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From probably the Newark Sunday News, Newark, New Jersey between June 1941
and April 1942:

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Financial Personalities
Harrison P. Lindabury
President, National Commercial Title and Mortgage Guaranty Company
  The adventure and accomplishment characterizing the career of Harrison
P. Lindabury, president of the National Commercial Title and Mortgage
Guaranty Company, are abundant reasons for the typical American boy to
exclaim, "Gee, I'd like to be like Mr. Lindabury."
  It all started in Pottersville in 1873.  Three years after he was born
there, Mr. Lindabury's family moved to Morristown.  There were school years
and then came an opportunity to learn the watchmaking trade.  After 10
years of watchmaking, the desire for a change of scene asserted itself.
  Mr. Lindabury went to California in November, 1896; worked in a jewelry
store in Pasadena over the Christmas holidays.  Adventure called when
someone discovered gold in the Mojave desert.  It was a memorable trip
by train and a stagecoach not unlike those recalled by "Western" movies.
There were a tremendous rain storm in the desert and a night with two other
men beneath a leaking roof in an old inn.  Valuable Experience
  "Fortunately for me," Mr. Lindabury said, "my cot escaped the incoming rain.
One of my companions, however, was drenched along with his cot and by morning
had the imprint of the coverlet's colors on his bald head.  The clothes
of the other one were soaked through, names written on important papers
in his pockets had been washed off, and he had no way of knowing who owned
what among objects deposited for safe keeping in his warehouse."
  There were interesting visits to the region's gold mines and encounters
with delightful characters, some of whom proved to be New Jersey men and
neighbors of the Lindaburys in Morristown.
  In February Mr. Lindabury went to San Francisco, saw Jim Corbett fight
Sam McVey, moved on to Spokane and Seattle, where he spent his last 15 cents.
  He reached Washington, D. C., on March 3, 1897, but by then was glad to
be nearing home and did not linger for the next day's inauguration ceremonies.
  "That trip," Mr. Lindabury said, "did me more good than a college
education."  Law and Politics
  Mr. Lindabury formed a boat club the following summer, repaired watches
to earn some money and looked ahead to a career.  He studied stenography
at a local YMCA, was secretary to a county judge, then to a man whose firm
was developing the Clarence H. Mackey estate at Harbor Hill, and meanwhile
Mr. Lindabury was studying law at night.
  After passing his bar examination in February, 1902, he practiced for
a year in Morristown and then was one of the organizers of the firm of
Vreeland, King, Wilson & Lindabury.  Later he opened a branch office for
the firm in Newark.  A great help to his partner, John B. Vreeland, who
had been made United States district attorney, Mr. Lindabury served as
assistant district attorney from 1904 to 1912.
  The law firm was dissolved in 1912, and thereafter Mr. Lindabury was on
his own.
  In the political campaign of 1916, Joseph F. Frelinghuysen asked and
received Mr. Lindabury's support for the United States Senate.  When Edward
Casper Stokes withdrew from the primaries, much of his support was won for
Mr. Frelinghuysen, who best Governor Franklin Murphy and was subsequently
elected.  Later Mr. Lindabury was active in behalf of Arthur Whitney's
political aspirations.  National Commercial's Founding
  Despite his new-found interest in politics, Mr. Lindabury's law practice,
especially in federal criminal court, became increasingly heavy; and,
after losing a case to Andrew J. Steelman, he asked Mr. Steelman to go
into partnership with him.  This was the beginning of the firm which today
carries the name, Lindabury, Steelman, Zink & Lafferty.
  When the National Commercial Title and Mortgage Guaranty company was
formed in 1926, Mr. Lindabury was prevailed upon to take the presidency
as a part-time job.  Within a year he discovered that National Commercial
required his full attention, so he gave up his law practice, as he thought,
temporarily.
  He planned to resign from the National Commercial presidency soon after
1929, but with similar enterprises crashing in the depression he would not
desert the post.  Today he has the satisfaction of moral certainty that
National Commercial has come through the worst and that the outlook is
constantly improving.  Other Interests
  Mr. Lindabury is a director and chairman of the executive committee of
the Felgenspan Brewing Company, chairman of the board of the Federal Trust
Company, trustee of University of Newark and a member of Morris county
and American bar associations, Essex and Down Town clubs and Spring Brook
Golf Club.  He is married, has four children and five grandchildren.
  In 1916 he took up golf.  It took several years for him to break 100.
Some time before 1929 he made an 82, which he never equalled until this year.
  "In Florida last winter," Mr. Lindabury said, "I played the best golf in
my life with three or four 82s and a dozen or more games below 85."

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From the Newark Evening News, Newark, New Jersey dated December 8, 1953:

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H. Lindabury
Lawyer, Dies
Gladstone Resident, 80, Is Stricken in Deland, Fla.
Staff Correspondent.
  Peapack-Gladstone--Harrison Philip Lindabury Sr., Newark lawyer and former
chairman of the board of the Federal Trust Co. there, died early today in
Deland, Fla., after a short illness.  He was 80.
  Mr. Lindabury, who retired in 1952, was senior partner in the law firm of
Lindabury, Steelman & Lafferty with offices at 24 Commerce street, Newark.
The firm was successor to Lindabury, Steelman, Zink & Lafferty which he
formed in 1916.  Homer C. Zink left the firm, becoming state controller
and later chairman of the State Parole Board.
  Mr. Lindabury was made president of the National Commercial Title & Mortgage
Guaranty Co. of Newark when it was formed in 1916.  The company has since
been liquidated.  He also was chairman of the executive committee of the
Feigenspan Brewery prior to its sale to P. Ballantine & Sons.  Lawyer 51 Years
  A graduate of New Jersey Law School in 1901, Mr. Lindabury was admitted
to the New Jersey Bar in 1902.  He helped form the firm of Vreeland, King,
Wilson & Lindabury soon after.  This firm was dissolved in 1912.
  From 1904 to 1912 he served as an assistant United States attorney
in Newark.  An active Republican, he aided the campaign of Joseph
S. Frelinghuysen Sr. for the United States Senate in 1916.
  Born in Pottersville, Mr. Lindabury lived most of his life in Central
Jersey.  When he was 3 his family moved to Morristown, where he attended
elementary schools.  He entered the watchmaking trade, which took him to
California in 1896.  He returner [sic] East in 1897 and began the study
of law.  Opene [sic] Newark Branch
  Mr. Lindabury kept his Morris County ties until his edath. [sic] Soon
after joining his first law firm in Morristown in 1902, he was sent to
Newark to open a branch of the firm.  He was a member of the Morris County
and New Jersey Bar associations, the Essex and Down Town clubs of Newark
and the Spring Brook Country Club of Morristown.
  Mr. Lindabury's estate in Chester road, Gladstone, is considered one of
the showplaces of Somerset Hills.  It is known as Hillside Farm.
  He leaves his wife, Mrs. Sara Hauger Lindabury, who was with him in
Florida; two sons, Harrison P. Lindabury Jr., a member of Bernardsville
Borough Council, and John H. Lindabury of Milford, N. H.; two daughters,
Mrs. Kenneth R. Rand of Branford, Conn., and Mrs. Lois Finegan of Gladstone,
a brother, Richard W. Lindabury of Gladstone, and eight grandchildren.
  Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 11 A.M. in St. Luke's
Episcopal Church, Gladstone, by Canon L. Irving Greene, the rector.
Burial will be in St. Bernard's Cemetery, Basking Ridge.

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