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HERBERT H. HOWELL-Identified with both the banking and insurance fields, Herbert H. Howell, descendant of one of the pioneer families of Suffolk County, owns the Charles H. Howell and Son real estate firm.
He was born October 26, 1879, at Franklinville, now called the Village of Laurel, in Suffolk County, Long Island, son of Charles H. and Rose E. (Barbor) Howell. The former, who established in 1904 the insurance and real estate company in Riverhead which his son now operates, died in 1915. A Mason and a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, "C.H.", as he was familiarly known, was noted throughout Suffolk County as an educator and public speaker of ability, frequently being called upon to address gatherings of various kinds. One time head of the old Franklinville Academy, he later served as principal of Riverhead Public School, and then as School Commissioner of the First District of Suffolk County, in which capacity he rendered efficient service until his death. Both he and his brother, Usher B. Howell, were keen enthusiasts of salt-water activities, being particularly devoted to sailing and fishing.
Herbert Howell had his first business experience in association with his father in the firm of Charles H. Howell and Son, general insurance, at Riverhead, and since the death of his father in 1915, Mr. Howell has carried on the business. Since 1904, he has also been associated with the Riverhead Savings Bank in vari- ous capacities. A graduate of the elementary and high schools of Riverhead, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University with the class of 1902, and is a member of the Methodist Church and the Free and Accepted Masons, Riverhead Lodge No. 645.
Herbert H. Howell married at Riverhead, June 10, 1908, Jennie Hagen, daughter of John and Wilhelmina Hagen, and their children are: I. Mrs. Arlene (How- ell) Moore, born July 18, 1911, a graduate of Mount Holyoke, class of 1932. 2. Herbert Hewlett, born June 5, 1920, a graduate of the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology, receiving his Mechanical En- gineering degree with the class of 1942. Formerly a flight test engineer with the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, he is now Associate Engineer, Applied Physics Laboratory, The John Hopkins University.
RALPH LATHAM GLOVER-Suffolk, Long Is- land's easternmost county, has been saved by its dis- tance from metropolitan New York City from being transformed into an area of populous suburbs, but in the decades since the coming of the automobile and the hard-surfaced highway, not to mention the air-
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plane and the helicopter, this lovely area of hills and dunes and deep bays has had its own marked develop- ment as a favored site for country homes and estates, in addition to the normal growth of its charming villages and hamlets. This growth and development have afforded opportunity to enterprising specialists in the various construction and maintenance lines, and one of the native sons who have achieved busi- ness success by supplying the demands of construction and maintenance is Ralph Latham Glover of Southold, who was born in that village on March 21, 1902.
A son of the late John S. Glover, who was a native of Cutchogue in Suffolk County, a farmer who died when Ralph Latham Glover was still in his infancy, and of his wife Elmira Latham (Austin) Glover, who was born at Wainscott, Suffolk County, and is still living, the young Ralph Latham was educated at the public grade and high schools of Southold, but began working while he was still in his 'teens, his first em- ployment being in the capacity of a draftsman with the Electric Boat Company at Groton, Connecticut, on the northern shore of Long Island Sound. Begin- ning in 1919, this employment continued until 1923. Between 1923 and 1926 Mr. Glover engaged in various activities around the country, but in the latter year returned to his native Southold and established him- self in a plumbing and heating business which today, after more than twenty years of participation in the up-building of that area of Suffolk, continues to flour- ish under Mr. Glover's management. Well-rated in the business world, Mr. Glover is a substantial, re- spected and popular citizen who participates in vari- ous activities of his community. Today he employs four assistants in his construction and maintenance work in the plumbing and heating field.
Mr. Glover is a member of the Custer Institute, which is a local scientific organization. He belongs to the Southold volunteer fire department and is at this writing serving as its assistant chief. His re- ligious affiliation is with the Methodist Church.
At Southold on June 28, 1930, Ralph Latham Glo- ver was married to Una Belle Young of Kansas City, Missouri, a daughter of R. Lee and Carrie (Collette) Young. Mrs. Glover is a member of the Rebekahs. Of this marriage the following children have been born: I. Ralph Graham, born on April 22, 1933. 2. Margaret Elaine, born on February 14, 1940. Both children were born at Southold.
FREDERICK HERMAN BOUTCHER-One of the farmers specializing extensively in several of the vegetable crops which have given Suffolk County its primacy among all areas producing for the gour- met's table, is Frederick Herman Boutcher of Laurel. He was associated with his father in these agricul- tural operations, and his son and son-in-law are asso- ciated with him.
