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By Mrs. Helen A. (Halsey) Terry, L. Emory Terry was the father of two sons, J. Foster and Hampton. Mr. Terry subsequently married Mrs. Charles A. Jagger, nee Anna White. J. Foster Terry was born at Southampton, Suffolk County, New York, on May 20, 1888. After graduating from the Southampton High School and Wilbraham Academy at Wilbraham, Massachusetts, he entered Syracuse University at Syracuse, New York, where he received his degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1912. Two years later he ob- tained employment with the Long Island Lighting Company as a clerk in the New York office. His as- sociation with that corporation has continued without interruption to the present time; in 1920 he becanie manager of the Southampton district of the Long Island Lighting Company, the position which he con- tinues to fill.
In 1921 Mr. Terry entered the insurance business with the establishment of the J. Foster Terry and Company agency in his native Southampton, and this business also he has conducted with great success since that time. Like his father, he has become a factor in the banking affairs of the community, and serves on the board of directors of the First National Bank of Southampton. Mr. Terry has also honorably carried on the tradition of his family by unselfish public service. From 1927 to 1933 he filled the office of mayor of the village of Southampton, and for many years has been the treasurer, and a member of the board of trustees, of the Rogers Memorial Lib- rary of Southampton. He is also the president of the board of trustees of the Methodist Church. His prin- cipal fraternal interest is his membership in Old Town Lodge No. 908 of the Free and Accepted Masons, of Southampton, and since his days at Syra- cuse University he has been affiliated with the Delta Upsilon fraternity. His favorite recreation is golf, and in this he indulges, among other places, at the Southampton Country Club, to which he belongs.
J. Foster Terry has been twice married, his first wife, the former Elizabeth Fordham White, having died in 1926. His second wife is the former Ruth Mayfield. By his first marriage Mr. Terry is the father of two children: I. Malcolm, who was born at Freeport, Nassau County, New York, on February 19, 1920. After graduating from the Southampton High School he entered the University of Virginia where he studied for three years before entering the United States Coast Guard during World War II. Holding a commission as a lieutenant junior grade, he served in transport duty both in the Atlantic and in the Pacific areas. He is a member of the American
Legion, of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, of the Rotary Club and of other organizations, in some of which he holds office. 2. Helen Elizabeth, born at Southampton, Suffolk County, New York, on March 16, 1923. Educated at the Leland and Grey Seminary in Townsend, Vermont, at Centenary Junior College in Hackettstown, New Jersey, and at the University of Vermont, Helen Elizabeth Terry was married in January, 1945, to Lawrence Murphy of South Deer- field, Massachusetts, by whom she is the mother of one child, a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, born in 1946.
EDWIN H. KING is the owner of one of the "King Farms," outstanding truck and general farming properties in the Orient Point section of Long Island. He not only operates on a large scale in supplying the metropolitan markets, but is well-known for his cooperation with others engaged in his occupation, and for his willingness to place the knowledge he has gained from study and experience at the behest of fellow "tillers of the soil." In community affairs he is active and is a popular member of the Suffolk County Farm Bureau.
It is worthy of more than passing attention that Edwin H. King is a member of a long established Long Island family and a modern member of genera- tions successively identified with that most important of American industries-agriculture. Going not fur- ther back than his grandparents, the genealogical record is as follows:
Henry Y. King was born September 1, 1829, and died January 3, 1869. He married (first), January 23, 1853, Mary G., who was born March 30, 1834, and died October 16, 1855. He married (second) Betsy A. born May 25, 1834, and died November 26, 1890. Children of the first marriage: I. Charles H., of whom further. 2. Mary E., born October 3, 1855. Child of the second marriage: 3. Howard G., born July 6, 1866, and died July 12, 1868.
Charles H. King, son of Henry Y. and Mary G. King, was born January 1, 1854, and died March 15, 1942. He married (first) January 2, 1876, Lilly H. Vail, who was born November 21, 1854, and died September 8, 1876. He married (second) Betsy E. Sherman who was born June 1, 1857, and died Septem- ber 20, 1937. Children of second marriage: I. Howard C., born June 14, 1888, died January 3, 1939. 2. Charles A., born October 8, 1889. 3. Edwin H., of whom further. 4. Henry Y., born May 9, 1893. 5. Seward B., born September 25, 1895.
