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GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01149 0239
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BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
OF
WESTCHESTER COUNTY,
NEW YORK.
ILLUSTRATED.
VOLUME I.
CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1899.
INDEX.
A.
Abbott, Charles H., 559. Abendroth, William P., 884. Acker, William, 82. Ackerman, Amos, 554. Acly, Charles H., 393. Adams, Alvaro J., 800. Allen, David E., 151. Allen, George F., 964. Allison, Charles E., 692.
Andrews, George C., 428.
Archer, Robert C., 620. Archer, Squire G., 239. Archer, William H., 108. Austin, Charles L., 370. Austin, Willsey, 419.
B.
Baekeland, Leo H., 505. Backus, John., 324. Badeau, Albert, 176. Badeau, John E., 176. Bailey, Elbert T., 635. Baker, Nelson H., 492. Banks, Charles G., 564. Bard, George W., 105. Bard, William H., 421. Bare, Abram, 623. Barnes, Jerome D., 208. Barnes, Reuben, 522. Barnhart, John W., 184. Barnum, Merritt W., 380. Barrett, James T., 382. Barrett, William, 306. Bartnett, Robert, 143. Baxter, John H., 447. Beairsto, William J., 799. Becker, Christian, 294. Bedell, James H., 935. Bedell, James W., 200. Bell, Walter T., 384. Bell, William H., 720. Bennett, Richard G., 956. Berkemeier, Gottlieb C., 232. Berry, Kennedy, 163. Bischoff, Henry W., 991. Blakeman, A. Noel, 395. Boehmer, Rudolph, 332. Bogen, James C., 427. Bolton, Cornelius W., 226. Bolze, F. A., 203.
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Bonnett, John B., 552.
Bonnett, William L., 445. Boothby, John W., 90. Borland, Reuben, 517. Boyce, Wesley, 193.
Boyd, William A., 161. Bradley, Seaman, 814.
Brandreth, Benjamin, 774.
Brandreth, William, 893.
Brett, John H., 608. Breuchaud, Jules, 469.
Brewer, Reuben G., 628. Brewer, Thomas, 628.
Briggs, John H., 943. Brill, George H., 434. Broderick, John J., 183. Brown, Abram A., 162. Brown, Clarence, 257. Brown, Francis D., 560. Brown, George R., 194. Bryant, Elias, 613.
Burdsall, Ellwood, 967. Burdsall, Richard H., 969. Burke, Thomas J., 298. Burtis, Edward S., 229.
Bushnell, Nathan P., 351.
C.
Callahan, James H., 217. Callan, Thomas J., 693. Campbell, Frank M., 76. Campbell, John C., 210. Cannon, Henry H., 850. Carhart, William M. D'A., 343.
Carmody, Michael F .. 391. Carpenter, Azariah, 861. Carpenter, Charles W., 740. Carpenter, Elisha P., 338. Carpenter, Francis M., 128. Carpenter, Isaac, 303. Carpenter, John W., 740. Carpenter, Jonathan, 456. Carpenter, T. Ellwood, 371. Carpenter, W. J., 286.
Carpenter, Ziba. 915. Carrigan, George E., 530. Casey, William C., 334. Caulfield, Daniel W., 872. Caulfield, Thomas B., 870. Chadburn, Samuel, 218. Chadeayne, Leonard, 504. Chambers, David, 169.
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INDEX.
Chapman, Charles F., 414. Chapman, J. Francis, 796. Chase, Charles H., 866. Chrystie, William F., 311. Clapp, John H., 973. Clapp, John J., 972. Clark, Edward M., 150.
Clark, George B., 591.
Clark, Samuel T., 855.
Clarke, Henry S., 625.
Close, Simeon L., 32.
Cobb, Lyman, Jr., 400.
Cobden, Richard, 216. Cochran, William F., 844.
Cole, David, 349.
Coles, Abraham A., 536. Coles, James, 251.
Colgate, James B., 904.
Colgate, Robert, 907.
Comly, Samuel, 153. Conklin, Theodore E., 435.
Cook, F. S., 928.
Cooper, James F., 502.
Copcutt, John B., 352.
Cordes, John H., 979.
Cornell, Richard, 96.
Cornell, Stephen S., 96.
Cornell, S. Wood, 511.
Cortright, Jacob D., 411.
