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1931 Vol. 2 No. 1 September VOt. II, No. 1 Sept. lst, 1931 Uttvffiurr&ir (cuuntg ffirxfnririll Surirtg t93l 1932 ffiBro{t\ffiffiH$,,ffiffiE OFFICERSAND COMMITTEES PROGRAM OF THE YEAR'S ACTIVITIES IIE W h'fEMBERS--NECROLOGY SPECIAL HIST'ORICAL ARTICLES By HENRY W. GLEDHILL ROBERT \VILLIAMS FILBERT L. ROSENSTEIN W. H. BELCHER WILLIAM W. SCOTT, WM. H. RAUCF{FUSS I). STAN-TON FIAMMC]NI) TEMPORARY MUSEUM AND OFFICIAL HEADQUARTERS FREE PUBLIC LI BRARY BU I LDI NG BROADWAY AND AUBURN STREETS. PATE RSOI\|, N. J. MANSION' 193CI HISTORIAN GLEDHILL, PHOTOGRAPHING DEY @Wlilurrutr Onunt$ T$ixturiru[ Snrirtg VOL. II. No. 1 Sept. lst, 193.1 CONITENTS Of ficers and Committees ,.6 Annual Report of President 7.10 HenryWilsonGledhill . , . , . , . LL.L4 Charles E. Dietz America Acquires a Gutenburg Bi,ble . , . Lr.Z0 Robert Williams George Washington 2r.27 Filbert L. Rosenstein Interesting Career of Judge John W. Rea . ZL.ZI W. H. Belcher Passaic's Victory Day 32.38 William W. Scort Dr.Butler'sEssayonPaterson , . , . , 29.44 William H. Rau,chfuss The . Joseph Ryding's Memorial . , . 4r,47 Necrologyandl.{ewMembers . 2 , 4g The George Washingfon Bi,Centenial . , . A,g.J4 D. Stanton Hammond Program of Society Meetings Activities for the Season 1931.Zg3Z . J j.r6 TEMPORARY MUSEUM AND OFFTCIAL HEADQUARTERS FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY BUILDING EROADWAY AN D AU BU RN STREETS, PATE RSON, N" J. DAVIDSON PRESS lg2.l94 GonwtN AvE. ParnnsoN, N. J" TFIE PASSAIC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Officers and Committees rg3r-Lg32 President E' Dlrtz noyl. Au.nu., Toto*a- Boro, pnt"rro'cHenrns { First Vice.Prrrid"rnfi . -:, ^-:-^""wrrrr^, . w. scort 26 Grove Terrace, passaic SecondVice.President srnNroN HauuoNn 96, East 23rd,Str..t, put.rrorro' Third Vice.President aaa.aa JonN O. BnNsorr 450 Park Avenue, Paterson Secretary Eowann Gnar t9 lolrn nyl. Arr.rr,r., Hrl.dorr, paterso' Treasurer . ,_ . , ^^ Mlss Marrrr M. Bowrr,raN 28 Buena Vista Avenue, Hawthorne Historian HnNRy W. Grnonnr 7ZZ Broadway, Paterson Curatot Warrrn A. Lucas 56 Tuxedo Avenue, Hawthorne EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Consisting of the above officers together wjth the following: Filbert L. Rosenstein James F. Morton Dr. Wm. H. Rauchfuss Mrs. Brice Bunnell Mrs. Geo. Winchester Jog. A. Bergen Miss G. Vtr. Julia Pierce Robert Williams Mary G. Liigr Jackson Robert E. Bristor Robert P. Broolis Edwin A. Leonhard ARCHIVES AND PROPERTY COMMITTEE Walter A. Lucas, Chairmat? G arret A. Hobart John O. Benson Royal E. Terhune Robert D. Benson j;ri;'R-.' Rudolph "f tilil.o' Hartman b""ie" . Winchester FINANCE COMMITTEE Robert Williams, Chairman George A. Schultae charles L. Auqer Lu*;- si.re.."y Frank- J. Frqd_le'y _ pr".i8"r,t";a-i'easurer,George Winters Ri;"fTin"5;#enna Ex.ofticio MEMBERSHIPCOMMITTEE Mt.. Eliaabeth K.^ Bunnell; Ghairman Mrs. F. Mrs' B. Conanr charles \ Bgatty Mrs. sarah peterson Mrs. William S. - Carr Mrs. Mollie C. Winchester 6 THE PASSAIC COU\{TY HISTORIOAL SOCIETY ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE Mrs. Joseph A, Bergen, Qhairman Edwin A. Leonhard Fied f"^z Geofge A. Wurt$ GENEALOGY A\ID BIOGRAPHY COMMITTEE Mattie M. Bowrnan, Choirmart Mary G. Jackson Robert P. Brooks Eleanor Mombert Fannie F. Dofemus Mollie C. Winchester D. Stanton Hamnionci PUBLICITY COMMITTEE Dr. William H. Rauchfuss, Chairman