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EDWARD T. COSTELLO-A leader at the Suf- folk County bar, a former public official and a popular and respected citizen of Greenport, Edward T. Cos- tello comes of a family, in the paternal line, which has long been identified with various sections of Long Island. His grandfather John E. Costello was a native of Southold in Suffolk; his father, the late Edward M. Costello, was born in Greenport in the same county, lived for a time in Long Island City, Queens County, and returned to Greenport, where in fact most of his life was passed.
Edward M. Costello in his earlier years was a loco- motive engineer for the Long Island Railroad, but in the later years of his life he was the proprietor of a successful retail provision store in Greenport, where he became a substantial and respected citizen, and was for a time a member of the local board of education. Edward M. Costello married Mar- garet C. Kimmins, a native of Ireland, and of this marriage Edward T. Costello was born at Long Island City on December 11, 1906. Brought to Greenport in infancy, he attended public school there and gradu- ated from the Greenport High School before enter- ing the Catholic University at Washington, D. C., intent upon preparing himself for a career in the law. In 1932 he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws from the Catholic University. Already in 1932 he had been admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia, and this was followed by his admission to the bar of the state of New York in 1934. At that time he returned to Greenport, where he has lived and practiced to the present time, serving many im- portant clients and recognized by his professional colleagues as an able general practitioner.
Mr. Costello is a former police justice of the village of Greenport and now acting police justice; and a member of the Suffolk County Police Association. He is a Roman Catholic and a communicant of St. Agnes' Church of that denomination. He has membership in the Greenport Rotary Club, and is village counsel of Greenport, New York.
On October 27. 1934, Edward T. Costello was married to Elsie Reiter, a native of Greenport and a daughter of Alexander and Whilemenia (Hartwig) Reiter. Of this marriage there are five children, all born in Greenport: I. Daphne, born on August 14, 1937. 2. Mary, on February 21, 1940. 3. Elsie Patricia, on March 20. 1941. 4. John A., July 26, 1943. 5. Edward T., Jr., born March 5, 1946. 6. Anne Marie, November 17, 1947.
JOHN H. MORELL-Since May, 1919, John H. Morell has operated the Plymouth and Dodge sales and service agency at Greenport. He is a delegate to the Southold Town Convention and a member of the Greenport Volunteer Fire Department. He served as an enlisted man in the United States Navy in World War I and as a civilian in the Coast Guard Auxiliary in World War II.
Mr. Morell was born at Cutchogue on January 4,
1899, the son of the late William F. and Carrie Eliza- beth (Kline) Morell. His father, who was a native of Riverhead and a carriage builder by trade, died in 1930. Mrs. Morell died in 1935. Both parents are buried at Cutchogue.
John H. Morell was educated in the elementary and high schools of Riverhead and St. John's Military Academy at Manlius. When the United States entered World War I, Mr. Morell, then seventeen, enlisted in the Navy and became a seaman first class. On his discharge in 1919, he associated himself with his brother, George, who operated the Dodge and Plymouth agency at Riverhead. After a few months, however, Mr. Morell moved to his present location
in Greenport and has since maintained his own agency, with garage and repair service. He not only handles Plymouth and Dodge passenger cars, but Dodge trucks. He is active in village and town affairs aside from serving as delegate to the town conven- tion and as a member of the Greenport Volunteer Fire Department. With his family he worships at the Methodist Church.
Mr. Morell married Eunice Christine Nugent, daughter of James Monroe and Bertha A. (Carter) Nugent, at Southampton in June, 1921. They have one daughter, Carolyn E., born in Greenport on July 23, 1922. She is a graduate of the Greenport High School and the Cortland State Normal School. Married to William E. Adams, Jr., of Charlotte, North Carolina, she is the mother of a daughter, Carolyn Marie, who was born in Greenport in April, 1946. Mr. Morell's hobby is boating
STANLEY FOWLER-During the past fifteen years, Stanley Fowler has figured prominently as an attorney in Suffolk County, engaged in a general prac- tice in this section and New York City. He has long been exceptionally active in civic affairs, both in Suf- folk and Queens counties, co-operating heartily with progressive projects and organizations that endeavor to further the interests of communities and the wel- fare of their citizens.
