Long Island; a history of two great counties, Nassau and Suffolk, Volume III, Part 59

Author: Bailey, Paul, 1885-1962, editor
Publication date: 1949
Publisher: New York, Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 922

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A Roman Catholic in religion and a communicant of St. Mary's Church in Manhasset, Mr. Dalton also belongs to the national fraternal order of men of his . faith, the Knights of Columbus. He is fond of out- door life and values his membership in the Strath- more Vanderbilt Country Club.

On July 28, 1932, William J. Dalton married Mary Hutchinson, of Port Washington, a daughter of John and Mary (Ivers) Hutchinson. Of this marriage there are two children: I. William, Jr., who was born on July 30, 1933. 2. Mary Elizabeth, born on October 1, 1938.

HERBERT M. WOOD-A Long Islander since boyhood, Herbert M. Wood has been intimately iden- tified with the business life, public affairs, and pro- gressive development of the village of Freeport for more than twenty years.

Mr. Wood's father, the late B. Frank Wood, was for many years a lawyer with offices in Jamaica, Queens County, now the Borough of Queens in New York City. He married H. Maria Neil, a native of the Canadian Province of Quebec, who is now also de- ceased. Of this marriage Herbert M. Wood was born on April 4, 1888, at Shelby, North Carolina. Brought to Jamaica as a child, he attended the public grade and high schools of that suburb and subsequently the City College Preparatory School, from which he graduated. As the result of a successful civil service examination, he was classified as a civil engineer on the civil service lists of the city of New York. He practiced this profession in that city until 1926, when he came to Freeport in association with the firm of Baldwin and Cornelius.

For this firm Mr. Wood is now village engineer of the village of Freeport, where he has practiced con- tinuously and successfully since 1926. He is a mem-

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ber of the Nassau-Suffolk Civil Engineers Society, and also of the New York State Sewage Works Asso- ciation. In local affairs, Mr. Wood is an active mem- ber of the Republican party, and of the Freeport Ex- change Club. In religion he belongs to the Dutch Reformed Church. In fraternal affairs he holds mem- bership in the Free and Accepted Masons, Oasis Lodge No. 119 at Prattville, in the Catskill Mountains of New York, and in Mountain Chapter No. 250 of the Royal Arch Masons in another Catskill village, Windham, New York. He also belongs to Lodge No. 1253 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He has three hobbies: hunting, fishing and boating.

Herbert M. Wood has been twice married, in 1909 to the former Lucy C. Roper, of Jamaica. who died in 1935, and the second time in 1937 to Clara H. Moxon, of Roosevelt. By Mrs. Lucy C. (Roper) Wood, Herbert M. Wood was the father of six children. Mrs. Clara H. (Moxon) Wood was the mother of four children at the time of her marriage to Mr. Wood.

SYDNEY Y. SULLIVAN-A funeral director and past president of the Oakwood Cemetery Asso- ciation of Bayshore, Sydney Y. Sullivan is known throughout Suffolk County.

He was born at Elwood, town of Huntington, on June 24, 1904, the son of Sydney Y. and Jennie (Town- send) Sullivan. His father was a farmer. Through the years that Sydney Y. Sullivan went to school and even for a time afterward, he worked on the farm which was the scene of his birth. He was educated at Elwood District School and Huntington High School.

When he left the farm, Mr. Sullivan became an apprentice in the mortician's profession at Bay Shore. In 1932 he achieved full stature in the profession. After working for others as funeral director, he estab- lished his own funeral home in Bay Shore in Novem- ber, 1937. This he has operated with constantly in- creasing success since then. His modern funeral home equipped with a Hammond Organ and all conveni- ences is located at 42-2nd Avenue, Bay Shore. He also operates his own Packard livery, a total of six cars.

Mr. Sullivan married Mildred Call, native of North- port, in that community on January 15, 1937. Her parents were William E. and Eliza Ann (Higby) Call. For eighteen years Mr. Call was a trustee of the Vil- lage of Northport. He also served the village as its mayor. Both Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan's parents are deceased.

ROBERT A. PATRICK-Robert A. Patrick's father, the late Robert Patrick, was a wood carver by trade. From him his son doubtless inherited the in- stinct of craftsmanship, the desire to make things, although in his case metal, not wood, was the chosen medium. The fact that as a boy he received at the beginning of his apprenticeship only one dollar for sixty hours a week did not discourage him or dampen his ambition, but in fact, whetted it. What he learned, he learned well, and on the solid foundation of thor- ough knowledge of his trade and practical experience in every phase of it, he established his own business which has grown and prospered for nearly half a century under his management.

