Long Island; a history of two great counties, Nassau and Suffolk, Volume III, Part 15

Author: Bailey, Paul, 1885-1962, editor
Publication date: 1949
Publisher: New York, Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 922

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The young physician passed his internship at the Nassau Hospital in Mineola, Nassau County. In January, 1932, he became associated with Dr. E. C. Jessup of Roslyn on Long Island's North Shore, in a joint practice which continued until November, 1933. At that time Dr. Carman established his inde- pendent practice in Islip, Suffolk County, where he has continued ever since, serving a wide circle of patients. This professional career was interrupted only by the national emergency which called him into the service with the United States Army during World War II. Assigned to the army medical corps, Dr. Carman was commissioned a captain on December 3, 1943. He served as chief of medicine of the 38Ist Station Hospital, the first senior station hospital on the Island of Okinawa in the Pacific Theater of Operations, the unit receiving a meritorious unit citation for services in that hotly contested area. He was promoted to the rank of major in September, 1945. On July 28, 1946, he was placed on inactive duty, and subsequently resumed his practice in Islip.

Since 1934 Dr. Carman has been school physician of the village of Islip. He serves as attending physi- cian at the Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, Suffolk County, and is also on the staff of the Fourth Medical Division of Bellevue Hospital in the city of New York. He is a member of the Suffolk County Medical Society, of the New York State Medical Society, and of the American Medical Association, and also belongs to the Southside Clinical Society. In local affairs he is active in the American Legion and in the Veterans of Foreign Wars, as well as in the Pres- byterian church of Islip, where he sits on the board of trustees. His fraternal interests center in the Meridian Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons, meeting in Islip. He is also a member of the Rotary Club of Bay Shore. His favorite recreation is yacht- ing.

At Wantagh, Nassau County. New York. on Sep- tember 21, 1931. William R. Carman married Ruth E. Garner, a native of Jerusalem in that same Long Island county, and a daughter of William Garner, a farmer, and his wife Eliza Ann (Smith) Garner, who were both born in Jerusalem. Of this marriage there is one child, a son, William, who was born at Islip on April 27, 1935.

CECIL L. HALL-As president and a director of the Tinker National Bank of East Setauket, Cecil

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L. Hall has been guiding the destinies of that insti- tution since October, 1942, though associated with it for many years before. He is also a director of Richard Delano, Inc, of Setauket.

Mr. Hall was born in Chicago, Illinois, on April 26, 1904, the son of T. Langton and Minnie (Harris) Hall. His parents are both natives of Dublin, Ireland, who settled in Chicago in their youth. The elder Mr. Hall is a prominent wholesale furniture merchant in Chicago.

Cecil Hall began his schooling in Chicago and was graduated from the Austin High School. Later he at- tended LaSalle Extension Institute, Chicago; North- western University at Evanston, Illinois, and Col- umbia University in New York. From 1926 to 1930 he was in the employ of the Haskins and Sells ac- counting firm in Chicago. Subsequently, he held various executive positions with the National Dairy Products Corporation in New York City. He was with that concern from 1930 to 1945. He had in the meantime been elected to the board of the Tinker National Bank at East Setauket. Following the death of that bank's president, Dr. James H. MacIvor, in October, 1942, he was elected his successor. He now gives full time to the presidency of the bank as well as to his other commercial and civic interests.

Mr. Hall is a member of the Rotary Club of Port Jefferson and is a Republican. He is also active in St. George's Golf and Country Club. His favorite recreations are gardening and golf. The Hall family makes its home in the village of Poquott.

Mr. Hall married Clara D. Schnierle, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Valentine Schnierle, of Chicago, in that city on September 21, 1931. They have become the parents of a daughter, Roberta Cecile, born at Kew Gardens on March 6, 1936.

ARTHUR W. MURRAY-One of the oldest pub- lic servants in Suffolk County in point of continuous association with one branch of the government, is Arthur W. Murray, assistant superintendent of high- ways, whose connection with that department began in the year 1916.

Born at New Village, now known as Centereach, on July 5, 1889, Arthur W. Murray is a son of William H. and Flora B. (Smith) Murray, his mother being a native of Coram, New York. He has one brother, Harold Wellington Murray, of Centereach. The Murrays are an old Suffolk County family, first estab- lished on Long Island by Warren Murray, Arthur W. Murray's great-grandfather, who came to what was then New Village, from Watertown in northern New York State, in 1855. In that same year Warren Murray sold to the school trustees the site where the Centereach High School now stands.

