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1893, the son of Elias and Jennie (Kass) Patiky. When the future surgeon and coroner was still an infant. his family moved to Long Island. settling at Kings Park. He was educated in the elementary and high schools of Northport and at New York Univer- sity and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He re- ceived his degree of Doctor of Medicine from the last-named institution in 1916, and then interned at Volunteer Hospital in New York City and the Newark City Hospital at Newark, New Jersey. The United States having meanwhile become a belligerent in World War I, Dr. Patiky was commissioned a lieuten- ant in the Navy Medical Corps and served until some time after the end of the war. Discharged in 1919, he became a surgeon on the staff of Huntington Hos- pital. At the same time he established himself in the private practice of his profession at Huntington Sta- tion, where he has continued to this day.
In time, Dr. Patiky rose to be chief of the hospital's surgical staff and in 1947 assumed the office of Coro- ner of Suffolk County. Both of these positions he has continued to fill to the present time. Since 1930 he has been a director of the Huntington Station Bank.
Dr. Patiky is surgeon to the Huntington Manor Fire Department. a post he has held since about 1927, and is also surgeon for the Halesite Fire Department. He served on the Huntington Board of Education for approximately nine years.
He is a member of the American Medical Associa- tion, the New York State and Suffolk County Medi- cal Societies and the Associated Physicians of Long Island. He is also affiliated with the Huntington lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Junior Order of United American Mech- anics. Politically he is a Republican.
Dr. Patiky married Agnes M. Crooke. They are the parents of three children; Charlotte, Ruth and Delores, all born in Huntington. Ruth, the scond born, is now Mrs. Richard A. Lareau of Hunting- ton and the mother of a daughter, Noël.
RUDOLPH KOOP-Prominently associated with the banking profession of New York City, and a re- sident and public official of Amityville, Rudolph Koop has earned a steady reputation for his excellent work in behalf of the people of his community and state.
Mr. Koop was born February 2, 1907, in Germany, son of Henry and Anna (Heitmann) Koop. His father is a retired business man. When Rudolph Koop was two years old, he and his family came to the United States and settled in New York, New York.
Mr. Koop attended the public schools Staten Island and Brooklyn. and received his later training at the Amityville High School, having moved to Amityville in 1920.
In 1924, Mr. Koop became associated with a branch of the Irving Trust Company in New York City. As he gained promotions with the bank, he saw the necessity for more study, and matriculated at the American Institute of Banking, from which in- stitution he was graduated in 1930. Fifteen years later. in December. 19.45, he became village clerk of Amityville, a position he has held since with distinc- tion.
Mr. Kopp plays an active role in the life of his community as a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, and was elected in 1944 and again in 1947 to the position of master of the Amityville Lodge No. 977. In religious affiliation he is a Lutheran, and attends the St. Paul Lutheran Church.
JOHN EDWARD KUHLKE, M. D .- After he received his medical degree and served an internship, Dr. John Edward Kuhlke was commissioned in the United States Navy Medical Corps and served until after the end of World War II. Since leaving the service, he has carried on the general practice of medicine at Smithtown Branch and has already be- come well known in Suffolk County.
Dr. Kuhlke was born in Brooklyn on December 7, 1917, the son of George O. and Jane (Applegate) Kuhlke, both of whom now reside in Brookville, Nassau County. George O. Kuhlke, a native of Brook- lyn, was graduated from Cornell University in 1914 with the degree of Mechanical Engineer. For many years he has been a mechanical engineer with the Arma Corporation in Brooklyn.
After his graduation from Friends' Academy at Locust Valley, Dr. Kuhlke took his premedical work at Dartmouth College, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1939. He then pre- pared for his profession at the Long Island College of Medicine in Brooklyn, where he took his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1943. For a short period he was an intern at the Brooklyn Hospital, leaving to enter the Navy. Commissioned a lieutenant in De- cember, 1943, he served until July, 1946.
On being separated from the service, Dr. Kuhlke established himself in the general practice of medi- cine at Smithtown Branch. He is now on the staff of the John T. Mather Memorial Hospital at Port Jefferson and Southside Hospital at Bay Shore. A participant in the civic affairs of the town of Smith- town, he is a member of its Volunteer Fire Depart- ment, also a member of the Kiwanis Club of Smith- town. the Oldfield Club, the American Medical As- sociation, the Suffolk County and the New York State medical societies and the Southside Clinical Society. At college he became a member of Delta Tau Delta and Phi Chi fraternities. He and his family worship at St. James Episcopal Church, and he is a vestry- man there.
