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A veteran of World War I, he always has been active in the Port Washington Post, No. 509, Ameri- can Legion, of which he is a former commander. In World War II he was chairman of Selective Service Board No. 714 and of the board's re-employment com- mittee. In another phase of his activities, the health and welfare field, he is a member and secretary of the board of managers of Meadowbrook Hospital. Mr. Alker's other affiliations are with the Yale Club of New York City, the Cedar Creek Club, the Havana Country Club and the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club. Sailing is his hobby.
Mr. Alker married Charity M. Rose, daughter of Andrew W. and Emma (Hayward) Rose, in New York City, in 1908. They are the parents of two children and the grandparents of four-their sons being: 1. Henry A., Jr., who served in the Navy in World War II, and is the father of Susan E. 2. Hay- ward R., graduate of Yale, class of 1936, who was a lieutenant senior grade in the Navy in World War II, and is the father of Hayward R., Jr., Henry A., III, and Charity E.
THE DA SILVA FAMILY has played many important rôles in the development of areas adjacent to the American metropolis, New York City, as home communities complete with shopping centers and modern facilities for enjoyable living. Members of the family for years have been prominently iden- tified with retail merchandising and have been among the able realtors who have contributed to the build- ing and the welfare of these suburbs on Long Island.
The Da Silva family came from England about one hundred years ago and settled in New York City. They were natives of Amsterdam, Holland.
After living in New York City a few years they moved to Sayville and engaged in the manufacture of cigars. There were three daughters, and one son named Isaac, who married Ann Horwitz, a Brook- lynite. They moved to Hewlett and lived there a short time and then moved to Freeport. There were born four sons and one daughter, namely Moe, Daniel, Louise (now deecased), Louis and Jacob.
Later the sons acquired a chain of "variety stores" and also engaged in the real estate business. About 1930 they disposed of the stores and continued to devote all their time to the real estate business.
Jacob married Birdie Ackerman, a native-born Freeport girl, and they have two sons: namely Al- bert and Willard. Both sons served in World War II, Albert, a lieutenant in the Navy, serving in the Pacific, and Willard as a lieutenant serving in the Army. Willard received technical training. Albert speaks and writes Japanese. Both were graduated from New York University and are Phi Beta Kappa men. They recently graduated from Columbia Uni- versity Law School.
JOSEPH A. PINTER-One of the leading busi- ness men of Lindenhurst. Joseph A. Pinter has earned a steady reputation in the trucking industry for his excellent work and efficient service.
Mr. Pinter was born October 5, 1906, in New York City, son of Joseph and Theresa (Fody) Pinter.
In 1910, the family settled at Lindenhurst, and Joseph Pinter attended the public schools there. In 1924, he was graduated from the Lindenhurst Public High School. During the years 1920 and 1921, while still a student, he and his mother visited Hungary.
Having finished his formal education, Mr. Pinter became associated with the Sheide Bottling Company, of Lindenhurst, as a bookkeeper, and remained with this organization for two and a half years. In No- vember, 1930, he established a trucking enterprise, and became associated in business with his brother, John Pinter. After one and a half years, he purchased his brother's interest in the concern, and has conducted it himself with good success. The enterprise started with one truck, and at present it owns fourteen units of transportation. Mr. Pinter built the present plant at the corner of Hoffman Avenue and South Seventh Street, which is eighty-one hundred square feet in area, and is constructed of modern cinder block. The company employs about thirty men. Mr. Pinter also owns a truck terminal at Seventy-five Sullivan Street, in New York City.
Mr. Pinter is active in his community. He is a director of the American Trucking Association, a member of the General Rate Committee of the Middle Atlantic States Motor Carrier Conference, Inc., and a former secretary of the Nassau and Suffolk Truck Owners Association. He also holds membership in, and is a director of, the New York State Motor Truck Association. During World War II, he served as a member of the Babylon Rationing Board. He is a director of the Chamber of Commerce, a former president of the Lindenhurst Lions Club, and holds memberships in Chapter 794 of the Lindenhurst Knights of Columbus, the South Bay Golf Club of Brightwaters, the Riviera Beach Club of Bright- waters, and the Timber Point Club. In religious affiliation he is a Catholic, and attends the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, holding membership in the Holy Name Society. For exercise and recreation he enjoys a good game of golf. On March 2, 1935, at Corona, New York, Joseph A. Pinter married Margurite Collins, daughter of James and Elizabeth (McCann) Collins, and they became the parents of the following children: I. Robert, who was born February 3, 1936. 2. Joseph, who was born March 23. 1937. 3. Margurite, born December 4, 1940. 4. John, who was born March 24, 1944.