The hundred-acre homestead cultivated by Warren Murray was inherited by Henry Murray, and from him by his son William H. Murray. Until 1916 Arthur W. Murray farmed this original hundred-acre tract.

In 1916 Mr. Murray became associated with the highway department in the town of Brookhaven, and so remains today. For twelve years he held the office of superintendent, and for six years he has been assistant superintendent.

Mr. Murray is one of the most prominent figures in fraternal circles in that part of Suffolk County, especially in the Masonic Order, where his member- ships include the Patchogue Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons; the Suwassett Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons, also meeting in Patchogue; the

Patchogue Commandery of the Knights Templar; and the renowned Kismet Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City. Mr. Murray also belongs to the Patchogue Lodge No. 1323 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His hobby is the study of the local history of the town of Brookhaven.

Arthur W. Murray is married to the former Helen Waterbury, a native of Smithtown, Long Island, New York. She has a sister, Mary Louise, of Wash- ington, D. C. Helen was the daughter of Harry Hamilton Waterbury and Mae Elizabeth Harrison; granddaughter of Judge Samuel Harrison and Nonnie Krauter of Evanston, Illinois and John Clark Water- bury and Helen Dee of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Of this marriage there are two children: I. Arthur Waterbury, who was born at the Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, Suffolk County, on August 10, 1926. He is a graduate of the Smithtown High School. 2. Nan- nine, born on January 10, 1929, also in the Southside Hospital in Bay Shore. She also attended Smith- town High School. Mrs. Helen (Waterbury) Murray is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and the White Shrine of Jerusalem, Patchogue, New York.

FRANCIS BERNARD FROEHLICH-When Francis Bernard Froehlich was graduated from the Fordham University Law School in 1943, he was an honor student. That distinction he has carried into his career as lawyer and as a citizen and Catholic layman. For he is prominent not only at the bar, but as a leader of the Mineola Republican Club and the Citizens party of Mineola and an officer of the Knights of Columbus.

Mr. Froehlich was born in Floral Park on Sep- tember 23, 1916. He is a member of a family that has lived in Nassau County for more than a century. His grandfather built the first stores on the Jericho Turnpike in Floral Park. His father, John Frank Froehlich, was a farmer and resident of Floral Park. His mother was Theresia (Rose) Froehlich.

Francis B. Froehlich was graduated from the Cham- inade High School, Mineola, in 1936. He received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Fordham University in 1940 and in January, 1943, that of Bachelor of Laws from the Fordham Law School.

In October, 1942, Mr. Froehlich passed the New York State bar examinations and in June, 1943, was admitted to practice. He had in the meantime be- come a law clerk in the firm of Glass and Lynch, New York. In April, 1943, the firm had promoted him to managing attorney. Later he associated himself with Elvin N. Edwards and on January 1, 1946, when James J. McDonough, for many years a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, joined them, the new firm of Edwards, Froehlich and Mc- Donough was formed. It has its offices at 1501 Franklin Avenue, Mineola. The firm is local counsel for Roosevelt Field. Mr. Elvin N. Edwards, promi- nent lawyer and former district attorney of Nassau County who was the senior member of the firm of Edwards, Froehlich and McDonough, died in July, 1946. Mr. Froehlich and Mr. McDonough carry on under the firm name.

Mr. Froehlich is attorney for the Carle Place Water District, secretary of the Mineola Republican Club and vice president of the Citizens party of Mineola. He is deputy grand knight of the Corpus Christi Council of the Knights of Columbus, member of the board of directors of the Kiwanis Club of Mineola

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he commands in the community, led to his selection as president of the Greenport board of education, an office which he has filled for several years.

During the first World War Mr. Van Tuyl was a member of the New York State Guard, holding the rank of first lieutenant in Company F of the Sixth Battalion.

Mr. Van Tuyl is a former chairman of the board of trustees of the Christian Science Society at South- old, New York. His fraternal interests center in the Peconic Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Green- port.

