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EDMUND W. WAKELEE
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EDMUND W. WAKELEE, a prominent lawyer of New York City and
Englewood, Bergen County, N. J., was born in Kingston, N. Y., on the 21st
of November, 18(19. He is the son of Nicholas and Eliza C. (Ingersoll)
Wakelee, a grandson of Joseph and Susan (Curtiss) Wakelee and of Justus
and Esther (Stow) Ingersoll, and a great-grandson of David and Hannah
Ingersoll and David and Anna (Perkins) Stow. His father, Nicholas, was a
prominent business man in Kingston.
Mr. Wakelee received his education at Kingston Academy and at the University of the City of New York, and subsequently entered the law office of Bernard & Fiero, then of Kingston, but now of Albany. N. Y. He was admitted to the bar of both New York and New Jersey in 1891, having graduated from the University of the City of New York in that year. Since then he has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of his profession both in Bergen County, N. J., where he resides, and in New York City. During the past seven years Mr. Wakelee has been active in politics in Bergen County as a Republican leader, and has been President of the Republican Club of Harrington Township. In November, 1898, he was elected a member of the New Jersey General Assembly, in which he gained distinction as an able debater. He was re-elected to the General Assembly in 1899 and was selected as the leader on the floor of the Republican majority. He has always been a Republican. As a lawyer he has achieved eminent success, and in the many important cases with which he has been connected has displayed marked ability and high legal qualifications. He is a member of the Bergen County Bar Association, of the Englewood Club, of the Tenafly Club, of the Phi Delta Phi and the Delta Upsilon fraternities, of Northern Valley Lodge, Knights of Honor, of Tenafly, and of Alpine Lodge, No. 77, Free and Accepted Masons, of Closter, N. J. He is also President of the Demarest Firemen's Association, and is a life member of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association. He is unmarried.
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