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Mr. Wastie is a member of the board of directors of the Long Island Movers and Storage Association, and holds membership also in the National Ware- houseman's Association, in the New York State Ware- housemen's Association and in the New York Furni- ture Warehousemen's Association. He is active in local business, civic and political circles, being a member of the Hempstead Chamber of Commerce and the Hempstead Rotary Club, as well as of the Hemp- stead Republican Club. His fraternal organization is Lodge No. 1485, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Wastie serves the village of Hempstead as chairman of its transportation com- mittee. He is of the Roman Catholic religion, and a communicant of the Church of St. Thomas the Apostle in West Hempstead. His hobby is the study and collection of antiques.
On August 18, 1908, Harry W. Wastie was mar- ried to Margaret T. Bennett, a native of Brooklyn, and a daughter of the late Robert Bennett and his wife the former Katherine Sullivan. Of this mar- riage of Harry W. and Margaret T. (Bennett) Wastie there is one son, Arthur Edward, who was born on August 7, 1909. He is a graduate of Villanova Col- lege in Pennsylvania, from which he received the degree of Mechanical Engineer, and is now associated with the Phillips Petroleum Corporation of Okla- homa as manager of their New York office. Arthur Edward Wastie is married to the former Cloe Mo- naghan, who was born in Brooklyn, and of this marriage there are two children, Peter and Catherine.
CHARLES P. BUCKLEY, JR .- A large portion of Nassau County knows Charles P. Buckley, Jr., as a lawyer, a savings and loan association official, and as a leading club and fraternal man. He is a veteran of World War II, as is his wife, the former Marion Monro of Maywood, New Jersey. Mr. Buckley is des- cended from Mathew Ramsey, of South Carolina, a member of the Revolutionary Army.
He was born at Brooklyn, October 11, 1902, the son of Charles P. and Laura (Clark) Buckley. Both the parents are natives of Long Island. The elder Mr. Buckley, for many years an auditor of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States in New York City, is now retired.
The future lawyer received his early education in the public schools of Baldwin. He was graduated from the Baldwin High School in 1920. In 1926, he was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and in 1930 from Fordham University with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Admitted to the bar soon thereafter, Mr. Buckley became a member of the legal staff of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States in New York, with which he remained until 1936. He then set himself up in private practice in Freeport. A few months after the United States entered World War II, Mr. Buckley was com- missioned a lieutenant in the Navy having previously served for nine years in the Reserve and was later promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander. He served for four years, chiefly as the commander of LSTs. At the end of his service he returned to Freeport to resume his legal practice and other ac- tivities.
Mr. Buckley is a director of the Federal Savings and Loan Associations of Baldwin, Freeport and Bell- more. He is also a director of the Clark Furniture Company of South Carolina. He is a member of the New York State and Nassau County bar associations, the South Shore Yacht Club, the Cherry Valley Club, the Baldwin Lodge No. 1047, of the Free and Accepted Masons, the Kiwanis Club of Freeport, the Freeport Lodge No. 1253, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Union Club of New York City, the Propeller Club and Delta Phi fraternity. He is a Republican. His church is the Methodist in Baldwin. His hobbies are boats, horses, polo and hunting.
Mr. Buckley married Marion Munro of Maywood, New Jersey, on April 26, 1943. Mrs. Buckley served in the United States Army in World War II as a nurse, with the rank of first lieutenant. Her entire service was in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations and part of the time she was attached to
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the arm of the forces known as Merrill's Marauders which served with the Chinese Army.
JAMES F. CONWAY-Along the South Shore few names are better known than that of James F. Conway, Rockville Centre attorney, who served as vice president and director of the Bee Line, Inc., and is secretary and director of the South Shore Trust Company as well as counsel for these concerns.
