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Augusta Cooper Bristol
BRISTOL, Mrs. Augusta Cooper, poet and lecturer, born in Croydon, N. H., 17th April, 1835. Her maiden name was Cooper, and she was the youngest of a family of ten children. She was a precocious child, and her poetical taste showed itself in her early infancy. Her first verses were written at the age of eight, and she had poems published when only fifteen. She was forward in mathematics and showed in her early life an aptitude for logical and philosophical reasoning. The greater part of her education was acquired in a public school, but she was also a student in Canaan Union Academy and Kimball Union Academy. She began teaching at fifteen and was thus employed summer and winter for seven years. At twenty-two years of age she was married to G. H. Kimball, from whom she was divorced five years later. In 1866 she was married to Louis Bristol, a lawyer of New Haven, Conn., and they removed to southern Illinois. In 1869 she published a volume of poems, and in that year she gave her first public lecture, which circumstance seems to have changed the course of her intellectual career. In 1872 she moved to Vineland, N. J., her present residence, from which date she has been called more before the public as a platform speaker. For four years she was president of the Ladies' Social Science Class in Vineland, N. J., giving lessons from Spencer and Carey every month. In the winter of 188o she gave a course of lectures before the New York Positivist Society on "The Evolution of Character," followed by another course under the auspices of the Woman's Social Science Club of that city. In the following June she was sent by friends in New York to study the equitable association of labor and capital at the Familistere, in Guise, in France, founded by M. Godin. She was also commissioned to represent the New York Positivist Society in an international convention of liberal thinkers in Brussels in September. Remaining in the Familistere for three months and giving a lecture on the "Scientific Basis of Morality" before the Brussels convention, she returned home and published the "Rules and Statutes of the association in Guise. In 1881 she was chosen State lecturer of the Patrons of Husbandry in New Jersey, and in the autumn of the following year was employed on a national lecture bureau of that order.
Since her husband's death, which occurred in December, 1882, Mrs. Bristol has appeared but seldom on the public platform. She is occupied with the care of an estate and in directing the educational interests of her youngest daughter. Some of her philosophic and scientific lectures have been translated and published in foreign countries.
(American Women Fifteen Hundred Biographies Vol 1 Publ. 1897 Transcribed by Marla Snow)

Mary A. Carter
CARTER, Miss Mary Adaline Edwards, industrial art instructor and designer, born in Hinesburgh, Chittenden county, near Burlington, Vt. She is the oldest child of Edward H. and Mary Adaline Kellogg Carter. Her parents were natives of Vermont, descended from the early New England settlers, of English and Scotch origin. Her early education was chiefly from nature and object study. After her eighth summer she attended private and public schools in Burlington, Vt., and in Vineland, N. J., where her family removed in 1866. The years of country life spent in southern New Jersey during youth were filled with formative influences that laid a broad and sound basis for her life-work. Circumstances and environments led to finding occupations for herself, or to having them given her, that promoted inventive and executive powers and stimulated love for science and art. Thirst for larger opportunities and higher education developed, but adversities came, over-work, intense mental strain, then long and severe illness. After health was restored, she was by degrees led to industrial art as her vocation. Though beset by obstacles that would have turned aside one of less resoluteness, her course has been constantly progressive and largely successful. With simply the intention of becoming proficient as a teacher of drawing, she entered the Woman's Art School, Cooper Union, New York. After graduating with highest honors, in 1876, her services were immediately required as a designer for embroidery. While thus engaged, part of her time was still devoted to art study, and throughout her years of working she has been a constant student in art and other educational subjects. In the Centennial Exhibition, in 1876, she made a special study of the needlework, art embroideries and textiles of all countries. Not long after, her water-color studies from nature attracted the notice of John Bennett, the English painter of art-pottery, and she became his pupil and assistant. In 1879 a number of pieces of faience decorated by her were sent by invitation to the exhibition of Howell, James & Co., London, England. One of her vases was presented to Sir Frederick Leighton, president of the Royal Academy, and others were sold to art