(taken from the book of the same name)
The Hamilton Club owes its origin to a discussion which took place one evening during the summer of 1890 at the residence of Garret A. HOBART, Vice President of the United States. The absence of club facilities in Paterson had been adversely commented upon and all present agreed that there was no reason why a properly equipped club with desirable membership could not be organized. The formal organization of the Club, under the laws of the state enacted for such purpose took place on September 20, 1890, the charter members being John CAMPBELL, Joseph W. CONGDON, Jacob WEIDMANN, John H. REYNOLDS, James JACKSON, Peter RYLE, William BERDAN, Henry l. BUTLER, Robert I. HOPPER, John H. HOPPER, Garret A. HOBART, Henry C. KNOX, John W. GRIGGS, William RYLE, Charles N. STERRETT, and Albert A. WILCOX.
The question of a name for the new organization was quickly disposed of. Certainly no name more appropriate could have been selected that that of the founder of Paterson, Alexander Hamilton, a man whose distinguished services as Secretary of Treasury in the infant days of the republic will ever lend luster to everything with which his name is associated.
The premises in Church Street were occupied until on account of the increasing membership they were found to be wholly inadequate. A committee was appointed to secure more commodious quarters and their labors resulted in the purchase of the property on the northwest corner of Church and Ellison Streets and the completion there n 1897 of the present home of the Hamilton Club. The conflagration of February, 1902, for some time spared the home of the Hamilton Club, as if loath to add to its ravages in the place which had become endeared to so many residents of Paterson and about which clustered so many pleasant associations. The fire had almost burned itself out; it had swept about the Club house but without injuring it and the fire fighters had begun to think of rest after a night of terror and fatigue when smoke was noticed issuing from beneath the eaves of the Club house. Unfortunately for the Club, the fire apparatus was scattered in parts of the city deemed more vulnerable than the corner of Church and Ellison Streets. Members of the Club, assisted by the friendly hands of many outsiders, worked hard to save the structure, but the building succumbed to the flames, and when the return taps were sounded on the fire alarm there was nothing left of the home of the Hamilton Club excepting the charred walls and such furniture as had been removed before the flames spread to the lower stories. No greater compliment could have been paid to the efficiency of the original building committee than the unanimous adoption of a resolution that the Club house should be restored even to the minutest detail as it was before the fire. This was done and the Club house stands today just as it did when it was first taken possession of by the Club.
1905 Membership Roster
|
MEMBER NAME |
MEMBERSHIP TYPE |
| ACKERMAN, William S. | Resident |
| ADAMS, William F. | Deceased |
| AGNEW, Charles | Resident |
| AGNEW, Dr. Frank E. | Resident |
| AGNEW, Jonn P. | Resident |
| ALEXANDER, Dr. A.F. | Resident |
| ALLEN, Alpheus S. | Resident |
| ALLEN, Frank R. | Non-Resident |
| ALLEN, Henry C. | Resident |
| ANDERSON, John H. | Non-Resident |
| ANDREAE, Otto, Jr. | Non-Resident |
| ANDREWS, C.A. | Non-Resident |
| ARNOLD, William A. | Resident |
| ASPINWALL, H.C. | Deceased |
