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Mr. Bickmeyer is a member of the Rotary Club of Mineola-Garden City, of which he is past president; of the Masonic order, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Brookville Country Club. He worships at the Lutheran Church in Hempstead.
Mr. Bickmeyer was married to Viola C. Dauch, daughter of Harry and Theresa (Karsten) Dauch, in Hempstead. They have a daughter, Doris L., born December 17. 1926. The family lives in Hempstead. Doris L. married in 1946 Edward Blaes, a native of Long Island and they have one daughter, Doris Lou- ise Blaes.
ARCHIE M. BAKER, M.D .- A specialist in ortho- pedic surgery, Dr. Archie M. Baker is one of Suffolk
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County's leading medical men. From his office in Lindenhurst his practice extends throughout the entire county. He is former village health officer of Linden- hurst, a former member of the board of education, a former president of the Suffolk County Medical So- ciety and is now president of the Southside Hospital statr, Bay Shore, where he is now chief fracture surgeon as well.
Dr. Baker was born in Syracuse, New York, on March 2, 1896, received his education, in Rome, New York and was graduated from Central High School at Syracuse, New York in 1916. Four years later he received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Medi- cine from Syracuse University and in 1922 the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Until 1923 he was an intern at Bellevue Hospital, New York City.
Dr. Baker came to Long Island at the end of his internship, when he accepted appointment as a resident physician at Southside Hospital. Since 1924, he has been in private practice, specializing in orthopedic surgery. In addition to his dual connection with South- side Hospital, where he was elected staff president in 1946, Dr. Baker is also consulting surgeon to the King; Park Hospital. He served the village of Lin- denhurst as its health officer from 1925 to 1941 and was on the board of education from 1934 to 1943. In World War II, he was chief medical examiner for the Selective Service System in the town of Babylon. He was himself in uniform in World War I-as a private in the United States Army. Dr. Baker served as president of the Suffolk County Medical Society in 1943.
Aside from the county medical organization, he is a member of the American Medical Association, the New York State Medical Society and the Associated Physicians of Long Island. He is also a member of Freeport Lodge No. 1253, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Another affiliation is with the Linden- hurst Bank, of which he is a director.
Dr. Baker married Emelyn G. Townsend, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Townsend of St. Al- bans, New York, at Brooklyn on October 16, 1928.
Dr. and Mrs. Baker are the parents of one son, George I. Baker, born August 15, 1929, at Southside Hospital. When he was graduated from Lindenhurst High School, young Mr. Baker was class valedic- torian. This was in 1946. He was awarded two scholarships-one by Cornell University, the other by the State of New York. In 1947, he was a student at his father's alma mater, Syracuse University.
Dr. Baker's major recreation is boating.
RALPH W. STERLING-Since 1873 Sterling's Standard Seeds, with its concomitant plants, roots, flowers, general nursery stock and its farm produce, has been an important factor in the agricultural economy and in the landscaping of a considerable portion of Suffolk County. Ralph W. Sterling entered this business, founded by his father, when he was nineteen years old, in 1900, and today he is one of the outstanding seed men in New York State. He is prominent in the banking world, in cemetery develop- ment and is a member of the Suffolk County Farm Bureau.
Mr. Sterling was born in the community which is the center of all his activities. Cutchogue, on October 3. 1881, the son of the late William W. and Sarah E. (Davis) Sterling. His father, a native of Lake Grove, moved to Cutchogue in his boyhood and was brought up by an uncle. Harvey Howell. a well-to-do farmer at Cutchogue. He attended a district school in the
community. When the War Between the States broke out, he became a sergeant in Company H, 127th Regi- ment of the New York State Volunteers. Trained to tarm life, he found it an easy transition in 1873 to enter the seed business. He died in 1918. His widow was born in Cutchogue and was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Tuthill. She died in 1921.
Besides Ralph W. Sterling, Mr. and Mrs. William WV. Sterling had four children, Frank T., now resi- dent of Boston; Mrs. Clara Sterling Tuthill of Cutcli- ogue; Mrs. Flora Sterling Leslie of Peconic, and Mrs. Minnie Davis Brown of Oneonta, New York.
