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John F. Maier was born in Pearsalls (now Lyn- brook), Long Island, New York, and Amy Newman Scofield was born in Stamford, Connecticut.
ADOLPH J. RYSKO-As a substantial business man and citizen of Cutchogue, Adolph J. Rysko is well-known and popular. He was born in this Suffolk County town, on February 20, 1914, son of the late Antoine and Sophie (Pawlueszk) Rysko. His father, who died on August 16, 1945, was an exceptionally skilled agriculturalist.
Adolph J. Rysko was educated in Cutchogue schools, the Southold High School, and the Southold Acad- emy. His first employment of note was with the local store of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, where he learned the principles and practice of suc- cessful merchandising, and won promotion to the post of manager. In 1940 he established his own widely known firm, Rysko's Market, dealer in meats and groceries. Several years later he purchased his present business headquarters at Main and Suffolk streets, Cutchogue, which includes five stores and several apartments.
Mr. Rysko has from the first been cooperative and progressive in his connection with community activi- ties. He is vice president of the Cutchogue Chamber of Commerce, is much to the fore in the Cutchogue Fire Department, and enjoys his favorite recreation.
golf, as a member of the North Fork Country Club. He worships in the faith of the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church.
On January 23, 1938, Adolph J. Rysko married Helen Stubelek, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Stubelek, of Southampton, and they have one son: Philip, born at Greenport, August 30, 1941.
GLENN C. PETTIT-For more than fifty-four years Glenn C. Pettit has been both the efficient, ethical funeral director and the tactful, sympathetic friend to a host of his neighbors in the South Shore communities of Long Island's Nassau County, in their hours of grief and trial.
Born at Hempstead, Nassau County, on December 21, 1868, a son of the late John R. Pettit who was also a funeral director, and of his wife Offie C. (Adams) Pettit, Glenn C. Pettit attended the public schools of Hempstead, later enrolling at the Carl Barnes School of Embalming in Chicago, Illinois, with the purpose of fitting himself to follow his father's business. From this institution he graduated in the class of 1910.
Mr. Pettit's first employment, however, was not in the funeral business, but in the wholesale shoe line. For thirteen years he was associated with the Wallace Elliott Company in New York City, for ten years of that time as a salesman. He retained this position while establishing himself in the funeral directing business in his native Hempstead. In 1892 he entered the funeral field in association with his brother Edwin C. Pettit. under the firm name of Pettit Brothers. For half a century this remained the desig- nation of the firm, until in 1942 Ronald W. Clayton (q.v.), a nephew, became a partner in the business, and the name was changed to Pettit Brothers and Clayton.
Since the year 1900 this firm has also operated a funeral home at 20 Lincoln Avenue in Rockville Centre. Nassau County. The Hempstead office is now at 70 Washington Street. The firm uses the most modern equipment for all phases of the funeral busi- ness, including late model Cadillac cars.
Mr. Pettit has long been interested in the business progress and the civic affairs of Rockville Centre, taking his part in these matters particularly as a member of the Rockville Centre Kiwanis Club. He has also been devoted throughout his lifetime to St. Mark's Methodist Church, and after forty-four years was made an honorary member of the board of stew- ards. He is a veteran member of Massapequa Lodge No. 822 of the Free and Accepted Masons, and holds the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite Con- sistory. Another of his fraternal affiliations is with Rockville Centre Lodge No. 279, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In matters of politics he is an independent Republican. His hobby is music.
At Tennent, New Jersey, on August 16. 1899, Glenn C. Pettit was married to Gertrude Pullen, a native of that place, and a daughter of William E. and Rebecca (Burtt) Pullen.
RONALD W. CLAYTON-One of the younger practitioners in the funeral business among the South Shore communities of Nassau County is Ronald W. Clayton, whose business ability and qualities of tact and sympathy are equally to be credited with his rapid success.
Born in Monroe Township, New Jersey, on March 17, IQIA. a son of Arthur A. Clavton, who is a commission merchant, and his wife the former Mabel
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Pullen, Ronald W. Clayton attended grammar school in his native place and high school at Hightstown, New Jersey. Having decided on the funeral business as his career, he received his technical training at the Renouard Embalming College in New York City before coming to Rockville Centre, in Long Island's Nassau County, later becoming a partner in the firm of Pettit Brothers and Clayton. One of this firm is G. C. Pettit (q.v.). Mr. Clayton's association with this firm has continued from 1932 to the present time. A member and steward of St. Mark's Methodist Church, Mr. Clayton is also an active member of the Baldwin (Nassau County) Lodge No. 1048 of the Free and Accepted Masons, of Massapequa Lodge No. 822, Free and Accepted Masons, Rockville Centre, and of Rockville Centre Lodge, No. 279 of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows. In politics he is an independent Republican.
