Item 77: Bookplate, Robert H. McCarter, 1896
Item — Box: 20, Folder: 77
Dates
- Created: 1896
Creator
- French, Edwin Davis, 1851-1906 (Person)
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Bookplate
Condition Note:
Good, no issues.
Measurements:
2 ½ in. x 3 ½ in.
Title:
Stimulat Sed Ornat - Robert H. McCarter
Description:
A bookplate featuring a family crest with a knight helmet and two deer. The crest is surrounded by garland. Below the crest, there is text that reads “Stimulat Sed Ornat” which translates to “Stimulates but Decorates.” Robert H. McCarter was born on April 28, 1859 in Newton, New Jersey. His parents were Thomas Nesbitt and Mary Louisa (Haggerty) McCarter. He went to school at Pingry School and Newark Academy before going to Princeton University, where he graduated in 1879. After Princeton, he went to Columbia Law School where he graduated and became a part of the New Jersey Bar in 1882. He and his brother Thomas became a part of their dad’s law firm which had started in Newton in 1845 before they relocated to Newark in 1865. The name of the firm was McCarter and Keen until two younger family members, and their brother-in-law Edwin B. Williamson merged. After that it became McCarter, Williamson and McCarter. Robert’s brother Thomas McCarter was the Attorney General of New Jersey for one year before he quit to become the leader of the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey. Robert was picked by New Jersey governor, Franklin Murphy, to take over his brother’s job, and started on May 5, 1903. He held this job for five years. After he stopped working as the Attorney General of New Jersey, he went back to his law firm in Newark, known as McCarter and English, after Edwin B. Williamson died and Conover English took over. Most of his clients were corporations, however he was on the defense for one of the most infamous criminal cases in New Jersey, “the Hall-Mills murder trial in 1926.” “Edward Wheeler Hall, a New Brunswick Episcopal priest, and Elanor Reinhardt Mills had been murdered.” McCarter was on the defense for Hall’s wife and brothers, all three of whom were found not guilty. He was the leader of the New Jersey State Bar Association. He was “counsel” to Lester H. Clee when he ran for governor against A. Harry Moore in 1937. The next year, he was counsel for an investigation of election problems in Hudson County, New Jersey when Frank Hague had control over the way elections were run. “McCarter died of a heart attack on May 30, 1941, at his home in Rumson at the age of 82.”
Creator
- French, Edwin Davis, 1851-1906 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
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Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu