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pointed first lieutenant in Colonel Philip B. Bradley's New Connecticut regiment. At the battle of Germantown, October 4, 1777, he was captured, and spent the next eight months in prison at Philadelphia. Thence he was transferred to Brooklyn, and was discharged January 3, 1781. While in captivity he was promoted to a captaincy, and in the summer of 1781 was detached to serve in Colonel Scannell's Light Infantry Regiment, which he ac- companied to Yorktown. On his dis- charge from the army, in January, 1783, he settled in his native village, where he filled numerous important offices. Here he established an academy in 1790, which instructed in all nearly fifteen hundred pupils, of whom more than sixty were prepared for college. At nine sessions of the General Assembly, between 1798 and 1805, he represented Litchfield. The town of Morris, formerly a part of Litchfield, was named in his honor, and he was dea- con of the church there from 1795 until his death, which occurred April 20, 1820, at Goshen, Connecticut, while on a trip from Cornwall to his home. Portions of his narrative of his life and public serv- ices during the Revolution have been printed in "Yale in the Revolution" and "Memoirs of the Long Island Historical Society." He married (first) Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Robert Hubbard, of Middletown, Connecticut, and (sec- ond) March 16, 1815, Rhoda Farnum.
The only son of the second marriage, Dwight Morris, was born November 22, 1817, in what is now Morris, and gradu- ated with honors from Union College in 1838, subsequently receiving the degree of Master of Arts from Yale. In 1839 he was admitted to the Litchfield bar, be- came active in public affairs, represented his town in the General Assembly sev- eral sessions, and was judge of probate from 1845 to 1852. In 1862 he recruited a regiment, and went to the front as colo-
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nel of the Fourteenth Connecticut Volun- teers. Soon after he was given command of the Second Brigade, Second Corps, and took part in the battle of Antietam. His regiment came to be known as the "Fight- ing Fourteenth," from its brilliant service. Ill health compelled him to resign his commission, and he was honorably dis- charged, with the rank of brigadier-gen- eral. He was nominated by President Lincoln as judge of the Territory of Idaho, but declined. From 1865 to 1869 he served as consul-general at Havre, France, and in 1876 was elected Secretary of State of Connecticut. Through his efforts the Society of the Cincinnati was reinstated in his State, July 4, 1893, after having been dormant eighty-nine years, and thenceforward, until his death, Sep- tember, 1894, he was its president. He devoted considerable time to literature, and contributed many articles on histori- cal subjects. His second wife, Grace Jo- sephine Clark, whom he married in 1867, at Paris, France, was born 1844, in Chi- cago, daughter of Lewis W. and Emily (Henshaw) Clark, of that city, died 1884.
Robert Clark Morris, son of the last named, was born November 19, 1869, at Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he was a student of the public schools, after which he pursued the study of law at Yale Law School, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1890. From Yale he received the degree of Master of Law in 1892, and Doctor of Civil Law in 1893. He was secretary of the class of 1890 at Yale Law School. In that year he was admitted to the Connec- ticut bar, and in 1890-91 studied conti- nental jurisprudence in Europe. In 1894 he located in New York City, where he immediately began practice. From 1895 to 1904 he lectured on French law at Yale Law School, and since 1904 has been lec- turing on International Arbitration and Proceedure in that institution. He is the
author of a standard work entitled "In ternational Arbitration and Proceedure." He is at present senior partner of the law firm of Morris & Plante, in New York City. Mr. Morris has taken a keen in- terest in political movements, and from 1901 to 1903 was president of the Repub- lican County Committee of New York, and in 1909 was president of the Repub- lican Club of that city. He was counsel for the United States before the United States and Venezuelan Commission in 1903, and occupies a leading position at the metropolitan bar. The work of his firm is general, but most of his time is devoted to reorganizations. By inherit- ance he is a member of the Order of the Cincinnati, and is a member of the Mili- tary Order of the Loyal Legion and the Sons of the Revolution. He is also a member of the New York Bar Associa- tion, the International Law Association, the American Bar Association, New York County Lawyers' Association, the Amer- ican Society of International Law, the Society of Medical Jurisprudence, the Japan Society, and the China Society. He is identified with several clubs, including the Union League, Yale, Metropolitan, Tuxedo of New York, Lakewood Coun- try, also the Graduates' Club of New Haven. He resides on Fifth avenue, in New York City. He married, June 24, 1890, Alice A. Parmelee, of New Haven, daughter of Andrew Yelverton and Sarah Elizabeth (Farren) Parmelee. They have travelled extensively throughout the world, and Mrs. Morris is the author of "Dragons and Cherry Blossoms," a work on Japan.
