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Born at New Hyde Park in Nassau County, New York, on July 22, 1894, Mr. Valentine was the son of Alfred Valentine, born in Woodbury; a retail grocer in New Hyde Park and East Williston, now retired, and Louise Davis, born in Lattingtown, and died in 1941. After his preliminary schooling he attended the Mineola High School at the county seat of Nassau County. He has long been engaged in the real estate and insurance businesses, under his own name in Mineola and Williston Park. He is executive vice president and general manager of the Old Country Trotting Association, as well as president of the Nas- sau Agricultural Society of Mineola. Among his public services, he acts as president of the New York State Fair Association.
Mr. Valentine's banking connections are with the First National Bank of Mineola, the Nassau County Trust Company and the Williston National Bank of Williston Park. His fraternal affiliations are with the Masonic order and with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. For recreation he belongs to the Wheatley Hills Golf Club. He is the owner of his own stable of horses at Meritoria Farms, and formerly played polo and did considerable hunting. With his family, he attends the East Williston Community church.
At East Williston, on October 22, 1918, J. Alfred Valentine was married to Gulielma Robbins, a daugh- ter of Richard Hewlett and Margaret Ketcham Rob- bins. Of this marriage the children are: I. Alfred Robbins. 2. Richard Hewlett. 3. Barbara Jane.
EDWIN M. LOCKWOOD-One of the most respected figures at the bar of Long Island, Edwin M. Lockwood has been a lawyer for more than forty- eight years, of which more than twenty have been spent in practice in Suffolk County, where his great success has been the result of his especial knowledge of real estate law and surrogate law.
Born in the pleasant Hudson River village of Sau- gerties in Ulster County on November 23, 1874, Edwin M. Lockwood was a son of Charles A. and Celia A. (Myer) Lockwood. After his preparatory studies at public and private schools in his native county, he attended New York University in the city of New York, from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws upon graduating with the class of 1897. Admitted to the New York State bar in 1898, he began his practice in Ulster County before remov- ing to the borough of Brooklyn, New York City. It was about the year 1924 when Mr. Lockwood came to
Suffolk County, taking up his residence and estab- lishing his law office in Riverhead. He was associated with the late Robert Burnside, but continues to prac- tice to the present time. He is a member of the Suffolk County Bar Association.
In July, 1901, Edwin M. Lockwood married Grace Whitney of Marlboro, Ulster County, New York, a daughter of Oliver B. and Julia (DuBois) Whitney. Of this marriage there is one child, a daughter, Julia, now Mrs. Frederick Webber, of Amityville, Suffolk County. Mr. Webber was a captain pilot of a B-29 airplane in World War II.
Mrs. Grace (Whitney) Lockwood is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, being a descendant of Col. Lewis Du Boise, a noted soldier of the American patriot army in the Revolutionary War.
HARRY B. WARD-Considered one of Suffolk County's leading educators, Harry B. Ward has dis- tinguished himself in his field in a relatively. short time. Young in years, he was appointed district super- intendent of schools, first supervisory district in Suf- folk in 1941.
Harry B: Ward was born in Gilbertville, New York, the town of which his father was once postmaster, on December II, 1903. His parents are the late Arthur B. Ward and Frances M. (Hankey) Ward who resides at Oneonta, New York. In addition to being post- master, the elder Mr. Ward was an insurance broker in Gilbertsville. Harry B. Ward is an alumnus of Gilbertville High School, class of 1921. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1925 from Hobart College, and his Master's in 1935 from Cornell Uni- versity. After leaving Hobart College, Mr. Ward accepted a position of vice principal of the Unadilla High School in Unadilla, New York. From 1927 to 1941 he served as science teacher and assistant principal at the Riverhead High School in Suffolk County. In 1941 he was appointed district superin- tendent of schools of an area which comprises the townships of East Hampton, Riverhead, Shelter Island, Southampton and Southold.
Prominent in community affairs, Mr. Ward is presi- dent of the Riverhead Rotary Club and served as sec- retary from 1939 to 1944. He is a past master of the Riverhead Lodge No. 645, Free and Accepted Order of Masons. Active in youth work, Mr. Ward has been chairman of the Board of Review of the Boy Scouts of America, District 3, for more than twelve years. He is a member of the vestry of the Grace Episcopal Church at Riverhead.
