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MCLAUGHLIN, JAMES F., was born in Jamaica. L. I .. October 10. 1868, the son of William A. Mclaughlin and the brother of John J. Mclaughlin. Having been educated in the public schools, he studied law with Hon. James W. Covert, an ex-Congressman, and in 1888 was graduated from the New York Law School. In 1889 he was admitted to the New York bar. Heremained one year in the office of Mr. Covert. and then entered the office of Mr. J. J. Gleason, of New York. He also has a law office in Jamaica. He is a Democrat, and served one term as Town Clerk of Jamaica. having been elected to this office in 1894. He is a member of the Jamaica Club and of the Chub Club of Jamaica.
HÜPFEL, ADOLPH GLASER. proprietor of the large brewery in the Borough of The Bronx which was originally established by Xavier Grant, passed into the hands of a Mr. Schilling, and in 1863 was par- chased by the late Anton Hüpfel, step-father of the present owner, is also interested in many other business enterprises. He is a director and the Treasurer of the New York State Brewers and Maltsters' Is-
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sociation, and is a director of the Union Railway Company of New York, the Harlem River Milling Company, the United States Brewing Company, and the Sebastian Wagon Company. He was born in Orange County, N. Y., August 12, 1845, the son of Adolph Glaser, a linguist, born in Neviges, Prussia, and his wife, Catherine Bross, a na- tive of Nymegen, Holland. His parents were married in Holland, and came to the United States in 1843. His father died in 1849, while three months later his mother married the late Anton Hüpfel. In 1873 the brewing business of the latter in New York City passed into the control of his two step-sons, Adolph G. and John C. G. Hüpfel. The brothers dissolved their partnership in 1883, the brewery in the Bor- engh of The Bronx becoming the property of Mr. A. G. Hüpfel. The latter has been President both of the Brewers' Board of Trade and the Brewers' Exchange of New York City. He is also a member of the North Side Board of Trade, the Arion. Liederkranz. Turners', and other or- ganizations, and is a Mason and a Knight of Pythias. He has a large country estate near Johnsville. Dutchess County. N. Y. He married, in 1870, Catherine Kuntz. who died with her young child in 1871. In 1873 he married her sister, Magdalen, by whom he has four children- Catherine G. (wife of W. H. MeMann, of New York City), Adolph G., Jr., Antoinette G., and Otto G. His oldest son, a graduate of the Pack- ard Business College and of Yale University, is a practical brewer, a master brewer, having taken post-graduate courses at the Berlin Brew- ing School and at the Physiological and Bacteriological Institute of Copenhagen.
BEADLESTON, ALFRED N., is a director and the President of the corporation of Beadleston & Woerz, which owns and conducts one of the most extensive and best-known breweries in New York City, and is also interested in various other business and financial enterprises. ITe is a member of the Union League, Manhattan, New York. Country, Racquet, Riding, New York Yacht, Larchmont Yacht, New York Ath- letic, and Seventh Regiment Veteran clubs, and the Up Town Asso- ciation.
CLAUSEN. HENRY. was born in New York City, August 11. 1838. and died December 28. 1893. He received his education in the public schools and under private tutors, and for four years traveled abroad. In 1866 he entered the brewery which had been established by his father. Henry Clausen. in 1857, and was soon received into partnership. In 1870 the business was incorporated, when he became President of the company. In conjunction with Flanagan. Nay & Company and an English syndicate, he subsequently organized the New York Brew- eries Company, with a capitalization of $4,500,000. He was a Demo- crat. and held the offices of Alderman of New York City and member of the New York Assembly. He was Vice-President of the Brewers'
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Ice Company. Vice-President of the Murray Hill Bank, and a director of the Consolidated Gas Company, the Mount Morris Electric Light Com- pany, and the Harvey Peak Tin Milling and Mining Company. He served as President of the United States Brewers' Congress, and was also President of the Brewers' Association of New York City. He was a member of the New York Produce Exchange, the Democratic and Manhattan clubs, and the Liederkranz. Three sons and a daughter survived him.
CLAUSEN, CHARLES C .. is a director and the President of the Clausen & Price Brewing Company, is a director of the Yorkville Bank. and is a trustee of the Ale Brewers' Association of the States of New York and New Jersey. He has various other business interests, and is a member of several clubs and other societies.
