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Mr. Hubbell has held the office of president of the following corporations: The Cathedral Avenue Realty Company, The Bedell Realty Company, and New- bridge Properties, Inc .; and has served as general manager of The Hempstead Plains Company and of the Merillon Estate, the name of which has been changed to Overmont, Inc., and of which he is at this time the vice president. He was a member of the original board of directors of the Nassau County Trust Company and served on that board for forty- one years and for a number of years was chairman of the executive committee. He also became the founder of the Garden City Bank and Trust Company and is its president. Under the terms of the Federal law known as the Clayton Act, it became necessary for him to choose between the Nassau County Trust Company and the Garden City Bank and Trust Com- pany. He chose the latter, of which he continues to serve as president to the present time.
In civic life Mr. Hubbell has long been one of the leading citizens of Garden City and of Nassau County. He has served as president of the school board for more than thirty years, and he has held the position of president of the board of managers of the Meadowbrook Hospital, and the same position on the board of managers of the Nassau County Sana- torium, since each of these institutions was established by the county.
When the rapid growth of the various villages and communities of Nassau County created complicated administrative problems which taxed the administra- tive machinery of the old simple set-up of county, town and village governments, and called for a county-wide charter, Mr. Hubbell was a member of the charter commission which worked out the neces- sary modernizations. He is a Republican in politics and for more than forty years he has been Republi- can district committeeman in Garden City, as well as a member of the county executive committee and treasurer of the Republican committee in the town of Hempstead. He served at one time as treasurer of the county committee.
An Episcopalian in religion, Mr. Hubbell is a member of the chapter of the Cathedral of the In- carnation, and treasurer of the vestry committee of that ecclesiastical foundation. He was the founder and is an honorary member of the Cherry Valley Golf Club, and the founder of the Garden City Golf Club, of which he served for twenty-nine years as secretary and for ten years as president, and in which he holds life and honorary memberships. The Garden City Golf Club is internationally famous among followers of that ancient Scots game; its course is considered one of the best in the United
States, and has been the scene of many national championship tournaments and match plays. Other clubs to which Mr. Hubbell has belonged are the University Club, Williams Club, Camp-Fire Club of America, Wyandanch Club, and several hunting and fishing groups.
George Loring Hubbell is married to the former Eliza Strong Platt, who was the oldest daughter of John I. Platt of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York and Susan Sherwood of Orange County, New York. Mr. Platt was the owner and editor of the "Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle," a newspaper which is now consolidated in The "Poughkeepsie New Yorker." Mrs. Hubbell graduated from Vassar Col- lege in Poughkeepsie in the same year which saw Mr. Hubbell's graduation from Williams College. They have five children, three sons and two daugh- ters, all of whom are married, and all residents of Garden City. Mr. and Mrs. Hubbell, in addition to their winter home in Garden City, maintain a summer home on a farm in Mr. Hubbell's native northeastern corner of New York State. On this farm of one hundred acres there is a cottage for the family of each of their children.
SHERWOOD HUBBELL-Successfully engaged in the insurance business in Garden City, Sherwood Hubbell is also, as a real estate dealer, a factor in the further development of the most beautiful of Nas- sau County's suburban villages, of which his father George Loring Hubbell (q.v.) has long been one of the leading citizens.
George Loring Hubbell married Eliza Strong Platt, a daughter of John I. Platt of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County. Of this marriage there were five children, three sons and two daughters. The son whom they named Sherwood, was born at Garden City, November 1, 1895. His education began in the public schools of his native place and continued at the famous St. Paul's School in Garden City, before he entered his father's alma mater, Williams College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1916, receiving the degree Bachelor of Arts. During the first World War, Sherwood Hubbell was a first lieutenant and pilot in the Air Service, attached to the Royal Air Force, Squadron 216. He is now a partner in the real estate firm of Hubbell, Klapper and Hubbell, and a partner also in the insurance business of Hubbell, Klapper and Goodell.
Like his father, Mr. Hubbell is a director of the Garden City Company, and a member of the execu- tive committee. Again like his father, he is a mem- ber of the chapter of the Cathedral of the Incarna- tion, and also belongs to the vestry committee. While a student at Williams College he was elected to Gargoyle, the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, and also received the key of Phi Beta Kappa. He is a member of the Williams Club of New York City. Other affiliations are with the St. Nicholas Society, the American Legion, the Cherry Valley Club, the Garden City Golf Club, the Garden City Casino, Inc., and the Mineola-Garden City Rotary Club.