Edwin H. King, son of Charles H. and Betsy E. (Sherman) King, was born July 27, 1891. He at- tended the public school at Orient and followed the water until the age of twenty. His father being a commercial fisherman, Mr. King started earning his living on the water, fishing and becoming Captain of the first fifty-foot motor yacht to sail in Orient waters. At the age of twenty he rented a twenty acre farm, four years later purchasing his first farm of forty acres at Orient Point. Three years later he acquired an additional fifty acres, and four years after added fifty-five acres to his holdings. Today Mr. King has two hundred acres on which he raises potatoes, lima beans, cucumbers, peas and cauliflower for the metro- politan market.
Mr. King pioneered in the growing of second crop seed potatoes, a practice that is now generally followed by the farmers in this district. He owned the first motorized truck and was the first farmer to change
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from horse to tractor farming in this vicinity, also the first to introduce Prince Edward Island seed potatoes to Long Island farmers.
During World War II, Mr. King was instrumental in the establishment of a labor camp at Greenport, for the housing of foreign labor to assist the farmers of this section. This camp is still operated and known as the Eastern Suffolk Co-Operative Labor Camp.
For the last fifteen years Mr. King has owned and operated two buses for the transportation of the school children of Orient, Orient Point and Greenport.
In about 1928, Mr. King interested Robert Moses of the Long Island State Park Commission, to es- tablish a State Park at Orient, and in order to make this possible, he dedicated to the Long Island State Park Commission, a parcel of his land and beach, from the State Highway to the "common lands" of the Village of Oyster Ponds, or Orient, which today is the Orient Beach State Park.
Mr. King has been chairman of the Orient Mosquito Committee for over fifteen years, and was instrumental in the starting of the Suffolk County Mosquito Com- mission, which has grown to large proportions. Orient was the first district ever to have legislative approval, as a taxable district, for the removal of mosquitos.
Active in many other civic and fraternal affairs, Mr. King is a charter member of the Suffolk County Farm Bureau and serves on its various committees. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. A Republican in politics, he has served over thirty years as a member of the Suffolk County, Southold Town Republican County Committee; is a member of the Oyster Pond Chemi- cal Company (the Orient Volunteer Fire Department), and for several years has acted as Fire Commissioner. He is a charter member of the Oyster Pond Historical Society at Orient and is now serving as one of its Directors. He is a member of the Orient Gun Club, a charter member of the Greenport Rotary Club and attends the Congregational Church.
On May 15, 1912, Edwin H. King married Frances C. Case, and they are the parents of the following children: I. Gertrude M., born March 30, 1913. 2. Vera C., born April 14, 1915. 3. Edwina H., born May 28, 1920. 4. Frances C., born February 27, 1923. 5. Margaret M., born July 3, 1924.
EDGAR A. SHARP-The public career of the late Honorable Edgar A. Sharp began in 1892, when be became an employee of the Patchogue Post Office. Since then he has served his fellow citizens not only in postal duties, but as a Knights of Columbus over- seas commissioner working among Allied troops in World War I and afterward, as a member of the Suffolk County Board of Supervisors and, finally, as their Representative in the United States Congress at Washington.
Congressman Sharp was born in Patchogue on June 3, 1876, the son of Michael and Margaret Sharp, the former a wheelwright. After completing his educa- tion in Patchogue's common and high schools, the future member of Congress entered the Patchogue Post Office. From July 1, 1892, to April 1, 1918, he served his neighbors as a government employee. World War I then being still in progress, he sought and received appointment as an overseas commissioner for the Knights of Columbus and went to France to work among the troops. This service lasted from April 1, 1918, to February 20, 1920. In April, 1920, he
established himself in the real estate business in Patchogue and in this business he was actively en- gaged until his death. Through the years he maintained his activity in politics and public affairs, serving in various public offices, including that of county super- visor. On January I, 1945, he began his service in the Congress of the United States, representing Suf- folk and part of Nassau counties. Retiring after one year of service because of his health, Mr. Sharp did not long survive; passing on November 27, 1948.
Congressman Sharp was a director of the Citizens Bank of Patchogue and a trustee of the Union Sav- ings Bank. He was a member of the Rotary Club of Patchogue, the Foresters of America, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Column- bus and the Woodmen of the World. He was a com- municant of the St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church, Patchogue.
He married Seraphine Ginocchio, daughter of John and Ellen Hines Ginnochio, in Patchogue on March 7, 1916. They made their home at 39 Church Street, Patchogue.
