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 sey. The firm is a well established one, and Mr. Gabriel is gaining valuable experience and laying a foundation for a successful legal career.

When relations between Germany and the United States became strained, and rumors of war were in the air, Aro G. Gabriel organized a company of students and started to drill them, using sticks for guns. Others becoming interested, the company was soon equipped with genuine rifles. Mr. Gabriel had a very capable assistant in Miss Harrison, daughter of the former president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, and with two such efficient directors the company made considerable progress. Upon the entrance of the United States into the World War, Mr. Gabriel at once enlisted, April 19, 1017, and was at first stationed at Brooklyn, New York, in the navy yard, but later traveled all over the country as a member of the publicity or recruiting department, finally attaining the rank of sergeant in the United States Marine Corps, in which rank he was mustered out of service, August 10, 1920. Upon his return to civil life, he at once continued his preparation for the legal profession, and is now engaged in practice, as has already been quoted.

Fraternally he is affiliated with Union Hill Lodge, No. 1357, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and with Alpha Chapter of the Pi Kappa Upilson. He is also a member of the Union High School Alumni Association; American Legion; and is professionally affiliated with the North Hudson Lawyers' Club, the State Bar Association, and the Hudson County Bar Association. He has always been interested in athletic sports and in out-of-door pastime, and his special hobby is baseball. Mr. Gabriel's religious connection is with the First Armenian Presbyterian Church. He is unmarried.

His many friends predict for him a successful career, and both his thorough preparation and personal qualifications, as well as the success of his experience as a speaker during his term of enlistment, seem to indicate that his friends prophecies will be fulfilled.

GABRIEL, Krikor,

Among the many worthy citizens and reliable business men who have come to this country from other lands is Krikor Gabriel, of Woodcliff, New Jersey, owner and manager of a prosperous mercantile business located at Nos. 229 and 330-332 Bergenline avenue, Town of Union, New Jersey.

Mr. Gabriel was born in Egin, Armenia, where his father died in 1880, at the age of forty-seven years, survived by the wife and mother who died in Union Hill, New Jersey, August 13, 1922, aged seventy-five years. There were seven sons and one daughter in the family, all of whom came to this country and settled in Union Hill. Krikor Gabriel attended the public schools of his native town, Egin, in Armenia, and then became a student in Central Turkey College, an American institution in Aintab, Turkey, where he remained for three years, taking a special course. He then taught for two years in the Protestant Church School. At the end of that time he returned to Egin and established a dry goods store, which he continued to successfully conduct for ten years. In 1897, however, he decided to leave his native land and go to the great land to the westward where he had learned that opportunities were great. With his wife and two children he landed in New York City that same year and at once went to Union Hill, New Jersey, where he established, about three months