The elder Robert Patrick was a native of County Dublin in Ireland, who came to the United States as a young man. His wood carver's trade he followed in Brooklyn, New York, which was then an inde-

pendent city, and in Hamilton, Province of Ontario, Canada. He married Ellen Wilkinson, who was born in London, England, and is now also deceased. Of this union Robert A. Patrick was born on February 20, 1873, in Hamilton, Ontario. He attended public school in that city before coming to the United States, where he took courses at the Rochester Business Col- lege in Rochester, New York. As related above, he began to learn the foundry business while yet a boy, and continued to be employed in that line until No- vember 1, 1900, when he established his own foundry at 112 Front Street in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City, under the name of the Columbian Brass Foundry.

In 1905 Mr. Patrick moved his business to the vil- lage of Freeport in Long Island's Nassau County, at the same time taking up his residence in that pleas- ant seashore suburb. In 1909 he incorporated the Col- umbian Brass Foundry, becoming secretary of the corporation. In 1917, at a time of expansion of operations, the name was changed to the Columbian Bronze Corporation. Of this new concern Mr. Patrick was also secretary until 1926, when he became presi- dent, which office he continues to hold at the present time.

The Columbian Bronze Corporation manufactures boat accessories including the Columbian propellors. In addition to the Freeport plant, another factory is maintained in Brooklyn, and altogether the cor- poration employs about four hundred people. The culmination of its career and doubtless the high point in Mr. Patrick's long experience was the receipt by the Columbian Bronze Corporation of the Army and Navy "E" for excellent service in filling war needs of the United States Government during World War II. During World War I, Mr. Patrick had served in the home guards.

For several years Mr. Patrick was captain of the Bayview Hose Company in Freeport. He has also been active in the affairs of the Republican party. He has had time for Masonic activities, and is a mem- ber of Spartan Lodge, Freeport, of the Free and Ac- cepted Masons. His hobby is boating, for which Freeport is ideally located.

Robert A. Patrick, by his wife who is now deceased, is the father of three children: I. Jessie, who is now Mrs. Guy Warner of Puerto Rico. 2. Muriel, who is married to Lowell Thompson, and whose residence is in Freeport. 3. Helen, now the wife of George Seaver. Mr. Patrick married (second) in 1938 Hilda Mary Gray, of Freeport, daughter of William and Jessie Gray.

ARTHUR E. GROSS-In the business circles of Rockville Centre the name of Arthur E. Gross has been established as a reliable and efficient accountant and tax consultant. Arthur Gross is also known for his leadership from 1936 through 1944 as an organizer and director of the County Federal Savings and Loan Association at Rockville Centre and as secretary of Bee Line, Incorporated, with whom he is still asso- ciated as consultant.

Born in New York City, October 24, 1888, Mr. Gross is the son of August and Bertha (Marks) Gross, both of whom are deceased. His mother was a native of New York City and his father, born in Alsace Lorraine and coming to this country as a boy, followed a career of art connoisseur. Arthur E. Gross received his education in the public schools and high school of New York City, then continuing his studies at New York University. He entered the commercial field as an accountant and as early as

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1916 started in business for himself, locating his New York office at 475 Fifth Avenue. Mr. Gross con- tinued work at this office until 1938 when he trans- ferred his business to the Rockville Centre branch office which he had opened in 1931.

Active in fraternal affairs Mr. Gross is vice presi- dent and director of the Rotary Club of Rockville Centre, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 1515, at Lynbrook. A sportsman, Mr. Gross devotes his leisure to fishing and photography.

Arthur E. Gross married, on February 21, 1916, Marion G. MacDonald, daughter of Dr. Alexander and Margaret MacDonald, of Brooklyn. Mr. and Mrs. Gross are the parents of three children: I. Jacques, who served in World War II commissioned as cap- tain in the United States Army Transportation Corps. 2. Ruth, wife of Rodney V. W. Vandervoort, Jr. 3. Barbara Ann, student at Adelphi College.

ALBERT C. PENNY-Prominent among the mor- ticians and funeral directors of Long Island is Albert C. Penny, who was born in Queens County, New York, on July 8, 1906, a son of Harry G. and Alice (Hopkins) Penny. Harry G. Penny became secre- tary to the county treasurer of Suffolk County, New York, a position which he has held for the past twenty years, and the family moved to Riverhead in that Long Island county when Albert C. Penny was a lad of fifteen years. He attended the public schools of Riverhead before beginning his apprenticeship under Eugene Kane of that village, who had estab- lished the Riverhead Funeral Home and conducted it successfully for many years. Albert C. Penny also attended the Renouard School of Embalming in New York City, from which he graduated in 1929.