HERBERT W. DIMON-Back of former large building projects in Suffolk County were such lun- ber companies as the Southampton Lumber Corpora- tion, with which Herbert W. Dimon has been identi- fied since the year 1933. A native and lifelong resi- dent of this town, he knows its people and annals and has cooperated heartily through the years with num- erous community activities.
Born in Southampton, Suffolk County, Long Island, on December 15, 1883, Mr. Dimon is the son of Samuel and Anna Marie (Jagger) Dimon, his father being an agriculturist and substantial citizen. The son of this record was educated in the grade and high schools of his birthplace and early in life learned telegraphy and worked for the Western Union Tele- graph Company. After a year of experience, he was appointed station agent at Southampton for the Long Island Railroad, but after two years entered the em- ploy of the New York Telegraph Company, in his home town.
In the old "trust busting" days, the New York Telegraph Company was ordered under the Sherman Act to dissolve its connections with the New York Telephone Company, and Mr. Dimon went with the latter corporation, first as a clerk, later becoming commercial manager at Southampton. Altogether Mr. Dimon was associated with the New York Telephone Company for more than two decades. In 1933, how- ever, he joined the staff of the Southampton Lumber Corporation, of Southampton, and from 1942 has been a director of the same. He likewise served on the board of directors of the First National Bank of Southampton. In municipal affairs Herbert W. Dimon is a former president of the village of Southampton. Fraternally he is affiliated with Old Town Lodge No. 908, Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a Past Master; he is a member of Nunnakoma Chap- ter, No. 308, Royal Arch Masons; and attends the Presbyterian Church.
Herbert W. Dimon married Angelena Whitman, of Southampton, daughter of Walter and Matilda (Ben- nett) Whitman. Mrs. Dimon is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star. Mr. and Mrs. Dimon are the parents of two sons: I. Harris W., born at Southampton, a graduate of the local grade and high schools, is now associated with the Southampton Lumber Corporation; he married Lillian Behler, of this place, daughter of George and Grace Behler, and they have two sons: i. Paul. ii. Sam. 2. Robert W.,
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educated in local grade and high school. He joined the United States Army for service in World War II, serving with a medical detachment unit in the Pacific area; he married Regina Soah, of Sag Harbor, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Soah.
CLARENCE WESTON HANSELL-Founder and head of the Rocky Point Transmission Labora- tory of the Radio Corporation of America, Clarence Weston Hansell is also the holder of approximately two hundred and fifty patents in the United States and numerous others in foreign countries, relating mostly to electrical devices, many of them in com- mercial use. In addition, he is the author, alone or in collaboration with other experts, of papers published in the major organs of the electrical and radio indus- tries. In 1940, his contributions to the field of com- munications were recognized in the issuance to him of the National Modern Pioneers Joint Award of the National Association of Manufacturers.
Mr. Hansell was born in Medaryville, Indiana, on January 20, 1898, the son of George William and Bessie (Engle) Hansell. His late father, also a native of Medaryville, was a farmer who once taught school and achieved such prominence and leadership among his fellow citizens as to be elected to the Indiana State Legislature.
The future electrical engineer began his education in the grammar and high schools of his native com- munity. He continued at Purdue University, Lafay- ette, Indiana, from which he was graduated in 1919. From the university he received the degree of Bache- lor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He then took postgraduate work at Union College, Schenectady, New York. In the summer of 1918, Mr. Hansell had been in the operations training course of the Com- monwealth Edison Company at Chicago and in the fall of 1918 he was an officer candidate in the Student Army Training Corps of the United States Army, at Purdue. His training at Union College was in con- nection with his employment and training in the test course of the General Electric Company at Schenec- tady. This was from June, 1919, to May, 1920. He thus began his career with thorough training in the theoretical and practical phases of his chosen profes- sion.
In September, 1920, he was appointed an engineer in the engineering department of the Radio Corpora- tion of America. In 1929, he was transferred to R.C.A. Communications, Incorporated, and in 1942 was at- tached to the RCA Laboratories Division, with which he has remained ever since. In 1925 Mr. Hansell founded and took direction of the Transmission Re- search Section, Radio Systems Laboratory, at Rocky Point. At the conclusion of World War II in the European Operations Theater, Mr. Hansell in 1945 served as United States scientific investigator in Germany. Throughout his career he has worked on numerous electrical devices, most of them patented in the United States and abroad, and otherwise con- tributed to the development and progress of electrical engineering, particularly radio and communications in general. He has contributed, as author or co-author, to such publications as the "Journal of the Institute of Radio Engineering," the "Journal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers," the "RCA Re- view."
