Long Island; a history of two great counties, Nassau and Suffolk, Volume III, Part 67

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

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Joshua T. Fanning died in 1931, since which time William H. Housner has been the sole owner of this business, which was for a time continued under the firm name as noted above and is now known as J. T. Fanning & W. H. Housner. This concern, established in 1898, occupies extensive premises at Riverhead, dealing at wholesale and retail in farm machinery, produce and fertilizers, and in the sales and transfer of the complete "John Deere" line of farm implements. The firm of J. T. Fanning & W. H. Housner is widely known throughout Suffolk County, which is one of the richest farming areas in the country, and enjoys the confidence of numerous customers.

Mr. Housner has also become a factor in banking in this part of Long Island, and is a member of the board of directors of the Suffolk County National Bank, of Riverhead. He is a member of the Grace Episcopal Church, which he serves as a vestryman. He is well-known in fraternal circles, being a mem- ber of Riverhead Lodge No. 645 of the Free and Accepted Masons, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of the Rebekahs and of the Order of the Eastern Star.

At New York City William H. Housner married Josephine Rychlinski, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Rychlinski. There are four children: I. Lois, who was born at Riverhead in 1921. 2. William Fan- ning, who was born in 1923 at Riverhead. He is a graduate of the New York Military Academy and during World War II he answered the call to the colors and served as a lieutenant in an anti-tank division. 3. William H., Jr., born also at Riverhead, in 1933. 4. Marie, born in 1935.

E. MONROE OSBORNE-The Osborne family is one of the more prominent families of East Hamp- ton and the insurance and real estate firm of Nelson C. Osborne on Main Street is a leading one in its field. E. Monroe Osborne has been associated with that firm since 1929. A mining engineer by profession, he followed it in the Middle West before joining the insurance and real estate firm. In World War II he was an officer in the United States Coast Guard, on convoy duty.

Mr. Osborne was born at East Hampton on August 5, 1905, the son of Dr. Edward M. and Grace Street (White) Osborne. His father, also a native of East Hampton and a prominent veterinarian, died in 1917. The mother died in 1923.

Mr. Osborne was graduated from the East Hampton High School in 1923 and from Lafayette College in 1927. He took his degree of Bachelor of Science

in mining engineering at Lafayette. From 1927 to 1929 he practiced as a mining engineer in the Middle West. In 1929, he returned to East Hampton to be- come associated with the Nelson C. Osborne firm. In March, 1942, he was commissioned a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Coast Guard, serving until De- cember, 1945, when he went into the Coast Guard Reserve as a lieutenant commander. He was on con- voy duty throughout the war in the Atlantic. At the conclusion of his service he resumed his place in the real estate and insurance business and in the com- munity. He is a director of the Osborne Trust Com- pany of East Hampton. He is a member of the South- ampton Lodge, No. 1574, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His church is the Presbyterian.

Mr. Osborne married Ethel Diffene at the Church of the Transfiguration (Little Church Around the Corner) in New York City on November 5, 1930. Mrs. Osborne is the daughter of Henry W. and Ida (Schmuhle) Diffene. Mr. and Mrs. Osborne have one daughter, Barbara Grace, born in Southampton on July 20, 1936.

WILLIAM H. HENNING-Bilbob's, at 56 East Main Street, Bay Shore, is a successful toy store operated by William H. Henning and his son, Robert W. Henning. A quick glance at the first names of father and son suggests how the store acquired its name. The business was established soon after father and son were discharged from the navy and marine corps, respectively, after World War II. The elder Mr. Henning had also served in the navy in World War I. As lustrous as the two generations of Hen- nings have made the family name, they have not been alone in their contributions to its prominence. The mother of William H. Henning, Mrs. Betty G. Hen- ning, is also well-known at Bay Shore and Suffolk County in general, for she is a successful real estate operator who has long held a leading position in island and county professional and civic organizations.

William H. Henning was born at Hoboken, New Jersey, on March 13, 1893, the son of Hugo and Elizabeth (Draycott) Henning, both of whom were also natives of Hoboken. He is a graduate of Ho- boken Academy and Columbia University School of Mineralogy.

When the United States was plunged into World War I, Mr. Henning enlisted in the Navy, and, given the rating of machinist first class, was assigned to the Subchaser H-323. After the war, he was a sales- man for the Cravenette Company of New Jersey (1919-1921). From 1921 to 1941, Mr. Henning was a salesman for Henry Koerner and Company, of New York, distributors of sponges and chamois. At the entry of the United States into World War II, Mr. Henning again offered his services to the Navy. Ac- cepted in November, 1941, he reentered at his World War I rating, machinist first class, but was subse- quently promoted to chief petty officer. He served until September, 1945. A few months later he and his son established The Bilbob Company in Bay Shore.

