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CHARLES PRESTON HALLOCK, attorney for the Bronx Borough Bank, is one of the leading lawyers of this part of the country. He is a member of the New York Bar Association an 3 is vice-president of the Bronx Borough Bar Association, and has an extensive general practice. He was born on a farm in the town of Riverhead, Suffolk County, N. Y., May 4, 1868. and is the son of Charles W. and Phoebe J. Hallock. His preliminary education was obtained at the district school and at Riverhead Union School, and in the Northville and Franklinville Academies Later he graduated from Williams College with the degree of A.B., and from the Law School of the University of New York: from the latter in 1893 as LL.B. and the valedictorian of his class. That same year he came here to live. He has forged rapidly to the front and has achieved social, professional and political prominence. He is a member of the Fordham Club and a director of the Throggs Neck Country Club, and Phi Delta Phi. He has been a member of the Republican County Con :- mittee for several years. He is clerk and deacon also of Trinity Congregational Church. He married September 3, 1895, Miss
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Jennie A. Young, a daughter of J. Halsey Young, and a sister of J. Addison Young, present District Attorney of Westchester County. They have five children living, two girls and three boys.
DAVE HENNEN MORRIS, born in New Orleans in 1872, is a son of Jolin A. Morris of Westchester, New York, famous as a sugar planter, horseman and capitalist. The Morrises are of old English ancestry, with a Revolutionary strain. An Eng- lish preacher, the Rev. John Morris, was chaplain to the Duke of Bedford in the middle of the eighteenth century, and held the livings of Milton, Bryant and Woburn in Hertford and Bedfordshire. The mother of our subject was a daughter of Justice Hennen of Louisiana, and a brother of Dave Hennen, author of "Hennen's Digest," after whom Dave Hennen Morris was named. Mr. Morris's early education was obtained in France and Germany, and under private tutors in America. He entered Harvard in 1890, but, owing to illness, was obliged to suspend his studies and spend a year in travel, and later, still not being weil enough to continue at Harvard, he took in- stead a special course in the New York Homeopathic Medical College and became one of the surgical assistants at Hellmuth House. Some time later he was chosen president of the New York Medical College and hospital for Women, a department of New York University; and in 1892 he found himself well enough to return to Harvard. He was a member while there of the "Dickey," Alpha Delta Phi, "Pudding," and other clubs and received a "Delta" prize in his sophomore year, for general excellence. He was married, as a junior, to Alice Vanderbilt Shepard, daughter of Col. Elliott F. Shepard, of the New York "Mail and Express." He kept house in Cambridge during his senior year and graduated magna cum laude in 1896. Subse- quently he was admitted to the bar as a graduate of the New York Law School, and has been practicing ever since. He has taken an active interest in politics at the family home in West- chester. He was nominated for Senator there in the last Bryan year, but was defeated. He is a partner with his brother in the well known racing firm of A. H. & D. H. Morris, which has inherited the celebrated Morris "all scarlet" colors, first made famous by the great Barbarity mares, "Remorseless," "Ruthless," "Relentless" and "Regardless," three generations ago by their grandfather, Francis Morris. He is the manager also of the Morris Park Race Track property, instituted by his father for the New York Jockey Club, the fashionable track for many years, but now about to be abandoned for real estate improve- ment. He manages also the Morris Building, and is interested in the family holdings in New Orleans, consisting of the St. Charles Hotel, the "Cora," "Morris," "Hennen" and other office build- ings. He owns with his brother the Morris Ranch in Texas, devoted to cotton, cattle, thoroughbred horses and angoras, which, with its cotton press and gin, flouring mills, school, pre- paratory to the university, church service, liquor prohibition and other features, may well be described as a model community. A musical virtuoso, he was concert master of the Pierian Sodality at Harvard; professional musicians, with whom he plays, come to his house once a week. He is a yachtsman, was part owner of the "Cora," maintains a Louisiana hunting preserve, "Mt. Hennen," has bred and raced horses that have won such stakes as the "Belmont," "Realization," "Metropolitan" and "Withers," was a pioneer automobilist, one of the first mem- bers in fact of the Automobile Club and now is president, and a participant in the sport when the machines were crude indeed. lle has been acting chairman of the race committee and one of the governors of the club for years. He belongs also to the
. Metropolitan Club, the University, the Racquet and other New York social organizations, and has been "Rex" or king of the
world renowned New Orleans Mardi Gras' Carnival. He is the father of four children, three boys and a girl, and lives in modest style at 269 West Seventy-second Street, New York, or at his summer home at Bar Harbor.
