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John W. Jardine was educated in the public schools of this city and soon after leaving high school entered the employ of the Alliance Bank as messenger. He re- mained with that institution and its successor, the Lincoln-Alliance Bank, until 1923, having in the meantime been advanced to the position of assistant cashier of the latter bank. In 1923 he was elected vice president of the Genesee Valley Trust Com- pany and since then has been a factor in the progress of that institution, whose growth represents a magnificent tribute to its management and is one of the outstanding achievements in Rochester bank development of recent years.
Mr. Jardine has attained the thirty-second degree in Masonry, is a member of the Rochester Club, the Ad Club, the Rochester Yacht Club, the Oak Hill Country Club and the Chamber of Commerce. His church membership is with the Lake Ave- nue Baptist church. On October 10, 1912, Mr. Jardine was married to Miss Alma Nohe, a daughter of Frederick Nohe of Rochester.
ALBERT JOHN HOLLISTER.
In the business world advancement has ever been the fitting recognition of loyalty and efficient service, but seldom does one meet with a man who has so thoroughly identified his interests with those of his employer, or has been so adequately rewarded for his efforts as Mr. Albert John Hollister. As a young man he entered the service of the M. E. Wollf Insurance Company as an office boy. In this humble capacity he displayed such a desire to please and ambition to learn the business that he was promoted from one position to the other until he had thoroughly mastered every de- partment of the business. Immediately following the death of Mr. Wollf, Mr. Hol- lister stepped into his position as president of the company, which he now holds. Long prior to that time, however, Mr. Hollister had become Mr. Wollf's close friend and business confidant. So fully did the younger man enjoy Mr. Wollf's confidence that he was made executor of a very large estate. For after Mr. Wollf's death, when his will was read, it was found that he had named Mr. Hollister an executor, to serve without bond. As the estate amounted to a very large sum its administra- tion was no simple matter, but Mr. Hollister refused to take a penny for his services as executor, turning the entire amount over to his former employer's widow. Indeed, so closely knit were the ties of friendship, that he felt that to accept money for such a service would be to cheapen his own relations with the man he had so greatly admired and respected. Mrs. Wollf, recognizing the value of her late husband's con- fidence in his business associate, has continued to seek his advice in regard to the administration of her financial affairs. She makes no investments without first con- sulting with him and waiting until he can carefully analyze the situation to be sure
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that her action is in accordance with the best business practices. As a result the estate has been well conserved and Mrs. Wollf has been gratifyingly successful in her financial moves.
Mr. Hollister is a Rochester man, having been born and bred in this city. The son of Monroe N. and Clarinda (Foster) Hollister, his natal day was the 12th of January, 1872. The father was for many years a prominent lumberman of this city. He passed away in 1921, at the advanced age of eighty-four. During the Civil war he organized a New York regiment. He was chosen captain of his company, which was entirely recruited from Rochester. The wife and mother has also passed away.
Albert John Hollister attended School No. 3 as a boy and later entered the Rochester Free Academy. In 1887, at the early age of fifteen, he put aside his text- books to go to work as an employe of the Smith & Hollister Paint & Oil Company, which was a little later dissolved. Thus left without work he immediately set about finding another position and shortly associated himself with the M. E. Wollf Insur- ance Company, in the humble capacity of office boy. His progress from that position to his present office of president, which he assumed upon the death of Mr. Wollf on December 20, 1921, has already been sketched in this article. The M. E. Wollf Insur- ance Company does a large business in general insurance that extends throughout the state. For some time before Mr. Wollf's death Mr. Hollister had an important part in determining the policies of this company and for the past two years he has been the leading spirit of the organization. In addition to his work as an insurance man he is interested in the Lyceum Theatre Company of Rochester, of which he is secretary and director.
In Rochester, on the 10th of June, 1899, Mr. Hollister was married to Mrs. Wil- liam Richardson, formerly Dorothy A. Coolidge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rodney A. Coolidge. Mrs. Hollister, by her previous marriage, was the mother of two chil- dren: Ralph K. Richardson, who served for three and a half years in the World war, with the commission of lieutenant; and Almira J. Richardson, a teacher in the Rochester public schools.
