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and has certainly served to great purpose by the development of several important tracts and the improvement of several localities in the city. One of these tracts has been named after its public-spirited developer and is called "Judson Heights."
But it is not by any means only in oper- ations such as these, or in the conduct of his important business, that Mr. Jud- son is best known in Gloversville and Ful- ton county. He is a strong subscriber, as was his father before him, to the prin- ciples which are represented in this coun- try by the Democratic party. To the early trend of his opinions, gained natur- ally enough under the influence of his father's strong mind and personality, Mr. Judson has added the still more profound kind of conviction that arises from, in- dividual thought and earnest study. He began in early manhood to associate him- self with the local organization of his party, and from, the year 1888 has been considered an important factor in county, and later, in State politics. In that year he was sent as a delegate to the State Democratic Convention and was again honored in the same manner in 1892. In 1890 he was chosen secretary of the Ful- ton County Democratic Committee and served in that capacity until 1894, when he was chosen its chairman. In the pre- ceding year he had become a member of the New York State Democratic Commit- tee and in the years 1894 and 1896 was elected secretary of that body, an office which he held for seven years. In 1895 he was nominated by the Democratic Convention at Syracuse for State Comp- troller by a vote of three hundred and twelve to ninety-eight. Again in 1900 he was the Democratic candidate for State Treasurer on the same ticket as that upon which John B. Stanchfield ran for Gov- ernor. During these years the Demo- cratic party was not the popular one in
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the State and Mr. Judson suffered defeat with his colleagues, but a great change in public sentiment was about to be made and in 1913, when Woodrow Wilson was triumphantly elected President on the Democratic ticket, he rewarded Mr. Jud- son for his long and faithful service to the party by appointing him postmaster of Gloversville. Mr. Judson's administra- tion of that department has been a most efficient one and he has brought up to and maintained at the highest standard its local service. Mr. Judson is a prominent figure in the social life of the community, and a valuable member of the Eccentric Club of Gloversville, and served as its president in 1913 and 1914.
Mr. Judson was united in marriage at Gloversville on September 19, 1882, to Isabelle Stewart, a daughter of John and Catherine (Wells) Stewart, old and highly honored residents of the city. The Stew- arts are of Scotch descent, Mrs. Judson's grandparents being James and Margaret (McFarland) Stewart, both natives of Scotland. Her father was Judge John Stewart, of Johnstown, one of the best known men on the county bench, where he presided for more than twenty years. Mr. and Mrs. Judson are the parents of two children as follows: Margaret, born August 2, 1883, married, June 20, 1907, Boyd G. Curts, of Brooklyn, trust officer of the Empire Trust Company of New York, to whom she has borne one child, Isabelle Catherine ; John Brown, Jr., born May 10, 1893.
John Brown Judson is a fine type of citizen and the part that he plays in the community is a very vital one. He com- bines in very happy proportion the quali- ties of the practical business man with those of the public-spirited altruist, whose thoughts are with the good of the com- munity, and in addition is noted through- out Central New York as one of the best
after-dinner orators, his services being in great demand. It is by his own efforts that he has developed the successful busi- ness of which he is the owner and be- come one of the city's prominent mer- chants, and through all his worthy career he has never conducted his business so that it was anything but a benefit to any of his associates or to the city at large. He is frank and outspoken, a man whose integrity has never been called in ques- tion, who can be and is trusted to keep the spirit as well as the letter of every contract and engagement that he enters into. He is possessed of the true demo- cratic instincts, easy of access to all men and as ready to lend his ear to the most humble as to the proudest and most in- fluential. It is scarcely necessary to add that these qualities give him a host of friends and admirers from every class of society so that he may be fairly regarded as one of the most popular men of the county.
HILL, Henry W.,
Legislator, Scholar, Waterway Promoter.
Henry Wayland Hill, scholar, lawyer, legislator, and especially prominent as a champion of the waterways system of the State, was born November 13, 1853, at Isle La Motte, Grand Isle county, Ver- mont, of good New England lineage, the son of Dyer and Martha Puella (Hall) Hill. His father was a member of the Vermont Legislature (1849-50) and his mother was of pronounced literary tastes.