In the Borough of Brooklyn, Sherwood Hubbell married, June 10, 1922, Helen Sands Nostrand, a daughter of Frederick and Martha (Morris) Nostrand of Sands Point. She is a descendant of Captain John Sands, the original settler on Sands Point on the north shore of Long Island. Mrs. Hubbell has been president of the Altar Guild of the Cathedral of the Incarnation at Garden City for many years, and a member of the Community Club. Mr. and Mrs. Hub- bell have two children: 1. Martha Morris, born April
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29, 1923. 2. Margaret Sands, born May 9, 1926; married, September 7, 1946, John Eldredge Beebe of Garden City, son of Harry W. and Edna (Eldredge) Beebe.
GEORGE LORING HUBBELL, JR .- As a mem- ber of one of Garden City's prominent families, George Loring Hubbell, Jr., like his father, Mr. Hubbell, Sr., has participated actively in the community life of this physically beautiful town. For some years he has directed the legal activities of Garden City, since his appointment as attorney for this village.
George Loring Hubbell, Jr. was born on April 20, 1917, in Garden City, Long Island, the son of George Loring and Eliza Strong (Platt) Hubbell, and like his brother, Sherwood Hubbell, attended Garden City's preparatory school for boys, St. Paul's School. Later he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at Williams College in Massachusetts, where members of his family were already, alumni members. In 1919 he was awarded his Bachelor of Laws degree at Columbia University, and in October of 1919, he was admitted to the bar of New York County.
During the war period between 1917 and 1918, Mr. Hubbell served as a major in the infantry, stationed at Camp Upton, New York State.
The law firm in which Mr. Hubbell is now a partner originally was known as Green and Hurd. Later it became known as Hurd, Hamlin and Hub- bell, and now has expanded to include the firm names of Hamlin, Hubbell, Davis, Hunt and Farley.
George Loring Hubbell, Jr., is a director of the Garden City Bank and Trust Company where his father serves as president. The younger Hubbell also is a director at the Roslyn National Bank and Trust Company.
One of the active members of the Nassau County Village Officials Association, Mr. Hubbell long has retained his membership in the group. He is also a member of the New York Bar Association, and keeps his ties with his undergraduate days with active membership in the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, which is also his father's fraternity. Numbered among his clubs are the Garden City Golf Club, the Cherry Valley Golf Club, the Lawrence Beach Club, the Williams Club and the Down Town Association.
George Hubbell, Jr., was married at St. Bartholo- mew's Episcopal Church, New York City, October 20, 1917, to Sophie Young, daughter of John Manning and Sophia (Milbank) Young. They are the parents of six children: 1. Sophia Milbank, married Granger Hall Collens of Cleveland, Ohio and they have one child, Sophia Milbank Collens. 2. George Loring III. 3. Elizabeth Platt. 4. Barbara. 5. Susan Grice. 6. Wil- liam Mather.
JAMES J. NOLAN-Newspaperman and political correspondent for thirty years, James J. Nolan has since 1933 been law librarian of the Nassau County Law Library in the New Court House at Mineola. Mr. Nolan is a writer of wide reputation, history and the law being currently his major themes. He is the author of the four hundred and fifty-page practice book entitled "Nolan's Nassau County District Court Act." In his newspaper days he was with "The New York Herald" and the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle." As a newspaperman, he covered some of the most impor- tant assignments of the times, including presidential campaigns, major strikes and catastrophies, out- standing murder cases, notable events in aviation, the arrival in this country of world leaders, scientists and royalty.
Mr. Nolan was born in Brooklyn on September 23, 1885, the. son of John D. and Mary (Power) Nolan. The late John D. Nolan was a pioneer milling expert and his advocacies in milling became the accepted method in this nation. In addition to numerous other activities, he was publisher of the "Miller's Journal" in New York, Chicago and Minneapolis. He was also a writer and lecturer, and he helped to charter the long famous New York Press Club. In addi- tion to his coverage of milling in the West and in New York, he found time to travel to Europe. He was closely associated with the late Thomas Kinsella, once editor-in-chief of the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle," being godfather to Mr. Kinsella's daughter. He was also the author of a book of patriotic poems.
