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Judge Duryea married Gladys Brown of Sayville in that community on March 15, 1916. Mrs. Duryea is the daughter of Charles A. and Delia R. (Terry) Brown of East Moriches. She and her husband are the parents of two children: Charles A., born in Sayville in 1919, and Ora Duryea, born in Sayville in 1924. Charles A. Duryea was educated in various schools in the Town of Islip. In World War II he was an Army sergeant and served in the Pacific Thea- ter of Operations. He married Carol Morris of Hollywood, Florida, and they make their home at Hialeah, Florida. Ora Duryea, a graduate of the Sayville High School, attended the New York School of Merchandising. She was married to Merwin Woodward of Port Jefferson, and is now the mother of two children, Craig and Adele Allen.
CHARLES F. ULRICH-Many kinds of business activity combined with his interest in the real estate field in Suffolk County has made Charles F. Ulrich's varied contributions well-known to the citizens of the region where he lives and carries on his work. Until he sold his general store at Centereach, Suffolk Coun- ty, Long Island, in the spring of 1946, he was one of the few owners of this native American type of trading center which is quickly vanishing from our native scene.
Mr. Ulrich was born on August 16, 1887, at Middle Village, Queens County, Long Island, a son of Charles and Louisa (Zimmerman) Ulrich, both na- tives of Germany. Both his parents came to the United States in their early youth. His mother first settled in Minneapolis before coming to New York. The elder Mr. Ulrich came directly to Queens County and established a florist business there which he conducted for a number of years. Charles F. Ulrich received his early education at public schools in Mas- peth, Long Island, and later enrolled for special courses at Pratt Institute and Cooper Union.
Mr. Ulrich entered the business world at the age of eighteen as a civil engineer and surveyor in Queens County, and continued in this profession until 1910. Then he purchased a hotel at Holbrook, Long Island, which he sold in 1917 to enter the poultry business in the same community. While he was engaged in these various pursuits, Mr. Ulrich was developing a business as a real estate operator in Suffolk County. In 1921 he purchased the general store in the nearby com- munity of Centereach in Suffolk County and operated it until he sold it in 1946. Since then he has devoted his entire time and energies to real estate. For nine years, during 1921 to 1930, Mr. Ulrich served as post- master of Centereach.
Active in the various phases of community life, Mr. Ulrich is a charter member of the Centereach Volunteer Fire Department and has served as treas- urer since its inception in 1933. He is also a pioneer member of the Long Island Real Estate Board, and a member of the Suffolk Real Estate Board. For a number of years he has served as a director of the National Bank Company of Lake Ronkonkoma, Long
Island. Active socially, he is a member of Suffolk Lodge No. 60, Port Jefferson, Free and Accepted Masons.
At Middle Village, Queens County, Long Island, Mr. Ulrich married Christabel Steuerholtz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Christ Steuerholtz. They are the parents of three children: I. Louise, born at Hol- brook, Long Island, in 1911, and has since graduated from Smithtown schools. 2. Dorothy, also born in Holbrook, and an alumna of Smithtown High School and Syracuse University. 3. Charles George, born in Yaphank, Suffolk County, who was graduated from Smithtown High School and attended Stony Brook Preparatory School. He saw service in World War II.
LEANDER B. CHUTE-Aside from operating the successful Greenport Oil Heating Company, a business with a clientele far beyond the limits of Greenport, Leander B. Chute occupies a position of leadership in that community. He was president of the Greenport Chamber of Commerce in the year 1945-46 and former fire chief of the village.
Mr. Chute was born in Greenport on August I, 1900, the son of Raymond and Bertie (Beebe) Chute. His father, a native of Providence, Rhode Island, settled in Greenport in 1900 and operated a machine shop there. He died in 1919.
After his education in the elementary and high schools of Greenport, Mr. Chute served an apprentice- ship in his father's shop, which was operated under the name of Wood and Chute. He continued in the business with his father until the latter's death in 1919, when he went to New York City to work as a ma- chinist. Returning to Greenport three years later he ran a garage for a few years. This he gave up to go to Florida, where he was a service manager for the Chrysler Corporation at Miami and Palm Beach. In 1930, he returned to his native Greenport to estab- lish the Greenport Oil Heating Company. On No- vember 3, 1939, Mr. Babbidge became his partner and remained so until 1947 when he retired due to ill health. Mr. Chute installs coal and oil boiler and furnace units, hot water heaters, electric and gas ranges, heating stoves, water pumps and tanks. He also services and vacuum cleans these and repairs other plumbing equipment, as well as providing a general plumbing service. In this business Mr. Chute employs seven people.
