Long Island; a history of two great counties, Nassau and Suffolk, Volume III, Part 23

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

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Mr. H. C. Barry is also a factor in the banking business in Suffolk County, being vice president and a member of the board of directors of the Peconic Bank of Sag Harbor. He gives of his time to public affairs as a member of the board of trustees of the village of Sag Harbor, and is active in civic affairs as a member of the Sag Harbor Round Table Club. He is also a member of the Free and Accepted Masons. In religion he is a Presbyterian, and served as an elder and trustee of his church.

H. C. Barry was married at Cortland, New York, to Beth O. Short, a native of Cortland, Cortland County, New York, and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Short. There are two children of this marriage: 1. Robert I., who was born at Sag Harbor in 1916. He graduated from the Staunton Military Academy at Staunton, Vir- ginia, and during World War II he served in the United States Army with the rank of captain in the IOIst Airborne Infantry. During two years in the European Theater of Operations he saw much active service, and for gallantry in action he received the Bronze Star twice: the Purple Heart; two Presidential citations; and the Dutch Croix Guerre. Captain Barry is a member of the American Legion. In 1946 he be- came associated with the firm of R. C. Barry and Son. and now holds the position of president of that con- cern. 2. Frank C., who was born at Sag Harbor in 1918. After graduating from the Sag Harbor High

School in 1935, he entered Duke University at Durham North Carolina. He answered the call to the colors in World War II by joining the United States Army in January, 1941, and, with the rank of first lieutenant in his corps, saw service overseas before his honorable discharge in January, 1946. On January I of that year he became a member of the firm of R. C. Barry and Son, in which he now holds the office of vice president. Frank C. Barry married Laurienne Strick- land of Manchester, Connecticut, the marriage taking place in Harlingen, Texas, on April 9, 1944. Mr Barry is a member of the American Legion.

CADMAN H. FREDERICK-In the sometimes unrelated fields of business and public service, Cad man H. Frederick is outstanding on Long Island He is a former mayor of Babylon, a real estate de veloper of this community and environs, and the head of one of its important financial institutions Since shortly after the turn of the century he has maintained offices in New York City from which he has directed operations over many parts of Long Island.

Mr. Frederick was born on May 22, 1880, on the small Island of St. Vincent, one of the British West Indies possessions, the son of William H. and Edith (Cadman) Frederick, both now deceased. His father of English birth and breeding, was a planter and horticulturist at St. Vincent; his mother was of Scotch ancestry, a native of the "hills and heather,' daughter of the noted Professor Betz Cadman, o Edinburgh University. The. son received his early education in the schools of St. Vincent, but at the age of thirteen years came to the United States and settled in New York City, where he completed his scholastic training at Cooper Union. His first job was bookkeeper for the Lane Fruit Commission Brok erage. After two years he started in the real estate business with William H. Moffitt, continuing to 1901 meanwhile familiarizing himself with every branch and detail of the business. In 1901 Cadman H. Fred erick started in business for himself with offices a 258 Broadway, New York City, gradually building up a highly successful real estate business.

Mr. Frederick still retains his Broadway head quarters in the metropolis, from which his activities spread to a wide area of Long Island. Much of his enterprises are in the Babylon sector where he makes his home and is identified with varied local organiza tions. Not the least of his official connections is that of president and a member of the board of direc tors of the Suffolk County Federal Savings and Loar Association. He also is a director of the Federal Loar Bank System, and likewise of the United States League of Savings and Loan Associations. In 1937 he assumed the duties to which he had been elected, as mayor of Babylon, and his administration of the affairs of the municipality was exceptionally able ir a time that preceded our country's entrance into the second World War. Mr. Frederick is a member of the Brooklyn Lodge No. 22, Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks, belongs to the New York Athletic Club, and is an honorary member of the Veterans o Foreign Wars. He is, or has been, a member of the Southward Ho Country Club, and the Prospect Gur Club. He worships in the faith of St. Joseph's Romar Catholic Church, in Babylon.

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erick are the parents of the following children : I. Carmencita Henrietta, attended Brentwood Academy for Girls, in New Jersey, and is a graduate of Georgian Court College, at Lakewood; she married Raymond Accettella, of Babylon, and is the mother of two chil- dren: Carmencita, and Joan Marie. 2. Cadman H., Jr., born at Mineola, in 1928; graduate of LaSalle Mili- tary Academy, at Oakdale, New York, where he was lieutenant colonel of the entire school; now an under- graduate at the University of Pennsylvania. 3. Patricia Marie, born in Mineola in November, 1931; now attending Brentwood Academy for Girls.

