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In addition to his activities as a publisher and printer, Mr. Gregory is secretary-treasurer of the A. Earl Beegle Company, and is prominent in the business affairs of the village. He has been elected to the leadership of some of these organizations. In 1938 he was elected president of the Baldwin Busi- ness Men's Association; then later served as presi- dent of the Baldwin Community Council, from 1939 to 1940, and as president of the Kiwanis Club of Bald- win, in 1946. Another signal honor that has been con- ferred on him is his seven-year presidency of the Nassau County Press Association, originally taking office in 1939. Among his fraternal distinctions is an honorary life membership in the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of the Elks, Lodge No. 435, in Hutchin- son, Kansas and membership in the journalism fra- ternity, Sigma Delta Chi.
In the summertime, Mr. Gregory indulges a num- ber of his hobbies. He will be found working in his garden at his home at 24 Edna Street, or if he is not at home, he will be on one of his camping trips. He also enjoys fishing, boating, bathing and photography.
On July 2, 1905, Frank G. Gregory married Frances Idalee Meek, at Mound City, Missouri, and they are the parents of one son, Glenn Goldsmith.
EUGENE D. PFLUG-This century has well been called the Electrical Age, and Eugene D. Pflug was one of several young men who realized, a quarter of a century ago, that those areas of Long Island ad- jacent to New York City, where not only thousands of new homes, but new industrial plants and public buildings, were being erected, offered a matchless field for enterprise in the field of electrical construc- tion.
A native Long Islander, Mr. Pflug was born in the old city of Brooklyn on November 3, 1895, a son of Louis H. Pflug, a native of New York City who was for many years superintendent of Louis Bossert and Sons Lumber Company in Brooklyn, and his wife Carrabel (Bain) Pflug, who was a Brooklyn girl be- fore her marriage. Louis H. Pflug died on January 7, 1942, having been pre-deceased by his wife, who died in 1931.
The young Eugene D. Pflug was educated at pub- lic grade schools and Commercial High School in Brooklyn, and at New York University in the Borough of Manhattan, where he took a business course for two years. The First World War inter- vened before he could pass from the role of college student to that of businessman, and he served in the United States Navy for twenty-two months as a petty officer. His first employment was in the sales department of the Riegel Sack Company of Jersey City, New Jersey, with whom he remained for nine
months before becoming associated, as office manager, with the William H. Ludwig electrical contracting firm located on Scholes Street in Brooklyn. This position he held for two years before joining with three other members of the Ludwig staff in establish- ing an independent concern in the Greenpoint area of Brooklyn, known as the Greenpoint Electric Equipment Company. This company, established in 1922, continued in business until 1930.
In that year Mr. Pflug and one of his associates, Herman C. Scheld (q. v.) formed the Geeco Electric Construction Corporation, establishing offices in Brooklyn. As their business developed largely in the suburban areas of nearby Long Island, in 1936 the headquarters were moved to Hempstead, and later to new quarters in the village of Franklin Square, where property was acquired at 239 Hemp- stead Turnpike. Of this corporation Herman C. Scheld from the inception has been president, and Eugene D. Pflug secretary and treasurer. The Geeco Electric Construction Corporation is one of the lead- ing firms in that line of work in Nassau County, and has efficiently executed many important contracts, including all of the electric wiring of the very modern buildings of the New Court House in Mineola, and seventy-five percent of all electrical improvements installed at Mitchel Field during the second World War. The corporation normally employs approxi- mately fifty people.
Mr. Pflug is a member and former vice-commander of Cathedral Post, Number 1087, of the American Legion, and is active in civic and political affairs through membership in the Hempstead Rotary Club, the Cathedral Garden Civic Association of West Hempstead, and the Republic Club of West Hemp- stead. He attends the Cathedral of the Incarnation at Garden City, and he is affiliated with Morton Lodge, Number 63, of the Free and Accepted Masons. His hobby is golf, and his favorite course is that of the Hempstead Golf Club, to which he belongs.
Eugene D. Pflug is married and is the father of two children, I. Janet, who was born in 1923 and is now the wife of Allan E. Robertson. 2. Carol Ann.
HERMAN C. SCHELD-A native Long Islander, born at Richmond Hill, in the County of Queens, on June II, 1890, before that village became a part of the Borough of Queens, and a part of Greater New York, Herman C. Scheld has remained a Long Is- lander both as a businessman and as an exceptionally active and useful participant in civic, political and religious affairs and movements for the progress and betterment of the community.