Mr. Henning, and the former Betty G. Kohl, daugh- ter of William and Elizabeth (Rohn) Kohl, of New York City, were married in New Jersey on March 26, 1921. The son, Robert William, was born in West Hoboken on May 18, 1923. He was educated at the South Kent School, South Kent, Connecticut, and the Dwight School in New York City. In Sep- tember, 1941, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served with the rank of corporal as a radio communications man. Attached to the Marine's First Division, Corporal Henning fought in the battles of

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Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester and New Guinea. He was discharged in December, 1945, and soon afterward joined his father in their present joint enterprise.

Robert William Henning married Doris Brewster, daughter of Roy and Marion (Schaper) Brewster, of Bay Shore, at San Diego, California, on June 16, 1945. The younger Mrs. Henning is also a veteran of World War II. Like her father-in-law, she was in the navy. As a WAVE, she was in the service from September, 1942, to September, 1945. Born in Baby- lon on April 20, 1920, she is a graduate of Centenary Junior College, Hackettstown, New Jersey, of the class of 1938. She is a member of Post 365 of the American Legion at Bay Shore, as are her husband and father-in-law.

Mrs. Betty Henning operates the Henning Agency, real estate and insurance, at 86 East Main Street, Bay Shore, a few doors from her husband and son's toy store. She established this successful business in December, 1938. She is a member of the board of governors of the Long Island Real Estate Board, of the New York State Real Estate and Suffolk County boards, of the executive committee of the Bay Shore Chamber of Commerce, the executive board of the Bay Shore Civic Association, the Na- tional Republican Club and the Timber Point Club.

William Henning is a member of the Lions Club of Bay Shore and the Bay Shore Chamber of Com- merce. He is chairman of the Child Welfare Board of the American Legion's Post No. 365 and is a member of the post's executive committee. Robert Henning is the post's sergeant-at-arms. Mrs. Hen- ning, his mother, is a member of the post's Legion Auxiliary.

LLOYD PILLSBURY DODGE-A native and lifelong resident of Long Island, Lloyd Pillsbury Dodge is a prominent attorney at Patchogue, where he has also made a reputation as a sponsor of the work of the Boy Scouts of America and as a leader in veterans' affairs. He served in the United States Navy in World War II.

Mr. Dodge was born at Bellmore, in Nassau County, on March 22, 1915, the son of famed William C. Dodge and Lavinia E. (Hunt) Dodge. William C. Dodge is now in private legal practice in New York City, but for years he was either district at- torney of New York County or on the magistrates' bench of that county. He won national fame as a prosecutor. He is a native of Manchester, New Hampshire, and was educated at Stevens Institute and New York University Law School. Lavinia Hunt Dodge was born and educated in New York City. Besides Lloyd Pillsbury Dodge, two daughters and another son were born to the marriage-Mrs. Anna Dodge Mowry, of Morris Plains, New Jersey; Mrs. Jean Dodge Pollock of Fort Myers, Florida, and William C. Dodge, Jr., of Santiago de Chile.

Lloyd Pillsbury Dodge was taken by his parents to Blue Point, in Suffolk County, when he was two years old. That community has been his home ever since. He was graduated from its elementary school and then went to the Dwight School in New York City. In 1936 he was graduated from Amherst Col- lege with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and in 1939 from the Yale University Law School with the de- gree of Bachelor of Laws. Immediately on leaving the law school, he became associated with the New York City law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam and Roberts, at 26 Liberty Street. In 1940 he was ad- mitted to the New York State bar. Leaving the New York law firm, he became associated with Ralph J.

Hawkins of Patchogue, and worked for Mr. Hawkins until he entered the Navy in late 1941.

Mr. Dodge was commissioned an officer in the Naval Reserve and served four and one-half years, principally in the Asiatic Theater of Operations, until September, 1945. When he went into the inac- tive reserve he was a lieutenant commander.

Returning to Patchogue and Blue Point, Mr. Dodge re-established himself in his profession and has since then maintained an independent practice. In January, 1947, he became assistant district attorney of Suffolk County. He also resumed all his former interests and activities and is now chairman of the organization and extension committee of the District No. 7 Council of Boy Scouts of America. He is also past commander of the Patchogue Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He is a member of the Suffolk County Bar Association, the Rotary Club of Patchogue and the Domino Yacht Club. With his family he attends the Methodist church. His hobby is yachting.