On July 6, 1927, at Geneva, New York, Mr. Ward married Grace A. Patrick, a daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Patrick. Before her marriage Mrs. Ward taught home economics at the Penn Yan Academy at Penn Yan, New York. She is an alumna of Geneva High School and William Smith College at Geneva, New York, where she was awarded her Bachelor of Science degree.
WALTER C. JACOB-From amateur wrestling champion of the United States to expert on vegetable crops-this, in a quick summation, has been the career of Dr. Walter C. Jacob. Member of the faculty of Cornell University since he left the United States Navy, in which he served throughout American parti- cipation in World War II, he is now professor in charge of the university's Long Island Vegetable Re- search Farm at Riverhead, the successor of Professor P. H. Wessels, who served there for a quarter cen-
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ury. In the navy Dr. Jacob performed important work in research and standards.
Dr. Jacob was born at Manchester, Michigan, on August 17, 1915, the son of Gottlieb and Lillie A. D. 'Schaible) Jacob. He was given his early education n the elementary and high schools of his native Man- hester and following graduation from the Manchester High School entered Michigan State College, receiv- ng his degree of Bachelor of Science in 1936. He ook postgraduate work both at the University of Maryland and at Cornell. From the former he re- ceived the degree of Master of Science in 1937 and rom the latter that of Doctor of Philosophy in 1942. During the years of his graduate study and later, he worked for the Vegetable Research Farm at River- lead.
On July 1, 1942, Dr. Jacob was commissioned an ensign in the United States Navy. By the time he was released from active duty on May 23, 1946, he nad attained the rank of lieutenant commander. Throughout the war, he was attached to the Research and Standards Branch, Bureau of Ships, at Wash- ngton, D. C.
A few weeks after he was separated from the Naval service, Dr. Jacob was appointed professor of vege- able crops at Cornell. On April 1, 1947, he was ap- pointed Dr. Wessels' successor as head of the River- head research farm. The research work there deals with potatoes and other vegetable crops and includes disease and insect control and cultural practices. Four staff members are assigned to the farm per- nanently-two in vegetable crops, one each in plant pathology and entomology. The farm is under the management of the Department of Vegetable Crops at Cornell, headed by Professor H. C. Thompson.
Dr. Jacob achieved his amateur wrestling titles- n the one hundred and fifty-eight-pound class-in is college years. In 1936 he was national collegiate champion; in 1937, 1938 and 1939, he was the national champion of the American Athletic Union, and in 937, 1938, 1939 and 1940 he was the national cham- ion of the Young Men's Christian Association. In 1938, also, he was a member of the American Athletic Jnion's wrestling team which competed interna- ionally in Europe.
Dr. Jacob's father and mother are also natives of Michigan. The father is a graduate of Michigan State College, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He s an educator as well as farmer.
Dr. Jacob married Phyllis J. Voorhees of Groton, New York, on August 12, 1943. She is the daughter of the late Clinton J. and Aleta (Johnson) Voorhees. Dr. and Mrs. Jacob have one daughter, Judy Ann, born October 12, 1944, in Washington, D. C., and a son Paul David, born August 6, 1947. The family attends the Baiting Hollow Congregational Church on Sound Avenue, Riverhead.
EDWARD A. MAHER-The business acumen which has brought notable success to Edward A. Maher of Hempstead is perhaps an inheritance from able and successful forbears. His grandfather, also named Edward A., who was born in Albany, New York, in 1848, became a power in the business and public life of that city serving two terms as mayor, before coming to New York City to assume the presi- dency of the Third Avenue Railroad Company, which he headed for a quarter of a century. This first Ed- ward A. Maher, who died in 1920, was the father of Thomas A. Maher, born at Albany in 1872. He took up his residence in the borough of the Bronx, New
York City, became a power in politics, and served as deputy registrar of Bronx County.
Thomas A. Maher, who died on October 17, 1944, married Seraphina Monaghan, a native of New York City, born in 1875. She died on April 15, 1917. The second Edward A. Maher, son of Thomas A. and Seraphina (Monaghan) Maher, was born in New York City on June 5, 1899. His early education was at St. Augustine's Academy. He received one of the coveted appointments to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, from which he graduated with the class of 1921. Meanwhile he had served in the United States Navy during the first World War, as a junior officer. Subsequently he became a naval aviator, with the rank of ensign, and continued to serve in the Navy until 1926. In that year he resigned his commission and entered the general contracting and heating installation business at Hempstead, under the name of E. A. Maher, Inc.
