Biographies of Union County, New Jersey

Biographies of Union County, New Jersey

ACKERMAN, ERNEST ROBINSON
(1863 - 1931)
Contributed by Anna Newell
ACKERMAN, Ernest Robinson, a Representative from New Jersey; born in New York City, N.Y., June 17, 1863; moved with his parents to Plainfield, N.J., very shortly thereafter; educated at public and private schools and was graduated from the Plainfield High School in 1880; engaged in cement manufacturing; member of the common council of Plainfield, N.J., in 1891 and 1892; member of the State senate 1905-1911, serving as president in 1911; delegate to the Republican National Conventions at Chicago in 1908 and in 1916; member of the board of trustees of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J., 1916-1920; Federal food administrator for Union County during the First World War; member of the State board of education 1918-1920; member of the New Jersey Geological Survey and associate of the American Society of Civil Engineers; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, until his death in Plainfield, N.J., October 18, 1931; interment in the family plot, Hillside Cemetery.
United States. 72d Congress, 1st session, 1931-1932. House. Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives of the United States, Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Ernest R. Ackerman, late a Representative from New Jersey . Washington: Government Printing Office, 1932. Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present

BEAUMONT, John W., lawyer; born , Elizabeth, N. J., (Union Co) July 20, 1858; son of Wallace and Margaret (Belshaw) Beaumont; educated in Elizabeth public schools up to 1874, and public schools of Hart, Mich., to 1877; Michigan Agricultural College, Lansing, Mich., 1878-82, graduating, B. S., 1882; studied law in office of Wood & Joslin, Saginaw, Mich., 1883-86; admitted to the bar at Saginaw, 1886; married at Saginaw, June 21, 1899, Alice Lord Burrows. Has engaged in general practice of law in Detroit since 1886. Professor Detroit College of Law since 1895; subjects: negotiable paper and suretyship, 1895-97; equity jurisprudence, 1898-1905; legal ethics since 1906. Served as seaman aboard U.S.S. Yosemite, Spanish-American War, April-Aug., 1898; judge advocate Michigan National Guard with rank of major, 1904, 1905 and 1906. Member American Bar Association, Michigan State Bar Association, Detroit Bar Association, American Historical Society. Republican as to politics. Attendant at Presbyterian church. Member Gilbert Wilkes Command Spanish-American War Veterans. Clubs: University, Detroit, Detroit Boat, Prismatic, Acanthus, Green Bag, Detroit Golf. Recreations: Horseback riding and golf. Address: Detroit, Mich.
[Source: The Book of Detroiters. Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, Copyright, 1908 - Contributed by Christine Walters]

Esther (King Suydam) Graham
STONE, SARDINE GRAHAM, Confederate naval officer, was born February 4, 1841, at Bladen Springs; son of Captain Sardine Graham and Mary Ann (Richardson) Stone, the former a native of the territory of Mississippi, and a river steamboat captain; brother of Frank S. Stone (q. v.); grandson of Columbus C. and Caryntha (Graham) Stone, the former a native of Ohio, the latter of Darlington District, S. C., and of William Richardson, a native of Kentucky. The Stone family is descended from Gregory Stone, who came from England to America in 1634, settling in Massachusetts …………………… Married: December 28, 1865, to Eliza J., daughter of Judge Gustavus Horton (q. v.).
Children:
1. Sardine Graham, physician of Marengo County;
2. Raymond, cadet, Annapolis, 1890-94; naval cadet, 1894-96; naval officer; m. Esther King Suydam, of Elizabeth, N. J.;
3. George Edwin, lawyer; A. B., A. M., 1895, LL. B., 1896. University of Alabama; assistant chemical laboratory, University of Alabama, 1894-95; treasurer, Mobile County, 1900-; m. Claudia lone Kirkpatrick, of Selma. Residence: Mobile.
[History of Alabama and dictionary of Alabama biography, Volume 4 By Thomas McAdory Owen, Marie Bankhead Owen, 1921 - Transcribed by AFOFG]
HOLMES, Mrs. Georgiana Klingle, poet, born in Philadelphia, Pa. Through her mother, Mary Hunt Morris, who became the wife of George Franklin Klingle, M.D., she is a member of the historic Morris family, of Morrisania, and is the wife of Benjamin Proctor Holmes, of New York City. She was educated in Philadelphia. Her father's ancestry is found in Upper Saxony. Hans George Klingle, her great-grandfather, came to this country in the ship "Restoration" with his son, 9th October, 1747, and settled in Pennsylvania. At the breaking out of the Revolutionary War her grandfather, George, resided in Chestnut Hill. Dr. Klingle was a man of literary and scientific reputation. From early childhood Georgiana contributed to periodicals of the different cities. Her taste ran in a groove not often entered by young authors, children's stories with a moral to leave an impression. She is an artist of merit, but writing is the Eassion of her life. She has written no long list of books, but the heartfelt poetry of "George Klingle" has touched many hearts. Her collection of poems entitled "Make Thy Way Mine" (New York, 1876) was made after repeated letters from interested strangers in different parts of the country. That collection was followed by "In the Name of the King"(New York, 1888), and another volume is ready for publication. Being interested in philanthropic work, she founded Arthur's Home For Destitute Boys, in Summit, N. J., in memory of her son, who died at the age of nine years, his unselfish savings being the germ of the institution.
(Source: American Women, by Frances Elizabeth Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Vol 1, 1897. Transcribed by Marla Snow)