Stanley Fowler was born in Brooklyn, New York, January 24, 1882, the son of Charles Borden Chase and Mary (Doherty) Fowler. His father was a native of Brooklyn, and was a prominent manufacturer of nautical instruments. His mother was born in Lon- donderry, Ireland. In Public School No. 3, in Brook- lyn, the subject of this record initiated his elemen- tary education. From there he went to Pratt Institute, and then matriculated at the University of Pennsyl- vania in both college and law departments. In 1907 Mr. Fowler was admitted to the bar of the State of New York, and in 1921 to practice before the Supreme Court at Washington, D. C. From 1907 to 1932 he was a trial counsel at No. III Broadway in New York City, 1932 to 1938 he was a member of the law firm of Robbins, Fowler, Wells, Walser and Walsh, of Bay Shore. Then in 1938 Mr. Fowler opened offices at Riverhead, the county seat of Suffolk County.
Keeping in touch with professional colleagues, Mr. Fowler is a member of the Suffolk County, the New York State and American bar associations, and the Lawyers Club of New York City. He is a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon and the Delta Chi frater- nities. Stanley Fowler is civic-minded without poli- tical ambitions. Fraternally he is affiliated with Pat- chogue Lodge, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a member of the Riverhead Ro- tary Club. During World War II. Mr. Fowler was Suffolk County chairman of the War Bond drives, Nos. 2 to 6, inclusive, doing most excellent work.
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He likewise was chairman of the Democratic Cam- paign Committee of Queens County for several years. He is a member of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, at Bay Shore.
Mr. Fowler is the father of two children: I. Stan- ley, Jr., born in February, 1915, at Brooklyn. A grad- uate from St. Paul's School in Garden City, he re- ceived the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Colgate University, and Bachelor of Laws from the Fordham University Law School, and established a practice of his profession in Mineola, New York. During World War II, he volunteered as a private and was promoted to captain of heavy artillery. He married Lorna Turner of Garden City. 2. Thomas P., born in Far Rockaway, in October, 1918. A graduate of St. Paul's School, in Garden City, he attended Georgetown Uni- versity, from which he received the degree Bachelor of Arts, and while at Fordham Law School, before the United States entered the Second World War, he volunteered and was commissioned a flying lieuten- ant in the Canadian Air Corps. When the United States entered the war he transferred to the United States Naval Air Corps, and was made lieutenant, senior grade. He married Barbara Smith of Brook- lyn and Bay Shore, the granddaughter of William Todd, the shipbuilder.
G. SPINNEY CRARY-First as a landscape engi- neer, salesman, designer, and later as a realtor, G. Spinney Crary for some twenty years has been an important factor in the development of Nassau County and the western end of Long Island.
Born at Grand Forks, in the state of North Dakota, on March 17, 1906, Mr. Crary is a son of Austin A. and Maybelle (Spinney) Crary. Austin A. Crary, who is now deceased, was for thirteen years post- master at East Rockaway, Long Island. He was a native of Sabula, Iowa. Mrs. Maybelle (Spinney) Crary is still living. The young G. Spinney Crary be- gan his education in the public school system of East Rockaway, and continued through the high school at Rockville Centre, Nassau County, from which he was graduated in 1923, and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he received his degree of Bachelor of Science with the class of 1927.
In the year of his graduation Mr. Crary became associated as a landscape engineer with the firm of Lewis and Valentine Company of Roslyn, on Nassau County's north shore. This association continued until 1930, when Mr. Crary entered business in his own right as a landscape contractor under the name of the G. Spinney Crary Company. Two years later, however, he accepted an offer to become superinten- dent of estate and secretary for a large real estate operator. This position occupied him in the period of 1932-1934. In the latter year he first entered the field of real estate selling in the employment of Ralph P. Schley of Rockville Centre. The following year, 1935, Mr. Crary became associated, still as a sales- man, with the Jos. T. Froehlich Co. of Rockville Centre.
At the time of Mr. Joseph T. Froehlich's death in November. 1942, Mr. Crary was manager of this concern, and he continued to manage the business for Mr. Froehlich 's estate until December, 1943, when Mrs. Froehlich passed away. At that time Mr. Crary took over the business, which he has continued to operate with great success to the present time. do- ing business under the name of the Jos. T. Froehlich Co. He is very well-known and highly regarded in real estate circles and in the thriving and populous
village of Rockville Centre, where he takes an active part in business and civic affairs.
