Long Island; a history of two great counties, Nassau and Suffolk, Volume III, Part 83

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

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On October 9, 1922, Robert H. Bailey married at Rochester, New York, Luella U. Rall, the daughter of Anthony and Eda Rall. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey are the parents of one son, Robert Warren Bailey.

ROBERT WARREN BAILEY-Coming to Long Island first as a student at Hofstra College in Hemp- stead, Robert Warren Bailey subsequently became a resident of the Island, and with the acquisition of the Nassau Suffolk General Hospital, he has become an important figure in the affairs of the two eastern counties. He is now associated with his father in the R. H. Bailey Construction Corporation.

Born at Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York, Robert Warren is a son of Robert H. and Luella U. (Rall) Bailey, his father being a contractor and

builder of national note and an important Republican party politician. It was after graduating from the North High School in Syracuse that Robert Warren Bailey became a student at Hofstra College, one of Long Island's most noted educational institutions. Subsequently he attended the University of Rochester at the city of that name in Monroe County, New York.

During the second World War Mr. Bailey enlisted in the United States Navy, in which he served from 1942 to 1946, with the rank of a petty officer.

It was on April 1, 1946, that Mr. Bailey took pos- session of the Nassau Suffolk General Hospital, of which he is now an owner and executive director. The hospital is located at Copiague. It is a modern insti- tution, consisting at present of twenty-six beds. Through Mr. Bailey's efforts the building is being renovated, modern equipment being added and the physical plant being improved. Mr. Bailey belongs to the Huntington Crescent Club. In religion a Lutheran, he attends St. Paul's Church of that denomi- nation at Amityville.

On March 1, 1947, Robert Warren Bailey married at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Baldwin, Nas- sau County, New York, Audrey Nelser of Freeport. Mrs. Bailey is a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church at Amityville, where she and her husband make their home.

GEORGE JOHN MEADE-Throughout most of his legal career, George John Meade has rendered professional service to the people of Nassau County, maintaining offices in Great Neck, the place of his birth. He has had a creditable career likewise in pub- lic office, and in the service of his political party. During World War II, he was an officer in the United States Navy.

Mr. Meade was born in Great Neck, April 18, 191I, son of Thomas Henry and Annie E. Meade, his father being a building contractor. George John Meade at- tended high school in Great Neck, graduating with the class of 1929, and entering Fordham College, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1933. Having determined upon a legal career, he continued his studies at Fordham Law School, which granted him the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1936. He was admitted to the bar of the state of New York the next year.

Mr. Meade began his career in the New York me- tropolis, associating himself with Joseph F. Hanley until August, 1937. In 1938, in partnership with John H. Munley, he established practice in Great Neck, taking over the office and practice of Judge Cyril J. Brown, of the District Court of Nassau County. There he has continued to the present time, his law firm having offices at the Plaza Building in Great Neck.

The sole interruption to Mr. Meade's practice in the North Shore community came with his period of naval service during World War II. From December I, 1942 to November 1, 1945, he was an officer in the United States Navy, and was stationed in the Euro- pean and Mediterranean theaters. He was assigned to amphibious forces, and participated in the historic invasions of Italy and France.

He has served his community in peacetime as well as his country in time of war, and is at present acting police judge of Great Neck. A Republican active in the councils of his party, he has served as committee- man of the thirty-ninth district.

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Mr. Meade retains his interest in veterans' affairs, and is a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and with the Knights of Columbus. Among his professional memberships is the Nassau County Bar Association. Mr. Meade and his family are of Catholic faith.

At Port Washington, Long Island, September 20, 1941, George John Meade married Mary T. Edgar, daughter of James W. and Mary Edgar. To them have been born three sons: I. James George, on November 19, 1945. 2. Thomas E., on June 16, 1947. 3. Jerome, on October 5, 1948.

EZRA HALLOCK YOUNG-For many years a leading insurance expert of New York City, and a prominent resident of Orient, Long Island, Ezra Hallock Young has made many valuable contribu- tions toward the growth and development of this in- dustry.

Mr. Young was born February 4, 1873, at the old Hallock Homestead, Laurel, Long Island. His father Deacon John Henry Young of Orient was a member of Co. H, 127th Regiment, New York Volunteers, served through the Civil War and was a direct de- scendant of the Rev. John Youngs, first minister at Southold. His mother Ellen Beecher Hallock was a direct descendant of Peter Hallock said to have been the first owner of Oysterponds, now Orient and a granddaughter of Daniel Hallock aide-de-camp to General Putnam in the Revolutionary War.

