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HUDSON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY for the business, and another fine new building rose as a monument to the industry and perseverence of Frank H. Cordts. This great structure, at the location now known as No. 130 Washington street, has a very extensive ground area, enabling the concern to arrange show rooms to the very best advantage. With four floors and basement, they have a very extensive frontage on Washington street, and the building extends through to Bloomfield street, another wing reaching through to Second street, all in use for show rooms, the warehouses being located at Nos. 608-10-12 Clinton street. This concern is probably the largest and most comprehensively modern organization of its kind in this section west of the Hudson river. The Frank Cordts Furniture Company was incorporated May 25, 1900, under the laws of the State of New Jersey, Mr. Cordts being president of the company. Their trade is by no means limited to this immediate vicinity. The company's motor delivery equipment places a very wide territory at their doors and practically every day they deliver the entire length of Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Mr. Cordts is a member of the Hoboken Chamber of Commerce, and is deeply interested in all public progress, politically holding independent convictions. Fraternally he is widely prominent, and his genial presence is welcomed in every circle. He is a member of Hudson Lodge, No. 71, Free and Accepted Masons; Hoboken Lodge, No. 74, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; the Royal Arcanum, Council No. 99; also Garfield Lodge, No. 27, Knights of Pythias. He has other interests of a social nature, and is affiliated with the Plattdeutscher Volksfest Verein, of New York City; the Fritz Reuter Altenheim Gesellschaft, the New York Schuetzen Corps, the Hoboken Independent Schuetzen Corps, and many other organizations. Mr. Cordts is a self-made man in the highest and truest sense of the word, and with his affable nature, which is the expression of a deeply benevolent and broadly progressive spirit, he has made countless friends both in the business world and in the social circles of the day. He is a thoroughly representative citizen of Hudson county.

McMAHON, Aloysius,

In the year of his graduation from the New York Law School, 1898, Mr. McMahon began the practice, in Jersey City, that twenty-five years later, gives him rank among the leading legal practitioners of the district. He is a son of Thomas and Margaret (Donovan) McMahon, his father a native of County Monaghan, Ireland, who settled first in Staten Island, and, about 1876, in Jersey City, where he became a commission merchant, selling farm and garden produce. He married, May 20, 1873, Margaret Donovan, who was born in London, England, of Irish parents, coming to New York City about 1872.

Aloysius McMahon was born at the family home on Third street, Jersey City, New Jersey, July 24, 1877, and was educated in the public schools, completing his course in Public School No. 4, in 1892, and in the Jersey City High School in 1896. Matriculating at the New York Law School he received his degree in the class of 1898, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney, and later as a counselor, in 1902. His professional work has followed general lines at the New Jersey and New York bar, the right of practice in New York courts being granted him November 12, 1900. Mr. 712