museums in England, to be kept as examples of American art pottery. The same year some of her work in faience was shown in New York, and won much praise. When the Associated Artists began their united enterprise which has done so much in revolutionizing and elevating household taste and interior decoration of American home and public buildings, Miss Carter's services were secured by Louis Tiffany, and she was connected with them several years. At first having to do with all the kinds of work undertaken, glass, mosaics, metals, wood, embroideries, hangings, wall and ceiling coverings, painting or anything else decoratively used in buildings, she was the first woman thus employed. Later, having developed marked ability in plastic art, she had special charge of their pottery and modeling department. Her ornamental relief-work, panels and friezes were often used with heads and figures by St. Gaudens, and combined with work by Colman, Armstrong and other well-known artists in the decoration of public and private buildings in New York and different parts of the country. Her designs for memorial and other windows, for decoration of interiors and for different purposes have been used in churches and homes, both east and west. Frequently artists, draughtsmen, teachers and others have sought instruction from her in special subjects. At different times she taught classes of children in drawing, and in the Woman's Art School one in porcelain painting. Since 1886 she has been instructor of the free classes in clay-modeling, applied design and normal training in form-study and drawing for the Young Woman's Christian Association of New York. The courses of study in those classes and all accessories have been planned by her and most effectively carried out. During the past seventeen years Miss Carter has resided with her family in the upper suburban part of New York City. She is a stanch member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and strongly interested in the leading questions and reforms of the day.
(American Women Fifteen Hundred Biographies Vol. 1, by Frances Elizabeth Willard & Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Publ. 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow)

Royal Paran Tuller
Judge Royal Paran Tuller, of Vineland, who by his own honorable exertions and moral attributes has carved out for himself friends, affluence and position, and who wields a powerful influence over the affairs of his adopted city, traces his ancestry to hardy pioneers who left New England and New York to seek homes in the then wilderness of the Ohio Valley.
Emory Rounds Tuller, father of Judge Tuller, was born at Genesee, New York, October 1, 1824. During his early manhood he removed to Buffalo, New York, from there to Cleveland, Ohio, later to Fairfield, same State, then to Newark, same State, and in 1866 settled in Vineland, New Jersey, where he practiced the profession of medicine, being one of the first homoeopathic physicians in the United States. He married Jane, daughter of Dr. Lemuel Powers, of Plymouth, Ohio. Dr. Tuller died in 1891.
Royal Paran Tuller was born in Newark, Ohio, February 12, 1859. He accompanied his parents upon their removal to Vineland, New Jersey, and his education was acquired in the public schools and under private tuition. He took up the study of law in the office of Edwin M. Turner, of Vineland, and completed his studies with Thomas W. Walker, of Vineland, from whom he received his certificate of proficiency. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in June, 1881, and as a counsellor in February, 1892, and since then has been engaged in a general practice, which has steadily increased in volume and importance, and he has also won a reputation of being thoroughly reliable. For some time he served as tax collector for both the township and borough of Vineland, and he has also represented the borough as solicitor. On February 26, 1907, he was appointed County Judge by Governor Stokes to fill the unexpired term of Judge Trenchard, who was at that time appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and he was reappointed to the same office by Governor Fort in 1909 for a full term, this fact fully demonstrating his ability and efficiency. He serves as vice-president and director of the Vineland Trust Company. Judge Tuller is a member of the New Jersey Bar Association, the Cumberland County Bar Association, is past worshipful master of Vineland Lodge, No. 69, Free and Accepted Masons, Eureka Chapter, No. 18, Royal Arch Masons, a Knight Templar, and a member of the Order of Junior Mechanics. He holds membership in the New Jerusalem Church, and is a Republican in politics. His life is an active and useful one, in which fidelity to duty, honorable dealing and indefatigable energy have won him gratifying success. Judge Tuller married, November 21, 1903, Anna L., daughter of John Wesley Smith, of Vineland, New Jersey. [The Courts and Lawyers of New Jersey, 1661-1912, Volume 3, By Edward Quinton Keasbey - transcribed by K.T.]