professional training was received in the 
 New Brunswick Theological Seminary, from 
 which he graduated in 1879. His first charge 
 was at West Hurley, Ulster County, N. Y., 
 1879-1882. In 1882 he removed to Coxsackie, 
 and was pastor of the First Reformed Church of that place until 1890, when he 
 received and accepted a call to the Helderberg Church, Guilderland Center, a 
 pleasant village, not far from the city of Albany. In July, 1896, he was prostrated 
 by a severe illness, and for a time appeared to be almost at death's door. After 
 many months of weakness and suffering, he was able at length, to resume his 
 ministerial work, and in October, 1897, entered upon his fourth and present pas- 
 torate, at Long Branch, N. J., where he is doing a quiet but efficient work. 
 
 He was President of the Particular Synod of Albany in 1896, and also served 
 for a number of years, as Chairman of General Synod's Permanent Committee on 
 Sunday Schools and Catechetical Instruction. 
 
 He is an occasional contributor to the local and religious press, and has 
 written several poems of decided merit. 
 
 On December 24, 1879, he married Sarah V. Cornell of East Millstone, N. J. 
 They have three children living — one deceased. The oldest, 20 years, is now a 
 Sophomore at Rutgers. The second, a daughter, is 19 years old; the third, a son, 
 is 17 years old. 
 
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 Paul Trcaerick Sutpben 
 
 SON OF Ten Eyck Sut- 
 phen, a well-known 
 business man, for many years, 
 in the city of Brooklyn. Born 
 in Brooklyn, N. Y., January 
 \^, 1856. Prepared for col- 
 lege at the Rutgers Grammar 
 School. His theological edu- 
 cation was received at Union 
 Seminary, in New York. In 
 1879, he was ordained to the 
 gospel ministry, and became 
 pastor of the Lutheran Church 
 at Valatie, N. Y., where he 
 remained until 1881. Ill health 
 compelling him to seek a 
 change of climate, he spent 
 one year in the west, chiefly 
 in Minnesota. in 1882, he 
 received and accepted a call to the Third Presbyterian Church, of Elizabeth, N. J., 
 to which he ministered with growing power until 1886. From 1886 to 1892, he 
 was pastor of the Woodland Avenue Presbyterian Church, of Cleveland, Ohio. 
 During his ministry there, he had the happiness of receiving nearly a thousand per- 
 sons into the fellowship of the church. The work of the Sunday School also took 
 on large proportions, and a costly building was erected for its use, which is said 
 to be one of the finest of its kind in the United States. From Cleveland he went 
 to Newark, N. J., in 1892, and for two years was pastor of the Second Presbyterian 
 Church of that city. In 1894 he was urged to accept a call to the Oxford Presby- 
 terian Church of Philadelphia, which he did, remaining, however, but one year, 
 when the Second Presbyterian Church of Cleveland invited him to become its 
 pastor, and as a result of the strong pressure that was brought to bear upon him, 
 
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 he was induced to return to that city. His church is one of the strongest numeri- 
 cally, socially and tlnancially, in Cleveland, and its pastor, according to the testi- 
 mony of competent and unprejudiced witnesses, not identified with class of '76, 
 stands in the front rank of the Presbyterian clergy. He has frequently been called 
 to prominent churches in New York, Brooklyn, Chicago, and elsewhere, but up 
 to this time remains in the city to which more than half of his entire ministry has 
 been given. 
 
 Some years ago, he received from Rutgers the honorary degree of D. D. 
 
 He is married and has four children, three girls, and a boy of eighteen. His 
 oldest daughtergraduated last June from Miss Dana's School at Morristown,N. J. The 
 two younger girls are thirteen and eight years old, respectively. His son, now 
 nearly ready for college, will probably enter Cornell. 
 
 David murray 
 
 ON LEAVING college, he began the study of law. 
 After being admitted to the bar, he practiced for 
 a time at Binghamton, N. Y. For a number of years 
 past, however, his home and business have been in the 
 city of New York. He is a member of the Association of 
 the Bar and of the University Club of New York. He 
 has never held or been a candidate for public office, but 
 was chairman of the Civil Service Commission at Bing- 
 hamton for about three years. He is married. 
 
 Cbeodore l>avelock (Ualser 
 
 BORN ON Staten island. Son of Theodore Walser, M. D. He was one 
 of the youngest members of the class, a brilliant student, and a young man 
 of rare promise. He graduated with high honors, and immediately after com- 
 pleting his college course began the study of law in the city of New York. Death 
 soon claimed him, however, and before he had fairly entered upon his career his 
 days were numbered. 
 