Dr. Kuhlke married Viola Waring Alcock, daugh- ter of George W. and Viola (Waring) Alcock formerly of Brooklyn and now of Syosset, in the Garden City Cathedral on August 28, 1943. Mrs. Kuhlke is a graduate of Adelphi College. They are the parents of one child, a daughter, Kate Alcock Kuhlke, born December 9, 1947.
TRACY B. TERRY-A man of wide experience in industry and engineering, combined with a keen and constructive interest in civic, business and social life. Tracy B. Terry figures notably in the affairs of Patchogue. He is not. however, as many people think, a native of this town, for he was born in New York City and came with his parents to Patchogue as a small child. His career has taken him to several states and centers of population, a factor in his achievements in Long Island.
As indicated, Mr. Terry was born in the American metropolis on August 19. 1892, son of Winfield C. and Anna E. (Morris) Terry, both natives of Suf- folk County, New York. His mother is deceased, but his father, now at the age of eighty-one years, is re- tired. after having been farmer, storekeeper and for forty-six years a weaver with the Plymouth Mills, at Patchogue. In 1893, the family moved to this town and it was here that the son acquired his elementary and secondary education, being graduated from the Patchogue High School, with the class of 1912. He
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then studied at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, where he received a degree in mechanical engineering.
In the meanwhile he had been employed, first, from 1915 to 1919, in the engineering department of the Remington Arms Company, at Bridgeport, Con- necticut; then to 1920 with the Baylis Shipyards at Port Jefferson in charge of the material department. From 1920 to 1925 he was a research engineer under that notable leader, C. F. Kettering, then vice presi- dent of the General Motors Company of America, at Dayton, Ohio, plants. In 1926 Mr. Terry transferred to the refrigeration division of General Motors, in the engineering department. Later he was promoted to assistant chief inspector in charge of final tests and inspector for the same refrigeration division. From March, 1932, to March 1934, he was chief inspector for the Gibson Electric Refrigeration Company of Greenville, Michigan, later being promoted to the post of production manager. From April, 1934, to August of that year, he served as production man- ager of refrigeration division of Sparks-Worthing- ton Company at Jackson, Michigan. In October, 1934, Mr. Terry returned to Patchogue and, with his brother, Lawrence E. Terry, established the Terry Brothers, an agency for Dodge, Plymouth motor cars and Dodge trucks. Two years later, in 1936, the company added Firestone Tire and rubber products for distribution in the Southern towns.
Tracy B. Terry is a director of the Peoples Na- tional Bank of Patchogue, member of the Rotary Club of this town; is vice president of Suffolk County Plymouth, Dodge Dealers Association, and director of the Brooklyn and Long Island Dealers Associa- tion. During World War II he was a member of the bond drive committee for the Rotary Club, also for the Red Cross Drive, and with Mrs. Terry was chairman of the Patchogue Service Men's Club. Fraternally he is affiliated with South Side Lodge No. 493, Free and Accepted Masons, at Patchogue. For some years he has served on the board of man- agers of the Brookhaven Young Men's Christian Association, and formerly was a commodore of the Domino Yacht Club, of Patchogue. He attends the Patchogue Congregational Church.
On September 16, 1918, at the Bayport Methodist Church, Tracy B. Terry married Fannie Overton, a native of this town, daughter of Captain Wilmot D. and Minnie (Kutcher) Overton, her mother a native of East Orange, New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Terry are the parents of a daughter: Louise A., born at Bayport. November 6. 1919, a graduate of Bayport High School and valedictorian of her class, and Mary- land College for Women, where she was graduated a Bachelor of Arts in dietetics. She was listed in "Who's Who in America." She married Harry Kowalchyk of Watervliet, New York, and they have one son: Harry, Jr., born in May, 1944; they reside at Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
ERNEST H. BISHOP-Old in honors and young in the spirit of service, Ernest H. Bishop throughout a long and busy life, spent entirely in his native sec- tion of Suffolk County, has prospered in business and has discharged the duties of public office with an ability and integrity which have earned him the un- grudging respect of his community.
