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FREDERICK E. MCCARTY, M. D.
Dr. Frederick E. McCarty is engaged in the practice of surgery in Wellsville, and although one of the younger members of the medical fraternity of Allegany county, he has already attained a secure place in popular confidence and esteem, for he is thorough, conscientious and efficient in the discharge of his professional duties, being actuated by the desire to make his services of the greatest value to his com- munity. He was born in Hilton, Monroe county, New York, April 20, 1893, and represents one of the pioneer families of the Genesee country. His grandparents, Eugene and Catherine (Sherette) McCarty, migrated from Canada to the United States, casting in their lot with the early settlers of Monroe county. Their son, E. J. McCarty, was born in 1866 in the town of Irondequoit, New York, near the city of Rochester, and passed away June 11, 1916, at the age of fifty. He followed horticultural pursuits, owning a valuable fruit farm in Monroe county, and was also a locomotive engineer in the employ of the New York Central Railroad Company. He married Miss Lois Baxter and they were the parents of Frederick E. McCarty of this review.
Frederick E. McCarty was graduated from the high school in Hilton, New York, in 1911, and then matriculated in the University of Buffalo, which in 1915 awarded him the M. D. degree. He spent a year and a half as interne at the Buffalo General Hospital and began his independent professional career in Wellsville in 1916. In 1917 he enlisted in the United States army, becoming a member of the Medical Corps, and was commissioned a first lieutenant. He was ordered overseas and served in France with the National Guard of Wisconsin and Michigan, a part of the Thirty- second Division. He was wounded in action on August 28, 1918, at the Vesle river, and received hospital treatment. After recovering from his injuries he returned to the front, participating in the Meuse-Argonne offensive with the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Infantry, which was attached to the Thirty-second Division. He went to Germany with the Army of Occupation and was discharged in June, 1919, as a captain in the Medical Reserve Corps. Returning to Wellsville, Dr. McCarty re- sumed his professional activities, and is now a member of the surgical staff of the Jones Memorial Hospital. He specializes in surgery and his skill is attested by the large practice accorded him.
On the 23d of August, 1916, Dr. McCarty was married to Miss Cornelia Margaret Hoefner of Buffalo, a daughter of Andrew and Mary (Roth) Hoefner. Dr. and Mrs. McCarty have two children: Frederick E., Jr., who was born Septem- ber 9, 1918; and Mary Lois, born May 11, 1920. In politics Dr. McCarty is a demo- crat with independent views. He is a communicant of the Catholic church and belongs to the local council of the Knights of Columbus and to the Elks Lodge, No. 1495, at Wellsville, New York. His professional relations are with the Allegany County and New York State Medical Societies and he is also connected with Omega
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Epsilon Phi, a college fraternity. He is a member of the Rotary, Brookland and Country Clubs of Wellsville, and for recreation turns to hunting, fishing and golf. His knowledge is comprehensive and his skill is of a high order, for he keeps in close touch with the scientific developments of the profession, and his sound and discriminating judgment directs the utilization of these in practice.
HERBERT S. PRESTON.
From a teacher in the rural schools to the responsible post of superintendent of schools of Warsaw, Wyoming county, New York, is the record of Herbert S. Preston, head of the Warsaw school system. Mr. Preston's rise is a just tribute to his rigorous study of educational methods and to the thorough grounding he acquired before entering upon his lifework. He was born in Barker, New York, February 22, 1883, the son of William and Louisa (Gathergood) Preston, the father being a farmer who has passed nearly all his life in that section of New York and is still living there. William Preston came to the United States in 1850 from England, with his parents and a grandfather, William, when he was five years of age.
Herbert S. Preston was educated in the district schools of the county and at the Lyndonville, New York, high school, from which he was graduated in 1902, after which he took one year of postgraduate work. From 1903 to 1907 Mr. Preston taught in rural schools of the district, and in 1908 entered Syracuse University at Syracuse, New York, graduating in 1911 with the degrees of Ph. B. and Pd. B. During the year 1918 he took postgraduate work at Columbia University, New York, from which he received his A. M. degree. From 1911 to 1914 Mr. Preston was principal of schools at Highland Falls, New York, and in the latter year became supervising principal of schools at Sidney, New York, a position which he held until 1918. He then went to Fort Plain, New York, in a similar capacity, remained there two years, and in 1920 was appointed to his present position as head of the Warsaw school system.