SMITH, Jay Hungerford, Manufacturer, Man of Affairs.
There is genuine satisfaction in telling Mr. Smith's life story, for it is a record of worthy effort, generously recompensed.
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There are men who build well upon foun- dations laid by another and there are men who conceive, plan, dig, lay the founda- tion and upon it build to completion. To this latter class Mr. Smith belongs. A graduate chemist, he might easily have followed the beaten paths, compounded drugs, and sold soda water all his life, and might have been one of thousands performing their duty well along similar lines. But his nature would not permit this and from the drug store at Ausable Forks he launched out into the wide field of experiment and established a new busi- ness, adding his own to the names of America's creative geniuses. From foun- dation to spire the business over which he presides is his own, the child of his own brain, developed through his own skill and conducted by his own master- ful mind. "Founder" and "head" of a business conducted in one of Rochester's finest factories, Mr. Smith can with deep- est satisfaction contemplate the work he has accomplished in the twenty-five years since he first located in Rochester and began as the head of the Jay Hungerford Smith Company the manufacture of "True Fruit" syrups.
A review of Mr. Smith's ancestry, pa- ternal and maternal, is most interesting. He descends paternally from Silas Smith, who came from England with the Plym- outh Company, settling at Taunton, Mas- sachusetts. The line of descent to Jay Hungerford Smith is through Silas (2) and Hannah (Gazine) Smith; their son, Samuel, and Abigail (Wright) Smith ; their son Daniel, and Susan (Holmes) Smith; their son, William Priest, and Sarah Porter (Hungerford) Smith; their son, Jay Hungerford Smith.
Samuel Smith, of the third generation, was a soldier of the Revolution, and the first of this branch to locate in New York State, living in Spencertown, Columbia county, where his son, Daniel, was born.
Daniel Smith moved to Ellisburg, Jeffer- son county, in 1802, was a lieutenant in the War of 1812, fought at Sackett's Har- bor, and donated the use of his home for a hospital for the wounded soldiers. Susan (Holmes) Smith, his wife, bore him sixteen children. Her father, Thomas Holmes, was a soldier of the Revolution from Connecticut, ranked as sergeant, and was a Revolutionary pensioner. William Priest Smith, of the fifth generation, was born in New York, January 5, 1799, was a lumberman and landowner of St. Law- rence county, New York, justice of the peace, associate judge, a man of influence and high standing. His wife, Sarah Por- ter (Hungerford) Smith, whom he mar- ried, July 9, 1843, traced her ancestry to Sir Thomas Hungerford, who in 1369 pur- chased "Farley Castle," in Somersetshire, England, an estate that was the family seat for more than three hundred years. Sir Thomas was steward for John of Ghent, Duke of Lancaster, son of King Edward III., and was a member and speaker of the House of Commons, re- puted to be the first person elected to that high office. The present crest of the Hungerford family, "A garb or, a wheat sheaf between two sickles erect," with the motto Et Dieu mon appuy (God is my sup- port), was first adopted by Sir Walter, afterward Lord Hungerford, son of Sir Thomas. John Hungerford, great-grand- father of Sarah Porter Hungerford, a lineal descendant of Sir Thomas, was a colonial soldier, ranking as captain. His son, Amasa, was a colonel in the Revolu- tionary army ; his son, Amasa (2), was a "minute man" of the War of 1812, a ship builder on Lake Ontario, a prosperous farmer of Jefferson county, New York, a man widely known. His daughter, Sarah Porter Hungerford, married William Priest Smith, whom she bore eleven chil- dren: Lois Elizabeth, Amasa Daniel, Annie Eliza, Frances Sarah, George Wil-
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liam, Jay Hungerford, of further mention, Mary Louise, Jennie V., Joseph Brodie, Frank Robbins, and May Lillian.
