The Passaic valley, New Jersey, in three . rs iu Bloomfield (1850-55) ]\Ir. (/omlit was en- ua^icd with his father-in in the mannfar-iiiir cif shoes and inrdiidiicliug a generalgrocery store. In 1885he returned to Orange,where lie establishedhims(df in the businessof mnking paper hatboxes and Avoodencases. In 1872 he re-tired from active busi-ness and turned his at-tention to his real estateinterests. Wiiile a resident ofOrange Mr. Gondiiserved four years inI he Common Council(from 1804 to 1807 iu-idusive). On his removal to West Orange he was, iu isi;?iiiid 1874, elected a me
The Passaic valley, New Jersey, in three . rs iu Bloomfield (1850-55) ]\Ir. (/omlit was en- ua^icd with his father-in in the mannfar-iiiir cif shoes and inrdiidiicliug a generalgrocery store. In 1885he returned to Orange,where lie establishedhims(df in the businessof mnking paper hatboxes and Avoodencases. In 1872 he re-tired from active busi-ness and turned his at-tention to his real estateinterests. Wiiile a resident ofOrange Mr. Gondiiserved four years inI he Common Council(from 1804 to 1807 iu-idusive). On his removal to West Orange he was, iu isi;?iiiid 1874, elected a member of liie Town Committee and bytile committee was made the Town Treasurer, lie was oneol the organizers of the Half Dime Savings Unuk of Orangeand lias been one of its managers from its organization un-111 I he jiresent time. Ml-, and Mrs. Condit joined the Secojul Ilcsbylerian (orBrick) Church of Orange in early life, and are still iu llieniembership of that church. No one iu the Oranges is bet-ter known or more highly resiiected than Mr. .JAliEZ 1. CONim. WILLIAM PECK CONDIT is one of the oldest citizensof Oi-aiige, N. J., wh(M-e he was b(U-n March :{(), 1820. Ue isthe son of Samuel Coinlii and Iliebe Peck, a giandson ofSannnd Condit, Sr., and llaunali Harrison, a great-grand-son of Daniel Condit, and a lineal descendant of Samuel 274 THE PASSAIC VALLEY Condit, who emigrated to this country early in the seven-teenth century. The family is a prominent one in thePassaic Valley, where they have resided for more than two hundred and fifty Condit was edu-cated in the Orangeschools. After complet-ing his studies he wasan apprentice in theAvheelwright and car-riage business. Subse-quently he was for someyears a farmer, engag-ing largely in ^inally, after succeed-ing to his fathers largelanded estates, he nat-urally became inter-ested in the business ofa real estate dealer, andin this connection hehas been actively andextensively occiipied tothe presen
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