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Mrs. Jesse Robinson Goodale, Jr., graduated from Riverdale High School with the honor of serving as class valedictorian, continued her studies at Middle- bury College, and graduated cum laude from the Uni- versity of Minnesota. Prior to her marriage she taught school for two years in Katonah, New York.
PHILIPP A. HATTEMER-So important a place has Philipp A. Hattemer of Patchogue attained among the citizens of that village, the town of Brookhaven and Suffolk County at large that they have seated him in virtually every public office at their com- mand. Now a member of the county board of super-
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visors, representing the town of Brookhaven, he is a former town clerk, justice of the peace and village trustee and fire chief. He is also a foremost Re- publican in the county. A veteran of World War I, he is active in ex-servicemen's programs and post- war reconstruction and reconversion enterprises.
Mr. Hattemer was born in New York City on July 26, 1899, the son of the late Philipp and Sophia (Kammer) Hattemer. His father, who died in 1904, was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York. The mother died in 1932, and was buried at Patchogue.
The future supervisor lived long enough in his native city to be graduated from its Public School No. 166. Soon afterward the family moved to Patchogue and he completed his education in the Patchogue High School, from which he was graduated in 1917. The first World War having spread to include the United States, he enlisted in the United States Army and served until some months after the Armistice. Following his return home, he became associated with E. Bailey and Sons, Patchogue lumber concern, with which he remained for twenty years, rising from a minor position to one of great responsibility. In 1930, in the middle of his career with the Bailey firm, he was elected town clerk of the town of Brook- haven for a four-year term.
At the conclusion of his period as town clerk, in 1934, he was elected a village trustee and this office he held until 1940, when he became justice of the peace of the town. Simultaneously, he resigned his position with the lumber company. Judge Hattemer served on the bench for three years. In the fall of 1943, he was elected to the board of supervisors and on January 1, 1944, he took office. He has been on the board ever since. Mr. Hattemer is chairman of the board's important contracts and supplies com- mittee and a member of the equally important finance and taxation committee. He is also on the ports and waterways, the road and bridge and the rules com- mittees.
For many years Philipp A. Hattemer was chief of the Patchogue Fire Department and president of the Lincoln Republican Club in the village. He is now on the Suffolk County Republican Committee. He is a charter member of the Patchogue Post No. 269, of the American Legion and is a member of the Southside Lodge, No. 493, Free and Accepted Masons, also at Patchogue, and the Kiwanis Club of Patchogue.
Mr. Hattemer married Miriam Shiebler, daughter of Major J. P. D. and Florence (Moody) Shiebler, in Patchogue on September 3, 1927. Mrs. Hattemer is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion and worships at the St. Francis de Sales Church. Mr. and Mrs. Hattemer are the parents of four children: Miriam E., born June 6, 1928; Charlphine A., born May 20, 1931, and Philipp A., Jr., and Barbara C., twins, born November 17, 1937. A fifth child, born May 24, 1932, died May 28, 1936. She was named Joyce E. Hattemer. The eldest daughter, Miriam, is a graduate of Seton Hall High School of the class of 1946. Following her graduation, she entered the Nurses' Training School of St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City. Charlphine A. Hattemer was, in 1946, a sophomore at the Patchogue High School.
CHESTER J. CONN-President of the Long Island Duck Packing Company, Chester J. Conn is one of the progressive businessmen of Eastport, Suffolk County, who have contributed importantly to
the development of the eastern part of Long Island. He is not, as many think, a native of this region of New York, but was born at Louisville, Kentucky, on February 8, 1900, son of Hiram J. and Nancy J. (Reeder) Conn.
Chester J. Conn was educated in the grade schools of his birthplace, the Louisville Manual Training High School, and Kentucky State College. He was not yet of age, however, when he came to Long Island, and purchased in the spring of 1919, the Sweet Water Ice and Fuel Company, at Smithtown. Subsequently he organized the Long Island Ice Cor- poration (1928) and consolidated under this trade title practically all the ice companies in Suffolk County and one in Nassau County.
For making and distributing ice, Chester J. Conn graduated into the field of quick freezing and from 1935 developed some seven patents of value in this business. In this year, 1935, he also established the Long Island Duck Corporation, with headquarters at Eastport, Suffolk County, that under able leader- ship grew from a relatively minor concern to a million dollar corporation. This organization is prepared to ship poultry of all kinds to any part of the world opened to ocean and rail transportation. As the re- sult of his experiments and inventions in quick freez- ing, he has been, since 1942, associated with the immense Birds Eye Company, in an advisory capacity.