James J. Nolan first studied at St. Michael's Acad- emy, an institution of high school rating. Then he attended night courses at New York University and Brooklyn Preparatory School. For six years he studied under noted instructors at home, at his parents' request. While never joining any fraternities-only because he is not a joiner, he points out-he firmly believes in these organizations "for those who desire to join them." The son of a thirty-second degree Mason, he "personally prefers to join none of any group or denomination, without having any prejudices against any."
After qualifying for a legal career but never tak- ing the bar examinations, Mr. Nolan kept close to the law by covering courts of record for many years as a newsman. He was with "The New York Herald" from 1903 to 1906, and the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle" from 1906 to 1933.
Not called into active service in World War I, Mr. Nolan asked to be sent overseas as a war corre- spondent. As arrangements were being made, the war ended. For two years, he was assistant financial editor of the "Eagle." Also, he covered Woodrow Wilson's campaign-the entire summer preceding his election to the Presidency; the last campaign of Wil- liam Jennings Bryan, the campaigns of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes.
Other stories he wrote were of the two fare riots in Coney Island in 1906; the Triangle shirt-waist fire in 1911, when one hundred and eighty-six were killed; intermittent work on the Stanford White murder case, involving Harry Thaw and the actress Evelyn Nesbitt, as well as other famous murder cases; the flights of various aviators to Europe and the arrival here of the R-34, first dirigible to cross the Atlantic. He interviewed hundreds of prominent men and women arriving from Europe and Asia, represen- tatives of foreign countries.
In reciting some of his experiences Mr. Nolan likes to tell of his interview with the late Senator Thomas C. Platt at the Oriental Hotel, Manhattan Beach, when his persistency urged the Senator to no longer delay in coming out forcibly for the support of Charles Evans Hughes for Governor of New York; of aiding in entertaining the famous French actress, Sarah Bernhardt, in the prime of her greatness.
After Glenn Curtiss flew from Albany to New York, and won the $10,000 award offered by "The New York Herald" to the first flier to fly down the Hudson River, he-Curtiss-opened a flying school at Sheepshead Bay. His first efforts to attract stu- dents to the school consisted of taking over the Sheeps- head race track and presenting three days' demon- strations, before thousands of spectators. It was Mr. Nolan's assignment, as the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle's"
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reporter covering the three-day air show, to sit on the wing of the plane flown by Mr. Curtiss as he flew around the enclosure several times at the then un- heard-of height of about five hundred feet. "It was palpitating and pulsating," Mr. Nolan recalls. More restful was his collaboration, while still a reporter with the "Eagle," in co-operating in the writing of a one-volume history of Flatbush.
Having qualified for law and kept close to law as a court reporter, Mr. Nolan found it a natural reac- tion to accept appointment in 1933 as law librarian of the Nassau County Law Library, which has nearly twenty-two thousand volumes. During his associa- tion with law work, Mr. Nolan compiled collections of annotations in civil service which he completed in four volumes; other smaller compilations, and the ·publication of a four hundred and fifty-page practice book, called "Nolan's Nassau County District Court Act," published by the Kimball-Clark Publishing Company of Boonton, New Jersey, and 106 Greenwich Street, New York City.
Mr. Nolan married Kate McCarthy, daughter of Daniel T. McCarthy and Mary (Conroy) McCarthy. This marriage took place on July 9, 1913, at St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Fourth Avenue and Forty-second Street, Brooklyn. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Nolan: James J., Jr., on May 19, 1915; William J., on September 4, 1919; and Virginia Ann, born October 4, 1923. The first- born son, who was graduated from Notre Dame University in 1937, served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy in World War II. The second son, William, of the class of 1947 at the University of Indiana, was a first lieutenant in the United States Army Air Forces. As an aviation instructor, he trained English and Chinese as well as American fliers. He interrupted his studies at the University of Indiana to enlist in the AAF and at the close of the war resumed these studies. Virginia Ann Nolan, who was graduated from Hofstra College in 1945, was married to John L. Ellison, a former marine whose home is in Garden City, on May 12, 1946.
Mr. Nolan's only organizational affiliation is poli- tical-the Hempstead Republican Club. With his family, he attends Our Lady of Loretto Roman Catholic Church. In his younger days, Mr. Nolan gave much time to coaching high school baseball teams, notably those of Freeport High School and the South Side High School at Rockville Centre. Base- ball continues his major recreational interest. He met his present wife while indulging his baseball coaching hobby. She was then in the New York City school system.
