John Oliver Halstead Pitney
John Oliver Halstead Pitney was an American lawyer from New Jersey.[1]
Author Kim Isaac Eisler described him as a New Jersey blue-blood.[1]
His father and older brother Mahlon Pitney were also lawyers.[2] Mahlon would eventually serve on the United States Supreme Court.[1] He was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity.[3] He graduated from Princeton Law School, and was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1884.
His great-grandfather Henry Cooper Pitney served in the Revolutionary War.[2]
He founded the Mutual Benefits Life Insurance Company and Pitney Hardin law firm.[1][2][4] He was elected to the Board of the United Electric Company of New Jersey in March 1901.[5]
Kim Isaac Eisler wrote that his firm's clients included "some of the most notoriously antilabor corporations in the state of New Jersey."[1] Due to its strike-breaking work Pitney Hardin and Ward was known in the labor movement as "Pluck'em, Hook'em and Sink'em".[1]
Pitney published a book about the history of his family in 1925.[6]
The University of Chicago holds an original letter from William Howard Taft, to Pitney, accepting an invitation to attend a celebration of the birth of George Washington.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Kim Isaac Eisler (2003). The Last Liberal: Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. and the Decisions That Transformed America. Beard Books. pp. 32-35, 38, 52-53. ISBN 9781587982712. Archived from the original on 2020-10-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20201023021836/https://books.google.ca/books?id=kKhAkSaXMFoC&pg=PA34&dq=%22Day,+Berry+and+Howard%22+OR+%22Day+Pitney%22+OR+%22Pitney+Hardin%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwijo4PHh8LsAhUHheAKHTrZA4sQ6AEwBHoECCoQAg#v=onepage&q=%22Day%2C%20Berry%20and%20Howard%22%20OR%20%22Day%20Pitney%22%20OR%20%22Pitney%20Hardin%22&f=false. Retrieved 2020-10-18. "It is often reported that Pitney, Hardin & Ward, now located in Morristown, New Jersey, was founded by one Supreme Court justice and produced another. But it is not true. Mahlon Pitney had little to do with the firm. It was Mahlon's brother, John, who built up the law firm that later became known as Pitney, Hardin Ward & Brennan."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Pitney Family History". https://pitneyfarm.org/about-pitney/pitney-family-history/. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
- ↑ "The Phi Beta Kappa Key, Vol. 7, No. 9 (October, 1930)". The Phi Beta Kappa Society. October 1930. p. 606. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/42914277.pdf#page=9. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
- ↑ William Starr Myers. "Prominent Families of New Jersey, Volume 1". Clearfield publishers. ISBN 9780806350363. Archived from the original on 2020-10-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20201029212407/https://books.google.ca/books?id=qG_5K_s3a-gC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=%22John+Oliver+Halstead+Pitney%22+OR+%22John+Pitney%22++OR+%22John+O.H.+Pitney%22+++OR+%22John+O.+H.+Pitney%22+%22new+jersey%22&source=bl&ots=nOw4va7-8H&sig=ACfU3U1CAcYKzq5yUYese0hoejPZ3t8UsQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjUkp2fsNrsAhXDbc0KHdkYBHEQ6AEwGHoECF8QAg. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
- ↑ "United Electric Co. of New Jersey". The New York Times (Newark, New Jersey): p. 5. 1901-03-30. Archived from the original on 2020-10-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20201029212406/https://www.nytimes.com/1901/03/30/archives/united-electric-co-of-new-jersey.html. Retrieved 2020-10-29. "John O. H. Pitney was elected to fill a vacancy in the board."
- ↑ "Pitney Farm History". New Jersey Hills. 2015-02-15. Archived from the original on 2020-10-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20201022021747/https://pitneyfarm.org/about-pitney/pitney-family-history/. Retrieved 2020-10-29. "This limited edition volume published by John O.H. Pitney in 1925 as a family history was provided to us by Erik Sletteland, Duncan Pitney’s stepson who moved to the farm in the early 1960s."
- ↑ William Howard Taft (1914-12-24). "William Howard Taft". University of Chicago. Archived from the original on 2020-10-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20201029212101/https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/collex/exhibits/united-states-supreme-court-portraits-and-autographs/william-howard-taft/. "Detail from William Howard Taft to John O. H. Pitney, 24 December 1914, United States Supreme Court: Portraits and Autographs, D'Angelo Law Library Rare Book Room, University of Chicago Library."