Ralph W. Sterling was educated in the Rhody Hallock Private School at Cutchogue, in District School No. 8 and in the Southold Academy. In 1900 he joined his father in the seed business and on his father's death succeeded to the ownership. In addi- tion to the major commodity of the firm, seeds, Mr. Sterling supplies vegetable and flower plants, straw- berry plants, asparagus roots, nursery stock, cut flowers and is a grower of potatoes, cauliflower and lima beans. He maintains two hothouses in connec- tion with his nurseries. Outside the business, he is vice president and a director of the First National Bank of Cutchogue and president of the Cutchogue Cemetery Association.
Besides the Suffolk County Farm Bureau, he is active in the Peconic Lodge No. 349, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, at Greenport; Sithra Chapter, No. 216, Royal Arch Masons, also at Greenport; the Southold Lodge No. 373, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, the Pequash Club of Cutchogue and the Seagyan Club of Peconic. His church is the Cutchogue Methodist. His hobby is fishing.
Mr. Sterling first married Gertrude E. Dempewolf, who died in 1914. Of this marriage there were three children: Adelaide, deceased, Helen Elizabeth and Ralph Warren, deceased. On October 28, 1916, he married Grace B. Case, a widow, at Glen Cove. Mr. Sterling's daughter, Helen Elizabeth, now Mrs. George R. Tuthill, is the mother of Joan Elizabeth Tuthill. Mrs. Sterling has a son, Clarence T. Case, by her first marriage. He married Eunice Conklin of Patchogue and they now make their home there.
Born to Grace and Ralph Sterling was one son, Wil- liam B. Sterling, at Cutchogue on January 28, 1923. He first attended the public schools of Cutchogue. After graduation from the Southold High School, he became a student at Cornell University, Ithaca, from which he was graduated in 1944 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. In World War II, he served in the United States Navy in the Pacific Theater of Operations, attaining the rank of lieutenant junior grade. After the war, he joined his father in the management of the seed business and other Sterling activities. He married Eloys Conklin and they are the parents of one daughter Bonnie Sue.
Ralph Warren Sterling married Adele Hamilton and they had one son, Richard Warren Sterling.
GUSTAVE M. HAHN-In 1905, the Lindenhurst Manufacturing Company at Lindenhurst was a slum- bering business. dangerously close to failure. Recog- nizing that this horn button making firm offered opportunity to an enterprising operator, the twenty- eight-year clerk to the freight train master of the Long Island Railroad at Jamaica gave up his job and became president and general manager of the Lindenhurst Manufacturing Company. He soon proved he had properly recognized opportunity, as
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the Company is one of the most successful makers of plastic buttons and buckles in the United States today. Long active in programs aimed at the welfare of the community, he was Lindenhurst's first mayor and has served in numerous other capacities. In addition to being president of the Lindenhurst Manufacturing Company, he is vice president and a director of the Lindenhurst Bank.
Mr. Hahn was born in Germany on May 16, 1877. When he was three years old, the family moved to the United States, settling first in New York City. In 1881, however, the Hahns came to Long Island, mak- ing their home in Lindenhurst, where young Gustave attended the district public school.
When he was eighteen years old, Mr. Hahn be- came telegraph and station agent for the Long Island Railroad at Lindenhurst. Here he remained for four years. His next job was with a wholesale paper concern in New York City. But in 1901, he re- turned to the railroad, becoming clerk to the freight train master at Jamaica. He had been in this posi- tion for four years when he became associated with Lindenhurst Manufacturing Company, a concern which he has helped make so prosperous that today it employs one hundred and twenty-five persons. Works are located at Lindenhurst, and there are branches of the business in New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Louisville and San Francisco. Though at first the company continued manufacturing buttons made of horn, their products are now derived from plastics. Throughout the years Mr. Hahn has been one of the leading figures in the life of the village.
He married Margaret Hirsch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Hirsch, at Lindenhurst, on September 29, 1900. They are the parents of a son and a daughter: Alfred and Augusta. Alfred Hahn is now associated with the company as production manager. He was educated in the Lindenhurst elementary and high schools and at Syracuse University. Married to Helen Manker, he is the father of a son, William. Augusta Hahn was educated in the Lindenhurst schools and at Alfred University. She married Harold Ryan of Binghamton, New York, and is the mother of a son, Gary.
MANOEL de BONO, M.D .- Of wide experience in various corners of the world, and veteran of both World Wars-having served first with one nation, then with the other, but always on the Allied side- Dr. Manoel de Bono is now in medical practice, specializing in ophthalmology, in Amityville.