Frederick Herman Boutcher's father, Ernest A. Boutcher, was a native of England who came to Mattituck as a boy and married Helen O. Wines, a native of Mattituck. In addition to becoming a pros- perous farmer, Ernest A. Boutcher was a well- esteemed and popular citizen, who for a time held the office of receiver of taxes of the town of Suffolk. He died in 1885. His widow has survived him and now lives at Southold in her eighty-eighth year. Frederick Herman Boutcher was born at Cutchogue, Suffolk County, on October 21, 1884. His education was obtained at the district school number four of the town of Southold, and the district school number
nine at Mattituck, from which he graduated in the year 1900.
From 1901 to 1905 Mr. Boutcher was employed with Goldsmith and Tuthill in their lumber, coal and gen- eral store at New Suffolk, where he was also clerk and assistant postmaster. In 1905 he returned to the family farm at Cutchogue, where he remained until 1912. In the latter year he came to Laurel in the town of Riverhead, where he took over the George E. Penny farm of one hundred acres. He began seriously. to specialize in potatoes, cauliflower, lima beans and Brussels sprouts, which he continues to supply to the market to this day, his produce rating high with discriminating buyers.
Mr. Boutcher has always taken a keen interest in civic conditions and good government, and has twice filled local public offices. From 1927 to 1935 he was foreman on the highway, and from 1935 to 1943 he served as justice of the peace of the town of River- head, as a result of which he is commonly called Judge Boutcher. He is a member of the New York State Association of Magistrates and at present is a member of the Planning Board of Riverhead Town, also a charter member of the Suffolk County Farm Bureau. An earnestly religious man, Judge Boutcher fills the chairmanship of the board of trustees of the Presbyterian church at Mattituck. In politics he is a member of the Republican party. He is a past master of the Mattituck Grange, and a past councillor of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics of Mattituck. Fond of sailing and fishing, he enjoys these sports particularly as a member of the East End Fish and Game Club.
At Laurel, Suffolk County, New York, on November I, 19II, Fred Herman Boutcher was married to Mabel E. Penny of Laurel. Mrs. Boutcher is a member of the Women's Club of Riverhead. Of this marriage the children are: I. Esther Penny, who was born at Laurel on December 2, 1914. She is a graduate of the Mattituck High School and also did postgraduate work at the Riverhead High School. Following this, she attended Wellesley College at Wellesley, Massa- chusetts, from which she received the degree of Bachelor of Arts upon graduating with the class of 1935. On November 7, 1942, Esther Penny Boutcher was married at the Mattituck Presbyterian Church to Henry L. De Graff of Brockport, New York, who is a graduate of Cornell University and of Iowa State College with the degree of Master of Science in
Agriculture. During World War II Mr. De Graff held the rank of lieutenant in the United States Navy and saw service in the Pacific Theater of Operations. Formerly the assistant manager of the Long Island Cauliflower Association, with headquarters at River- head, Suffolk County, he is now associated with his father-in-law and brother-in-law. Mrs. Esther Penny (Boutcher) De Graff who majored in English while a student at Wellesley College, is a frequent contributor of articles to the Long Island Forum. To this couple one child has been born, a son, Galen Frederick, on July 21, 1944. 2. Fred H., Jr., who was born at Laurel on March 18, 1919. After graduating from the River- head High School he did postgraduate work at the Mattituck High School before enrolling at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, from which he graduated with the class of 1940, holding the degree of Bachelor of Science. Since leaving college, Fred H. Boutcher, Jr., has been associated with his father in the management of the farm, in which he is as deeply interested as his father. On June 28, 1946, he was married to Marie Ryder of Patchogue, Suffolk County, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ryder
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of that village. Mrs. Marie (Ryder) Boutcher is a graduate of the Potsdam Normal School, and they are the parents of one child, Robert Frederic, born August 19, 1947.
EDWARD AMILE LAPHAM-Progressing from draftsman to president and chairman of the board of the firm of Morganite, Inc., of Long Island City, Edward Amile Lapham has proven himself one of the island's most able businessmen. He is a leader in associations of a commercial nature; and his interest in his home community is attested not only by his activities in its behalf, but by his authorship of a book, entitled "Stony Brook Secrets."
