. Essex county, , illustrated . OFFICERS FIRST PRECINt 1 —11 KA I m iL AKTERS. he proved of great service. Mr. Perry served but one term asMayor. The sixteenth Mayor of Newark was Henry J. Yates, a mem-ber of the hatting firm of Yates & Wharton, and a gentlemanwlio was deeply interested in the welfare of the manufacturinginterests and of tlie people engaged in hatting and, indeed, inall the lines of her manufacturing industries. He served twofull terms as Mayor. William H. F. Fiedler was made Mayor in 1879 and servedone term, the seventeenth in the line of succession. He hadrepresented Ess
. Essex county, , illustrated . OFFICERS FIRST PRECINt 1 —11 KA I m iL AKTERS. he proved of great service. Mr. Perry served but one term asMayor. The sixteenth Mayor of Newark was Henry J. Yates, a mem-ber of the hatting firm of Yates & Wharton, and a gentlemanwlio was deeply interested in the welfare of the manufacturinginterests and of tlie people engaged in hatting and, indeed, inall the lines of her manufacturing industries. He served twofull terms as Mayor. William H. F. Fiedler was made Mayor in 1879 and servedone term, the seventeenth in the line of succession. He hadrepresented Essex County in the Congress of the United Statesand his district in the Legislature of New Jersey. Mayor Fied-ler was president of the United States Credit System Company,and was Postmaster of Newark for the term of four years. is now engaged in the merchant tailoring Fiedler, as his friends (and he has hosts of them) seem. hi;ni;v w . , ciiitK of the Thirteenth Ward PublicSchool-house, and refused to moveon until the magnet which so influ-enced it came forth, the nineteenthin the line of succession of Mayors,in the person of Joseph E. Haynes,the principal, and for ten long yearstills representative schoolmastercontinued to perform the duties ofMavor. When this faithful schoolrepresentative and popular officialhad ceased to be Mayor, the Presi-dent of the United States madehim Postmaster. While Newark had long held thelead as a jewelry manufacturingcentre, not a single representativeof this industry had found his wayto the Mayors chair, until the timewhen the twentieth in the line ofsuccession was found in the personof Julius Lebkeucher, of the jewelryfirm of Krementz & Co,, and he privileged to call him, is of German tlescent, and in his politicalcareer none were truer to his standard than they of the Father-land, and amongof these he found his heaviest rocks of denfense,and Judge Gottfried
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