Mr. Conway was born in Brooklyn January 7, 1903, the son of James F. Conway, an insurance adjuster who was born in New York City and died there in 1929, and of Mary (Pritchard) Conway, born in Brooklyn and died in 1910. Mr. Conway was educated in Brooklyn elementary schools and Erasmus High School, being graduated from the latter in 1922. He attended Fordham University and was graduated from its Law School in 1925 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. A year later he was admitted to the bar of the state of New York and launched himself in practice in New York City, where he remained until 1928. Since that year he has been in general practice in Rockville Centre. In addition to his affiliations with the Bee Line and South Shore Trust Company, Mr. Conway is a member of the Nassau County Bar Association and the New York County Lawyers Association; also of the Rotary Club of Rockville Centre, the Rockville Country Club, and Massapequa Lodge No. 822, Free and Accepted Masons. He is a Republican, worships at the Con- gregational Church in Rockville Centre, and is chair- man of the Rockville Centre Community Center, a youth activity group. His hobby is photography
Mr. Conway married in Brooklyn, September 1, 1927, Evelyn Fughardt of that borough, daughter of William C. and Augusta (Felsing) Fughardt. Mr. and Mrs. Conway have two children-William S., born May 5, 1931, and Sheila J., born January 5, 1935.
FRANK C. NICHOLS, M. D .- Specializing in sur- gery and gynecology, Dr. Frank C. Nichols, since tak- ing up his residence in Sea Cliff, has acquired an ex- tensive practice and has become well known in the social life of that community, as he is in the learned circles of the medical profession.
A native Long Islander, Frank C. Nichols was born in Jamaica, Queensboro, New York City, on May 15, 1904. He is a son of John Ware Nichols, a native of Idlewild, New York, who is now living in retirement, and of the late Helen Marr (Hetfield) Nichols, who was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and died on No- vember II, 1937. The young Frank C. Nichols at- tended public school in Jamaica and graduated from the Jamaica high school in 1922. His decision was al- ready made to become a physician, and after taking his premedical studies at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Science upon graduation with the class of 1926, he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, a branch of Columbia University. In 1930 he received his Doctor of Medicine degree.
Dr. Nichols' internship was passed at the Seaside Hospital for children at New Dorp, Staten Island, New York City, where he remained for six months, and in New York's renowned Bellevue Hospital, where he was connected with the first division for eighteen months. Thereafter he became resident phy- sician at the North Country Community Hospital in Glen Cove, Nassau County, for one year before set- ting up in independent practice at Sea Cliff, in 1933.
Dr. Nichols continues to be a member of the staff at the North Country Community Hospital and serves in a similar capacity at the Women's Hospital in New York City. His medical organization affiliations in- clude membership in the Nassau County, the New York State and the American Medical associations, as well as the Associated Physicians of Long Island and the Nassau County Surgical Society. He is also a member of the Bellevue Alumni Association.
At college Dr. Nichols joined the Emerson Literary Society, and in medical school joined Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity. He is a communicant of the Episcopal Church and a member of the Republican party. Being a devotee of the sport of deep sea fish- ing, he belongs to the Sea Cliff Yacht Club, and is also a member of the Nassau Country Club. Besides fish- ing, his hobbies are amateur motion pictures and car- pentry.
During the second World War Dr. Nichols joined the United States Navy, receiving the rank of lieuten- ant commander. His term of service lasted from No- vember, 1942, to March 25, 1946, and at his honorable discharge he held the rank of commander. His over- seas service included tours of duty in Iceland and Eng- land.
On May 20, 1933, Frank C. Nichols was married to Ethelyn L. Anderson of Wareham, Massachusetts, a daughter of Leon and Ruby (Pratt) Anderson. Of this marriage there are two children: I. Bruce Churchill, who was born on August 20, 1935. 2. Susan Besse, born on May 14, 1939.
RUSSELL DOTY-For several generations the Doty family have been identified with the typical life and growth of Long Island, first as farmers when Nassau and Suffolk counties, and indeed large areas. of Queens and Kings were placidly rural, and later as contractors during the modern decades of de- velopment of those counties as garden suburbs for home-seekers from over-crowded New York City.
Russell Doty's paternal grandfather, Solomon Doty, a native of East Meadow, Nassau County, was a farmer, and doubtless not the first of the family to follow that occupation. His son John Doty was born at Hempstead in 1866 and is still living. Some time before the turn of the century, John Doty estab- lished a contracting business in Hempstead, special- izing in excavating, grading and heavy hauling. John Doty married Lydia Smith, a native of Hempstead, who died in March, 1942. Both of the sons of this marriage, John, Jr., and Russell, became associated with their father in the business.
