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iated with Phoenix Lodge, No. 115, Frec & Accepted Masons, at Dansville,. Livingston county.
In the year 1867 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Doughty to Miss Frances Robinson, who was born in Springwater township, Livingston county, this state, on the 7th of October, 1837, and who is a daughter of the late Mason and Emma (Parshall) Robinson, honored pioneers of that county, where they continued to reside until their death and where the father was a prosperous agriculturist. Mr. and Mrs. Doughty have one daughter, Nora, who was born in the year 1869 and who is now the wife of H. F. Masten, of Bentley Creek, Bradford county, Pennsylvania, where Mr. Masten is a pros- perous merchant. Mr. and Mrs. Masten have one child, Lenora, who was graduated in the piano department of the conservatory of music at Mansfield, Pennsylvania, and who is now pursuing courses in vocal music and pipe-organ work.
LOWELL ALPHEUS PENNEY, M. D .- This pioneer physician and surgeon, prominent as a specialist in the treatment of cancers, was born in Waterville, Maine, March 11, 1826, and his death, April 26. 1910, removed from Hornell one of its most venerable and distin- guished citizens. George Penney, his father, was also a native of the Pine Tree state, within whose borders he lived the simple, industrious life of a farmer and died, aged seventy-five, after having enjoyed the spiritnal and material rewards of years well spent. The New England family of Penney is of Scotch extraction and its earliest representa- tives there were pioneers in the New World. George Penney mar- ried Miss Malinda Bickford, who was born in Maine and lived to be ninety-seven years old.
George and Malinda (Bickford) Penney had twelve children, all bnt one of whom grew to matnrity, Dr. Penney being the third child and second son in order of nativity. He was educated in the com- mon schools near his boyhood home and in the historic old academy at Waterville. He learned the trade of buggy-making and in 1852 emigrated to Pennsylvania, settling at Lockhaven, Clinton county, where he found employment at his trade and was later in business for himself fourteen years. He married there in 1853 Miss Cath- erine Silvis, who was born and reared in that old town and who has now reached the venerable age of seventy-five years, having first seen the light of day November 19, 1835.
In 1866, the subject of this review removed to Emporium, Penn- sylvania, and began the practice of medicine, for which he had pre- pared to a great extent by study in his spare time at Lockhaven. He continued his studies and was graduated in medicine at Philadelphia in 1869. He was successful at Emporium, but decided to remove to Wellsville, Allegany county, New York, which he did in 1874. There he built up a good practice, of which he disposed in order to locate in Hornell, where he was engaged in practicing his profession uninterruptedly since 1880. For more than forty years he made a study of the nature, cause and cure of cancer. The subject interested
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him so deeply that he naturally made a specialty of cancer treatment, in which he achieved much success. His discoveries in this peculiar field of medical and surgical investigation marked him as one of the most eminent practitioners in his line in this or any other country. He was a member of the Eclectic Medical Society and he was for a time connected with the Steuben Sanitarium.
Dr. Penney was known as one of the "fathers of Republicanism." Until in the early fifties he was an unquestioning Democrat, content with things national .as they were. The questions which had eventn- ally to be answered at the polls and on the field of battle drew him : out of liis conservatism and brought him to a new conception of his duty as a citizen. He affiliated with abolitionists and other. reformers and was soon so much of a reformer himself that he helped. to organ- ize Republicanism, voted for Fremont and for Lincoln and shouted for the Union, as all Republicans and most of the northern Democrats did in the days of the Civil war. From that time on he acted con- sistently with the Republican party in all its history-making work. Ile was one of the oldest members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Hornell and he has been a Mason for more than half a century. In addition to his other interests he was the owner of a fine farm of one hundred and thirty acres at Cameron Mills.
Dr. and Mrs. Penney became the parents of five children, one of their sons dying in infancy. Their daughter Malinda is Mrs. D. A. Cole. of Cohocton, Steuben county. Edith M. is a member of the household of her widowed mother. She was an assistant to her hon- ored father in his professional business, and is now a graduate pro- fessional nurse specializing in the treatment of cancers. She pos- sesses the formula of her father's remedies. Harry J. is a plumber by trade and Margery is Mrs. Henry McEvoy, of Hornell.