Dr. de Bono's interesting and colorful life story begins on the Island of Malta, part of the British Colonial Empire, Mediterrannean area, where he was born on June 4, 1897, the son of Joseph and Mary (Satariano) de Bono. His father was chief customs officer on the Island of Malta; he died in 1930.
After his preliminary education, Dr. de Bono spent nearly a decade in study at the University of Malta from which he was graduated in 1918.
From its School of Medicine, where he studied tropical medicine and hygiene in addition to the regular course, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1924. To perfect himself in his chosen specialty, ophthalmology, he later took postgraduate work at Oxford University, England. He had, mean- time, interned in 1922 at the Central Civil Hospital, Malta, and the Colchester General Hospital, Colches- ter, England, in 1923 and 1924.
From 1925 to 1932, Dr. de Bono served as medical L.I .- 3
officer for the British Government in another part of the vast colonial empire, British West Africa. His service took him into such areas as the trust terri- tories of the Cameroons and Togoland, Gambia, the Gold Coast, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, as well as St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. His other service to the British Empire had been in World War I, when he was a member of the armed forces.
In 1932, Dr. de Bono came to the United States and was attached to the Samaritan-Victory Memorial Hospital in Brooklyn. In 1935, he became a member of the staff of the ophthalmological clinic at Metro- politan Hospital, New York. In 1936, he established himself in practice at Amityville, and as an eye spe- cialist has become known throughout Suffolk County and Long Island.
Shortly after the United States was plunged into World War II by the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Dr. de Bono was commissioned a captain in the United States Army Medical Corps. He served from 1942 through 1945, part of that period in the European Theater of Operations. He returned with three battle stars on his theater ribbon. He then resumed his medical practice in Amityville. He is a member of the staffs of Brunswick Hospital, Amity- ville, and the Nassau-Suffolk Hospital at Copiague.
Dr. de Bono's other professional affiliations are with the American Medical Association, the New York State and Suffolk County Medical societies, the British Medical Association and the London (England) Public Health Institute.
He married Adelaida Rocca, also a native of the Island of Malta, at Maspeth, Long Island, in 1930. They are the parents of four children: Joseph, who in 1947 was a student at Amityville High School; Manoel, Jr., Carmen and Dorothy, all three of whom in 1947 were pupils at St. Martin's Parochial School, Amityville. Joseph and Manoel, Jr., were born in Brooklyn; Carmen in Detroit, and Dorothy at Copi- ague.
Dr. de Bono's hobbies are woodworking and boat- ing.
A. NELSON CHAPMAN-Since his recent dis- charge as lieutenant commander in the United States Navy, A. Nelson Chapman has directed his activities toward his farming interests in Orient Point, Suffolk County, New York.
A grandson of William E. Chapman of the original firm of Merritt and Chapman, noted derrick and wrecking company of New York, he was born in Brooklyn, New York, May 16, 1905, son of Alfred M. and Maude (Logan) Chapman. The former, a native of Brooklyn, passed away in 1915, and was a member of the firm of Merritt and Chapman.
A. Nelson Chapman prepared for college at the Storm King Preparatory School at Cornwall, New York, and obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree at Williams College in 1929, at Williamstown, Massa- chusetts. Prior to his service in World War II, he spent some time in the organization of which his father had been a partner, but also directed his in- terests toward other enterprises. Entering the United States Navy in November of 1942, as a lieutenant, he was discharged in December of 1945, with the rank of lieutenant commander, and since that time has operated his farm in Orient Point, specializing in the raising of potatoes. A member of the Congrega- tional church, Mr. Chapman was the first president of The Oysterponds Historical Society, and is a member of the Orient Yacht Club, and of the Suffolk County
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Farm Bureau. He derives relaxation and pleasure from his unusual hobby of collecting clocks of all types and repairing of the timepieces.
A Nelson Chapman married at Orient, September 28, 1940, Mary Haldane, daughter of the late Henry Clair Haldane, who died in 1941, and Eva St. Clair (Brown) Haldane a descendant of Southold's first settlers. They are the parents of Lucinda Budd, born May 8, 1944 and Haldane Moore, born December 29, 1946. Their residence, at Orient Point, is the old Moore house, moved to its present location by Mr. Chapman in 1943 from its original location in East Marion, six miles away, and was owned at one time by Mrs. Chapman's great-great-great-grandparents.