Russell Doty was born at Hempstead on November 21, 1898, and attended public school in that village. At an early age he took his place in the family business, and when John Doty, Jr., died in 1931, Russell Doty took over the firm, and has conducted it since that time under his own name. With offices and yards located on Gladys Avenue in Hempstead, this business employs approximately fifty people, and is today, as it has long been, an important factor in the construction work which is always going for- ward in suburban Nassau, and which bids fair to reach unprecedented heights of activity in the post- war period.
Russell Doty is also a factor in banking circles in Nassau County, being a member of the board of directors of the Second National Bank of Hempstead. He is a Republican in politics and a member of the Methodist church. He belongs to Morton Lodge No. 63, of the Free and Accepted Masons and is
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affiliated also with Lodge No. 1485, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and with the Indepen- dent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Doty is not married.
EDWARD KENNETH HORTON, M.D .- Long Island, the land of homes, has attracted to it many physicians of outstanding ability, and none stands higher in the estimation of his professional colleagues and in the gratitude and trust of numerous patients than Dr. Edward Kenneth Horton of Rockville Centre in Nassau County, who, moreover, is one of the most active citizens of that community in civic and fraternal affairs.
Born at Whitehall in the Lake Champlain country of northern New York State, on March 12, 1898, Ed- ward Kenneth Horton is a son of the late Dr. Ernest Tieman Horton, a native of Shrewsbury, Vermont, and his wife, the late Cornelia Sarah (Eddy) Horton, who came from Rutland in the same Green Mountain state. The elder Dr. Horton, who died on March 17, 1923, was a graduate of the Flower Medical Col- lege in the city of New York, and for many years an honored medical practitioner at Whitehall and one of the leading thirty-second degree Masons in that section. His widow survived him until November, 1940.
After attending the public schools of his native village and graduating from the Whitehall High School in 1916, Edward Kenneth Horton became a student at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts upon graduating with the class of 1922. In- spired by his father's example with a lively sense of the opportunities for service presented by the medical profession, he had early resolved to become a physi- cian, and he continued his studies at Cornell until he won his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1926. In that year he began an internship which lasted until 1928, in the City Hospital on Welfare Island in the city of New York. Thereafter he took up his residence and entered into independent practice at Rockville Centre, where he has remained, with a growing circle of patients and a thriving practice, to this day. He also serves on the staff of the South Nassau Com- niunities Hospital and on the staff of Mercy Hospital of Rockville Centre. For twelve years Dr. Horton was secretary of the Nassau County Medical Society, subsequently served as vice president, and was elected president of that organization in 1946. He also be- longs to the New York State Medical Association and to the American Medical Association. In addi- tion he is a diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners.
Dr. Horton moreover belongs to the Phi Chi Medi- cal Society and the Mu chapter of the Sigma Pi fraternity at Cornell University. His interest is keen in all that affects the civic and business wel- fare of his adopted community, and in 1946 he became the first president of the Rockville Centre Rotary Club. He seems to have inherited his father's in- terest in Masonry, and is affiliated with Phoenix Lodge No. 96 of the Free and Accepted Masons at Whitehall, New York; with the Washington Coun- cil No. 52 at the same place; with the Champlain Chapter No. 25, also at Whitehall; and with the Valley of Rockville Centre Consistory. In religion Dr. Horton is a member of the Congregational Church. His political allegiance is given to the Re- publican partv. It is characteristic of Dr. Horton's practical idealism that he calls civic work his hobby.
On July 23, 1923, Edward Kenneth Horton was married to Lydia Hammond of Poultney, Vermont, who is a daughter of George and Mary (Austin) Hammond.
CHESTER A. FULTON-On May 1, 1946, Ches- ter A. Fulton of Freeport observed the forty-second anniversary of the day when he first became a funeral director in his own right by taking over the ownership and management of an undertaking estab- lishment in the same Nassau County village where he has remained in business ever since. Forty-two years of industry, ethical practice, conscientious observance of the highest standards, and progressive vision, were also forty-two years of success which have made Mr. Fulton one of the substantial businessmen of Freeport, as he is also, by virtue of his active partici- pation in religious, fraternal, civic and social life, one of that community's most popular and respected citizens.