Costello, William H., 359.
Coutant, James, 207. Coutant, James L., 333.
Coxe, Frank P., 627.
Crane, Joseph H., 87.
Creeden, John B., 965.
Crisfield, Charles R., 686.
Crisfield, George H., 69.
Crisfield, L. Harvey, 318.
Cromwell, David, 54. Crowe, Emmett S., 902.
Curran, Patrick J., 154.
Curry, Frank A., 974. Curry, G. P. M., 253. Curry, Hart, 837. Cutler, Nathaniel, 727.
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Dalton, Jacob H., 699. Darrow, Wallace, 580. Dassler, Samuel W., 297. Davids, Cortlandt 1., 221. Davids, David F., 839. Davis, A. B., 165. Davis, George T., 574. Dean, Thearon B., 982. Decker, Francis P., 808. Decker, William J., 808. Degnan, James E., 389. De Hart, Henry G. V., 663. Depew, Chauncey M., 698. Deuterman, Charles, 88. Dillon, Michael J., 448. Dobbs, Gilbert W., 271. Dodge, Charles H., 590. Doern, Valentine, 287.
Drake, Thomas S., 93. Du Bois, W. Maison, 540. Dusenberry, Charles R., 409. Dworniczak, Charles Henry, 526. Dykman, J. O., 1.
E.
Eickemeyer, Rudolf, Jr., 876. Eldredge, Charles, 900. Embree, John, 680. Emmet, Robert T., 562.
F.
Fagan, Benjamin, 520.
Farrington, David, 690.
Fearon, Thomas, 546.
Fee, Samuel, 117.
Fehrs, William H., 372. Fellows, Herbert B., 97.
Ferguson, Robert, 228.
Ferris, Andrew, 130. Ferris, Benson, 452.
Ferris, David P., 199.
Ferris, William N., 916.
Finch, Albert, 953.
Finch, William S., 237.
Finck, Henry, 451.
Fischer, George, 689.
Fisher, John, 164.
Fisher, Lewis M., 937.
Fiske, Edwin W., 648.
Fitzgerald, Michael, 133. Flagg, Levi W., 719.
Flannelly, Joseph F., 190.
Flint, Frederick W., 180.
Floyd, William M., 442.
Foley, M., 575. Fones, Robert A., 668.
Foote, Edward B., 112.
Foshay, Francis E., 446.
Foshay, John F., 370.
Fowler. Peter U, 248.
Fox, Alfred, 203.
Frazier, George, 755.
Frost, Munson E., 187.
Furman, John M., 509.
G.
Gale, E. Lippard, Sr., 439. Gedney, Bartholomew, 285. Gedney, William H., 418.
Getty, Robert P., 344.
Gibson, James, 152,
Gibson, James, Sr., 532.
Gifford, Silas D., 43. Gillender, Augustus T., 206.
Goff, F. W., 279. Goodenough, Arthur H., 978.
Gorlich, Frederick, 134. Gower, Fielding, 124. Grab, George, Jr., 655. Graney, William J., 856. Grattan, Charles E., 811.
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INDEX.
Gray, Daniel, 92. Gray, George T., 92. Gray, Thomas, 92. Green, Thaddeus K., 708. Grenzebach, James A., 569. Griffin, Elias Q., 946. Griffin, Ulric X., 739. Griggs, Elizur D., 373. Griswold, Ralph B., 104. Grosse, Max F. T., 375. Guion, William T., 258.
H.
Hackett, Francis J., 525. Haight, James H., 347. Hall, Matthew J., 638. Hall, Samuel, 922. Halstead, William I., 205.
Halsted, Augustus M., 538. Hamilton, John C. L., 748. Hammond, William H., 360.
Harper, Mary E., 818. Harriman, Charles, 312. Harris, George W., 339. Harris, George W., 989. Hart, E. Frank, 584.
Hart, Hickson F., 484. Hart, Monmouth G., 586.
Hart, Lemuel M., 624. Hartmann, John W., 103.
Hartshorn, Charles E., 677.
Hasbrouck, Joseph, 56. Havemeyer, Frederick C., 666. Haviland, David N., 938. Haviland, W. K., 215.
Hawley, John S., 36. Hays and Allied Families, 760.