GEORGE BUTLER PURICK-Known as a pharmacist, educator and insurance man of Port Jefferson, Smithtown Branch, and Lake Grove, Long Island, New York, George Butler Purick has for many years contributed toward the growth and development of his section of Suffolk County.

Mr. Purick was born April 28, 1877, at Blue Point, Long Island, son of Julius H. and Clara M. (Butler) Purick. His father was associated throughout his life with the Long Island Railroad, until his retirement.

George Butler Purick received his early education in the schools of Port Jefferson, Long Island, and in

1900 was graduated from the Oneonta Normal School, Oneonta, New York. He attended Brown University at Providence, Rhode Island, for a year, and received his pharmaceutical degree at the New York College of Pharmacy, part of Columbia Univer- sity, in New York City in 1913.

Following his preliminary education, and before his attendance at Columbia University, Mr. Purick taught school for three years at Commack, Long Island, and for four-and-a-half years at Smithtown Branch. After having received his degree at Columbia, he established a drug store enterprise at Smithtown, and ran it until 1924. During this period the pharmacy grew and prospered, due in no small measure to the excellent business judgment and managerial ability of Mr. Purick. Later he entered the insurance busi- ness and gained a reputation in that field. Today he is known and admired for his business acumen and foresight.

Mr. Purick has a record as a public official. In 1910 he was elected to the position of assessor, and held this post for a two year period. In 1919, he was elected justice of the peace, and served his commun- ity wisely and unselfishly until 1926. For seventeen years he served as committee clerk in the New York State Legislature in Albany, New York.

Mr. Purick is active in many phases of community life. He holds membership in the Free and Accepted Masons, Suffolk Lodge No. 60 at Port Jefferson. Mr. Purick attends the Smithtown Branch Methodist Church, and for many years has done Sunday school work there. He has always enjoyed teaching, and his tolerant nature has made him very well adapted to this worthwhile vocation.

On July 25, 1906, at Smithtown Branch, George Butler Purick married Nellie E. Darling, daughter of Sylvester and Ella (Hall) Darling, and they be- came the parents of the following children: I. Harold, who was born August 28, 1907. 2. Ruth, who was born June 21, 1909.

JAMES McNEIL, principal of District School No. 12, Cutchogue, Suffolk County, since 1936 has

devoted his entire professional career to service in the educational system of his native county.

He was born in Eastport, Suffolk County, April 10, 1904, son of William and Elizabeth (Pye) McNeil, the former of whom, a native of Theresa, New York, graduate of Potsdam Normal School, and a farmer and teacher, has passed away.

After completing his early education at the public and high schools of Eastport, James McNeil attended the Farmingdale Training School, the Oneonta Nor- mal School, and continued in preparation for his pedagogical career in study at New York Univer- sity, where he received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degrees. He is one of the few prin- cipals in his section who is native of Suffolk County, and a product of the county educational system. An interesting fact of the recorded history of the section is that his grandfather, William Pye, was the first person to raise ducks on a commercial basis in the county. Prior to assuming his present principalship, Mr. McN il served in various schools in Suffolk County, including Bellport, Long Island, from 1925 to 1928, and front 1930 to 1936, at which latter date he assumed his position, he served in the capacity of teacher of mathematics at Greenport, Long Island. When leisure permits, he derives recreation and relaxation from the outdoor sports of fishing and duck hunting. He attends the Methodist church.

James McNeil married in July, 1936, at St. Mary's Episcopal Church at Hampton Bays, Helen Jackson, a graduate of Plattsburg Normal School, who obtain- ed her Bachelor of Science degree at New York Unive: sity, and was formerly a teacher in the Hamp- ton Bays High School. She is the daughter of Charles W and Flha A. (Bellows) Jackson, the latter a relative of the famous artist,, George Bellows. Mr. and Mrs. McNeil are the parents of twins, James and John, born January 29, 1941 at the Eastern Long Island Hospital at Greenport.