Jay Hungerford Smith was born at Fine, St. Lawrence county, New York, February 20, 1855, third son and sixth child of William Priest and Sarah Por- ter (Hungerford) Smith. He prepared for college at Hungerford Collegiate In- stitute and entered the University of Michigan, whence he was graduated Pharmaceutical Chemist, class of 1877. Three years later he began business at Ausable Forks, New York, as a whole- sale and retail dealer in drugs. He de- veloped a prosperous business along con- ventional lines and there was no reason to suppose that he was not permanently set- tled in business. But his ideals were higher and in the course of business he saw opportunity open a new avenue of effort, and this avenue he saw would lead to great result could he but tread it. At that time the soda fountain business, now of such immense proportions, was but a small item in the drug trade and all flavor- ing syrups dispensed were either artificial or from preserved fruit. Mr. Smith at- tacked the problem of improving the qual- ity of these flavors, striving to extract and to preserve the true flavor of fresh fruit. His intimate knowledge of chemistry was called upon and after a great deal of ex- perimenting and many failures he finally perfected a cold process by which he ob- tained the desired result. He added to his process, matured his plans of manufac- ture, located in 1890 in Rochester, New York, and began carrying them into effect. He organized the J. Hungerford Smith Company, erected a plant, and began the manufacture of "True Fruit" syrups. So well had he planned and so superior was his product that public favor was quickly secured and to-day two hundred thousand square feet of factory space is required to meet the demands for "True Fruit"
syrups. As the products, so are the sur- roundings attending their manufacture, for "purity and cleanliness" are factory slogans and the highest in both has been realized. The sanitary precautions are unsurpassed, and every device making for purity, cleanliness, health, efficiency of operation, and perfection in product, has been installed. "True Fruit" syrups have an immense sale in the United States, and a large export trade, double that of any similar product, has been built up. This end, attained in twenty-five years, is a gratifying one, the business having been built from nothing but an idea to its present prosperous condition. Mr. Smith conceived the idea of "True Fruit" flav- ors, founded the business, visioned and perfected the conditions under which such flavors should be produced and with rare executive ability has managed the busi- ness affairs of the company producing them. So the titles of creator, founder and head are truly his as applied to the product and business of J. Hungerford Smith & Company. He is a director of the Alliance Bank, and has other impor- tant business interests in Rochester and elsewhere.
Mr. Smith's next greatest interest is in the Masonic order, one in which he has attained every degree in both York and Scottish rites that can be conferred in this country. He has received many honors at the hands of his brethren, the thirty-third degree Scottish Rite being one that is only conferred by special favor and then only for "distinguished service" rendered the order. He was "made a Mason" in Richville Lodge, No. 633, Free and Accepted Masons, in 1880, and after coming to Rochester affiliated by "demit" with Frank R. Lawrence Lodge, No. 797, serving as worshipful master in 1897 and 1898. He, as rapidly as the Masonic law permits, took the chapter, council, and commandery de-
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grees constituting the York Rite, and holds membership in Hamilton Chapter, No. 62, Royal Arch Masons; Doric Coun- cil, No. 19, Royal and Select Masters, and Monroe Commandery, No. 12, Knights Templar. By virtue of being master he became a member of the Grand Lodge of the State of New York, and in 1898 was appointed grand senior deacon. As chairman of the Grand Lodge committee on work and lectures in 1899 he performed valued service in per- fecting ritualistic work and for several years was one of the custodians of the work. He was a member of the commis- sion of appeals of the Grand Lodge in 1905, 1906, and 1907, and since 1900 has been representative of the Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Canada, near the Grand Lodge of the State of New York. He is a director of the Ma- sonic Temple Association, and ex-presi- dent of the Masonic Club, of Rochester, ex-trustee of the Hall and Asylum Fund, and a present member of the standing committee.
After acquiring the degrees of York Rite Masonry, Mr. Smith, desiring "further light," was initiated into the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, is a member of the four bodies of the Rite, and has attained the much hoped for, seldom conferred, thirty-third degree. He is a member of Rochester Consistory, which conferred all degrees including the thirty-second, Sovereign Princes of the Royal Secret, and on September 15, 1896, received the crowning thirty-third degree through the favor of the body governing the holders of that degree, the highest honor an American Mason can receive.