Hays. Daniel P., 760. Heinsohn, Charles H., 679. Heminway, Albert G., 168. Henry, Charles (I)worniczak), 526. Hermes, J. George, 416. Hicks, Henry R., 485. Hill, Florence, 960. Hill, Theodore, 491. Hitchcock, Purdy L., 531. Hoag, James, 45. Hoag, John, 11. Hobby, William O., 524.
Hoerr, Adolph, 119. Hoffmeister, Charles, 948. Holbrook, Matthew H., 940. Holden, John G. P., 176. Holler, Frank J., 612. Holler, Lawrence, 613. Hollwegs, Jacob, 110 Holmes, Frank R., 513.
Hopkins, James, 516. Horsfall, William H. A., 631. Horton, Charles H., 942. Horton Family, The, 280. Horton, Franklin, 787. Horton, Joseph, 280. Horton, Stephen D., 280. Horton, Stephen F., 282.
Horton, William J. 700. Hoyt, Seth S., 100. Hoyt, William H., 460. Hubbell, Dwight S., 794.
Huber, William D., 330. Hudson, Henry, 12.
Huestis, Gilbert B., 816.
Huff, Joseph H., 641. Hunt, Isaac M., 647.
Hunt, James F., 520. Hunt, Samuel, 349
Hunter, John F., 676.
Hunter, Nicholas B., 336. Huntington, Collis P., 30. Huntington, James A., 616.
Hurd, Asa, 340.
Husted, Harvey, 926.
Husted, General James W., 353. Husted, Honorable James W., 356.
Hyler, William H., 734.
I.
Ihlder, John D., 775. Ingwersen, Louis, 126. Irving, Washington, 25.
J.
Jackson, A. V. W., 950.
Jackson, D. S., Family, 950. Jackson, James H., 521. Jacobi, Leonard, 494. Jay, John, 670. Jay, John C., 671.
Jenkin, John H., 780. Jenks, Albert S., 617. John, Griffith, 701. Johnson, Samuel J., 316
Johnson, Thomas, 450. Jones, Thomas, 269. Joslyn, Andrew J., 758.
K.
Kaufmann, Peter, 255.
Kay, William, 189. Kear, Edward B., 496.
Keeler, John H., 60. K'ellner, John A., 571. Kellogg, Minot C., 607. Kelly, George T., 227.
Kelly, James W., 838. Kene, C. E., 583. Kinch, 1. Howard, 423. Kingsley, Orin D., 16. Kipp, Augustus, 304. Knapp, Samuel T., 179.
Knowles, Z. Melville, 476.
Knowlton, Ingersoll F., 672.
Koch, William J., 302. Koellmer, John, 147. Kraft, Frederick W., 292.
Kraft, John, 293.
Kraft, William F., 292. Kreidler, Jacob, 245. Kress, John, 768.
INDEX.
L.
Lake, Edward, 70 Lake, William, 621. Lake, William H., 770. Lander, James H., 703. Lane, Charles M., 260.
Latimer, Alfred E., 109. Lawrence, Alfred, 596.
Lawrence, James F., 464.
Lawrence, James V., 889.
Lawrence, William C., 705.
Lawrence, William F., 886.
Lawrence, William V., 567.
Legget, Alexander, 299. Lennon, James T., 244.
Lent, Charles H., 934. Lent, Isaac B., 114. Lent, Isaac H., 116.
Lent, Smith, 963.
Le Strange, Mike, 478. Leviness, Albert S., 704.
Leviness, Daniel D., 543.
Lewis, Joseph H., 746.
Lockwood, Jeremiah T., 709.
Lockwood, George, 426.
Logue, John E., 300.
Long, Edward B., 320.
Lounsberry, Isaac R., 713. Lounsbury, Wellington, 803. Lownsbury, John W., 397.
M.
Magness, G. Hosmer. 820.
Mahlstedt, J. Albert, 633.
Mangam, Daniel D., 894. Manor Hall, Yonkers, The Philipsopere. 772 Mapes, Daniel, 717. Marsden, H. R., 379.
Marshall, Stephen A., 656.
Marshall, William J., 256.
Martin, Charles G., 550.
Martin, Michael J., 632.
Mason, Perley H., 277.
Masterton, Alexander, Sr., 2.
Masterton, Alexander, Jr., 5.
McCabe, James D., 59%. VcCabe, William F., 498.