Mr. Lapham is a native of Rutherford, New Jer- sey, and was born July 31, 1899, son of George Amile and Clara Catherine (Auryansen) Lapham. He re- ceived his early schooling in the grammar and high schools of Rutherford, thereafter studying electrical engineering at Columbia University. Mr. Lapham has since taken courses in public speaking and business management at Pace Institute in New York.
In the closing months of World War I, and for some time after the termination of that conflict, Mr. Lapham served in the United States Marine Corps, being in France for nine months with the 5th, and later with the 2nd, divisions of the corps. Ever since his return to civilian life in 1919, he has been associ- ated with Morganite, Inc., of Long Island City, and his aptitudes as a business leader have been proven by his steady rise from his first position as draftsman, to the presidency of the company. Mr. Lapham is also chairman of the board. He is a director of the Queensborough Chamber of Commerce, and chairman of the national affairs committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce. As an industrial leader, Mr. Lapham is a member of the National Electrical Manu- facturers Association, and is chairman of its general relations committee. He also belongs to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, of which he is a member of the carbon products committee.
Mr. Lapham's religious affiliation is with the Con- gregational Church of Richmond Hill in Queens County. His book on the community where he has long resided, entitled "Stony Brook Secrets," was published by the Gotham Publishing Company in New York.
On October 16, 1923, Edward Amile Lapham mar- ried Anna Agnes Maass, daughter of Carl and Rose L. (Hen) Maass. Mr. and Mrs. Lapham have a son, Barton Edward, born March 26, 1927.
HERBERT K. DODGE-Two important institu- tions in Glen Cove owe their existence to a blacksmith shop opened on Glen Street by the Kirby family in 1816. They are J. C. Dodge and Son, Inc., the furni- ture enterprise which is still on Glen Street, and the Dodge Funeral Home at 26 Franklin Avenue. The blacksmith shop, which specialized in coffin making in the early ninteenth century, went through various mutations before it grew into the two present busi- nesses, both of which are headed by Kirby's great- grandson, Herbert K. Dodge. For forty-three years Herbert Dodge had as associate in the management of the Dodge Funeral Home the eminent John Henry Savage, who was not only vice president of the mor- tuary firm but also a former Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety of Glen Cove, a member of that community's Board of Education and otherwise promi- nent in civic and public affairs. In the J. C. Dodge
and Son furniture business, Herbert K. Dodge has as associate the prominent and long-experienced Welling- ton H. Fisher, who is vice president and assistant treasurer of that enterprise.
Herbert K. Dodge was born in Glen Cove on No- vember 3, 1873, the same year that his father, Jordan Craft Dodge, took over the old undertaking and furni- ture business started by the Kirby family in 1816. The mother of Herbert K. Dodge was Clara E. (Kirby), a native, like his father, of Glen Cove. After a period of study at Friends Academy, Mr. Dodge joined his father in the business. He was then still a boy.
The business had, in 1835, passed into the hands of its founder's son, James Bird Kirby, who was the first in the family to make furniture as well as coffins and who may consequently be credited with initiating the dual functions of the Dodge firm that eventually became separate, independent businesses.
In 1873, James Bird Kirby's son-in-law, Jordan, took over the business, then located in the old Wheeler Building on Glen Street. In 1892, he transferred the activities to the present location of the furniture store, 99 Glen Street. Through this period, which was also a period of great growth of both branches of the Dodge enteprises, Herbert K. Dodge was gradually taking over more and more responsibility from his father. When, therefore, his father died in 1915, he was prepared to assume full responsibility. In 1907, the Dodges had been the first on Long Island to use a motor hearse in their undertaking business. Prior to that they had relied entirely on horses.
In 1928, the business was incorporated. At the same time, its two separate operations-undertaking on the one hand, furniture on the other-were chan- nelled into separate firms, with Herbert K. Dodge as president of both. The furniture store remained in the old location, but the mortuary operations were moved to Franklin Avenue into a building which Mr. Dodge has kept modernized and in which he pro- vides all the delicate, graceful services needed on behalf of a bereaved family.
It was then, also, that John Henry Savage became vice president of the Dodge Funeral Home. Mr. Sav- age, born in Locust Valley, the son of John Savage, of Ireland, and Mary E. (Quinn) Savage, a native of Locust Valley, had been the first Deputy Com- missioner of Public Safety of Glen Cove. He had joined the Dodge firm in 1903. When he died on April 23, 1946, his passing was so widely mourned that the City Council of Glen Cove passed a resolution of regret and sympathy on behalf of all the citizens. He was survived by his widow, the former Rose Her- big; two children, Joan Marie and John Henry II, and two brothers, Frank of Round Swamp and Edward of Glen Cove.