At Angelica, New York, on October 18, 1916, Otto W. Van Tuyl was married to Birdina Chamberlain, a daughter of M. Hunter Chamberlain. Of this mar- riage there are three children: I. Donald Wells, who was born at Greenport in November, 1917. After his graduation from the Greenport High School, he at- tended Northeastern University at Boston, Massa- chusetts, where he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in engineering, and the University of New Hampshire, where he received the degree of Master of Arts. He is now an engineer with the United States Geological Survey, stationed at Col- umbus, Ohio. He married the former Rosalie Libby of Walpole, New Hampshire, by whom he is the parent of two daughters: Susan and Nancy, and a son, Neil Chamberlain. 2. John Weston, born at Greenport in December, 1918. A graduate of the Greenport High School, he attended Middlebury Col- lege at Middlebury, Vermont, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the institution. He is now employed in the Veterans' Administration, being as- sistant finance officer at Canandaigua, New York. He married Margaret Pester, of Ansley, Nebraska. 3. Roderick, like his older brothers a native of Green- port and a graduate of the high school there. The date of his birth was June 13, 1921. After high school Roderick Van Tuyl attended Northeastern University. Boston, Massachusetts, graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Science in engineering. He was in the armed services during World War II and served in the United States Navy, holding the rank of lieuten- ant, junior grade, and being stationed on the U. S. S. "Nassau." He is now associated with his father as a professional engineer and surveyor.

WILLIAM HERMAN CORDES-After some years in highly specialized engineering work, William Herman Cordes entered the real estate field in which he has prospered for more than a quarter of a century, being one of those who have had so much to do with turning those areas of Long Island adjacent to the city of New York into elite suburbs for business and professional workers in that city.

Mr. Cordes was a lieutenant of engineers in the armed service during World War I with the 446th Depot Engineers attached to the 39th Engineers. He was in service for twenty-one months, eighteen months of which were spent in France. A past member of the Garden City planning board, he was president of the Garden City Chamber of Commerce from 1936-1941 and again in 1946.

William Herman Cordes was born in the Borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, on September 16, 1891. He attended the Boys' High School of Brooklyn, and his studies fitted him to be a licensed profes- sional engineer and a land surveyor of the state of New York since 1922. For eleven and a half years Mr. Cordes was engaged in railroad engineering work, especially construction and grade crossing elimina-

tion design, before turning to the real estate busi- ness as a developer, builder and general contractor. This business is run under his own name with offices in Brooklyn and at 73 Nassau Boulevard, Garden City.

During World War I Mr. Cordes was a member of the engineers, and he now belongs to William Bradford Turner Post of the American Legion. He is a prominent member of the Long Island Real Estate Board. He also holds membership in the New York State Professional Engineers, New York State Society of Real Estate Appraisers, and he is active in the Garden City Chamber of Commerce. He and his family are affiliated with the Garden City Com- munity Church. Mr. Cordes is also a member of the Midwood Lodge, No. 1062, Brooklyn, Free and Ac- cepted Masons. Mr. Cordes owns and operates a farm at Stanfordville, Dutchess County, of approximately fifty-five acres, which he calls his hobby.

At Brooklyn, on January 30, 1920, William Herman Cordes married Elizabeth A. Rounds, a daughter of Henry L. and Catherine Rounds. Of this union there are three children: I. Elizabeth J., who was born on April 2, 1923, and married A. Kent McClelland, of Montreal, Canada. Mr. McClelland is now associated with Mr. Cordes in real estate and insurance work here. 2. Harriet J., born on January 28, 1925, married Vincent J. Raskopf, of Garden City, and they now reside at West Newton Hill, Massachusetts. 3. Anita K., born April 15, 1926, residing with her parents.

HARRY MONROE MONSELL-Although the birth of Harry Monroe Monsell on March 31, 1894, occurred in Gloucester County, Virginia, he is of old Long Island stock, his father, the late James M. Monsell, having been a native of Bellport in Suffolk County, and his mother, Sarah (Meyers) Monsell, a native of the village of Laurel, in the town of Southold. Mrs. Sarah (Meyers) Monsell is now deceased.

James M. Monsell was one of the most important men in the modern history of the town of Southold, and indeed of the entire North Fork of Long Island, that narrow jut of land enclosed between the waters of Long Island Sound where it broadens out into the Atlantic Ocean on the north, and the quieter land- locked waters of Gardiner's, Noyack, Little Peconic and Great Peconic Bays to the south. Mr. Monsell was in the oyster business, as so many North Fork men have been for two centuries, and ran several coasting vessels, which so many others from that "maritime province" have done. But by purchasing the first bay-bottom from the town of Southold for the cultivation of oysters, and becoming the first commercial oyster planter along the North Fork, James M. Monsell effected a kind of economic revolu- tion in that area, and the modern large-scale oyster industry now centered around Greenport and other North Fork ports, whose product is distributed throughout an area that extends as far as the Middle West, is a living monument to the enterprise and vision of James M. Monsell.