| ATTERBURY, R.R. | Resident |
| AUGER, Charles L. | Resident |
| BAILEY, Josiah J. | Resident |
| BAKER, George B. | Resident |
| BALDWIN, James M. | Deceased |
| BALL, Frederick W. | Non-Resident |
| BALLERAY, Dr. George H. | Resident |
| BANTA, Dr. John J. | Resident |
| BARBOUR, J. Edwards | Resident |
| BARBOUR, Johnson | Non-Resident |
| BARBOUR, Robert | Deceased |
| BARBOUR, William | Resident |
| BARKALOW, Daniel | Resident |
| BARKALOW, John S. | Resident |
| BARKALOW, Sidney | Resident |
| BEACH, Henry M. | Resident |
| BEAM, John R. | Deceased |
| BEARDMORE, Thomas J. | Resident |
| BEATTIE, Robert | Non-Resident |
| BEATTIE, Robert, Jr. | Non-Resident |
| BEATTIE, William | Deceased |
| BEATTIE, William H. | Resident |
| BECKER, Edwin J. | Non-Resident |
| BEGGS, Frederic | Resident |
| BELL, Edward T. | Resident |
| BELL, Edward T., Jr. | Resident |
| BELL, Henry F. | Resident |
| BENTLEY, Thomas W. | Resident |
| BERDAN, Charles K. | Resident |
| BERDAN, John H. | Deceased |
| BERDAN, William | Resident |
| BERGEN, Charles A. | Resident |
| BERGEN, Joseph A. | Resident |
| BERRY, J. David | Deceased |
| BERRY, William H. | Resident |
| BEVERIDGE, Thomas | Resident |
| BLACKBURN, W.H. | Non-Resident |
| BLAKELEY, George H. | Resident |
| BLAUVELT, Erastus | Resident |
| BLAUVELT, J.J. | Resident |
| BLAUVELT, James G. | Resident |
| BLAUVELT, William D. | Resident |
| BLUM, Edwin | Non-Resident |
| BLUM, Frederick | Non-Resident |
| BLUM, Henry L. | Non-Resident |
| BLUNDELL, Dr. William | Resident |
| BLUNDELL, John W. | Resident |
| BLUNTSCHLI, John | Resident |
| BOETTGER, Theodore | Non-Resident |
| BOND, Harry K. | Resident |
| BOOTH, Charles H. | Resident |
| BOOTH, J. Morgan | Deceased |
| BRANDES, Julius | Resident |
| BRAUN, Louis F. | Resident |
| BRIESON, R.V. | Non-Resident |
| BROCK, William M. | Resident |
| BROWN, Edwin S. | Non-Resident |
| BROWN, John J. | Deceased |
| BUCKLEY, John F. | Resident |
| BUELL, Wallace | Resident |
| BURNETT, David | Non-Resident |
| BUTLER, Henry L. | Deceased |
| CADE, John T. | Resident |
| CAMPBELL, Daniel L. | Resident |
| CAMPBELL, Henry G. | Resident |
| CAMPBELL, John | Deceased |
| CARTER, Robert D. | Non-Resident |
| CATLIN, George L. | Deceased |
| CHANCELLOR, W.E. | Resident |
| CHISWELL, George S. | Resident |
| CHISWELL, Richard R. | Resident |
| CHRISTIE, F.B. | Deceased |
| CLARK, Henry I. | Resident |
| CLARK, Herbert H. | Resident |
| CLARK, John E. | Resident |
| CLEVELAND, J.W. | Resident |
| COLLIER, Abram | Resident |
| CONGDON, Joseph W. | Resident |
| CONGER, Kenyan B. | Non-Resident |
| COOK, John H. | Non-Resident |
| COOKE, Charles D. | Resident |
| COOKE, Fred W. | Resident |
| COOKE, J. Barclay | Resident |
| COOKE, James W. | Resident |
| COOKE, John K. | Resident |
| COOKE, John S. | Resident |
| COOKE, Watts | Deceased |
| COOPER, Everitt, A. | Non-Resident |
| COX, Winfield S. | Non-Resident |
| CRANDALL, H.B. | Resident |
| CREW, Alfred | Resident |
| CUNNINGHAM, R.H. | Resident |
| CURIE, Charles | Non-Resident |
| CURRIE, Dr. D.A. | Non-Resident |
| CURTS, Dr. Robert M. | Resident |
| CUTLER, Otis H. | Non-Resident |
| DANFORTH, Charles | Deceased |
| DAVIDSON, George | Non-Resident |
| DAVIS, William H. | Non-Resident |
| DE YOE, J. Willard | Resident |
| DENNER, Dr. E.F. | Resident |
| DERY, D. George | Non-Resident |
| DIXON, Johathan | Honorary |
| DOERKIN, Edward | Resident |
| DOHERTY, Henry | Resident |