In August, 1941, at Patchogue, Mr. Dodge married Margaret Chapman, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Wil- letts W. Gardner of that village. Mr. and Mrs. Dodge are the parents of one daughter, Sybil Chapman, born in Patchogue on April 13, 1945, and a son Lloyd P., Jr., born March 23, 1947. Mrs. Dodge, a graduate of the Patchogue High School, was for a time a stu- dent at Vassar College.

CHARLES WILSON HALLOCK-That the Hallocks are among the very first families of Suffolk County is beyond question, for more than three cen- turies have passed since Peter Hallock, coming from New Haven in Connecticut across the Sound, arrived in the Southold area and settled at Aquebogue. That was in 1640, and since then ten generations of Hallocks have been among the prosperous farmers and sub- stantial citizens of Long Island's easternmost country.

The late Herman Halsey Hallock, who married Sarah K. Young, was a native of King's Park in Suffolk County, who subsequently moved to River- head, where on Sound Avenue he purchased a fertile farm of one hundred acres, which he named Cedar- wold. He died on April 2, 1942, being survived by his wife. To this couple the son, one of six children whom they named Charles Wilson, was born on Sound Avenue in the town of Riverhead on July 9, 1903. He attended various public schools including the North- ville School and the Riverhead High School, and subsequently studied at Iowa State College, where he was a member of the Reserve Officers Training Corps. During his boyhood he was initiated into the science and business of farming, and at the completion of his formal education he settled down to agricultural pursuits, which have occupied him ever since. At the death of his father he took over Cedarwold Farm and homestead.

Cedarwold Farm, under the management of Her- man Halsey Hallock and now of Charles Wilson Hal- lock, is one of those farms which specialize in potatoes and cauliflower, and have helped to give Suffolk County the reputation of producing the country's finest varieties of these two vegetables. Cedarwold Farm also includes an excellent pear orchard. Mr. Hallock is a member of the Suffolk County Farm Bureau and also belongs to the Sound Avenue Grange. Among his civic services, he was chairman of the board of education of the Northville School. In religious matters he is a supporter of the Congre- gational Church. His recreations are fishing and hunting.

At Riverhead, Suffolk County, Charles Wilson

Lloyd Plage

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Hallock married on November 23, 1932, Sadie Weston, of Yonkers, Westchester County, New York. Mrs. Hallock is a daughter of Robert Oliver and Elizabeth D. (Mills) Weston. Charles Wilson and Sadie (Wes- ton) Hallock are the parents of one adopted daughter, Margaret Jean, who was born on August 10, 1935.

PAUL F. NUGENT, M.D .- The name Nugent has been identified with the highest standards of successful medical practice in the Southampton area of Suffolk County for more than sixty-six years. The late Dr. John Nugent, who died in January, 1944, stood high in his profession and in his community; and two of his sons, Dr. John Henry Nugent and Dr. Paul F. Nugent, have upheld his eminence and emulated his success.

The Nugents are of Irish descent, from the late Robert and Ellen (Ducy) Nugent who, upon coming to the United States, settled in Riverhead, Suffolk County, where Robert Nugent engaged in agriculture. Born in 1821, Robert Nugent died in 1881; his widow long survived him, to pass away in 1920. John, the son of Robert and Ellen (Ducy) Nugent, was born at Riverhead on May 6, 1858, and received his early education in the public grade and high schools of Riverhead. The ambition to become one of the hon- orable profession of physicians possessed him from his school days, and toward that end he became a student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, from which he graduated and received his Doctor of Medi- cine degree with the class of 1881. In July of that same year he opened an office in Southampton for the general practice of medicine, in which he continued for the rest of his active life. He served the town of Southampton as its health officer for forty years, and Suffolk County as coroner for twenty years, and he was a consulting physician of the Southampton Hos- pital. Moreover, Dr. John Nugent, an able and astute businessman, took a leading part in banking affairs in Suffolk County, being president of the First Na- tional Bank of Southampton and a trustee of the Sag Harbor Savings Bank. He belonged to the Suffolk County and New York State Medical societies, to the American Medical Association, to the Associated Physicians of Long Island, and to the New York and New England Railroad Surgeons; and being fond of fraternal life, he was affiliated with the Free and Ac- cepted Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Foresters of America.