An active member of the Long Island Real Estate Board, Mr. Crary is also active in the Rockville Centre Chamber of Commerce and in the Rockville Centre Kiwanis Club. During his college days he became affiliated with and is still active in Theta Chi fraternity. In religion Mr. Crary is a Protestant, and in politics he adheres to the Democratic party. He has an outdoor and an indoor hobby-fishing and stamp collecting.
At Hornell, New York, on September 13, 1928, G. Spinney Crary married Lucy E. Hazlett, a daughter of Frank R. and Eula (Taylor) Hazlett. Of this marriage the two children are: I. George Spinney Crary, Jr., who was born on October 3, 1931. 2. Robert H. Crary, born on April 3, 1934.
REPUBLIC AVIATION CORPORATION, with WV. Wallace Kellett as its first president, was or- ganized in October, 1939 out of the old Seversky Aviation Corporation, at Farmingdale, Long Island, New York. Many veteran officers and employees prominent in the company's operations today were originally members of the Seversky Company, includ- ing Alexander Kartveli, now vice president and chief engineer, and a member of the board of directors.
Republic's first aircraft deliveries were P-35 fighter planes built for the Swedish government. In 1940 P-35 deliveries continued to both the Swedish and American governments, and the newly designed Re- public P-43 Lancer pursuit planes went into produc- tion for the United States Army, continuing until early in 1942.
In 1940 Alexander Kartveli and C. Hart Miller, later vice president and general manager, conferred with Auxiliary Air Force Materiel Command officials at Wright Field concerning requirements for a new fighter plane which must be superior to the advanced fighters thrown into the war in Europe in great num- bers by the Axis aggressors. The P-47 Thunderbolt, designed as were the P-35s and P-43s by Alexander Kartveli, was the result, and Republic was given an initial order for more than $58,000,000 of the new P-47S.
A huge new assembly plant was constructed in the fall, winter and spring of 1940-1941, and other build- ings, more than forty in all, were erected or con- verted to the expanding war program.
On May I, 1941, at the urging of the War Depart- ment, Ralph S. Damon assumed the presidency of Republic with Mr. Kellett becoming chairman of the board. Five days later the first P-47 was successfully flown by Test Pilot L. L. Brabham, later to become Republic's director of all flight operations.
Plant expansion at Farmingdale continued rapidly and an additional Republic plant was erected at Evans- ville, Indiana, to augment Thunderbolt production, many Farmingdale key personnel being sent to form the nucleus of the new Indiana Division plant there.
Production at both plants stepped up rapidly and by the end of 1943 Republic had produced five thousand P-47 Thunderbolts in the Farmingdale plant and one thousand in the new Evansville plant. Wartime em- ployment at the two plants reached a peak of twenty- four thousand men and women, with more than fifty per cent of the Indiana plant employees at one time being women workers.
Fred Marchev. who had joined Republic in 1942 as assistant to Ralph Damon, succeeded Damon as president of Republic Aviation on September 1, 1943.
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On September 20, 1944 Republic delivered the ten thousandth Thunderbolt to the Army Air Forces. By this time the company had won recognition as the world's largest producer of fighter type aircraft.
The first Thunderbolt to go into combat had en- gaged a superior number of German fighters over Europe in May of 1943 and emerged with an over- whelming victory. This demonstration of their superiority was to be repeated in every combat theater around the world until, with the attainment of final victory, Republic Thunderbolts had flown five hundred and forty-six thousand combat sorties and taken a toll of eleven thousand, eight hundred and seventy- four enemy planes destroyed or damaged; one hundred and sixty thousand axis units of rail and motorized military equipment and nine thousand locomotives destroyed or damaged.
Originally designed primarily for high altitude bomber escort missions, the P-47s were repeatedly modified and redesigned to meet the changing require- ments of war. As examples of their versatility in the various theaters of war, they were used with out- standing success as fighters, dive bombers, fighter bombers and finally as the champion of all low level bombers and ground strafers in the final phases of the war in Europe. Meanwhile a newer and final Thunderbolt version, the P-47N, with unprecedented long ranges for fighter-bombers, was produced in large numbers and delivered to the United States Air Forces in the Pacific for the aerial onslaughts which crushed the enemy's island defenses and carried destruction to the Japanese homeland.
Throughout the war Republic men and women won four Army-Navy E awards at the Farmingdale plant and three at the Indiana plant for the excellence and quantity of their aircraft production.