JOSIAH C. RAYNOR-Member of families which since the pioneer days of Long Island have distin- guished themselves in the affairs of the entire region, Josiah C. Raynor of East Moriches has achieved an independent record of distinction as a leader in the numerous vital activities in which he has participated throughout the course of a long life. The successful operator of an insurance business established by his father the year when he, the son, was born, Mr. Raynor has made his name known in such civic and welfare movements as fire prevention and control, youth development, law enforcement and cemetery maintenance. Except for a short period during his youth he has spent his entire life in his native East Moriches and Suffolk County.
Mr. Raynor was born at East Moriches on Sep- tember 2, 1877, the son of Jehiel S. and Julia (Culver) Raynor. Both the Raynor and Culver families pioneered on the island. Josiah Raynor was edu- cated in the grammar school at East Moriches and at the Albany High School, Albany, New York, from which he was graduated. Soon after leaving the high school, he became a clerk in a department store at Albany. Later he did similar work in a Schenec- tady department store. Moving across the line into Massachusetts, he spent a few years at Springfield as publication manager of a booklet called The Pocket Guide.
In 1908 Mr. Raynor returned to East Moriches and there became associated with his father in the insurance business. The firm, one of the oldest on the island, and one of the longest of its kind in the same family, was established by the elder Mr. Raynor in 1877. When the son joined it, its name was changed to J. S. Raynor and Son.
Since those early days of association with the firm, which afterward on the death of his father was to become his own, Mr. Raynor has been active in all major projects in East Moriches and the county. He was fire chief for ten years at East Moriches. Since 1931 a member of the Board of Fire Commis- sioners, he was in 1946-1947 chairman of that body. He is a director of the Suffolk County Council. Boy Scouts of America, a trustee and treasurer of the Mount Pleasant Cemetery Association and a Deputy Sheriff of Suffolk County. He is former president of the East Moriches Civic Association, a director of the Suffolk County Association of Insurance Agents, secretary-treasurer of the Hunters Garden Associa- tion and. being a Republican, is a member of the Timber Point Club. In addition, Mr. Raynor is vice president and a director of the Center Moriches Bank.
Mr. Ravnor married Edith Howe, daughter of Bur- ton and Edith (Smith) Howe. of Amityville. Mrs. Raynor's father was once Sheriff of Suffolk County.
Mrs. Raynor is as prominent as her husband in civic and social affairs at East Moriches. She is especially active in the Girl Scout movement. Mr. and Mrs. Raynor spend their winters in Florida.
CHARLES CHARACH-Doubtless the success of his father, Benjamin Charach, as a real estate and insurance agent, had a decisive influence on the de- cision of Charles Charach to devote his talents and energies to the same combination of business en- deavors. It was a wise decision, if one may judge by results. For more than twenty years now, be- ginning in the year when he attained his majority, Charles Charach has been a factor in real estate and insurance in Patchogue and the adjacent area of Suf- folk County, contributing to the steady growth and progress in population, enterprise and wealth, which have marked the recent history of that beautiful east- ernmost county of Long Island. During these years Mr. Charach has also taken an active part in political life, and has accepted the duties of public office.
This son of Benjamin and Rebecca Charach was born on January 8, 1904. As a boy he attended the Maple Avenue grammar school and the Patchogue High School, from which he went on to Lafayette College at Easton, Pennsylvania, and to New York University in the city of New York. It was in 1925 that he established himself as a real estate and insur- ance agent in association with his father under the name of Benjamin Charach and Son, which name continues today. Benjamin Charach died April 1, 1937 and the lucrative business which they built up remains his son's chief interest. He is also connected with the Patchogue Bank as a member of its board of directors.
Mr. Charach's politics may be judged from his mem- bership in the Lincoln Republican Club of Patchogue, in the Suffolk County Republican Club, and in the National Republican Club of New York City. Political activity led, as so often happens, to public office, and after serving as a member of the board of trustees of the village of Patchogue from 1940 to 1946, in the latter year he was appointed assessor of that village, and this office he fills at the present writing.
Mr. Charach is a member of the Patchogue Hebrew Congregation. His fraternal affiliation is with Lodge No. 1323 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
In New York City on Julv 3, 1940, Charles Charach was married to Ethel B. Bookstaver, a daughter of Charles and Anna Bookstaver of Sag Harbor. Of this marriage there is one child, Benjamin Jeffrey, who was born on May 3, 1947.