From 1901 to 1903 Mr. Hollister served as alderman from the third ward, the only democrat to secure the election to this office in about fifty years. His religious affiliations are with the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Hollister is a member of the Rochester Lodge of Elks and also maintains membership in the Exempt Firemen's Association of Rochester. His residence is at No. 183 Harvard street, Rochester.
HARRY S. HUNT.
Harry S. Hunt is a successful representative of industrial interests in Steuben county as head of the Hunt Glass Company of Corning, which he established in asso- ciation with his father in 1893 and of which he has been sole proprietor since the latter's death a decade ago. He was born in England, on the 24th of May, 1878, a son of Thomas T. and Emma (Scofield) Hunt, by whom he was brought to the United States when a lad of five years. The father, who had been engaged in the glass business and also carried on a milling enterprise in England, had been a resident of the United States for about fourteen years when he established the Hunt Glass Com- pany of Corning, New York, together with his son, with whom he was associated in the conduct of the undertaking until he passed away in 1914. Since that time Harry S. Hunt has conducted the plant and business alone and through the exercise of sound judgment, untiring energy and excellent executive ability has developed his interests to extensive and profitable proportions. His chief output is cut and en- graved glass. It has ever been his aim to keep abreast or ahead of the times in the glass business and his products have won popular favor in all parts of the United States.
Mr. Hunt has been married twice. In 1889 he wedded Jennie Bowman. After her demise he was united in marriage to Leonore C. Smith and they have a daughter: Dorothy B., who is now the wife of W. J. Sullivan. Politically Mr. Hunt is a stanch republican, while his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church, of which he is a consistent member. In Masonry he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, belonging to Painted Post Lodge No. 117, A. F. & A. M., and to Corning Consistory, A. & A. S. R. He is likewise affiliated with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and also has membership connection with the Corning Club, the Corning Country Club, the Corning Automobile Club and the Allied Glass Associa-
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tion. Mr. Hunt was a professional bicycle rider for two years before turning his attention to the glass manufacturing business. His favorite forms of recreation in later years have been gardening, fishing and hunting-sports which take him out- doors. His course has measured up to high standards in every relation of life, so that he has won the warm regard and friendship of all with whom he has come into contact in both business and social circles.
GORDON ROMAINE RUSSELL.
Gordon Romaine Russell, manager of the Rochester office of Schoellkopf, Hutton & Pomeroy, Inc., is a well known figure in investment security circles of this city. He was born in Buffalo, New York, July 22, 1892, a son of Charles H. and Rose Madeline (Pfohl) Russell, also natives of the Empire state. The father is vice presi- dent of the Pennzoil Company of New York and is one of the substantial business men and citizens of Buffalo, where he resides. His family consists of two sons and a daughter: W. Bruce, Mrs. Mildred Marie Masters and Gordon Romaine.
Gordon R. Russell attended the public schools of Buffalo, and then entered the Buffalo Technical School, from which he was graduated in 1910. This training was supplemented by a course of study in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and in 1913 he became connected with the Buffalo branch of the American Radiator Company. In 1915 he came to Rochester as service manager of the local plant of the Ford Motor Company and remained in that position until 1917, when he was called to the colors. He was sent to the First Officers Training Camp at Madison Barracks and was com- missioned an ensign in the naval aviation department. He was stationed at the Curtis airplane plant in Buffalo until receiving his honorable discharge.
On his return to Rochester Mr. Russell was appointed local manager for Schoell- kopf, Hutton & Pomeroy, Inc., of Buffalo, the leading investment security house of western New York. He is well informed on everything relating to the business he represents and has built up one of the most representative clienteles of any investment security house in Rochester.
On September 22, 1917, Mr. Russell was married to Miss Marian V. Kelly, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund C. Kelly of Rochester. Mr. and Mrs. Russell have a son and daughter; Gordon R., Jr., born December 18, 1919; and Shirley Velma, whose birth occurred on the 10th of June, 1921. The family residence is at 132 Castlebar road.