Born at Westhampton in Suffolk County on March 24, 1862, Mr. Bishop attended the district school in his native village and a private school owned and con-
ducted by Professor Hallock at Bridgehampton. As a boy he was active, industrious and ambitious, and made himself useful in delivering telegrams, express packages and baggage to and from the Westhampton railroad station. As a young man he became asso. ciated with the late Charles E. Raynor in the opera- tion of a general mercantile business at Westhampton Beach. For a while the post office and the telegraph. office were located in this establishment. Subse- quently Mr. Bishop bought out Mr. Raynor's in- terest in the store and business, which had originally belonged individually to the latter. Mr. Bishop moved the store and then built a new store of a general char- acter, and the original store was attached to the new one and was used thereafter for storage.
In 1926 Mr. Bishop sold the general store at West- hampton Beach to W. O. Nervins. In the previous year Mr. Bishop had retired from active business. Meanwhile he had become a factor in the banking field in Suffolk County. From February 21, 1919, to the present time he has been a member of the board of trustees of the Riverhead Savings Bank in the village of that name. He was also one of the charter members of the Seaside Bank of Westhampton Beach, and for a year or so, about 1930, he was president of that financial institution, of which he has long been, and remains to the present day, a member of the board of directors.
In 1930 Ernest H. Bishop was elected mayor of the village of Westhampton, a position he has continued to fill without interruption until 1946, a wise and able chief magistrate enjoying the confidence and support of the citizens. He is also serving as president of the Westhampton Free Library.
Mr. Bishop is a veteran member of the Free and Accepted Masons. As he puts it, he was raised in the Riverhead Lodge No. 645. In the course of events, the Masons of Westhampton Beach organized their own lodge, and Mr. Bishop at that time transferred his membership to Potunk Lodge No. 1071, which was founded on June 5, 1926. Of this lodge Mr. Bishop is now the treasurer. He is also affiliated with the Patchogue Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons; with the Patchogue Commandery of the Knights Templar and with the renowned Kismet Temple, in Brooklyn, of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
A deeply religious man all his life, Mr. Bishop serves the Beach Methodist Church of Westhampton Beach as chairman of the board of trustees. His favorite recreations are fishing and gardening, and he enjoys his membership in the East End Surf Fishing Club.
At Westhampton Beach Ernest H. Bishop was married to Edith McCue, a daughter of James McCue and Mary Gordon. Mrs. Bishop died in 1922.
J. ALWIN FROEHLICH-The inheritor of a fine tradition of business success and unobtrusive public service, J. Alwin Froehlich, while still a young man, has achieved a secure position at the bar of Long Island, and is well known and popular in social and organizational life in Nassau County.
Mr. Froehlich's grandfather, John D. Froehlich, who married Sophia Meyer, was a native of New York City who engaged in the real estate business in Brooklyn, then a separate city, and developed the Bushwick Hill section of that municipality. His son Joseph T. Froehlich was born in Brooklyn on October 6, 1881, and received his education in the public schools there and at the Polytechnic Preparatory Institute, one
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of Brooklyn's famous educational foundations. As a young man lately out of school he worked for a time for the Carl H. Schultz Company, but in 1905 he entered the real estate business, to which thereafter he gave all his attention and energies until his death in 1942.
At first Brooklyn was the scene of Joseph T. Froeh- lich's real estate operations, but presently he estab- lished a branch at Rockville Centre in Nassau County, in 1914. Already at that time the rapid evolution of the old village of Nassau County into thriving modern home suburbs of overflowing New York City, had begun, and after the World War I, it gathered mo- mentum. Presently the volume of business done by the Rockville Centre office surpassed that originating in Mr. Froehlich's Brooklyn office, with the result that he gave up the latter and centered all his atten- tion and energy in the growing Rockville Centre busi- ness. This move was made in 1914, and for three de- cades thereafter Joseph T. Froehlich was known as one of the most far-sighted real estate brokers in that part of Long Island, and one of the principal devel- opers of modern Rockville Centre. Some of his devel- opments, such as one along the Boulevard and Ob- server Street, were of considerable magnitude. Since Mr. Froehlich's death, the business continues to be conducted by his close associates.