Mr. Preston was married on June 29, 1918, in Linden, Michigan, to Grace Pail- thorp, daughter of Robert and Mary Pailthorp of Flint, Michigan. Mr. Preston has an active interest in all outdoor sports, and is especially interested in the promotion of clean high school sports, to which he devotes much of his spare time. When at Syracuse University he was a member of the football team and won his Block S in football there in the fall of 1910. He is a member of the National Education Association, the New York State Teachers Association and the Association of Academic Principals. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic order, and Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity of Syracuse University. Politically he is a republican, and in religion attends the Presbyterian church.
CLARA (PALMER) OLIVER.
Clara (Palmer) Oliver, a fine type of the modern business woman, is a manu- facturer and retailer of hair goods and an acknowledged expert in matters pertaining to beauty culture. She has a large clientele in Rochester and the greater part of her life has been spent in the Flower city. She was born in Mendon, Monroe county, and represents old families of New York state. Her parents were William L. and Harriet (Smith) Palmer, the former a son of Jeremiah Palmer, Jr., and a grandson of Jeremiah Palmer, Sr., whose property was purchased from the Phelps-Gorham land grant. Her maternal grandparents, Thomas and Emeline J. Smith, lived in Wheatland, New York, and for several generations members of the Smith family have been residents of the Empire state, to which they migrated from Connecticut.
Clara Palmer obtained her education in Rochester and after completing her studies entered the employ of Charlotte Wilbur Griffin, a pioneer in the hair goods business. In this establishment she mastered every detail of the trade and in 1906 purchased the business, which she has greatly enlarged. It was founded in 1853 and for seventy-one years has been in continuous operation. Mrs. Oliver has made a scientific study of the lines in which she specializes and her assistants have been carefully trained, each being highly proficient in her work. She is very progressive in her ideas and her establishment is a model of its kind. While attending a conven- tion in New York, Mrs. Oliver called on Dr. Emilie Storee, whose method of beauty
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culture she became convinced was superior to all others, and made arrangements with the Doctor to come to Rochester and instruct her employes. Accordingly Dr. Storée spent each Monday in her establishment until the course was completed, carefully instructing each of the twenty-five operators in order that all might become experts in the work. The entire day was devoted to demonstration, the store being closed to the public, and Mrs. Oliver established a precedent for advanced business methods in Rochester. Hers is the only establishment in western New York in which patrons have the privilege of this remarkable treatment of lifting and hardening the muscles of the face and neck. She displays initiative, tact, foresight and a high order of executive ability in the supervision of the business, which is a large and growing one and represents a very high-class clientele. Business appealed to Mrs. Oliver in her early years more strongly than did the usual pastimes of children. She has acquired an expert knowledge of health and breath culture as a result of intensive study, close observation and the most learned instruction obtainable. She has taken courses under some of the most renowned specialists in this country, among them being Dr. Hanish of Los Angeles, California.
In 1899 Clara Palmer was united in marriage to George Austin Oliver. While an exceptionally successful business woman, Mrs. Oliver has also found time for cultural development and belongs to the Zonta Club, the Woman's City Club and the Rochester Business and Professional Women's Club. She is deserving of much credit for what she has accomplished, for her achievements have resulted from hard work and a correct utilization of her time, talents and opportunities. She is the possessor of a pleasing personality, much charm of manner, and those traits of character which inspire admiration, esteem and friendship.
LEONARD TREMAN.
The business career of Leonard Treman is a record of continuous progress that has brought him from a minor position to the important office of northern sales agent for the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company, with headquarters in Rochester, and his identification with this corporation covers a period of thirty-one years. He was born in Trumansburg, Tompkins county, New York, April 5, 1852, a son of Erastus R. and Mary (Buck) Treman, who were lifelong residents of the Empire state. The father was born in Trumansburg and there followed the occupa- tion of farming until death terminated his labors. The mother was a native of Cortland county and passed away in Rochester at the age of eighty-one years. Mr. Treman's paternal grandfather, Abner Treman, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, with an active service of over five years in the New York Line, and took part in the Sullivan expedition into the Genesee country. He was the pioneer settler at Trumansburg and the village was named in his honor. Through a mistake in mak- ing out the commission of the first postmaster, the name of the place became Trumans- burg, although previously known as Tremansburg.