Mr. Chute's wife is the former Helen A. Babbidge. Her mother was Magdelene (Rackett) Babbidge.
Aside from his activity in the Chamber of Com- merce, Mr. Chute is also former treasurer and a mem- ber of the Peconic Lodge, No. 349, Free and Ac- cepted Masons. He remains active in the fire depart- ment which he once headed. He and his family at- tend the Methodist Church. His recreation is fishing.
BENJAMIN G. HERRLEY-With a colorful ca- reer as an electrical and mechanical engineer in the United States, South America and the West Indies, and service in World War I, behind him, Benjamin G. Herrley is today a foremost citizen of the Village of Mastic and the surrounding region of Suffolk County. A successful real estate and insurance broker, he is the founder and president of the Mastic Civic Associa- tion, former president of the board of education for
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the Moriches and the village, and former Commis- sioner of the Mastic Fire Department. He is also prominent as a Republican and Methodist.
Mr. Herrley was born at Mankato, Minnesota, on June 13, 1889, the son of Benedict and Anna (Damm) Herrley. His father was a contractor and builder. Both parents died many years ago and are buried at Mankato. Mr. Herrley attended the elementary and high schools of his birthplace and then studied at home through the International Correspondence Schools, graduating as an electrical and mechanical engineer.
The long and colorful career in the United States, Latin-American and the West Indies followed, be- ginning in 1907 and ending in 1921, interrupted, how- ever, from 1917 to 1918 by World War I. In that conflict Mr. Herrley served as chief petty officer in the Navy. From 1921 to 1925 he taught electrical and mechanical engineering at the College of the City of New York.
In 1925 Mr. Herrley established himself in Suffolk County, opening offices as an insurance broker and real estate operator at Mastic. He immediately plunged into the communal life of the village, which under his impetus has made tremendous civic strides. From 1926 to 1938 Mr. Herrley was president of the board of education for School District No. 32, the Moriches-Mastic district. From 1933 to 1947 he was commissioner of the Mastic Fire Department and in 1926 took the lead in the organization of the Mastic Civic Association of which he was the first president, 1926-1930. Re-elected president in 1934, he has con- tinued in that office to the present time. He is also a member of the Timber Point Club of Suffolk County", a Republican organization, of the Long Island Real Estate Board, New York State Association of In- surance Agents, Lions Club of the Mastics, Long Island, and is a volunteer fireman of the Mastic Fire Department.
HENRY REMSEN TIBBITS has been a real estate broker and operator since 1902. He formerly was with S. Osgood Pell & Company and later organized the firm of Theodore Roosevelt Pell and Henry R. Tibbits, with offices for many years at 542 Fifth Avenue, New York, and later with offices at Sands Point and Port Washington, making a spe- cialty of the North Shore section of Long Island.
Mr. Tibbits' father was Robert Ellison Tibbits; his grandfather, Captain Hall Jackson Tibbits was a prominent sea captain in the China Trade of the clipper ship era and also a "Forty Niner," in the California Gold Rush. He was from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, member of an old family of seafaring men, and was owner and master of the famous clipper ship "Architect" which made a trip in record time from Hong Kong to Salem, Massachusetts, in 1847.
Mr. Tibbits' mother was Sarah Remsen, and her father, Henry Dodge Remsen, was a well-known farmer and politician in the town of North Hemp- stead, having been elected to the office of supervisor several terms. Mr. Tibbits was born in May, 1873, in. the old Remsen house at Great Neck in which his mother and three other generations of Remsens were born. This family of Remsen bought the Great Neck property in 1795 when they sold their farm in the Wallabout section of Brooklyn. The parent ancestor of the Remsens in America was Rem Janse Van de Beeck (or Vanderbeeck) from the Nether-
lands, who in 1642 settled at Fort Orange and later Wallabout, and died in 1681, leaving fifteen children who assumed the name of Remsen later. Mr. Tibbits is now living in the old Tibbits homestead at Sands Point, which has been in the family for ninety-eight years and has never been occupied by anyone other than the Tibbits family during this period. He is a bachelor living with his brother, Hall J. Tibbits.