| DRUKKER, Dow H. | Non-Resident |
| DUMONT, Wayne | Resident |
| DUNCAN, Dr. O.B. | Non-Resident |
| DUNN, Charles B. | Resident |
| DUNN, Michael | Resident |
| DYNAN, Thomas D. | Non-Resident |
| EASTWOOD, Benj. | Deceased |
| EASTWOOD, Benjamin, Jr. | Resident |
| EASTWOOD, James | Resident |
| EDWARDS, Charles | Resident |
| EDWARDS, Edmund G. | Resident |
| ELLENBOGEN, M.H. | Resident |
| EMLEY, Eugene | Resident |
| ENSIGN, Charles E. | Non-Resident |
| ENTWISTLE, James | Resident |
| EVANS, S.S., Jr. | Resident |
| FAIRCHILD, A.C. | Resident |
| FAIRHURST, Joseph | Resident |
| FARNUM, Samuel B. | Resident |
| FAYERWEATHER, W.O. | Resident |
| FENWICK, A.G. | Non-Resident |
| FERGUSON, John W. | Resident |
| FIFIELD, Edward | Deceased |
| FISCHER, August A. | Resident |
| FLEISCHER, Nathan | Resident |
| FLETCHER, William H. | Resident |
| FOOT, Sandford D. | Non-Resident |
| FORBES, Harry A. | Resident |
| FORD, Frank R. | Non-Resident |
| FORDYCE, Robert H. | Resident |
| FORMANS, Joseph | Resident |
| FRAZIER, John | Resident |
| FREUND, Alfred L. | Deceased |
| GAEDE, Robert | Resident |
| GARDINER, E. Le B. | Non-Resident |
| GARTNER, Alfred | Resident |
| GEDNEY, Edward E. | Non-Resident |
| GEERING, Emil | Resident |
| GERZOG, Edwin N. | Non-Resident |
| GILLESPIE, Thomas A. | Non-Resident |
| GILLESPIE, Thomas H. | Non-Resident |
| GILLSON, Dr. John T. | Resident |
| GLEDHILL, Frank | Resident |
| GODDEFROY, Richard | Resident |
| GOODBODY, Robert | Resident |
| GOODENOUGH, L.A. | Deceased |
| GORDON, R.B. | Non-Resident |
| GOURLEY, William B. | Resident |
| GRAEF, Walter, H. | Non-Resident |
| GRAHAM, Archibald | Resident |
| GRIGGS, J. Leavitt | Resident |
| GRIGGS, John W. | Resident |
| GRIMSHAW, David H. | Resident |
| GRIMSHAW, John | Resident |
| GRINSHAW, George | Resident |
| GRUND, Ernest | Resident |
| GSELLER, Albert H. | Non-Resident |
| GUTHERSON, Robert S. | Resident |
| HALDANE, Andrew P. | Resident |
| HALL, Isaac A. | Resident |
| HALSTED, Elmer Z. | Resident |
| HAMMOND, John | Resident |
| HAND, Thomas | Resident |
| HAND, William | Resident |
| HANNAH, George E. | Resident |
| HARDING, John W. | Resident |
| HARRIS, Dr. P.A. | Resident |
| HAVRON, John | Non-Resident |
| HEISLEY, Wilbur A. | Non-Resident |
| HENRY, David | Resident |
| HERRICK, Carlton M. | Deceased |
| HERSEY, Clinton B. | Deceased |
| HESS, Walter L. | Non-Resident |
| HEWAT, Henry J. | Resident |
| HILL, Adolf | Resident |
| HINCHLIFFE, James C. | Resident |
| HINCHLIFFE, John | Resident |
| HINDLE, Charles B. | Deceased |
| HINE, Edwin W. | Non-Resident |
| HOBART, Garret A. | Deceased |
| HOFFMAN, William T. | Non-Resident |
| HOLMES, William J. | Deceased |
| HOPPER, John | Deceased |
| HOPPER, John H. | Resident |
| HOPPER, Robert I. | Resident |
| HOPSON, Edwin N. | Resident |
| HORTON, Rayton E. | Resident |
| HUDSON, Walter R. | Resident |
| HUGHES, Robert G. | Resident |
| HUGHES, Robert S. | Deceased |
| HUMPHREYS, John B. | Non-Resident |
| HUNTOON, Oscar C. | Resident |
| HUNZIKER, A. | Resident |
| HURLEY, John R. | Resident |
| INGLIS, Archibald W. | Resident |
| INGLIS, James, Jr. | Resident |
| INGLIS, William M. | Resident |
| JACKSON, Charles E. | Resident |
| JACKSON, James | Deceased |
| JAMISON, John A., Jr. | Resident |
| JOHNSON, Dr. Walter B. | Resident |
| JOHNSON, John | Resident |
| JOHNSON, William M. | Non-Resident |
| JOHNSTON, James | Non-Resident |
| KATZ, Arthur | Resident |