At the conclusion of the war, Republic had built fifteen thousand, three hundred and twenty-nine com- pleted P-47s and had reached advanced stages of development on three new types of airplanes: the new jet fighter which was to become the P-84 Thun- derjet, the four engine super fast XF-12 photo recon- naissance plane which was also to become the fore- runner of the forty-six passenger, four hundred and fifty mile-per-hour Rainbow transport, and the new four-place all metal amphibian Seabee.
With the coming of V-J Day, employment was approximately eleven thousand at the Farmingdale plant and slightly more than four thousand at the Evansville plant. Evansville operations were ter- minated almost immediately. The Farmingdale plant, however, started reorganizing at once for a diversified postwar aircraft program.
On December 27, 1945, Republic purchased Air- cooled Motors Corporation of Syracuse, New York and thus became the producers of its own engines for personal aircraft, as well as for planes of other aircraft manufacturers.
In order to tide over the transition period and provide employment for as many Racers as possible, Republic's officials contracted with American Airlines to convert forty-four Army C-54 cargo and transport planes into the four-engine DC-4 liners for passenger and cargo transportation. The project employed more than three thousand people and as it neared completion, production had gotten under way on P-84s, XF-12s and Seabees, and the go ahead was given for development of the Rainbow transport version.
Republic's first XF-12 won aviation's plaudits on, its initial test flight at Republic field February 4, 1946, and the first experimental XP-84 Thunderjet
made an equally successful first flight at Muroc Lake Army Air Base in California twenty-four days later. The XF-12 exceeded all previous cross country speed records for four-engine planes on a routine flight from Wright Field in May of 1946, averaging four hundred and twenty-six miles per hour, and a P-84 set a new official American record of six hundred and eleven miles per hour in level flight, at Muroc, in September of 1946. Unofficially, the same month, a 1-84 Hown by Carl Bellinger was clocked at six hun- dred and twenty-one miles per hour in level flight in one pass over the measured course at Muroc.
On June 20, 1946 Kepublic and the War Assets Administration announced negotiations for leasing the entire Farmingdale plant and airport from the United States government for five years with option to purchase within that period.
The first production model P-84 was successfully flown by Carl Bellinger, from Republic field, on the closing day of 1946.
By November of 1946, employment at the Farm- ingdale plant had increased from three thousand, seven hundred to more than eight thousand in exactly one year, with approximately three thousand of them veterans of World War II.
Mundy I. Peale, who had been vice president and general sales manager since V-J Day, succeeded to the presidency of Republic Aviation Corporation on January 1, 1947, with the elevation of Fred Marchev to the chairmanship of the corporation's board of directors, and the election to the board of Alexander Kartveli.
After a year in which innumerable production obstacles were met and overcome, Republic launched its 1947 program with the backlog of more than $100,000,000 in airplane business under contract with the government, the airplanes and personal plane pur- chasers.
MUNDY I. PEALE, formerly vice president and general sales manager, was elevated to the presidency of Republic Aviation Corporation on January 1, 1947. Mr. Peale, who is forty-one years old, established his reputation as an aircraft production man when, during the war, he directed Republic's Indiana Divi- sion plant at Evansville, Indiana. This plant, although not completed until late in 1942, produced six thou- sand, two hundred and forty-two of the more than fifteen thousand P-47 Thunderbolts built and delivered to the Army Air Forces by Republic. When the war contracts were terminated at the Indiana plant on V-J Day, Mr. Peale was made vice president in charge of the company's postwar sales program.
Mr. Peale joined Republic Aviation Corporation in 1939 as assistant director of exports and a year later was assistant director of military contracts. He became a vice president and assistant general man- ager of the Indiana Division plant in July of 1942, and in mid-July of 1943 was appointed divisional manager in charge of the Indiana operation. On Janu- uary 20, 1944 he was elected to the board of directors of Republic Aviation Corporation.
Mr. Peale has been active in aviation and the aircraft industry since shortly after graduating from the University of Chicago in 1929. In 1930 he took a master pilot's course at the Boeing School of Aero- nautics at Oakland, California, becoming a transport pilot, and then was appointed western factory repre- sentative and demonstration pilot for the Sikorsky division of United Aircraft Corporation. In this capacity he made demonstration flights all over the United States and Canada until 1934.