William W. Scott George H. Burke William L. R. Wurts Susan Contesse CHURCH HISTORY COMMITTEE Dr. Wiltiam H. Rauchfuss, Clrairman Hon. John V. Hinchliffe Rev. William J. Carlin Filbert Rosenstein Rev. D. S. Hamilton H. H. Scshoonmaker CURRE}\TT HISTORY AND SCRAP BOOK COMMITTEE Fred Rear, Chairman Anna C. Birdsali William H. Belcher Raphael B. Godwin HISTORIC SITES AND EVENTS COMMITTEE Robert P. Brooks, Chairman Henry W. Gledhili Joseph A. Bergen Harry B. Haines R. E. Bristor PUBLICATION EOMMITTEE Henry W. G1edhilt Mrs. Ruth G. Harding D. Stanton Hammond James Mason TOPOGRAPHIC,AL AND HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY COMMITTEE D. $tanton Hammond Russell B. Evans Robert D. Benson Charles W. Mason WARS AND SOLDIERS' GRAVES COMMITTEE Isaac Serven, Chairmax John Grimshaw, Jr. R. E. Bristor John Mc Cullough Hon. Edgar H. Ellis Erwin C" H" $chroers ANCIENT CEMETERIESCOMMITTEE Edwin N" Hopson, Jr., Chairman D. S. Harnmond R. E. Bristor PRE,HISTORY AND GEOLOGY COMMITTEH Ruscell B. Evans, Chairrnan Jatres F. Morton Otto Benz Carl Schondorf Frank A. Donnelly PHOTOGRAPHYCOMMITTEE R. E. Bristor, Chairman Vernon Royle Frank M" Rich Fred Thompson NUMISMATIC COMMITTEE Nehemiah Vreeland , Chairman John Fitzgerald Edward rd. Browne ANNUAL REPORT OF PRESIDENT Charles E. Dietz To the Passaic County Historical Society in annual business meetrng,March 10, L932. Annual report of th; president: This is the fourth annual teporC I have the honor to submit to my fellow members, every time before wri,ting, I review ?"q "Iossi,ble that part of the by'laws which tells our aims, to note if in what manner or to what extent we did attain to our reasoRsfor existence, and to recornmend suc'h things as I believe we can do and oughi to do to establish in the public mind a. still better reason for their approval and support. Since lttt report was published we held our monthly meetings nearly regularly, iqd ptogti*r have been a, credit to the d."tl. *tio rendered them and to any _society of ou.r kind. In these programs we attempted _ to follow tradition by developing-in local historii thim"r; and yet we aimed and, I think succeeded, showing-Illustrations our contribu, tion as a county to the larger histo'ry ,of the nation. of this happened when Commissioner Robert Williaffis, Jr., gave his story, "The United States Gets a Vollbehr Bible," ind Eir own prominent influence toward that acquisition. We celebrate the Washington bicentennial as a society with at least two pro,grarnsso far when Dr. A. L. John_son,superintendent of the Uniori counry schools, spoke in December on "S/ashington in Northern New Jerge_y,_'_*.td *!9t Jf{g. Filbert L. Rosenstein delivered a eulogy "Washington" on in February tha,t would have graced any celebration in the land. In addition, on the Patersonmayor's bicentennial c,ommitteserve your president, vice'president,secretary, treasurer and at least h;lf a dozen mernbers. Too, a cornmittee fro,rn the society is now appointeC and working to prepare either for publication, or to subrnit ,to the nation's b; centennial commission, and for availability to the public throu,gh our library any hitherto unpublished his,torical mateiial in whic,i rhis region is so rich and has been so neglected. The historic sites and events cornmittee had a most successful-.o,r.rry, pjlgrimagg. last J.rte_ through the southern section of the through Clifton and Passaic.