Identifier: biographyofnatha00baumm (find matches)
Title: Biography of Nathan Barnert, his character and achievements; including histories of local institutions
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baum, Michael T
Subjects: Barnert, Nathan, 1838- Charities
Publisher: Paterson, N.J., News Printing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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y successive terms. But her life was largely lived in thiscountry, the most of it in this city. A domestic woman whobelieved in a home, a patriotic woman who believed in theAmerican flag and government, a spcial woman who believed inhuman relations; not the relations of the rich to the rich, or thepoor to the poor, or the educated to the educated, but the rela-tion of humanity to humanity, without regard to condition orcircumstance of position; a woman believing in those common,homely, eternal virtues that makes life rich and strong and sweetand wholesome. She went through the world doing good, leaving behindher a path of light. It was not her wealth, though she hadplenty of it; it was not position that counted with her; It wasthe use of wealth; the use of position, its faithfulness, its faith,its hope. The Miriam Barnert Memorial Hospital will soon open itsdoors to all suffering humanity and add another monument tothe woman whose life impressed us by the greatness of hercharities. 36
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MIRIAM BARNERT. CHAPTER V. IN PUBLIC LIFE. Now we come to the public life of Mr. Barnert. Hisexemplary honesty and uprighteousness did not fail him in publicstation. In public as in private life, he has ever been the samestrict adherent of truth, the same champion of justice and thesame unswerving advocate of honest means and honest methods.Mr. Barnert from his young manhood had taken a deep interestin public affairs. With him this inclination seemed to be aspecial genius for public and political life. His fellow citizens honored him, and he honored them inreturn in the faithful and conspicious discharge of officialduties. Paterson, in those days was naturally a Republicancity and notwithstanding that the Republicans were in thecontrol in public office, Mr. Barnert, a sturdy Democrat then,as he is now, was delegated by the Board of Aldermen in 1870,to make a special investigation of the citys finances and taxaccounts. At that time there had been undefined but generalbelief in the popu

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