Background
Minard, Duane Elmer was born on April 27, 1880 in Rockaway Valley, New Jersey, United States. Son of George Wesley and Mary Ella (Hayes) Minard.
Minard, Duane Elmer was born on April 27, 1880 in Rockaway Valley, New Jersey, United States. Son of George Wesley and Mary Ella (Hayes) Minard.
Educated intermittent schooling.
Arthur Lawton Bennett), Duane Elmer, Junior Clerk in market, Boonton, New Jersey, 1897-1899, law office, Newark, 1899-1903. Admitted to New Jersey bar, United States District Court, District of New Jersey, United States Circuit Court, 3d Circuit, 1903, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1915, Supreme Court of the United States Court, 1928. Practiced, Newark, from 1903.
Partner law firm Cortlandt & Wayne Parker, 1906-1912, Hobart & Minard, 1925-1937, Hobart, Minard & Cooper, 1937-1949, Minard, Cooper, Gaffey & Webb from 1949.
Clerk to the United States district attorney New Jersey, 1903-1904. Assistant general solicitor Erie Railroad Company.
New York City, 1912-1920, general attorney, 1920-1925, local attorney New Jersey, also legal officer New York, from 1902. Director New York, Susquehanna Western Railroad Company from 1923.
Attorney United States Railroad Administration, 1917-1920.
Assistant attorney general New Jersey, 1929-1934, special assistant attorney general, 1934-1942. Special counsel to governor New Jersey, 1938 (Delaware & Raritan Canal water rights). Attorney New Jersey State Planning Board, 1938.
Vice president New Jersey Taxpayers Association, 1934-1937, member legislative committee, 1936-1937, board directors, 1938-1948, Chairman of Commission on federal matters, 1941, member Executive Committee, 1945-1946.
General counsel New Jersey Association Real Estate Bds. from 1940. Counsel (state water law) Natural Resources Planning Board, Department Interior, Washington, 1938-1940.
Special counsel New Jersey and New York Joint Bridge and Tunnel Commission, 1924-1927 (relating to Jersey City entrance and exit Holland Tunnel). Special prosecutor Cumberland County, New Jersey, 1932-1933 (Vineland Trust Company frauds).
Counsel Union Oil Corporation of California, 1905 (securing War Department license for construction oil pipeline across Isthmus of Panama to supply fuel oil for Panama Canal Construction).
Counsel of directors Morris & Essex Railroad Company, 1942 (negotiations and litigation with Doctorate., L. & West. Railroad Company on terms of acquisition of M. & East. Railroad). Counsel Interstate Commision on Delaware River Basin, 1942-1943 (drafting and promoting enactment of concurrent legislation by New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, establishing uniform standard of steam waters purity in Delaware watershed. Handling litigation contesting validity and enforcement of legislation).
Attorney Boonton Township, Morris Company, New Jersey, 1914-1927, Boonton Township School District, 1946-1951.
Member Boonton Township Board Education. Counsel Boonton Township Military Service Committee, from 1944.
Legal consultant Boonton Township Zoning Commission and Planning Board, 1948-1950. President Boonton Chamber of Commerce, 1940.
Member House of Assembly, New Jersey, 1910. Served with 1st Regiment, New Jersey.N.G., 1902, discharge for physical disability, 1903, Judge Advisory General’s Department, 1909, captain Company M. 1912. Fellow American Geography Society.
Member American Museum Natural History.
Clubs: Explorers (New York City).
Married Sara Trego Bennett, June 22, 1903. Children: Dorothy Bennett, Sara Frances (wife of Doctor.