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Crater Heads Society. Somerville Bureau of The Courier-News. Somerville, New Jersey. County Clerk Walter K. Crater was elected president of the Somerset County Historical Society Saturday in the Old Dutch Parsonage, Washington Place, headquarters of General Frelinghuysen Chapter, DAR. He succeeds W. B. R. Mason of Bound Brook, who was made honorary president. Rep. Charles A. Eaton of Watchung spoke. His talk was in observation of the sesquicentennial of the U. S. Constitution. Other officers elected follow: Vice-presidents, Mrs. A. L. C. Hardwicke of this borough and Isaac L. Kipp of Neshanic Station; secretary-treasurer. Dr. F. A. Wild of Bound Brook; curator. Miss Mary Laughton, Somerville; trustee, Dr. Lancelot Ely, Somerville. Dr. Eaton touched briefly on various phases of constitutional history and called the century and a half old document "the most extraordinary human document outside the word of God." Eaton Sounds Warning. Dr. Eaton asserted we are entering the "dark ages" of proletarianism with the fundamental rights of mankind being disregarded by tyrants. He concluded the only hope of the world is in a spiritual revival which will elevate the intellectual being to his proper place in directing world progress. Freeholder Van N. Voorhees told the society the Board of Freeholders had been approached by representatives of the WPA who have conducted an historical survey of Morris County, facts of which have been published in pamphlet form. The board was asked if it would underwrite the publishing costs of such a survey of Somerset County. Society to Cooperate. Freeholder Voorhees pointed out that in May Somerset County will be 250 years old. He said the board is considering the publication is suggested in connection with some type of celebration of the anniversary. The Historical Society voted to cooperate with the board in any action it may take. Resolutions it memory of the late A. Van Doren Honeyman of Plainfield, former president of the society, and the late former Mayor Edward P. Johnson of Somerville will be drafted. Mrs. Honeyman presented to the society a complete set of the old Somerset County Quarterly, which will be placed in the showcase in the courthouse. She also presented two sets of "Northern New Jersey," written by Mr. Honeyman.

• Walter King Crater (1876-1943), President of the Somerset County Historical Society
• Abraham Van Doren Honeyman (1849-1936)
• Edward P. Johnson (1874-1937), Mayor of Somerville, New Jersey
• Representative Charles Aubrey Eaton (1868-1953)
• Isaac Leon Kipp (1904-1970)
• William Brinsmade Ramsay Mason (1858-1944)
• Van N. Voorhees, Somerset County, New Jersey Freeholder

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