WILLIAM J. SMITH, a prominent farmer near Bath, Steuben . county, New York, was born in Elmira, Chemung county, New York, July 21, 1872, a son of Otis H. and Elizabeth (Sherwood) Smith. Otis H. Smith enlisted in 1861 in the One Hundred and Sixty-first Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, and served through the Civil war, receiving his honorable discharge as first lieutenant of his company. He was variously employed till 1874, when he returned to Bath and engaged in the tinware buisness. Later he was in the warehouse enterprise for some years. Then, for many years, he was known in connection with butchering and in- surance interests, either together or singly. In politics he was stanchly Republican, active to the time of his death. He was for twenty or thirty years an official of the Bath Soldiers' Home. His wife was the daughter of a Baptist clergyman. They left a son and a daughter. The latter, Maud by name, is the wife of F. E. Wood. of New Mexico.
William T. Smith was brought up on a farm and educated in public schools near his home. After leaving school he turned his attention to farming, to which he has devoted all his active years
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with satisfactory success. He is a Republican and a member of the Protestant Episcopal church. Though he wields a recognized politi- cal influence, he is not himself an office seeker and has persistently refused such as have been proffered him. He married Mary S. Pin- chin, who was born May 12, 1873, a daughter of Albert and Polly (Griswold) Pinchin, the first mentioned of whom died in 1904. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have had children named as follows: Ernest. fourteen years old; Charles Otis, twelve; Frank, ten; William T., eight; Albert, six; Kenneth, four; George, two.
ALLISON SIDNEY MANN .- A wide-awake, industrious young man, full of American vim and energy, Allison Sidney Mann, of Bath, is carrying on a substantial business as an ice dealer, and is well known as a valued and trustworthy member of the community in which his life has been spent. He was born on the parental homestead, in Bath, December 11, 1883, of English ancestry.
His father, the late George Mann, was born in Suffolk county. England, and was there bred and educated. Immigrating to this country in 1875, he bought land in Bath, Steuben county, New York, and embarked in agricultural pursuits. He met with excel- lent success as a general farmer, and subsequently devoted a portion of his time to the ice business, building up a good trade in this al- most indispensable article of commerce. He died on the home farin. in 1902, at the comparatively early age of fifty-three years. He was a man of high moral principles, and a consistent member of the Episcopal church. Hc married Emily Dament, who was born fifty-five years ago, in Suffolk county, England, a daughter of George and Jane (Nichols) Dament, and she still occupies the old home in Bath. Seven children blessed their union, namely: Alli- son Sidney, with whom this brief sketch is chiefly concerned; Eliza. wife of Charles Wallace, who is engaged in farming in Bath; Mabel. wife of Oran Thomas, a plumber in Buffalo; Cora, wife of William Morse, lives on the homestead; Florence, wife of Frank Mullen, of Buffalo; Laura, a stenographer, lives at home; Lillian, attending school ; and M. Noble.
Leaving school at the age of fourteen years, Allison Sidney Mann assisted his father in the ice business for several seasons, obtaining an insight into the details of its management, and on the death of his father took entire management of the ice plant, and has since had charge of both that and the home farm. He has met with success as an agriculturist, and the Mann Ice Company, of Bath, is carrying on a very prosperous and lucrative business under his supervision. Mr. Mann has never married, his time, mayhap, hav- ing been too much engrossed by other matters. True to the religious faith in which he was reared, he belongs to the Episcopal church. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees, and of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.
FAY H. WHITE .- Actively engaged in the practice of a pro- fession that demands a large measure of veritable talent as well as a
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comprehensive and technical knowledge, Fay H. White, of Corning, is meeting with unquestioned success in his chosen vocation, his high position as a man and a lawyer clearly entitling him to representa- tion in this biographical compilation. A son of Dr. Ezra M. White, he was born, August 11, 1873, in Elmira, New York.