In local circles, civic, fraternal and social, Mr. Conn is active and popular. During the second World War, he was chairman of the Selective Service Board, District No. 707, and also served on the advisory staff to the Quartermaster General at Washington, D C. He is a member of the board of directors of the Central Islip National Bank, of Islip, and of the Suffolk Mills of Eastport. He belongs to the Ameri- can Society of Refrigeration Engineers. Fraternally Mr. Conn is affiliated with Alcyone Lodge No. 695, Free and Accepted Masons of Northport, the Bellport, and the Bellport Country Club, the Beach Club of Bellport, and the Bellport Yacht Club. His recrea- tions include the racing of boats and aviation, in which he holds a full commercial pilot's license. He worships at the Old Presbyterian Church of Smith- town.
In March. 1921, Chester J. Conn married Virginia A. Smith, daughter of J. Milton Smith of Stony Brook, who is a direct descendant of Bull Smith, one of the first settlers of the Smithtown area. Mr. and Mrs. Conn are the parents of the following children: I. Chester J., Jr., born at Bayshore, Feb- ruary 13, 1923; graduate of Smithtown High School, attended Hofstra College, at Hempstead, and is a graduate of the Lewis School of Aeronautics at Lock- port, Illinois. He did postgraduate work at the Uni- versity of Alabama one year and studied at the Louisiana State University one term. He served under General Chennault with his Flying Tigers, in China, and later joined the United States Army Air Forces, serving throughout World War II; he is now asso- ciated with his father in business; married Margaret Smith, of Greensport, North Carolina; they reside in Eastport. 2. Donald M., born August 10, 1928; graduate of Bellport High School and Stony Brook Boys School and Irving School at Tarrytown, New York, in their one hundred and tenth graduating class.
MICHAEL A. PETROCCIA-An indication of the standing Michael A. Petroccia has achieved among his fellow citizens for his work on behalf of the under-
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privileged, in boys' work and welfare in general, has been his election as an Honorary Citizen of the famous Boys Town near Omaha, Nebraska, and as an Honor- ary Member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Mr. Petroccia, a successful attorney of Glen Cove, is also a leader in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Community Chest, the Chamber of Commerce and the Neighborhood Association.
Michael A. Petroccia was born in Glen Cove on February 26, 1903, son of the late Rocco and Philo- mena (Parrella) Petroccia. In 1921 he was graduated from the Glen Cove High School. To prepare for the bar he studied in the School of Law of Fordham University, from which he was graduated in 1924 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Admitted to the bar the following year, he practiced in New York City exclusively for a year. Then, in 1927, he returned to Glen Cove and, opening offices there, has since been conducting a general practice not only in his native community and its general vicinity but in New York City as well.
Mr. Petroccia, active in numerous civic and public affairs, was a member of the Nassau County Republi- can Committee for six years and still is an influential Republican. He is a director of the Brookville Syndi- cate, Inc. He has twice been Exalted Ruler of the Glen Cove Lodge, No. 1458, Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks and in the official year 1935-1936 was District Deputy of the Elks organization. He is a member of the Nassau County, the New York State and the American bar associations, the Knights of Columbus, the Emerald Association, Friends of Mercy Hospital, Sons of Italy, the Loyal Order of Moose, of the Circus Saints and Sinners in New York City, the Brookville Country Club and the Glen Cove Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of St. Rocco's Roman Catholic Church.
Mr. Petroccia married Alice D. Walsh, daughter of James and Mary (Young) Walsh of Brooklyn, on September II, 1929.
GEORGE H. KAELIN-The fact that beautiful Suffolk County, although it is a part of the same Long Island of which the other three counties have become either parts of or suburban to New York City, is still in large measure a prosperous and abun- dant area of well-tended and profitable farms, is brought to mind by the career of George H. Kaelin, vice president of the Long Island Produce and Fertilizer Company.
Mr. Kaelin's father, the late Daniel A. Kaelin, a native of Riverhead in Suffolk County, was a farmer all his life. To him and his wife Katherine T. (Roach) Kaelin, who was born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York, and is now also de- ceased, the son whom they named George H. was born at Riverhead on January 14, 1904. He attended the public grade and high schools of his native village, but while still a boy he was initiated into farm opera- tions on the family homestead farm on Roanoke Avenue in Riverhead. There he assisted his father from 1920 to 1924. In the latter year he first be- came associated with the Long Island Produce and Fertilizer Company of Riverhead, as a salesman.