After the death of Mr. Kane, Mr. Penny bought his interest in the business, and he has continued to conduct the funeral home since 1937. He is one of the best-known and most respected morticians on Long Island, with a reputation for thoroughness, tact and sympathy. He is a member of the Congrega- tional Church. His recreations are hunting and fishing.

At Flanders, Suffolk County, New York, in Oc- tober, 1932, Albert C. Penny married Alice Havens, a native of Flanders and a daughter of Frederick and Esther (Anderson) Havens. Of this marriage a daughter, Lois, was born at Riverhead in July, 1936.

BENJAMIN TERRY WEST-The career of Ben- jamin Terry West proves again that a man can have as busy, fruitful, varied and successful a life by apply- ing his industry and abilities to the opportunities avail- able in his native place, as he could find by roaming to the far corners of the world. Mr. West was born on February 1I, 1889, in Suffolk County's lovely village of East Setauket, and there he resides today, one of the substantial business men of that area of Long Island, an active participant in public affairs, civic en- deavor, and religious and fraternal life, a respected neighbor and a popular citizen.

The West family is well rooted in the life of East Setauket, for Mr. West's father, the late George N. West, was born there, and though he did wander, it was not far. As a young man he conducted a ineat business in Port Jefferson for some years, subse- quently moving it to Bayport, where he remained in business for half a century. George N. West died at the age of eighty-six years, and is buried in the Cedar Hill Cemetery. His wife, the former Emma C. Terry, who was also a native of Suffolk County, born at Manorville, died in 1893, when Benjamin T. West was still an infant.

The young Benjamin T. West attended the district school at Bayport, and then the Patchogue High School, and in 1908, while still on the youthful side of his majority, established an automobile agency in his own name at Bayport, which he conducted until 19II. In that year he accepted an offer of employ- ment with the Long Island Lighting Company in special work, including matters connected with rights of way.

Mr. West's association with the Long Island Light- ing Company continued until 1917, when he acquired a farm in his native East Setauket. Here, specializ- ing in the growing and marketing of potatoes and cauliflower, he operated with great success until 1925, at which time he leased his farm, an arrangement which still continues. In 1925 Mr. West turned to the real estate and insurance business, establishing his office in East Setauket, and here for more than twenty years he has built up a lucrative business, which still flourishes under his ownership and man- agement at the present time. At the time of writing his office is located on Route 25A, East Setauket.

Mr. West's business interests include the Suffolk County Mutual Fire Insurance Company, the oldest mutual fire company in New York State, of which he is a member of the board of directors. Fire pre- vention and control has long been one of his deep interests and the object of his study. Locally, he is treasurer of the Setauket Fire Department, and chairman of the board of fire commissioners. He is president of The Association of Fire District Officers of Suffolk County, and a member of the executive committee of the Association of Fire Districts, State of New York. Mr. West is a past president of the Brookhaven Town Volunteer Firemen's Associa- tion, the Central North Shore Volunteer Firemen's Association, and is now (1947) third vice president of the Suffolk County Volunteer Firemen's Association. Through his efforts the Setauket Fire District was formed, water mains laid and the fire department brought up to be the finest equipped department of any community of its size. Mr. West was also ap- pointed by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, a member of the Fire Advisory Board Division of Safety of the State of New York which consists of only fifteen members. This is one of the highest honors anyone could receive in this line in the state. He is also a member of the board of directors of the New York State Association of Mutual Insurance Agents.

Mr. West's local civic interests include the Cedar Hill Cemetery Association of Port Jefferson, of which he is superintendent and a member of the board of trustees. Fraternally he is affiliated with Suffolk Lodge, No. 60, Free and Accepted Masons; Suwasset Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star; Suwasset Chap- ter, Royal Arch Masons, at Patchogue; Patchogue Commandery, Knights Templar, and Kismet Temple, Brooklyn, New York, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

HARRY ARNOLD JONES of Riverhead is among those World War II veterans who are becom- ing outstanding in the business circles of Long Island.

Mr. Jones was born in South Jamesport, Suffolk County, New York, on January 8, 1910, the son of the late Harry N. Jones and Elsie May (Hallock) Jones. His father was a sea captain; he piloted boats from Greenport, Long Island, to New London, Con- necticut, in summer, and from New York to Florida in the winter. His mother was born in Jamesport, a member of pioneer families. Harry A. Jones attended

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the public schools of Jamesport and was graduated from the Riverhead High School in 1929. He held various positions in and around Riverhead until he entered the armed forces, serving in the European Theater from April, 1943, until November 17, 1945, achieving the rank of corporal.