Mr. Scheld's father, the late Louis J. Scheld, was a native of Germany, born in 1851, who came to the United States in 1875 and engaged successfully in farming and dairying at Richmond Hill until his death in 1904. He married Margaret Oberglock, who was born in Richmond Hill and died in October, 1924. The young Herman C. Scheld, after attending pub- lic school in Richmond Hill, studied at the New York Electrical Trade School in New York City. Every- thing electrical interested him, and it was inevitable that he should make the electrical field his career. After being for several years in the employment of various electrical companies, in 1922 Mr. Scheld, in partnership with another man, formed the Greenpoint Electric Equipment Company, of which he became vice-president. This association lasted until 1930 when the Geeco Electric Equipment Corporation was formed with Mr. Scheld as president. The offices and yards of the corporation are located on property pur-
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chased by Mr. Scheld in 1923, in the village of Frank- lin Square, Nassau County. Under his able and far- seeing management, the Geeco Electrical Construction Corporation has expanded and prospered. The great volume of construction that went forward in the sub- urban areas of Long Island until the shortages of material and labor due to the Second World War caused a temporary halt, will be surpassed in the post- war era, and the Geeco concern is well prepared to get its share of this increased business.
During the first World War, Herman C. Scheld was in the armed service for nine months with the 22nd Infantry, holding the rank of sergeant. He is now a member of Franklin Square Post, Number 1014, of the American Legion, which post he helped to organize. He has served, and is now president of the Franklin Square Chamber of Commerce. In the field of community affairs, Mr. Scheld is a past president of the Munson Hook and Ladder Company of Frank- lin Square, and a past president also of the Franklin Square Club. His fraternal connection is with Morton Lodge, Number 63, of the Free and Accepted Masons.
First among Mr. Scheld's interests, however, is the work and services of the Lutheran denomination. He is one of the original members of the Ascension Lu- theran Church of Franklin Square, where he has been superintendent of the Sunday School for the past twenty-four years, and where he also serves as a councilman. His devotion to his religion has caused him to be drafted for services to the church beyond the bounds of his own parish. He is president of the Brotherhood of the United Lutheran Synod of New York, which is the authority of that church for the States of New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and a part of Pennsylvania. He is a former president and at present serves as secretary of the Lutheran Laymen's Association of Nassau and Suffolk Counties, and he is a member of the Lutheran Society of New York City.
In politics Mr. Scheld is a Republican, and has been a county committeeman of that Party for the past sixteen years. His hobbies are church work and raising flowers.
On September II, 1917, Herman C. Scheld was married to Henrietta R. Messing of his native Rich- mond Hill, a daughter of Jacob and Marie (Bolk) Messing. Of this union there is one child, a daugh- ter, Helen Marie. She attended the public grade and high schools of Franklin Square and subsequently took her degree of Bachelor of Science in Education from Wittenberg College at Springfield, Ohio. She is now teaching school at Franklin Square.
CARMELO P. CANCELLIERI, M.D .- A native son of Southampton, Dr. Carmelo P. Cancellieri has chosen that Suffolk County village, and the nearby Hampton Bays, as the location of a professional career which, beginning with a term of service in the United States Army Medical Corps during World War II, has already won him, despite his compara- tive youth, an assured place in the medical world of Long Island, with the brightest prospects for the future.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Cancellieri of South- ampton, Carmelo P. was born in New York City on March 31, 1915. His schooling began in his birth place, and he graduated from the Southampton High School before entering Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts upon graduation with the class of 1937. He had already decided that his future lay in the field of medicine, and enrolling at the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, an affiliate of Columbia University in New York City, he took his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1941. After passing his intern- ship at the Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, he entered the Army Medical Corps in 1943, and until his honorable discharge in 1946, saw service in the South Pacific Theater of Operations, holding the rank of captain.
In co-operation with Dr. Herman Rubler, Dr. David H. Hallock and Dr. William C. T. Gayner, who like himself are all veterans of World War II, Dr. Cancellieri conducts daily clinics at Southampton and at Hampton Bays. The Southampton clinic was es- tablished in 1946, and the one at Hampton Bays in 1947. Dr. Cancellieri specializes in internal medicine. He is a member of the staff of the Southampton Hos- pital and also serves on the staff of the Roosevelt Hospital in New York. His professional memberships include the Suffolk County Medical Society, the York County Medical Board, and the American Medi- cal Association, and he also belongs to the American Academy of Allergy, the American Society of Anes- thesiology, and the Associate American Board of In- ternal Medicine.