LEWIS ANGEVINE ELDRIDGE, JR., M. D. -A native of Great Neck, Long Island, Dr. Louis Angevine Eldridge, Jr., was born June 10, 1899, son of Lewis Angevine and Elizabeth H. Eldridge, his father being a treasurer in the New York City ferry business. Dr. Eldridge attended Groton School, in Massachusetts, where he was graduated in 1917. and matriculated at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mas- sachusetts, from which he received the Bachelor of Arts degree with the class of 1921. Entering Johns Hopkins University, Medical School, in Baltimore, Maryland, he was graduated in 1925, a Doctor of Medicine.
From 1926 to 1928, Dr. Eldridge served on the staff of the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute in New York City. During the years 1931-1932, his staff connection was with the Bloomingdale Hospital, White Plains. New York. Part time activities included those with the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic,
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1932-1935. His connection with the Psychiatric Clinic, of Children's Court covered the period from 1938 to 1947. Both the above institutions are in New York City. The medical affiliations of Dr. Eldridge in 1948 were with the Nassau County (Long Island) Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the Physicians Forum. While a Harvard undergraduate he was in the Reserve Officers Training Corps during 1918. In politics he favors the American Labor party. On August 31, 1928, at Gallupville, Schoharie County, New York, Dr. Eldridge married Ruth H. Williamson, daughter of Orin E. and Florence A. Williamson. Dr. and Mrs. Eldridge are the parents of two sons: I. Lewis Angevine, III, born July 9, 1932. 2. Roswell Eldridge, born January 1, 1934. In 1948 the family removed from Great Neck, Long Island, to Rensselaerville, Albany County, New York.
SCHUYLER WENTWORTH HORTON-Both in business and in public life, Schuyler Wentworth Horton of Greenport, is prominent. A desecendant of Barnabas Horton, one of the founders of Southold Town, he carries on the business established by his father and grandfather with exceptional success and entered the political field in several capacities prior to his election to the New York State Senate in 1947. He is a native and lifelong resident of Greenport. born there on October 10, 1885, son of Schuyler Bo- gart and Eva (Albertson) Horton. His father and grandfather established, in 1862, the furniture and funeral business which he continues to operate.
Schuyler Wentworth Horton is a graduate of the Greenport High School, the New England Conser- vatory of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, and was a student at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. Currently he is the owner and director of the S. B. Horton Company, of Greenport, morticians and deal- ers in furniture and monuments. At one time he was partner and co-founder of Preston and Horton, ma- rine contractors and he is a member of the board of directors of the First National Bank of Greenport.
Notably public-spirited, he served as one of the first Work Relief Chairmen in Suffolk County in 1931. The abilities and experience of Mr. Horton were drafted to serve as supervisor of the town of South- hold in 1933, a post he filled most capably to 1948. He likewise was a member of the Suffolk County Board of Supervisors for the same period, serving as chairman of the Finance committee. Since 1947 he has been New York State Senator for the First Senatorial District. Influential in politics, Mr. Hor- ton is an active member of the Suffolk County Re- publican Club, at Timber Point, Suffolk County, and the National Republican Club of New York City. His educational fraternities include the Sigma Phi Epsilon, member of the New York Alpha Chapter, and the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America-Alpha Chapter of Boston, Massachusetts. He is a past president and is now honorary vice president of the Association of Towns of the State of New York. He worships in the Presbyterian faith as a communicant of the First Presbyterian Church of Greenport, of which he is a trustee.
On December 31, 1928, at Queens Village, New York, Schuyler Wentworth Horton married Martha Mattice, daughter of Herbert and Mabel (Young) Mattice. Mr. and Mrs. Horton are the parents of two sons: I. David Barnabas, born March 31, 1932. 2. Stewart Woodford Young, born January 12, 1935.
FENIMORE MEYER-The prosperity of River- head, Suffolk County, as a mercantile center of that part of Long Island, is due to the enterprise and business acumen of such citizens as Fenimore Meyer, who succeeded his father, Jacob Meyer, in the conduct of the department store business which has long been a landmark in that lively and populous village.
