Bennett, a miller of Tinton Falls; our subject; and Ophelia, wife of Frank Debbins, a manufacturer doing business at Red Bank, New Jersey.

Leonard D. Roberts, our subject, is extensively engaged in farming at Raritan, Keyport postoffice, has an exceptionally fine farm, upon which he raises garden truck of every description, and also is a successful grower of fruit. About fifteen acres of land are devoted to fruit trees bearing apples, pears and peaches, while a considerable portion is set aside for the cultivation of berries. Ten acres are used for asparagus growing. One of his specialties is the growing of plants for other farmers. He has enclosed about one-half an acre in glass and an other half is fitted up with one large hot house; during the winter season great beds of lettuce are grown, which is sent to the New York market. Cucumbers also are given considerable thought and attention, for which he finds a ready sale. From all sources he realized on his sales for the season of 1900 the sum of six thousand dollars, which, when taking the amount of land cultivated into consideration, is an excellent showing.

Mr. Roberts was married on March 1, 1874, to Miss Rebecca Brown, who was born in the year 1853, and died December 31, 1884. Two children were the result of their union: George P., born March 22, 1875. interested in farming at home; Dora, born July 4, 1880, who was educated and graduated from the high school at Keyport, and also from the normal school at Trenton, and is now employed as a teacher.

Mr. Roberts is a well known Democrat, has held several political positions, and in the fall of 19CO accepted the candidacy of the state legislature, and although he met with defeat, this is not significant of his unpopularity, for in reality he is held in high esteem by both leading parties, and is ever looked upon as one of the most enterprising and eminently successful men in his vicinity.

Our subject's grandfather, Matthew Roberts, married Miss La Queer, of a noted family of early settlers in this section. Her father was a prominent soldier in the war of the Revolution. Thus Mr. Roberts can trace his ancestry back to a long line of sturdy and daring men, ready to range themselves on the side of right and justice, and to maintain their position at whatever cost.

JOHN CARR.

Of the younger men of Raritan township, Monmouth county, New Jersey, who have been conspicuously successful in their private business enterprises, and especially valuable to the community through efficient public service, there is none who is more widely and favorably known than the gentleman whose name is the caption of this review. John Carr was born in the township where he still resides, December 24, 1861, and is a son of Adam and Eliza (Golden) Carr, the former a native of Ireland, the latter of Monmouth county, New Jersey. Mrs. Eliza (Golden) Carr is a daughter of the late Charles Golden, who came from England and

located in Holmdel township, where he was a prominent and successful farmer. Adam Carr was also a leading agriculturist of Raritan township, where he has been living in retirement from active business pursuits since 1892.

John Carr received his initial schooling at Keansburg and this was supplemented by two years' attendance at Holmes' Academy. He was thereafter associated, until 1883, with his father in the cultivation of the latter's farm, and in the year last named leased a farm in Holmdel township, which he cultivated successfully for two years. In 1885 he Purchased a tract of one hundred and four acres, upon which he erected a commodious dwelling house and other substantial structures, and where he still resides. The land in question is contiguous to the property of the National Fireproofing Company at Lorillard, in Raritan township. Mr. Carr's farming interests are in large measure attended to by employes, while his personal attention has been necessarily devoted to contract work of various kinds, in the building of bridges, road construction, etc., and the fulfillment of the duties of the offices which he has been called upon to fill. Since attaining his majority Mr. Carr has been most active in his identification with the interests of the Democratic party, in whose local councils he obtained early recognition for personal integrity and usefulness. He served with marked ability as chairman of the township executive committee for eight years and was a valuable member for some years of the county executive committee. He has served as delegate to every gubernatorial convention, save one, since the beginning of his active political connection. His first office was that of road overseer, 1887-8. and his next that of school trustee for a period of three years under the old law. In 1892 Mr. Carr was elected chosen freeholder for Raritan township, an office to which he was re-elected for three additional successive terms. In May, 1900, Mr. Carr was candidate for collector of Monmouth county before the board of freeholders, and then suffered his only defeat by the narrow margin of one vote. He is a member of Cesarea Lodge, No. 64, F. & A. M., and Delta Chapter, No. 14, R. A. M.; of the Royal Arcanum; and I. O. R. M.; and has held all of the chairs, is past chancellor and has been twice past deputy grand of the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Carr was married March 21, 1894, to Hattie R., daughter of Mrs. Eliza J. Mi:Connell, of Brooklyn, New York.

JOSEPH BALL WALKER.

The life of this useful and prominent citizen of Atlantic county. New Jersey, whose name heads this review, was such as affords lessons in integrity, perseverance, and enterprise. Mr. Walker was a self-made man in the best and truest sense of that much abused term.

Joseph Ball Walker was born at Monroe Forge, Atlantic county, New Jersey, May 15. 1828, and died at Trenton, New Jersey, while serving his second term as warden of the New Jersey state prison. Thus died at the

early age of forty years one who deserves from the hands of posterity the acknowledgement that as a man and a good citizen he was unsurpassed. He was a broad-minded man of deep sympathies, who had close to his heart. the welfare of all classes of his fellow citizens, and his removal from earth in the prime of life, and in the midst of a career of usefulness and promise was deeply regretted by a large circle of warm friends throughout the entire state without regard to political affiliations. Mr. Walker was a son of Lewis M. Walker, who married a daughter of Nathan Pennington, who settled in Atlantic county from Essex county at an early date.

Lewis M. Walker was a native of Pennsylvania and descended from a long line of ancestors. He settled at what is known as Monroe Forge and engaged in the manufacturing of iron, and was the owner of a large landed property of seven or nine thousand acres. He served as a member of the New Jersey legislature between 1840 and 1850.

Joseph Ball Walker was not only a successful business man but attained prominence in a political way and served his fellow citizens of Atlantic county ably in the rather exacting office of county clerk and for one term filled the office of warden of the New Jersey state prison from 1802 until 1865, and was reappointed in 1868.

Mr. Walker was married at Eatontown, Monmouth county, January 18, 1851, to Mary Drummond, a native of New Jersey, who survives him and is living at Freehold. Joseph Ball Walker and Mary (Drummond) Walker had three children. Their daughter Charlotte, born December 10, 1851, died August 20, 1880. Their son Lewis M., born June 16, 1855, died May 10, 1878. Their daughter Katie, born September 17, 1860, died May 5, 1865.

JOHN J. ELY.

John J. Ely is an honored member of the bar of Monmouth county, having won success in a profession where advancement cannot be gained through influence, inheritance or purchase. He began life with a definite purpose in view, worked faithfully, honestly and with a will for its accomplishment, and now enjoys a reputation that is by no means limited by the confines of the city in which he makes his home. A man of progressive ideas, fine attainments, high-minded, who has made the most of his opportunities in life, Mr. Ely has risen to a foremost place among the representatives of the legal fraternity on the Jersey coast.

He comes of a family of long and honorable connection with the history of America. There were three distinct settlements made by Elys in the United States in the seventeenth century, the first by Nathaniel Ely, who located in Massachusetts in 1635, near the present city of Springfield; the second by Richard Ely on the banks of the Connecticut river, near Lynn in 1660; and the third by Joshua Ely, at Trenton, New Jersey, in 1685. The last named was the father of John Ely, who was born in this country in 1685. and had a son, John Ely, born October 1, 1707. It was