Born and reared in Caton, Steuben county, New York, Eugene M. White, M. D., early resolved to enter the medical profession, and having received his degree of M. D., was for nearly forty years actively engaged in the practice of medicine in Steuben county, the greater part of the time being located in Cohocton. At the present time, however, he is practicing in New York city. Dr. White mar- ried Mary E. Van Wormer, a daughter of Valentine Van Wormer. She was born in Cohocton, in 1844, and there died at the age of forty-nine years. Her paternal great-grandfather immigrated from Holland to Massachusetts, where her grandfather, Lawrence Van Wormer was born. Coming from the old Bay state to the Empire state in 1806, Lawrence Van Wormer settled in Cohocton, and there spent the remainder of his life. Valentine Van Wormer was born in Steuben county, New York, in 1812, and was here a resident until his death, in 1897. The union of Dr. and Mrs. White was blessed by the birth of two sons, namely: Dr. Ernest C. White, a practicing physician in Paris, France; and Fay M., with whom this sketch is chiefly concerned.
After his graduation from the Cohocton High School, Fay H. White embarked in the real estate business, for two years being lo- cated in Bath, Steuben county. Going from there to New York city, he opened an office in that metropolis, and for twelve years carried on an excellent business as a real estate broker. Ambitious, however, to enter upon a professional career, Mr. White subsc- quently became a student at the Wesleyan College, in Genesee, New York, and was graduated from its law department with the class of 1909, and has since been successfully engaged in the prac- tice of law at Corning, having already won a good standing among his legal brethren.
Mr. White married, in 1903, Emma C. Cullen, a daughter of William H. Cullen, of Macedon, Wayne county, New York, and they have one daughter, Mary Elizabeth. Mr. White has large real estate interests in Steuben county, and is active in social circles. He is a member of the Steuben Society ; of the Delta Chi Fraternity of New York city and of the Corning Club.
RICHARD E. ENRIGHT .- Lieutenant Enright is one of the effi- cient and popular officials of the police department of Greater New York and is now acting captain in charge of the Vernon Avenue Station in the borough of Brooklyn. He has been an active member of the police department for nearly a decade and a half and his record in this connection has been marked by fidelity to duty and by his promotion to the office of lieutenant, of which he has been in- cumbent since 1905.
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Lieutenant Enright was born in the village of Campbell, Steu- ben county, New York, on the 30th of August, 1871, and is a son of Michael and Jett (Bennett) Enright, both of whom were born in Ireland. Michael Enright was reared to about sixteen years in his native land and he then came to America and settled in Steuben county, where he continued to maintain his home for more than half a century and where he died in 1904, at the age of sixty-eight years. He was a man of sterling integrity and his career was marked by consecutive industry and honesty of purpose. Both he and his wife were communicants of the Catholic church, in whose faith they were reared. Mrs. Enright was a girl of about twelve years at the time of her parents' removal to America and she was reared to maturity in Steuben county, where she continued to reside until her death, in 1877. Of the nine children all but one attained to years of ma- turity and of the number seven are now living. All of the children were born in Steuben county. In that county William and Jere- miah still maintain their homes; John and Michael reside in El- mira, New York; Patrick is a resident of Los Angeles, California; Jett resides in Brooklyn, New York; and Lieutenant Enright, of this review, is the youngest of the children.
Lieutenant Enright is indebted to the public schools of his native county for his early educational training and as a youth he learned the art of telegraphy. After perfecting himself in the same he was employed at various places in the state and he finally removed to New York city, where he was employed for a time as operator for the Delaware & Lackawanna Railroad, later by the Erie & Western and finally by the Long Island Railroad. Besides which he was for a time in the employ of the Western Union Tele- graph Company. In 1896 he made a radical change of vocation by joining the police force of New York city and he recalls with satis- faction that at this time Theodore Roosevelt was police commis- sioner of the city. In 1897 the Lieutenant was appointed secretary to General Theophilus F. Rodenbaugh, Superintendent of Elections in New York city. In 1902 he was promoted to the position of police sergeant by Colonel John M. Partridge, who was at that time police commissioner. In 1904 he was chosen Superintendent in charge of the Bureau of Repairs and Supplies of the Police De- partment and at the same time was advanced to the rank of lieu- tenant, by Commissioner William McAdoo. In 1905 he received his well-earned promotion to his present rank of lieutenant. In 1909 he was appointed Acting Captain of Police at the Gates Ave- nue Station, in Brooklyn, and later he had charge of the Elizabeth Street Station, the jurisdiction of which extended over the famous "Chinatown" of New York. He assumed his position as Acting Captain at the Vernon Avenue Station in 1910, and here he has since continued to give most efficient administration of the duties devolving upon him.