McClellan, Clarence S., 475.
McClellan, Pelham L., 207.
McCord, Robert, 327. McCue, Jeremiah A., 197.
McDonald, William F., 246.
McKeel, Ira, 715.
McKenna, Eugene, 942.
McTague, Harry P., 296. Mead, Jared E., 821.
Mead, Solomon, 650. Mercer, William, 253. Merritt, Charles, 15%. Merritt, James F., 604. Merritt, James S., 149. Merritt, John O., 52%. Mertz, George, 261. Mertz, Louis C., 262.
Miles, George L., 308. Millard, Frank V., 977. Miller, George L., 636. Miller, Harry B., 941. Miller, Joseph O., 368. Miller, Lewis H., 433. Miller, Samuel C., 85. Mills, Isaac N., 44. Mills, John F., 883. Mitchell, Edward J., 272. Mitchell, Michael F., 146.
Mitchell, Thomas, 257. Mitchell, Peter J., 640.
Molloy, William V., 728.
Monroe, Augustin, 8%A. Montross, Ambrose C., 182.
Moore, Jeremiah J , 219. Morgan, Charles V., 75. Morton, William, Jr., 603.
Moss, William, 1×6.
Mott, Albert W., 984
Mulcahey, James J., 222.
Mulcahey, Thomas F., 254.
Mulrooney, Martin F., 594.
Munson, Ezra E., 141.
Murray, Charles H., 801.
Murray, Daniel, 374. Murray, William, 365.
Murray, William H., 909.
N.
Neilson, Walter S., 405.
Nelson. George, 529. Nelson, William H., 529.
Neuman, A. Watson, 541.
New, John, 224.
Newman, J. Hatfield, 266.
Nichols, John, 178.
Nugent, Arthur W., 743. Nuskey, Alfred, 918.
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Oakley, Thomas, 331. Odell, George F., 542. Odell, James B., 683. Odell, John H., 118. Odell, Nathaniel H., 122.
Odell, William 1., 366. Ogden, John R., 68. ()'Hern, Thomas, 980. Oliver, Thomas, 387. O'Neill, Dennis, 951. Osterheld, Henry, 156.
Otis Elevator Works, 730.
Ous, Norton P., 730. Owens, John J., 348. Owens, Silas J., 903.
P.
Pagan, Franklin 1)., 987. Paine, Thomas, 29. Paine, Willis S., 576. Palmer, George, 443.
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INDEX.
Palmer, Milton C., 652. Palmer, Samuel W., 674. Park, Thomas L., 84. Parker, Clarence E., 412. Parker, Thomas M., 535. Patch, Henry F., 562. Pateman, William, 954. Paulding and Requa Houses, 642 Paulding, James K., 642. Paulding, Peter, 79.
Pawson, J. Eugene, 84%. Peck, Jerome A., 851. Peeler, Leon E., 559.
Peene, Edward L., 135.
Peene, John G., 924.
Pennell, Joseph B., 172.
Perkins, Franklin P., 641.
Phelps, H. D., 73.
Philipses, The, and the Manor, 772.
Platt, Benoni, 643. Platt, Lewis C., 48. Platt, William P., 144.
Plume, Carl W., 626.
Popham, Lewis C., 673.
Powell, Ezra M., 515.
Power, Edmund J., 123.
Prendergast, James W., 357.
Pruyn, John I., 131.
Pryer, Charles, 572.
Pugsley, Cornelius A., 240.
Purdy, George J., 382. Purdy, Elisha T., 236. Purdy, Isaac, 744. Purdy, Stephen L., 407.
Q.
Qualman, Henry J., 293. Quick, E. Lewis, 472. Quirk, Thomas, 390. R.
Radford, Thomas, 812. Randall, J. Wesley, 784. Read, Jacob, 488. Reagan, Michael H., 602. Reedy, John, 629. Reilly, Hugh, 223.
Requa, Isaac, 643. Requa, James M., 899. Requa, Samuel, 988.
Revolutionary Reminiscence, A, 643.
Reynolds, Henry A., 592. Reynolds, Lockwood, 675. Reynolds, Robert A., 662. Reynolds, William E., 386.
Rhodes, Bradford, 424.
Rich, Charles, 413. Richens, Edwin, 433.
