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(VI) Julius Warren Blakely, only son of Dr. Almon D. and Julia (Bronson) Blakely, was born at Unadilla, New York, June 10, 1874, and was destined to choose the same career as did his honored father, and to follow in his professional footsteps. To-day Julius Warren Blakely, M. D. is one of the foremost medical practitioners of Ulster County, New York, and due to inherited instinct, great ability and effici- ency, and a rigid adherence to a high medical code of ethics, he has builded for himself a monument of public esteem and love over which he may well be proud. At the present time (1924) he is still
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ministering to the needs of a large client- age, and is constantly and consistently adding to his prestige in this greatest of all humanitarian fields of endeavor.
Julius Warren Blakely obtained his early education in the district schools of Unadilla, following which, as his father had done before him, he entered and was graduated from the Unadilla Academy. Having been reared in the atmosphere and surrounded since babyhood by the influences of well doing among the sick and needy, it is not to be wondered at that the youth should choose his father's profession for his life's work. He en- gaged upon the medical studies in the Albany Medical College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1896, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Upon his actual admission into the great medical fraternity he at once went to Mil- ford, New York, where his father was practicing medicine, and under the experi- enced guidance of his father he engaged actively in his chosen profession. He remained in Milford for three years, and in 1889 he removed to Sidney, New York, where he was most successfully engaged in practice until 1905, at which time he removed to Highland, Ulster County, New York. Here he has since remained, and by his sincerity, ability, and by his achievements he has won a name par excellence for himself in local medical circles. In 1918 he relinquished his prac- tice temporarily in order to take a post- graduate course at the Bellevue Hospital in New York City. Dr. Blakely is phy- sician to the Sacred Heart Orphan Asy- lum, West Park, New York; Physician to the Raymond Riordan School, High- land, New York; is attending physician at Vassar Brothers Hospital, Poughkeep- sie, New York; and has served as health officer of the town of Highland for nearly a decade. Outside of his professional
activities, he is the president of the Ulster Gas & Oil Company, Incorporated, of Highland.
Politically, Dr. Blakely is a staunch Republican, being an ardent advocate and supporter of the principles of Republican- ism. His religious affiliation is given to the Presbyterian Church. He is a mem- ber of the Ulster County Medical Associ- ation ; Poughkeepsie Academy of Medi- cine; Phi Sigma Kappa, College frater- nity; Deputy District Grand Master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the Ulster District, member of the order since 1897, and founder in 1909 of Sunshine Lodge, No. 929, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Highland, New York.
Dr. Julius Warren Blakely was mar- ried (first) at Middlefield, New York, January 25, 1899, to Grace R. Herin, a daughter of Thomas and Lora (Van Hen- sen) Herin, residents of Middlefield, New York. Of this union there were two chil- dren, as follows: I. Emma Eloise, born October 29, 1904, died at the age of thir- teen. 2. John Charles, born January 10, 1907. Dr. Blakely was married (second) September 21, 1913, at Highland, New York, to Florence M. Clearwater, a daughter of John J. and Emma (Barnes) Clearwater, natives of Highland, who come of old Dutch ancestry. Dr. and Mrs. Blakely are prominent in both the social and religious circles of their com- munity, and they lend their support to every worthy movement of a charitable public welfare, or civic advancement nature.
HOFFMAN, Charles Beekman,
Merchant, Manufacturer, Financier.
In the fourth generation of descent from Conrad Hoffman, Charles Beekman Hoffman was born at Red Hook, New
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York, June 9, 1855, died January 22, 1821, son of Benjamin B. and Adeline (Fan- cher) Hoffman, and he, as was his son, Charles B., after him, was president of the Red Hook National Bank. The son was also prominent as a merchant and manufacturer. He was a helpful and actively influential member of several organizations for the promotion of wor- thy objects in his native county and town. The prestige attaching to the family name for honorable dealing, uprightness of character and strict integrity in financial and business affairs was most closely guarded and maintained by this worthy son of a worthy ancestor.
George C. Hoffman, grandfather of Charles Beekman Hoffman, was a farmer and butcher in Red Hook. He married, June 7, 1807, Lydia Beekman for his first wife, and after her death he married Maria Waldorf. Of these two unions there were twelve children: Gitty Eliza- beth, Rebecca, Helen S., Sarah A., Lydia C., Benjamin B., father of Charles Beek- man; Marjorie L., John W., George L., Edward M., J. Robert and Regina E.