Mr. Dodge is himself active in Glen Cove's public and communal affairs. For twenty-seven years he was on the executive board and was director of the Glen Cove Trust Company. He is active in St. Paul's Episcopal Church and for many years was on its vestry. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Dodge's hobbies are fishing and boating. He is married. He belongs to the Brookville Country Club and has life membership in the Glen Cove Lodge, No. 580, Free and Accepted Masons, to which he has belonged for fifty years; also life membership in Melchizedek Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Clinton Commandery, Knights Templar; and Kismet Temple, Ancient Arabic
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Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Pembrook Lodge 73, I.O.O.F. and was Noble Grand there in 1894 and was on the District Lodge Staff.
SAMUEL J. VOLPE-A sizeable percentage of Long Island's commercial and industrial transporta- tion is carried on in truck bodies constructed by Samuel J. Volpe at Garden City Park. His firm is the Van Buren Truck Body Builders on the Jericho Turnpike. Mr. Volpe, active in Garden City Park's civic affairs, is a leader in the Lions Club, located at Floral Park.
Born in Italy on February 9, 1901, the son of Richard and Marie (Masielli) Volpe, Mr. Volpe came to the United States in 1920. In the preceding fifteen years he had attended his native country's equivalent of grammar and high school. A year after his ar- rival here, he established himself in his present busi- ness. His skill and personality have won him suc- cess. Mr. Volpe's truck body building career may be said to be related to his father's vocation, which was road building. Mr. Volpe started as a carriage builder and as times altered he changed to truck bodies and custom-built station wagons. In the Lions Club Mr. Volpe was Tail Twister in 1946. He has served on such club committees as Finance, Program and En- tertainment and Official Greeters.
Mr. Volpe married Josephine DeMarco in Jersey City, New Jersey, on October 12, 1924. They have two children, Richard and Marie. The Volpe family attend the Roman Catholic church.
Richard, born 1926; served in World War IJ in the United States Merchant Marine as a second class petty officer.
In 1947 Mr. Volpe flew to Italy to visit his mother whom he had not seen in twenty-eight years.
HAROLD H. SCHNEIDER-Widely known as a leading machinist and construction expert of. Lin- denhurst, Harold H. Schneider has made many con- tributions toward the welfare of Long Island and this region of New York State.
Mr. Schneider was born August 25, 1901, at Linden- hurst, Long Island, New York, son of Frederick O. and Pauline (Schneider) Schneider. His father engaged in the carriage and coachbuilding business and in the embroidery making business, and simul- taneously established a shipyard enterprise, in all of which he remained active until his death in 1938.
Harold H. Schneider received his education in the public and high schools of Lindenhurst. After finish- ing his schooling, he became associated with his father in the carriage and coachbuilding business in Linden- hurst. During the period of his term of employment with this concern, he gained valuable experience and was of great aid to his father. In 1918 he became a member of the firm of dredgers known as the Long Island Dredging Corporation, and held the position of dredge captain. At the time of his appointment, he was the youngest dredge captain on Long Island. He remained with the corporation for fifteen years, rendering valuable services in the many dredging operations conducted throughout the Long Island area. In 1937 he became actively engaged in the ship- yard enterprise which had been founded by his father in 1912. As a result of his efficient methods and thorough knowledge of industry, the enterprise flour- ished and has become one of the most successful busi- nesses in this region. When the luxury liner "Nor- mandie" was raised after it had been sunken at its New York pier, Mr. Schneider participated in that re-
markable engineering feat. He served as an installa- tion machinist with the Merritt, Chapman and Scott Company.
Mr. Schneider is active in the affairs of his com- munity. He holds memberships in the Free and Accepted Masons and is affiliated with Babylon Lodge No. 793. He is a member of the Lions Club of Lindenhurst, the Lindenhurst Chamber of Commerce, and the Timber Point Club. In religious affiliation, he adheres to the Lutheran faith.
On February 29, 1936, at Lindenhurst, Long Island, New York, Harold H. Schneider married Doris Pearl Greenlaw, daughter of Harry and Martha (Nutter) Greenlaw.