The Monsell family returned from Virginia to Long Island's Suffolk County when Harry Monroe Mon- sell was about four years of age, and he received his education in the public grammar and high schools of Greenport. From his early boyhood days he worked with his father and his brothers on James M. Mon- sell's coastal ships, until in 1912 he entered the em- ployment of the village of Greenport, in the municipal power plant. During the next few years Mr. Monsell worked in every department of the municipal utilities,

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light, power and sewer systems, and in 1920 he was appointed superintendent of light and power. In 1940 he was placed in charge of all of these public services as superintendent of public utilities of the village of Greenport, which is one of three villages maintaining their own power plants, and the only one of the villages which is located in Suffolk County. Superintendent Monsell's able management has done much to demonstrate the economies and advantages of the municipally-owned plant. He is a member of the American Water Works Association and of the New York State Sewerage Association.

Mr. Monsell participates actively in civic affairs as a member of the Greenport Chamber of Com- merce and of the Greenport Men's Club. One of his chief interests is Masonry, and he holds member- ship in the Junior Order of United American Me- chanics; in Peconic Lodge No. 349, of the Free and Accepted Masons; in Sithra Chapter No. 216 of the Royal Arch Masons; and in the Sunrise Commandery of the Knights Templar, of Greenport. Although he turned from the sea as the scene of his career more than thirty years ago, like a true North Forker Mr. Monsell finds his favorite recreation in sailing. In religious matters he is a member, and a trustee, of the Presbyterian church of Greenport.

At Greenport, Suffolk County, New York, in January, 1924, Harry Monroe Monsell married Amy A. Prince, a native of Baiting Hollow in the town of Riverhead, Suffolk County. Mrs. Monsell is a gradu- ate of the Cortland Normal School at Cortland, Cort- land County, New York, and is a former school teacher. She is a daughter of Edmund E. and Annie (Goodale) Prince, of Riverhead.

Harry Monroe and Amy A. (Prince) Monsell are the parents of four children: I. George E., who was born at Greenport, Suffolk County, in October, 1926, and is a graduate of the Greenport High School. During the second World War he served in the United States Army, entering the ranks in October, 1943, and, was a technician, fifth grade in the signal corps of the 89th Division, attached to the Third Army, which was commanded by the late General Patton, and saw heavy action in the European Theater of Operations. 2. James I., born in Greenport in 1928. He graduated from the Greenport High School with the class of 1946. 3. Richard E., also born at Greenport, in 1931. He is at this time a student in the Greenport High School. 4. Thomas O., who carried on the family tradition by being born in Greenport, in 1933.

During World War II, Harry Monroe Monsell served as a member of the Civil Defense Committee for the town of Southold.

DR. WALTER C. EICHACKER of East Setau- ket, Suffolk County, New York, is in the third genera- tion of a line of physicians and surgeons. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, August 5, 1919, the son of the late Dr. Henry C. and Martha (Soergel) Eichacker. His father, who died in November. 1945, served as chief of the obstetrical staff at Queens General Hospital and was president of the Queens County Medical and Surgery Society. His grand- father. Dr. Henry T. Eichacker, for many years a physician in East Setauket, was prominent in medi- cal circles.

Dr. Eichacker attended the Grover Cleveland High School in New York City, and after receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University was graduated from the Long Island College of Medicine in 1944. After serving as an intern at the

Queens General Hospital he was a resident physician in the Pathological Department of that institution. He was a lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps in World War II, and after settling down to practice at East Setauket also established an office at Port Jefferson, New York, where he is a staff member of the John T. Mather Memorial Hospital. Dr. Eichacker also is a member of the New York State and the Suffolk County medical societies.

He married on December 18, 1943, Janet Maude Quinn of Queens, daughter of Joseph and Lillian (Berson) Quinn of Queens. They are the parents of a daughter, Sarah Maude, born at Laurelton, New York, June 30, 1945.

BENJ. B. ROGERS-Suffolk County, thrusting its wooded hills and dunes and its two long sandy necks far out into Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, and deeply indented by Gardiner's, the Great Peconic and other bays, is the most maritime of Long Island's counties. Since it was first settled, the sea has dominated much of its life, and many of its men have been and are concerned with ships and shipping, and boats and boating, and all the things that go with them. Since 1883 the firm now known as S. T. Preston and Son, of Greenport, has been catering to the needs of the men who go down to the sea in ships, and as the present owner of this firm, Benj. B. Rogers is accounted one of the substantial business- men of that village.