HAFFEN, JOHN, of the brewing firm of J. & M. Haffen, was born in Long Island City, February 7. 1847, during the next few years resided with his parents in Williamsburgh, and since 1851 has resided in what was formerly Melrose, Westchester County. N. Y., but is now a part of the Borough of The Bronx, New York City. He was educated in public and private schools, and in 1860 entered his father's brewery as an ap- prentice. He worked his way up. mastering the business in each de- partment. In 1871, in conjunction with his brother, Mathias, he sue- ceeded his father in the control of the business, the present firm style of J. & M. Haffen being adopted. Mr. Haffen is also President of the Dollar Savings Bank. is First Vice-President of the Twenty-third Ward Bank, and is Chairman of the Twenty-third Ward Taxpayers' Asso- ciation. Prior to 1874 he was an active member of the old volunteer fire engine company of Melrose. Protection Engine Company. No. 5. When this organization passed out of existence, its members and the sons of members organized a benevolent institution under the old name. of which Mr. Haffen has been President for a muumuber of years. He married Caroline Hoffmann, and has two children-a daughter, now Mrs. Mary A. Ireland, and John M. Haffen.
HAFFEN, MATHIAS, JR., of the firm of J. & M. Haffen, was born in Williamsburgh. L. I., June 6. 1850, and removed with his parents to Melrose, Westchester County, in 1851. He attended the public schools. a private German school, and a school conducted by the Christian Brothers. He then entered the brewery of his father, Mathias Haffen, Sr., and beginning as an apprentice, mastered the details of every de- partment of the business. Since 1871 he has been joint-proprietor of the business with his brother. John Haffen. Another brother. Louis Francis Haffen, is now President of the Borough of The Bronx, New York City, and was formerly Commissioner of Streets for the Twenty- third and Twenty-fourth Wards, New York City. Mr. Haffen is con-
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nected with several business enterprises besides his brewing interests, and is a member of several clubs and other organizations. He has a son --- Louis Francis Haffen. Jr.
WEBER, JOHN, head of the building and contracting firm of J. & L. Weber, is a native of Germany, where he was born in 1828. His father and paternal grandfather wore architects and builders, and with them he learned his business. In 1848 he came to New York with several brothers, and. at once engaged in the building business, which he has successfully followed since. His son. Hugo Weber, is now associated with him in the business. Mr. Weber is a director of the Astoria Silk Works, and is a member of the Manhattan Club, and the Arion and Liederkranz societies. The edifices erected by him include the Staats- Zeitung Building, the Havemeyer Building, the Edison Electric Illu- minating Building. the Recorder Building, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, the Broadway Theater, the Amberg Theater, the works of the De La Vergne Refrigerating Machine Company, the Ruppert residence, the Ehret residence, the Ehret Brewery, the Ruppert Brewery, the Clausen Brewery, the brewery of Beadleston & Woerz, the Consumers' Brewery, the India Wharf Brewery of Brooklyn, the store of Bloomingdale Brothers, the works of the Hygeia Ice Company, the Consolidated Gas Company, and of the Metropolitan Gas Company of Elizabeth. N. J., the piano factories of Steinway & Sons, of Sohmer & Company, and of E. Gabler. the Astoria Silk Works, the wall paper factory of Henry Gledhill & Company, and the Union Railroad Depot of Boston.
OVERBAUGH, DEWITT CLINTON, of the firm of Overbaugh & Camp, wholesale dealers in building materials, Kingsbridge, was born in Saugerties, Ulster County, N. Y., August 6, 1840. He is the son of Wilhelmus Overbaugh and Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Emerick and Margaret Vrooman, and granddaughter of Wilhelmus Vrooman; is the grandson of Jeremiah Overbaugh and Sarah Van Orden, and is the great-grandson of Johann Pieter Overbaugh, who was born in Germany (the son of Peter Overbangh), married the widow of Stephen Thonius, came to this country in 1710, and purchased one hundred acres of land in Ulster County, New York, which is still in the possession of his descendants. Mr. Overbaugh's maternal grand- mother, Margaret de Vrooman, was a descendant of the Earl of Eg- mont, of Holland. Both the paternal and maternal grandfathers of Mr. Overbaugh were Revolutionary officers. Jeremiah Overbaugh was commissioned Major for bravery in the Revolution, while in the War of 1812 both he and his eldest son lost their lives while fighting against the British on the western frontier of New York. Mr. Over- baugh attended public and private schools, an academy in Wisconsin, and Hartwick Academy, New York. For ten years he was a principal of schools. From 1868 to 1872 he was engaged in the coal business at
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Catskill, N. Y., while from 1872 to 1892 he was engaged in the same business at Kingston. Since 1892 he has been engaged in business at Kingsbridge, New York City, as a dealer in building materials. He was President of the company, incorporated in 1880, which erected the New Grand Hotel in the Catskills. In 1888 he became half owner of a brick manufactory, and since the incorporation of the business he has been its President. For some years he was President of the Board of Education of Kingston, and for nine years was a member of the Board of Aldermen. He was a member of the Committee of Seventy which caused the overthrow of Tammany Hall in 1893. He is a char- . ter member of the North Side Board of Trade, and a member of the Building Material Exchange, New York City. An active member of the Baptist Church, during the past fifteen years he has been a Sunday- school superintendent. He has frequently delivered Jectures, as well as political addresses, as a Republican.