Perceiving the trend of the times toward the use of oil as a fuel both in the home and in commercial and industrial plants, Mr. Maher in 1930 founded the Maher Oil Company, dealing in fuel oil at retail. Of this company he became president, and has so re- mained to the present time. Growing with the phe- nomenal growth of Nassau County as the most popu- lous suburban area adjacent to metropolitan New York, this company has enjoyed success from the beginning, and can anticipate an even greater volume of business in the post-war era as the pace of new residential construction accelerates.
With the coming of World War II, Mr. Maher was re-commissioned on December 7, 1941, as lieu- tenant commander in the United States Naval Re- serve, and served for the duration of the conflict, receiving from Admiral Jacobs a citation for "valuable services for aviation armament development in time of war." Upon his honorable discharge from the service, Mr. Maher returned to the management of his business and to active participation in the civic and social life of the community. He is a member of the Bradford Turner Post of the American Legion at Garden City, and active in the affairs of the Rotary Club of Hempstead. Mr. Maher and his family are communicants of the Roman Catholic Church of St. John in Garden City. He belongs to the Cherry Valley Club, and his hobbies are golf and trap shoot- ing. In 1946 Mr. Maher was elected president of the Hempstead Rotary Club. In politics he is a member of the Republican party.
On January 16, 1924, Edward A. Maher was mar- ried to Joan Williams of Mt. Kisco, Westchester County, New York. Mrs. Maher is a daughter of John and Julia (O'Brien) Williams. Her father was a noted builder, the most important of whose con- structions are the Fifty-ninth Street bridge and the Croton Reservoir.
Edward A. and Joan (Williams) Maher are the parents of two children. I. Edward A., Jr., who was born on August 2, 1927. 2. Stuart Thomas, born on October 2, 1937.
EVERARD F. JONES-In numerous practical and cultural ways, Judge Everard F. Jones has made a vital contribution to the progress and welfare of his native Sag Harbor and Town of East Hampton. He is the dean of the justices of the peace of the town and served twenty-one years on the board of education of Sag Harbor, of which he is former president and former clerk. Also, a former deputy collector of in- ternal revenue of the United States Treasury Depart-
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ment, he is now a tax consultant at Sag Harbor who is enrolled to practice before the Treasury Depart- ment. He operates his tax consultation business in conjunction with a practice as notary public and real estate appraiser and renter in the Paradise Building on Sag Harbor's Main Street.
Judge Jones was born in Sag Harbor on January 30, 1886, the son of Captain Arthur C. and Adelia (Brickel) Jones. His father, a native of Glosenbury, Connecticut, spent most of his life from boyhood in Sag Harbor. He was the master of coastwise sail- ing and steam vessels out of Sag Harbor. Everard Jones' maternal grandfather was Frederick Brickel, a cooper who sailed on whaling vessels out of Sag Harbor. The judge's mother was born in Sag Harbor in the house where the judge himself now resides. This house has been in the family since 1817, when it was conveyed by Ludwig and Christina Brickel, Judge Jones' great-grandparents, to his grandfather.
The future judge and school trustee attended Sag Harbor's elementary and high schools. His education was interrupted by his father's death when he was sixteen. Thereafter he worked in various capacities. Subsequently, he entered the general store business in partnership known as Keating and Jones. The partners, who operated together for about thirteen years, sold papers, confectionery and ice cream as well as other merchandise. Their business was destroyed in the great fire at Sag Harbor in the World War I period. Soon after the fire, about 1915, Judge Jones took temporary employment in Joseph Fahy's watch factory in Sag Harbor.
In 1921 Everard Jones was appointed deputy col- lector of internal revenue. Retaining this post through three Republican presidential administrations, he served under three different collectors of internal rev- enue. His service covered a period of thirteen years. In 1934 he returned to private business, and has been tax consultant, real estate man and notary public.
He became a justice of the peace of the town of East Hampton at approximately the same time as he first became a deputy collector of internal revenue. Elected then, he has been repeatedly elected ever since, and because of his long service is the senior justice-or dean-on the town's bench. His colleagues are Justices of the Peace William H. Strong, J. Wilmer Schellinger and I. Y. Halsey.