Henry Wayland passed his youth on his father's farm and attended the pub- lic schools whenever he was able to do so. Desirous of a liberal education, he began his preparation for college, not without certain handicaps due to con- tinued manual labors, and was enabled to enter the classical course of the Uni-
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versity of Vermont in 1872. While in college he was a diligent student, at- taining membership in the Phi Beta Kap- pa Society, and was graduated honorably in 1876 as Bachelor of Arts, five years thereafter receiving his Master's degree, in 1900 being laureated Doctor of Laws by his alma mater, and in 1901, in recog- nition of his scholarly attainments the same distinction was conferred upon him by Middlebury College. A period of teaching succeeded his graduation. He was principal of Swanton (Vermont) Academy (1877-79) ; and of the Chateau- gay (New York) Academy-Union Free School (1877-83). Meanwhile he also read law and was admitted to the bar of the State of New York, at Albany, Janu- ary 25, 1884. The following May, he set- tled in Buffalo and became a member of the law firm of Andrews and Hill, which partnership continued until dissolved by the death of Andrews, May, 1896. He has uniformly maintained an honorable and general practice, his house address being at 471 Linwood avenue, Buffalo; where he has a choice collection of books. He married, August 11, 1880, Harriet Au- gusta, daughter of Francis and Helen Eliza (Butts) Smith, of Swanton, Ver- mont. Mrs. Hill is a very amiable lady. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hill are descendants of well known New England families.
Early enlisted in political activities as a Republican-hailing from Vermont, he could not well be otherwise-he has con- sistently adhered to that faith through- out ; and, happily, he came into New York politics too late to be involved in the factional embroilments that had vexed his party therein for the preceding twenty years. His first preferment was an ex- alted one, that of his election, from the Thirty-first Senatorial District, to the State Constitutional Convention of 1894; and, in that body he had an influential part. He served on the suffrage, educa-
tion and civil service committees. He was the author and introducer of sev- eral important measures designed to pro- vide home rule for cities, honest elections, the maintenance on a popular basis of secondary and higher education, especi- ally the constitutionalizing of the Re- gents of the University and, above all, was the leading advocate of the further development of the waterways system of the State, with which subsequently he has been conspicuously and persuasively identified.
At the general election in 1895, he was elected to the Assembly from the Second District of Erie county, and by successive reëlections, served five terms in the Lower House (1896-1900) ; and, promoted to the Senate in the latter year, retained a seat therein for five terms (1901-10). In each house respectively he was highly es- teemed and influential, clear and courte- ous in debate, diligent as a member of various leading committees and notably efficient as chairman (in the Senate) of those on commerce and navigation, codes and finance. In the Assembly, his labors er necessitate, were largely of a local character, among which the follow- ing may be cited: The Buffalo Free Public Library, the Buffalo Historical Society Building and the New Armory appropriation bills. Among general bills to his credit are the Pan-Ameri- can Exposition, the All-State Pharmacy, and the Primary Election bills; and as chairman of the canal committee in 1900, he was chiefly responsible for for- mulating and securing the passage of the Canal Survey law for a barge canal. In the Senate, in 1902, he drafted and intro- duced a proposed amendment to article seven of the Constitution, providing for the application of the surplus moneys in the treasury to the liquidation of the bonded indebtedness ; and an amendment to the same article extending the bonded
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period from eighteen to fifty years, both which passing two legislatures, were ap- proved by popular vote in 1905. He also was the principal champion of the $101,- 000,000 canal referendum of 1903 which was overwhelmingly ratified at the polls. He has also championed all canal refer- endum measures since that time. In the last year of Governor Hughes's ad- ministration he was chairman of the fi- nance committee of the Senate, a position of the highest responsibility. It may well be doubted that any Senator, in recent years, has compassed more of competent and valuable legislation than did Senator Hill during the period from his entry into the Assembly in 1896 to the close of his Sen- atorial career in 1910.