Mr. Russell belongs to the Brick church, and his public spirit is denoted by his membership with the Rochester Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the Rochester Ad Club, the Oak Hill Country Club and the Automobile Club of Rochester. He is also a member of Warren Hubbard Lodge, No. 964, F. & A. M. A young man of clear mind and forceful personality, Mr. Russell is an excellent type of the up-to- date, enterprising man of business who is constantly forging ahead. He is accorded a most creditable position among the city's best class of citizens and dependable business men.
ARTHUR GARFIELD DUTCHER.
Arthur Garfield Dutcher, an able and successful representative of the legal pro- fession in Rochester during the past seventeen years, is actively engaged in practice here in association with his brother, Hon. Frederick L. Dutcher. His birth occurred at Avon, Livingston county, New York, on the 6th of January, 1880, his parents being Henry H. and Mary Ann (Darrow) Dutcher, the former a native of Avon, New York, and the latter a native of Rochester, this state. The father, who always resided in the Genesee country with the exception of a couple of years spent in Iowa and Illi- nois, devoted his attention to general agricultural pursuits until the last twenty years of his life, when he was a stationary engineer in Rochester. He was called to his final rest in 1919. To him and his wife, who still survives, were born ten children, as follows: Mrs. Cora Colson, who makes her home in Geneseo, New York; Charles A., a resident of Rochester; William H., living in Auburn, New York; Hon. Frederick L., who is mentioned elsewhere in this work; Mrs. Marian L. Boyink and Mrs. Rosa- mond L. Welch, all of whom are residents of Rochester; Arthur G., of this review; two who died in infancy; and J. Edward, a prominent attorney who died in 1914.
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Arthur G. Dutcher began his education in a district school at Littleville and then became a pupil in the Avon high school, while subsequently he continued his high school work in Rochester. His more advanced educational training was received in the University of Rochester, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bache- lor of Arts in 1904. During the three succeeding years he read law and in 1907 was admitted to the bar. For four years he served as assistant district attorney of Monroe county, New York, and was then made assistant corporation counsel for the city of Rochester, filling the latter position for eight years. He has since been actively engaged in the private practice of his chosen profession in this city as a partner of his brother, Hon. Frederick L. Dutcher, and has been accorded a high class and lucra- tive clientage. Possessing comprehensive knowledge of the principles of jurispru- dence, he correctly applies these to the points in litigation. He is remarkable among lawyers for the wide research and provident care with which he prepares his cases. At no time has his reading ever been confined to the limitations of the questions at issue. It has gone beyond and compassed every contingency and provided not alone for the expected but for the unexpected, which happens in the courts quite as fre- quently as out of them. Along professional lines he has membership connection with the Rochester Bar Association, the Monroe County Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
On the 2d of June, 1909, in Rochester, Mr. Dutcher was united in marriage to Miss Hertha Vogt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albrecht Vogt. Mr. and Mrs. Dutcher have become the parents of two sons: Darrow A., whose birth occurred in October, 1911; and David Jaynes, who first opened his eyes to the light of day in March, 1915. Both were born in Rochester.
In politics Mr. Dutcher is a stanch republican, while his religious faith is in- dicated by his membership in the Church of the Ascension. He is a director of the Rochester Humane Society and of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. He belongs to the Rochester Chamber of Commerce, the Ad Club and the Oak Hill Country Club, while fraternally he is identified with the Masonic order, be- ing past master of Yonondio Lodge, No. 163, F. & A. M., and a member of the Con- sistory and the Mystic Shrine. A resident of western New York from his birth to the present time, Mr. Dutcher is well known and highly esteemed in this part of the state and enjoys an enviable reputation as a leading and learned lawyer.
JOHN B. WEST, D. D. S.
