. 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. st and a inember of theNew Jersey Woman Suffrage As-sociation and of the FederatedClubs, and is an honorary mem-ber of the College Womens Clubof Jersey City. Miss Philbrook has practisedbefore all the courts of New Jersey and in some of the Federal Courts. Ina special investigation of the white slave traffic, she was engaged by theUnited States Government as a special mvestigator, and several importantprosecutions by
. 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. st and a inember of theNew Jersey Woman Suffrage As-sociation and of the FederatedClubs, and is an honorary mem-ber of the College Womens Clubof Jersey City. Miss Philbrook has practisedbefore all the courts of New Jersey and in some of the Federal Courts. Ina special investigation of the white slave traffic, she was engaged by theUnited States Government as a special mvestigator, and several importantprosecutions by the United States Attorneys in New York, Chicago andSeattle resulted from her investigations. Miss Philbrook comes of old New England stock. Those of her linewere mostly professional people—lawyers, doctors and ministers. On hermothers side her ancestry is Holland-Dutch and claims descent from PeterMinuet. She was educated in the public schools and at the High School inJersey City and continued in the practice of her profession until ill healthcompelled her retirement a year ago. She has since devoted herself to thesimple life in the rural district in which she CARLTON B. PIERCE—Cranford, (214 Prospect Street).—Lawyer. Born at Trenton, Jvme 21, 1857; son of Henry B. and 400 Pitney Catherine N. (Brownell) Pierce; married at Cooperstowu, N. Y.,September 15, 1885, to Annie Prentiss Browning, of : One son and three daughters. The name of Carlton B. Pierce is most largely linked with the legis-lation for the elimination of railroad crossings at street grades through-out the state. There are more than 3000 of these crossings in New Jer-sey; and the railroads were reluctant to consent to general legislation fortheir abolishment because of the expense. It was said in the discussionsof the bill when it was pending that all the roads could not be carriedabove or below gromid at street intersections for less than $150,000,000and that the cost of the w
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