DUDLEY S. NORTON, of Babylon, a pioneer in aviation, served the United States with distinction as a flyer in World War I. His career has also included railroading. Since 1923 he has been one of Suffolk County's more successful real estate and insurance brokers, his firm being Norton and Siegel, Main Street, Babylon. Mr. Norton is also a prominent Presbyterian lay churchman.
Dudley S. Norton was born in Babylon on Febru- ary 27, 1880, the son of Washington . F. and Emeline (Sammis) Norton. The elder Mr. Norton, a native of Seldon, Suffolk County, was a merchant at Babylon. He served the Babylon National Bank as its first president.
The present Mr. Norton was educated at the Law- renceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and at the Yale Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in 1902. From 1902 to 1912 he was in the motive-power department of the Pennsylvania Rail- road. His technical training had led him to this work. It also led him, four years before the outbreak of World War I, into aviation. He was thus an experi- enced flyer when he entered the United States Army Air Forces in 1917. Commissioned a captain, he served throughout the conflict. After the war Mr. Norton was in the railroad supply business at Newark, New Jersey.
In 1923 he returned to Long Island and his native Babylon to enter the insurance business. Subsequent- ly, with Sydney S. Siegel, he organized the insurance and real estate firm of Norton and Siegel at Babylon.
Interested in a variety of important movements beyond business, Mr. Norton is treasurer of the Baby- lon Library Association, the Long Island Home at Amityville and the First Presbyterian Church of Babylon. He is also a director of the Babylon Na- tional Bank, the institution of which his father was the first head. In addition, he is a member of the Rotary Club of Babylon and the Yale Club of New York City.
CLARENCE COHEN, D.D.S .- Long a leader in his professional field in Hempstead, the success of Dr. Clarence Cohen is soundly based upon natural ability and excellent training. His clients, his colleagues, and the community at large consider him as one who has taken to heart the welfare of his village and its citi- zens. His dental practice is conducted at 131 Fulton Avenue.
Louis Cohen, father of Dr. Cohen, was also one of Hempstead's foremost citizens until the time of his death, and came to that village when its business life, as a modern suburban community, was in its infancy. He and his wife settled in that village on October 12, 1884, and together established the Louis Cohen
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Department Store at 22 Main Street. After a few years they moved their business to the building then owned by William Stoffel at 34 Main Street. To accommodate their growing business they purchased the adjoining property which was then occupied by Nostrand's Carriage Shop. In 1892 they erected one of the first modern brick buildings in the village of. Hempstead. By reason of the growth of the village as a commercial center and the consequent growth of their business, an addition to the store was made in 1902. This was considered one of Long Island's largest and finest department stores, and Louis Cohen earned widespread respect for his leadership in the community's growth and development. It is said that he probably built more business structures than any other man of his time in the village. Mr. Cohen's store continued in operation until 1928, when the building was taken over by the W. T. Grant Company, and has since that time been twice enlarged.
Among the other enterprises of Dr. Cohen's father and mother was the purchase in 1909 of the property on the west side of Main Street known as Pettit's Hotel. In 1910 he erected a large brick structure there, and this was occupied by the Utowana Hotel. It was subsequently converted into business buildings. At the time of his death, Louis Cohen was one of the largest single property owners in the village. He was one of the organizers of the Second National Bank and Trust Company of Hempstead and served as a director and vice president until his death. He was a member of many civic and fraternal organiza- tions including the volunteer fire department, and the lodges of the Free and Accepted Masons and Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows. He helped to organ- ize Temple Beth Israel and for a time served as its treasurer. He died on January 12, 1921, and his wife on September 30, 1924.
Dr. Clarence Cohen is one of the three children of Louis and Isabella Cohen; his sisters, Netty C. Stein and Miriam C. Loewy, also reside in Hempstead. Dr. Cohen, who was born in Hempstead on July 5, 1889, less than five years after his parents had come to that village, received his early education in its public schools and Hempstead High School, and later entered Brooklyn Polytechnic Preparatory School. He then entered Union College, after which he pur- sued his professional studies at the University of Maryland, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery, in the class of 1918. Practicing for one year in Baltimore, Dr. Cohen then came to Hempstead and was active in association with Dr. A. D. Rosenthal. Later succeeding Dr. Rosenthal in practice, Dr. Cohen has developed an extensive clientele, and is considered one of the most successful men in his field in Nassau County.
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