GUSTAVE FREY, a member of the bar, and a practicing attorney for the past four years in the Bronx, was born in New York City July 24, 1879. After graduating at Grammar School No. 25, on East Fifth Street, of New York City, he entered the
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old Gunther School of Social Economics, and received the equiva- lent there of a high school graduation. Choosing the law as a profession, he entered the New York University and in 1900 graduated therefrom, receiving the degree of L. C. B. In politics Mr. Frey has been classified as a Republican. Although not taking any active part in political affairs, he has never failed to individually support a Republican administration. He has never taken unto himself a life partner, but is absolutely wedded to his own profession, in which he has gradually and by close ap- plication to his duties, enrolled on his books a large and influ- ential clientage, especially amongst the German residents of this borough.
HENRY A. GUMBI.ETON .- This gentleman, a prominent figure in the Democratic ranks for more than twenty years, and an official during part of that time, a member, too, of many or- ganizations of the borough, hardly needs an introduction. He was born September 14, 1846, in New York City, and was edu- cated in the public schools and Free Academy, and in the Col- lege of the City of New York. He graduated from Columbia College Law School in 1879, and has been a resident of the borough for twenty years. Ile was County Clerk from 1876 to 1870 and Chairman of the Board of Assessors in 1883 and 1884 At present he is secretary to Louis F. Haffen, President of the borough, a position next the chief, considering the growth and development now going on, of no small importance. Ile be- longs to the Democratic Club and the Tammany Society, the far famed Schnorers, the Columbian Order and other organiza- tions.
FREDERICK WILLIAM HOTTENROTH, an able and well known young lawyer, with a well established practice, was born in New York City on September 10, 18,9, and has resided
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in the Bronx since his early youth. After graduating from the public schools and the College of the City of New York, he attended the New York Law School. Upon admission to the bar, he became affiliated with his brother, Hon. Adolph C. Hottenroth, a junior member of the firm of A. C. & F. W. Hottenroth, for the general practice of law. They have been especially successful in corporation, municipal and real estate law, and proceedings for the taking of property for public use. Politically a Democrat, his interest in the cause has been evi- denced by well received speeches in favor of the party and its candidates. Professional, political and social interest are mani- fested in his club life, he being a member of the Jefferson, Schnorer, West Morrisania and Bronx Automobile Clubs, the Bar Association of the Bronx, the North Side Board of Trade and the Twenty-third Ward Property Owners' Association, in both of which latter he is a member of the Executive Committee. As secretary of the Henry F. A. Wolf Company and of the Sandrock Realty Company he is brought closely in touch with real estate interests. He has occupied successively the positions of secretary and treasurer of the United States Title Guaranty and Indemnity Company. His marriage on April 15, 1903, to Marguerite Liebertz, was one of the brilliant social affairs of the Bronx. They have two daughters, Helene Kathryn and Con- stance Marion.
J. WILSON BRYANT, one of the most successful mem- bers of the Bar of Bronx Borough, was born at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., August 4, 1871. The name of Bryant is well known and highly esteemed throughout the borough. In 1874 the father of this biographical sketch settled in Mott Haven and engaged in the manufacture of carriages, meeting with success from the start. J. Wilson Bryant came with his father to the Bronx at the early age of three years and received his early education at the public schools, after which he entered the new grammar school No. 85, and by close application soon be- came leader of his class and was graduated in 1889. In the inie year he entered the Law School of Columbia College, and took up the study of the law under Professor Dwight, graduat- ing therefrom in 1892 with the degree of LL.B. He was popu- lar with his associates in college and became historian of his class. After leaving Columbia he was employed in the office of ex-Judge James R. Angel, and in 1892, after a thorough exami- nation, he was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court, De- partment of New York City, at the age of twenty-one years. lle then became a member of the firm of Angel & Bryant, which continued until Judge Angel's death in October, 1899, since which time Mr. Bryant has been constantly engaged in the prac- tice of his profession. Mr. Bryant has been counsel in several extraordinary cases of litigation, the most important of which was the celebrated Kittell bankruptcy case before the United States Supreme Court; the Wilson Trusts, Otto Guardianship cases and Donohue Litigation before the Court of Appeals, in all of which he earned an enviable reputation for legal ability, energy and tact. Mr. Bryant is a Past Master of Lily Lodge, No. 342, F. and A. M .; Past Chancellor of Adelphic Lodge, K. of P .; representative to the Grand Lodge, and at present Deputy Grand Chancellor of the State of New York. Ile is also a member of the Webster Literary Society; the Taxpayers' Mhauce, being one of its charter members; the Craftsmen's Club of New York; Keystone of Pennsylvania, and Bedford of Delaware. Mr. Bryant has his offices in the Bryant Building, . bwated at the junction of Third and Morris Avenues and 139th street.