Mr. Tibbits is interested in banking and finance; was one of the organizers and directors of the Port Washington National Bank & Trust Company, of which he is now chairman of the board. He was also an organizer and director of the Williston National Bank, organizer and director of the Little Neck Na- tional Bank, which is now a branch of the Man- hattan Company Bank, and also organizer and trustee of the First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Port Washington, of which he is president. He is a charter member of the Sands Point Bath and Tennis Club, the North Hempstead Country Club, a member of Port Washington Lodge No. 1010, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, and a member of the Presbyterian Church. He attended public schools and the Flushing Institute.
ALANSON N. ROGERS-As manager and part- mer of N. B. Rogers and Son of Westhampton, Alan- son N. Rogers is the most important figure in one of the largest and one of the oldest companies of this kind in Suffolk County. The firm was estab- lished by Noel Byron Rogers in 1879, subsequently (in 1891) became N. B. Rogers and Son, and largely due to the efforts of his son, Alanson P. Rogers, the concern made exceptional progress and high rating in the community.
Alanson N. Rogers, the younger, was born in New York City, on February 17, 19II, son of Alanson P. and Isabel Browning (Jessup) Rogers. The father, a native of Westhampton, was prominent in local and county affairs over a long period, being a former vice-president and a director of the Seaside Bank of Westhampton Beach, Long Island, a county commissioner of Suffolk County, an influential Re- publican in politics, and an elder of the Presbyterian Church. He also was affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons, and a member of the Volunteer Fire Department. Mr. Rogers, the elder, died in 1930, his passing being sincerely regretted by a host of friends and associates. Mrs. Rogers makes her home in Westhampton, Long Island and is a partner of her son of this record, in business.
Alanson N. Rogers was educated in the West- hampton grade and high schools, and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, from which he was graduated with the class of 1931, a Bachelor of Science. With the death of his father, he assumed his responsibil- ities in connection with the long established lumber and coal business, and, since leaving the Troy, New York institution, has been identified with N. B. Rogers and Son, dealers in lumber and coal, main- ly as general manager and partner; his associate in the company being his mother who takes no active part in the enterprises of the firm. Mr. Rogers is one of the well recognized business men of Westhampton, cooperative with town projects; is an active member of the Westhampton Beach Community Men's Club; member of the Volunteer Fire Department and mem- ber and elder of the Presbyterian Church.
On September 25, 1937, at Westhampton Beach,
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Long Island, Alanson N. Rogers married Elizabeth Carman, of Quogue, daughter of Clarence M. and Harriett (Vail) Carman, natives of Suffolk County.
EUGENE LEO FLANAGAN-For many years Eugene Leo Flanagan, prominent member of the bar at Mineola, was justice of the peace at Oyster Bay and the village of Bayville as well as a member of the Oyster Bay Town Board. Throughout the period of his public service, he conducted the private prac- tice of law and this he continues today, specializing in tax and property title matters.
Judge Flanagan was born in Brooklyn, on Febru- ary 17, 1885, the son of Michael Joseph and Eliza- beth Jane (Stapleton) Flanagan. His father, a printer, worked for many years in the composing room of the old "New York Journal." His grandfather, Eugene Flanagan, was a Union soldier in the Civil War.
Eugene Leo Flanagan was educated in the Heffley Preparatory School and the New York Law School. On leaving the latter, he entered upon a clerkship in the office of Charles E. Russell, chief counsel for the Title Guarantee Company of Jamaica. In 1909 the future judge was admitted to the New York State bar. He continued with the Title Guarantee Company as attorney until 1917. Since that year he has been in private practice, with offices at 194 Old Country Road, Mineola. His many years with the title company led to his present specialty in property titles and tax matters.
He was justice of the peace of the village of Bay- ville from 1922 until 1944, when this type of judicial post was abolished. He was justice of the peace and coroner of the Town of Oyster Bay, 1929-34 and 1936 and 1937. In 1937 the same thing happened to the justiceship of the peace he was holding in the Town of Oyster Bay. His period on the Oyster Bay Town Board ended December 31, 1933. Judge Flana- gan is a communicant of the Roman Catholic Church in Oyster Bay.
He and Kathryn Frances Blum, daughter of John and Josephine Blum, were married in Brooklyn on June 24, 1912. Judge and Mrs. Flanagan have two sons: Eugene Leo, Jr., born on March 14, 1917, and Vincent John, born July 30, 1921. The elder son, ' commissioned a lieutenant in the United States Coast Guard soon after American entry into World War II, served as a captain of a submarine chaser for eight months in the Atlantic and, later, as chief deck of- ficer on convoy duty in the Pacific, with such battle spots as Saipan among the ports of call for the con- voyed troops and supplies. Vincent John Flanagan, an ensign in the United States Navy in World War II, served as co-pilot of a patrol bomber at Attu.