CARMINE BRUNO-A casual vacation visit to Long Island in 1913 led to Carmine Bruno's becoming one of the major duck farmers in Suffolk County. With his son Florindo, he now raises about 60,000 ducks annually for the commerical market on the twenty-nine-acre Upper Mills Duck Farm in the Town of Riverhead.

Mr. Bruno, born in Italy, came to the United States in 1905. For a time he worked for a friend who ran a furniture business. Subsequently he was employed by the National Biscuit Company, also in New York City. His last job in the metropolis was as a carpenter's helper in the building of the subway system. Then came 1913 and his vacation at Center Moriches.

Mr. Bruno liked the region so well that he decided to remain in Center Moriches. To do so, he went to work on the Charles Warner duck farm. From there he went to Ed Brown's duck farm in East Moriches and, afterward, to Lawrence Tuthill's farm, also in East Moriches. In the fall of 1926, Mr. Bruno started his own duck farm in East Moriches. Eleven years later he moved to Riverhead and bought the Upper Mills Duck Farm, which he and his son have been operating successfully ever since.

Mr. Bruno is a member of the Suffolk County Republican Club. the Long Island Duck Farmers Association. the Suffolk County Farm Bureau and

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the East Moriches. Exempt Firemen's Association. He is active in the East Moriches Volunteer Fire Department and in St. John's Roman Catholic Church.

Mr. Bruno married Jennie Gancio, daughter of Joseph and Frances (Contun) Gancio, in New York City on April 18, 1907. Mr. and Mrs. Bruno are the parents of four children: Florindo, born in New York City; Minnie, born in Italy; Josephine, born in New York City; and Alice, born in East Moriches. All the children are graduates of the East Moriches Grammar School and the Center Moriches High School. Minnie Bruno is also a graduate of Drake Business College, New York, and holds a certifi- cate from the American Institute of Banking. She became cashier of the Center Moriches Bank in 1932.

Following graduation from the Center Moriches High School, Josephine Bruno attended and was graduated from the New Paltz State Normal College and Teachers College of Columbia University. She received the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1938 and of Master of Science in 1942. She also took special courses at the Franklin School of Profes- sional Arts. She is now a teacher in the Riverhead school system.

Alice Bruno is also a graduate of the New Paltz Normal School and Columbia University Teacher's College. She too received the degrees of Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts, the former in 1939, the latter in 1945. Like her sister, she is a teacher in the Riverhead schools.

Florindo Bruno's career is duck raising, an activity through which he is participating in one of Long Island's largest and best known industries.

Mrs. Carmine Bruno's brother, James Gancio, resides in Hollis. His son, Joseph, served overseas in the United States Navy in World War II. The Bruno and Gancio families are well known through- out Suffolk County.

CHARLES H. LANGDON-Born at West Hemp- stead, on September 25, 1906, a son of George S. Lang- don and Carolyn Dorlon Langdon and a brother of Edwin K. Langdon, Rev. George D. Langdon and Alexene Langdon Turner, he has made his native vil- lage the scene of his business career and is today rate.' as one of the top realtors and insurers in the Hemp- stead-West Hempstead area.

Educated in the public grade and high schools of Hempstead-West Hempstead, Mr. Langdon entered the real estate and insurance business at the age of eighteen. His office is a modern building located at 224 Hempstead Turnpike, West Hempstead, Long Island. During World War II, Mr.Langdon volun- teered for service with the United States Army air forces. After three years, he retired as a maritime warrant officer and a master of his own ship.

He is a member of the Long Island Real Estate Board, the Nassau County Insurance Agents Associa- tion, Hempstead Rotary Club, president of the West Hempstead Board of Trade and past president of the West Hempstead Fire Department. Also, a member of the Hempstead Golf Club, the Hempstead Elks, Cathedral Post Number 1087 of the American Legion in West Hempstead, and the Air Force Association.

He is married to the former Mildred I. Stewart of New York City and has two children: I. Charles Al- laire Langdon. 2. Robert Stewart Langdon.

FELIX DOROSKI-The son of parents who came from across the sea to become notably success- ful as farmers cultivating the rich agricultural soil of Suffolk County, Felix Doroski turned from farming to business, and has achieved success and prominence as one of the leading automobile dealers in the eastern county of Long Island.

