Upon the organization of the First National Bank of Asbury Park, in 1886, he was elected its president, thus becoming the first president of the first bank of Asbury Park. In 1889 he was elected president of the Asbury Park and Ocean Grove Bank, which position he now occupies. As its president Mr. Winsor has conducted this institution most successfully. At the present time (July, 1901) its capital is $50,000; surplus, $50,000, and undivided profits, $10,000. Its total resources reach over $1,000,000 in the summer. Its directorate is formed of the following gentlemen: T. Frank Appleby, N. E. Buchanan, C. C. Clayton, George W. Evans, J. T. Ferguson, Dr. J. A. W. Hetrick, John Hubbard, Lewis Rainear, George W. Treat, Amos Tilyon and Henry C. Winsor.

Mr. Winsor has been interested for many years in sea shore real estate and has developed a part of Ocean Park, now Bradley Beach. He was one of the organizers of the Coast Land Company, which developed Allenhurst, and he was at one time a director in the Atlantic Highlands Association, which developed Atlantic Highlands. He is now interested in Bradley Park.

Politically Mr. Winsor has ever been a zealous advocate of the principles of the Republican party and has labored earnestly for the success of his party. In 1879 he became the first collector of taxes for Asbury Park and Ocean Grove, a position to which he was elected at each successive election for eight years by large majorities—testimonials to his popularity and the confidence of his fellow citizens. He was also for five years a member of the city council.

Deeply interested in the advancement of religion, he has done much for the church. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he was formerly steward and of which he has been a trustee since 1878. He is a member of Blue Lodge, No. 142, F. & A. M., and of Council No. 23. Jr. O. U. A. M.

On December 31, 1876, Mr. Winsor married Miss Mary Bartram, daughter of James and Mary Bartram, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Winsor is a descendant of John Bartram. who was American botanist to George the Third of England. Mr. and Mrs. Winsor are parents of four children, Anna. Mabel, Bessie, Marie and H. Harrold.

Mr. Winsor is still in the very prime of life. What he has done indicates what he will do. Of him it is just and merited praise to state, that as a financier he is an acknowledged leader, and that he enjoys the confidence and esteem not only of his friends and associates, but of the entire community.

F. F. ANNESS.

The works of the Anness & Potter Fire Clay Company, of Woodbridge, New Jersey, are among the most extensive in the state in that line of manufacture, and their product is unrivalled in excellence, and enjoys wide popularity with first class contractors and builders.

This establishment is the outgrowth of a modest clay mining business established about 1860 by L. C. Potter. In 1900 the Anness & Potter Fire Clay Company was incorporated with the following named officers, who continue to conduct the business: L. C. Potter, president; F. F. Anness, vice-president and general manager; and L. E. Potter, secretary.

Mr. Anness was born January 12, 1860, a son of Charles Anness. The elder Anness took up his residence in Woodbridge, New Jersey, about 1862, and opened up a clay manufacturing business at Spa Springs, New Jersey, which he conducted with gratifying success until 1892, when the plant was sold to the Staten Island Clay Company. While carrying on the before mentioned business, he conducted its affairs solely in his personal name. Subsequent to the sale he was engaged in clay and brick manufacture under the firm name of Charles Anness & Sons, and later under the name of the Anness & Lyle Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of fire brick, sewer pipe and other clay products. In 1900 Mr. Anness retired from active business and is now living in pleasant ease at his home in Woodbridge.

F. F. Anness was reared in the same business with his father, and his personal guidance acquired a thorough practical knowledge of it in all its details. The two were associated in both the manufactories with which the elder Anness was afterward connected as mtmaging head. In the Anness & Lyle Manufacturing Company the younger Anness was the treasurer and general manager, and in that twofold capacity exhibited all the qualifications necessary to the successful conduct of the business. In 1900. subsequent to the retirement of his father, he aided in the formation of the Anness & Potter Fire Brick Company, and was placed in the vice presidency and general manager of the corporation, the positions which he at present occupies. It has been his fortune to be thus prominently identified. with one of the most important industries of the city where is his home, and which has contributed in no small degree to its prosperity and prestige. Outside the line of his business interests, he is ever solicitous for the welfare and advancement of the community, and is recognized as an active and capable leader in all movements conducing to these ends.

Mr. Anness is a member of the Woodbridge Athletic Association and of the Royal Arcanum. His political affiliations are with the Republican party.

CASSIMER W. BOYNTON.

There is one subject of more absorbing interest than all others to men of the present day, and that is, how to attain success; books are written upon it, men of prominence are constantly being interviewed, and their thoughts upon the subject given to the public that it may have something to feed upon. From the lives of prosperous men emanates an inspiration, telling in its effects upon others. No biographical record of those conspicuous in New Jersey history would be complete without the name of

Cassimer W. Boynton, the renewed manufacturer of Woodbridge, New Jersey.

Mr. Boynton is a sturdy son of the Pine Tree state, where he was born at Bangor, on February 14, 1836, the son of Gorham L. and Louise (Bassford) Boynton. His father, Gorham L. Boynton, was an owner of extensive tracts of timber land in the state of Maine. During his business connection with Asa Pingree they were, in fact, reputed to control more timber land than any company of single individuals in the state. A goodly share of this land has descended to his heirs. Naturally in the midst of so much building material, he turned his attention to contracting, and to meet his own requirements and as well to prepare material for others, he owned and operated many sawmills; for a number of years he acted as surveyor-general of the lumber interests of the state of Maine. It is claimed that Mr. Boynton's ancestry in the state of Maine antedates the founding of the city of Bangor itself.

As is customary with New Englanders, his education was a matter of great importance. After finishing at the public schools of Bangor he attended the Lawrence Scientific School at Cambridge, then the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, at the latter following a three years' course and receiving a thorough training as a civil engineer; so well, in fact, had he progressed in the mastery of the profession that during the last two years of his course at Troy he acted as assistant teacher of mechanical engineering. His graduation occurred in 1856. shortly after which he was appointed assistant engineer and placed in charge of the western end of Bergen tunnel. After this he was engaged as chief engineer of the San Francisco water works. Under this appointment he built two large reservoirs, installed the necessary pumps, one of which is one of the highest single lifts (three hundred and ten feet through a half mile of pipe) in the country. In connection with the water warks he has built. an aqueduct three thousand feet long, through solid rock, beneath the fort on Black Point. This was finished in the year 1862, and for two years after this he was engaged as mining engineer in Sonora and Mexico. From 1864 to 1866 he was again professionally engaged in San Francisco. In the early part of 1866 he returned to the Atlantic coast, and after spending some months in examining mill sites finally located at Woodbridge. There he erected commodious works for the manufacture of brick drain-pipe and tile. During the thirty-six years that they have been in operation they have made many additions. He employs a large number of men, and the plant has an output during the height of the busy season of about five hundred dollars worth of finished pipe, etc., per day. The location is peculiarly fitting, the property having a frontage upon Woodbridge creek and another upon Staten Island Sound, the latter permitting 'the erection of wharves at which vessels of the largest draught can safely lie even at the neap tides. The market for the product of the works is mainly found in the Eastern.states. but a considerable business is also done in supplying other portions of the country. In New York there is a very general demand for the Woodbridge hollow bricks (used for rcofing fire