JOSEPH SILVERMAN-The T. and S. Lumber and Supply Company, Inc., with headquarters and a yard in Patchogue, is one of the largest businesses of its kind on Long Island. Founded in 1923, its officers are Joseph Silverman, president; and the latter's son, Bernard Silverman, secretary and treasurer. Joseph Silverman, known throughout the lumber business on the island, is one of Patchogue's leading citizens. He is a trustee of the Jewish Center of Patchogue.
Mr. Silverman was born in Russia on March 20, 1889, and came to the United States in 1906 after com- pleting his education in his native land. His first job in the United States was in the employ of the Pat- chogue-Plymouth Mills Corporation in Patchogue.
After a year and one-half of learning the embroidery business in this plant, which manufactures lace cur- tains and related household and office decorating items. Mr. Silverman went to New York City, where he op- erated an embroidery business of his own for fifteen years. In 1923, he returned to Patchogue and, associ- ating himself with Hayman Tellman and his own brother, Frank Silverman, participated in the estab- lishment of the T. and S. Lumber and Supply Company, Inc.
This concern has its headquarters and principal yard at 392 East Main Street, at the corner of Grove Avenue, in Patchogue. Its lumber and mason supply business includes sashes, doors, trim, laths, stucco, roofing materials, cement, hardware, paints, flues, brick and gypsum wallboard. Its operations extend into areas at a considerable distance from the Pat- chogue yards.
Mr. Silverman's elder son, Bernard, is associated with him in the business. Bernard Silverman, born in Brooklyn, is a graduate of Patchogue High School and New York University. He married Ruth Kasoff of Brooklyn and they have two daughters: Susan, born in 1942, and Marjorie, born in 1946.
Another son, Lionel, born in Patchogue, is also a graduate of the Patchogue High School. In World War II he served with the United States Marine Corps as a corporal and was stationed aboard the U. S. S. "Ranger." Following his discharge from the service, he entered Miami University.
Joseph Silverman's daughter, Blanche, born in Pat- chogue, was in 1946 attending the Patchogue High School.
Mr. Silverman's brother, Frank, is vice president and a director of the Peoples National Bank of Pat- chogue, and is president of the Mid Island Lumber and Supply Corporation of Riverhead, New York.
HAROLD WHITNEY GOULD-From a rela- tively small beginning the late Harold Whitney Gould, of Lake Grove, Long Island, developed what was reputed to be the largest concern of its kind on Long Island. Possessed of unusual qualities of fore- sightedness, a genius for making the most of oppor- tunities as they presented themselves to him, and the courage to take chances in business when these seemed sound, he progressed from the raising of poul- try to the making of feed for them, and his company eventually became outstanding in its field of opera- tions. Aside from business he was keenly interested in community progress and betterment. He enjoyed good fellowship with people, and was a popular mem- ber of Connetquot Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons.
A native of Lake Grove, New York, where he was born on August 16, 1893, he was a son of the late George E. and Florence (Hallock) Gould. An army veteran of World War I, he was a past commander of the William Merritt Hallock Post, American Le- gion, of Lake Ronkonkoma.
Upon his return to civilian life, in 1918, Mr. Gould continued raising chickens. Encouraged by an initial success, he started specializing in egg production on a large scale. Out of this grew a broiler trade. Like many another in his business, he became convinced that there was a broader opportunity in supplying the constant and great feed requirements of the birds raised. He therefore increased the scope of the feed business, which eventuated under his able direction in the Gould's Feeds concern. This became the larg-
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est poultry and duck feed business on Long Island, serving hundreds of customers. The headquarters of the enterprise were kept at Lake Grove, and a large number of employees is required for the extensive trade.
On April 3, 1918, Harold Whitney Gould married Ada Muller Pearce, born in Rochester, New York, daughter of Louis H. and Jessie A. (Thompson) Pearce. Mrs. Gould had been from the first a full partner with her husband in the development of the successive Gould enterprises.
The death of Harold Whitney Gould on March 21, 1948, deprived Lake Grove and Long Island of a suc- cessful business man and progressive citizen. Hundreds remember him as a man of integrity, sin- cere in friendship and in aiding the unfortunate or underprivileged; as a gentleman held in high regard by all who knew hin.