The late Michael Doroski came to the United States from Poland with his wife, the former Mary Orlowski, when they were both young. They set- tled at Cutchogue, where with the industry and exceptional agricultural skill which distinguishes the Poles as farmers, they made rapid progress, and be- fore long purchased one of those Suffolk County farms where specialization in potatoes and cauliflower has been made a science, and a profitable one. Michael Doroski died in 1924, but the farm is still in the possession of his widow Mrs. Mary (Orlowski) Doroski. Felix Doroski was one of the children of this couple, born at Cutchogue on July 27, 1909.

Felix Doroski was a student in public school at Cutchogue when his father's death cut short his formal education at the age of fifteen. He remained on the farm, working with his mother and other members of the family, until 1930. In that year he began his association with the automobile business as mechanic and salesman under Hellaire Campbell of Greenport, not far from Cutchogue on the North Fork. This period of his apprenticeship in the automo- bile field, as he calls it, lasted until 1937, when he erected a modern building or block in his native Cutchogue, and since that time has held the franchise for the sale of Ford Motor Company products and has built up a thriving and lucrative business by industry, service, courtesy and fair dealing with the motoring public.

In local civic affairs Mr. Doroski is a member of the Cutchogue Volunteer Fire Department and of the Suffolk County Farm Bureau. He belongs to the North Fork Country Club, located at Cutchogue, and is fond of fishing as a recreation. He is prominent in Polish circles in that locality where so many fine Americans trace their ancestry to the war-torn but undaunted land of Pulaski and Koszciusko. He is a communicant of the Roman Catholic Church at Cutchogue. He is a member of the Brooklyn, Long Island, Automobile Dealers Association and the National Automobile Dealers Association.

At Riverhead, Suffolk County, Felix Doroski was married on September 4, 1927, to Nellie Kujan, a na- tive of Calverton, and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kujan, farmers in that Long Island village. Of this marriage there are three children: I. Cathleen Ann, who was born on July 15, 1927, a graduate of Southold High School and now training for nursing at the Mary Immaculate Hospital at Jamaica, New York. 2. Ann Marie, who was born on June 26, 1935. 3. Robert Michael, born July 17, 1944. Cutchogue is the birthplace of all of these children of Felix and Nellie Kujan Doroski.

WALTER B. SMITH, SR .- Long Island ducks and ducklings are world famous, and a great many of these succulent birds that grace the tables of private homes and of the most select restaurants and hotel dining rooms, come from the Bonneview Duck Farm owned and operated by Walter B. Smith and Sons at Riverhead in Suffolk County.

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The Bonneview Duck Farm was established by Walter B. Smith, Sr., about the year 1923. This successful business, carefully managed with an eye al- ways and foremost to the quality of its produce, has grown and flourished until today it has an output of about two hundred thousand ducks a year, and em- ploys thirty persons.

Walter B. Smith, Sr., is a member of the Suffolk County Farm Bureau and of the Suffolk County Police Association. He was married in Riverhead to Mary Calic, a native of that village. Of this marriage the children are: I. Walter B. Smith, Jr., who was born at Riverhead on March 10, 1921. He graduated at Riverhead in 1940, and is now associated with his father and his brother Joseph under the firm name of Walter B. Smith and Sons. He belongs to the River- head Country Club and is, like his father, a member of the Suffolk County Police Association. A Roman Catholic in religion, he attends St. Isadore's Church. Walter B. Smith, Jr., was married on June 21, 1942, at Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York to Genevieve Kujawski, a daughter of the late John Kujawski and his wife of that village. Of this marriage there is one child, Walter Smith III, who was born at River- head on February 16, 1946. 2. Joseph, born at River- head on June 7, 1923. After graduating from the Riverhead High School he entered St. Mary's Col- lege in Maryland, and while there, answered the call to the colors in World War II by enlisting in the United States Army Air Forces. During his four years of service he held the rank of sergeant and was on a B-24. During two of these years he saw action in the European Theater of Operations. He belongs to the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and is now a member of the firm of W. B. Smith and Sons and actively engaged in helping to manage the Bonneview Duck Farm at Riverhead. 3. Henrietta, who at this writing is twenty years of age, was born at Riverhead, graduated from River- head High School and attended Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, before marrying John Simons, a native of the state of Ohio, who during World War II was a member of the Army Air Corps. John and Henrietta (Smith) Simons are the parents of a girl, Jacqueline. 4. Gertrude, who was born at Riverhead. Both Walter B. Smith, Jr., and Joseph Smith were active in athletics during their high school days.