GEIB. ADAM, was born in Germany, November 20, 1846, the son of Adam and Madelaine Geib. Having been educated in the public schools of Germany, at thirteen years of age he was apprenticed as a mechanic, and worked for seven years at his trade. He then came to the United States, where he worked for four years as a mechanic. He then engaged in business on his own account in New York City as a carpenter, contractor, and general builder, and has so continued to the present time. He is a member of the Builders' League, of the Knights of Funda, and of several social clubs. He married, August 6. 1870, Elizabeth Fredman, of Brooklyn, and has living two daughters and a son.
HENDERSON, JAMES, was born in Westchester, N. Y., June 17, 1839, the son of James Henderson and Ann Pellit. His father, a suc- cessful and prominent carpenter and builder, who died in 1886, at the age of eighty-one, was born in Roxburyshire, Scotland, spent his boyhood there and there learned his trade, and in 1832 came to New York City. In 1837 he settled in the village of Westchester, where he established a prosperous business. Mr. Henderson's mother, who died in 1894, also at the age of eighty-one, was a native of Suffolk County, England. Having been educated in the public schools of Westchester. Mr. Henderson engaged in the business of building and contracting with his father. During the Civil War he served three years and five months in the Union Army, as a member of Company E. One Hundred and Sixty-fifth New York Volunteers. He participated in the siege of Fort Hudson, was with Banks in the Red River Valley campaign. took part in the engagements at Sabin Cross Roads and Pleasant Hill, and was with Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, participating in the battles of Winchester and Cedar Creek. He was Supervisor of the vil- lage of Westchester from 1881 to 1885. He is a Mason, an Odd Fel-
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low, and a member of the Royal Arcanum and the Grand Army of the Republic. He married, in 1881, Sarah, daughter of Embree Hill and his wife, Catherine Lawrence, of Westchester, and has one child- Embree Hill Henderson, born in 1887. Henry Henderson, a brother of James Henderson, is engaged in the practice of law in New York City.
PARKER, CHARLES AARON, was born in Long Branch, N. J., April 5, 1851, the son of Charles and Lydia Parker, his father being a farmer. His paternal great-great-grandfather was born in New Jer- sey, and was a relative of ex-Governor Parker. On the maternal side he descends from the Johnston family. Having been educated in the public schools of Long Branch, Mr. Parker worked at farming until nineteen years of age, since which time he has been connected with the building trade in New York City. He is recognized as one of the best builders in the city, his buildings being monuments of master mechanics. He is a member of the Builders' League, is a Mason, and is a member of the Yorkville Republican Club. He was an Alderman of New York City during the three years from 1894 to 1897. He married, in 1876, Nellie M. Jones, of New York City.
COLLINS, CHARLES W., was born in New York City, July 4, 1867. and is the son of Robert Collins and Ellen C. McCormick. Having been educated in the New York public schools, he first learned the business of a general contractor, and then engaged in this line on his own ac- count. He has been very successful, much of his work having been done for the City of New York, in the building of bridges and the im- provement of the parks. He is a member of the Democratic Club of New York City, the Harlem Democratic Club, the Schnorer Club, and the Harlem Wheelmen. He is also a member of the Suburban Council, Royal Arcanum ; the Crown Council, L. A., and the Mystic Rose Coun- cil, Knights of Columbus.
LOWEN, CHARLES, builder. of New York City, is a native of Rah- way, N. J., where he was born, May 15, 1841. He enlisted in the Fed- eral service at the outset of the Civil War, and served for four years and five months-for four years as a private and corporal and for five months as Second Lieutenant and First. Lieutenant of the Seventy- ninth New York Regiment. Returning to New York City. he engaged in the building business, which he has successfully followed since. He is a member of the Builders' League, of Knickerbocker Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; of the Seventy-ninth Regiment Veteran Association, and of Summer Post, Grand Army of the Republic.
POWELL, ANDREW, was born in New York City, October 14. 1837. the son of Benjamin Powell, who served in the War of 1812. and
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Mary Ann Waters. He lineally descends from Thomas Powell, a Quaker from Wales, who was a resident of Huntington, L. L., as early as 1641. On the maternal side Mr. Powell is of English descent. He was educated in the public schools and at Amenia Academy, at Ame- nia, Dutchess County, N. Y., which he attended in 1851 and 1852. Dur- ing the past thirty years he has been successfully engaged in the real estate and building business in New York City.
