"Portrait and Biographical Record of Hunterdon and Warren counties, New Jersey"
Chapman Publishing Company, New York and Chicago, 1898
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GEORGE A. ANGLE, prosecutor of the people of Warren County, was appointed to this
responsible position in the spring of 1896 by
Governor Griggs, and enjoys the distinction of
being the first Republican who has held the
office for a long period of years. He has been
very active in the support of the principles and
candidates of the party, frequently making stirring and eloquent campaign speeches, and being
sent as a delegate to conventions. He is popular
in Belvidere, where he has been engaged in practice for several years, and was elected by a good
majority to act as mayor of the place in 1890,
which office he held three years, giving entire
satisfaction.
The father of the above, Richard Angle, was
born in Brooklyn, N. Y. He was a farmer by
occupation, and removed with his family to Warren County, N. J., when he was a youth. He
was a man of most exemplary character, and left
to his children that best of all legacies � a name
above reproach. From his boyhood he was connected with the Methodist Church, being very
active in its various departments of usefulness.
He held the office of steward and was also superintendent of the Sunday-school for a period.
His death occurred in November, 1892. His
wife, Catherine, is a daughter of John De Pue,
and is a distant relative of the renowned Judge
De Pue. She is still living, being about three-score and ten years of age. They had two children. The daughter, Elizabeth, is the wife of
John C. Amey, a merchant of Belvidere.
George A. Angle was born in Rocksburgh,
Warren County, N. J., September 9, 1853, and received his early education in the public schools of
that locality. Later he became a student at Pennington Seminary, at Pennington, N. J., and was
prepared for college by the well-known Dr.
Knighton, of Belvidere. In 1872 he entered
Lafayette College, in Easton, Pa., and graduated
therefrom in 1876 with the degree of Bachelor of
Arts. Three years afterward the same college
bestowed upon him the additional degree of Master of Arts. Next he took up legal studies and
was guided in his work by the late J. G. Shipman, and since being admitted to the bar in 1879
he has been steadily occupied in practice. His
knowledge of the law is profound, his judgments
accurate, his pleading logical, and his insight
into the motives and springs of human conduct
unusually keen. He is a financier of no small
ability, and in everything that effects the general
welfare he is active and interested. One of the
organizers and now a director in the Warren
Wood-working Company, his influence and means
have been used to materially promote that industry, and in other directions he has been of great
value. For years he has been a pillar in the
local Methodist Church and one of the trustees,
at this writing being secretary and treasurer of
the board.
In November, 1891, Mr. Angle married, in
New Haven, Conn., Nettie, daughter of Ira T.
Smith. They have two children, a son and
daughter, named respectively, Gertrude De Pue
and Richard S.
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