| KATZ, Bernard | Resident |
| KATZ, Herbert | Resident |
| KATZ, Philip | Deceased |
| KEARNS, William H. | Resident |
| KEELER, Edward A. | Deceased |
| KENT, Benjamin | Resident |
| KING, Charles M. | Resident |
| KING, Nathaniel | Non-Resident |
| KINNE, Dr. Porter S. | Resident |
| KIREKER, C. Frank | Resident |
| KIREKER, Charles F. | Resident |
| KLIPSTEIN, E.C. | Non-Resident |
| KNAPP, A.H. | Resident |
| KNISCHER, W.E. | Resident |
| KNOX, Henry C. | Resident |
| LAMBERT, Catholina | Resident |
| LAMBERT, Samuel S. | Resident |
| LEAL, Dr. John L. | Resident |
| LEE, John R. | Resident |
| LEVI, Lewis | Resident |
| LEWIS, Vivian M. | Resident |
| LEWIS, William I. | Resident |
| LIENARZ, A.A. | Resident |
| LOBDELL, Fred W. | Non-Resident |
| LOCKWOOD, William J. | Resident |
| LONGBOTTOM, G.H. | Deceased |
| LOTTE, Charles E. | Non-Resident |
| LOWE, Dr. William Herbert | Resident |
| MAASS, Frank | Resident |
| MAC ALISTER, Dr. W.W. | Resident |
| MACKINTOSH, Dr. M.A. | Resident |
| MACMAHON, F.J. | Deceased |
| MADDEN, James T. | Non-Resident |
| MARSH, Dr. Elias J. | Resident |
| MARSH, Dr. Elias J., Jr. | Resident |
| MARSHALL, J.B. | Resident |
| MASON, John B. | Resident |
| MAY, Charles H. | Resident |
| MC ADOO, Malcolm R. | Resident |
| MC BRIDE, Dr. A.F. | Resident |
| MC CARTER, George S. | Resident |
| MC CARTER, Thomas N. | Non-Resident |
| MC CLAIN, Robert | Non-Resident |
| MC CONNELL, Niven | Resident |
| MC COY, Dr. John C. | Resident |
| MC CRAN, Thomas F. | Resident |
| MC CRYSTAL, Joseph | Resident |
| MC CULLOCH, A.L. | Resident |
| MC CULLY, Francis K. | Resident |
| MC CULLY, Fred W. | Non-Resident |
| MC GILL, William | Resident |
| MC KEE, L.T. | Non-Resident |
| MC KEE, Wood | Resident |
| MC LANE, Alexander | Non-Resident |
| MC MURRAY, Charles J. | Resident |
| MECKEL, Aurel | Resident |
| MEDING, Charles E. | Resident |
| MENNEL, Christian | Deceased |
| MERSELIS, Edo I. | Resident |
| MEYERS, Harry | Non-Resident |
| MILSON, Thomas H. | Resident |
| MORRIS, Michael J. | Deceased |
| MORRISSE, James A. | Deceased |
| MURRAY, Alexander | Resident |
| MUZZY, Edward H. | Resident |
| MUZZY, Henry | Resident |
| MUZZY, Samuel V.S. | Resident |
| MYERS, C.F.W. | Deceased |
| MYERS, George A. | Resident |
| NATHAN, Samuel | Resident |
| NELDEN, Robert J. | Resident |
| NELSON, William | Resident |
| NEWKIRK, William T. | Resident |
| NEWTON, Dr. W.K. | Resident |
| NORWOOD, William G. | Resident |
| O’CONNELL, Daniel | Non-Resident |
| O’NEILL, John J. | Non-Resident |
| OBORSKI, Florian | Deceased |
| OLDEN, Eugene H. | Resident |
| PALMER, S. Fielder | Resident |
| PARKE, Dr. Henry | Resident |
| PARKER, John A. | Non-Resident |
| PARKER, John A. | Deceased |
| PARMELEE, Henry H. | Resident |
| PAUL, Henry L. | Resident |
| PENNINGTON, William | Resident |
| PERRY, James | Non-Resident |
| PETERS, Franklin A. | Resident |
| PHELPS, John J | Non-Resident |
| PHELPS, Sheffield | Deceased |
| PHIN, John | Honorary |
| PIAGET, Louis A. | Resident |
| PINNEO, James B. | Deceased |
| PITNEY, Henry C. | Honorary |
| PITNEY, Mahlon | Honorary |
| PLATT, Thomas E. | Resident |
| POST, George A. | Resident |
| PRINCE, John Dyneley | Non-Resident |
| PRUDEN, Dr. William H. | Resident |
| PULVER, George B. | Deceased |
| QUACKENBUSH, Peter | Resident |
| QUACKENBUSH, Peter C. | Resident |
| READ, Jerome C. | Resident |
| RETTGER, C.C. | Non-Resident |
| REYNOLDS, Charles | Resident |