Also back in the early 1920s, Judge Jones was elected a trustee of the Sag Harbor Board of Educa- tion. He served the board as president for twelve years and then was elected its clerk. Again, because of long service, he was the dean of the board of edu- cation.
Judge Jones is a life member of Womponamon Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, at Sag Harbor, and a member of Nunnakoma Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, at East Hampton; Patchogue Commandery, Knights Templar, and Kismet Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Brooklyn. He also belongs to the Sag Harbor Lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows and the Foresters of America. He is past counsellor of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He and his family worship at the Methodist church in Sag Harbor.
Judge Jones has been married twice. His first wife was the former Elsie Christman, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Louis Christman, of Sag Harbor. She died in 1930.
Two children were born to the first marriage: Mildred, now Mrs. Duncan Lee of Englewood, New Jersey. Born in Sag Harbor in July, 1913, Mrs. Lee
is a graduate of the Sag Harbor High School and a former student of Beaver College at Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. The second child of the first marriage was Everard F. Jones, Jr., born in Sag Harbor in August, 1923, and also a graduate of the Sag Harbor High School. The younger Mr. Jones attended the University of Alabama, where he did predental work, and then entered Tufts Dental College, with the class of January, 1947, graduating with degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences. In World War II, he served in the United States Naval Reserve and at this writing is still in service at the Naval air station, Jackson- ville, Florida, with the rank of lieutenant junior grade. He married Joan Murphy, daughter of James and Amelia (Rumazza) Murphy, of Rumford, Maine, and they have one daughter, Candace Ann, born in May, 1946.
Judge Jones married, second, Miss Amelia Goetzler of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, in Sag Harbor in 1943.
H. WARD ACKERSON-The Ackerson family are credited with a major contribution to the develop- ment of Brightwaters, the park-like village on the shores of Great South Bay. The T. B. Ackerson Com- pany started the development in 1908, and the four Ackerson brothers, T. Benton, Henry W., Pierre T. and Charles F., worked together to create an ideal residential community. The family gave the five lakes, yacht harbor and several parks to the village of Brightwaters, incorporated in 1916, and Mr. T. B. Ackerson served as the village's first president.
H. Ward Ackerson, son of Henry W. Ackerson, started in the real estate business with T. B. and H. W. Ackerson in 1923, and since 1926 has carried on as successor to the old company and in accord- ance with the policies established by the founders of the firm. Mr. Ackerson's talents in land develop- ment and municipal problems dealing with real estate are widely recognized, and he has long been a mem- ber of the Islip Town Planning Board and the Suf- folk County Planning and Development Commission.
H. Ward Ackerson was born in Brooklyn on Oc- tober 17, 1902, the son of the late Henry W. Acker- son and Ella K. Crossman. The family moved to Brightwaters in 1909. Mr. Ackerson was educated in the elementary and high schools in Bay Shore, and he was graduated from Cornell University in 1923 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Starting his real estate career in 1923, Mr. Ackerson had a broad training in all phases of the business by the time he became head of the firm in 1926. Like his father, he preferred to specialize as a broker and managing agent rather than as an operator and developer. For many years he has managed and acted in an advisory capacity for numerous large owners of Suffolk real estate, and he is also an appraiser of recognized ability. As a specialist in acreage, he has assembled such well known sites as Pilgrim and Edgewood state hospitals, and Mackay Radio Sta- tion at Hauppaugue, and he has acted as broker in the sale of well over seven thousand acres of land in western Suffolk.
Mr. Ackerson is a member of the Long Island, Brooklyn and New York real estate boards, of the Long Island Society of Real Estate Appraisers, Na- tional Institute of Real Estate Brokers, Suffolk County Farm Bureau, and Huntington Historical Society. From 1936 to 1938 he was vice president of the Long Island Real Estate Board and president of its Nassau-Suffolk Division, and he now is act- ing president of its Suffolk County Division. For the past six years he has been chairman of the New York
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State Association of Towns Committee on Planning and Zoning. An active Republican, he is a member of and on the Board of Governors of the Timber Point Club. He belongs to Bay Shore Lodge No. 1403, Free and Accepted Masons, and Delta Chi fraternity. Mr. Ackerson and Eleanor King, daughter of John E. and Mary B. (L'Hommedieu) King, were mar- ried at Islip on March 10, 1931. They have two sons, Richard King and Bartlett L. Ackerson, and the family resides on Ocean Avenue, Islip.
