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Amos F. Dixon (b. 1877) —
of Stillwater Township, Sussex
County, N.J.
Born near Victoria, Knox
County, Ill., December
5, 1877.
Engineer
and executive in the Bell System, 1902-40; granted more than
60 patents for inventions;
dairy farmer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly from Sussex County, 1945-49; delegate
to New Jersey state constitutional convention from Sussex County,
1947.
Member, Rotary; Freemasons;
Grange.
Burial
location unknown.
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Edward Dickinson Duffield (1871-1938) —
also known as Edward D. Duffield —
of South Orange, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J., March 3,
1871.
Son of John Thomas Duffield and Sarah Elizabeth (Green) Duffield.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of New
Jersey state house of assembly, 1904-05; village
president of South Orange, New Jersey, 1917; delegate to
Republican National Convention from New Jersey, 1920,
1936;
president, Prudential Insurance
Company, 1922-38; acting
president, Princeton University, 1932-33; director, American
Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Suffered a stroke,
and died the next day, in South Orange, Essex
County, N.J., September
17, 1938 (age 67 years, 198
days).
Interment at Princeton
Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
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Relatives: Son
of John Thomas Duffield and Sarah Elizabeth (Green) Duffield;
married, April 21,
1897, to Josephine Reade Curtis; married 1916 to Barbara
Freeman. |
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Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach (1922-2012) —
also known as Nicholas de B. Katzenbach —
of Washington,
D.C.; Princeton, Mercer
County, N.J.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
17, 1922.
Son of Edward
Lawrence Katzenbach and Marie
Hilson Katzenbach.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; Rhodes
scholar; lawyer; law
professor; U.S.
Attorney General, 1965-66; general counsel for IBM,
1969-86; director, MCI Communications, 2002-04; Presidential
Elector for New Jersey, 1996.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society.
Died in Skillman, Somerset
County, N.J., May 8,
2012 (age 90 years, 112
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Howard L. Kern (c.1886-1947) —
of West Orange, Essex
County, N.J.
Born in Charles City, Floyd
County, Iowa, about 1886.
Democrat. Lawyer; Puerto
Rico attorney general, 1915-19; alternate delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Puerto Rico, 1920;
assistant general attorney for International Telephone and
Telegraph, 1928-41; general counsel, Central Railroad
of New Jersey, 1941-47.
Died in West Orange, Essex
County, N.J., May 12,
1947 (age about 61
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Theodore Newton Vail (1845-1920) —
also known as Theodore N. Vail —
of Lyndonville, Lyndon, Caledonia
County, Vt.
Born in Minerva, Stark
County, Ohio, July 16,
1845.
Son of Davis Vail and Phebe (Quinby) Vail.
Republican. General superintendent, U.S. Railway Mail Service,
1876-79; president, American Telephone and Telegraph
Co., 1885-89 and 1907-19; founder of Western Electric and of Bell
Labs; built an electric
railway system in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1890-1904; farmer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Vermont, 1916.
Member, Union
League.
Died, from kidney and
cardiac
complications, in Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., April 16,
1920 (age 74 years, 275
days).
Interment at Vail
Memorial Cemetery, Parsippany, N.J.
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