Leonard Treman received his education in the public schools of Trumansburg and came to Rochester in 1880 as a clerk in the freight department of the New York Central Railroad Company, becoming chief clerk in the coal traffic department in 1882. When the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company established its northern agency in 1893, Mr. Treman was offered and accepted the position of chief clerk, in which capacity he served until 1912, when he was appointed general northern sales agent, his territory comprising New York state west of the Hudson river, and the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario in Canada.
In Cortland county, New York, on February 18, 1890, Mr. Treman was married to Miss Minnie B. Carr, a daughter of D. W. Carr. Mr. and Mrs. Treman have become the parents of four children, all of whom are natives of Rochester: Leonard C., the oldest, was born in 1892 and in 1914, when twenty-two years of age, was graduated from Cornell University. He enlisted for service in the World war and for two and one half years was a member of the Ambulance Corps of the French army. He received his honorable discharge in 1919 and is now engaged in the coal business in Rochester. In Paris, France, he was married to Miss Marguerite du Jardine, and they have two children: Leonard, (III), and Jeanne; Amy L. Treman is a graduate of the University of Rochester and resides in Yonkers, New York. She is the wife of Thomas E. Milliman and they have a family of two children, Leonard Treman and Mary Louise Milliman; Mildred B., now Mrs. C. Dana Swing- ley completed a course in the Mechanics Institute of Rochester and resides in this
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city; Adelaide, the youngest of the children, is a student at the University of Rochester.
Mr. Treman is one of the Sons of the American Revolution, being eligible to membership in this society in both the paternal and maternal lines, and is also identi- fied with the Knights of Pythias. He is an energetic member of the Chamber of Commerce, in thorough accord with the aims and purposes of that organization, and faithfully follows the teachings of the Brighton Presbyterian church, with which he is affiliated. Although he has reached an age when most men rest from their labors, Mr. Treman is still an active factor in the world's work, deriving pleasure from the discharge of his daily tasks. His mental and physical powers are well preserved, for his life has been rightly lived, and the respect accorded him is well deserved. Mr. Treman's residence is at No. 36 Corwin road.
JOHN WEINMANN, JR., M. D.
Dr. John Weinmann, an able exponent of the homeopathic school of medicine, is engaged in practice at Leicester and is also the possessor of histrionic ability. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 10, 1891, a son of John and Lina (Him- mel) Weinmann, the former of whom is still living in that city. After his graduation from the Eastern District high school of Brooklyn, Dr. Weinmann attended the Long Island Business College and the New York Preparatory School, subsequently entering the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, from which he received the degree of Ph. G. in 1911. In 1917 he was awarded the M. D. degree by the New York Homeopathic Medi- cal College and afterward spent nine months as an interne in the Highland Hospital of Rochester. In April, 1918, during the progress of the World war, Dr. Weinmann became a medical lieutenant at Camp Merritt, New Jersey, and was there stationed for eighteen months. He practiced in Rochester, New York, for five months and for a like period was connected with the medical staff of Highland Hospital of that city. In November, 1920, he opened an office in Leicester and in the intervening period his practice has grown steadily as he has had opportunity to demonstrate his skill in coping with disease.
Dr. Weinmann is a member of the Livingston County and New York State Medi- cal Societies and the American Institute of Homeopathy. Has been health officer of Leicester since 1921. He is a republican in his political convictions and along frater_ nal lines is connected with the Masonic order. He is the possessor of much dramatic talent and has furnished the residents of the county with many enjoyable entertain- ments. He is popular socially and his ability and conscientious effort are bringing him rapidly to the front in his profession.
EGBERT DEXTER CORSON.
Egbert Dexter Corson, a successful publisher and manufacturer, has been a resident of Lockport for thirty years and has earned the right to classification with its most useful and influential citizens. He was born November 3, 1884, in Wapping- ers Falls, Dutchess county, New York, and comes of colonial stock. His parents, Frederick W. and Alice H. (Carr) Corson, were both of English lineage. The father was born in Augusta, Maine, in 1847, and the mother in Fort Plain, New York, in 1849.