Outside his professional and legislative service, Senator Hill has been engaged in many activities, inuring to the public benefit and his own distinct desert. His most engrossing labors have been those devoted to the waterways of the State -- the problems relating to their improve- ment and utilization. His signal achieve- ments in this regard, while in the Legis- lature, have been referred to previously ; but since his retirement therefrom, he has also been incessant and indefatigable, with voice and pen, in correspondence and convention, in toil and travel, in moulding public opinion in behalf of the cause he has at heart. His literary con- tributions thereto have been volumi- nous. He is the author of "Waterways" in the "Encyclopedia Americana," and of "Waterways and Canal Construction in the State of New York," a volume of five hundred and fifty pages, and a standard authority on the subject. He is the author also of the article entitled "Origin and Con- struction of the Barge Canals" in "Official New York from Cleveland to Hughes" and is also the author of a comprehen- sive pamphlet on "The Development of Constitutional Law in New York." He
has written many other articles and de- livered scores of addresses on canal and waterway matters in New York; and has in preparation a work on "Waterway Ac- tivities in the State of New York" that is designed to be the most comprehensive work on the subject ever produced. For five years or more Senator Hill has been president of the New York State Water- ways Association, a voluntary organiza- tion, comprising engineers and other sci- entists and representatives from various commercial and business bodies, which meets annually for the consideration of water and waterway matters of general public interest, including the seaboard, as well as the artificial courses and inland lakes and rivers. Next year, the associ- ation purposes to celebrate at the con- vention in Rome the one hundredth anni- versary of the beginning of canal con- struction in the State, for it was there that ground was broken for the original Erie Canal, July 4, 1817.
He made a tour of inspection of the waterways of western Europe in 1905 and has a large collection of the works of writers, publicists and governmental de- partments on this subject. Senator Hill is a director of the National River and Harbor Congress.
As secretary of the New York State Champlain Commission, he gave much time to formulating plans for the celebra- tion, preparing the program, supervising most of the addresses and writing the his- tory associated with the event. The rec- ords alone required research into archives to put into correct form hundreds of In- dian, French and other names, places and occurrences, which have been too care- lessly mentioned by many historians. The Senator's researches render the narra- tive, comprising two large volumes, en- tirely trustworthy. In recognition of this the President of France and the Council, in 1913, conferred knighthood
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upon him in the National Legion of Hon- or. He was one of the contributors to the Bibliophile edition of the "Odes and Episodes of Horace," of whose works he has many valuable volumes. He has written many historical addresses, some of which have appeared in the publica- tions of the Buffalo Historical Society, of which he has been president since 1910. He is a citizen of high ideals, as evidenced by his varied activities and productions, all bearing the finish of rare culture.
Senator Hill is a member of the First Congregational Church of Buffalo; of the American Bar, the Bibliophile So- ciety of Boston, several historical asso- ciations; a member of the Knights of Pythias, and one of the tribunes of its Grand Lodge ; and a member of the Lake Erie Commandery, Knights Templar (York Rite) and of the Consistory of the Scottish Rite, thirty-second degree of the Masonic order, and of the Phi Beta Kap- pa Society of Buffalo. His clubs are the University of Buffalo, the Hobby and the Franco-American of New York.
KINNE, E. Olin, M. D., Physician, Hospital Official.
Dr. E. Olin Kinne, highly regarded phy- sician of Syracuse, New York, in which city he has practiced for considerably more than a generation, was born in De Witt, Onondaga county, New York, July 25, 1852, son of Elbridge and Sophronia (Young) Kinne. Elbridge Kinne was one of the pioneers of Onondaga county, New York, and his ancestors were among the earliest of colonial families of the Massa- chusetts Colony of the seventeenth cen- tury. The Kinne family history is part of the history of this nation, in its early Colonial days of development.
The progenitor of the Kinne-Kinney family in America was Henry Kinne, son
of Sir Thomas Kinne (or Kine), an Eng- lish knight of royal favor, and possessed of considerable landed estate in Lan- cashire, England. He is reputed to have owned the land whereon now stands the important manufacturing city of Man- chester, England. Appleton's "Cyclopedia of American Biography" records that a Sir Thomas Kinney came to this country "before the Revolution" to explore the mineral resources of New Jersey, but this probably has reference to a generation of the titled house subsequent to that headed by Sir Thomas Kinne (or Kine), father of Henry Kinne, the original American an- cestor of the family.