One of Mr. Nolan's fondest recollections is the public dinner tendered him by the management of the "Eagle"-reputedly the first of its kind in ninety-five years of publication-at the Hamilton Crescent Club at the time he retired from newspaper work. He also recalls working on the history of Flatbush in collaboration with Herbert F. Gunnison, late pub- lisher of the "Eagle," and John Schmidt, later an editor of the "Eagle." And, finally, the time he was an honorary member of the All Soul's Universalist Church Club of Flatbush.
Mr. and Mrs. Nolan formerly lived in Bay Ridge, where their families settled before them. In 1910, before their marriage, Mr. Nolan stayed in Freeport and it was to that village he brought his bride. In 1917 they established their joint home at 16 Gar- field Place, in Hempstead.
OSBORN SHAW, official historian of the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, and editor of many of the old town records and documents, is an authority on the history of his part of Long Island. Mr. Shaw, who for years has been an employee of the town of Brookhaven in the Town Hall at Patchogue, makes his home in Bellport.
Osborn Shaw was born at Bellport, September 5, 1882, the son of Joseph Merritt, Jr. and Annie Whyt- law (Osborn) Shaw. He attended the Bellport Ele- mentary School and Patchogue High School, from which he was graduated in 1900. During World War I, Mr. Shaw served as corporal in the 9th Company, 2nd Regiment, A. S. M., in the American Ex- peditionary Forces and saw service in France for sixteen months, being attached to the French Tank Corps for nine months. He is a member of South Bay Post 8300 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Hawkins Association and councillor of the Suffolk County Historical Society. He is the editor of Book A, Book B, and Book C, of the Brookhaven Town Records, covering the period from 1657 to 1798, and also of Brookhaven Town Records, 1886-1900, and of Brookhaven Town Documents, 1693-1947.
Mr. Shaw and his daughter are members of the Bellport Roman Catholic Church, where he serves as church organist.
He married on June 15, 1927, at Brookhaven, Mabel Ayres Reddall, the daughter of John William and May Eloise (Smith) Reddall. Mrs. Shaw died No- vember 23, 1933. Mr. Shaw has one child, Ann Shaw, born October 6, 1928.
EDWIN WAY TEALE, whose "Grassroot Jun- gles" and succeeding volumes have won him the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished nature writ- ing, was for years a commuter between his home in Baldwin, and a New York editorial office but since 1941 has been a free lance writer. His books not only have delighted many nature lovers throughout the English-speaking world but they have been translated into Spanish, Swedish, French and Finnish and are also appearing in Braille.
He was born June 2, 1899, in Joliet, Illinois, the son of Oliver C. and Clara Louise (Way) Teale, his father being a master mechanic on the Michigan Cen- tral Railroad.
After graduating in 1918 from the Joliet Township High' School at Joliet, Illinois, Mr. Teale became a student at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, from which he was graduated in 1922 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1927 he received the degree of Master of Arts from Columbia University, New York City. Mr. Teale was professor of English and public speaking at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, from 1922 to 1924. From 1925 to 1928 he was editorial assistant to the author and lecturer Dr. Frank Crane. In 1928 he became staff feature writer for "Popular Science Monthly" and served in this capacity until 1941. Meantime he had published "Grassroot Jungles" in 1937, and "The Golden Throng" in 1940, both profusely illustrated with his own revealing photo- graphs of natural life. He has since published "Near Horizons," 1942, "Dune Boy," 1943, "The Lost Woods," 1945, and "Days Without Time," 1948. Mr. Teale is a member of the New York Entomological Society and served as its president in 1944. He was president of the American Nature Study Society for 1947 and 1948 and during the same two years was
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vice president of the John Burroughs Memorial As- sociation. He is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Science, a Fellow of the American Geographical Society, a member of the Royal Photographic So- ciety of Great Britain, and of the American Ornitho- logists' Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He belongs to the Explorers Club of New York City. During World War I, Mr. Teale was a member of the Student Army Training Corps of the University of Illinois. His religious af- filiations are with the Methodist Church.
On August 1, 1923, at Indianapolis, Indiana, Edwin Way Teale married Nellie Imogene Donovan, daugh- ter of Frederick and Nellie E. (Phillips) Donovan. Mr. and Mrs. Teale had one son, David Allen, born September 8, 1925. He was killed in action on the Moselle River, Germany, on March 16, 1945.