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 milliatti Rivers Caylor 
 
 BORN IN Philadelphia, 
 September 28, 1856. Son 
 of the Rev. William J. R. Tay- 
 lor, D. D., of the class of 1841. 
 His father, his grandfather — the 
 Rev. Benj. C. Taylor, D. D.— 
 and his great-grandfather, the 
 Rev. J. V. C. Romeyn, D. D., 
 were all trustees of Rutgers. 
 
 He received his college pre- 
 paratory training at the Rut- 
 gers Grammar School, the 
 Newark Academy, and under 
 the private instruction of Louis 
 H. Biihler, A. M., of the Class of 
 1861. He graduated at the 
 head of his class in 1876, and 
 entered the Theological Sem- 
 inary at New Brunswick in 
 
 the autumn of the same year, graduating from that institution in 1879. His 
 pastorates have been as follows: Reformed Dutch Church, Franklin Park, N. J., 
 1879-1884. First Reformed Church, Philadelphia, 1884-1888. Brick Presbyterian 
 Church, Rochester, since 1888. In 1891, he received the degree of D. D. from 
 Rochester University, and in 1894, was chosen President of the New York State 
 Young Peoples' Society of Christian Endeavor. He is a Trustee of Reynolds' 
 Library, in Rochester, and prominently identified with other philanthropic, 
 educational and benevolent institutions. 
 
 As a public speaker he is in frequent demand, and has delivered numerous 
 addresses on special occasions before colleges and at religious gatherings. He was 
 the alumni orator at Rutgers in 1896. The church to which he ministers in 
 Rochester, is one of the largest and most important in the Presbyterian body, and 
 has a membership of something like two thousand souls. During the current 
 
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 year, he was invited to become pastor of the Rutgers Riverside Presbyterian 
 Church, in the city of New York, but preferred to remain in his present charge, 
 and the call was, therefore, decHned. 
 
 In the intervals of public duty he has traveled extensively in Europe, first 
 making a general tour in 1884. In 1898, he visited Norway and Spitzbergen, and 
 Italy in 1899- 1900. 
 
 His publications consist of occasional sermons, addresses, etc. 
 
 He married Annie B. Spear, daughter of James Spear, Esq., of Philadelphia, 
 January 24, 1888. They have two daughters, eleven and nine years of age, and 
 two sons, seven and five years old. 
 
 THE DANIEL S. SCHENCK OBSERVATORY 
 
 I 
 
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 foster mcGowan Uoorbces 
 
 SON OF Nathaniel W. Voorhees, of the class of 1847. Born at Clinton, 
 N. J., November s, i8s5. Prepared for college under private tutors. Studied 
 law at Elizabeth, N. J., with Magie and Cross, the former, for a number of years. 
 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and now Chancellor of New Jersey, the latter, 
 a Judge, and at one time Speaker of the House, and at present a Senator. He was 
 admitted to the practice of law in 1880. In 1888, he became a member of the 
 House of Assembly and was re-elected in 1889 and 1890. In 1894, he was chosen 
 State Senator, and continued to serve in that capacity until 1897. During that year 
 
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 he was made President of the Senate, and on the retirement of Governor John W. 
 Griggs, who resigned his office to accept the position of United States Attorney 
 General, he became Acting Governor, and continued as such, during 1898. In the 
 following year, he was elected Governor by popular vote, which office he continues 
 to hold. 
 
 For many years, he has been a prominent member of the bar and a recog- 
 nized leader, in the State, of the Republican party, which he has repeatedly repre- 
 sented in its local and national councils. Several years ago, he was nominated a 
 Judge of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, by Governor Werts, but declined the 
 appointment, preferring, at the time, a more active political career. He is still in the 
 hey-day of his popularity and usefulness, and his name is prominently mentioned 
 in connection with other honors, when he shall have completed his term of service 
 as Governor of New Jersey. His modesty does not permit him to speak of his 
 public services, or of the numerous articles and addresses which have appeared 
 from time to time in the public press, but as these are widely known and read, 
 they speak for themselves. He graduated second in his class in college, but has 
 attained easily the first place in point of prominence in the larger sphere of life. 
 He has never married. 
 