OLSSON, ANDREW, builder and contractor, was born in Sweden. July 12, 1853, and is the son of Ola and Cecilia Olsson. His father was a farmer in Sweden, where his ancestors were long established. Mr. Olsson received his education in the schools of the town of Hel- rungberg, Sweden, and in 1880 came to America, settling in New York City. Here he did daily work at the outset, and then engaged in busi- ness on his own account as a builder and contractor. He has erected many residences in Harlem and the Twenty-third Ward, Borough of The Bronx. He is a member of the Builders' League, and of the Schnorer Club. He married, in New York City, in 1884, his wife, Anna, a native of Germany. They have no children.
BYRNE, THOMAS JOSEPH, was born at One Hundred and Thirty- seventh Street and Fontth Avenue, New York City, then a part-of Westchester County, November 28, 1856, the son of Thomas and Bridget Byrne. Both parents were natives of Ireland. Having been educated in the public schools, he entered a machine shop. Subse- quently he was in the employ of the Knickerbocker Ice Company, and following his connection with that corporation was for seven years in the ice business on his own account. He then engaged in general con- tracting, which business he followed until January 1, 1898, when he was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Sewers for the Borough of The Bronx. He is a member of the Democratic Club, the Red Men, the Catholic Benevolent Legion, the United Workmen, and the Knights of Columbus. He married, in 1879, and has nine children-Mary, Bess. Laura, Lillie, Grace, Thomas, Albert, Philip, and Robert Van Wyck Byrne.
CLAIR, FRANCIS R .. was born in College Point. L. L., November 7. 1858, the son of John Clair and Sarah Moore, daughter of Francis Moore, and the grandson of Richard Clair and Mary Delaney. His ancestors were long seated in Queen's County, Ireland. He re- ceived his early education in the public schools, supplemented with a special course at Cooper Union, New York City. He originally learned telegraphy, and for some time followed the profession of a telegraph operator. During the past fifteen years he has been an expert account- ant, while during the last ten years he has held this position with the firm of Greeff & Company of New York City. For eight years he was
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Treasurer of the village of College Point, for three years was School Commissioner of the First District of Queens County, and is now Au- ditor of the Borough of Queens, New York City. He is a member of the Democratic Club, of Manhattan Borough; the Royal Arcanum and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
CHILDS, JOHN LEWIS, was born in Jay, Maine, May 13, 1856, the son of Stephen and Lydia Childs; the grandson of Stephen Childs; the great-grandson of Howland Childs, and the great-grandson of Dr. Daniel Childs. His ancestors came to Connectient from England in the seventeenth century. Having been educated in the public schools of Buckfield, Maine, at the age of seventeen Mr. Childs removed to" Queens, L. I., where he entered the employ of a florist. At the end of a year he engaged in the same business on his own account, and from that time (1874) to the present he has continued to develop and extend this enterprise. He enjoys a wide reputation as a florist and seedsman, while Floral Park, his villa and cultivated estate, is one of the most notable of its kind in existence. He publishes a large annual cata- logue, the Floral Guide, together with a monthly magazine, the Way- flower, intended for floriculturists, horticulturists, and farmers. He was elected to the New York Senate in 1893, and served his term of two years. The Republican candidate for Congress from Queens, Suf- folk, and Richmond counties in 1890, he failed of election in this Demo- cratic stronghold, but greatly reduced the Democratic majority. In 1892 he was again the Republican candidate for Congress, with a simi- lar result. He has also been Treasurer of a local board, as well as of the State Normal School of Jamaica, and is connected with a preferred accident association of New York City. Ile is a Mason, a member of the Royal Arcanum, and a member of the Shield of Honor. In 1886, he married Carrie Goldsmith, of Washingtonville, N. Y., and has three children-Vernon G., Norma Dee, and Jay Lionel Childs.