For several years Lieutenant Enright was president of the Police Sergeant Benevolent Association, which at that time had a
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membership of nearly six hundred and fifty police sergeants ideu- tified with the Police Department of New York city. For the past five years he has been president of the Lieutenants' Benevolent Association, which has a membership of seven hundred and fifty men, and he is also chairman of the Federated Police Organizations of Greater New York, in which capacity he has presided at many important social and business meetings of the organization. He is affiliated with the Royal Arcanum, Brooklyn Lodge, No. 22, Benev- olent and Protective Order of Elks, and is well known in the borough in which he resides and in which his popularity is of the most unequivocal type. He is a Democrat in his political pro- clivities. The captain is a bachelor.
CLAUD V. STOWELL .- A rising young attorney of Corning, devoting all of his energy to making a success of his chosen profes- sion, Claud V. Stowell is fast winning for himself a prominent and honorable name in the legal circles of Steuben county. He was born July 26, 1882, in Lindley, Steuben county, and has spent his entire life in this section of the state.
His father, Harry Stoweil, and his grandfather, Richard P. Stowell, have both been residents of Steuben county for upwards of thirty-five years, and both have been active in public affairs, serving as justice of the peace many terms, each discharging the duties of his office with ability and fidelity.
Receiving his preliminary education in the district schools, Claud V. Stowell subsequently prepared for college at the North Side High School of Corning, and in 1908 was graduated from the Law Department of the Syracuse University, at Syracuse, New York. Locating in Corning on February 1, 1909, Mr. Stowell formed a partnership with Neil W. Andrews, and was with him engaged in the practice of law until March 1, 1910, when the part- nership was dissolved. Talented and capable, he has made rapid strides in his professional career, his legal skill and ability winning him the confidence of the people, and he is now serving as acting city judge, and as justice of the peace, in the latter capacity closely following in the footsteps of his immediate ancestors. He is a stanch advocate of the principles of the Democratic party, and is much interested in public matters.
Mr. Stowell married, November 4, 1907, Elizabeth J. Harrison, a daughter of Edgar J. Harrison, a well-known agriculturist. On April 27, 1909, she passed to the higher life. Mr. Stowell is a mem- ber of the Delta Chi Law Fraternity of the state of New York.
BELMONT M. LARUE .- At 180 Broadway, in New York city, are established the headquarters of Mr. LaRue, who is here suc- cessfully engaged in the real estate business and who is one of the worthy representatives of Steuben county in the national metropo- lis. He was born at Hornell, Steuben county, on the 2d of Decem- ber, 1869, and is the elder of the two sons of Henry Belmont LaRue,
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who was born in the city of New York, whence he removed to Hor- nell, Steuben county, about the year 1867. There he has since maintained his home and for many years he has been one of the honored citizens and prominent business men of Steuben county.
Belmont M. LaRue gained his early educational discipline in the public schools of his native place and in 1889, when nineteen years of age, he removed to New York city, where he secured em- ployment in the transportation department of the Erie Railroad. Shortly afterward he assumed the position of private secretary to the president of the Title Guaranty & Trust Company, of New York city, and this incumbency he retained for three years, within which he gained most valuable business experience. He finally re- signed his position to accept that of secretary to Colonel Samuel B. Dick, president of the Pittsburg, Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad, with headquarters in the city of Pittsburg. He was thus engaged about three years, at the expiration of which he returned to the city of New York, where he became secretary to Marcellus Hartley, one of the directors of the Equitable Life Assurance Company and prominently identified with many other capitalistic enterprises. Mr. LaRue finally resigned his position and secured one with the firm of Price, Waterhouse & Company, of London, England, a concern that maintains offices in New York. In 1908 Mr. LaRue began his independent operations in connection with the real estate business, and in the same he has been very successful, having repre- sented on his books at all times most desirable investments, both city and country property, and also giving attention to the renting of properties, as well as to collections. He is prominently con- cerned in the exploiting of the Kelvin Grove addition to Westfield, New York a tract of about ninety acres that has been effectively platted and upon which improvements of the best order are being made, including the erection of attractive houses, which have been placed upon the market.