The ancient landmarks of the order are sacred to Mr. Smith and as custodian of the work he has sought to keep closely to them. Where methods only were in- volved he has sanctioned and suggested ritualistic innovation, thereby beautify- ing and strengthening the work. Through
the exercise of his unbounded dramatic ability many of the degrees, particularly in the Scottish Rite, have been illumi- nated and clothed with a deeper meaning. His influence has been exerted for the good of the order, his service has been valued by his brethren, and his elevation to the thirty-third degree came as an acknowledgment of that service, for the degree cannot be applied for, as other degrees must be, but comes as an un- sought and highly valued honor.
A public honor was conferred upon Mr. Smith when he was but twenty-eight years of age in recognition of his stand- ing in his profession, by appointment as one of the five members of the original New York State Board of Pharmacy, a position he held for eight years. For many years he has been a trustee of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce and has been one of the progressive men ever ready to aid and to support every move- ment or enterprise to further the public good. He is an official member of the Cascade Lakes Club in the Adirondack preserve, his city club the Masonic. Social by nature and most genial in dis- position, he has many friends, and these friendships are mutually highly prized. He is, however, preëminently a man of affairs, and is a splendid example of the alert, progressive, creative American business man, a type of the men who have made this country famous.
Mr. Smith married, May 17, 1882, Jean, daughter of John A. Dawson, of Ausable Forks, New York. Children : James Hungerford, Anna Dawson, Flor- ence, died in infancy ; Jay Elwood, Lois, and Helen Hungerford.
HALE, George David, Educator, Man of Affairs.
Professor George David Hale was born in Adams, Jefferson county, New York, March 27, 1844. His parents were Abner
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Cable and Sally Ann (Barton) Hale. The first American ancestor in the paternal line was Thomas Hale, the glover, who came from England in 1637 and settled at Newbury, Massachusetts, where he died December 21, 1682. The grandfather, David Hale, was senior member of the first mercantile firm in Adams, New York, and was also captain of a troop of cavalry in the War of 1812. From a very early period in the development of Jefferson county the family was connected with its progress and upbuilding. Abner C. Hale, the father, followed the occupation of farming at Adams.
Professor George D. Hale spent his boyhood days under the parental roof. In 1870 he was graduated from the classi- cal course of the University of Rochester, and three years later that institution con- ferred upon him the degree of Master of Arts. He is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon and of the Phi Beta Kap- pa, two college fraternities. Professor Hale is known personally or by reputa- tion to every resident of the city and also to a large extent throughout this and other states by reason of the fact that his students have gone abroad into all parts of the country, bearing in their lives the impress of his individuality. The Hale Classical and Scientific School, which he conducted in Rochester from 1871 to 1898, is recognized as having been one of the most excellent institutions of learning in the State and among its graduates are men who are now prominent in the public and business life of Rochester. Thor- oughness has always been his motto and he has ever held high the standard of edu- cational proficiency. Kant has said : "The object of education is to train each in- dividual to reach the highest perfection possible for him," and the spirit of this statement has been a dominant factor in the work done by Professor Hale during
these years. Moreover, he is recognized in educational circles as an authority on mathematics and as one who stands as a leader in his profession because of the high ideals which he has ever held and the unfaltering effort he has made to reach them. He is identified with several of the leading societies for the advance- ment of knowledge, being a member of the National Educational Association and the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, also of the Na- tional Geographic Society. Of local so- cieties he is identified with the Rochester Historical Society, the Genesee Valley Club, the Rochester Country Club, the University Club, and the Rochester Chamber of Commerce. His political preference has always been for the Re- publican party, and while he has been a student of the great issues and questions bearing upon the welfare of State and Nation, he has always been without poli- tical ambition.
On December 29, 1875, Professor Hale was married in Rochester to Mary Eliza- beth Judson, a daughter of Junius (q. v.) and Lavenda (Bushnell) Judson. They have two daughters, Edith Hariette and Elizabeth Lavenda Hale. Mrs. Hale was possessed of rare mental endowment, of mature Christian character, and withal of a most charming personality which showed itself in sweet courtesy towards all. She died April 12, 1915, sincerely mourned by all who knew her.
Professor Hale is a member of the First Baptist Church of Rochester, in which he has served for many years as a trustee, being also prominently identified with the general interests of the Baptist denomination in this city. He has been a generous contributor to many public and charitable works and his influence is always on the side of that which pro- motes intellectual development, aesthetic
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culture and moral progress. He has given many years of an active and useful life to the cause of education and has at- tained wide distinction in the field of labor he has chosen. He has been for several years identified with the business interests of the several Judson companies of this city, in which he is both director and stockholder.