Henry Kinne, who probably was a younger son of Sir Thomas Kinne (Kine), was born in England in 1624, and no further information as to his movements appears in the annals of the family until the recording of his emigration from Hol- land to America in 1651, or earlier. Why he should have emigrated from England to Holland, or when, does not appear, though it is feasible to suppose that it had some connection with governmental pressure, because of his religious convic- tions. That he was an adherent of the Independent Church of England, which was actively opposed to the Romanizing of the established Church of England, is somewhat substantiated by his ultimate emigration to America and to the Massa- chusetts Colony, which was composed al- most exclusively of members of that church. However, State chronicles record that "Henry Kinne served in King Philip's war, and was a prosperous farmer, active in town and church affairs." He settled at Salem, Massachusetts, with his wife, Anna, and in that settlement their eight children were born, the date of birth of their first-born being shown in the rec- ords as January, 1651, so that apparently Henry Kinne's landing in America was
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earlier than 1651, unless his marriage occurred in Holland before his emigra- tion.
The Kinne family has, in the many gen- erations from that of Henry Kinne, the progenitor, to the present, spread to al- most all parts of the United States, and its many members, during the various na- tional periods of unrest experienced in the centuries of evolution, have creditably shown their national spirit. Many have been soldiers of distinction; many have been of political prominence; some have gained eminence in the church, while others have acquired influence in the vari- ous other civil walks of life. Bishop Aaron Kinne, a clergyman of much emi- nence, born at Norwich, Connecticut, Sep- tember 24, 1744, graduate of Yale Univer- sity, 1765, had an unusually diversified life. In the early years following his ordi- nation, he was a missionary to the Oneida Indians, a particularly hazardous labor. In 1769 he was elected bishop at Groton, Connecticut, where he remained until 1798. in this period passing through many ex- citing episodes, one at Fort Griswold, where he was chaplain to the American forces during the investment of the for- tress by British and Indians in 1781, and was present at the massacre of September 6, 1781, when Colonel Ledyard was killed, and the fort taken by the British and In- dians, led by Benedict Arnold. Especially is Bishop Aaron Kinne famed for his liter- ary productions, and theological writings. among his published works being: "The Sonship of Christ;" "A Display of Scrip- ture Prophecies" (1813) ; "Explanation of the Types, Prophecies, Revelation, Etc." (1814), and an "Essay on the New Heaven and Earth" (1821).
Then, the Kinne-Kinney family in- cludes the late William B. Kinney, a journalist of note, who in 1851 was ap- pointed United States Minister to Sar- dinia, and who was a friend of Kossuth,
the eminent Hungarian exile. Another Kinne of note was Justice La Vega George Kinne, candidate for Governor of the State of Iowa during the administra- tion of President Garfield, and later ap- pointed Chief Justice of Iowa.
And, Cyrus Kinne, great-grandfather of Dr. E. Olin Kinne, of Syracuse, New York, who served with the American army throughout the Revolutionary War, so that, all in all, the Kinne family has played no unimportant part in the making of American history.
Dr. E. Olin Kinne passed his early years of elementary education in the dis- trict school of his native place, De Witt, Onondaga county, New York, and later attended the Syracuse public schools, re- ceiving also private tuition, preparatory to his entrance into Syracuse University, whereat he commenced advanced aca- demic studies in 1872. Four years later he graduated from the unversity, gaining the distinctive degree of Bachelor of Phi- losophy. Having determined the direc- tion of his future activity, and being de- sirous of acquiring an expert knowledge of the science of medicine without loss of time, E. Olin Kinne proceeded to the Uni- versity of Michigan very shortly after having obtained his degree at Syracuse in 1876, and there devoted his thoughts and time exclusively to professional studies, successfully graduating in 1878, and be- coming thereby the possessor of the uni- versity's degree of Doctor of Medicine, which entitled him to practice the profes- sion at his pleasure thereafter.