Mr. LaRue is an aggressive and enterprising business man and is bringing to bear splendid executive powers in the handling of his business interests, through which he has gained prominence as one of the successful real estate dealers of the metropolis. Thoughi never manifesting any ambition to enter the turbulence of practical politics, he takes a loyal interest in public affairs and his political allegiance is given to the Republican party. He is a popular mein- ber of the Steuben County Society of New York City and retains a deep interest in his native county. In the year 1897 Mr. LaRue was united in marriage to Miss Lillian Benedict, daughter of Delos and Letitia Benedict, of Worcester, Massachusetts.
CHARLES GRIFFITH YOUNG .- A nation's efficiency, its greatness in a material sense, as well as its moral wellbeing, depends upon whether its people can find their proper work, distributing them- selves like a well-ordered army where each can do his best. There can be no modicum of doubt that in his chosen field of endeavor
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Mr. Young has so placed himself as to make his efforts and activities most productive and beneficent, as in his profession as a consulting and construction engineer he has shown marked technical and initiative power and has achieved large and definite success as well as wide reputation, giving him prestige as one of the distinctively representative members of his profession. He has his office head- quarters at 60 Wall street, New York city, and since initiating his independent career has added materially to the distinction which he had previously gained in the employ of others. Steuben county may well find pride in the character and accomplishment of this native son, and he is a scion of old and honored families of the county. Within the compass of a sketch of this order it is, of course, impossible to enter into details concerning the various stages of his professional career, but sufficient data will be offered to con- vey an idea of the consistency of the foregoing statements.
Charles Griffith Young was born at Bath, Steuben county, on the 1st of November, 1866, and is a son of Charles H. and Marian (Kellogg) Young, the former of whom was born at Benton Center, Yates county, New York, and the latter at Kanona, Steuben county, where the Kellogg family was founded in the pioneer days. Mrs. Young passed on in June, 1879, at the age of thirty-nine years. Charles H. Young was a lad of twelve years at the time he removed to Steuben county, where he was reared to manhood and eventually became one of Bath's successful merchants. About the year 1898 he removed to Naples, Ontario county, where he continued to reside until his death, which occurred on the 7th of September, 1908, at which time he was about seventy-three years of age. Of the two surviving children the subject of this review is the elder, and the other is Marianna Young Quinby, now residing in Buffalo, New York.
Charles Griffith Young gained his educational discipline by a course in Haverling Academy, at Bath, Steuben county, from which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1885. In the early part of the following year he began his technical training in the establishment of the Schuyler Electric & Manufacturing Company at Hartford and Middleton, Connecticut, where he fa- miliarized himself with all departments of manufacturing, experi- mental and testing work and with the practical erection and opera- tion of electric lighting plants. In 1888 he became general super- intendent of the Mount Morris Electric Lighting Company, of New York city, with which he continued to be prominently identified until 1892, when he became identified with the interest of J. G. White & Company and the White-Crosby Company, representing one of the most important engineering-contracting concerns of the kind in the world. In 1900 he associated himself with J. G. White & Company, Limited, in London, England, and in this connection he made special financial and engineering examinations, investiga- tions, reports and negotiations for contracts in South America, New Zealand and various places throughout many other sections of the
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world. From 1902 to 1905 he had entire charge of all construction for the J. G. White interests in America, and with this great con- cern he continued to be actively identified until February, 1909, when he established himself independently in the work of his pro- fession. While with the White corporations Mr. Young did a large amount of expert financial and construction work in many of the leading cities of the United States, as well as in the Philippine Islands, Australia, Holland, Argentine Republic, Ceylon, Cuba, Canada, Uruguay, Brazil, Porto Rico, China, Chili, New Zealand and Japan. After establishing himself in the independent work of his profession Mr. Young made his third trip around the world, hav- ing been engaged to make certain important examinations and re- ports in the far east. He left New York in February, 1909, and during his absence of about seven months he again visited Hono- lulu, Japan and the Philippine Islands, after which he passed through China, Manchuria and Korea, thence to Vladivostok and over the Siberian railroads to Moscow, and finally to Berlin, Paris and London. He returned to New York city in September, 1909, and here has since made his headquarters for his large and im- portant work as a consulting and constructing engineer, in both of which lines he is a recognized authority.
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