LEONARD L. BISHOP, JR .- An able lawyer and a public official who has served his community un- selfishly and usefully, Leonard L. Bishop, Jr., stands high in the estimation of his colleagues at the Suffolk County bar, and equally in the esteem of his neigh- bors and fellow-townsmen of Riverhead, where he has his office, and of Westhampton, his place of resi- dence.

Mr. Bishop's father, Leonard L. Bishop, Sr., a prac- ticing architect for over fifty years, being now seventy- eight years of age, is a native of Westhampton, Suffolk County ; his mother, the former Edna Benjamin, was born at East Moriches in the same county, and is still living at the age of seventy-eight. The younger Leonard L. Bishop was born at Montclair, New Jersey, on December 8, 1899. Brought to Westhamp- ton in childhood, he attended high school there, then went to the famous Phillips Andover Academy at An- dover, Massachusetts, and subsequently to Yale Uni- versity at New Haven, Connecticut, where he re- ceived his degree of Bachelor of Arts upon gradu- ating with the class of 1923. Having chosen the law

as his career, he entered the Albany Law School at Albany, New York, where he received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1926. In that same year he was admitted to the bar of New York State.

In 1928 Mr. Bishop, together with John A. O'Keeffe, formed the law firm of Bishop and O'Keeffe, and opened offices at Riverhead, where they acquired a lucrative practice. In 1943 Mr. Bishop established his independent office at 120 Court Street in Riverhead, where he continues to serve his many clients. He is a member of the Suffolk County Bar Association.

In 1934 Mr. Bishop became a member of the West- hampton board of education and the following year was elected president of that public body, an office which he continued to fill until July, 1946. He has long been interested in the work and purposes of the Boy Scouts of America, and in this organization he is one of the vice presidents of the Suffolk County Council.

Mr. Bishop's recreations are boating and golf. He is a bachelor.

CHARLES H. DURYEA-After a long and in- teresting career as an enforcer of the law, Charles H. Duryea of Islip is now a maker of laws. Since 1940, he has represented the town on the Suffolk County Board of Supervisors. He is a former investigator for the Suffolk County district attorney, a former insurance detective and a former justice of the peace. At one time he operated a garage in Sayville, where he was also an automobile dealer.

Judge Duryea was born in New York City on December 9, 1886, the son of Carll S. and Myra (Howell) Duryea, both of whom were natives of Riverhead. Carl Duryea, who died in 1908, was for many years publisher of the "Long Island News" at Bablyon and of the "Royal Arcanum Home Jour- nal." Another son born to him and his wife is Perry B. Duryea, of Montauk, New York State conserva- tion commissioner and member of the editorial advis- ory board of this History of Long Island. A daugh- ter, Anna, is the wife of Dr. Norman Kirk, Surgeon General of the United States Army, with head- quarters in Washington.

When he was two years old, Charles H. Duryea's family moved to Bablyon and there he was educated in the public and high schools. The future county supervisor began work when he was seventeen years old and until 1916 held various positions, all of them providing him with the background and experience which were later to help him to success. In 1915, he had established his home in Sayville. The next year he erected a garage and in operating it served also as the authorized distributor of Overland and Chevrolet automobiles. At the same time he was operating this business, he was also on the staff of the district attorney as a special investigator. In 1923 he resigned the county position to enter the staff of the Automobile Underwriters' Detective Bu- reau, with which he remained until 1940. In 1930 he had become justice of the peace for the Town of Islip and that post he also relinquished in 1940.

He was then elected Islip's representative on the county board of supervisors, in which he soon as- sumed important committee posts. In 1943 he was elected chairman of the board and he has headed that body ever since. He is also a member ex-officio of the Suffolk County Board of Health and the Suffolk

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County Mosquito Commission. In his activities out- side those called for by his official positions, Judge Duryea is a director of the Oysterman's Bank and Trust Company of Sayville, and is a member of the National Republican Club, the Timber Point Club and a life member of Connetquot Lodge No. 838, Free and Accepted Masons, at Sayville.

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Long Island; a history of two great counties, Nassau and Suffolk, Volume III, Part 23

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