The late Jacob Meyer built up this business on the principles of integrity and service, and Fenimore Mey- er during the several decades of his control and man- agement has retained the public confidence by strict- ly following his father's precepts. Under Fenimore Meyer's direction, the business has been kept con- stantly up-to-date and modern in every way.
The late Jacob Meyer, who was born in Germany in February, 1866, and came to the United States at an early age, was a self-made man in the truest sense of the term. He started in business at Sag Harbor, but moved it to the larger village of Riverhead. He continued the business with great success until his death on March 7, 1924, ably assisted during the last fifteen years of his life by his son Fenimore. Jacob Meyer was one of the charter members of the Suffolk County Trust Company, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Riverhead Savings Bank. He was a public spirited man, and a liberal contributor to every movement in the interest of the progress of his village and township, as well as one of the most generous supporters of the American Red Cross and other war relief agencies during World War I and of worthy charities in general.
Jacob Meyer married Annie Jacobson, in New York City in 1889. There were four children, one son, Feni- more, and three daughters namely Miriam, who be- came Mrs. Gustav Baron of Flushing, Queens County; Leah; and Esther, who resides at Riverhead. Feni- more Meyer was born at Sag Harbor, Suffolk County, on November 2, 1892. It was while he was a young- ster that the family removed to Riverhead, where he received his early education at the public grade schools and graduated from high school with the class of 1908. He next attended St. John's Military Academy, at Manlius, New York from which he graduated in 1909, and subsequently he studied for a year at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and for a year at Columbia University in New York City. After leaving college he took his place in his father's busi- ness, where his progressive spirit had much to do with the growth and prosperity of the store, which in time became the largest establishment of its kind in that part of Long Island.
During the first World War Mr. Meyer attended the first Officers Training Camp at Plattsburg, New York, where he received a commission as second lieu- tenant and went overseas with the American Expedi- tionary Forces as a member of the 168th Infantry of the 42nd Division. Later Lieut. Meyer served with the 161st Infantry. He is active in all movements for the business welfare and civic progress of Riverhead and of Suffolk County. He is a Mason and a member of Riverhead Lodge No. 645.
REVEREND FATHER JOHN A. McPHEE was pastor of the Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church at Bridgehampton at the time of his death.
He was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on February 23, 1895, the son of Alexander and Mary (Claire) McPhee, both of whom were natives of Prince Edward Island, Dominion of Canada. The father was a ship's captain in his early days, but later followed the trade of carpenter. Father McPhee was the last survivor of ten children.
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The future priest was taken to Prince Edward Island by his parents when he was still a young boy. He began in the Dominion schools on the island the long education and training that terminated in his ordination. He continued his education at St. James Academy in Brooklyn, later going to the Brooklyn Preparatory School. In 1916, he was graduated from St. John's University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He concluded his studies at St. John's Semin- ary in Brooklyn. On February 28, 1920, at Brooklyn, Father McPhee was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Church.
All his first assignments were as assistant curate. He held such curacies at St. Matthew's Church, East- ern Parkway and Utica Avenue, Brooklyn, from 1920 to 1922; the Church of the Assumption, Brooklyn, 1922 to 1929; St. Andrew's Church, Brooklyn, 1930 to 1939; the Church of the Precious Blood, at Astoria, 1939 to' 1941, and the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, at Cypress Hills, from 1941 to 1944. In September, 1944, he was made pastor of the Holy Rosary Church in Bridgehampton.
Father McPhee was a member of the Columbia Council, Knights of Columbus, in Brooklyn.
DONALD E. MUNCY-One of the ten members of the Suffolk County Board of Supervisors, Donald E. Muncy of Babylon is also prominent as the owner of two gas stations and of an excavating and grading business at Amityville. He is a leader in the Suffolk County Republican organization and in a variety of other activities throughout the county.
Supervisor Muncy was born at Babylon on April 30, 1900, the son of Ernest J. and Amelia (Heartt) Muncy. Through his mother, who is a native of Northport, Mr. Muncy traces his ancestry to the early days of Long Island. His great-great-grand- father was the Reverend Joshua Heartt, born in Huntington Township, who was revered as a Baptist minister.