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ARTHUR HOWARD WADICK .- Mr. Wadick is a success- ful attorney and counselor at law, and a resident of the Bronx since May, 1881. He is a son of Richard and Mary Ann Wadick, both deceased. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, De- cember 19, 1874. He received his education in the Public School of Williamsbridge and the New York University Law School. graduating from the latter school in the class of 1898 with the degree of LL. B. and was admitted to the bar the same year. In politics he is a Republican, but has never sought office; in religion he is of the Catholic faith, and is a member of the Brownson Catholic Club. Ile married, June 23, 1903, Miss Mary Fitz-Simons Molloy.
HARRY OVERINGTON, one of the lawyers of the Bronx, was born in the borough in 1858. His education was begun in the public schools of that district and finished in the higher branches at New York University, from which he graduated in 1879. Upon leaving college he entered the law office of Stanley Brown Clarke, 16 Wall Street. There he remained until he established himself in the profession in the Bronx. His offices are in the Haffen Building, Willis and Third Avenues and 148th Street. He makes a specialty of real estate law and has a large and profitable practice. At one time he was the Bronx manager of the Lawyers' Title Insurance Company, but retired from that position in 1904. Politically he is classed as an Inde- pendent Republican. Mr. Overington is the sixth of a family of seven children. He married Mary McGuffog, of New York, in 1886. By her he had two children, Jessie and Helen. She died in 1889, and his mother two years later. In 1900 he niar- ried Miss Maude A. Miller. By this second union he has one child, born in 1902, and named for her mother. His father, Thomas Overington, who lives with him, though well advanced in years, at 81 is still hale and hearty. He is a well known building contractor, to whom is to be credited the construction of many important structures in New York and vicinity ; ware- houses, office buildings, fine residences, schools, churches, armories, etc., among them. Half a dozen or more of the church- es in Harlem were built by him, and one in the Bronx. Bethany Church at 137th Street and Willis Avenue.
CHARLES LEWIS ULLMAN, attorney at law and real estate operator and broker, of 502 Willis Avenue, with offices also on lower Broadway, for the past eight years has been a resident of Bronxwood Park, Williamsbridge. He has been established in the Bronx since the fall of 1892. He is a native of New Haven, Conn., born there April 15, 1854. He received his edu- cation there in the Eaton Public School, and in Dr. Thomas Private School, later taking up the higher branches in Felsen. thal's Scientific Academy, Westville, Conn. Ile is a graduate of Yale Law School in the class of 1878, and has been an active practitioner since then as a member of the Connecticut and New York bars. He was councilman and assistant district attorney and for many years a trial justice of the peace in New Haven While not an active politician here, he has leanings toward the Social Democracy. In the last presidential election he voted for Tom Watson, the People's Party candidate. Mr. Ullman is a member of a number of organizations, fraternal and social : chiefly the following among them: K. O. J. and Harmonie clubs of New Haven, the Thirteen Club of New York, the 1. O B. B., Odd Fellows, Masons and Red Men. In religious faith he is an Israelite.