-It woke all of us to the rich revolutionary connections of this region that must be popularjzed instead of far, gotten. October 14,last, through the untiiing effor6sof the chairman THE PASSAIC UOUNTY HISTORICAL SCCIETY of this committee, Robert P. Brooks, and through the generous gift of our fellow member and benevolent fellow crtrzen, Harry B. Haines, a bronze tablet was unveiled cn the lrtrews building in rnemory 'of four distingurshed fellow citizens, who practised law in a buil{ing on that site, riamely, Socrates Tuttle, Vice'President Garret A. Hobart, Governor John W. Griggs and Vice,Chancellor Eugene Stevenson, who served this society as its first president. Another outstandlng accomplishrnent of the past yeat is _the additicn of nearly 400 books to our library, through the unselfish zeal of our library agent, D" S. Hammcnd. These bcoks are on New tI'iil:.,,,.)'' Paterson,N r New Jersey, very many of them wholly or largely on Northern JerslY' Time and up"." iorbid detail on this valuable- acquisition and on the many oblecis and Cocuments that came to the museum; but suffice it to say that it exceeds all formed years of our existence. Though the sieady labors of the curator, secretary, Messrs. Brooks, Himmond and f-iartman, the nnuseurnand llbrary are,.all but the latest acldit:ons, catalogued for the first time. This _cataloguing rvith its essential crcss,cataloguing is not near finished, bYt on the whole io"stituency this, for it, was woy, and I hope our -lppre-ciates *ority done bi volunt ary service of a skilled character by very busy people 'lihrarv \*1.y 1ry^ r'rrs,'rrm end o in 1,he We long ago outgrew^rrfrf,rerxr ^rlrour museum and library quarters building. So publie librar;7. tfr. h6'rary has bg.oryg bigger th.an its we need more roorn and the pr.lblic library has been most gener'ous THE PASSAIC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY in its attitude by allowing us to use a roon-l they badly need. At such an opportune time the ccunty park commi.rio., has cffcrecl us space in the east side of the Lambeit Castle and ,our moving there awaits the cornpletir:n of certarn improvements that are at th]s time standing still but all of us except will be fjnished soon. At this writing our museum ?nd library are in poorest shape for consulation T things are packed for moving. This ofret of rp".. in the Lambert Castle is an opportunity such Js cornes to few sccieties of our kincl, and we must measure up to this opportunity in the coming year and years" We had go this pas[ year, but two are under prepara, -pullication tion. When I think of the labor involved and now being do"e ancl that it is done by very b."ty people, I cannot gracefully aiolog;ze for this neglect; especially because the tvu'o o.rill be foithcomiig" "ld Our nembership has not lincreased and in some cases dueJ have been collectible somewhat slower. While all of us regret this, I presume we must bear cur share of the depression" I hive nothing but the highest appreciation and praise for support from a loyal constituency" In the past year we added an amendment to the constitution enabling us to receive a so"called sustaining membership of ten dollars e year, instead of the regular two dollars, from people or org antzations who desire to help o,ur work this way v.rhile ihey know that others do; and want, by their example, to encourage others to do so.
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