In New York City on June 19, 1937, Ronald W. Clayton was married to Maxine E. Inderlied, a daughter of Arthur A. and Hazel Inderlied. Of this marriage there are two children: I. Ronald W., Jr., born on July 24, 1938. 2. Gail Ellen, born on Septem- ber 13, 1941.
HARRY LAWRENCE HORTON-After service in two wars, both times as an officer, Harry Lawrence Horton is quietly and efficiently discharging his duties as vice president of the Garden City Trust and Savings Bank. Before and after World War I, in which he was a captain in the Quartermaster Corps. Mr. Horton spent many years with General Motors Corporation in various capacities and at various loca- tions. Since World War II, in which he rose to a full colonelcy in the Air Service Command, he has been with the Garden City Bank. He is active in nearly a dozen clubs.
Mr. Horton was born at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on November 12, 1886, the son of Oliver Grant Horton, who was a noted sportsman, and grandson of H. L. Horton of H. L. Horton and Company and of Mary (Ross) Horton. The Horton family is an old one, an ancestor, Barnabas Horton, having settled at Southold, in 1640. Harry L. Horton received his preparatory education in the Hill School at Spotts- town, Pennsylvania, and Mercersburg Academy, Mer- cersburg, Pennsylvania. He completed his schooling at Harvard University and the University of Pennsyl- vania. At the latter, he attended the Wharton School of Business and Finance.
On completing his education, Mr. Horton joined the staff of General Motors Corporation and in time be- came retail manager at New Haven, Connecticut. Soon after the United States entered World War I, he was commissioned a captain in the Quartermaster Corps, United States Army Reserve. Stationed at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, he served from 1917 to 1919.
Mr. Horton then returned to the General Motors Corporation, this time as retail manager in New York City. Then he became assistant in charge of retail sales in the Chevrolet Division and, subse- quently, was zone manager at the Philadelphia head- quarters. Re-transferred to New York City, he was made assistant regional manager of the Atlantic Coast Region, from which he was later advanced to regional manager. American entry in World War II found him in a new position with the General Motors Corporation-that of dealer relations counselor.
Early in 1942, however, he was restored to active duty in the Army, and was attached to the Air Forces. Made a major, he was assigned as automotive officer
in the First Air Service Command at Hempstead, where he was soon promoted to lieutenant colonel and made executive officer of the same command. Then he was transferred to Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, as executive officer of the Service Units Training Center. Here he was advanced to colonel. In 1944 he was ordered back to inactive duty. Mr. Horton then became public relations officer and is now vice presi- dent of the Garden City Trust and Savings Bank.
Mr. Horton married Mary Ludlam, daughter of Samuel J. and Louise Ludlam, at Lyme, Connecti- cut, on July 5, 1940. They attend the Episcopal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Horton live at Stony Brook, in Suffolk County; at Ponte Vedra, Florida, and in Garden City.
Mr. Horton is a member of the Garden City Golf, Cherry Valley Golf, Wingfort Golf, St. George's, Old- field Country, New York Yacht, New York Athletic and Ponte Vedra clubs. He is well-known for his skill in various outdoor and sporting activities.
WELLINGTON H. FISHER-With more than a half century of experience in the furniture business behind him, Wellington H. Fisher today is vice presi- dent and assistant treasurer of the old firm of J. C. Dodge and Son, at 99 Glen Street, Glen Cove. In this business he is closely associated with Herbert K. Dodge, president of the furniture business as well as of the Dodge Funeral Home at 26 Franklin Avenue, Glen Cove.
Mr. Fisher was born at Ontario, in Wayne County, New York, on June 24, 1875, the son of Abraham and Ella (Hulbert) Fisher, both now deceased. Abra- ham Fisher was born on a sailing vessel which his parents had taken from Holland to the New World. He was a farmer. Ella (Hulbert) Fisher was born at Ontario. Wellington Fisher was educated in the ele- mentary and high schools of Ontario.