Born in the vicinity of Camden in the Dominion of Canada, Chester A. was a son of the late Joseph and Jeanette (Griffin) Fulton. Joseph Fulton was a prosperous farmer and highly regarded in the locality where the homestead was located on which Chester A. Fulton, born on May 4, 1871, passed his boyhood years. While still young, Chester A. Fulton came to the United States and found his first employment in a casket factory in Buffalo, New York, at wages which barely covered his board. Leaving this establishment, he worked for a time in the car shops of the Erie Railroad. Presently he came to New York City, where he was first employed by the H. E. Taylor Com- pany before returning to the trade of casket making in the Brooklyn plant of the New York and Brooklyn Casket Company.
Chance having thus associated him with one phase of the mortuary business, Mr. Fulton perceived its possibilities as the field for an honorable, useful and lucrative career, and determined to prepare him- self to engage in the embalming and funeral direct- ing phases of the business. Accordingly he enrolled in a leading school of embalming, and being a man who puts his whole soul into his endeavors, he was soon master of his trade. He then joined the Na- tional Casket Company as an embalmer and director for approximately six months after which he returned to his association with the New York and Brooklyn Casket Company and remained with them for the next ten years. In 1904, with little money but much faith in his chosen business and in his ability to forge ahead in it, he came to Freeport and took over the establishment of Carman Peasell, which had been established in 1884 as a combined furniture store and undertaking business.
This establishment was located at the corner of Church Street and Merrick Road in Freeport. Under Mr. Fulton's management the business steadily grew and expanded, until in 1912 it became advisable to remove to a better location in a handsome old building which Mr. Fulton had remodelled to suit his needs and ideals. In 1923 Mr. Fulton erected the Shirley Building at 49 West Merrick Road, where the business has been housed ever since that year, in complete headquarters especially designed for its needs. It is indeed one of the most up-to-date and best-equipped mortuary establishments on Long Island, having funeral parlors, display rooms, prepara- tion room and chapel. All features of the place are designed to afford comfort to mourners and ease the
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pain of bereavement, and to this end Mr. Fulton's natural tact and sympathy also contribute.
Chester A. Fulton was the first mortician in the state of New York to resort to motorized hearses and coaches, for which in the early days of the experi- ment he was much criticized by some conservative and timid people, who predicted that all sorts of dis- asters would result from this innovation. Mr. Fulton's far-sighted judgment has, of course, long since been vindicated by the universal adoption of motor equip- ment for funeral purposes. Today all of Mr. Fulton's rolling stock, including ambulances, hearses and coaches, are big, quiet, efficient Cadillacs. Mr. Fulton has proved himself not only a skilled master of embalming and all the techniques of funeral direction, and a shrewd businessman, but also a man of superior vision and soundness of judgment. He is a charter member of the Metropolitan Funeral Directors Asso- ciation. He has also acquired an interest in banking, and sits on the boards of directors of the First Na- taional Bank and Trust Company of Freeport and of the Freeport Federal Savings and Loan Association.
In the field of business and civic organizations Mr. Fulton is a charter member of the Freeport Exchange Club and was its first president. Many fraternal affiliations command a share of his time and atten- tion, as he is a charter member of Spartan Lodge, No. 856, Free and Accepted Masons, and the Freeport Chapter No. 302, of the Royal Arch Masons; a member of the Clinton Commandery No. 14, of the Knights Templar, in the borough of Brooklyn; Valley of Rockville Centre Consistory, Ancient Ac- cepted Scottish Rite Masons, in which he holds the thirty-second degree; charter member of the Order of the Eastern Star; and Kismet Temple, Brooklyn, of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to and is a charter member of the Freeport Lodge No. 1253, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and to Freeport Lodge No. 600, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Another of Mr. Fulton's interests is his membership in the Exempt Firemen's Association of Freeport. In religion he is a supporter of the Methodist Church, and in politics an adherent of the Republican party. For more than thirty-six years he has been a trustee of Greenfield Cemetery. His hobby is travel.
On June 18, 1894, Chester A. Fulton was married to Cecelia Guedon of Brooklyn, a daughter of Emile and Henrietta (Burkhardt) Guedon. Mrs. Fulton is a charter member of Armistice Court, No. 135. of the Order of Amaranth, and charter member likewise of Freeport Chapter No. 586, of the Order of the Eastern Star, and of Nazareth Shrine No. 22 of the White Shrine of Jerusalem.