PRICE, George M., Surgeon, Professional Instructor.
For more than a quarter of a century George M. Price, M. D., F. A. C. S., has practiced his healing art in Syracuse, win- ning honorable standing in his profession and public esteem as a citizen. In fact, save for the years spent in American and European medical schools, his entire life has been spent in the vicinity of Syra- cuse; his birthplace, Liverpool, being not far away. He is devoted to his pro- fession and confines himself closely to his special work as surgeon, having few out- side interests.
George M. Price was born at Liverpool, Onondaga county, New York, March 3, 1865. After a course of public school study he became a student at Cazenovia Seminary, later entering Syracuse High School, there completing a full course to graduation. He decided upon the profes- sion of medicine as his life work, begin- ning study in the medical department of the University of Syracuse, whence he was graduated M. D., class of 1886. Al- though officially authorized to begin prac- tice, he was not satisfied with his attain- ments and for the next two years pursued post-graduate courses in the hospitals and schools of medicine in London, England, and Vienna, Austria. He then returned to the United States and spent some time in further post-graduate work as interne and student at New York Hospital.
After those years of thorough prepara-
tion, he located in Syracuse and there has since continued, an honored and success- ful practitioner. He is a member of the New York State Medical Society, Central New York Medical Association, the Onondaga County Medical Society, and the Syracuse Academy of Medicine. He has served as president of the three last named societies. He is surgeon to the Hospital of the Good Shepherd and the Syracuse Free Dispensary, and Professor of Clinical Surgery in the College of Medicine, Syracuse University. In 1914 he received the degree of F. A. C. S. from the American College of Surgeons. He is a member of the board of directors of the Syracuse Young Men's Christian Associ- ation, of the Syracuse University Social Sentiment, and the Billy Sunday Club, and of the session of the Park Central Presby- terian Church. He has been honored by membership in the following organiza- tions: Alpha Omega Alpha (the + B K of the Medical World), Iota Chapter, Alpha Kappa Kappa ; Salt Springs Lodge, No. 520, Free and Accepted Masons; Knight Templar; thirty-second degree Mason ; University Club, Practitioners' Club, Clinical Club, Automobile Club.
Dr. Price married, January 19, 1888, Nettie B. Reese and has five children : J. Reese, Emily H., Letitia E., Willis H., and G. Taylor, 2nd.
SMITH, Ray Burdick,
Lawyer, Author of Salutary Legislation.
In every branch of activity it is the few and not the many who rise to eminence, and it is these few who give tone and character to society, and shape the des- tinies of the communities in which they reside. More men rise to what is called eminence at the bar than in any other profession. The majority of our orators and statesmen come from the forum, as it is the most general school for the training
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of genius or talent, and humanity is in- bers of the Roger Williams colony, and debted to the study of law and the prac- settled in what is now the State of Rhode Island. They have remained to this day "Separatists", or Seventh Day Baptists, and Ray Burdick Smith still clings to this faith, although he is a member of the First (Dutch) Reformed Church of Syra- cuse. tice of our courts for the development of some of the greatest minds the world has ever produced. Certainly no state has more reason to feel proud of her bar than New York. The records of her lawyers since the earliest periods of her history are replete with the works of men who were giants in intellect, and to-day no city in the east presents a fairer array of legal luminaries than Syracuse, New York. Prominent among those who have earned enviable reputations for themselves, and whose worth the people of the city have seen fit to acknowledge by conferring on them positions of honor and trust, is Ray Burdick Smith, of Syracuse.
The particular Smith family from which he is descended originally came to this country from Germany, where the name was spelled Schmidt, and has been changed to its present form in the course of years. Henry Smith (Schmidt), great- grandfather of Ray Burdick Smith, came to America in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and settled near Hud- son in Columbia county, New York. He moved to the town of Cuyler, Cortland county, New York, at the time of the Holland Purchase, with a large family of children, of which William Henry Smith was one. William Henry Smith cleared and worked a farm in the town of Linck- lean, Chenango county, and a tannery in the adjoining town of Taylor in Cortland county. He raised a family of eleven children of whom Willis Smith, father of Ray Burdick Smith, was one.
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