Mr. Hansell's articles include :
"Radio Relaying," in collaboration with H. H. Beverage and S. W. Dean, delivered in 1924 before the Institute of Radio Engineers; "Short-Wave Com- mercial Long Distance Communication," in collabora- tion with H. E. Hallborg, L. A. Briggs, Proceedings
of the Institute of Radio Engineers, June, 1927; "De- velopment of Directive Transmitting Antennas by R. C. A. Communications, Inc.," in collaboration with N. E. Lindenblad and P. S. Carter, Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, October, 1931; "Ap- plication of Frequencies above 30,000 Kilocycles to Communications Problems," in collaboration with H. H. Beverage and H. O. Peterson, Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, August, 1931; "New Methods of Frequency Control Employing Long Lines," in collaboration with J. L. Finch and J. W. Conklin, Proceedings of the Institute of Radio En- gineers, November, 1931; "Radio Plant of R.C.A. Communications, Inc.," in collaboration with H. H. Beverage and H. O. Peterson, Electrical Engineering, March, 1933; "The Hawaiian Radiotelephone Sys- tem," in collaboration with W. I. Harrington, Elec- trical Engineering, August, 1935; "Resonant Lines for Frequency Control," Electrical Engineering, August, 1935; "Frequency Control by Low Power Factor Line Circuits," in collaboration with P. S. Carter, Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers April, 1936; "200-KW Radiotelegraph Transmitter," in collaboration with G. L. Usselman, RCA Review, April, 1938; discussion of paper by L. E. Reukema entitled "Transmission Lines at Very High Radio Frequencies," in collaboration with P. S. Carter, Electrical Engineering, February, 1938, "Radio Relay Systems Development by the Radio Corporation of America," Proceedings of the National Electronics Conference published in the Proceedings of the In- stitute of Radio Engineers, March, 1945 and a paper published in "The R. C. A. Review" entitled, "Develop- ment of Radio Relay Systems," September, 1946.
Mr. Hansell is a member of the American Radio Relay League, the Franklin Institute, the Electro- chemical Society and the American Institute of Elec- trical Engineers. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Radio Engineers and is a licensed professional engi- neer of New York State. Active in civic, religious and recreational affairs, he is a member of the board of education of the Union Free School District No. 6, is elder in the First Presbyterian Church at Port Jef- ferson, where he and his family make their home, and is a trustee of the Port Jefferson Yacht Club.
Mr. Hansell married Mildred Madaus at Medary- ville on May 1, 1923. They are the parents of three children: Mary Jane, born at Rocky Point; George Erwin, born at Port Jefferson, and Patricia Ruth, born at Port Jefferson. Mary Jane Hansell, a gradu- ate of Port Jefferson High School, is a graduate with the Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue Univer- sity, class of 1948. George Erwin Hansell, also a graduate of the Port Jefferson High School, studied electrical engineering at Purdue before entering the United States Army for service in World War II, at the conclusion of which he was attached to the Signal Service Center at General Douglas Mac- Arthur's Headquarters in Tokyo. He is again a student at Purdue University, taking a science course there and majoring in physics. Patricia Ruth Hansell is a student at Port Jefferson High School.
MILTON PINKUS-An attorney whose excep- tional abilities would assure him of a place in the first rank at the bar of any city, Milton Pinkus did for a time practice in the city of New York, but choosing Long Island as the ideal place of residence, he transferred his practice to Hempstead, and has risen to a position of eminence in Nassau County legal circles, acquiring a lucrative practice and many im- portant clients.
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Mr. Pinkus' father, the late Charles Pinkus, was a native of the city of Stettin in Germany, who came to the United States as a young man and for many years was in the furniture business in Cincinnati, Ohio. He married Bertha Lichtenstein, like himself a native of Germany, who is still living. Of this union Milton Pinkus was born at Hornell, New York, on May 13, 1898. His education was begun in the public schools of Elmira, New York, and at the El- mira Free Academy, from which he graduated in 1915. Entering Harvard University at Cambridge, Massachusetts, he graduated from that great institu- tion with the class of 1919, his studics having been interrupted for a time by service during the first World War, first with the Norton-Harjes ambulance unit, and later with the United States Army ambu- lance service attached to the French Army. Mr. Pinkus' wartime experience began in 1917 and con- tinued through 1918. He received the Croix de Guerre medal from the French government.