Benjamin B. Hoffman, father of Charles Beekman Hoffman, was born at Red Hook, March 25, 1821, died May 19, 1901. He was a prominent citizen of his town and a member of the firm of Hoffman & Company, manufacturers of tobacco and cigars. He carried on an extensive busi- ness throughout the Hudson River Valley region, and was widely known and deeply interested in business and financial affairs. For many years previous to his death he was president of the Red Hook National Bank. He married, May 8, 1843, Adeline Fancher, of Fishkill, New York., born March 25, 1824, died March 8, 1896, and they had children : Mary M., Laura A., Louis F., Emma J., Edith E., Charles Beekman, Kitty F. and Ida.
Charles Beekman Hoffman was edu- cated in the district schools of his native community, at De Garmo Institute, Rhinebeck, New York, and at Claverack Academy, Claverack, New York. His first business association was in a general store in Red Hook, later taking a position in the department store of Luckey, Platt & Company, Poughkeepsie, New York, where, because of failing health, he re- mained only a short time. He then went to his father's farm at Red Hook, and in a few years entered the employ of the Hoffman Tobacco Company at Red Hook. He soon was made a member of the firm, and continued in that capacity until about five years prior to his death, when he withdrew from connection with the company. On the death of his father, Benjamin B. Hoffman, in 1901, the latter was succeeded in the presidency of the Red Hook National Bank by John N. Lewis, and on the latter's death a few years afterward, Charles Beekman Hoff- man was elected president, which office he held until his death in 1921. Mr. Hoff- man was also a trustee of the Rhinebeck Savings Bank, a member of the Dutchess County Agricultural Society, Dutchess County Historical Society, the Dutchess County Society, and was an active and helpful member of St. Paul's Evangelical Church.
Mr. Hoffman married, October 27, 1880, Fannie Allendorf, daughter of Alfred and Catherine A. (Shook) Allendorf, of Red Hook. She is of Revolutionary ancestry and descended from early settlers of Dutchess County. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beekman Hoffman: I. Bessie C., married Allan Scott, of New York City, October 9, 1909, and they are the parents of Malcolm Scott, born July 19, 1910. 2. Edith Marjorie, married Lorenzo M. Armstrong, of New Haven,
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Connecticut, and has three children, Lorenzo M., Jr., born March 22, 1917, Marjorie M., and John, born July 13, 1924. 3. May, died in infancy. 4. Katherine Allendorf, married Harry R. Homan, of Cedarhurst, Long Island, and they are the parents of a daughter, Marjorie Homan.
FURLONG, Frank Carmine, Physician, Surgeon.
Brought to this country from Italy when an infant by his mother, reared with scrupulous care and generous affec- tion bestowed by his stepmother, trained for the medical profession in university and hospital, Frank Carmine Furlong, M. D., has worked his way up into the prominent physician class in Dutchess County, New York, and merits also the esteem in which he is held in his home community, Poughkeepsie, in which city and the vicinity his practice largely cen- ters. Hard work persistently concen- trated upon his life calling and the results of the motherly devotion affection- ately manifested by his father's second wife were the chief contributing elements to the forward strides made by this young physician.
Anthony Furlong, when he emigrated to this country from Italy in 1890, left his young wife in the homeland until such time as he should be able to receive them in a home of their own. When he landed on the shores of the United States, the father of the future Dr. Furlong knew little or nothing of the English language. When the court officials asked him his name, he gave it correctly, Ferlona, but his speech was so broken that the officials understood him to have said "Furlong" and thus his name went into the record, and thus ever since it has been known, it having been with facility adopted by the
family. Therefore he who otherwise would have been known as Dr. Ferlona has gone further in name and has lived up to the same with an enviable reputation. Anthony Furlong, immediately after pas- sing through the immigration station, settled in Poughkeepsie, New York, hav- ing come to this country to take advan- tage of the opportunities of education and the betterment of himself and his family. His wife, Vincenza Juliano Furlong, who was left by her husband in Italy, he hav- ing preceded her to this country by seve- ral months, brought with her their infant son, Frank Carmine, who was born in Postiglione, Province of Salerno, Italy, June 24, 1890, and mother and son joined husband and father at Poughkeepsie. The family lived in Poughkeepsie seven years, and then removed to Highland, Ulster County, New York, where he worked as laborer. His wife, Vincenza Juliano Furlong, died November 2, 1897. He married (second) Mary Marcigliano, to whom Dr. Furlong is deeply indebted for her having taken the place of mother in the best sense of the word, and having reared him as if he had been her own son. Anthony Furlong died in Highland, April 3, 1921.
