Retired Judge Harold B. Wells Sr. died yesterday in his home at 101 Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown, after a long illness. He was 85. Judge Wells served 18 years on the old Court of Errors and Appeals and the Court of Pardons, dissolved in 1948 under the New Jersey Constitutional revision. He retired the same year. He was a senator from Burlington County for five years, a county solicitor for six years and county judge for five years during his law career between 1902 and 1947. After serving his clerkship (continued on Page 3, part 1)
with a Jersey City law firm, he came to Bordentown. He later acquired a Colonial home, once the residence of Francis Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Survivors are the judge’s widow, Mrs. Charlotte Bickerton Wells, a daughter, Mrs. E. Forrest Hann, and two sons, Harold B. Wells Jr. and William H. Wells; a brother, D. Cecil Wells and six grandchildren, all of Bordentown; also a sister, Mrs. Marguerite Primps of Bywood, Pa. The funeral will be held from the residence at 11 a.m. Tuesday under the direction of H. Stanley Earnest with interment in the Pemberton Methodist Cemetery at the convenience of the family. There will be no calling hours. The judge was a graduate of The Peddle School and of Princeton University in 1898. He held an honorary degree from the South Jersey Law School. He was born in Pemberton. Judge Wells served as member and president of the State Board of Child Welfare for 22 years and as trustee of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. He was a 32nd degree Mason and member of Bordentown’s Mt. Moriah Lodge, long a member and trustee of Trinity Methodist Church, Bordentown, and was a director and former vice president of the Bordentown Banking Company. A forceful speaker, he spoke at many dinners and commencements. He traveled through the United States and abroad.
Trenton Evening Times (Trenton, New Jersey), Sunday, July 30, 1961, pages 1, 3
with a Jersey City law firm, he came to Bordentown. He later acquired a Colonial home, once the residence of Francis Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Survivors are the judge’s widow, Mrs. Charlotte Bickerton Wells, a daughter, Mrs. E. Forrest Hann, and two sons, Harold B. Wells Jr. and William H. Wells; a brother, D. Cecil Wells and six grandchildren, all of Bordentown; also a sister, Mrs. Marguerite Primps of Bywood, Pa. The funeral will be held from the residence at 11 a.m. Tuesday under the direction of H. Stanley Earnest with interment in the Pemberton Methodist Cemetery at the convenience of the family. There will be no calling hours. The judge was a graduate of The Peddle School and of Princeton University in 1898. He held an honorary degree from the South Jersey Law School. He was born in Pemberton. Judge Wells served as member and president of the State Board of Child Welfare for 22 years and as trustee of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. He was a 32nd degree Mason and member of Bordentown’s Mt. Moriah Lodge, long a member and trustee of Trinity Methodist Church, Bordentown, and was a director and former vice president of the Bordentown Banking Company. A forceful speaker, he spoke at many dinners and commencements. He traveled through the United States and abroad.
Trenton Evening Times (Trenton, New Jersey), Sunday, July 30, 1961, pages 1, 3
Retired Judge Harold B. Wells Sr. died yesterday in his home at 101 Farnsworth Avenue, Bordentown, after a long illness. He was 85. Judge Wells served 18 years on the old Court of Errors and Appeals and the Court of Pardons, dissolved in 1948 under the New Jersey Constitutional revision. He retired the same year. He was a senator from Burlington County for five years, a county solicitor for six years and county judge for five years during his law career between 1902 and 1947. After serving his clerkship (continued on Page 3, part 1)
with a Jersey City law firm, he came to Bordentown. He later acquired a Colonial home, once the residence of Francis Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Survivors are the judge’s widow, Mrs. Charlotte Bickerton Wells, a daughter, Mrs. E. Forrest Hann, and two sons, Harold B. Wells Jr. and William H. Wells; a brother, D. Cecil Wells and six grandchildren, all of Bordentown; also a sister, Mrs. Marguerite Primps of Bywood, Pa. The funeral will be held from the residence at 11 a.m. Tuesday under the direction of H. Stanley Earnest with interment in the Pemberton Methodist Cemetery at the convenience of the family. There will be no calling hours. The judge was a graduate of The Peddle School and of Princeton University in 1898. He held an honorary degree from the South Jersey Law School. He was born in Pemberton. Judge Wells served as member and president of the State Board of Child Welfare for 22 years and as trustee of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. He was a 32nd degree Mason and member of Bordentown’s Mt. Moriah Lodge, long a member and trustee of Trinity Methodist Church, Bordentown, and was a director and former vice president of the Bordentown Banking Company. A forceful speaker, he spoke at many dinners and commencements. He traveled through the United States and abroad.
Trenton Evening Times (Trenton, New Jersey), Sunday, July 30, 1961, pages 1, 3
with a Jersey City law firm, he came to Bordentown. He later acquired a Colonial home, once the residence of Francis Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Survivors are the judge’s widow, Mrs. Charlotte Bickerton Wells, a daughter, Mrs. E. Forrest Hann, and two sons, Harold B. Wells Jr. and William H. Wells; a brother, D. Cecil Wells and six grandchildren, all of Bordentown; also a sister, Mrs. Marguerite Primps of Bywood, Pa. The funeral will be held from the residence at 11 a.m. Tuesday under the direction of H. Stanley Earnest with interment in the Pemberton Methodist Cemetery at the convenience of the family. There will be no calling hours. The judge was a graduate of The Peddle School and of Princeton University in 1898. He held an honorary degree from the South Jersey Law School. He was born in Pemberton. Judge Wells served as member and president of the State Board of Child Welfare for 22 years and as trustee of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. He was a 32nd degree Mason and member of Bordentown’s Mt. Moriah Lodge, long a member and trustee of Trinity Methodist Church, Bordentown, and was a director and former vice president of the Bordentown Banking Company. A forceful speaker, he spoke at many dinners and commencements. He traveled through the United States and abroad.
Trenton Evening Times (Trenton, New Jersey), Sunday, July 30, 1961, pages 1, 3
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