. Scannell's New Jersey first citizens : biographies and portraits of the notable living men and women of New Jersey with informing glimpses into the state's history and affairs. ented his district at the convention in St. Louiswhich renommated Woodrow Wilson for the Presidency. Mr. Tuttle was elected to the House of Representatives from the Fifth(Congressional District in 1910. re-elected in 1912. and. although leading histicket by large margins, was the imsuccessful candidate of his party in the campaigns of 1914 and 1915 he was appointed byPresident Wilson as the soleCommissioner of
. Scannell's New Jersey first citizens : biographies and portraits of the notable living men and women of New Jersey with informing glimpses into the state's history and affairs. ented his district at the convention in St. Louiswhich renommated Woodrow Wilson for the Presidency. Mr. Tuttle was elected to the House of Representatives from the Fifth(Congressional District in 1910. re-elected in 1912. and. although leading histicket by large margins, was the imsuccessful candidate of his party in the campaigns of 1914 and 1915 he was appointed byPresident Wilson as the soleCommissioner of the UnitedStates to the National Expo-sition of Panama. Congressman Tuttle was ed-ucated at the Elmira FreeAcademy and Cornell Univers-ity. He is engaged in the lum-ber business at Westfield, andhis standing among businessmen is evidenced by the factthat he is now serving histhird term as President of theNew Jersey Lumbermens As-sociation. He has always found timeto devote to public affairs, andfor many terms served asChairman of the Union CountyDemocratic Committee. Hewas for several years Presi-dent of the Westfield Board of Trade and is a Director of the Mutual Build-. vau Dyke 507 ing and Loan Association and of the Peoples Bank and Trust Company ofWestfield. He is a member of tlie Cosmos Club of Washington. BENJAMIN A. VAIL—Rahway.—Lawyer. Born in Woodbridge,on August 15, 1844; son of Benjamin Franklin and Martha C.(Parker) Vail. Benjamin A. Vail, ex-State Senator and ex-Judge is of Quaker origin,his grandfather, Benjamin Vail, an early settler upon a farm between Rah-way and Plainfield having been of the Society of Friends. The family hadcome from England to Massachusetts in 1637, and Edward Fitz Randolph,of Colonial memory, was one of his direct ancestors. Senator Vail began his early schooling in the public schools of AVood-bridge and graduated from Haverford College in 1865. He studied law inthe offices of Parker & Keasby, was admitted to the Bar in 1868 and be-ca
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