Frank Carmine Furlong, when the family lived in Poughkeepsie, attended St. Peter's Boys Parochial School in that city, and on the family's removal to High- land he entered the high school of that town, whence he was graduated in the class of 1910. Possessing an industrious nature, he worked at various employment during his school days. In the fall of 1910, having determined to take up the study of medicine, he entered the Albany Medical College of Union University, from which he was graduated in the class of 1914 with the degree of M. D., secre- tary of his class.
Dr. Furlong served one year as interne
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at Albany (New York) Hospital, and then removed to New York City to take charge of the hospital at Blackwell's Island Workhouse under the direction of Commissioner Katherine Davis, at that time the only woman commissioner in New York. In May, 1916, Dr. Furlong removed to Poughkeepsie, where he be- gan his professional career of Physician and surgeon and as a general practitioner.
Dr. Furlong is first assistant surgeon to the chief of staff of St. Francis' Hos- pital and attending physician of Bowne Memorial Hospital. In 1919 he was appointed by the Poughkeepsie Board of Charities as physician to the City Home. He was appointed by the Board of Health as physician to the Parochial School for four years. Dr. Furlong is a member of the American Medical Association, New York State Medical Society, Dutchess and Putnam Counties Medical Society, Poughkeepsie Academy of Medicine. He holds membership in Poughkeepsie Lodge, No. 275, Benevolent and Protect- ive Order of Elks; Poughkeepsie Council, Knights of Columbus; the Sons of Italy, of which he is District Deputy for Dutch- ess County, having been appointed by the Grand Lodge, and is a trustee of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Pough- keepsie.
Dr. Furlong married, July 31, 1916, Carmela Mauro, of Gloversville, New York, who was graduated from the New Paltz State Normal School, and at the time of her marriage was a teacher at the Gloversville (New York) High School. She is the daughter of Joseph and Cathe- rine Mauro, of Gloversville.
GRANT, Edwin V.,
Representative Business Man.
The late Edwin V. Grant, who for many years was one of Poughkeepsie's promi-
nent business men, and widely known throughout the Hudson River Valley as the chief executive of one of the repre- sentative paint and wall paper concerns in Dutchess County, was of Scotch extraction, his parents having been natives of the land of "hill and heather." The patronymic "Grant," which first came into use in the early part of the eleventh century during the surname epoch, is a variation of le grand, mean- ing great or large. It was applied to men of great stature, of big and broad proportions. Thus Richard, if he hap- pened to be a man of gigantic physique, would become Richard le Grand. Le Grand, due to colloquialism, gradually changed to "le Graunte," "le Graunt," "le Grant," and finally, "Grant." This sur- name was especially popular in Scotland, probably due to the fact that the early clans bred men of great strength and size. Families bearing the name Grant have become greatly ramified throughout Scot- land, especially in and around Edinburgh, whence came Mr. Grant's father. The ancient armorial bearings of the Scottish clans of Grant are as follows :
Arms-Gules, three antique crowns or, within a bordure ermine; on a canton of the second, a demi otter, proper.
Crest-A Hercule's head couped sidefaced, in a lion's skin, all proper.
William Grant, father of Edwin V. Grant, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and reared there. He married Susan Paliner, and they immigrated to this country, settling in New York City, where Mr. Grant engaged in the paint and wall paper business. The venture was a success from the very start, and some years later he removed to Ossining, New York, where he engaged in the same line of endeavor with his eldest son, Ells- worth, who later succeeded him in the
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management of the concern. The senior Mr. Grant was a far-seeing and unusually keen business man, and became the owner of a considerable amount of real estate in New York City. William Grant and his wife were the parents of seven chil- dren, of whom Edwin V. was the second youngest child.
Edwin V. Grant was born in Ossining, New York, February 14, 1871, and died in Poughkeepsie, New York, July 4, 1924. His early education was received in the public schools of his birthplace, following which he attended and was graduated from the Mt. Pleasant Military Academy and Odell College, both of Ossining, New York. About the year 1894, Edwin V. WOOD, James W.,
Grant came to Poughkeepsie, and with his cousin, U. S. Grant, took over the interests of his brother, who was engaged in the paint and wall paper business, under the firm name of E. V. & U. Grant. Later he took over the interests of his partner, his cousin who had retired, and from that time on until his death he con- tinued the business alone with great suc- cess. Edwin V. Grant was a keen busi- ness man, possessing those prime requi- sites to any successful business endeavor : ability, efficiency, attention to details, unlimited energy, and last but not least, integrity and honesty so welded into his strict code of business ethics that his reputation for probity was well and wide- ly known. Mrs. Grant had been associ- ated in the enterprise with her husband for a number of years, and together they built up a business second to none in this section. Mr. and Mrs. Grant had always travelled extensively, and they contem- plated a trip to Europe when the hand of death stilled for all time the activities of Mr. Grant. He was a sincere member of the Washington Street Methodist Epis- copal Church of Poughkeepsie, and a con- sistent contributor to its support.
