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.~Ralph W 77, 778Roger il6ams, 778

West, Edith Frances (Richardson), 31Edward H., 471Edward 0., Judge, ~71 ' -Evan R., 31Helen Lee, 31Janet F., 31Mary. Louise, 471Melvin J., 30

Richard F., 31 ' .Roscoe Lambert, 30, 31Sara C., 30 '

Westcott, Anna May (Wiltshire);79j

Howard Hamilton, :792,793Joseph Howard, 793Olive, 793William, Rev., 792

Westervelt, Ada, 948Davis Zabriskie, 948

Westhall, Beatrice E., t211Edmund J., 12n

Westney, Alfred, Dr., 2nWeston, Bertha, 626

Cornelia (Mrs. Philip H. Cum-mings), n66

E(iJth Ross (Parker), n66Edward, n66, 1167Edward F., 1166Frances Ross, n66W. Garfield, 1086 .Willis Eugene, 626

Weston, GeorKe, Limited, toSSWeston Electrical Instrument Corpo­

-ration, Jl66 •Wettlin. Daniel F., 66!>3

Elizabeth, 660 'Weyers, Bruno, 634

Susan, 634Whalen, James, 388

Julia, J88Whatham, Richard, togSWheat, Howard I., 1004

Jane Alva (YolUlg), 1004Josephine, tOO4 'Silas Carmi, t004

Wheatlc!y, Emma, 1246Williall), t246 •.

Wheaton, Artie, 988Joseph, g88

Wheeler, Alida, t077Barbara M., 650Edwatd. 1077EJecta Viola, 70t

• Eleanor. 650Elizabeth (Watrous), 650Frank, 695G. Charles. 649, 650GeorKe, 650Georlte C., Jr., 650H. Roy, 701.10an Audrey, 701John C., 701Lois June, 701Marie, 69sRuth (Corwin), 701

Wheelock, Louise, 1058Richard. 1058

Whelan, Edward I.., 1231

Edward L. Jr., 1232Genevieve (Engel), 12J2 •

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Whitlock Cordage Company, 1074 ­

Whitman, Annie Louise, 235Bertram Edward, 235, 236Bertram Hillier, 236Frederic Shott, 235Grace May (Robinson), 236

. Samuel Edward, 23SWhitson, David Christie, ISI

Edith Amelia, 151Edna May (Scott), tSIJohn Edmund, ISJWilliam Stuart, J51William W., 151

Whyms, Frank D., 589Mary, 589 .

Wick, Amos G., 1017Carol Ann, JOl7Carolyn (Hoagland), 1017·John Borden, .1017John Borden, Jr., 1017Mabel, 1017

Wickoff, Ella, 37Frank F., 37

Wkoff, Arthur, logCatharine L., loSCatharine Lavinia, noDorothy (Mrs. W. M. Bennett),

noDouglas Britton, noEvelyn Elizabeth, JlOJohn (I), "loSJohn (2), logJohn Edward, noJohn I .. log .John Van Buren, loS, tog, no -,Lavinia Applegate, noLavinia Ely (Applegate), JlOMari~Frances (Mrs. Edward

Whitall Cooper), noWidin, EdJr-lr, 440, 44t

Edll3r G., 44JI.illian E. (Wirbel), 44J-Marie, 440Peter, 440Peter R., 44t

Wid in Metal Goods Company, 440Wieben. John J. D., Captain, 776

Martha, 776Wiese. Adolph C, 472

Adolph C.• Jr .. 472Fredericke, 472 .

Wieser. Anna. 698Elizabeth Catherine, 698, L­

Eva (Maver), 698Florence Mafl~aret, 6gBLucille Ruth, 698Thomas, 69BTliomas J.• 6Q8

Wilber, Charles Parker, 594Eveiyn Beer (Beasley), 595Evelyn Clark Beasley, 595Francis AultUstus, 5Q4Frederick Bartling Beasley, 595Laura Birl1:e,~Q4

Wilde. Harriet Amelia (Cadmus),JT43

Samuel, Jr .. JT41Wil('v. AllI1es. J218

Albert J., 867Ann. J:1I8Anna (Minogue), 867Anna R. (Hansen),' t2J8

Harold Vincent, 1232Michael, 1231Nellie, 1231

Whitby, Flora E. (Boeckel), 347Harry (1),347Harry (2),347Margaret May, 347Richard Henry, 346, 347

Whitcomb, Charles C., 884Charlotte C, 884

White, A. A., 485

Albert F;1 407, 40SAnna, 570 'Arthur G., 48S .Bishop, Captain, 1244Caroline Earle, 603