Mr. Muncy was educated in the elementary and high schools of Babylon, graduating from the Baby- lon High School in 1917. After obtaining some ex- perience as an employee of others, Mr. Muncy estab- lished his own business-a general garage and filling station-in Amityville in February, 1920. In 1928, he added to his commercial activities the excavating and grading business, also in Amityville. In the latter business his father is associated with him. Mr. Mun- cy had early in his career become interested in the civic and political affairs of his community, and had moved into an honored place in the Republican party, in the volunteer firemen's organization and among police officers, as well as in fraternal and service club activities. In the fall of 1941 he was elected to the Suffolk County Board of Supervisors, represent- ing Babylon, and began serving in January, 1942. He has been re-elected without interruption since 1941.
On the board of supervisors, Mr. Muncy holds important committee posts. He is chairman of the powerful rules committee and is also on the com- mittees for inland waterways, contracts and supplies and salt water fisheries. He is a member of the Suffolk County Republican Club, the Lindenhurst Exempt Firemen's Association and is an honorary member of the Police Association of the Town of Babylon and the Police Association of Suffolk Coun- ty. He is also a member of the Amityville Lodge, No. 977, Free and Accepted Masons; the Freeport
Lodge No. 1253, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; the Amityville Square Club, the Rotary Club of Amityville and the Unqua-Corinthian Yacht Club of Amityville. He worships at the Episcopal Church.
Supervisor Muncy and Frieda Bartholet, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bartholet, were married at Babylon on November 14, 1920. They are the parents of four children: Shirley L., Berenice, Kendall W. and Lucille.
Shirley L. Muncy was married to William H. Wade, Jr., and is the mother of two children: Wil- liam H. Wade, III, born in 1943 at Troy, New York, and Kathleen Wade, born in 1945. Mrs. Wade, a native of Amityville, is a graduate of the Amityville High School.
Berenice Muncy, also born in Amityville, is a graduate of the Amityville High School and of Pan- zer College of East Orange, New Jersey. She is now a teacher of physical education in the Amityville High School.
Kendall W. Muncy, also a graduate of Amityville High School, was attending Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York, when the United States was forced into World War II. Leaving the institute, he entered the United States Navy Air Forces, in which he served as an ensign. He is now associated with his father and grandfather in business. He married Jean Longhurst of Hollis, New York. They are the parents of a son, Douglas W., born in Amity- ville in 1946.
Lucille Muncy was married to George Kennedy, Jr.
CHARLES J. MCNULTY was born on September 7, 1868, on his father's farm in the Oregon section of Mattituck, the son of Patrick and Katherine McNulty. He attended the local public school, and later the select school conducted by Sylvester Tuthill.
In 1892 he married Anne Dunn of Mattituck, and they lived on the farm which they had purchased in Franklinville, later known as Laurel. In 1898 he started a produce business, and in 1902, with Oliver Atwood, formed the firm of Atwood and McNulty. The partnership continued until Mr. Atwood's retire- ment from business in 1911. In 1920, with his son John, the firm became C. J. McNulty & Son.
Mr. McNulty was very active in the civic and busi- ness life of his community. He helped to establish the Mattituck National Bank in 1905 and was on its first board of directors. He continued as a director and active member of this enterprise for the remainder of his life. He was also a director of the Long Island Cauliflower Association, and for many years acted as its secretary. Later he became treasurer of that organization. For over forty years he was treasurer of the Laurel School District, and for many years served as Town Trustee of the Town of Southold. In 1917 he was active in forming the Suffolk County Farm Bureau. He was a member, and at one time master, of the Mattituck Grange, and a charter mem- ber of the Marratooka Club of Mattituck.
He was a lifelong member of the Sacred Heart Church of Cutchogue, a trustee of the church and for many years president of the Holy Name Society. He was also a member of the Stirling Council, Knights of Columbus of Greenport.
Mr. McNulty died on May 25, 1943. He is survived by his widow and six children. The son, John is carrying on his farm and business interests. The five
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daughters are, Marie (Mrs. C. F. Diller) of Peconic; Anita and Helen McNulty of Brooklyn; and Mildred and Edna McNulty of Laurel.
CHARLES HARDIN SULLIVAN-An attorney and counsellor-at-law, Charles H. Sullivan has been an influential figure in Suffolk County politics for many years, having held public office at Northport and Huntington and important posts on the county Democratic committee.