Edwin V. Grant was married in Ossin- ing, New York, August 22, 1899, to Ada S. Smith, a daughter of Samuel H. and Mary Ann (Grosvenor) Smith, residents of Pomfret, Connecticut. Mrs. Grant, on the maternal side, comes from Revolu- tionary War stock, the Grosvenors having been prominent in New England history from the early Colonial days down to the present time. Ada S. (Smith) Grant sur- vives her husband, whose death removed from Dutchess County a well known and highly respected citizen, and one of the foremost business men.
Well-Known Druggist.
Seeking and fulfilling the best of his life's opportunities, in the domain of his wide business experience, and in the even larger social world in which he bore so prominent and acceptable a part in his native city of Poughkeepsie, James W. Wood, maintained an influential and meritorious position both for personal enterprise and talent. He set a high esti- mate upon worth and character in all of life's affairs, and his scores of friends bear witness that he held closely to such esti- mate in his own individuality, the mould of honorable and faithful living being that in which his purposes and dealings were cast. Not alone in Poughkeepsie and its surroundings was he known and esteemed, but throughout the Hudson River Valley his friendships and acquaintances were numberless. His management and direc- tion of the extensive drug store business that had continued for years was of such an excellent character that his name and business were synonymous with integrity and substantiality. A man endowed with mental gifts and the graces of humor and of histrionic talents, his popularity was
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unfailing. He was a son of James G. and Sarah (Waring) Wood.
James G. Wood was born in Dutchess County, New York. Early in life he en- gaged in the drug business, and in 1859 he came into possession of the drug store at No. 288 Main Street, Poughkeepsie, which had been conducted by Elias Tri- vett and Henry Titamer, the firm being well known and carrying on an extensive business. Mr. and Mrs. Wood were the parents of two children: James W., of whom further ; and Charlotte, a writer of considerable note, who married Edward Morse, the son of Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, and who for years lived in the town of Poughkeepsie.
James W. Wood was born at Pough- keepsie, August 1, 1863. He received his preliminary education in the Bishop Private School at his birthplace; he had prepared to matriculate at Williams Col- lege, Williamstown, Massachusetts, when the death of his father caused him to make a change in his former plans, and he applied himself to learning the business of druggist. In 1899, Mr. Wood associ- ated himself with William J. Bolton, under the firm name of Wood & Bolton, that partnership existing twelve years. In 1911, Mr. Wood assumed the responsi- bilities of the business, and so conducted it until his death. Under his capable management it became one of the most widely known drug stores, happily quali- fied by the popular terms "old and reli- able" throughout the Hudson River Valley.
No one was ever given a more cordial welcome in the social life of Poughkeep- sie. At the time of his death, Mr. Wood was a member of the Amrita and Dutch- ess Golf and Country clubs, and of both organizations he had been a member of long standing, and he was one of their
most ardent workers. For years, also, he was a member of the Apokeepsing Boat Club, and of the Poughkeepsie Tennis Club, though he had retired from both some years previously. In the social circles of the city he had earned an excellent reputation as an actor, largely through his unstinted cooperation in the amateur theatrical productions that were staged by various organizations of which he was a member. A man of rare talent, he was invariably a cheering personality in any work that he undertook.
Mr. Wood married, March 7, 1888, Electa Myers, a daughter of Michael and Mary (Allen) Myers, both natives of Whitehall, New York, where Mr. Myers was a successful merchant and conducted a country store. Mr. and Mrs. Wood were the parents of two children: James Waring, who died when he was fourteen years of age; and Margaret Allen, who married Robert C. Powell, of Providence, Rhode Island, their children being Nancy and James Powell.
James W. Wood died July 12, 1924, a man of excellent character, and who pos- sessed that kind of personality, agreeable and optimistic, that makes of every acquaintance a friend. He highly merited the esteem in which he was held through- out this section, and his death was regret- ted by a host of friends. Truthfully has it been said of him that he left behind a good example of honorable and faithful dealing, and memories of the most pleas- ing and enduring sort.