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Peale then became service representative for the Hamilton Standard Propeller Division of United Aircraft, supervising installations of the first con- trollable pitch propellers on the country's airlines. In 1936 he returned to the Sikorsky Division of United in charge of sales and exports, and in 1938 became quality manager for Sikorsky, from which post he came to Republic a year later. Mr. and Mrs. Peale and their three children, Georgia, Mundy Jr., and Sandra, reside in Garden City, Long Island.
HENRY HEWLETT TREDWELL-On Long Island, Henry Hewlett Tredwell, of "Haddington," East Williston, is best known as a realtor, the owner and developer of much choice real estate. Many notable places bear the imprint of his ideas, develop- ment and operations. Through the years his estate, "Haddington," has been a prominent example of what can be done with effective management and fertile imagination. He delights to claim that he is carrying on the tradition of several generations of his ancestors in being a farmer, the claim being based on the fact that he still retains some live-stock and is an authority on many phases of the animal industry, the growing of suitable crops and the handling of plant life in general.
Henry Hewlett Tredwell was born on October 6, 1878, in the Tredwell Homestead at Old Westbury, New York, son of Timothy and Ann Maria (Hewlett) Tredwell. He is the grandson of Dr. Samuel Tredwell, who was the son of Benjamin Tredwell, the son of Dr. Benjamin Tredwell, who in turn was the son of Colonel Benjamin Tredwell. Dr. Benjamin Tred- well's wife was the granddaughter of John and Pris- cilla Alden, and a sister of Bishop Seabury, the first Protestant bishop of this country. A fine genealogical record of the family is entitled "Descendants of Ed- ward Tredwell Through his Son John," by William A. Robbins.
The education of Henry H. Tredwell, begun in the schools of Old Westbury, was continued in a private school at Roslyn and the Friends Academy at Locust Valley, New York. He also had the advantage of being tutored by Dr. Hall, a Yale University profes- sor, at Roslyn. His entry into a business life was in association with his father on the farm "Haddington" at East Williston, Long Island. His father was well known as a breeder of fine horses and cattle and had the largest collection of aquatic birds in the United States until Bronx Park began to specialize in this type of collecting. In 1908, Timothy Tredwell, the father, died and the son disposed of his bird collection, but continued family interests in agriculture and the breeding and raising of fine animals, including prize- winning Guernsey cattle; he also owned many high class riding and driving horses.
In 1906, Henry H. Tredwell joined his father in real estate operations as a broker representative in his sec- tion of Long Island, for the T. B. Ackerson Company, and he has continued his broker's license since that time. In later years he sub-divided the family farm into small estates, and to his endeavors credit goes for the development of Haddington Acres, Old Westubry, and summer homes at Northampton Colony, Town of Southampton, as well as minor enterprises. He was one of the organizers and the first, and present, presi- dent of The Williston National Bank of Williston Park, Long Island. In politics Mr. Tredwell is a Re- publican of influence. Fraternally he is affiliated with Morton Lodge, No. 63, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a life member; a thirty-second degree Mason, member of Long Island Consistory, Ancient
Accepted Scottish Rite, and member of Kismet Tem- ple, Brooklyn, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. By right of distinguished ancestry, he is a member of The St. Nicholas Society of the City of New York, the Society of Colonial Wars, Society of American Wars (having been a post commander, suc- ceeding General John J. Byrne), the Mayflower Soci- ety, and the Holland Society of New York. He wor- ships in the faith of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
In 1903, Henry Hewlett Tredwell married (first) Hattie Stratton of College Point, New York, who died in 1925. Mr. and Mrs. Tredwell became the parents of two children: 1. Harriett Ann, who married Charles Aldrich Covert, of Garden City, and they have two children: Aldrich Garrison and Harriett Stratton Tredwell Covert. 2. Henry Hewlett, Jr., who married Marjorie Mayer, of Richmond Hill, and they have two children: Henry Hewlett, 3rd, and Judith.
Mr. Tredwell married (second), in 1931, Florence Covert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Covert, and they are the parents of a son: 3. Timothy Covert, a student in Roslyn High School.
THOMAS F. ROBINSON, M.D .- After a period of exceptionally broad education and technical experi- ence, Dr. Thomas F. Robinson established himself in Port Jefferson, Long Island, where he has achieved a notable reputation as physician and surgeon. His connection with professional organizations keeps him in close touch with the modern developments in his field of interest; he serves in official capacities in a number of Long Island institutions and contributes constructively to local affairs and life.
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