Catherine, 398Conrad, 618Daniel Webster, 22De Gray, 537, 538Emma (Rofer), 485Esther Bell, 537, 603Frederic~ 679 t1Helen (Coughlin), 398Ida, 346Ida M., 485James, 346, 576, 603Jean Lewis, 538 •Johanna, 398John, 603John J. (I), 397John J. (2),397,398John J., Jr., 39BJune T., 485 ..Margu'erite A. (Lynch), 485Martha Purner, 603 •Martha Wood (Purner), 603Mary (Looney), 40SMary J., 22Mary Virginia, 407Mary Virginia (Mrs. J. Wilbur

Lutz) , 408.May, 618 /Rachel (Cornell), 538Shiras, 1244Walter C, 537, 603Walter C., Jr., 603 ..Walter C, III, Lieutenant, 603William, 813' ••William H., 407

Whitehouse, Dorothy (Kraft), 880Edith Ann, 880Edward A., 880Michael Kraft, 880Robert Firth, 880 .'

Whiteman, Annie, logl" John E., logl

.--'Whitlock, Allen M., Major, 1074i. Annie V., 1074Beavan (Meyer), 432Gertrude J., 4j2Hamilton J., 432Hamilton J., Jr., 432James P., Lieutenant, 1074Harold A., 432Louis I., 1074 .Louis I., Jr., 1074

. Marilyn (Mrs. Dana C. Ackerly),1074

Mary H. (Myers), J074Stuart Hamilton, 432 'Willard P., t074

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G!i:ORGE WILLIAM COMEAU, M. D.-Active been associated with the concern for fourteen year!. Inas a member of the medical profession in Morris County, Elizabeth, Mr. Whitlock has. been active in communityNew Jersey, George Wittiam Comeau, M. D.• is not only affairs, serving on education boards and in religious in­promine~t as a physician and surgeon in his community stitutions. Well known throughout this district, he hasof M<?rfls Plains, but he is also generous with his time been a member of social and civic organizations here.and hIS talents in the interest of his city and his county, His residence is maintained in Elizabeth.serving as an official of several institutions as well as Mr. Whitlock was born' at Elizabeth on March 24presen.tly bein~ examining physician of the ¥orristown #-JB!Lt, son of Wittard P. and. Annie V. (Allen) Whitlock:Selective Service Board. \' HIS mother, who was a native of Paterson, died in 1938 J

George William Q!meau was born at Tomahawk, Wis-~ His father, a native of Brooklyn, New York, was presi~consin, on September IS, J8g6, the son of William J. and dent of the Whitlock Cordage Company until his death inAngelique ,(Boudreau), Comeau, both .of whom have 19240,,1,·passed away .. " Growing up at Elizabeth, Louis I. received his educa.

After attending the public schools at Campbellton, New tion there, graduating from the Pingry School in 1903.Brunswick, Canada, and gtaduating from the Sacred He then matriculated at Princeton University, where heHeart High School, Caraquet, New Brunswick, George graduated with honors in 1907, with the degree of CivilWilliam Comeau entered Sacred Heart College at Cara- Engineer. 'quet, New Brunswick, and graduated from that school Since that time he has been associated with the Whit-'as a member of the class of 191,3,with his degree of lock Cordage Company. He became assistant treasurerBachelor of Science. His further education was inter- in 1914, and in 1921 advanced to the position of treasurer, ,rupted by the outbreak of the First World War for he which he continues to occupy at the present time.

enlisted in the Canadian. Army, and served eighteen The rope business was originally established in 1825,months. After hostilities ceased, he returned to Canada as the Elizabethport Cordage Company, by Sidney B.and, having selected the medical profession for his career, Whitlock and associates. This company continued to

.entered' the Medical School of Montreal University, operate there until ISgI, when it was destroyed by fire;graduating as a member of the class of 1925, with his a successor corporation was organized in the same yearprof~sional degree of Doctor of Medicine. After a pe- by Willard P. Whitlock (fathp.r of Louis I.), b'lt had itsriod as an interne at the Hotel Dieu at Montreal, Canada, place of operation in Brooklyn, where it continued untiland at the Notre Dame Hospital, also. in Montreal, Dr. 1905•.Comeau became associated with the Greystone Park State In that year a new, plant began operating at the footHospital in New Jersey in 1925. He resigned in 1929 to of Lafayette Street, in Jersey City, which is the presentestablish himself in the general practice of his profession factoryJocation of the Whitlock Cordage Company. Thisat Morris Plains, New Jersey, opening offices which he firm manufactures fibre rope and twine. Its main officehas maintained through the present time. is at No. 46 South Street in New York City. The com-

Supporting his profession by membership in the Morris pany employs approximately three hundred workers inCounty Medical Association, the New Jersey State Medi- its operations. '.