MAURICE J. MCCARTHY, PH. D., was born at Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland, and came to this country when aboat
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twelve years of age. His father, Charles Mccarthy, was the well-known dry goods merchant of that town. Through his mother, Mary J. Collender, he is a cousin of the famous billiard and pool table manufacturer, Hugh Collender, of the Brunswick- Balke-Collender Co. He was educated at La Salle Academy and afterwards attended the College of St. Francis Xavier, where he graduated in '99, receiving the degree of A. B. He took the post-graduate course and received his A. M. the following year. After his graduation from college he began his career by teaching in our public schools, being appointed to P. S. 61, at 169th Street and Third Avenue. Whilst he was teaching he took a graduate course at Fordham University and received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. During his four years as a teacher in the public schools, he found sufficient time to take the eve- ning course at the New York Law School, from which he graduated in 1902, and in the same year was admitted to the bar. Seeing that a brighter future was in store, lie resigned his position as teacher and began the practice of law. During his college career he took a keen and active interest in athletics. He played fullback on the college eleven for three years and also played on the baseball team. In track athletics he won the third prize for points in the all-around championship of the college. Besides taking an active part in college athletics, he devoted his energies and efforts for furthering the interest of sport in the Bronx. During the years '96 and '99 he played fullback on the crack eleven, the Dreadnaughts, and was unanimously elected captain the latter three years, during which time the Dread- naughts, under his management, achieved the singular distinc- tion of being the strongest team in New York, and achieved re- markable victories throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut. He also managed the baseball team for two years. After his graduation from college his love for athletics was so strong that he did not abandon the sport, but put into practice what he learned during his younger career and assumed the responsibility of Director of Track Athletics at Fordham, through Rev. Father Boyle, S. J. The "Fordham Monthly," in its his- tory of athletics, relates that Mr. McCarthy took a very lively interest in the progress of the candidates and under his coach- ing and encouragement, succeeded in developing the latent talent of athletics in Fordham, and after devoting himself to the work of coach for five years, he succeeded in bringing this branch of athletics in the college to its present high standard of proficiency. The Track Association took the responsibility of holding an open set of games, an enterprise never before attempted in the lustory of the college, the very object for which Mr. McCarthy during the previous years was devoting his energies and efforts to accomplish. Accordingly, on April 16, 1904, Fordham ran off one of the most attractive games of the season. During his terin as director there was hardly a meet held that the Fordham members did not carry off a prize. He also coached the St. l'eter's of Brooklyn in football, and, as the Brooklyn "Eagle" describes, won the respect and admiration of those under his charge. Turning from athletics, he is much interested in local affairs, and perceiving that the growing vicinity of Tremont was badly in need of a local club, he organized the Star Democratic Club, which organization elected him as their president. He is a member of the Catholic Club, Fordham Club, Xavier Alumni, Fordham Alumni, Knights of Columbus, Irish American Athletic * and the Shrewsbury Ice Boat and Yacht Clubs.
JOHN JOSEPH HY NES, Attorney and Counselor at Law, has been a resident of the bronx for twenty-two of his thirty- four years. He has his residence in Fordham and his offices
at 181 Broadway, down town, and at Third Avenue and 148th Street, Bronx. Ile is a graduate of the City College and of the University of the City of New York, holding the degree of L.L. B. and LL. M. He is a Democrat, but has never held public office. He belongs to the Schnorer Club, the High Bridge Demo- cratic Club, the Fordham Club, the Twenty-third Ward Property Owners' Association, the Iligh Bridge Improvement Association. the "Friends of Erin" of the Bronx, the Knights of Columbus, the Bronx Bar Association, the Delta Phi and the Fraternity Club. He married, April 23, 1903, Miss Minnie Clarkson. They have no children.
T. EMORY CLOCKE, attorney, of 2022 Boston Road, is the son and partner of G. DeWitt Clocke, a lawyer who has been practicing in New York since 1864. Mr. Clocke himself was raised in the Bronx and was an attendant in his youthful days of Public School No. 63. He was admitted to City Col- lege in 1889 when he was 14. and attended Dwight School during 1889 and 1890. He graduated from the New York Uni-
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versity Law School with the degree of LL. B. in 1896 and was admitted to the bar the following year. He is a notary and a charter member of the Bar Association of the Borough of the Bronx and in politics an Independent. He was married, August 19, 1896, to Miss Sadie A. Borland and resides at 1199 Boston Road. He has a growing practice and the most promising pros- pects of success.
EVERETT L. BARNARD, lawyer, of 247 Broadway, was until recently a resident of the Bronx, and still retains his busi- ness interests here. He was born in Calais, Me., thirty years ago, and is a graduate of Yale University and Columbia Law School. He has been a New Yorker seventeen years. He is a Republican, a member of the Yale Club, the Elihu Club and of one or more of the college fraternities, of the North Side Board of Trade, the Bar Association of New York and the Bar Asso- ciation of the Bronx, and is a man of family. He married in 1901 Thevina Townsend. They have two children, Lucy and Louise.