Rigby, George N., 483. Ritter Family, The, 321. Ritter, Frederick W., 326. Ritter, George B., 326. Ritter, Henry, 323.
Ritter, John M., 323. Ritter, John P., 325. Robbins, George B., 809.
Robert-, David L. 675. Robertson, Wilham H., 481. Romer, John, 741. Rose, John H., 360. Ross, James, 961.
Rotche, Robert A., 493.
Rudolph, Henry, 155.
Ruemmler, Gustav A., 391
Ruscoe, George 1., 444.
Rushmore, Thomas L., 24.
Russell, John C., 77.
Ryan, William, 985.
S.
Sackett, Walter T., 247. Sanderson, Oswald, 971. Sarles, Hiram B., 438. Schafmeister, John A., 381.
Schirmer, Frank G., 91.
Schmaling, Frederick P., 191.
Schmid, H. Ernest, 136. Schollderfer, Edmund, 712.
Searles, Baily B., 933. Searles, Benjamin B., 947.
Secor, Chauncey T., 267.
Secor, Norman, Jr., 5fix.
Seder, Richard, 98.
See, Elhott H., 276.
Selleck, Sivori, 610.
Selz, Andrew J., 337.
Sergeant, Arthur H., 228.
Sergeant, William H., 619.
Seymour, Stephen G., 558.
Shear, S. R., 649.
Sheehan, Edward F., 766.
Shepherd, Eugene P., 497. sheridan, Peter, 914. Sherman, Frederick W , 500.
Sherwood, Gardner W., 275.
Shotts, John C., 832. Shove, Seth, 857. Shrive, William G., 880.
Siebrecht, Henry A., Jr., 970.
Simons, George E., 931.
Skinner, Halcyon, 658. Slade, James, 682.
Slater, William N., 654.
Sloane, John J., 752.
Smith, Albert E., 864.
Smith, Alexander, 721. South, Daniel, 408.
Smith, H. Eugene, 160.
Smith, J. Clarence, 736.
Smith, John W., 115.
Smith, Oscar, 534. Smith, Stephen W., 669.
Sniffin, Merwin, 630.
spofford, Luke A., 783.
Stengel, George J., 462. Stephens, Odell, 231. Stevens, Francis J., 615. Stewart, James, Jr., 910.
Stilwell, Benjamin W., 51. Stilwell, Stephen J., 31]. St. Mary's Catholic Church, 896. Storm, John 1., 790.
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INDEX.
Stoutenburgh, Samuel K., 932. Stowe, William H., 593. Strang, Albert, 804. Strang, Daniel, 804. Strang, Ira D., 804. Studwell, Edwin F., 829. Stuyvesant, Peter, 15.
Sultzer, Fred, 213. Sutherland, Edmund G., 1335.
Sutton, George W., 457. Swain, Charles R., 459. Sweet, Henry, 512. Swift, Edward P., 264. T.
Talley, James D., 927.
Tallman, Dowah D., 72.
Tator, John, 754.
Taylor, James L., 806.
Taylor, Moses W., 120.
Taylor, Theodore, 101.
Terry, John T., 362.
Thom, John I., 952.
Thomes, George E., 47.
Thompson, Ffarrington M., 328.
Thorne, James A., 920.
Thorne, John I., 921.
Thorne, Nelson S., 921.
Tierney, Michael J., 436.
Tilden, Samuel J., 17.
Tillotson, Lyman M., 367.
Todd Family, The, 824.
Todd, Harvey M., 828.
Todd, James W., 570.
Todd, William N., 828.
Todd, Wilson G., 829.
Tompkins, Adolphus, 398.
Tompkins, Abraham H., 840.
Tompkins, Andrew M., 214.
Tompkins, Fred E., 639.
Tompkins, John I., 148.
Tompkins, Lemuel B., 178.
Tompkins, William H., 352.
Tracy, George, 437.
Travis, David W., 549.
Treadwell, Jesse D., 962.
Treadwell, Leman B., Sr., 962.
Treanor, Francis P., 957.
Tremper, John H., 600.
Tripp, Isaac R., 644.
Truesdell, John W., 533.
Turner, Isaac W., 835.
Tuttle, James A., 549.
Tweedy. Charles E., 167.
U.