Dr. Cancellieri holds membership in the American Legion and in the Veterans of Foreign Wars, both at Southampton, and his fraternal affiliations are with Sigma Phi Sigma and with a lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks meeting in Southamp- ton. Having an artistic strain, the doctor indulges in two hobbies, namely charcoal drawing and what he calls fiddling on the violin.
At New York City on August 30, 1942, Carmelo P. Cancellieri married Dorothy Hull, a daughter of Russell and Carrie (Griffin) Hull, of Highland Mills, New York. Of this marriage there is one child, a son, Robert, who was born on November 23, 1943.
D. RUSSELL KAELIN-As manager of the oldest active implement company on Long Island, D. Russell Kaelin has had a part in the business and agricultural development of Suffolk County, and is numbered among the progressive business men of Riverhead.
Mr. Kaelin was born in Riverhead, June 3, 1907, the son of Daniel A. and Katherine T. (Roach) Kaelin. His mother died December 28, 1939, and his father passed away May 16, 1940. His father was a farmer. The family settled in the Roanoke section of the Town of Riverhead over seventy-five years ago. D. Rus- sell Kaelin's grandfather, August, was the original Kaelin settler, immigrating from Switzerland to be- come one of the county's most successful farmers and produce dealers. August Kaelin married Mary Sal- mon, a native of Ireland. Of Daniel A. Kaelin's family of six boys and three girls all are living. Rus- sell Kaelin entered the employ of the Long Island Railroad in 1924 as a block operator, and after a few years he went with a local chain of stores for three years. In 1931 he became associated with the imple- ment firm of Fanning and Housner, which was estab- lished at Riverhead in 1898, and now deals in agricul- tural implements and farm machinery, irrigation equip- ment, paints, washing machines, farm freezers. In 194I he was promoted from salesman to salesmanager and when the firm's new building was erected at Southold, February 22, 1947, Mr. Kaelin was named resident manager. Mr. Kaelin is a member of St. John's Roman Catholic Church, Riverhead Council, Knights of Columbus, the New York Implement Dealers Association and Riverhead Lions Club.
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He was married at Southampton, December 16, 1931, to Viola B. Raynor of Southampton, daughter of Harry G. and Maude (Green) Raynor. They are the parents of four children: 1. Daniel A., II, born at Riverhead September 21, 1932. 2. Harold F., born at Southampton July 11, 1936. 3. Joseph Gerard, born April 1, 1942. 4. Gerard Russell, born October 4, 1944.
JOSEPH W. CERMAK-For years Joseph W. Cermak has served his fellow citizens in various public offices. Now town clerk of Huntington, he is a former postmaster of the village of East Northport and justice of the peace of Huntington. He was also a member of the District No. 4 Board of Education, at Northport. Mr. Cermak served in the Seabees in World War II.
He was born in New York City on June 9, 1898, the son of Charles and Anna (Grimm) Cermak. His father, who died some years ago, was a merchant.
Mr. Cermak was educated in the public schools of New York City and in the Mechanics Institute there. In 1917 he came to Long Island and entered the con- struction field at Huntington. He remained in this industry for ten years. From 1927 to 1936 he was postmaster for the Village of East Northport. In 1936 he was elected judtice of the peace in Huntington and held this office until 1940, when he returned to the construction field. For the next three years he parti- cipated in an ambitious program of building homes and developing large areas of East Northport. In Oc- tober, 1943, Mr. Cermak entered the United States Navy's construction battalion as a chief carpenter's mate. He remained in the navy until July, 1945. The following November he was elected to his present office, town clerk of the Town of Huntington. He was on the District No. 4 Board of Education from 1933 until 1943.
Mr. Cermak is past master of Alcyone Lodge, No. 695, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, at Northport, and a member of the Lions' Club of East Northport. With his family he attends the Methodist church.
He married Pauline Scharble, of East Northport. and to this marriage Ann Cermak was born in 1926. Ann, a graduate of the Northport High School, was attending Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1947. Mrs. Pauline Cermak died in 1939. Mr. Cermak remarried in 1941, his second wife being the former Adele Baker, of Northport. They are the parents of Adele, born in Huntington in July, 1942.