JOHN GARDNER SHEERAN, D. D. S .- As a dentist and as a citizen interested in vital community affairs, Dr. John Gardner Sheeran has won wide pro- mince at Mineola.
He was born in Brooklyn, on March 10, 1916, son of the late James J. and Clara (Douglas) Sheeran, Doc- tor of Laws. His father, a veteran of the Spanish- American War, had long been an inspector of elec- trical materials on the civilian staff of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. His mother is co- founder of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae.
Dr. Sheeran received his early education in Mount St. Mary's High School, at Emmitsburg, Maryland, from which he was graduated in 1934. In 1937, he was graduated from Mount St. Mary's College, also in Maryland, and four years later received the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery from the Georgetown University School of Dentistry, Washington, D. C.
Since November, 1941, he has been in practice at 309 Mineola Boulevard, Mineola, and his clientele has grown steadily, as has his reputation. In 1946 he was elected for a two-year term as director of the Mineola Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of Rotary International, also of the Nassau County Den- tal Society, the Second District Dental Society of New York. the New York State Dental Society, the American Dental Association and the Catholic Den- tists' Guild. He has been in Psi Omega fraternity since college days. In 1947, Dr. Sheeran married Florence Cleary, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Cleary of Brooklyn and Ellenville. He is a com- municant of the Church of Corpus Christi, Mineola.
CURTIS PALMER ELROD-Throughout Willis- ton Park and the remainder of The Willistons. as well as in a wider area of the island, Curtis Palmer Elrod and the elder three of his four sons have de- veloped a reputation for their service to the com- munity as real estate operators. With Mr. Elrod as head of the concern, and his three sons as assistant brokers, they operate the Elrod Realty Company, with offices at 130 Hillside Avenue, in Williston Park.
Mr. Elrod was born in Detroit, Michigan, on July 2. 1899, the son of Arthur Norris and Margaret (Weber) Elrod. Among the institutions in which he was educated are DeWitt Clinton High School and Pace Institute, New York City. He also took the James R. Murphy Real Estate Course and further prepared himself for his realty career by attending profession lectures given by experts in the field.
Mr. Elrod's first business was as a real estate man with headquarters in the Times Building, New York City, where he remained from 1922 to 1929. In the latter year he moved to Williston Park, where he opened another office. In addition to handling real estate transactions, he worked on the sales staff of a concern promoting the selling of model homes. In 1940, he established his business at Mineola Boulevard and Hillside Avenue in Williston Park. In May, 1941, he transferred the office to its present location where they engage in general real estate and insurance. Mr. Elrod is a charter member and a vice president of the Kiwanis Club of the Willistons, Inc., chartered by Kiwanis International in November, 1944.
He married Anne Marie Greenwood, daughter of Mrs. Katherine Greenwood, in New York City on October 29, 1919. Their four sons are Robert Charles born April 2, 1922; Donald Thomas, born August 8, 1924; Richard Louis, born September 10, 1926, and Arthur William, born December 19, 1928. Mr. Elrod's hobby is photography.
WARREN COCHRAN CRUIKSHANK-After a career in newspaper work and the advertising agency business, and service in the Pacific Theater of Opera- tions as an officer in the United States Navy during World War II, Warren Cochran Cruikshank is oper- ating a successful automobile sales agency in Floral Park. The firm is incorporated as Cruikshank-Barry Motors, Inc., with offices and sales rooms at 6 Tulip Avenue. It is the distributor in the Floral Park area of Willys-Overland trucks and cars.
Mr. Cruikshank was born in Cranford, New Jersey, on March 18, 1912, the son of Frank and Laura (Coch- ran) Cruikshank. His father was in the advertising business. Warren C. Cruikshank was educated in the public schools of Cranford, being graduated from the Cranford High School in 1930. Four years later lie took his degree of Bachelor of Science in engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. His first work was in the circulation and promotion de- partments of the "New York Times." Subsequently, and until 1942, he was an account executive with the Albert Frank-Guenther Law Advertising Agency, specializing in financial accounts. He went on mili- tary leave in January, 1942, having been commis- sioned a lieutenant in the United States Coast Guard. He served on L.S.T. 758 and saw action at such cele- brated battle points as Iwo Jima and Okinawa and participated in the award of a ship citation. He was discharged in January, 1946, virtually four years. to the date from the time of his entry into the service. On April 1, 1946, Mr. Cruikshank opened his present automobile dealership in Floral Park. He is a mem- ber of the Lions Club of Floral Park and Alpha Tau Omega, his college fraternity.
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