ERNEST R. CARLSSON-A pioneer automobile dealer known throughout the nation, Ernest R. Carls- son can recall 1909 as the year when he established himself in the automobile business. He has been in Suffolk County, chiefly at Huntington, his present headquarters, ever since. In 1917 he became the Dodge dealer there. The Plymouth has been another of his cars from the day it was put on the market by Walter P. Chrysler. Mr. Carlsson is one of the leading citizens of Huntington and Suffolk County. He is active in hospital, banking, fraternal and church circles.
Ernest R. Carlsson was born in Essex, Connecticut, on March 22, 1884, the son of Lewis and Charlotte (Johnson) Carlsson. The elder Mr. Carlsson, a na- tive of Stockholm, Sweden, came to the United States when he was nineteen years old and soon proved him- self skillful in the building trades. He participated in the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, being assigned to the masonry sub-contract. Later, he moved to Essex, Connecticut, and there became an outstanding townsman. For years he was one of the most prominent building contractors in that area and erected such important structures as the Pratt High School and the Episcopal church in Essex and numer- ous other edifices, commercial buildings and homes in and around that town. For fifty years Lewis Carlsson was a member of the Mount Olive Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, at Essex, and served the lodge as its master. Both he and his wife are buried at Essex.
Ernest Carlsson began his education in the grade schools of Essex and then attended the institution, Pratt High School, built by his father. From 1904 to 1906 he took a special course in engineering at Connecticut State College at Storrs. A large man, interested in outdoor activities and sports, Mr. Carls- son was an outstanding athlete in his school days. He was especially known as a football and basket- ball player, though he participated in all other high school and college athletics. He retains his enthusiasm for these activities today.
In 1906 Mr. Carlsson went to New York City and entered the automobile field. Developing confidence after some experience, he moved to Larchmont and there established the Victorial Automobile Company. This sales agency he operated in 1906-1907. In the latter year he returned to New York City, where until 1909 he engaged in a used car business at 1666 Broad- way.
After a short time he came to Long Island and established a dealership which in 1924-26, grossed more than $1,000,000. He has been a leader in his field ever since. In 1917 Mr. Carlsson became the Dodge distributor at Huntington and when the Plymouth first went on the market added that car to his merchandise. In 1922 the business was incorpor- ated under the name of E. R. Carlsson Company, Inc., of which he has been president to date. Through the years he has maintained his extraordinary sales record,
except, of course, in the war and emergency periods when production machinery was directed into other channels.
Mr. Carlsson is a former president and is now a director of the Huntington Hospital. He is also a director of the Bank of Huntington and Trust Com- pany. He is a charter member of the Huntington Rotary Club and has been active in the Huntington Chamber of Commerce since its organization. He is a life member of Jephtha Lodge, No. 494, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Huntington. He worships at the First Presbyterian Church of Huntington.
Mr. Carlsson married Frieda Nolting, daughter of August and Louise (Stanley) Nolting, of Brooklyn, in that borough. They are the parents of two sons: Ernest R., Jr., and Stanley Lewis. Ernest R. Carls- son, Jr., is a graduate of the Manlius Military School and Stevens Institute. Holder of the degree of Bache- lor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the institute, he is now an engineer with Sheffield Farms, the dairy concern. Stanley Lewis Carlsson is a gradu- ate of the Huntington High School, Manlius Mili- tary School and Washington and Lee University. He received the degree of Bachelor of Science from the university. He is now associated with his father in the automobile dealership business. His wife is the former Helen Gibbons, of Chicago, the daughter of Thomas Gibbons, vice president of the Cudahy Packing Company. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley L. Carls- son are the parents of two children: John and Helen.
Mrs. Ernest R. Carlsson, Sr., is a director of the Huntington Historical Society.
HARRY S. HOLMES-In the early days of his career Harry S. Holmes of Hempstead followed a rare and little-mentioned but considerably interesting and important calling-that of traveling concert piano tuner. Later he traveled on behalf of reproducing pianos and presented "comparison recitals," the pro- grams consisting of both the reproductions and the "live" instrumentalists themselves. The public was to judge between the reproductions and the direct work of the artists. So well did he do his job that public acceptance became overwhelming. These de- monstrations resulted in tremendous sales through- out the nation.
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