He entered the furniture business as a young man in Williamson. Later he obtained work with a furni- ture firm in Monticello, and then became manager of the furniture department of a store in Nyack. In 1917, Mr. Fisher moved to Glen Cove to become associated with the J. C. Dodge and Son furniture store. When, in 1928, it was separated from the Dodge Funeral Home and each was incorporated, with the late John Henry Savage and Herbert K. Dodge heading the mortuary and Mr. Dodge heading the furniture business, Mr. Fisher became vice president and assistant treasurer. These offices he has retained since then.
Mr. Fisher is a member of the Glen Cove Chamber of Commerce, the Glen Cove Rotary Club, and of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Active in every phase of the church's work, he is a member of the vestry, director of the Brotherhood and is on the building committee in charge of the construction of a new church building. This building was nearing com- pletion in 1946. He is a Republican.
Mr. Fisher married Georgiana Towne, and has two daughters, Mrs. Beatrice Locke and Mrs. Mable Odell. Mrs. Locke has two children, Eugene and Betty Ann. Mr. Fisher's wife passed away in March, 1940 and he married, second, Adele Miller of Glen Cove.
JAMES L. DOWSEY-During the religious per- secutions in Belgium during the last half of the six- teenth century, large numbers of its inhabitants found their way into France where there was at least a temporary religious tolerance. Here in the little parish of Loudon, Paul de Haze was born in 1600.
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His oldest son, Paul, before reaching his majority, sailed for the new world. For a time he lived at what is now the city of Quebec, and later resided at Mon- treal.
Upon the walls in Mr. Dowsey's office there hangs a deed dated 1662, granted to this ancestor by the priests who then ruled Canada, to a piece of land on the St. Lawrence, somewhat west of the city of Mon- treal. Some descendants of Paul de Haze still reside in this locality. Mr. Dowsey's direct ancestors soon found their way across the St. Lawrence, and settled in what is now St. Lawrence County, New York. Mr. Dowsey was the first one of his family to leave St. Lawrence County when he located in Nassau County in 1902. A few years later all members of this large family were residents of this county. His mother was Anna Sophia Hess, born in Galveston, Texas, the daughter of one of the early settlers of that state.
In 1900 he married Jennie Georgina Coote of Law- rence, daughter of the Reverend James Coote, Doctor of Divinity. Dr. Coote was of the family of Sir Richard Coote, Earl Bellomont, who was Governor of New York from 1698 to 1701.
Mr. Dowsey was admitted to the bar in 1903 while principal of the Manhasset School. He engaged in the active practice of law on July 1, 1905. Some few years later he formed a partnership with several law- yers in the city of New York under the firm name of Dowsey and Parsons. Mr. Parsons had just retired as United State attorney at Montgomery, Alabama. Their practice was general, although they handled some very unique and important questions of law, many of which are now the outstanding cases on the points involved.
Mr. Dowsey specialized on municipal corporations and public utilities. He handled many cases involving the ancient patents, title to lands under water, rate fixing, and other public questions. He served several years as county attorney of Nassau County, and at various times represented many villages and a large number of the municipal districts in the northern sec- tion of the county. Mr. Dowsey is the author of the report on the common lands of the Town of North Hempstead.
While still in the active practice of the law he be- came president of the Autographic Register Com- pany in 1925, and the following year of its Canadian associate, Autographic Register Systems, Limited, of Canada, and for twenty years directed these and other business and industrial corporations. In 1933, with Comptroller Frank C. Moore, he organized the Asso- ciation of Towns of the State of New York, which be- came the largest and most potent organization of its nature in the country. Mr. Dowsey became first president of this association, and served five consecu- tive terms. In 1938 he was elected a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and was appointed chair- man of the committee on counties and towns.
For many years he was Republican leader of the Town of North Hempstead and Second Assembly District, and a member of the New York State Re- publican Committee. He has been a trustee of Adel- phi College. president of the board of trustees of the School for Training Town and County Officers, men- ber of Nassau County and New York State bar asso- ciations, and president of the former in 1939. He has been a member of the Grand Lodge of Free and Ac- cepted Masons of the State of New York and past commander-in-chief of the Scottish Rite. In 1924 he was grand patron of the Order of the Eastern Star for the State of New York. He has served as presi- dent of both Rotary and Kiwanis clubs.