LINDSAY R. HENRY-A distinguished career at the bar, in public service and in the service of our country in time of war, was made additionally notable when Lindsay R. Henry of Babylon became district attorney of Suffolk County on January I, 1947.
A native Long Islander, Mr. Henry was born in the borough of Brooklyn, Kings County, on July 10, 1900. He was a son of the late Edward Ewen Henry, who died in 1936, and of his wife Adah (Lindsay) Henry, who is still living at the age of seventy-two years. Ewen Henry, who was a native of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, came to Babylon soon after the turn of the century and was long engaged in a mercantile business there. Mrs. Adah (Lindsay) Henry was born in New York City. Brought to Suffolk County's village of Babylon on
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the South Shore in his infancy, Lindsay R. Henry attended the public schools of that village and gradu- ated from the Babylon High School. A legal career early became his ambition, and to prepare for it he entered Washington and Lee University, from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws. In February, 1927, he was admitted to the bar of the State of New York.
Establishing himself in practice in Babylon, Mr. Henry was shortly called into public service as an assistant United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York. In this position he served from January 16, 1928, to January 1, 1933. On the latter date Mr. Henry became assistant district at- torney of Suffolk County, an office which he filled continuously from that time until January 1, 1947, when, as already noted, he became district attorney, succeeding the Hon. Fred J. Munder of Huntington. As assistant United States attorney, Eastern District of New York he was sent to Warsaw, Poland, on a special mission for the Department of State. En- joying the confidence of the public, Mr. Henry is considered by members of the legal profession throughout Long Island to be singularly well quali- fied for his high office by reason of his profound grasp of the law, as well as by his many years of experience in the Federal district attorney's office and in the department of which he is now the head. The present firm of Henry, Lipp and Rehor, of which Mr. Henry is the senior member, was formed April I, 1947.
Mr. Henry has a record of service in both World Wars. In the first of these conflicts he was a ma- chinist in the United States Navy. During the Second World War he was a commander in the United States Naval Reserve. He commanded LCI Flotilla 12 in the European Theater of Operations and was awarded the Silver Star Medal by President Truman for conspicuous gallantry in action on June 6, 1944, in the Normandy invasion. He holds membership both in the American Legion and in the Veterans of Foreign Wars. There is a martial tradition in the maternal side of his lineage, for his mother's father, the late William Lindsay, a noted lawyer, served in the Union Army during the Civil War of 1861-1865, with the rank of a captain in the 79th Regiment of the New York National Guard, which was known as the Highlanders, being composed of citizens of Scott- ish birth or derivation.
Commander Henry is a prominent member of the Suffolk County Bar Association. He belongs to the Free and Accepted Masons, being a member of Baby- lon Lodge No. 793. His social club memberships include the South Babylon Golf Club and the Baby- lon Yacht Club. A Republican in politics, he is affiliated with the Timber Point Republican Club. He is a member of Christ Church, in Babylon, where he serves as a vestryman.
On November 3, 1925, at New York City, Lindsay R. Henry was married to Gertrude Blakeman, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Blakeman. Of this union there are three children: I. Thomas Edward, who was born on April 7, 1927. During the Second World War he served in the United States Navy, and since his release from the service, he has been a student at St. Paul's School in Garden City, Nas- sau County graduating in June, 1947. 2. Patrick, born on August 8, 1929. He is also at this time a student at the famous St. Paul's school. 3. Margaret, born on May 8, 1943.
WILLIAM R. CARMAN, M.D .- Since John Car- man settled in Hempstead, in 1643, members of that family have remained in that part of Long Island and throughout the generations have made an honorable record in various phases of life in Suffolk and Nassau counties. Dr. William R. Carman of Islip, who car- ries on the family tradition, is a lineal descendant of John Carman in the twelfth generation.
Dr. Carman's father, William Carman, who was born in Oceanside, is a printer by trade. On the maternal side also, Dr. Carman is of Long Island ancestry, his mother having been Augusta Ruether of Brooklyn. William R. was born on March 16, 1902. As a youngster he attended the Marquand Preparatory School in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City, and after graduating from that school, he entered Brown University at Providence, Rhode Island, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in 1926. At this time his choice had already been made of the medical profession as a life career, and to that end he became a student at the Long Island College Hospital, from which he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1930.
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