Dr. John Nugent married, in November, 1886, Helen H. Fordham, of Southampton, a daughter of the late Henry A. and Harriet (Post) Fordham. Of this marriage there were three children, all sons; John Henry and Paul Fordham, as we have noted, followed their father's profession, and William Post Nugent became a mechanical engineer, seeing service in World War I as a captain in charge of British tanks, and in the post-war years becoming an engineer on golf courses, of which Long Island boasts some of the world's best.

Southampton was the birthplace and March 26, 1897, the birth date of Paul F. Nugent, who, like his father, began his education in the public grade and high schools of his native village but chose Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, for his premedical college studies. There he received his Bachelor of Arts degree with the class of 1919, and continuing at the Cornell Medical School, he won his Doctor of Medicine degree from that institution in 1922. In 1923 he began his internship at the New York Hos- pital, where he remained until 1925. In that year he set up in general practice as a physician and surgeon

at East Hampton, where he has continued to serve a growing circle of patients to the present time. Dr. Nugent is on the staff of the Southampton Hospital, and is a member of the Suffolk County Medical Society, the New York State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. For the past fifteen years he has been school physician for the village of East Hampton. An outdoor man, his favorite sports are golf and swimming.

During World War I Dr. Nugent was a member of the Reserve Officers Training Corps at Cornell Uni- versity. He is active in fraternal life as a member of the Star of the East Lodge No. 8 of the Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Nunnakoma Chapter of the Royal Arch Masons of East Hampton. He is also affiliated with the Long Island Associated Physicians, and he serves as a trustee of the Presby- terian Church at East Hampton.

At Southampton, Suffolk County, New York, in September, 1923, Paul F. Nugent married Margaret J. White, a native of that village and a daughter of Gilbert H. and Agnes F. (Jessup) White. Mrs. Nugent is a graduate of Teachers' College, a division of Columbia University, and also studied at another division of that institution. She is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star.

To Paul F. and Margaret J. (White) Nugent, two children have been born: I. Paul F., Jr., at East Hampton on May 18, 1928. He graduated from the high school at East Hampton with the class of 1946. 2. Margaret White, on July 17, 1934. She is a student at the East Hampton High School.

RAYNOR'S FUNERAL SERVICE, one of the best known in Suffolk County, has been a landmark on Sayville's Main Street since 1865. It was founded in that year by Charles L. Raynor, great-grandfather of Charles G. Raynor II, who with his mother, Mrs. Emma Raynor, and Mark A. Crosier, constitutes the present ownership and management of the business.

Charles L. Raynor's son, Woodhull N., succeeded him in the business and the latter's son, Lewis W., in turn succeeded him. Lewis W. Raynor was the father of Charles G. Raynor.

Lewis W. Raynor was born in Sayville on De- cember 8, 1882, and died in that community on July 21, 1933. His wife was the former Emma Klamfuss. Born to them, besides Charles G. II was Ruth, now Mrs. Robert Edwards, of Sayville.

Lewis Raynor served the town of Islip as assessor in 1921 and for some years was chief of the Sayville Fire Department. He was prominent in the Connet- quot Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and the Sayville Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows. He worshipped at the Methodist Church in Sayville, and voted as a Republican.

Charles G. Raynor II, his son, was born in Sayville on June 4, 1917. After being graduated from the Sayville High School, he attended the Packard Com- mercial School in New York City. In World War II, Mr. Raynor was a chief yeoman in the United States Navy. In 1946 he was serving an apprentice- ship in the professional business founded by his great- grandfather and handed down to him by his father and grandfather.

Charles G. Raynor II married Norma Thurber of Patchogue in that community on May 5, 1945. Mrs. Raynor is the daughter of John Thurber and Ann (Millard) Thurber. She and Mr. Raynor have become the parents of a son: Charles G. III born in Bay Shore on June 10, 1946.

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Sayville, worships at the Methodist Church, in which he is active, and is a member of St. Ann's Men's Club.

Associated with Mr. Raynor and his mother in the administration of Raynor's Funeral Service is Mark A. Crosier. Mr. Crosier, a native of Pittsfield, Massa- chusetts, began the association in 1934. He is one of Sayville's most active citizens. A charter mem- ber of the Rotary Club, he is one of its past presi- dents. He is also a member of the Connetquot Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Say- ville, The Sayville Republican Club, and St. Ann's Men's Club.