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He has taken a very active interest in civic and public matters, organizing and incorporating the first fire company in the Great Neck peninsula, also at Manhasset. He served many years as president of the Manhasset Fire Company before and after its incor- poration as a town fire company. He was elected several times president of the Manhasset Board of Trade and when the United Board of Trade of North Hempstead was organized served as its first president for three years. He has also been a member and president of the board of education of Manhasset, and has occupied many other positions in civic and frater- nal organizations.
His children are Dorothy D. Gay, now residing in Florida, Mrs. Leonard W. Hall, of Oyster Bay, James L. Dowsey, Jr., of Manhasset, and C. Malcolm Dow- sey, of Mineola.
Mr. Dowsey has offices at 200 Plandome Road, Manhasset, New York, and resides at 44 George Street, Manhasset, with summer home at Long Lake, Hamilton County, New York.
T. ROSS CLANCEY-The law was T. Ross Clancey's choice of a career as a youth, and he has gone far in his profession while still a young man, transferring his practice from an urban to a sub- urban environment.
Mr. Clancey's father, Thomas Clancey, a machinist by trade, was a native of Manchester in England, who came to the United States in 1890 and married Rebecca Buckingham Harrington, born at Frederica in Delaware. Thomas Clancey is now deceased but is survived by his widow. Of this marriage T. Ross Clancey was born at Edgemoore, Delaware, on April 3, 1910. Brought to the Borough of Brooklyn in New York City as a boy, he attended public school there and graduated from the Boys' High School in 1926. His studies in the law were pursued at St. John's University, from which he received the de- gree of Bachelor of Laws upon graduation with the class of 1934. In that same year he was admitted to the bar.
The young attorney set up in practice in Brooklyn, and there remained until 1938. In that year he opened an office at Port Washington in Nassau County, remaining until 1940 when he moved to Man- hasset. In 1945 Mr. Clancey established another office at Elmont, and continues to the present time to con- duct a general law practice from both of these Long Island offices, in his own individual name.
As noted above, Mr. Clancey has also become a factor in the housing and home-building field. He is the attorney for Argo Homes, Inc., engaged in new residential construction in Nassau County.
Mr. Clancey is a member of the Nassau County Bar Association, and takes part in local business and civic councils as a member of the Kiwanis Club of Hempstead. He is a communicant of Trinity Church at Roslyn, Long Island, and a member of Paumanok Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons at Great Neck. In politics Mr. Clancey is a supporter of the Republican party. His hobby is all forms of sports. T. Ross Clancey was married on November 28, 1935. to Anna Nekl, a daughter of John and Anna Nekl of Brooklyn, New York. Of this marriage two children have been born: 1. Thomas Ross. 2. Le- land Harrington.
FRANK E. BUSCHOR-For more than a quarter of a century the Hempstead Plumbing Supply Com- pany, founded and still owned and managed by Frank
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E. Buschor, has been a factor in the extensive con- struction which has characterized the transformation in recent decades of large areas of formerly rural Nassau County into the largest belt of high class resi- dential suburbs in the world, where many thousands of workers in New York City find pleasant homes for themselves and their families.
Frank E. Buschor's father, who bore the same name, was a native of the city of Berne in Switzerland, who was brought to the United States as a boy and became a successful plumbing contractor in Newark, New Jersey. He is now deceased, but his widow, the former Regula Wieland of Zurich, Switzerland, is still living. The younger Frank E. Buschor was born at Newark on March 25, 1887, and attended public school in that city and in New Providence, New Jersey. During the first World War he enlisted in the United States Navy and saw four years of service. Following the war, he engaged in chemical work until 1920. In that year, perceiving the op- portunities presented by the need for plumbing in the countless homes being erected in suburban Long Island, Mr. Buschor established the Hempstead Plumbing Supply Company, dealing not only in plumb- ing but also in heating supplies on the wholesale level. As president of the company, which has an office and store at 201 Jackson Street in Hempstead, and em- ploys seven people, Mr. Buschor has managed its highly successful operations since its establishment and looks forward to a greatly increased volume of demand during the present postwar era.
Mr. Buschor takes an active part in the business and civic life of his community as a member of the Hempstead Rotary Club. He is a Protestant in re- ligion, and in politics he is a supporter of the Re- publican party. In the waters surrounding Long Island he finds scope for the pursuit of his twin hobbies, fishing and sailing, and he is equally enthusi- astic about sail boats and motor craft.