The record of Dr. John B. West confers honor and distinction upon Elmira's dental fraternity and his pronounced ability has earned for him state-wide prominence. He was born in Keeneyville, Pennsylvania, on August 30, 1881, and his parents, John E. and Olive I. (Croft) West, were also natives of the Keystone state. The mother was born in Chatham and the father was born near Keeneyville. For three years he conducted a store at Rubermont, Virginia, returning at the end of that time to Penn- sylvania, and thereafter followed agricultural pursuits in his native state until death terminated his labors in 1923. He was a Free Baptist in religious faith and served for a number of years as one of the trustees of the church, while his political support was given to the democratic party. He is survived by his wife, who still resides in Pennsylvania. The paternal grandfather, Nathan T. West, was born in Madison county, New York, a son of John West, and was educated in Pennsylvania, to which state the family removed during his childhood. He hewed a farm out of the wilder- ness and the homestead, on which Mrs. John E. West resides at present, is still in possession of the West family.
John B. West is one of four children. He attended a private school of Virginia, which was the first public school for white children in that vicinity and was secured by his father's influence. He completed a course in the high school at Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, and in 1900 was graduated from Keuka Institute. He taught school for a year and then entered the University of Buffalo, from which he received the degree of D. D. S. in 1904. He practiced in that city for a year, also acting as an instructor in the university, and then opened an office in Groton, New York, where he spent six and a half years. He came to Elmira in 1911 and for four years was associated with Dr. Henry A. Moore. Since 1915 he has maintained an office at No. 306 West Church street. In 1918 he was selected as a member of the Medical Advisory Board (No. 46) for this district, having been the only one with a D. D. S. degree on the board. He received his discharge on March 31, 1919. In 1913 he took postgraduate work in the
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dental department of Northwestern University of Chicago and has since specialized in oral surgery and the treatment of pyorrhea. He was one of the first dentists in the country to devote his attention to this disease, of which he has made a close study, and his opinion upon matters pertaining thereto is regarded as authoritative. He has been state dental examiner for ten years.
On September 3, 1902, Dr. West was married to Miss Verna E. Wood, who was born in Weston, Colorado, and completed her education in Keuka Institute, being a classmate of the Doctor. They have two children: John Richard and Elizabeth Ida, aged, respectively, fourteen and six years. Dr. West is one of the trustees of the. First Baptist church and a consistent follower of its teachings. He is a trustee and member of the executive committee of Keuka College and along professional lines is connected with the Elmira City, New York State and Sixth District Dental Societies,. the American Dental Association and the American Academy of Peridontology. He is an honorary member of the Luther Burbank Society and also belongs to the Ameri- can School Hygiene Association and the Alumni Association of the University of Buffalo. He is identified with the Masonic order, having membership in Ivy Lodge,, and is also connected with the Elmira Country Club.
GEORGE T. BALL.
Barring the few years of his absence when acquiring an education, practically the. entire life of George T. Ball, cashier of the First National Bank of Caledonia, Livings- ton county, New York, has been passed in the town of his nativity. He was born in Caledonia, on December 27, 1889, the son of Thomas and Catharine (Skelley) Ball. During his lifetime the father was engaged in the produce business in Caledonia and was one of the organizers of the First National Bank. His widow is living.
The education of George T. Ball was acquired in the grade and high schools of Caledonia, after leaving which he took the course in the Rochester Business Institute, at Rochester, New York, from which he graduated in 1907. Mr. Ball then returned. to Caledonia, and for the next five years was head bookkeeper for the International Agricultural Corporation, leaving this position to become head accountant for the Piehler Shoe Company of Rochester, where he remained five years. In 1917 Mr. Ball entered the service of the First National Bank of Caledonia as assistant cashier and in January, 1918, was promoted to the position of cashier. He takes an active interest in the affairs of his community and is secretary of the Caledonia board of trade.
On November 9, 1911, Mr. Ball was married to Edith Austin of Caledonia. Two children have been born to them: George T., Jr., and Jean. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Improved Order of Red Men, the Modern Woodmen of America and the- Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of Rochester. In religion Mr. Ball is a member of the St. Columba Roman Catholic church of Caledonia.
J. MILTON CARPENTER.
J. Milton Carpenter, a highly respected and representative resident of Wellsville. who is now living retired, has been a successful oil producer for the past three decades and also spent a period of forty years in the drug business here. A native of Wells- ville, Allegany county, New York, he was born in the year 1861, his parents being Mr. and Mrs. John Carpenter. The birth of the father occurred in Orange county, this: state, in 1820.