Ezra Hallock Young received his early education in the local schools of his home town and the Green- port High School. He also finished the required courses for graduation at the Hopkins Grammar School of New Haven, Connecticut. He entered Yale University and four years later, in 1896, received the degree of Bachelor of Arts at that institution. Also a Yale man, a graduate of the class of 1856, was Joseph Newton Hallock, uncle of Ezra Hallock Young, who was a classmate of Chauncy M. Depew, the Kansan, David J. Brewer and Henry B. Brown of Michigan, the latter two noted associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Joseph Newton Hallock later became editor and publisher of "The Christian Work." Ezra Young was gradu- ated in the company of such men as Clarence Day, author of "Life With Father," Anson Phelps Stokes prominent divine and educator and Dean Herbert E. Hawkes of Columbia University.

After having completed his formal education, Mr. Young became a teacher in the Trinity School of New York City, remaining there until 1901 and at the same time attending evening classes at New York Law School. In that year he joined the Travel- ers Insurance Company in their New York City of- fices. In 1914, when the New York State Workman's Compensation Act was made law, he was put in charge of the Workman's Compensation Claim De- partment of the company in New York City and re- mained in the capacity until his retirement in 1943.

Mr. Young served during the course of both the first and second World Wars. From 1908 until 1914 he was a member of Squadron C of the Brooklyn National Guard and during World War I served in Squadron C of the New York State Guard. In World War II he was a member of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary with the rank of seaman, and was stationed at Greenport with Flotilla No. 1209, which patroled Peconic and Gardiner's bays to · Montauk Point. He acted as division historian for this dis-

trict and was the oldest Yale graduate to serve in uniform during the war.

Mr. Young plays an active role in the life of his community. He is a member of the Yale Club of New York, the Cavalry Club of Brooklyn, the Green- port Club the "Old Crab Club of Orient," which he organized and the Greenport Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons. In religious affiliation he is a Congregationalist and is active in church work, serving as a director of the New York Congrega- tional Christian Conference and as a trustee of the Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church and the Flatbush-Tompkins Congregational Church of Brook- lyn. He is now a deacon in the Orient Congregational Church. He owns a beautiful home at the entrance to Orient, which affords him year-round pleasure and comfort. After his retirement in 1943, together with a company associate, the following article appeared in a Hartford, Connecticut, insurance publication :

"Through their intelligence, their ability and perhaps more im- portant, through integrity, their forthrightness and their inherent sense of fair dealing they together with other veteran adjusters of the company, established new standards in the field of claim ad- justing. They changed the word "Adjuster" from a term of re- proach to a title which men now feel honored to hold. It was they who established the Traveler's tradition of paying the claim- ant every dollar to which he is entitled and paying it promptly and graciously in the field of Liability Insurance. The insurance business is better because they have lived and worked in it.

On November 21, 1906, at Brooklyn, New York, Ezra Hallock Young married Grace Stephenson, daughter of Col. William Wilson and Mary M. (Sing) Stephenson. Her father was a prominent lawyer and public official of Brooklyn, a member of President Grover Cleveland's law firm, and during the Civil War distinguished himself as commander of a com- pany of volunteers which he organized. The com- pany was composed of men from the 165th New York, known as Duryea's Zouaves, which he or- ganized. The company was composed of men from the towns of Orient, Shelter Island, Greenport and Southold. Mrs. Young, who was born May 29, 1874, at Brooklyn, New York and died April 18, 1948 at Orient, studied ceramics, was a pupil of Albert Heckman, Winold Reiss, Grace Cornell, Kate Wil- liamson, Victor Raffo, Sally F. Stevens, and Maude Robinson, also studied painting and batik, and is a member of the New York Society of Craftsmen, the Keramic Society and Design Guild of New York. In 1930 she received second prize for a table set up. Mr. Young, in addition to his insurance interests, is an attorney, having been admitted to the New York bar in 1903.

A sister, Mrs. Allan Heath, a musician and mem- ber of the class of 1899 of the Yale Music School lives with him. An only brother, John Elliott Young a well-known piano dealer at Greenport and the East End, died December 18, 1948.