Ultcht, Albert A., 595. Underhill, Caleb F .. 822. Underhill, George W. L., 67. Underhill, John Q., 556. Underhill, Lawrence, 175.
Vanil, C. Wilber, 329. Val, Elias, 81. Viul, John, 80.
Vail, William Edgar, 81.
Valentine, Abigail, 665. Valentine, Charles F., 664.
Valentine, Eli, 192.
Valentine, James L., 666.
Valentine, Nathaniel B., 288.
Valentine, Staats, 664.
Valentine, William G., 399.
Van Arsdale, William E., 432.
Van Cortlandt, Augustus, 687.
V'an Court, James S., 478.
Van Rensselaer, William P., 654.
Van Tassel, Ambrose, 263.
Van Tassel, Cornelius, 830.
Van Wart, Alexander, 64:1.
V'an Wart, Isaac, 284.
Van Wyck, Pierre C., 64.
V'an Zelm, John A., 440.
Varian, Henry A., 441.
Venn, Isaac H., 588.
W.
Waller, William B., 605.
Walsh, George, 259.
Walsh, Michael J., 473.
Ward, Thomas B., 431.
Ward, William J., 125.
Waring, Charles E., 64.
Waring, John T., 376.
Washburn Brothers, 510.
Washburn, Harvey M., 510.
Washburn, H. E., 270.
Washburn, Silas W., 511.
Washburne, C. Le Grand, 773.
Watson, James, 388.
Weeks, Frederick E., 688.
Weimar, Jacob, 465.
Weinheimer, John L., 939.
Weis, John A., 142.
Weller, James H., 813.
Wells, Charles N., 876.
Wells, Edward, 872.
Wendt, Carsten, 807.
White, Edward, 518.
White, Michael H., 581.
White, Robert F., 609.
Whitehouse, Worthington, 921.
Whitlock, Aaron B., 468.
Wildey Family, The, 747.
Willson, Elbert S. N., 527.
Wilson, William M., 544.
Wiltsie, John R., 781.
Wolfe, William H., 309.
Wood, James, 41. Worthington, Henry R., 645. Wyckoff, Charles F., 283.
Y.
Yocom, Ed S., 211. Young, Asa W., 790. Young, Charles E., 716. Young, Frank L., 392.
Young, Isaac, 767. Young, Isaac E., 863. Young, Jackson, 788. Young, Rockwell, 789.
BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.
JUDGE J. O. DYKMAN.
For more than thirty years Judge Dykman has been a resident of White Plains, Westchester county, New York, and he has a warm place in the hearts of the people of this place, while for integrity and justice he enjoys a reputation that extends beyond the bounds of the state.
Judge Dykman is a native of the Empire state. He was born in the town of Patterson, Putnam county, New York, and is a descendant of one of the early settlers of that county, his great-grandfather, Joseph Dykman, having settled in what is now the town of Southeast, Putnam county, in colo- nial days, where he became well known and influential; he was a captain in the Continental army in the Revolutionary war.
The youthful days of the subject of our sketch were spent in a manner similar to those of other farmer boys, -in attending school in winter and working on the farm in summer. By the time he reached manhood he had obtained a fair education, enough to enable him to teach a common school, and for some time he was engaged in teaching. Choosing the law for his pro- fession, he entered upon its study in the office of the Hon. William Nelson, then a distinguished lawyer of Peekskill, Westchester county, under whose able instructions he was diligent in study and made rapid advancement. Being duly admitted to the bar, he engaged in the practice of his profession in his native county, at Cold Spring, and shortly afterward was honored with official position there, first being elected to the office of school commis- sioner and subsequently to that of district attorney of the county.
Since the spring of 1866 Judge Dykman has been a resident of White Plains. Two years after locating here, in the fall of 1868, he was elected, by a handsome majority, district attorney of Westchester county, a respon- sible position which he filled with marked ability, particularly distinguish- ing himself by the successful manner in which he conducted the famous Buckhout murder trial. In the fall of 1875 he was again honored with offi- cial position, this time being elected to the high office of justice of the supreme court of the state of New York for the second judicial district. He was nominated and supported as the regular candidate of the Republican 1
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party and at the election received a majority exceeding ten thousand, his sup- port at the polls coming alike from Democrats and Republicans.