 3obn Eltot moodbridge 
 
 SON OF the Rev. John Woodbridge, D. D., and Mary Lavinia Mersereau. 
 Born August 14, 1856, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., where he received his 
 preparation for college. After spending two years at Rutgers, he entered Union 
 College, Schnectady, N. Y., and graduated in 1876. He studied theology at Union 
 Theological Seminary, New York City, but left in the middle of the second year. 
 For three years he had charge of a mission chapel connected with the First Presby- 
 terian Church of Paterson, N. J. He also taught for a time in the New York Latin 
 School, and partially worked out a scheme for a Greek Grammar, which he was 
 asked to present to the Greek Club of New York, in 1878, he went to Europe in 
 search of health, made a losing fight for months, with tuberculosis, and died Octo- 
 ber 3, 1879. He was unmarried. 
 
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 3obn Scbenck Uoorbees 
 
 SON OF the late John S. Voorhees and grandson of Judge Peter Voorhees. 
 Born near FrankUn Piirk, Middlesex County, N. J., November 30, 
 1855. He spent one year under a private tutor and two years at the Rutgers 
 Grammar School in preparation for college. After graduation, he entered the office 
 of his uncle, Frederick Voorhees, Esq., of Mt. Holly, Burlington County, N. J., 
 
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 with whom he spent three years in the study of law. He was admitted as an 
 attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey at the June term, 1879. In October 
 of the same year, he settled as a lawyer at New Brunswick, N. J., and in 1882, was 
 admitted as a counsellor by the New Jersey Supreme Court, and by the United 
 States Supreme Court, October 29, 1885. He has since been appointed Special 
 Master in Chancery and Supreme Court Commissioner. In 1896, he was appointed 
 Prosecutor of the Pleas for Middlesex County by Governor Griggs, for the term of 
 five years, and in 1901, was reappointed to the same position by his classmate, 
 Governor Voorhees. He is a Trustee of the New Jersey Bar Association, a mem- 
 ber of the Standing Committee of the Rutgers Alumni Association, a Director of 
 the People's National Bank of New Brunswick, a member of the patriotic order 
 of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the State Executive Committee of the 
 Young Men's Christian Association of New Jersey, and an Elder in the Second 
 Reformed Church, of New Brunswick. He is also a Director in several business, 
 charitable and religious associations. He was married October 21, 1886, to Mary 
 H. Stebbins, only daughter of the late John R. Stebbins, of Rondout, N. Y. They 
 have three children, viz. : 
 
 Tracy Stebbins Voorhees, born June 30, 1890. 
 
 John Schenck Voorhees, Jr., born February 20, 1895. 
 
 Frederick Voorhees, born December 30, 1894. 
 
 TranK !Jarvi$ IHunay 
 
 AT THE TIME of entering college, Mundy was a preacher of the Methodist 
 Church, and had charge of the congregation worshiping then in Liberty 
 Street, New Brunswick. He remained in the class but a short time, a year or two 
 at the most, and later changed his ecclesiastical connection, and entered the Theo- 
 logical Seminary at Princeton, N. J. He was pastor for some years, of a Con- 
 gregational church in Massachusetts, and afterwards of a Presbyterian church in 
 Philadelphia. He is now in charge of a church of the same denomination in 
 Atlantic City, N. J. He has gained some distinction as a preacher, and the alumni 
 catalogue of Rutgers credits him with the degrees of A. M. and D. D. 
 
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 Harry (UestbrooK minfleld 
 
 Ky^ 
 
 BORN JANUARY 4, 1857, at Washington Square, 
 Jersey City, N. J. He was tlie only child of 
 Hon. Charles Hardenburgh Winfield, of the class of 
 1832, and Harriet McDougall Allan. The blood 
 that flows in his veins is a mixture of English, Hol- 
 land and Highland Scotch. He traces his descent 
 from Richard Winfield, of Derby, England, who 
 was descended from Anthony Wingfield, trustee 
 under the will of King Henry Vlll. His Holland 
 blood, on his father's side, is from the De Roosa. 
 Quick and Kortrecht families, and on his mother's 
 