| REYNOLDS, F.R. | Resident |
| REYNOLDS, John H. | Resident |
| RODGERS, David G. | Resident |
| ROGERS, William H. | Resident |
| ROMETCH, William H. | Non-Resident |
| ROSENHEIM, Ralph | Resident |
| ROSSITER, Richard | Resident |
| ROWSON, Peter R. | Resident |
| ROYLE, Heber | Resident |
| ROYLE, Vernon | Resident |
| RYER, George S. | Non-Resident |
| RYLE, Arthur | Resident |
| RYLE, Ernest | Resident |
| RYLE, Peter | Deceased |
| RYLE, William T. | Deceased |
| SAMWORTH, Joseph | Resident |
| SANDFORD, E. Harrison | Deceased |
| SCEERY, Edward | Resident |
| SCHAUM, Otto W. | Non-Resident |
| SCHICK, F.A. | Resident |
| SCHIFFER, Alfred | Non-Resident |
| SCHLAEPFER, Charles | Resident |
| SCHLEICHER, R.H. | Non-Resident |
| SCHMIDT, John | Non-Resident |
| SCOTT, Francis | Resident |
| SCOTT, W. George | Resident |
| SEARING, F.F. | Resident |
| SHARPE, J. Wilson | Resident |
| SHAW, Ralph | Resident |
| SHAW, Willard P. | Resident |
| SHEEHAN, Daniel J. | Deceased |
| SHERWOOD, S.S. | Resident |
| SHIELDS, P.J. | Resident |
| SHIELDS, Thomas E. | Resident |
| SHRINER, Charles A. | Resident |
| SIMON, Charles | Resident |
| SIMPSON, James | Resident |
| SLATER, John J. | Non-Resident |
| SMITH, Carlton C. | Resident |
| SMITH, Charles R. | Resident |
| SMITH, Dr. James W. | Resident |
| SMITH, J. Julius | Deceased |
| SMITH, J. Waldo | Non-Resident |
| SPEIDEL, Hugo S. | Resident |
| SPENGEMAN, E.A. | Resident |
| STALTER, W.W. | Resident |
| STEPHEN, James Brown | Non-Resident |
| STEPHENS, H.T. | Resident |
| STERRETT, Charles N. | Resident |
| STERRETT, Robert H. | Resident |
| STEVENSON, Eugene | Resident |
| STEWART, James F. | Deceased |
| STITES, Charles S. | Non-Resident |
| STOREY, John A. | Deceased |
| STRANGE, William | Deceased |
| STRICKLER, Dr. A.G. | Resident |
| SUMNER, W.A. | Resident |
| TAYLOR, A. Mierritt | Non-Resident |
| TILT, Albert | Resident |
| TILT, Albert | Deceased |
| TILT, Benjamin B. | Non-Resident |
| TODD, Dr. Francis H. | Resident |
| TOWNLEY, George A. | Resident |
| TOWNLEY, William G., Jr. | Resident |
| TOWNSEND, Zebulon, E. | Resident |
| TURNER, Roger C. | Resident |
| TURNER. A.R., Jr. | Resident |
| TUTTLE, Hobart | Resident |
| VAN BUREN, C.M. | Non-Resident |
| VAN CLEVE, Frank | Resident |
| VAN CLEVE, Garret | Resident |
| VAN DUSEN, Thomas D. | Resident |
| VAN HOUTEN, Isaac | Resident |
| VAN KIRK, P.S. | Resident |
| VAN OLINDA, F.F. | Resident |
| VAN RIPER, Alfred J. | Resident |
| VAN WAGNER, P.H. | Resident |
| VAN WINKLE, Franklin | Resident |
| VAN WINKLE, J. Albert | Resident |
| VOORHIS, Garret D. | Deceased |
| WADSWORTH, Joseph | Resident |
| WALDEN, James H. | Non-Resident |
| WALKER, Alexander D. | Non-Resident |
| WALKER, H.F. | Resident |
| WATSON, George H. | Resident |
| WATSON, Samuel J. | Resident |
| WATTS, Charles E. | Resident |
| WEIDMANN, Jacob | Resident |
| WELLS, Reuben | Resident |
| WENTWORTH, F.W. | Resident |
| WHITE, Fred S. | Non-Resident |
| WHITEHEAD, Joseph | Resident |
| WHITNEY, Joseph B. | Non-Resident |
| WILCOX, Albert A. | Resident |
| WILLARD, Dr. H.S. | Non-Resident |
| WILLIAMS, H.E. | Deceased |
| WILLIAMS, William H. | Resident |
| WILSON, James | Resident |
| WINFIELD, Albert D. | Deceased |
| WISE, Leo P. | Non-Resident |
| WISKE, C. Mortimer | Resident |
| YERGASON, John S. | Non-Resident |
| ZABRISKIE, Albert | Resident |
| ZABRISKIE, John C. | Resident |
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