Frank E. Buschor was married at Hempstead to Anna Nehre, who was born in New York City and is a daughter of Otto Nehre. To Frank L. and Anna (Nehre) Buschor two children have been born: I. Anna, who is the wife of Robert Johnson. 2. Frank Junior, who during World War II was a flight officer, and was in the service for three years. He is now attending Norwich University in Vermont.
FRANCIS CLAYTON WEBSTER, D.D.S .- In the practice of dentistry at Sea Cliff since 1921, Dr. Francis Clayton Webster is well-known throughout that entire section of Nassau County. He is promi- nent in Glen Cove club and fraternal circles and is on the board of trustees of the Methodist Church.
Dr. Webster was born at Walton, New York, on August 20, 1895. His parents are W. Eugene and Emma E. (Tiffany) Webster. The foriner, a native of Cannonsville, New York, owns and operates a bakery at Walton; the latter is also a native of Cannons- ville. Graduated from the Walton High School in 1915, Francis C. Webster prepared for his profession at the University of Maryland, from which in 1919 he received the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. Two years later he opened his offices in Sea Cliff and since then has developed an extensive following, a tribute to his skill and personality.
Dr. Webster is a member of the Second District and New York State and American dental societies, and the New York Academy of Dentistry. In 1946 he was president of the Rotary Club of Glen Cove. He is also a member of the Glen Cove Lodge, No.
580, Free and Accepted Masons, and the Sea Cliff Yacht Club. He is a Republican and his hobby is reading.
Dr. Webster married Irene Stam, daughter of John G. and May (Bergh) Stam of Cobleskill, New York, in 1921. The Websters have two sons: Robert C., born July 21, 1923, who served in the United States Navy in World War II and for some time afterward; and James D., born November 23, 1932.
DONALD R. KELLER, M.D .- A physician and surgeon who has benefitted by a sound medical edu- cation and extensive experience, Dr. Donald R. Keller maintains a practice both on Park Avenue in New York City and in the seashore village of West- hampton Beach in Suffolk County, where he has his home, and where he operates the Keller Clinic and Hospital. Still in the younger middle years of his age, Dr. Keller has achieved a high place in medical and surgical circles, and has a record of distinguished service in World War II.
Born at Wauseon, Ohio, on October 13, 1904, Dr. Keller is a son of Walter L. Keller and his wife, the former Cora D. Roseborough. His father was a native of Ohio, but resided on a cattle farm near Hubbard, Iowa, and was known as one of the leading cattle men of the Middle Western States. After his death in 1941 it was found that he had donated a five- acre plot of land in Hubbard for the erection of a stadium, which is now known as the Walter L. Keller Stadium. His widow is still living, and resides in Marshalltown, Ohio. Dr. Keller has two brothers: Colonel Herschel Woods Keller, in the Dental Corps, 113th Iowa Cavalry. He served five and one-half years in the United States Army during World War II. Dr. Willard E. Keller, D.D.S., is a practicing oral surgeon at Rock Falls, Illinois. Dr. Keller's sister, Miss Georgia L. Keller, resides with Colonel H. W. Keller in Des Moines, Iowa.
The young Donald R. Keller attended the rural schools at Hubbard, and New Providence, Iowa, and high school in Marshalltown, Ohio, graduating with the class of 1923. In that same year he entered Des Moines University at Des Moines, Iowa, where he took premedical studies until 1925. For his medical courses he elected to study at the famous McGill University at Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada. where in 1930 he received the degrees of Doctor of Medicine, Master of Surgery. His internship began at the Montreal . General Hospital, where he served eight months as a resident intern on a General Medi- cal Service. He was then appointed an assistant bacteriologist and pathologist and assistant at the Royal Victoria Hospital where he remained from July. 1930, to July, 1931, as demonstrator and instructor on the university medical staff. Coming to New York City, he served for twenty-five months as resident surgeon at the Presbyterian Hospital in the Columbia University Medical Center. During this time he was also assistant surgeon in gynecology at Sloane Hos- pital.
In 1934 Dr. Keller established his office at West- hampton Beach, quickly acquiring an extensive prac- tice in medicine and surgery. His New York office, referred to above, is at 899 Park Avenue.
On August 25, 1938, Dr. Keller laid the corner- stone for the present Keller Clinic and Hospital at Westhampton Beach. This institution was operated until April 7, 1942, when Dr. Keller, who had enlisted in the United States Navy in February of that year, was called into active service. During his absence in
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