J. MAURICE HERRIMAN-For the past twenty years a widely known entrepreneur and business leader of Riverhead, J. Maurice Herriman has made important contributions toward the progress and growth of his community.

Mr. Herriman was born November 4, 1904, at Wil- liamsburg, Ontario, Canada, son of Sanford and Minnie (Bouck) Herriman. His father, a native of Williamsburg, engages in farming operations there.

J. Maurice Herriman received his early education in the local schools of Williamsburg, was graduated from the Williamsburg High School, and spent a year studying wireless telegraphy at Ottawa.

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lished a barber shop, which under his management was very successful. It was so successful, in fact, that Mr. Herriman was able to expand his enterprise. Therefore, in 1932, he organized the Paramount Beauty Shop, which he has managed since.

Mr. Herriman is active in his community as a mem- ber of the New York State Real Estate Board, the Riverhead Volunteer Fire Department in which he is an ex-captain, and the Riverhead Chamber of Commerce. He was the first president of the River- head Lions Club. In religious connections he is a Congregationalist.

On November 9, 1929, at Mattituck, New York, J. Maurice Herriman married Annamae Cox, daughter of Shirley Cox, and they became the parents of one child, James S. Herriman, who was born June 17, 1932, at the Eastern Long Island Hospital of Green- port.

CEDRIC H. WICKHAM-A son of Charles Worth and Annie S. (Raynor) Wickham, Cedric H. Wickham unites in his person the heritages of two families who have been long and honorably identified with everything substantial and progressive in Long Island life. Although he travelled to distant parts of the country in the course of business in his earlier years, Mr. Wickham elected to continue the tradi- tional identification of his forbears with Suffolk County, where for more than thirty years he has engaged in a variety of business and civic activities to his own profit and to the advantage of the com- munity.

Cedric H. Wickham was born at Mattituck in Suf- folk County, on October 26, 1888. He attented high school in Jamaica, Queens County, and Pratt Insti- tute, Brooklyn, from which he graduated in mechani- cal and electrical engineering in 1908. He entered the field of structural engineering, and in the course of his engagement in this profession he was associated with such concerns as the American Bridge Company, the Bellefontaine Bridge and Iron Works, and the Kansas City Terminal Railroad Company during the time when that company was engaged in relocating the terminal facilities of the Missouri city and build- ing the notable union station there.

By the year 1916, however, Mr. Wickham was back in his native Mattituck, where he established an ice, coal, wood, and wholesale produce business. At the same time he engaged in farming on the family home- stead. In 1920 he became a wholesale truck distribu- tor at Riverhead, Suffolk County, and in Brooklyn, but after two years he withdrew from this activity. In 1928 Mr. Wickham entered the real estate develop- ment business, which he has continued to the present time. He has extensive holdings at Laughing Water in Southold, Suffolk County, where he offers property for summer vacation rental or for the construction of permanent homes. "Laughing Water," Mr. Wick- ham advertises, "has everything!" In 1930 he took up heat engineering, covering Suffolk County, and he continues this line of industry to date.

Mr. Wickham continued to manage his lucrative coal and allied business until 1944, when he disposed of both interests and properties by sale. In June, 1946, with his sons, Parker and Hull Wickham, he transformed a fourteen-acre strip on his potato farm at Mattituck into the Mattituck Air Base, Inc. This is an up-to-date field for airplanes, with a landing strip measuring two hundred and fifty by two thou- sand five hundred feet and a hangar measuring sixty- four by sixty feet, plus two unit T hangars of four- plane capacity each. The Wickhams have constructed

a seaplane base in connection with this air field, at Peconic Bay.

In the field of public service, Cedric H. Wickham for some years was the president of the board of trustees for the public schools of Mattituck. He is an honorary member of the Mattituck Volunteer Fire Department. In religion he is of Presbyterian faith.

At Mattituck in July, 1916, Cedric H. Wickman was married to Claretta Schenck, a native of Mattituck and a daughter of Clarence and Phoebe Agnes (Waters) Schenck. Of this marriage there are two sons: I. Hull M., who was born at Mattituck on April 17, 1918. After attending Mattituck High School, and pursuing the mechanical engineering course at Pratt Institute, he graduated from the Valley Forge Military Academy at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, and the engineering course at Curtis Wright Technical Institute, Glendale, California.