A son of Silas A. Rogers, a farmer and boatman and a native of the town of Southold, and of his wife the former Deborah Bailey, a native of Gardiner in the state of Maine, Benj. B. Rogers was born in the town of Southold in Suffolk County on October 16, 1881. He attended the public grade and high schools of Greenport, and in that village found his first em- ployment in the hardware establishment of the late Charles G. Bailey. Subsequently he became an agent for the Montauk Steamboat Company, and later their local agent, a position he held from November, 1903, to September. 1911. At that time Mr. Rogers be- came associated with the firm of S. T. Preston and Son.

This concern, established at Greenport in 1883, as already noted, was at first the individual business of Samuel Truman Preston. Subsequently George Preston became associated with the business, and from the year 1900, or thereabouts, the business has been conducted under its present name. At the death of George B. Preston, Mr. Rogers became the sole owner of the business, which deals in ship chandlery, fishing tackle, paints, steamboat, vacht and engineer supplies, marine hardware, flags, United States gov- ernment charts, and many other items that go to the furnishing and upkeep of large and small craft, whether sail-propelled or power-driven.

Actively interested in public, civic, and fraternal affairs. Mr. Rogers has served as the registrar of vital statistics of the village of Greenport continuously from 1911 to the present time. He is a member of the Greenport Chamber of Commerce, and is active in the affairs of Peconic Lodge of the Free and Ac- cepted Masons, of which he is a past master; in the Sithra Chapter of the Roval Arch Masons at Green- port: and in the Sunrise Commandery of the Knights Templar at the same place. In religion Mr. Rogers is a Methodist. At Greenport. Benj. B. Rogers mar- ried Nellie A. Preston, a native of that village and a daughter of Samuel T. and Julia (Hallock) Preston, her father being the founder of the S. T. Preston

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and Son Company. Of this marriage there are two children: 1. Suzanne, who was born at Greenport and attended the Greenport High School. She is now the wife of Robert S. Waddell, and resides with her husband at Pitman, New Jersey. 2. Alice, born, like her older sister, at Greenport. She attended the Greenport High School, and is now married to Francis F. Brooks, with whom she resides at Pipe's Neck in her native village. Francis F. and Alice (Rogers) Brooks are the parents of three children, named Alice Marie, Frances S., and Courtland B. All of these children were born at Greenport.

CHARLES H. STOLL-One of the foremost members of the bar of Nassau County, Charles H. Stoll is noted not only for his success in the legal profession, but for his zest in life and the wide range of his interests, which have made him a famous big game hunter and a generous patron of expeditions and explorations.

It was from the West that Mr. Stoll came to rise to professional eminence and affluence in the city of N. w York. His father, the late Charles M. Stoll, was a native of Mokena, Illinois, and a millwright by trade. He married Elizabeth Myers, who was born in Wisconsin in January, 1866. Charles M. Stoll died in February, 19/4; his widow is still living. They were residents of Beatrice, Nebraska, when Charles H. Stoll was born on November 27, 188 . He attended public school in his native place, graduated from high school there in 1906, and came east to attend the New York Law School, where he obtained his degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1908. The following year he was admitted to the bar; and from June, 1909, until 1938 lie practiced with great success in the metropolis. In 1938 Mr. Stoll decided to transfer his practice to the pleasant environment of suburban Hicksville in Nassau County, and there he continues to the present writing.

Mr. Stoll is a member of the Nassau County Bar Association, and of the bar of Nome, Alaska. He has extensive business interests outside of his profession, and is a director of the Atlantic Concrete Pipe Com- pany, and of Faulk and Company, Inc. He has served as a justice of the peace in Oyster Bay for a period of seven years. In politics he is a Republican. His hobbies are big game hunting and all forms of outdoor life. These interests are reflected in his enthusiasm for the work of the Camp Fire Club of America, in which he serves as a member of the board of gov- ernors, and in his memberships in the Explorers Club and the American Polar Society, of which he is president, as well as in the fact that he is a patron of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Mr. Stoll also holds a life member- ship in the Downtown Athletic Club of that city.

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Long Island; a history of two great counties, Nassau and Suffolk, Volume III, Part 15

Author: Bailey, Paul, 1885-1962, editor Publication date: 1949 Publisher: New York, Lewis Historical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 922

Author: Bailey, Paul, 1885-1962, editor
Publication date: 1949
Publisher: New York, Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 922