Mr. Kaelin's progress within the Long Island Produce and Fertilizer organization was rapid, and in 1926 he was sent to Southold as manager of the company's branch at that point. Subsequently Mr. Kaelin was promoted to the joint office of vice presi- dent and sales manager in charge of the sale of farm
machinery in a territory comprising the entire North Shore of Long Island from Smithtown to Orient Point, Suffolk County. Mr. Kaelin is now a member of the board of directors of the Long Island Produce & Fertilizer Company.
Keenly interested in all agricultural problems, Mr. Kaelin holds membership in the Farm Bureau of Suffolk County. In local public affairs he serves as a member of the board of education of the Southhold High School. He attends St. Patrick's Roman Catho- lic Church in Southold, and belongs to the Immaculate Council No. 928 of the Knights of Columbus, meeting in Riverhead.
On January II, 1925, George H. Kaelin was mar- ried, at Riverhead, to Grace Nugent, a daughter of Robert J. and Rebecca (Lynch) Nugent. Mrs. Kaelin is a native of Riverhead. Of this marriage there are three children: I. Dorothy, who was born at River- head on September 6, 1926, and is a graduate of the Southold High School. She was married in 1946 to Harold Myers of Southold. 2. George H., Jr., born on July 1, 1931, and now a student at the South- old High School. 3. Robert J., born August II, 1934.
George H. Kaelin's two favorite recreations are baseball and fishing.
CLIFFORD C. EDWARDS-In practice as a lawyer at East Hampton since 1927, Clifford C. Ed- wards has been a justice of the peace of East Hamp- ton Town and a member of the village zoning board of appeals for twenty years past. He is a member of several fraternal organizations as well as of the American, New York State, and Suffolk County bar associations.
Mr. Edwards was born at Amagansett on March 26, 1895. His parents are Everett J. and Florence N. (Huntting) Edwards. His father is a native of Amagansett, his mother of East Hampton. Everett Edwards, who has resided in East Hampton since 1898, is a retired fisherman, drug store proprietor and now president and general manager of the Home Water Company of East Hampton. He is a director of the Osborne Trust Company of East Hampton.
Clifford C. Edwards was educated in East Hamp- ton's elementary and high schools; at Cornell Uni- versity, from which he received his degree of Bache- lor of Arts in 1916, and at the George Washington University School of Law, where he took his degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1925. Admitted to the bar of the state of New York in 1926-he had previously been admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia, the seat of the law school in 1925-he was associated with the firm of Hunt, Hill and Betts in general practice in New York City for a year before opening his present offices in East Hampton. His service as a justice of East Hampton Town, his membership on the zoning board of appeals, his service as a trustee and secretary of Guild Hall of East Hampton since its organization, and service as a trustee of the Southampton Hospital Association are indications of the leadership he has achieved not only in the bar but in the community in general. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church and his recreation is hunt- ing.
On June 4, 1924, in Washington, D. C., Mr. Ed- wards married Frances Elizabeth Edwards, daughter of Guy and Elizabeth (Macnab) Edwards of Salmon City, Idaho. There are three children: Clifford, born in New York City on March 16, 1926, and Sandra Macnab and Robert Emery, born, respectively, on
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January 30, 1940, and February 7, 1943, both at South- ampton. Clifford Jackson Edwards served in the Marine Corps in World War II. He married Betsy Ann Peck.
ROBERT H. PELLETREAU-Son of an illus- trious father, Robert H. Pelletreau has won his own place of leadership at Patchogue and a wider area of Suffolk County. He is not only a prominent attorney, but vice president of the Patchogue board of educa- tion, a former secretary of the village planning board and a director of the John T. Mather Memorial Hospital of Port Jefferson. He is, in addition, active in banking circles and major civic enterprises. In World War II he gave distinguished service in the United States Navy.