Joseph T. Froehlich in 1906 married Lillian Sch- wencke, daughter of Oscar L. Schwencke, a pioneer among modern developers of residential property on Long Island, both in Nassau and in Suffolk Coun- ty. Primarily a developer of acreage, and the largest acreage operator on Long Island, Mr. Schwencke, by means of his advertisements which for years were familiar to the readers of all New York City news- papers, attracted many thousands of home seekers to find the solution of their problems through the pur- chase of homes and home sites in various Long Island areas where they and their children could have sunshine and fresh air and room to live and play. Mr. Schwencke died in December, 1928.
Joseph T. and Lillian (Schwencke) Froehlich be- came the parents of four children, namely Joseph, Jr., Marjorie, J. Alwin and Virginia. J. Alwin Froeh- lich was born in the Borough of Brooklyn, on June 7, 1912. The family moved in 1914 to Rockville Centre while he was in his boyhood, and he was educated in the public grade and high schools there, graduating from high school with the class of 1930. For his collegiate studies he chose Cornell University at Itha- ca, New York, where he took his degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1935. Meanwhile he had decided on the law as his profession, and accordingly he enrolled in the Brooklyn Law School, where he received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1938. In that same year he was admitted to the bar.
J. Alwin Froehlich's practice has been in Rockville Centre and vicinity from the beginning, and he is now a partner of the firm of Engels and Froehlich, with offices in that village and with an excellent clientele and a growing business. In addition, Mr. Froehlich has operated in real estate, buying and selling his own investment properties. He belongs to the Cornell Club of Nassau County, and to the Theta
Chi fraternity, of which he is a past president. During his college days at Cornell, he played baseball for three years, and today his hobby is athletics, in addi- tion to boating. He enjoys membership in the South Bay Golf Club of Bay Shore and is vice president. He is also a member of the Riviera Beach Club of Bay Shore. In religion he is a Protestant, and poli- tically a member of the Republican party. Mr. Froeh-
lich's brother, Joseph Froehlich, Jr., is superintendent of Eastern Texaco Refineries, the Texas Company.
On July 8, 1939, J. Alwin Froehlich was married to Jane Schwencke, of Bay Shore, a daughter of Oscar L. and Emma (Wulfing) Schwencke. Of this marriage there are three children: I. John A. Jr., who was born in September, 1940. 2. Emy-Jane, born in June, 1942. 3. James Joseph, born in August, 1945.
Mr. Froehlich moved to Bay Shore in 1939, where he now resides.
F. PAUL ENGELS, JR .- Among the younger attorneys at the Nassau County bar, F. Paul Engels, Jr., is well and favorably known as a man of sound legal education whose record is already bright with achievement and promise, and ably continues the tradition of legal eminence established by his grand- father, the late George A. Mott, who before his death in 1906 was a leading figure in the legal profession both in Brooklyn and in Lynbrook.
Frank P. Engels, who was a native of New York City and is now retired, came to Rockville Centre, Nassau County, in 1888. He married Frances W. Mott, the daughter of George A. Mott. She was a native of Lynbrook, where she passed away on Jan- uary 28, 1939. Of this union, F. Paul Engels, Jr., was born at Rockville Centre on November 20, 1911. Be- ginning his education in his native village, he gradu- ated from the Rockville Centre High School in 1929, and having selected the law as his future profession, he entered Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, where after receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1933, he continued his studies at the Cornell Law School for two years. Before the conclusion of his legal studies he transferred to the Brooklyn Law School in the Borough of Brooklyn, New York City, and it was from this institution that he received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1935.
Admitted to the bar in January, 1936, Mr. Engels began his practice in Valley Stream, Nassau County, where he maintained his office for a year and one- half before moving to Hempstead, where he remained two years. In 1939 he formed the partnership which still continues, with J. Alwin Froehlich (q. v.), under the firm name of Engels and Froehlich. With offices in Rockville Centre, this firm engages in the general practice of the law, and is constantly adding to the number of its important clients, and achieving fresh successes in their behalf.
From his college days Mr. Engels has been a mem- ber of the Theta Chi fraternity. In religion Mr. Engels is a supporter of the Christian Science Church. Politically he is a member of the Republican party. His hobbies are golf, which he enjoys particularly as a member of the Hempstead Golf Club, and stamp collecting.
On November 27, 1937, F. Paul Eengels, Jr., mar- ried Regina Leighton, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Leighton. Of this marriage there are three children: 1. Frank Paul III, who was born on August 4, 1939. 2. John L., born on February 17, 1943. 3. Kenneth R., born April 19, 1945.