Mr. Crosier married Jessie Newey, of Brookhaven, the daughter of Samuel W. and Lillian (Lamb) Newey. They are the parents of two daughters: Lola Avlin, now Mrs. Walter L. Cameron, of Palmer, Massachusetts, and Judith Kay, who lives with the family in Sayville.

HARRY T. TUTHILL-A busy life of construc- tive accomplishment, not without the spice of oc- casional adventure and hardship, has been that of Harry T. Tuthill, engineer and roadbuilder, and at present county superintendent of Suffolk County.

A son of Charles B. and Charlotte V. (Fortier) Tuthill, who are both natives of Buffalo, Erie Coun- ty, New York, Harry T. Tuthill was born in that city in October, 1884. He was educated at the public schools of his native place, graduating from the La- fayette high school with the class of 1906, and, for a time, at public school in Canada. Later he took lecture courses at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and at Columbia in the city of New York, in civil engineering and highway construction.

In 1905 and 1906 Mr. Tuthill was employed with George Deihl, county engineer of Erie County, and in the following year he became connected with the department of public works of the State of New York, working on highway and bridge construction. Subsequently he served in the New York State de- partment of highways, remaining attached to that department until 1922. In the interim, in 1909, he was for a time engaged as an engineer on the Hunt- ington-Amityville highway in Suffolk County. Dur- ing the years 1910 to 1912 lie was the engineer in charge of the construction of a State highway from Sag Harbor to Easthampton, and at the same time served as engineer in charge of Hog Neck and Shelter Island highway projects.

Destiny had selected Long Island as the scene of the greater part of Mr. Tuthill's constructive works and achievements, though there were to be intervals when he would be engaged in other scenes. From 1913 to 1922 he was resident engineer for Suffolk County of the State of New York, being in charge of all construction and maintenance of roads and bridges in the county. In 1922 he took time out to go far afield. In the employment of private interests and of the Mexican government jointly, Mr. Tuthill made an exploratory survey for a military highway in Mexico, to run from the City of Mexico, D. F., to Acapulco on the Pacific Coast. The territory to be surveyed was mostly wild and rough mountainous country, and the journey, the entire distance of which both ways was more than a thousand miles, had to be made with the assistance of mules and pack trains, the surveyors being on horseback.

In 1923 Mr. Tuthill was back in Long Island's peaceful Suffolk County, where he resumed his du- ties as New York State resident engineer, and so re-

mained through 1924. In the following year he left Long Island temporarily for the second time, becom- ing consulting engineer for the Portland Cement As- sociation in the state of Connecticut, and working directly with the highway department of that state on road and bridge construction and maintenance. In 1929 however, Mr. Tuthill returned to Long Island, this time for good. From 1929 to 1939 he was con- struction engineer for the county superintendent of highways of Suffolk County, and in 1939 he succeed- ed to the office of county superintendent of highways, which position he has filled since that time. The splendid highway system of which Suffolk County is proud, and which lures hosts of visitors to its hills, shores and inlets, owes a great deal to the skill, the sound technical knowledge and the long experience of Harry T. Tuthill, who is recognized far and wide as one of the foremost engineers in his field.

In 1939 Mr. Tuthill had charge of all rehabilitation work following the devastating hurricane which vent- ed its fury on eastern Long Island in 1938. This was a million dollar project, involving extensive re- pairs and rebuilding along the shores, and the en- closing of five major inlets which had been created by the force of the storm.

Mr. Tuthill is a registered professional engineer and surveyor of the State of New York. From 1945 to date Mr. Tuthill has been consulting engineer to the joint legislative committee in the preparation of reports on the problems of checking erosion along the shorelines of Suffolk County, these reports having been com- pleted, one in 1945, one in 1946, and one in 1947. He belongs to the Professional Engineers Society of the State of New York, and holds membership also in the American Military Engineers, in the American Road Builders Association, and in the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association. Another professional affiilation is with the New York State County Highway Superintendents Association. While he was New York State engineer for Suffolk County, Mr. Tuthill resided in Sayville, where he had his headquarters. As county superintendent of highways his office is in Port Jefferson, and he lives in East Setauket. His professional duties do not keep him too busy to take a part in civic, political and religious life in his community. He is a member of the East Setauket Volunteer Fire Department. A member of the Republican Party, he is active in its councils and sits on the board of governors of the Suffolk County Republican Club. He is a communicant of the Epis- copal Church.

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Long Island; a history of two great counties, Nassau and Suffolk, Volume III, Part 67

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