cal Association and the American Medical Association, Present officers of the Whitlock Cordage Comp.!l.nyDr. Comeau is 8 member of the staff of All Souls Hos- are: president, Harold A. Whitlock: vice-president, WiI­pital at Morristown, New Jersey, being an assistant in lard P. Whitlock, Jr.; treasurer, Louis L Whitlock: sec­surgery and also on the obstetric staff. His interest in retary, Herbert V. Whitlock: and assistant treasurer and

psychiatry is reflected by his participation in the work of superintendent, Hamilton J. Whitlock. 'the Neuro-Psychiatric Association of New Jersey. ,He is Mr. Whitlock is 8 Republican in politics. In the schoolalso physician for the Morris County Jail, the Morris in which ,he received his preparatory education, theCounty Courthouse and the Morris County Welfare Pingry School, he served as 8 trustee for fifteen 'years,

" Home. A Republican in his political affiliations, he is a and was for a similar length of time sa trustee of themember of the Morris Plains Board of Health, police Westminster Presbyterian Church. His social affiliationssurgeOn and school examiner, while he concentrates his include the Princeton Ctub of New York: the Downtown

interest in community affairs through his membershiy in Athletic Ctub of New York City: the Elizabeth Townthe' Morristown Rotary Club, He belongs to the Cath- and Country Cub: and the Baltusrol Golf Ctub..olic Church the Morristown Council, Knights of Colum-,""- On June 14, 1909. Louis I. Whitlock was married tobus and Morristown Lodge, No. 815, Benevolent and Mary H. Myers, of Elizabeth, daughter of James Law­pn:.ecuve Order of Elks. " His hobbies are sailing, fish- rence and Amelia O. (Allen) Myen. They are the par­ing bowling, and golf. He is 8 member of American ents of four children: I. Allen },f •• n major in the UnitedLe8ion Post No. 59. ,States Army Air Corps, who is married and is the father, George William Comeau married, on December 10, of a ~n, John .A. 2. ~is I., Jr .• married. 3. James1923 Mabel Louise Salmon, of Campbellton, New Bruns- p .• a lieutenant 111 the Umted States Naval Reserve, who

wick. Dr. and Mrs. Comeau have becOme the parents of is married -and has a son, James P., Jr. 40 Marilyn, whoa daughter Patricia Louise, born March 17, 1925. is the wife of Lieutenant Dana C. Ackerly· (army of the, , United States), of New York City, and has a son, Dana

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LOUIS I. WHITLOCK-Associated with the •Whitlock Cordag~ Compan-J since hb grndl!8tion from . ,

, college, Louis I. Whitlock has been engaged in the rope LAW AND FROELICH-In ~earny, New )er-manufacturing business with which his family has been sey, the law firm of Law and Froelich has won a de­connected continuously' 'since 1825. At that time his servedly high rating during the past decade.. The part-

"'great-great-uncle, Sidney B. Whitloclc" was one of the 'nership is one of two men attending the same law schoolfOunders of 8 former .company, at ~port. In the. and whose career. from youth have been Parallel in IIW11

present company,. which has its factory, at the foot of . aspects•.Lafayette Street in Jersey City, Mr. Whitlock holda ~e The:.older partner by two years, Richard Froelich, wasJIOsition of treasurer, to' which he advanced after havmg born 111 Newark, New Jersey, on July 24, 1906, son of

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mQ1herJborn at Wharton.Richard Froelich was ehis birthplace,' being graSchool in 1927, and aftethe New Jersey Law Seldegree of Bachelor of :During. the following ye;and joined a classmate toFroelich, which has sinceiri Kearny, New Jersey,. \'I;1ich is a member of the ,ety, and the Optimist Ct,and a member of the Fir!

On June 6, 1942, Richalson, of Kearny, New Jer:

Frederick Torrance LaJersey,. August 19, Igo8,T. '(Torrance) Law, botboth living. His fathermother in Kearny. He tHigh School in 1927, 81

School three years laterf ;to the New Jersey bar 111

profession as a member oflich. He is a member ofciation and of the West ]

Interested in politics ailvote, a staunch Republicwith election to the to\\mayor of the municipal it)of the Second Judicial Diar.d a prominent figure ithe Kiwanis Club, the Fe

, religious affiliations areChurch. In golf he finds

On June II, 1932, FrEvelyn Masom, of Kearone son, F~ederick M., I

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WALTER LESTEIIGlenney; born in Brookl;practice law. He was a~111 1904 and became a coin New Jersey' in 1911.law firm of Pettigrew,which two years later ISince 1939 he has beenMathews and Hampton.

One of the personal in

cestral and patriotic sodesting genealogical resealies. Among his forebe;Allerton and Degory Prinote. and Governor RobeNewark, New Jersey.scended from Sir Davidshire, Scotland, whose dewas born in Lynn. MaSSIhis parents arrived in thHe settled at Westford,1751, Thankful Adams, 1

The son of Walter Lhis wife, nelEva Lydiawas born on May 10, 1atfather"8 residet'lt"of Brengaged in the hardware