Mr. Charles J. Roe, of the Jersey City Bar, died in Faith Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida, on Feb. 10th. For some time past he had not been in good health, and he went South the latter end of January to seek improvement. Soon after his arrival there he became worse and entered the hospital where he died. In Jersey City he had recently made his home, for himself and wife, in the Fairmount Hotel on the Boulevard.
Mr. Roe was the son of Charles Roe and Elizabeth Ann (Coult) Roe, and was born in Sussex county, Sept. 11, 1850. His father was the surrogate of that county for three terms (1863-'78) and then opened a drug store in Newton. The son obtained his preparatory education at Chester Institute and Newton Collegiate Institute; then entered Princeton College and was graduated therefrom in 1870, in the same class as Chief Justice Gummere and ex-Judge George M. Shipman of Belvidere. He then studied law with the late Levi Shepherd of Newton, and became an attorney at the June Term, 1873, and a counselor three years later. He practiced very successfully in Newton until 1894, a portion of the time having a law partner, Mr. Frank Shepherd; at the last named date, he removed to Jersey City. Recently he has had, as a law partner, J. Haviland Tompkins, the firm being Roe & Tompkins. Mr. Roe was an Advisory Master of the Court of Chancery and Supreme Court Commissioner. His practice was a general one, but he somewhat specialized in Chancery work. He was recognized as an able attorney, of scholarly instincts, being learned not only in his profession but in the arts and sciences. He knew some foreign languages and had traveled extensively in Europe as well as in this country.
Mr. Roe married Margaret, daughter of James F. and Sarah (Northrup) Martin, and is survived by his wife, and his sister, Mrs. John R. Hardin of Newark.
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