Robert Dexter Corson supplemented his public school training by study in the University of Pennsylvania, which he left in 1907, at the close of his junior year, owing to the death of his father. He has lived in Lockport since 1894 and is widely and favorably known in Niagara county, in which practically his entire life has been passed. He has a finely equipped printing plant, and everything that indicates progress in the "art preservative" is found in his establishment. He is president of the Union Sun & Journal, issued in Lockport, and of La Hacienda, an export magazine, published in Buffalo in two editions, Spanish and Portuguese. He is also guiding the destiny of the American Garage & Auto Dealer, an automotive magazine printed in Buffalo, and is likewise the executive head of the Corson Man- ufacturing Company, makers of paper boxes. Mr. Corson is an exceptionally capable business man and has prospered in his various undertakings, for his plans are care- fully formulated and in their execution he is prompt and decisive.
DR. JOHN WEINMANN, JR.
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In Lockport, on January 6, 1916, Mr. Corson was married to Miss Katharine Cady Weaver, who was born in this city, October 18, 1886, a daughter of Francis Phelps and Catherine Antoinette (Cady) Weaver, both of whom are deceased. The Cady family was among the earliest to settle in New England and members of the Weaver family were pioneers in the development of western New York. Mr. and Mrs. Corson have three children: Catharine Alice, Peter and Antoinette Cady.
Mr. Corson is a vestryman of Grace Episcopal church of Lockport and gives his political allegiance to the democratic party. He is identified with the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Red Jacket Lodge, F. & A. M .; Ames Chapter, R. A. M .; to Buffalo Consistory of the Scottish Rite, in which he has taken the thirty-second degree; and Ismailia Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Buffalo. He is a member of the Tuscarora and Country Clubs of Lockport, the Buffalo Athletic Club of Buffalo, the Niagara Club of Niagara Falls, and the Pennsylvania Club of New York city. He is also connected with the Lockport Board of Commerce and was formerly one of its directors.
LEROY J. SKINNER.
An attorney of more than a quarter of a century of experience in Medina, New York, and a patriotic citizen who has served his country well in time of peace and war, is LeRoy J. Skinner. Just when he was starting in his law practice the Span- ish-American war broke out and he left his home to become a military officer. He is also a veteran of the World war and is now on the Reserve Corps, holding the rank of captain. He was born in Medina, Orleans county, New York, on the 25th of August, 1871, his parents being William G. and Frances (Janes) Skinner. The father, who was born in Whittlesea, Cambridgeshire, England, in 1828, was a lad of eight summers when in 1836 he accompanied his parents on their emigration to the United States, the voyage being made in one of the old-time sailing and packet boats. The family home was established in Medina, New York. William G. Skinner became a journeyman cobbler and went from house to house making and repairing shoes until at length he opened a retail boot and shoe store in Medina. When he passed away, in 1908, the community mourned the loss of one of its sub- stantial and highly esteemed citizens. In early manhood he wedded Miss Frances Janes, a native of Connecticut, where her father was a pioneer in the cutlery busi- ness. She came to the Empire state with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Janes, who took up their abode in Livingston county.
In the acquirement of an education LeRoy J. Skinner attended and graduated from the high school in Medina, while his professional training was received in the law department of Cornell University, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of LL. B. in 1895. He was admitted to the bar in 1896 and during the succeeding two years was a clerk in the law offices of John J. Ryan and S. E. Filkins. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war Mr. Skinner immediately enlisted for military service and was commissioned a lieutenant of the Third Regi- ment. Subsequently he was promoted to the rank of captain and was attached to the staff of General George B. Davis, commanding the Second Division, Second Army Corps. During the period of the World war he was a captain in the Reserve, organ- ized companies for home defense and served as drill instructor. He also did secret service work and had gone to an army training camp when the signing of the armistice ended the international strife. He had been made a captain in the Seventy-fourth Infantry and later in the One Hundred and Eighth Infantry. He did commendable work as summary court officer of this section and also as a Four-Minute man. He was a captain in the National Guard and has organized three companies of troops, and it was largely due to his efforts that the Armory was built in Medina.