J. Milton Carpenter obtained his education in the schools of his home locality and after putting aside his textbooks secured employment in the drug store of Edwin B. Hall of Wellsvile, whose daughter he subsequently married. As above stated, he devoted his attention to the drug trade with excellent success for forty years, conduct- ing the Hall Drug Store after the demise of the latter. It is the oldest business land -. mark of Wellsville. In 1920, however, on account of impaired health, he retired to private life.
It was in 1894 that he started oil producing on a small scale in the Alma field! but with the passing years has expanded his interests in this connection until he now" has wells in Alma, Willing, Independence and the Wellsville district. The Quintette. Oil Company, in which Mr. Carpenter was interested, drilled the largest well in the- Independence field. The oil flowed wild to the amount of two hundred barrels per day
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and much was lost before the flow could be controlled, after which there was a daily production of thirty barrels for some time. Mr. Carpenter has been a director of the First Trust Company of Wellsville for several years, is also interested in several local business concerns and enjoys wide recognition as one of the prosperous and highly esteemed citizens of the community.
Mr. Carpenter was united in marriage to Miss Fannie Hall, daughter of Edwin B. Hall. They became the parents of two daughters, Florence L. and Beatrice, the latter dying at the age of two years. The former is a graduate of the Wellsville high school and of Vassar College, which in 1920 conferred upon her the degree of Bachelor of Arts, while in 1922 she received the degree of Master of Arts from Columbia University, where she did research work in psychology. On October 20, 1924, she was married to Professor Norman Woelfel, of Buffalo, New York, head of the department of psychology at the Maryland State Normal School at Towson, Maryland. Pro- fessor Woelfel received degrees of Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts from Columbia University. Mrs. Woelfel belongs to Phi Beta Kappa and to the American Geographic Society.
In politics Mr. Carpenter may be termed an independent republican, for he does not blindly follow party leadership. His religious faith is that of the Congregational church, while fraternally he is identified with the Masons, belonging to Wellsville Lodge, No. 230, F. & A. M., and to Wellsville Chapter, No. 143, R. A. M. He is also a member of the Wellsville Country Club. Mr. Carpenter has been a lifelong resident of Wellsville, and that his career has ever been an upright and honorable one is indicated in the fact that the associates of his boyhood and youth are still numbered among his stanch friends and admirers.
WILBERT AUGUSTUS NARAMORE.
Wilbert Augustus Naramore, formerly of the firm of Naramore, Niles & Com- pany, public accountants and auditors of Rochester, New York, was born at No. 8 Scio street, in that city, on the 13th of November, 1863. His father, the late John Nara- more was for years a practicing dentist of Rochester. His mother, who bore the maiden name of Eliza A. Childs, was born in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, but spent her girlhood in Mount Morris, New York, and all of her married life in Roches- ter, where she died in February, 1916.
At the age of eleven, circumstances compelled Wilbert Augustus Naramore to leave school and become a bread-winner. The rudimentary education he had obtained in the public schools of his native city prior to that time was subsequently supple- mented by courses in local night schools and a course in commercial law, mathematics and bookkeeping, at the "Rochester Business University" conducted by Williams and Rogers.
Mr. Naramore's first position was with the well known dry goods house of Sibley, Lindsay & Curr, where as "check boy" he earned the large sum of one dollar and fifty cents per week. By degrees he worked up to and occupied bookkeeping positions with various business enterprises, spending two years in that line of work in London, England. Subsequently he became connected with the Eastman Kodak Company accounting department, occupying the position of chief accountant over a period of ten years. He resigned from this connection in July, 1903, to enter the field of public accounting. He then entered into engagements with the National Cash Register Company of Dayton, Ohio, and with the Stromberg, Carlson Telephone Manufacturing Company of Rochester, New York, for special accounting work and in 1906 opened an office of his own in Rochester as a public accountant. The following year he formed a partnership with Oscar L. Niles, under the firm name of Naramore & Niles. On January 1, 1923, William B. Franke was admitted to the firm, the title of which was then changed to Naramore, Niles & Company, who have since extended their opera- tions to include branch offices in New York city, Troy, New York, and representatives in London, England.
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