Hull M. Wickham was for five years employed by the Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc., of Santa Monica, as an engineering designer. He is married to the former Dora L. Mason of Rome, New York, and they have one son, Spencer Hull. 2. J. Parker Wickham, born at Mattituck on June 29, 1920. After graduation from the Mattituck High School, he attended the Curtis-Wright Technical Institute at Glendale, Cali- fornia. He was employed by Aircraft Industries at Glendale, and later was superintendent of maintenance of the Polaris Flight Academy at Lancaster, Calif. He married Edith A. Dahl of Linden, New Jersey, by whom he is the father of one son, Jay Parker, who was born on December 7, 1945. The interest shared by Hull M. Wickham and J. Parker Wickham in aeronautics has led, as related above, to their inaugura- tion of the Mattituck Air Base, Inc.

GEORGE E. MACCARO-Still a young man, to judge from the date of his admission to the bar, George E. Maccaro is recognized as an able attorney and a public spirited citizen interested in an active sense in a variety of civic and political organizations.

Mr. Maccaro's father, Cipriano Maccaro, is a native of Naples in Italy, who came to the United States in the year 1904. He married Emilia Taurisano, who also was born in Naples, and like her husband, is still living. Of this marriage George E. Maccaro was born in the city of New York. Taken to the borough of Queens in that city in boyhood, he at- tended public grade school in Elmhurst and gradu- ated from the Newtown High School in 1932. After high school he was admitted to the College of the City of New York, where he studied from 1932 to 1935. In the latter year he went to Rome in Italy and studied for six months in the University of Rome. Returning to this country, he entered St. John's Law School in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City, from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws with the class of 1939. In the following year he was admitted to the bar, in Appellate Division of the Second Department and set up in the practice of his profession in Seaford, where he remained from January, 1941, to September, 1942.

During the second World War Mr. Maccaro was at- tached to the judge advocate's department of one of the branches of the armed services for forty months. Upon his discharge from the service he resumed his legal practice, in January, 1946, in Wantagh as well as in Seaford. Recently Mr. Maccaro has opened a new office located in the Ludford Building, Wantagh, where he conducts a rapidly growing and lucrative general practice under his own name. He is a mem- ber of the Nassau County Bar Association.

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Mr. Maccaro participates in civic affairs in his community as a member of the American Legion, in which he is judge advocate of his post, No. 1293 of Wantagh, and through membership in the Wan- tagh Volunteer Fire Department. He is president of the Wantagh Civic Association. He is also secre- tary of the newly organized Wantagh Chamber of Commerce. A Roman Catholic in religion, and a communicant of the Church of St. William the Abbot, he is active in the Catholic organization, the Holy Name Society. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Wantagh Republican Club, in which he holds the position of first vice president. The two hobbies in which he indulges are amateur photog- raphy and golf.

On June 20, 1942, George E. Maccaro married Gertrude McGee, a daughter of Thomas F. and Anna (Rodemeyer) McGee. Of this union there are two children: 1. Kathleen McGee, who was born on January 25, 1944. 2. Gloria Ann, born on April 5, 1946.

HAROLD S. ISHAM-One of the substantial busi- nessmen of Suffolk County, and prominent in Long Island real estate and insurance circles for the past seventeen years, Harold S. Isham is a native of the state of Vermont, where he was born at Williston, on February 8, 1902. His parents, now both deceased, were Hiram and Harriet (Kinson) Isham, his father being a farmer and a native also of Williston, where he and his wife are now buried.

The young Harold S. Isham attended public school in his native state, graduating from high school in Burlington with the class of 1919, after which he attended the University of Vermont.

It was in 1930 that Mr. Isham entered the life insurance business by becoming a representative of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. In 1932 he took up his residence in Brightwaters, Long Island, and in 1942 he established his own real estate and insurance office in Wyandanch, Suffolk County. Active in business and civic affairs, he has served as president of the Wyandanch Lions Club. His family are members of the Episcopal Church at Bay Shore, Long Island.

On September 27, 1925, Harold S. Isham was mar- ried at Central Islip, Suffolk County, New York, to Margaret Dow, a daughter of William and Daisy (Fahrquarson) Dow. Of this marriage there are two children, both born at the Southside Hospital, Bay Shore: I. Loraine, born on June 8, 1937. 2. Robert, born on August 8, 1939.