Mr. Jones is president and director of the River- head Laundry Corporation, which was established in 1927. It was acquired in 1945 by a group which in- cluded also Richard C. Terry, secretary-treasurer, and William W. Clark, Jr., vice president. Mr. Jones is a Republican, a Methodist and a member of the Riverhead Posts of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. His favorite recreation is fishing.

Mr. Jones was married on October 14, 1936, to Miss Virginia Carlucci, of Riverhead. They are the parents of two children: I. Robert Harry, born September 6, 1944, and Virginia May, born August 21, 1946.

RICHARD COLLINS TERRY-Even before he became prominent in business circles around River- head, Richard C. Terry was well-known as a mem- ber of one of the oldest families of Long Island, and he is connected in marriage with another family linked with Suffolk County's history.

Mr. Terry was born at Riverhead on October 4, 1909, the son of Richard C. and Edna J. (Hallock) Terry. His father is dead. His mother has retired after teaching school twenty-five years. She was graduated from Riverhead High School and Oswego State Normal School. Mr. Terry attended the public schools of Riverhead and was graduated in 1928 from Southampton High School, where his mother taught. For three and a half years he attended Taylor College at Upland, Indiana, where he majored in the violin. Mr. Terry is secretary-treasurer of the Riverhead Laundry Corporation, which was established in 1927 and incorporated with present officers in 1945. Harry A. Jones is president; Richard Collins Terry is secre- tary and treasurer and William L. Clark is vice presi- dent. It is the only steam laundry in Riverhead and employs fifty people and operates ten trucks. His favorite forms of recreation are music, gardening and boating.

Mr. Terry was married March 19, 1932, at Wabash, Indiana, to Miss Sara B. Hill, who also was gradu- ated from Taylor University. His wife is the daugh- ter of Edwin H. and Selma Wood Hill, natives of New York. They are the parents of five children: I. Alliene B., born March I, 1933. 2. Jean S., born Feb- ruary 27, 1936. 3. Douglas M., born August 15, 1938. 4. Richard D., born September 18, 1943. 5. Frederick H., born October 7, 1944.

WILLIAM L. CLARK, JR .- By birth and ances- try William L. Clark, Jr., is a Long Islander. For a decade and more he has been identified with the busi- ness concern of which he is vice president. Public spirited, he is active in the life and affairs of Green- port where he makes his home and holds memberships in community organizations.

He was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 13, 1900, son of William L. and Margaret Agnes (Mc- Mahon) Clark, and is a member of the thirteenth generation in direct descent from Lord Lionel Gardi- ner, who settled in Gardiners Island which lies east of Orient Point, Long Island. William L. Clark, the elder, born in Brooklyn, was engaged as a retail grocer in Greenport before his retirement. His mother, born in Brooklyn, died in 1928.

After receiving his education in Greenport, New York, schools, William L. Clark, Jr., became an ad- juster for the C.I.T. Corporation, located at I Park Avenue, New York City, where he remained for ap- proximately ten and one-half years. He then was associated with Sheffield Farms Company in Hampton Bays, for six months. In 1934, Mr. Clark became con- nected with the Riverhead Laundry as a route man, continuing with the original company until its reor- ganization in 1946, when he was made vice president of the present organization, with Harry A. Jones (q.v.) as president, and Richard C. Terry (q.v.) sec- retary and treasurer. Active in civic affairs, Mr. Clark is a member of the Greenport Chamber of Commerce, the Suffolk County Police Association, and is a bonded deputy sheriff of Suffolk County. A Republican in politics, he is a member of St. Agnes' Roman Catholic Church, at Greenport.

On July 26, 1923, at Baldwinsville, New York, William L. Clark, Jr., married Vera B. Rober, of Baldwinsville, daughter of William and Ora (Tappan) Rober. Mr. and Mrs. Clark are the parents of eight children: Patricia June, Priscilla Jean, William L. 3rd, Walter Frank, Charles Richard, Ronald Austin, Clarence Harlow and Shirley Ann Clark.

ALBERT F. ROWSOM, M.D .- For almost two decades Albert F. Rowsom has ministered to the health of the residents of Nassau County as one of the leading practicing physicians in this area. Specializ- ing in obstetrics and gynecology, Dr. Rowsom's repu- tation is based on sound and progressive medical prac- tice and on the understanding of human nature so necessary to successful treatment.