KORFMANN, HENRY C., was born in Astoria, L. I., November 13, 1860, and is the son of John and Catherine Korfmann. He received his education in the village school and the parochial school connected with the Second German Reformed Church of Astoria. Between the ages of fifteen and twenty he was a drug clerk at Astoria, after which he ae- cepted a position in the laboratory of W. IL. Schieffelin & Company, William and Beekman streets, New York City. Ill health eventually forced him to resign, when he accepted a clerical position under City Treasurer F. W. Bleckwenn, of Long Island City. In the September following he was appointed Deputy City Treasurer, and hold the office continuously until the close of 1894. He was then appointed Chief Bookkeeper and Cashier of the Water and Fire Department of Long Island City, holding this position until December 31, 1895. He then resigned, having been elected, in November, 1895, to represent Long
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Island City on the Board of Supervisors of Queens County. He was subsequently appointed to succeed himself as Supervisor of the First Ward of the Borough of Queens, under the new charter, and upon the reorganization of the Board of Supervisors, he was chosen its Presi- dent. He has always been a Democrat in politics. In 1881 he joined the Mohawk Hose Company, No. 1, of Long Island City, and continued a member until its disbandment in 1890, while for three years he was also its foreman. He is a member of the Veteran Firemen's Associa- tion; of Long Island City Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons, No. 586; of John Allen Lodge, Ancient Order of United Workmen, and Enter- prise Lodge. No. 228, Knights of Pythias. He is a member of the Democratic Club, the Astoria Mannerchor, the Arion Singing Society, the German Second Reformed Church of Astoria, and other'organi- zations.
DALL, JESSEN, was born May 5, 1864; received his education at the High School and a technical school at Copenhagen, Denmark, was for years connected with leading building firms in Boston and New York. and has been successfully engaged in business in New York City dur- ing the last eight years. He has either erected the following buildings or has executed extensive alterations in connection with them: The New York Yacht Club Building, the Luncheon Chib Building. the T: B. Hoffman residence, the Church of the Good Shepherd, Brooklyn; the Church of the Incarnation, Brooklyn; the residences of Dr. G. F. Shrady, Mr. F. B. Hoffman, and Dr. Thomas E. Satterthwaite, and the sanitarium buildings of the New York Association for the Improve- ment of the Poor at Coney Island.
KADLETZ, JOILN, was born in Prague, Austria, May 26, 1829, and in 1851 was graduated from the celebrated university of that city with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He subsequently became a civil engi- neer and landscape engineer, and in 1855 and 1856 acted as assistant landscape engineer in laying out a private park for the Emperor of Austria. A little Jater he came to the United States to lay out a park on Staten Island for a banker from Vienna, expecting to return to Austria at the end of three years. He married, here, however, and made Staten Island his permanent residence. Since 1865 he has been engaged in horticulture. He has served as School Trustee and Chair- man of the Board of Education, and served one term as Postmaster at Garretson, S. I. He was a member of the International Copyright League until it went out of existence.
BURKE, THOMAS P., was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., July 10, 1868. the son of Francis and Susan Burke. His parents came from Ireland more than forty years ago and settled in Brooklyn. where his father, who during the Civil War served in the Union Navy, was a School
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Trustee, for ten years prior to his death in 1883. Having attended the Brooklyn public schools, in June, 1888, Mr. Burke was graduated' from Fordham College, and at once entered the office of Mayor Patrick J. Gleason, of Long Island City, while also studying law with Isaac Kugelman and Corporation Counsel Walter J. Foster. In June, 1890, he was graduated from the Law Department of the University of the City of New York, and since has practiced his profession in Long Island City. He has held the positions of Mayor's Secretary, Secretary to the Civil Service Commission, City Clerk, and Clerk to the Water and Fire Commissioners, the Police Board, and the Common Council, respective- ly. ; He was also Attorney and Counsel to the Corporation of Long. Island City. For five years he was Secretary of the regular Democratic Committee of Queens County, as that of Long Island City. He is a member of the Ravenswood Boat Club. He is unmarried.
BURDEN, THERON, was born November 8, 1857, the son of Henry Burden, a native of New York City, where he was long a Captain of Police, and received his education in the public schools and Grammar School No. 40. At the age of eighteen he became a driver of a horse car on the Battery Place Line. Later on he entered the employ of the East River Ferry Company, and so continued until 1880, when he was appointed Postmaster at Steinway, L. I., by President Garfield. This office he held until removed by President Cleveland in 1888. During . this time he also handled some real estate enterprises for the late William Steinway. In 1883 he opened the Ravenswood Granite Quar- ries, and subsequently established coal yards. In 1888 he was the Republican candidate for Sheriff of Queens County, and greatly cut down the Democratic majority. From November 15, 1889, to July 20, 1892, he was Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for a part of Queens County. In the fall of 1892 he was again the unsuccessful candidate for Sheriff. In February, 1889, he had also been appointed Police Com- missioner, and was recognized in this office the following July. He has been a delegate to the Republican County Conventions of Queens since 1884, and to State conventions since 1886. He is a member of Advance Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons, of Astoria, and of Astoria Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He married, in 1875, Miss Margaret Loine, of New York City, and has five children-Margaret and Minnie, graduates of the High School, and Henry, Florence, and Eugene Platt Burden. The family are members of the Dutch Reformed Church.
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