Following the close of the Spanish-American war Mr. Skinner began law practice in Medina, in association with John J. Ryan as junior member of the firm of Ryan & Skinner. Since the death of his partner in 1921, Mr. Skinner has followed his profession independently, practicing in both state and national courts and being accorded a clientage of large and lucrative proportions that eloquently attests his ability. He has membership in the Orleans County Bar Association and in the New York State Bar Association. Mr. Skinner was one of the organizers and is a director of the Central Bank of Medina and is identified with a number of other corporations and business interests here. He enjoys an enviable reputation as one of the success- ful attorneys and representative citizens of his native county. He is an active worker
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in any movement for community welfare and is a worthy exemplar of the teachings and purposes of the Masonic fraternity. He is an independent democrat in politics.
In 1902 Mr. Skinner was united in marriage to Miss Jessie K. Lee of Albion, daughter of Jerome Lee and representative of one of the oldest and best known families in Orleans county. Mr. and Mrs. Skinner are the parents of two children: Lee J., who is a member of the class of 1926 at Cornell University; and Gertrude L., now in the Medina high school.
WILLIAM R. VAN CAMPEN.
Since his admission to the bar only a small fraction of the time of William R. Van Campen of Belmont, Allegany county, New York, has been devoted to what is called general practice. Nearly all of Mr. Van Campen's legal knowledge has been exercised in the service of corporations or in behalf of bodies created by the govern- ment for specific purposes, and which require legal counsel to govern and guide them in their proper functions. Mr. Van Campen is a recognized authority on railroad valuations, and his time is almost entirely occupied in this work. He has a local practice which is only circumscribed in its extent by the time he sees fit to apply to its care. He was born February 24, 1885, in Belmont, the son of Frank and Betty (Richardson) Van Campen. Both parents are living, and William R. is the second of their three children, and the last male, excepting his son, William R., Junior, to carry on the name, there being six generations who have lived in Belmont.
William R. Van Campen was educated in the grade and high schools of Belmont, graduating from the latter in 1903, after which he entered the Albany Law School at Albany, New York, was graduated in 1908, and was admitted to the bar in the same year. Until 1910 Mr. Van Campen practiced law in Wellsville, New York, and then accepted an appointment as attorney in the land and tax department of the Erie Railroad Company, occupying this position until 1915. He then became assistant valuation attorney of the Interstate Commerce Commission for the eastern district, remaining in this position until 1917, when he accepted the appointment of land attorney for the eastern group, Railway Presidents Conference Committee on Federal Valuation of Railroads, a position he has held continuously since, in addition to special retainers as counsel for the Erie Railroad, the Buffalo and Susquehanna and Wheeling and Lake Erie.
On August 23, 1911, Mr. Van Campen was married to Florence Meyer of Buffalo, and their three children are: Dorothy, William R., Jr., and Helen. Mr. Van Campen is a member of the Allegany County Bar Association, is president of the Belmont Club, and is a member of Delta Chi, an active law fraternity. He is affiliated with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and other fraternities. He is a Presbyterian, and his political ideals find their expression in the republican party, in which he has become active both in local and state work and has held many delegation and committee assignments. Mr. Van Campen frankly admits his fondness for fishing and hunting, and in this work he has done more to stock and replenish the fields and streams of Allegany county than any one man in the county.
GEORGE HUBERT CAYFORD.
George Hubert Cayford, widely known through his activities in the garage and livery business, in which he was the pioneer in Rochester, was removed from his sphere of usefulness on the 20th of June, 1920, at the age of seventy years, and his death was deeply mourned by a large circle of loyal friends as well as by the members of his immediate family, for he was a good citizen and a man of exemplary char- acter. He was born in Bath, England, April 17, 1850, and received his education in his native land. He came to the New World in search of broader opportunities and when a young man of twenty-two years arrived in Rochester. He secured a position as driver with the Freeman Clarke family and when he had accumulated sufficient capital embarked in the livery business, establishing a small stable in the city. The venture proved a success from its inception and from time to time he enlarged the business in order to meet the demands of the trade. Mr. Cayford kept thoroughly abreast of the times, replacing his horses and carriages with high-powered automo-
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