 side, from the Yates and Bradt f^imilies. His Scotch blood he derives from his 
 mother through the McDougalls of Argyle and the Allans of Perth. His early 
 education was received as follows: Burlington College, N. J., 1867-68; Rev. S. 
 A. Farrand, New York City, 1869-70; Rutgers Grammar School, 1871-72. After 
 graduation from college, he spent two years in the Columbia College Law School, 
 from which he was graduated in 1879 with the degree of LL. B. He was admitted 
 to the bar of New Jersey the same year as an attorney, and as counsellor at the 
 June term, 1882. From 1879 to 1883 he was in partnership with his father, and 
 remained in general practice until 1887, when he was appointed Counsel to the 
 Hudson County Board of Health, which position he held until 1899, when he 
 resigned. The following are some of the results achieved during the twelve years 
 of his incumbency of that office: The death rate in Hudson County was 
 reduced four per thousand, principally in diseases due to defective sanitation; the 
 building and equipping of a complete hospital for contagious diseases was effected; 
 the abolition of a fraudulent medical college was brought about and its charter 
 revoked; the registration of vital statistics in Hudson County was placed on a com- 
 plete and comprehensive basis, and legislation was secured regulating medical 
 practice, and effecting needed and important sanitary reforms. 
 
 Since his resignation as counsel to the Board of Health, he has been in gen- 
 eral practice, and has taken care of his private interests. He has never married. 
 
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 3obn Cefferts, 3r. 
 
 B' 
 
 lORN AT Flatbush, Long Island, on 
 the first day of March, 1854, when 
 Flatbush was still a rural village and had 
 not become a part of Brooklyn or, as later 
 a part of the Greater New York. His 
 parentage was Dutch, the Lefferts family 
 being one of the oldest Dutchfamilies in the 
 county. John Lefferts, his father, was a 
 well-known resident of the old town, and 
 the deed of the homestead of the subject 
 of this sketch, where he was born, signed 
 by Peter Stuyvesant, the famous Dutch 
 Governor of New Amsterdam, was a 
 patent directly to a Lefferts and has hung 
 upon the walls of the home for over two 
 centuries. His mother died when he 
 was but a boy. His early education was 
 received at Erasmus Hall Academy, in Flatbush, a celebrated old school, over 
 which the late Rev. Dr. William H. Campbell, the learned anci beloved President 
 of Rutgers College, presided for many years. Fie prepared for college at the 
 Rutgers Grammar School, and left for Columbia College Law School in New York 
 at the end of his Sophomore year, graduating from the latter with the degree of 
 LL. B. in 1876. While in college, he organized, with the cordial co-operation of the 
 class, the Rutgers Glee Club, which was a pronounced success from the beginning, 
 and has become a permanent institution. In this undertaking he received valuable 
 assistance from Howard N. Fuller, of the class of 1874, author of "On the Banks 
 of the Old Raritan," and Alexander Johnston, of the class of 1870, then of the 
 Grammar School and afterwards, a professor at Princeton College. Since 1876, he 
 has been continuously engaged in the active practice of his profession and has been 
 associated in the law business, for many years, with Joseph W. Sutphen, a member 
 of the class of 1873, of Rutgers, under the firm name of Sutphen and Lefferts. He 
 
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 is ;i Republican in politics and has been prominent in the Brooklyn Young Repub- 
 lican Club as well as in other social clubs and organizations of the city in which he 
 resides. He is a director in several corporations and executor and legal adviser of 
 some of the largest estates in the city of New York. In June, 1876, he married 
 Mary J. Gray, of Brooklyn. They have no children. 
 
 Ca Rue Uredenburgb, 3r. 
 
 SON OF La Rue Vreden- 
 burgh, and B Ian din a 
 Elmendorf. Born at Somer- 
 ville, N. J., July iq, 1855. He 
 was fitted for college at the 
 preparatory school of the Rev. 
 William Cornell, at Somerville. 
 He left college before complet- 
 ing the course, and studied law 
 with Judge John D. Bartine, of 
 Somerville. In 1879, he was 
 admitted to the bar of New 
 Jersey, and the same year, to 
 the bar of Colorado. He com- 
 menced active practice at Chi- 
 huahua, Colorado, in partner- 
 ship with Thomas A. Jobs, of 
 Newark, N. J., and upon the 
 failure of the boom there, re- 
 moved to Montezuma, where he became associated in partnership with Hon. 
 Thomas Mitchell, whose term as Justice of the United States District Court was 
 about to expire. He enjoyed a successful practice until the diminishing value of 
 silver caused the closing of many mines and a general business depression. While 
 on a visit east, at this time, the Somerset County Bank, at Somerville, sought his 
 services, temporarily. The connection thus established proving mutually satisfac- 
 
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 tory, he became teller in the bank, and continued to serve in that capacity until the 
 institution passed into the hands of a receiver in the panic of 1893. The same day, 
 he accepted employment as Discount Clerk and Note Teller in the First National 
 Bank of the same place, where he remained until 1899, when the Commissioner of 
 Banking and Insurance of the State of New Jersey tendered him the position of 
 State Bank Examiner, which he still holds. He has never married. 
 
