From a History of Freemasonry in New Jersey 1787-1987
American/NJ History:
Leon Abbett - NJ Governor 1884-87
John Beatty - Revolutionary Patriot - Delegate to Continental
Congress
Joseph D. Bedle - NJ Governor 1875-78
Jonathan Belcher
"The First Native Born American to be Made a Mason"
Governor of the Colony of New Jersey 1747-57
Founder of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University)
Author of first Thanksgiving Proclamation, issued while
NJ Governor
David Brearley, Jr. - Revolutionary Patriot - The first person
selected to be a delegate to the First Constitutional Convention
- a signer of the US Constitution - First RW Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of New Jersey
Jonathan Dayton - signer of US Constitution
Mahlon Dickerson - NJ Governor 1815-17
Philemon Dickerson - NJ Governor 1836-37
Walter Evans Edge - NJ Governor 1917-19 and 1944-47
Edward I. Edwards - NJ Governor 1920-23
Jonathan Elmer - Delegate to the Continental Congress
John Franklin Fort - NJ Governor 1908-11
Robert Stockton Green - NJ Governor 1887-90
Garrett Augustus Hobart - 24th Vice President of the United
States
Harold Hoffmann - NJ Governor 1935-38
Morgan Foster Larson - NJ Governor 1929-32
James Linn - US Congressman 1799-1801 - In 1800, after thirty-five
ballots, he cast the tie-breaking vote in the US House of Representatives,
electing Thomas Jefferson as 3rd President of the United States
(over Aaron Burr)
George Craig Ludlow - NJ Governor 1881-84
George McClellan - NJ Governor 1878-81 - General-in-Chief, Union
Army of the Potomac, 1861-62
Arthur Harry Moore - NJ Governor 1926-29, 1932-35, 1938-41
William Augustus Newell - NJ Governor 1857-60
Aaron Ogden - Revolutionary Patriot - Captain 1st New Jersey
Regt, Continental Line 1779 - NJ Governor 1812-13
Joel Parker - NJ Governor 1863-66
William Paterson - Revolutionary Patriot - Delegate to the Continental
Congress - Signer of the US Constitution - NJ Governor 1790-92
Rodman McCamley Price - NJ Governor 1854-57
John Rathbone Ramsey - US Congressman 1917-21 - Member of
Fidelity Lodge #113
Theodore Fitz Randolph - NJ Governor 1869-72
George Sebastian Silzer - NJ Governor 1923-26
Richard Stockton - Revolutionary Patriot - Delegate to the First
and Second Continental Congress - Signer of Declaration of Independence
- Died of privation as a result of his patriotic actions
George Theodore Werts - NJ Governor 1893-96
Military:
James Madison Drake - Congressional Medal of Honor awarded for
"gallantry and bravery commanding the skirmish line and holding
position" at Bermuda Hundred, Virginia on May 6, 1864
James Giles - Revolutionary Patriot - Lieutenant, 2nd New York
Artillery Regiment, Continental Line, Revolutionary War. Served
with distinction under General LaFayette.
Henry Kent Hewitt - Vice Admiral, US Navy, World War II, Commander
of Western Naval Task Force, Mediterranean Fleet, North Africa
Campaign - Commander of the US Eighth Fleet, Invasion of France,
D-Day
Benjamin Kaufman - Congressional Medal of Honor awarded in 1919
for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity" against
the enemy. Wounded while single handedly attacking a machine gun
position, he continued to attack, scattering the crew and destroying
the position, after which he brought the machine gun and a prisoner
back to the allied lines - Argonne Forest, France
Carl Emil Petersen - Chief Machinist, US Navy, Boxer Rebellion
- Congressional Medal of Honor awarded July 19, 1901 for "meritorious
conduct in the presence of the enemy" during the action at
Beijing, China - June 28 - Aug 17, 1900
Anthony Walton White - Revolutionary Patriot - Aide-de-camp
to General George Washington, Commander of all Cavalry, Southern
Army, February 16, 1780, Commander of all Calvary, Western Pennsylvania
Insurrection ("Whiskey Rebellion") 1794
Athletics:
Robert Aitken - Captain US Soccer Team - 1928 Olympics
John Albert (Becky) Beckman - Basketball Hall of Fame - Captain
and Forward: New York Original Celtics
Russell Aubrey (Lena) Blackburne - Major League Baseball Player
- Originator in 1938 of Blackburne's "Delaware River Baseball
Mud" still used to prepare balls for play in the Major Leagues
Bernard (Benny) Borgmann, Sr - Professional Basketball Player
- Basketball Hall of Fame
Roger (Doc) Cramer - Major League Baseball Player - .296 lifetime
average - one of two players to go 6-for-6 twice in career
Maxwell Washburn (Maxey) Long - Winner of the 400 meter run
in the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris, France
Frank Emil Arthur (Frankie) Schneider, Jr. - Champion Modified
Stock Car Driver - member of the National Auto Racing Hall of
Fame
Philip Embury Margerum Thompson - Manager of the Atlantic City
Convention Hall, Organizer of the Eastern Ice Hockey League and
Amateur Ice Hockey Association - Enshrined in Ice Hockey Hall
of Fame
Science/Technology/Education:
Buzz Aldrin Jr. - Astronaut - 2nd man to walk on moon
James Edward Blackmore - Inventor of the first moving picture
machine camera - 1892
Simon Lake - Naval Architect - Inventor of even keel-type submarine
torpedo boats. Builder of the first submarine to operate successfully
in the open sea. Inventor of apparatus for locating and recovering
sunken vessels.
John Martin Thomas - Educator - President of four separate colleges
from 1908-1944: (Middlebury (Vt.) College, Pennsylvania State
College, Rutgers University, Norwich (Vt.) University), unique
in the annals of American Education
Entertainment:
Danny Thomas (Amos Jacobs) - Philanthropist, Humanitarian, Star
of stage, screen and television - Recipient of the Congressional
Gold Medal of Honor
Business:
Allen Lee Bassett - founder and first President of The Prudential
Insurance Company