CLARENCE ASHTON WOOD, member of the New York State bar, has attained an established re- putation as a painstaking researcher and narrator in the field of Long Island history. This is illustrated in the section of this work pertaining to Southold, River- head and Shelter Island, of which he is the author.
He has been likened to a prospector whose literary pick has bared many a rich vein of gold passed over by those who trod "them thar hills" before him. Hav- ing found the gold, he presents it to his readers in such an original pattern that even a twice-told tale seems new.
A native of Long Island, among his ancestors on his father's side was a King's attorney on nearby Martha's Vineyard. "Squire" Frederick Chase, one time keeper of Little Gull Island lighthouse who first envisaged what is now Shelter Island Heights, was his great-grandfather. His paternal grandfather, Captain Jarvis Wood, a whaler of Greenport, was a descendant of Jonas Wood, an early settler at West Hills in Huntington town.
Born in Setauket, September 16, 1873, Clarence Ashton Wood was the son of Carrie J. (Smith) Wood, of that place, and John Oakley Wood, a sea- man of Greenport. Soon after his mother's death, when he was but little more than four, his sea-going father was accidently drowned at Hampton Roads. The orphan was cared for by an aunt and then by his grandfather at Greenport until he was thirteen.
At Southold, where he again now resides, the lad lived among other than blood relatives on the farm of Eli W. and Julia (Tuthill) Howell. When not yet seventeen, he became the teacher of the village school at Quogue, in the fall of 1890.
After a year in this obscure post, he ascended life's ladder step by step, first at Laurens in Otsego County as principal of a small school and then as principal of Pompey Academy near Syracuse. In that historic institution, Jennie Jerome, the American mother of Winston Chruchill, Great Britain's wartime prime minister, received her first schooling.
By his own unaided efforts, this scion of Long Island mariners attained a dozen academic degrees, including graduate degrees in the field of pedagogy, theology, philosophy and law. He is a Bachelor of Divinity, Master of Arts, of Pedagogy and of Law twice over and a Doctor of Philosophy. He graduated at Oneonta State Normal College, Albany State Teachers College, University of Buffalo, American University, University of Maine, Illinois Wesleyan University, Syracuse University and University of Chicago.
In 1900 he was admitted to the bar of New York State as a lawyer and also to the United States cir- cuit courts. Later he became private secretary to Hon. Irving G. Vann, one time mayor of Syracuse and later a judge of the court of appeals at Albany. Mr. Wood served in a like capacity to five other judges of the highest tribunal of the state, including Nathan L. Miller of Cortland who afterwards became Governor.
After an absence of more than half a century, forty-two of those years in the service of the state, Mr. Wood in the fall of 1943 returned to his native Island and now maintains a home in the village of Southold, about a mile from the farm on which he lived in his youth.
In the month of his return to Long Island, there appeared in the "Long Island Forum" an article about the first train to Greenport in 1844 written by Mr. Wood while still in Albany. This account of the ex- tension of the Long Island Rail Road through the island found appreciative readers in every part of the country and is now considered an essential item of Long Island's printed history.
Since his repatriation as it were, Mr. Wood has served as associate editor of the "Forum." In nearly every issue of that well-known magazine there now appears one of his featured articles pertaining to the history of the island. He is also a regular contributor to the "Long Island Traveler" of Southold in a column known as "The Scrap Book."
Outstanding among his contributions to
the "Forum," subsequent to "First Train to Greenport," have been "Gull Light's Keeper in 1833," "Mighty Rarus of Ashamomoque," "Early Horse Racing on Long Island," "Old Rooster Skin Smith," "Many Islanders were Forty-Niners," "New Faiths Come to Southold," "Bunker Fishing in Peconic Bay," "Try Pots and Fish Factories," "Southampton's Strange Shipyard," "Greenport's Old Time Sail Loft," "Roose- velt Loved Sagamore Hill," "South Haven's 1813 Tragedy," "Samp, Suppawn and Succotash," "South- old Jubilee of 1850," "Ancient Graves of Southold," "East Hampton's Two Hundredth Anniversary," "President Scott of Long Island," "Brooklyn Hero- ines of 1776," "Rector Cutting Was a Tory," "Birth- right of John Howard Payne," in which Mr. Wood set forth the fact proving that John Howard Payne was born in New York City and not in East Hampton.
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