A Canadian by birth, Dr. Rowson was born in Ontario on February 28, 1901. He is the son of Hor- ton, deceased, and Jane (Hewitt) Rowsom. His father, born in Lyn, Ontario, was a farmer who recognized the need of education and devoted his life to achiev- ing that goal for his son. His mother is a native of Smiths Falls, Ontario.

Dr. Rowsom, after receiving his public school edu- cation in Brockville, Ontario, graduated from Queens University at Kingston, Ontario. Following his graduation in 1926 from this university, Dr. Rowson interned for over a year at Nassau Hospital. Im- pressed by this section of the United States and al- ready known for his medical acumen, Dr. Rowsom was appointed resident physician at North Country Community Hospital at Glen Cove. Then in 1928, Dr. Rowsom "hung out his shingle" in Locust Valley and has in the intervening years become well-known in this area. Keenly interested in children, Dr. Rowsom, as Locust Valley school physician, is largely respon- sible for the excellent health record in the school system. He is also on the staff of the North Country Community Hospital.

Dr. Rowsom keeps abreast of modern medical ad- vancements by membership in the county, state and American Medical associations, as well as in the Nassau Surgical Society. Active in the Masonic Order, he is a member of the Queens Lodge, No. 578 at Kingston, Ontario, and of the Glen Cove Lodge No. 580. He is an active participant in the functions of the Nassau Country Club and is a member of the Republican political party. He and his family wor- ship at the Episcopal Church.

On June 30, 1931, Dr. Rowsom married Florence (Garlock) Rowsom, daughter of George and Mary (Hine) Garlock. They are the parents of two children. I. Mary Jane, born June II, 1933. 2. George Horton, born August 9, 1935.

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AUGUST ZORN-It may have been a conviction that raising poultry and turkeys is more profitable than serving them broiled, roasted, fried or fricasseed, that led August Zorn to turn from the restaurant business to farming, or it may have been a desire for country life instead of city existence. In any event Mr. Zorn has been very successful in the ven- cure which he began some dozen or so years ago, and has a very lucrative business in supplying the New York City market.

Born in Germany on December 14, 1910, August Zorn is a son of Joseph and Julianna (Zorn) Zorn. His father is a retired poultry farmer, now residing at Central Islip, Suffolk County. August Zorn oper- ates his father's farm for the benefit of his parents. Members of the Zorn family have long been suc- cessful farmers in the vicinity of Nuremberg, Ger- many, where the young August received his educa- tion. He settled in New York City in 1926 and be- came engaged in the restaurant line. In 1935 he moved to Suffolk County, where he first engaged in poultry farming at Central Islip. A year later he established a second farm at Brentwood. In 1935 he purchased a turkey ranch and farm of one hundred and eighty acres on the Town Line Road in the village of Hauppauge. Here he raises some twelve thousand turkeys a year. On his Central Islip and Brentwood poultry farms he raises from sixty thou- sand to seventy-five thousand birds a year for the New York market. Mr. Zorn's beautiful home is des- cribed in the historical volumes of this work and is known as the Joshua Brewster Smith House at Haup- pauge.

Mr. Zorn is a member of the Suffolk County Farm Bureau, and he takes an active part in civic and fra- ternal affairs. He belongs to the Lions Club of Central Islip. A Roman Catholic in religion, he is a communicant of the Church of St. John of God at Central Islip, and is affiliated with the Catholic fra- ternal order of the Knights of Columbus.

On April 18, 1938, August Zorn was married in South Plainfield, New Jersey, to Rose Ann Carone, a native of New York City and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Carone of New York. Of this mar- riage there are four children: I. Robert Peter, who was born in the Southside Hospital at Bay Shore, Long Island, on April 10, 1939. 2. Beverly Patricia, born in the John Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jeffer- son, Suffolk County, on November 15, 1941. 3. Richard Allen, born at Bay Shore on May 15, 1944. 4. Lor- raine, born February II, 1948.

SAMUEL HENRY ROBERTS, SR .- To the late Samuel Henry Roberts, Sr., of Port Jefferson, is credited the development of the Thomas Wilson Com- pany, Inc., old American lace house, into "one of the largest and most progressive manufacturing firms of its kind in the United States." Mr. Roberts was gen- eral manager of the Port Jefferson plant and vice president of the company. He was also a leader in the Rotary Club of Port Jefferson and was a member of the Brookhaven Zoning Board of Appeals.

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Long Island; a history of two great counties, Nassau and Suffolk, Volume III, Part 59

Author: Bailey, Paul, 1885-1962, editor Publication date: 1949 Publisher: New York, Lewis Historical Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 922

Author: Bailey, Paul, 1885-1962, editor
Publication date: 1949
Publisher: New York, Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 922