Judge Dykman's career on the bench has shown that the confidence of the people was not misplaced. Sound judgment, discretion, kindness, abso- lute fairness and impartiality, and a wide and deep knowledge of the law, are among his chief characteristics. Simple in habits, and modest and polite in manner, he has a happy way of ingratiating himself with all with whom he comes in contact, and those who know him best esteem him most highly. He is in many ways an illustration of what may be accomplished in this country of ours, with its republican institutions, where all positions are within the grasp of those who desire to obtain them. Without the aid of wealth or influence, and through his own energy and perseverance, he has gained the high position he adorns. On neither his public nor private char- acter does there rest a stain.
Judge Dykman has had a long and happy married life, and is the father of two sons, both lawyers,-William N. and Henry T. Mrs. Dykman was formerly Miss Emily L. Trowbridge, of Peekskill, a descendant of one of the New Haven families of that name. In her character is found a noble example of the devoted, loving wife and mother and benevolent Christian woman. Of their sons we further record that William N. married Miss Belle Annan and is a resident of Brooklyn, where he is successfully engaged in the practice of law. Henry T. married Miss Ella B. Cline, of Dutchess county, and is located at White Plains, where he has acquired a large client- age and good practice.
Politically the Judge is a Democrat in the broadest sense of the term, and his religious creed is that of the Protestant Episcopal church, of which he is a consistent member.
ALEXANDER MASTERTON, SR.
We of this end-of-the-century period, representing the most electrical progress in all lines of material activity, are too prone to not give due heed to those elemental values which touch upon the deeper essence of being. We cannot afford to hold in light esteem those who have wrought nobly in the past, nor fail to accord honor to those who have given an heritage of worthy thoughts and worthy deeds, and have aided in laying fast the foundations of the greatest republic the world has ever known. He to whose life history we now turn attention was known and honored as one of the representative citi- zens of Westchester county and as a successful business man of our national metropolis. By his quiet, earnest, useful life and by his example the world was enriched, for the fructifying influences of a noble character expand in constantly widening angle as the years fall into the abyss of time.
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Viavander. Masterton
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WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
Alexander Masterton was a distinct man-distinct in his individuality, in the inflexibility of his principles and in his labors as a man among men. He was born in the picturesque burg of Forfar, in the beautiful vale of Strathmore, Scotland, in the year 1797, coming of stanch Scottish stock and inheriting the sturdy independence and sterling virtues of that hardy race, in the land of "brown heath and shaggy wood." His educational advantages were limited in extent, but his alert and vigorous mentality enabled him to effec- tively supplement his early training through the discipline and associations of his active and successful business life.
At the early age of seventeen years Mr. Masterton bade adieu to the beautiful hills and vales of his native land, severed the cherished ties which bound him to his home, and set forth to seek his fortunes in the New World. He embarked on a sailing vessel bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he arrived in due course of time. In his native land he had learned the stone- cutter's trade, and the proficiency of the Scottish masons is proverbial. Thus it was not strange that the young man soon found use for his services. He remained in Halifax until he had earned sufficient money to repay to a friend the amount which he had borrowed to defray his expenses for the ocean voyage. He then came to New York, and when he arrived in the metropolis his entire financial reinforcement was represented in one solitary half-crown. But he had to his credit an ample fortune in the way of good health, willing hands and a stout heart; and he did not fear to put his faith to the test. He secured employment at his trade, and such was his mechanical ability, his industry and his absolute integrity that upon attaining his majority he was enabled to engage in business upon his own responsibility, -an enter- prise which developed into one of the most important in the line of contract- ing and building in New York city. He formed a partnership with a friend, under the firm name of Masterton & Smith, and this association was con- tinued until the death of Mr. Smith, in 1854,-thus covering the long period of thirty-six years. The partnership was one of most per- fect confidence and mutual esteem, and the firm gained marked prestige in their line of endeavor. After the death of his honored associate Mr. Master- ton formed other relations in a business way, but he gradually withdrew from active connection with business, by reason of impaired health, thereupon retiring to his beautiful country home, where his last days were spent. The firm of which he was a member was not only one of the oldest in the city, but one of the oldest in the country, and many prominent public buildings and private residences were erected by the concern. Among the former may be mentioned the old Exchange, in Wall street, the old United States Bank, which later became the assay office; the custom house of New York; the city hall at New Orleans; and the general post-office at Washington. With his
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