After the war Milton Pinkus, having determined upon the law as a career, enrolled in the Fordham University Law School in New York City and re- ceived his degree of Bachelor of Laws from that alma mater of many notable attorneys in 1922. Ad- mitted to the bar in the following year, he began his legal practice in New York City, where he continucd until his removal to Hempstead in 1932. During the first few years of his experience in Hempstead he was associated with the Hon. Thomas J. Cuff, who is now a justice of the New York State Supreme Court. Since the elevation of Justice Cuff to the bench, Mr. Pinkus has practiced alone. He is a member of the Nassau County Bar Association and Harvard Club of New York.
A member of the Democratic party and active in its councils, Mr. Pinkus has twice accepted public office. For two years he was village trustee of the village of Hempstead, and for onc year he served as corporation counsel.
Mr. Pinkus is an active member of Sunrise Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons. Of the Jewish faith in religion, he is affiliated with the Hempstead Synagoguc.
On September 13, 1934, Milton Pinkus was mar- ried to Miriam Abess of Jamaica, New York, who is a daughter of Boris and Anna (Berger) Abess. There are two children of this marriage: 1. Paula, who was born on March II, 1936. 2. Edward C., born on February 25, 1938.
EDWARD J. C. SMITH, D.D.S .- Eminent in his profession and prominent in the affairs of his com- munity, Dr. Edward J. C. Smith has practiced den- tistry at Westhampton Bcach for more than thirty years.
Dr. Smith's father was James G. Smith, a reticent man who was connected with the coast guard patrol for some thirty years. He married Charlotte Johnson of Albany, New York, and of this union Edward J. C. Smith was born at Albany on June 29, 1893. As an infant he was brought to Good Ground, which is near Hampton Bays. He graduated from the Patch- ogue High School in 1911, and having chosen dentistry as a career, studied to that end at the University of Buffalo, in the upstate city of that name, from which he received the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1914. In that same year he began the practice of his profession at Westhampton Beach, and in the intervening years has built up a large and lucrative practice. He is a past president of the Suf-
folk County Dental Society, a Fellow of the Inter- national College of Dentists, a Fellow of the Ameri- can Society for the Advancement of General Anes- thesia in Dentistry.
Dr. Smith is particularly active and well-known in fraternal circles in his community and throughout Long Island. He is a past exalted ruler of South- ampton Lodge No. 1574, of the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks, and a past master of Potunk Lodge, Westhampton Bcach, of the Free and Ac- cepted Masons. Other Masonic affiliations are with the Patchogue Commandery of the Knights Templar, and with Kismet Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrinc in Brooklyn, New York.
At East Quogue, on October 28, 1915, Edward J. C. Smith married Ethelyn Phillips of that village, a daughter of Thomas M. and Mabel L. Case of Shelter Island. Of this marriage the children are: I. Edna S., who was born at Westhampton Beach. She is now the wife of Henry W. Luverenee of Rochester, New York, and by him the mother of two children, Henry W., Jr. and Ethelyn. 2. James M., who was born at Westhampton Beach in 1922. During the second World War James M. Smith saw service in the United States Coast Guard for a period of four and a half years. He is married to the former Dorothy Penny of Hampton Bays, and they have one daughter, Penny Lee.
CHARLES E. CORRIGAN-A prominent marine authority of Hampton Bays and Southampton, Charles E. Corrigan has achieved an excellent reputation for noteworthy accomplishments in this region.
Mr. Corrigan was born January 28, 1900, at South- ampton, New York, son of Edward J. and Marie (Lamboley) Corrigan. His father was a contractor at Southampton.
Charles Corrigan received his early education in the local public schools, and was graduated from the Southampton High School.
In April, 1917, Mr. Corrigan cntercd the United States Navy, and served as a quartermaster, first-class, on the transport "George Washington." After the war he became a yacht captain, remaining in this oc- cupation until 1936, at which time he organized the Corrigan Docks, Boat Yard, and Marine Sales Com- pany at Hampton Bays. He has continued to be sole owner of this organization since then, and under his able management the enterprise has been greatly expanded. It is now one of the most important and widely known firms of its type in the region.
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