Robert H. Pelletreau was born at Patchogue on December 29, 1908, the son of the late Robert S. and Mary W. (Rogers) Pelletreau, the former a native of East Moriches and the latter of Bridgehampton. The elder Mr. Pelletreau, who died on April 7, 1943, served Suffolk County as its surrogate from 1921 to 1937. A leader in the Republican party, he was a member of the New York State Constitutional Con- vention in 1915 and a delegate to the Republican Na- tional Convention in 1924. For years he was one of Suffolk County's foremost lawyers, with headquarters in Patchogue. His career is summarized in "Who's Who in New York," 1937. A member of the family, William S. Pelletreau, was the author of a history of Long Island and Southampton.
Robert H. Pelletreau was first educated in the public schools of Patchogue. Following graduation from the Patchogue High School, he attended Philips Andover Academy at Andover, Massachusetts. In 1931 he was graduated from Yale University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and in 1934 from the Yale Law School with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Ad- mitted to the New York State bar in January, 1935, he launched his legal career in Patchogue as a partner of his father. The firm became known as Pelletreau and Pelletreau in 1938 and retains that name despite the death five years later of the senior partner.
Mr. Pelletreau's career was interrupted by World War II. Commissioned a lieutenant in the Navy, he made so distinguished a record that he was awarded the Secretary of the Navy's commendation ribbon. After the war he made a quick adjustment to civilian life and resumed his practice. He is vice president, counsel and a trustee of the Union Savings Bank of Patchogue, president of the Rotary Club of Patchogue, 1947-48, a member of the Domino Yacht Club, the Yale Club of New York, the University Club of Washington, D. C. and the Suffolk County, New York State and the American bar associations. He is a director of the Suffolk County Bar Associa- tion. He is active in these organizations as well as on the board of education, the planning board and in the Patchogue Congregational Church, of which he has been a trustee. His recreations are three-fold- yachting, hunting and numismatics. Mr. Pelletreau is very active in Boy Scout work and is a trustee of the trust and endowment funds of Suffolk County Council, Boy Scouts of America ..
On March 24, 1934, at Wellesley Hills, Massachu- setts. Mr. Pelletreau married Mary Pigeon, daughter of Richard and Emma (Kelley) Pigeon. Mrs. Pelle- treau's father is former governor of the New York Stock Exchange. She was educated at Smith Col-
lege. Mr. and Mrs. Pelletreau are the parents of four children: Robert Halsey, born July 9, 1935; Anne, born February 19, 1938; Richard Pigeon and Susan. twins, born December 25, 1942.
STANLEY J. MAKOWSKI, M.D .- In general practice at Glen Cove since 1932, Dr. Stanley J. Makowski has developed considerable renown as a physician and surgeon. He is on the staff of the North Country Community Hospital in Glen Cove, and Meadowbrook Hospital at East Hempstead.
Dr. Makowski was born at New Hyde Park on December 28, 1903, the son of Anthony and Frances (Wisniewska) Makowski. His father, born in Poland, came to the United States in 1895. He was a farmer until his retirement a few years ago. Frances Makow- ski, also a native of Poland, died on March 23, 1939, at the age of seventy-one.
The future medical man began his schooling in Westbury, where he was graduated from high school in 1922. Four years later he received the degree of Bachelor of Science from St. John's College in Brook- lyn. After two years at Dartmouth College he at- tended Rush Medical College in Chicago. In 1930 he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine at Rush. Returning East, he interned at St. Catherine's Hos- pital, Brooklyn, for two years. In 1932, he estab- lished his office in Glen Cove at 98 Highland Road, where he has conducted his practice ever since. Start- ing January I, 1948 Dr. Makowski is limiting his practice to orthopedic surgery. He has been with the North Country Community Hospital and the Meadow- brook Hospital almost from the outset of his prac- tice. Dr. Makowski is a member of the Nassau County Medical Society, Nassau County Surgical Society, the Association of Physicians of Long Island, the New York State Medical Society, the Knights of Columbus and the Brookville Country Club. He is a communicant of the Roman Catholic Church in Glen Cove.
Dr. Makowski is the father of two children: Stanley J. Jr., born September 18, 1926, and Carol Ann, born March II, 1943.
GEORGE E. DARLING-Born at Port Jefferson in Suffolk County in 1870, George E. Darling is a man who has found the environment of his native place sufficient for the achievement of success in his profession, honorable opportunity for public service, and the respect and affection of the people of his community, throughout a long and useful life.