DAVID EUGENE WARDEN, M.D .- Veteran of four years service in the United States Army Medi- cal Corps during World War II, Dr. David Eugene Warden is now chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Huntington Hospital, Huntington. He also conducts a large private practice.
Dr. Warden was born at Montclair, New Jersey. on January 3, 1910. His parents were David Todd and Elizabeth (Batchelar) Warden. His father, a native of Scotland, settled in Montclair when he was twenty years old. He continued living in that com- munity while he developed a business as a steamship broker in New York City. He died on March 27, 1938. The future obstetrician and gynecologist began his education in Montclair's public schools. He con- tinued at Peddie Institute, Hightstown, New Jersey, and upon graduation from this entered Dartmouth College. He was graduated from Dartmouth in
1933 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. To pre- pare for his profession, he went to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, from which he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1937.
He spent the following five years as intern and house physician at Roosevelt Hospital, in New York City, and as a postgraduate student in obstetrics and gynecology at New York Hospital. In 1942 he was commissioned a captain in the Army Medical Corps and served throughout American participation in World War II, retiring to the Medical Reserve Corps in the spring of 1946.
On April 1, 1946, Dr. Warden established himself in Huntington, opening his offices for private prac- tice in his specialty and entering upon his duties as chief of the obstetrical and gynecological work at Huntington Hospital. He is a member of the Suffolk County Medical Association and the New York State Medical Society, the Dartmouth College Club of New York City and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He worships at St. John's Episcopal Church, Cold Spring Harbor.
Dr. Warden married Alice Heard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bryant Heard of Danville, Virginia, in that community on March 17, 1940. Two sons have been born to them-David Todd II, in New York City on April 11, 1942, and John Sheppard Warden, in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 13, 1945.
IRVING LIONEL TERRY-A glance at the name of Irving Lionel Terry suggests immediately two major landmarks in Southampton-the Irving Hotel and its celebrated adjunct, Terry Tavern. Since he was thirteen years old, Mr. Terry has been virtually manager and owner of these institutions, named for him, though it was his father who took them over originally. Besides being a popular and successful hotel and tavern operator, Mr. Terry is active in the management of the First National Bank of Southamp- ton, of which he was a founder; in the Southampton Golf Club, Southampton Hospital, Southampton Cemetery Association, the Appeals Board, the South- ampton Association and the Hampton Chapter of the American Red Cross. He heads or has headed these organizations.
Mr. Terry was born on Sound Avenue in Riverhead on April 10, 1876, the son of Henry Terry, who began his career as a farmer, and Maira (Benjamin) Terry. Irving Lionel Terry attended public schools at Riverhead and Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York. But before he went to the business college he was already in the hotel busi- ness with his father. The story of how the Terrys left the farm to become hotelmen runs something like this-it is already a legend in the family :
By 1888 Henry Terry, Irving's father, had grown tired of tilling the soil near Riverhead. One stormy winter evening a liniment peddler knocked at the farmhouse door and asked leave to spend the night. Henry Terry took the man in and after the evening's meal they sat around the stove talking. Mr. Terry spoke at some length of his wish to trade his farm. He did not quite know what he wanted to trade it for.
When the peddler left in the morning, he carried with him his host's invitation to send any likely buyer to see the farm. Scarcely a week had passed when into the Terry yard came a horse and buggy bearing Capt. Smith Phillips of Southampton. It turned out that the Captain was as tired of his eight-
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room boarding house as Henry Terry was of his Riverhead farm. They swapped.
The humble eight-guest-room Smith boarding house became the Irving Hotel. What Henry Terry started his son has continued. The elder Mr. Terry died at the turn of the century, and Irving Terry became sole owner. He has built the eight rooms into one hundred and tlfirty-five rooms. Also Mr. Terry has added the Terry Cottage, the Latch and the Sayre Cottage, all part of the hotel. In 1945 he added the new Colony Room, which is used for cocktail parties, weddings, receptions and other social func- tions and group festivities. The Irving has always catered to the highest clientele. The Terry Tavern is a favorite spot for Southampton society.