HAROLD FREDERICK STROHSON-From "rookie cop" to Assistant District Attorney of Nas- sau County. That, in a few words, sums up the career of Harold Frederick Strohson. But it fails to include his distinguished service as an officer in American Military Government in allied and con- quered and liberated countries in World War II, nor, singularly enough, the time he was legal of- ficer in charge of the Hessen-Nassau District of Germany. Nor does it include his five years on the Nassau County Republican Executive Committee and his activity in communal affairs of Merrick.

Mr. Strohson was born in Brooklyn on January 24, 1903. His parents were Louis Strohson, a contractor and builder and Sarah Jane (Coulter) Strohson. In 1921. he was graduated from the Lynbrook High School. The next two years he spent at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, where he stud-

ied courses which, as later events required, con- stituted his prelegal work.

In 1925 Mr. Strohson was appointed to the newly organized Nassau police force. From recruit assigned to patrol duty, he rose to seasoned policeman, to ser- geant and finally to lieutenant. During these years he was studying at the Brooklyn Law School of St. Lawrence University, preparing himself for the legal profession. He remained on the police force until 1935. The last four years he was assigned to the District Attorney's office at Mineola and placed in charge of the Complaint Division. In 1931, he had been graduated from law school with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In 1935, Martin Littleton, then District Attorney, appointed him Assistant District Attorney. In January, 1938, Edward J. Neary, then District Attorney appointed him First Assistant Dis- trict Attorney.

In May, 1943, Mr. Strohson was commissioned a captain in the Specialist Reserve and attached to American Military Government at Fort Custer. He was given additional training at Harvard University. From August 1943 to October 1945, he served over- seas, participating in engagements that earned him six battle stars. He served in England, in the Naples- Foggia sector, the Rome-Arno sector, in North Africa, France, Belgium and Austria as well as in Germany. On May 1, 1944, he was promoted to ma- jor and shortly thereafter became legal officer in charge of the district bearing the name of his home county. On December 15, 1945, back in the United States, he went into inactive status. He then re- sumed his position as Assistant District Attorney in Mineola. He retired in the spring of 1948 and en- tered private law practice.

Mr Strohson was on the Republican executive committee from 1938 to 1943. He continues to be active in the party. He is also a member of Wantagh Lodge, No. 1112, Free and Accepted Masons. With his family he attends the First Methodist Church of Roosevelt.

Mr. Strohson has three children: I. Audrey Bar- bara, born on April 5, 1930. 2. Charles Robert, born on December 20, 1933. 3. Malcolm Paul, born on Sep- tember 3, 1935. He is married to the former Violette Dilzer and resides with his wife and family at Baldwin.

FREDERICK HAINFELD, JR .- There was a time, back in 1925, when Frederick Hainfeld, Jr., was a runner for the Corn Exchange Bank in New York City. That was when he was sixteen years old and just out of high school. Today he is vice president of the Garden City Bank and Trust Compny, a truly self- made man; one who literally burned the midnight oil.

Mr. Hainfeld was born in Oyster Bay on June 10, 1909. His parents are Frederick and Margaret (Taylor) Hainfeld, the former now a retired butcher. The younger Mr. Hainfeld went to Oyster Bay's elementary and high schools, being graduated from the latter in 1925. The long and successful struggle for success in the banking world then began. Armed with ambition and industry, Mr. Hainfeld became a runner for the Corn Exchange Bank. Such were his energy and ability that he soon was head book- keeper. While he was still with the Corn Exchange Bank, he began attending-at night-the training classes of the American Institute of Banking, in New York City. This night study continued for fourteen years-from 1926 through 1939-regardless

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of where he was working. It often required long travel after a hard day's work.

In April, 1927, Mr. Hainfeld left the Corn Ex- change Bank to become teller and bookkeeper in the State Bank of Sea Cliff. Less than two years later, in January, 1929, he joined the staff of the Garden City Bank and Trust Company as teller. In time he became chief clerk, then assistant seceretary, finally secretary and trust officer. In January, 1940, he left the Garden City Bank to become cashier of the South Side Bank of Bay Shore, where he later was promoted to vice president. In September, 1945, however, Mr. Hainfeld returned to the Garden City Bank and Trust Company as vice president. He has remained with that bank in the vice presidential capacity ever since.

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Long Island; a history of two great counties, Nassau and Suffolk, Volume III, Part 83

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