ANDREW D. PARKER, a lawyer, born in New York December 4, 1859, and a resident of the Bronx about all his
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hife, is treasurer of the new Port Morris wholesale produce market elsewhere mentioned. Mr. Parker is a graduate of the schools of New York and has the sheepskin of Columbia Law School. He is a Democrat and has held a number of positions. among them the following: Private secretary to the Collector of the Port of New York; chairman of the Federal Board of civil Service, Police Commissioner of New York and assistant district attorney. 1
ANTHONY JEROME GRIFFIN, born in New York City April 1, 1866, was educated in the public schools, College of the City of New York, Cooper Union and the University of the City vi New York, from which institution he received the degree of 1.1. B. Studied law in the office of General D. E. Sickles and was admitted to the bar in 1892. he began his career as a civil engineer and surveyor and has always manifested considerable aptitude in mechanics ; has invented several devices in transporta tion, the latest being in connection with safety devices for sub- marine vessels, one of which has so far been adopted by the United States Government. He has resided in the Bronx since 1%)5. His law practice has been largely in the civil branches, although he has figured conspicuously in some important crimni- nal proceedings. His experience in the army naturally directed his energies to military law, in which he is regarded as some- what of an expert, and has acted as counsel in many noted mili- tary trials. In addition to this he has a large and remunerative general practice; is known among the judiciary and the inembers. of his profession as a careful. painstaking and successful advo- cate. In 1888 he joined the Twelfth Regiment and in 1891 he . was elected second lieutenant. In 1895 he was elected first lieu- tenant in the Sixty-ninth Regiment. In 1898 he raised Company F. of the Sixty-ninth Regiment and was commissioned captain of the company on May 2, 1898; went to the front and served with the regiment during the Spannish-American war. Captain Griffin has been considerable of a bibliophile and accumulated a library of over three thousand volumes, consisting of many rare and valuable works which were practically entirely destroyed in the conflagration which devastated an entire block on Cauldwell Avenue on the morning of the blizzard of January 26, 1905. In politics Mr. Griffin is a Democrat. He is a member of the Bar Association, the Brownson Catholic Club, Cooper Union Alumni, New York University Alumni, Knights of Columbus, Royal Arcanum, Modern Woodmen of America, Old Guard Camp of United Spanish War Veterans. On October 23, 1895, Mr. Griffin married Miss Kathreine L. Byrne. They attend St. Peter and St. Paul's Church of St. Ann's Avenue and reside at 891 Cauldwell Avenue. Mr. Griffin's law offices are at 140 Nassau Street
JOIN FRANCIS O'RYAN was born in New York City August 21st, 1875, the son of Francis O'Ryan, an instructor of Latin and Greek. His mother's maiden name was Anna Barry. Mr. O'Ryan has been a resident of the Bronx from the time he was a small boy. He was graduated from old Public School No. of in the class of 1890, receiving the Folz medal for general proficiency in studies, and was valedictorian of his class at graduation. Ile subsequently spent three years at the College vi the City of New York and thereafter studied law at the University Law School. While at college Mr. O'Ryan was proinitient in athletics and won a number of prizes in athletic stests. Ile was admitted to the Bar in 1897. Mr. O'Ryan ., an attorney for some years in the Law Department of the Western Union Telegraph Company and had charge in that 'Auce of important legal matters affecting the interests of that . mpany and allied corporations. He left the Law Departinent
of the Western Union Company in 1899 to form with J. Arthur Corbin, the assistant to the general attorney of the company, the law firm of Corbin & O'Ryan. The firm has a large general practice with offices in the St. Paul Building in Manhattan. In politics Mr. O'Ryan is a Democrat and has taken an active par: in the campaigns. He has never held public office except that for a short time he served as private secretary to the late James McCartney while Commissioner of Street Cleaning. Mr. O'Ryan is a member of the Bar Association of the Bronx, the Delta Upsilon Club of New York, the Schnorer Club, the Military Service Institute of the United States, the Knights of Colum- bus and other organizations. He served in the Seventh Regi- ment for four years and was thereupon commissioned as second lieutenant in the Second Battery of Artillery, National Guard of this State. Ile is now first lieutenant of the battery which is quartered in the Bronx. He has written some extensive trea- tises on military subjects which have appeared in the Journal of . the Military Service of the United States. He has also written a legal digest of telegraph cases. He is an expert horseman and pistol shot. In 1902 Mr. O'Ryan married Jeannette Holmes. the daughter of Dr. John F. Holmes of the Bronx. Mr. and Mrs. O'Ryan have two children.
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