Mr. Terry was one of the original ten who in the early 1920s obtained the charter for the First Na- tional Bank of Southampton. He has been an active member and director since then. His leadership in the community is suggested by the important roles he has played in the various civic, health and welfare organizations. He has been president of the South- ampton Golf Club since 1934, treasurer of the South- ampton Hospital since 1939, president of the South- ampton Cemetery Association since 1931 and presi- dent of the Southampton Association since 1939. Throughout World War II he was chairman of the Hampton Chapter of the American Red Cross. Mr. Terry is also a member of the Community Club, of the American Legion, the Southampton Beach Club and the Southampton Yacht Club. He and his family worship at the First Presbyterian Church of South- ampton.
Mr. Terry, twice a widower, married his present wife, the former Mary Miles, in Southampton on January 18, 1944. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Newton Miles are her parents. By a previous marriage Mr. Terry has one daughter. Elizabeth Terry Bradley, born March II, 1912. She is the wife of Frank Bradley, vice president of the American Coffee Company. They have three daughters, Patricia, Dianne, and Barbara. Their home is in Calia, Colombia.
JOSEPH WELLER BRUSH, of Riverhead, New York, was born in Brooklyn on January 6, 1884. His parents were Gould L. and Julia (Van Wart) Brush. He was one of five children. His sister Fanny died in infancy, and Lillian in 1928. His two brothers, Lewis and Frank, live in Lynbrook, Long Island, and Greenwich, Connecticut.
Joseph Weller Brush was twice married. On Octo- ber 12, 1912, he married Rose I. Prager of Baiting Hollow and Brooklyn, the ceremony taking place in Stamford, Connecticut. She was a graduate nurse of the Wyckoff Heights Hospital, Brooklyn. They re- sided in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1916 Mr. Brush bought the old Skidmore farm in Baiting Hollow for their summer home. Rose (Prager) Brush died Sep- tember 29, 1929.
At Riverhead, New York, on August 22, 1931, Mr. Brush married Vera V. Fanning, daughter of Elbert A. and Sarah Jane (Tuthill) Fanning. Their first child, Robert Fanning, died at birth, November 4, 1932. Their son Joseph W. Brush, Jr., was born August 4, 1934. They reside at the Fanning home- stead, South Avenue, Riverhead. Mrs. Vera (Fan- ning) Brush is a graduate of the Cortland State Normal School and Teachers College, Columbia University, holding the Bachelor of Science and Mas- ter of Arts degrees. She served as teacher in the Baldwin and Riverhead schools and has been engaged
in home economics extention service work in Provi- dence, Rhode Island, Monroe County, and Suffolk County, New York.
Mr. Brush spent his early childhood in Brooklyn. At the age of twelve, both parents having died, he went to live with Mr. Jacob Wyckoff, a cousin, who lived on the old Wyckoff farm at Middlebush, New Jersey. He attended the public schools there and also worked on the dairy and grain farn1.
When eighteen, he returned to Brooklyn and began work in the textile trade. His interest continued in this field. At one time when he and his brothers were engaged in manufacturing he traveled throughout most of the United States. Later he traveled between Washington and Boston for several of the large silk firms.
Mr. Brush retired from the textile field in 1937, and at present is a real estate broker. His work is chiefly on eastern Long Island. He has developed a fifty-three acre tract of his Baiting Hollow property into the Oak Hills developnient. This is one of the scenic tracts on the North Shore. Here are many summer cottages and some of these have become year-round homes. Oak Hills lies adjacent to the Suffolk County Boy Scout camp.
Mr. Brush is a past grand of the old Nathan Hale Lodge No. 804, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Brooklyn. In the Masonic order, he is a member of the Sharon Lodge No. 182, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Arlington (Baltimore), Maryland. He is a Knight Templar of the Beauseant Command- ery, a thirty-second degree Mason, Scottish Rite, and a Shriner of Boumi Temple, all of Baltimore, Mary- land. He is a member of the Riverhead Town Agri- cultural Society, the Aquebogue Men's Club, Old Landing Recreational Club, Riverhead Republican Club, and the Sound Avenue Grange No. 1227. Mr. Brush and his family are affiliated with the Congre- gational Church.
On his mother's side Mr. Brush comes from a line of early settlers in Brooklyn-the Wyckoffs. His grandmother, Elizabeth Douglass Wyckoff (born June 6, 1835; died November 23, 1905), married William Henry Van Wart (died June 14, 1865), on September 16, 1856. Julia, the mother of Joseph Brush, was born December 13, 1859. She was married to Gould L. Brush on December 25, 1878, and died October 28, 1890.
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