 Ulillard talker Sutler 
 
 B* 
 
 lORN November3, 1856, at 
 Morristown, Newjersey, 
 Son of Hon. Augustus W. 
 Cutler, M. C, and Julia R. 
 Walker. He attended Miss 
 Scofield's private school, and 
 afterwards Morris Academy, 
 and then Morristown High 
 School. After a two years' 
 course in the Scientific Depart- 
 ment of the college, he studied 
 law with his father in Morris- 
 town. Upon being admitted 
 to the bar, he opened an office 
 in Morristown and began active 
 practice. He took the coun- 
 sellors' degree in due course. 
 In December, 1882, he was ap- 
 pointed Prosecutor of the Pleas, 
 to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of George W. Forsyth. In January, 
 1883, he was appointed Prosecutor for the full term of five years. In 1888, he was 
 again appointed Prosecutor. In 1893, he was appointed Prosecutor for the fourth 
 time, but resigned the same year to accept the position of County Judge. He filled 
 
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 the office of Law Judge of Morris County from April i, 1893, to April i, 1898, 
 since which time he has practiced law. 
 
 He is President of the Board of Trustees of the South Street Presbyterian 
 Church of Morristown; Second Vice-President of the Morristown Trust Company, 
 also Vice-President of the Morris County Mortgage and Realty Company. In 1879, 
 he married Mary B. Hinchman, of Brooklyn. They have six children. 
 
 3o$epb Godfrey Palmer 
 
 SON OF Joseph R.. Palmer, 
 was born in Brownsville, 
 Texas, March I, 1856. in 1861, , ,. 
 
 his family moved to New York 
 City. In 1870, he attended the 
 North Orange Military Acad- 
 emy, and subsequently the 
 Rutgers Grammar School, 
 where he completed his prep- 
 aration for college. He became 
 a member of the Class of '76, 
 but left college to engage in 
 business, a year or two before 
 graduation. For two years he 
 was employed by a wholesale 
 jewelry firm in Chicago, and 
 then, in 1878, became assistant 
 mileage clerk in the office of 
 the Chicago and Northwestern 
 
 Railway, in 1880, he started in the real estate business at Grinneil, Iowa, and the 
 same year, accepted a position as book-keeper with the Shoe and Leather Bank of 
 New York City. Capitalists, to whom he became known, promised to entrust 
 him with their money to invest in western land, and, in 1882, he again went to 
 Iowa, started the Rockwell City Bank and was chosen president of the institution. 
 
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 He also served one term as Town Treasurer, and as Mayor of Rockwell City. In 
 1893, he was one of the incorporators of the Redfleld Quarrv Company, and was 
 recently elected Vice-President of the Company. In 1882, he was appointed on 
 the staff of Governor B. R. Sherman, of Iowa, and in i88q, became Secretary of 
 the Calhoun County Democratic Central Committee. 
 
 In 1892, he received his appointment as a member of the staff of Governor 
 Boies. The Army and Navy Magaiine, to which we are chiefly indebted for the 
 above information, has this to say also, with reference to our classmate: "No 
 officer on Governor Boies' staff is more popular than Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph G. 
 Palmer, owing to his uniform courtesy towards all with whom he comes in con- 
 tact and also because of his ability as a soldier." 
 
 In 1899, Colonel Palmer sold out his interest in the Rockwell City Bank, 
 and shortly afterwards, removed to Colorado Springs, Col., where he now resides. 
 He is interested in several of the gold mines at Cripple Creek, Col., and has 
 achieved considerable success in this line of investments. He is a large stockholder 
 in some of the most valuable mines near Colorado Springs. 
 
 He married Annie Davis, of Grinnell, Iowa, in 1883. They have one 
 daughter. 
 
 Samuel Tsett (Uoodbridde 
 
 SON OF the Rev. Jahleel Woodbridge. He left college, early in the 
 course, and entered Princeton Theological Seminary, from which he was 
 graduated. He was afterwards sent as a missionary to China, by the Southern 
 Presbyterian Church, and is at present, stationed at Chinkiang, China. Has 
 done valuable work in the way of translations from the Chinese Language, and 
 has issued several publications. He was married in Yokohama, Japan, to Jean 
 Woodrow, daughter of Dr. Woodrow of Columbia, South Carolina. They have 
 seven children. 
 