Mr. Sullivan was born in New York City, January 12, 1899, the son of Charles and Katherine (Hardin) Sullivan. His father was an attorney. He was edu- cated in New York public schools and at the New York University School of Law, receiving his Bache- lor of Laws degree in 1925. He served as mayor of the village of Northport in 1931-32, justice of the peace in the town of Huntington 1932-36, transfer tax attorney for the Suffolk County division of the State Tax Commission in 1936-43, and has been Demo- cratic county committeeman since 1926. Mr. Sullivan was a member of the Democratic State Committee in 1928-30, was chairman of the Suffolk County Demo- cratic Committee from 1934 to 1940, was alternate delegate-at-large from the state of New York to the Democratic National Convention at Philadelphia in 1936, and in 1940 was delegate from the First Con- gressional District of New York (Suffolk County) to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He has frequently been delegate to the Democratic Judicial Convention of the Second Judicial District, Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Sullivan is president and a director of the Northport Federal Savings and Loan Association. In World War I he served in Battery B, 104th United States Field Artillery. His fraternal affiliations include membership in the Alcyone Lodge, No. 695, Free and Accepted Masons; Northport Lodge, No. 523, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Huntington Lodge, No. 1565, Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks; Long Island Encampment, No. 180, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Asharoken Chapter, No. 2888, Royal Arch Masons, and the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. He is a member of Hunt- ington Post, No. 360, The American Legion; Nathan Hale Post, No. 1495, Veterans of Foreign Wars, of which he was post commander in 1930; Suffolk County Council, Veterans of Foreign Wars, of which he was commander in 1931, the Huntington Lawyers Club, the Suffolk County Bar Association, the New York State and American bar associations. He was or- ganizer and first president of the Suffolk County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Inc.
Mr. Sullivan married in Huntington on June 8, 1935, Jane M. Bruederlein, daughter of Nathaniel G. and Jennie Bruederlein. They are the parents of three children: 1. Charles Hardin, Jr., born July 13, 1939. 2. Barbara Jane, born March 28, 1942. 3. Susan Eliza- beth, born May 4, 1946.
LOUIS A. LUKERT-Suffolk County, famous for its potatoes and cauliflower, its oysters, clams and other seafood, is perhaps even more noted in the estimation of epicures throughout the country as the source of Long Island ducks and ducklings, the raising and marketing of which has become a major industry in the past few decades. Among the pioneers in this field are the Lukerts of Moriches. The late William J. Lukert, a native of Germany
who was brought to the United States in boyhood, was an industrious, ambitious and ingenious man. Originally settled in Brooklyn, New York, subse- quently he moved to Center Moriches where he en- gaged in the manufacture of shoes for which, de- spite the difficulty of competition with the products of the big factories, he found a market by resolutely going after it, loading his product on a horse-drawn wagon and driving it about the countryside. At this he made a living, but evidently perceiving that the market for his wares must remain restricted by the competition of the mass-production brands of foot- wear, he looked about for another business, and in 1893 he and a partner started to raise ducks for the commercial market on a farm at Eastport. This ven- ture proved eminently successful, and since the death of William J. Lukert, in 1935, three of his sons have continued to carry on and to expand the busi- ness. This partnership was dissolved after a few months trial-and in 1894 he moved to Moriches to continue duckraising.
William J. Lukert married Annie E. Rumft, who died in 1940. They were the parents of six sons and six daughters, namely Ralph, Theodore, William G., Harold R., John M., Louis A., Emma, Angela, Isa- belle, Pauline, A. Mabel and Marian P. the latter three deceased. Louis A. Lukert was born at Moriches on October 7, 1900. His education was begun in the public school at .Moriches and continued at Stuart High School in Florida, from which he was graduated. After leaving school he appears to have taken his place at once in the rapidly-growing family business of raising and marketing the choicest Long Island ducks and ducklings, together with his broth- ers Ralph and Theodore. The Luckert farm now comprises 135 acres, on which about 175,000 ducks are prepared for the American family table and the menus of the most select hotels and restaurants every year.
Louis A. Lukert is a member of the board of di- rectors of the Long Island Duck Packing Corpora- tion and holds a similar position in the Farmers' Commission House, Inc. As one of the most sub- stantial citizens of that section of Suffolk County known as "The Moriches," he is a director of the Center Moriches Bank. He serves the community as fire commissioner of Moriches and has an influential voice in business and civic affairs as a member of the Center Moriches Rotary Club, of which he is a past president. His religious adherence is to the Episcopal Church and his fraternal affiliation is with the South Side Lodge No. 493 of the Free and Accepted Masons.
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