Essex County NJ Archives Biographies.....Oscar Bromley MOCKRIDGE, 1844 - 1917
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Author: Mary Depue Ogden, Editor  (1917)

MOCKRIDGE, Oscar Bromley,
Business Man, Financier.

  Oscar Bromley Mockridge, who was for many years prominent in the hardware
trade of Newark, New Jersey, and was closely identified with the banking
interests of that city, was born in Newark, June 10, 1844, a son of Abraham and
Sarah Emmons (Ward) Mockridge, and came of an old and honored New Jersey family.
His father, who was born in March, 1802, and died in 1873, was a member of the
firm of Mockridge & Francis, hardware dealers of Newark, an enterprise
established in 1835.

  Oscar Bromley Mockridge received his education in the public schools of his
native city, Nathan Hedges' private school, and the Wesleyan Institute,
forerunner of the Newark Academy. In 1861 he left school and entered the
hardware business of Mockridge & Francis, applied himself to the duties assigned
him and acquired a thoroughly practical knowledge of the hardware business, a
calling for which he was peculiarly adapted, and in which he was destined to win
high distinction as one of its ablest and most successful representatives. He
was admitted to the firm in 1868, the style of the firm being changed at that
time to Mockridge & Son, under which name it was subsequently carried on, Mr.
Mockridge remaining identified with the enterprise until 1899, the business at
that time being the oldest continuously conducted undertaking of its kind in the
city of Newark. As a man of affairs Mr. Mockridge was thoroughly equipped. His
judgment was sound even as a young man, and his foresight keen and unerring. His
methods were those of the old school, honest and fair, and he conducted his
business in a progressive and energetic manner that gained for the house a wide
prestige and an enviable repute.

  From the founding of the Security Savings Bank of Newark, in 1884, Mr.
Mockridge served as treasurer until 1914, when he became vice-president of the
same, in which capacity he was serving at the time of his death. This
institution is notable as one of the largest savings banks of the city. As
treasurer and vice-president of the institution in question, Mr. Mockridge
performed his functions with an ability that was most pronounced, and his
practical knowledge of banking stood him in good stead in this connection. He
strengthened the enterprise in every direction, and contributed in no small
degree to the building up of its constantly increasing business. Until three
weeks prior to his death, he was regularly at his desk in the Security banking
rooms. He was associated with the banking interests of Newark for more than
thirty years, and served as a director of the Manufacturers' National Bank of
Newark, and of the Firemen's Insurance Company.

  Mr. Mockridge never took an active part in politics, neither seeking nor
holding public office, and he preferred to concentrate all his efforts upon his
personal affairs. At the same time, he was public-spirited to a notable degree,
and was willing at all times to unite in any movement calculated to advance the
common good or promote the material welfare of the community at large. He was a
member of the board of directors of the Newark Young Men's Christian
Association, on which he served from 1905 until his death, and was president of
the Children's Aid Society, associations in which he took an active interest. He
was one of the original members of the North End Club, of Newark, a member of
the Up-Town Club, and a popular man in these associations. Socially Mr.
Mockridge was as successful as in the business world. Both in business and in
private life, his wise and practical counsel was sought by many and applied with
success.

  Mr. Mockridge married, August 19, 1873, Carolina Virginia Tichenor, of Newark,
and they had one son, Dr. Oscar A. Mockridge, who has for a number of years been
a successful physician and surgeon. Mrs. Mockridge died July 16, 1916, and at
the time of Mr. Mockridge's death, March 11, 1917, he was residing with his son.
His funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Alden S. Bennett, minister in
charge of Trinity Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Mockridge was a vestryman. The
interment was in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. Resolutions of regret were passed by the
board of managers of the Security Savings Bank and by the board of directors of
the Young Men's Christian Association.


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MEMORIAL CYCLOPEDIA OF NEW JERSEY

UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF MARY DEPUE OGDEN

VOLUME III
MEMORIAL HISTORY COMPANY NEWARK,  NEW JERSEY
1917


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