VON TILING, Johannes H. M. A., Physician.
A native of Riga, Russia, educated in the schools of that city and Lubeck, Germany, and the Universities of Goet- tingen and Bonn, now a naturalized citi-
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zen of the United States, formerly assist- ant surgeon at Vassar Brothers Hospital, Dr. Johannes H. M. A. von Tiling pract- ices his profession of internal medicine at Poughkeepsie, New York, and is a valued contributor to magazines and other peri- odicals on a variety of medical subjects. Dr. von Tiling comes from a long line of professional and literary men, and is the third son of Professor Wilhelm August von Tiling, a native of Mitau, Russia, where he was born in 1844, and died in Germany, in January, 1924. He was an educator, and occupied the chair of pro- fessor of Greek and Latin at Riga. In 1888 he removed with his family to Lubeck, Germany, where he became a German-Lutheran clergyman and held pastorates there and in that vicinity until 1912, when he retired from the ministry. Professor von Tiling married Marie Kupfer, and they were the parents of twelve children.
Dr. von Tiling was born in Riga, Rus- sia, August 28, 1875, and was educated in the gymnasiums of Riga and Lubeck, at Schul-Pforta and Goslar and the universi- ties of Goettingen and Bonn; and was graduated from Bonn in the class of 1901 with the degree of M. D. He was assist- ant surgeon at Bonn for two years, and in 1903 he was induced to come to this country by Dr. Howard A. Kelly, the emi- nent Professor of Gynecology at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Mary- land, and became an assistant to Dr. Kelley. Dr. von Tiling, in 1903, removed to Poughkeepsie, New York, where he was appointed assistant surgeon at the Vassar Brothers Hospital, remaining in that position until January, 1906, when he established an office of his own and entered upon the practice of internal medicine, which he continues to follow. His articles on medical subjects in vari-
ous periodicals of worth have attracted no little attention on the part of the profes- sion. In 1909 Dr. von Tiling, having determined to make this country his per- manent home, became a naturalized citi- zen of the United States. His residence is at No. 278 Mill Street, Poughkeepsie, New York, and he maintains a summer residence at Cliff Island, Portland, Maine. He is a member of the American Medical Society, New York Academy of Medi- cine, American Congress on Internal Medicine, and the Poughkeepsie Academy of Medicine. He is a member of the medical staff of St. Francis' Hospital, Poughkeepsie. His clubs are the Port- land Yacht, Dutchess County Golf and Country and Amrita.
Dr. von Tiling married January 16, 1904, Sarah F. R. Morrison, of Wake- field, England. They are the parents of a daughter, Johanna E. R., who was edu- cated at the Emma Willard School, Troy, New York.
HAYT, Ralph Augustus,
Physician, Surgeon.
Having the honor to have descended from Simeon Hayt, immigrant English ancestor, who settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1629, was admitted a freeman of the city of Boston, May 18, 1631, said to be the earliest record of any man so constituted on this side of the Atlantic, Dr. Ralph Augustus Hayt, of Fishkill, New York, also has in his lineage Walter Hayt, son of Simeon Hayt, the founder of the Hayt family name in America, who was a member of the Con- necticut General Assembly in 1667; Ste- phen Hayt, who fought in the French wars on the side of England, born in 1730, died in 1770; and John Hayt, a soldier of the American Revolution, whose service
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only lasted for six months as he was made prisoner by the British.
Born in Fishkill, November 11, 1877, son of William B. and Ella J. Hayt, Ralph Augustus Hayt attended the elementary schools of his native village, afterward entering Claverack College and Hudson River Institute, Claverack, New York, 1893-95, and then entered Cornell Uni- versity, where he took special studies in 1895-96. Early in his student days he selected the medical profession, and in pursuit of his ideal he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, taking the four years' course, 1896-1900, and was awarded his diploma with the degree of M. D. Dr. Hayt obtained his practical experience in medi- cine and surgery while serving as interne at St. Catherine's Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, 1900-02. As showing the high standing to which Dr. Hayt has attained in his profession, he is attending surgeon of the Highland Hospital, Beacon, New York; attending surgeon of the United States Veterans' Hospital, Castle Point, New York; consulting surgeon of the Matteawan State Hospital for the Crimi- nal Insane, Beacon, New York. Dr. Hayt rendered valued service to the State of New York as coroner of Dutchess County, 1912-14.
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