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 nicbolas Dorenius Ulortendyke 
 
 SON OF THE Hon. Jacob 
 R. Wortendyke, M. C, 
 of the class of 1839, and Susan 
 J. Doremus, was bom in 
 Jersey City, September 14, 
 1858. He was prepared for 
 college at the Hasbrouck Insti- 
 tute, Jersey City, graduating 
 in 1872. The same year, he 
 entered Rutgers, as a member 
 of the scientific class, taking a 
 two years' course in Civil En- 
 gineering, after which he en- 
 tered the office of Levi W. 
 Post, a prominent Civil En- 
 gineer in Jersey City, as one of 
 his assistants, where he re- 
 mained for two years. Mr. 
 Post subsequently became 
 Chief Engineer of the Jersey City Water Department, and he was appointed by 
 him as one of his assistants in the Department of Surveys. He remained in this 
 office until the expiration of his term, and was then, for a short time, in the office 
 of F. H. Earle, a Civil Engineer. In 1882, a partnership was formed under the 
 firm name of Vreeland & Wortendyke, Civil Engineers. This was soon afterwards 
 dissolved, and the business, comprising general surveying, road construction, 
 street and sewer work, and partition of estates, continued in the name of N. D. 
 Wortendyke for fourteen years. In 1888, under an act to establish the use of 
 local indexes for public records relating to lands in certain counties in the State of 
 New Jersey, he was appointed a member of the Board of Surveyors of Hudson 
 County, to make an official map of Hudson County for indexing the records 
 (known as the Block System), thus simplifying the method of indexing deeds and 
 
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 mortgages. In 1890, he was appointed Division Engineer of the Hudson County 
 Boulevard, and remained as such until the completion of the work. In 1897, he 
 became Assistant Engineer of the Street and Water Board of Jersey City, and in 
 1900, Assistant Chief Engineer of the same Board. This department has general 
 supervision over all public contracts. 
 
 He is an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. 
 
 On October 31, 1883, he married Mary Elizabeth Quick, of Jersey City. 
 They have two children, Eleanor Elizabeth, and Rynie Doremus. 
 
Tndex of Biograpbical Sketcbes 
 
 AuMACK, William 
 Aycrigg, John B. 
 Booth, Eugene S. 
 Bradley, Charles 
 Casper, John P. 
 CoLBURN, E. E. 
 
 Cox, Henry M. 
 Cutler, W. W. 
 Devan, Spencer C. 
 
 DlTMARS, C. P. 
 
 DuRYEE, Edward H. 
 
 GiLLMORE, Wm. B. 
 
 Johnson, H. N. 
 Johnson, Jerome 
 Kelly, Haydn C. 
 KuEHNLE, George W. 
 Lefferts, John, Jr. 
 
 LiMEBURNER, C. A. 
 
 Lyall, J. Edward 
 MiLLiKEN, Peter H. 
 Minor, Albert D. 
 Moore, Thos. M. 
 Mundy, Frank J. 
 Murray, David 
 Nasholds, Wm. H. 
 Nevius, George L. 
 
 21 
 
 Osborne, Wm. H. 
 
 2; 
 
 OUTSKA, N. Y. 
 
 24 
 
 Palmer, Joseph G. 
 
 2t 
 
 Pierce, C. B. 
 
 23 
 
 Price, Wm. H. 
 
 39 
 
 Prince, John D., Jr. 
 
 27 
 
 Roe, Charles S. 
 
 62 
 
 Romeyn, Jas. a. 
 
 21 
 
 Ross, Edwin F. 
 
 29 
 
 Schomp, Wm. W. 
 
 31 
 
 Staats, Bergen B. 
 
 32 
 
 Stubbs, Rowland H 
 
 33 
 
 Sutphen, Paul F. 
 
 21 
 
 Taylor, Wm. R. 
 
 34 
 
 Vanderpoel, I. D. 
 
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 Van Deusen, C. C. 
 
 60 
 
 Van Zandt, Wm. A. 
 
 36 
 
 Voorhees, F. M. 
 
 37 
 
 Voorhees, j. S. 
 
 38 
 
 Vredenburgh, L. R,, 
 
 40 
 
 Walser, Theo. H. 
 
 43 
 
 Warren, John . 
 
 58 
 
 Winfield, H. W. 
 
 52 
 
 WOODBRIDGE, J. E. 
 
 42 
 
 Woodbridge, S. 1. 
 
 43 
 
 Wortendyke, N. D. 
 
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