. 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. r. Sutphen has notbeen particularly active in political alfairs, he is a republican. FREDERICK CHARLES SFTRO—Basking Ridge.—Manufac-turer. Born at St. Louis, Mo., September 7, 1877; son of Ludwigand Lilly (Fraatz) Sutro, of New York City; married on Novem-ber 30, 1912, to ElizabethTallman Winne, daughter ofOgden F. and Jane D. Win-ne, of Kingston, N. Y. Children : Ogden Winne,born November 26, 1913;Louis Le Fevre, bor
. 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. r. Sutphen has notbeen particularly active in political alfairs, he is a republican. FREDERICK CHARLES SFTRO—Basking Ridge.—Manufac-turer. Born at St. Louis, Mo., September 7, 1877; son of Ludwigand Lilly (Fraatz) Sutro, of New York City; married on Novem-ber 30, 1912, to ElizabethTallman Winne, daughter ofOgden F. and Jane D. Win-ne, of Kingston, N. Y. Children : Ogden Winne,born November 26, 1913;Louis Le Fevre, born Decem-ber 3, 1915. Frederick Charles Sutro grad-uated in 1895, from ColumbiaGrammar School, New York, andin 1899 from Harvard Collegewith degree of A. B. Becominga resident of New Jersey in1901, he was elected Presidentof the West New York CivicSociety which, between May,1908, and November. 1909, re-formed and re-organized thetown, saving it from virtuall»ankruptcy. The mysterious disappearance of .$105,000 of bonds of the school district of West New York emphasized suspicion among the large tax payers that the town government was being at least recklessly adminis-. 494 Swayze tered; and the Civic Society was the outcome. An injunction secured byLawyer Herbert Boggs, restraining the town officials from diverting the as-sessment funds to the current expense account, made it difficult for thetown officials to raise money at the banks; and the Civic Society had aninvestigation made by the courts under authority of the Summary Investi-gation law. The taking of the testimony, extended over eight months andcosting almost $10,000, resulted in the discovery of defalcations to theamount of about $25,000; and the Civic Society went into politics to effecta complete re-organization of the town government and succeeded in givingthe town a new and reliable set of rulers. The $105,000 school bonds weretraced to a Cleveland broker who was soon afterward sentenced to a termin the Ohio S
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