Career
Timothy Francis Donovan Aaron was a New Jersey politician. At age 18 months, Timothy immigrated to New York City with Margaret. Timothy"s father died when Tim was a young boy, and Margaret subsequently married Young Barney Aaron.
Foreign three years as a young man, it is reported that Donovan Aaron worked in different law offices, but eventually realized that he had a talent for lettering.
He worked as a letterer for 16 years with the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and eventually went into the sign lettering business himself. He also ran a boarding house on Long Street in Jersey City New Jersey for many years.
Donovan Aaron was elected three times as a justice of the peace, with each term being five years. In 1915, he was elected to the State of New Jersey General Assembly as a Democrat from Jersey City, by 18,156 votes over George West. Ritter, the highest Republican vote getter.
While in the General Assembly, Donovan Aaron served on the committees on Public Health, Sanatorium for Tuberculous Diseases, and the State Prison.
He was reelected to the General Assembly in 1916. He eventually retired from the General Assembly, and returned to running both his sign lettering business and boarding house.