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W. E. Florance, Former Middlesex Senator, Dies. New Brunswick, New Jersey; January 7, 1943. William Edwin Florance, 78, vice president of the board of trustees of Rutgers University and a former state senator, died Wednesday night at his home. He served in the Senate from 1916 to 1918, and was a former Mayor of New Brunswick and a former Middlesex County prosecutor. At the time of his death, Florance was also a director and counsel for the National Bank of New Jersey, New Brunswick; manager and counsel of the New Brunswick Savings Institution, vice president of the Edgar Bros. company, Metuchen ceramics firm, and a director of New Brunswick Theological Seminary. His parents moved to New Brunswick a month after he was born on April 16, 1865, in Toronto, Canada. He was graduated from Rutgers University in 1885 and received a master's degree there in 1888. He was admitted to the bar in 1887 and became a counselor in 1890. Rutgers conferred an honorary degree of doctor of laws upon him in 1938. He was survived by a son, Edwin, of Summit, and two daughters, and Misses Julia of New Brunswick and Eleanor of Cleveland, Ohio.

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