The Darling family has been prominent in the North Shore village of Port Jefferson for a great many years. Mr. Darling's father, George W. Darling, was also a native of that place, and for many years one of Port Jefferson's leading merchants. He married Emily A. Sturtevant, who was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. George E. Darling, the son of this union, after receiving his early education at the district school in Port Jefferson and at the Williston Academy in East Hampton, Massachusetts, matriculated at Yale University, New Haven, Con- necticut, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts upon graduation with the class of 1895. Hav- ing chosen the law as his profession, he continued his studies at the Yale Law School, from which he took his degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1897.
In that same year Mr. Darling was admitted to the bar of New York State, and established him- self as an attorney in his home village, where he has
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continued to practice for nearly half a century. Spe- cializing in surrogate and real estate branches of the law, Mr. Darling has served many important clients, noteworthy among them being the Bank of Port Jeff- erson, and for many years has held a prominent and respected place among the able leaders of the bar of Suffolk County.
In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Darling has for some years carried on an extensive and lucrative business in the general insurance field. He has given of his time and abilities to public service as a member of the Port Jefferson Board of Education, and at one time he was the president of that body. He be- longs to the Suffolk County Bar Association, and was a former member of the board of trustees of that body. His interest in religion is deep and life-long, and he serves as a trustee of the Port Jefferson Methodist Church. The Masonic order is another of his abiding interests, and he holds membership in the Suffolk Lodge No. 60, at Port Jefferson, of the Free and Accepted Masons.
George E. Darling was married on October 19, 1901, to Amy J. Brush, a native of Port Jefferson and a daughter of William A. and Anna E. (Fitzgerald) Brush. There are four children of this marriage: I. Clyde E., who was born on May 21, 1904. After graduating from the high school at Port Jefferson, he attended Columbia University in the city of New York, receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from that institution before entering the Brooklyn Law School in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City, to prepare himself to follow his father's profession. Having taken his Bachelor of Laws degree at that school, he entered his father's law office at Port Jefferson, and has continued to be associated with his father to the present time. Clyde E. Darling is mar- ried to the former Helen M. Garvey of New Rochelle, New York. Like his father he is affiliated with Suffolk Lodge No. 60 of the Free and Accepted Masons. 2. Tracy B., born at Port Jefferson on July 18, 1908. He graduated from a Port Jefferson school and from the Williston Academy before at- tending St. Stephen's College, which is now Bard College, at Annandale-on-the-Hudson in Dutchess County, New York. Like his father and older brother, Tracy B. Darling decided upon a legal career, and enrolling at the Brooklyn Law School, received his degree of Bachelor of Laws from that institution upon graduating in 1934. He is now also associated with his father in practice at Port Jefferson. He mar- ried Florence Lee, by whom he is the father of three children, namely Janet, George L. and Arnar. 3. Anna M., born November 21, 1909. After graduating from the Port Jefferson High School, she took her Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, and also studied at and graduated from the Walter Reed Hospital at Washington, D. C. She is now the wife of L. Cuyler Dade of Gloversville, New York, and the mother of one child, Nan. 4. June F., who was born on June 13, 1923. She attended and graduated from the Port Jefferson High School and subsequently studied at and was graduated from the New Jersey College for Women, a part of Rut- gers University, at New Brunswick, New Jersey. June F. Darling now resides in the family home at Port Jefferson.
THADDEUS OETTINGER-The son of a suc- cessful merchant in New York City, Thaddeus Oet-
tinger, who was born in that city on January 22, 1884, early in life determined on a mercantile career, and apparently decided at an early stage also to seek that career in a pleasanter environment than the hustle and bustle of the metropolis. He has achieved both objectives, with happy results.
The son of Dominic Oettinger, of Brooklyn, and his wife Anna (Ulzheimer) Oettinger of Astoria, Long Island, the young Thaddeus Oettinger began his education in the public schools of New York City, and graduated from the Bryant High School in the borough of Queens. At an early age he took employment in a department store, and worked in several such establishments in New York to acquire experience in merchandising. In 1913 he was ready to go into business on his own, and to that end he settled in Port Jefferson, Suffolk County, where he established a variety store in the Hammond Build- ing. Successful from the start, after three years he needed larger quarters, and erected a building on East Main Street, to which he moved in 1916. Twenty years later he remodeled these premises, and today his business is carried on in a very up-to-date two story structure, forty by one hundred feet in dimen- sion, with a modern glass front. This is one of the leading mercantile establishments in Port Jeffer- son, with a large following of customers who appre- ciate reliable merchants and courteous service.
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