To Chester A. and Cecelia (Guedon) Fulton-who celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary last June with a large banquet at the Elks Club in Free- port-following children have been born: I. Henrietta Jeanette, who died at the age of ten years. 2. Chester Curtis, who was born at Brooklyn, on December 16, 1898. 3. Shirley M., who is now Mrs. Lewis H. Charles. 4. Jennie, an adopted daughter whose mar- ried name is Pace, and who is the mother of three children, namely John, George Gissel and Gordon Gissel.
Chester Curtis Fulton has been associated with his father in business since the year 1914 and the age of sixteen years, and is now a partner in the firm, which is accordingly known as Chester A. Fulton and Son. He prepared for his place in the funeral business by attending and graduating from the Renouard School
of Embalming. During the second World War he enlisted in the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, and since 1941 he is a member of Flotilla No. 1306, of that corps, stationed at Freeport. He is active in civic and fraternal life, being a member and past presi- dent of the Freeport Exchange Club; a member and chaplain of Lodge No. 1253, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; a member of Spartan Lodge No. 956, of the Free and Accepted Masons; of Freeport Chapter No. 302, Royal Arch Masons; of Zabud Council No. 84, of Royal and Select Masters; of the Valley of Rockville Centre Consistory; of Free- port Chapter No. 586, of the Order of the Eastern Star; and of Kismet Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He also be- longs to Armistice Court No. 135, of Amaranth; and to Nazareth Shrine No. 22, of White Shrine of Jerusa- lem.
When he was a boy five years of age, Chester Curtis Fulton was adopted by the Freeport Fire Department Truck Company, No. I, as its mascot, and when he grew up to join that company he was for a time its captain. He is a charter member of the Freeport Yacht Club, and belongs to the South Shore Yacht Club, of which his father also is a member. He is a communicant of the Episcopal Church of the Trans- figuration, and in politics he is a Republican.
On June 28, 1921, Chester Curtis Fulton was married to Marion I. Brownell, a daughter of Myron H. and Hettie May (McIlvaine) Brownell. Of this marriage there are two children, namely Marion B., and Marlene Curtis who is the wife of Tobias Jeffer- son Burke of Darien, Connecticut, and the mother of Toby Ann Burke.
Both Chester A. Fulton and Chester Curtis Fulton are members of the National Selected Morticians, of the National Funeral Directors Association, and of the New York State Funeral Directors Association.
CHARLES STEWART BUTLER-For many years a member of the bar, practicing in New York City, Charles Stewart Butler makes his home at St. James in the town of Smithtown, Suffolk County. This town takes its name from Richard Smith, its founder, of whom Mr. Butler's mother was a direct descendant.
Mr. Butler's father, Prescott Hall Butler, was likewise a lawyer, and member of one of the most emi- nent firms in the city of New York, Evarts, Choate and Beaman. Prescott Hall Butler married Cornelia Stewart Smith, and they became the parents of three children: Lawrence Smith, Charles Stewart, and Susan Louisa. The elder brother, Lawrence Smith Butler, born May 14, 1875, is a retired architect, and a director of the Garden City Company. Susan Louisa Butler married Francis C. Huntington. and is the mother of three sons: Prescott Butler Hunting- ton, a lawyer, who served in the United States Navy during World War II with the rank of lieutenant commander; William Reed Huntington, an architect; and Christopher Huntington, who also served in the Navy as a lieutenant commander.
Charles Stewart Butler was born in New York City on December 3, 1876. He was educated at St. Paul's School in Garden City, and at St. Mark's School in Southboro, Massachusetts. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College in 1899. Having decided to follow his father's profes- sion, he enrolled in the New York Law School, and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1903.
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He established practice in New York City, and that practice has continued until the present time, his office now being at 76 Beaver Street.
The only significant interruptions to Mr. Butler's career have been his military activities. He was a member of the National Guard, Squadron A, Cavalry, intermittently from 1906 to 1916. In 1917 he at- tended the second Plattsburg Camp, graduating with recommendations for a first lieutenancy in the Quar- termaster Corps. Early in 1918 he went to France with the Young Men's Christian Association, and served as a secretary with the First Division until January, 1919. He was in charge of the officers' club in the City of Toul, for a number of months.
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