CARL C. YOUNG-Long Island's beautiful Suf- folk County, for all that it is comparatively near to metropolitan New York City, and especially to sub- urban Nassau, is still one of the principal agricultural areas of New York State. In Suffolk, farming is a business, scientifically conducted and profitable, and with respect to two special crops-potatoes and cauli-
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flower-it is said to lead the country. Growing and marketing these premier crops is an occupation that engages the abilities of men of enterprise and busi- ness acumen, like Mr. Carl C. Young of Riverhead.
Mr. Young's father, Chauncey Young, also spent many years at successful farming before he turned to a related business field by founding the Long Island Produce and Fertilizer Company, at Riverhead. He died November 1, 1937. Chauncey Young married Florence A. Reeve, and to them the son they named Carl C. was born at Riverhead on September 20, 1901. Genuinely interested in farming as a career, Carl C. Young worked on his father's place, but in 1922 he acquired the farm of his father, purchased several ad- ditional farms and today his holdings run to three hundred and twenty-five acres, of which his wife is part owner. Some of this land was originally held by his grandfather, John L. Young, and has long been devoted to the cultivation of Suffolk's specialties, pota- toes and cauliflower. Carl C. Young was also asso- ciated with his father in the Long Island Produce and Fertilizer Company, being vice president of that concern and also a member of the board of directors. He is also a stockholder and a director of the Suffolk County National Bank of Riverhead. He is a director of the Long Island Cauliflower Distributors, Inc. and President of Western Suffolk Produce, Inc. located at Port Jefferson Station.
Actively interested in the prosperity and progress of his community, Mr. Young is a member of the Rotary Club of Riverhead, of the Suffolk County Farm Bureau and of the Sound Avenue Grange. He is a member of Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Riverhead Lodge No. 645, Free and Accepted Masons. Since January 1, 1948 he has been secre- tary of the newly formed Riverhead Town Planning Board. He is a member of the Sound Avenue Congre- gational Church.
At Riverhead on November 18, 1922, Carl C. Young was married to Alta Hallock, a native of that village, and a daughter of Eckford J. and Edith B. (Thomp- son) Hallock. Mrs. Young's father is living at the age of eighty-four years, as is her mother at the age of eighty. The Hallock family has been established in the Town of Southold since 1640, when Peter Hal- lock first settled there. In the same year the Young family was established in Southold by the Rev. John L. Young. The children who inherit these two pio- neer strains from the union of Carl C. and Alta (Hal- lock) Young are: 1. Marion Harriet, who was born at Riverhead on March 12, 1926. She is a graduate of the Riverhead high school and graduated from Rus- sell Sage College in Troy in 1947 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. 2. Dorothy Louise, born at Riverhead on February 9, 1928. She also graduated from high school at Riverhead, and is now studying at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. 3. Robert Carl, born at Riverhead on May 18, 1932, is now fol- lowing the family tradition as a student in the River- head high school.
Carl C. Young finds recreation in travel and photo- graphy.
LOUIS C. HEILMAN-A civil engineer whose experience dates back to World War I work for the United States Government, Louis C. Heilman has, since that war, been engaged in the construction and real estate development business at Lake Ronkon- koma. He is also president and a director of the National Bank of Lake Ronkonkoma and a leading Catholic layman in that community.
Mr. Heilman was born in New York City on No- vember 20, 1893, the son of the late Charles and Ida (Burger) Heilman. His father was for thirty-three years in the wholesale and retail business in New York City. Both parents are buried in the St. Law- rence Cemetery at Sayville.
Mr. Heilman began his education in the public schools of Lake Grove. He then attended and was graduated from St. Francis Xavier High School in New York City. In 1917 he was graduated from Manhattan College with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. While he was at school he was in the Reserve Officers Training Corps. In the World War I period he engaged in the construc- tion of the nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and for his services in connection with this vital project was awarded a citation by the Government.
When this work was completed, he came to Long Island and entered the construction field at Lake Ronkonkoma. He has since combined this with real estate development and has become one of the best known practitioners in this combination career in Suffolk County. Associated with the National Bank of Lake Ronkonkoma since its formation in 1928, he is its president and one of its directors. He is also a charter member of the Patchogue Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and a trustee of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church of Lake Ronkonkoma. In politics he is a Republican. Golf and tennis are his hobbies.
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