Returning to Syracuse, New York, Dr. Kinne determined to obtain his final aca- demic degree, and accordingly reentered Syracuse University, for a post-graduate course, and the following year (1879) gained his Mastership of Philosophy degree. Meanwhile, he had undertaken additional post-graduate medical study and research, and after having received his final degree
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at Syracuse, was anxious to settle into ac- tive general practice of his profession, with which object he, in 1879, traveled ex- tensively in the Southern States. Not finding a favorable location in the South, Dr. Kinne returned to Syracuse, and hav- ing, at that time, an inclination to make himself especially proficient in one line of medical science before entering upon the ties and varied duties of a general prac- titioner, he began a special research into the causes and treatment of diseases of the eye and ear, which intricate studies occupied his whole time for two years. Then he went into the State of New Jer- sey, and for about a year practiced at Paterson, returning to Syracuse in May, 1882, and immediately opened an office in Syracuse for general homoeopathic prac- tice, which he has continued with ever-in- ceasing honor and prestige until the present (1916). After a brief period, dur- ing which he clearly demonstrated his skill as a diagnostician of the perplexing physical ailments of the human frame, and an expert familiarity with the anti- dotes to the diseases of man, Dr. Kinne's practice steadily developed to its present wide and lucrative proportions.
He has likewise in his practice and study of medicine acquired the esteem of his confreres in medicine, and has been brought into affiliation with many profes- sional associations, the main objects of which organizations are the interchange of professional experiences and observa- tions, for the furtherance of the under- standing of medical science, and the amelioration of suffering. Dr. Kinne holds membership in the American In- stitute of Homoeopathy ; the New York State Homoeopathic Medical Society ; the Onondaga County Homoeopathic Medical Society ; and the Medical-Chirurgical So- ciety of Central New York. His standing among homoeopathic physicians is obvi- ous in the fact of his having been elected
to the presidency of the American Asso- ciation of Medical Examiners, and, locally, by his official connection as consulting physician with the Homoeopathic Hos- pital, Syracuse, New York.
Dr. Kinne's fraternal inclinations have found expression in his association with many fraternal and social orders; he wears the Phi Beta Kappa key ; has many chairs, titles, and other fraternal distinc- tions to his credit; and bearing in mind the diversified and multitudinous profes- sional claims made upon the time of a successful general medical practitioner, Dr. Kinne has well observed his fraternal obligations. He has never, however, in- terested himself actively in political work.
On November 1, 1881, Dr. Kinne mar- ried Ella M. Potter, of Utica, New York. Six children were born to the marriage, but unfortunately three died in infancy. The three surviving children are : Marion E., born August 23, 1882; Elbridge P., born August 6, 1886; and Carleton H., born April 20, 1888. The daughter has manifested high intellectual powers; was a graduate of Syracuse University, 1905, afterwards studying two years in France and Germany ; and she is now supervising instructor of German in the schools of Elizabeth, New Jersey.
As a scion of an old Colonial house, Dr. Kinne naturally holds highly in esteem his privilege and admittance to member- ship in the "Sons of the American Revo- lution," his right to inclusion coming from ancestors of at least three different lines- from Cyrus Kinne, John Young and Jere- miah Jackson, all of whom served their country loyally in the struggle for inde- pendence.
CLEMENT, Frank H., Man of Affairs.
It was not until he was twenty-eight that Frank H. Clement, of Rochester, per-
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manently established in the business with which he has been connected for forty years, a business now an important branch of the American Wood Working Machinery Company, Mr. Clement its chief of construction. But the year fol- lowing the completion of his studies until the beginning of his real life work were well spent and he acquired a broad experi_ ence in lines which later were to intimate- ly affect the business he founded and de- veloped to a point which attracted the covetous attention of a large company. Fifty-three years ago, 1863, Mr. Clement came to Rochester inexperienced in prac- tical business, but a young man of educa- tion with a talent for draughting and en- gineering. That talent was developed in the employ of others but circumstances finally brought about a complete change in his life and an humble start was made in 1871 by the establishment of a small jobbing machine shop in Rochester. From that year his business life has flowed in an unbroken current within the confines of that same business, but so broadened and expanded that it is hard to believe it sprang from so small a beginning. Mr. Clement did not inherit, he did not suc- ceed another, but he built from the very foundation, and is one of the men of to- day who can rejoice in the fact that he has been a strong factor in the upbuilding of a prosperous city.
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