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Active in many phases of the life and affairs of his community, Mr. Sill is a member of the Suffolk Coun- ty Police Association, of the Greenport Chamber of Commerce, of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics and the Greenport Fire Department. His religious affiliation is with the Lutheran Church. His recreations are fishing, boating, and chess.
At Long Island City, Borough of Queens, New York City, Herman Albert Sill was married on August 31, 1936, to Julia Anna Liebert, a native of New York City and a daughter of the late Anton and Anna (Loh- mann) Liebert. Mrs. Still is a graduate of Public School No. 6, Queens, Riverhead High School, the Greenport Teachers Training Class, and the New Paltz Teachers College at New Paltz, Ulster County, New York. She took postgraduate work at Colum- bia University, and taught school for eight years.
IRA MOSES YOUNG-President of I. M. Young and Company, Incorporated, in Riverhead, Ira Moses Young figures prominently in Suffolk County as a business executive, and in club and fraternal circles. Born at Roanoke, Riverhead, Suffolk County, on January 10, 1880, Ira M. Young is the son of John Corwin and Lena A. (Benjamin) Young. His father was son of James Warren Young, and was born at the family farm at Roanoke in 1847. He followed the calling of farmer, and died in March 1909. The mother of Ira M. Young, the former Lena A. Benjamin, was born at Middle Road, Riverhead, New York, in 1845, and died in June of 1880.
Ira M. Young received his early education in the public schools of Roanoke and Riverhead, and at- tended the Riverhead High School for one year. After the completion of his formal schooling, he en- gaged in farming with his father, their holdings being the old family farm which had been in the Young family since 1825, and which Ira M. Young still owns and operates. It consists of three hundred acres, of which one hundred are tillable, and its L.I .- 44
produce consists chiefly of potatoes and cauliflower. Mr. Young was actively engaged in farming until 1910, in which year he detcrmined to enter business and, utilizing his experience and knowledge of pro- duce, became a produce merchant, buying and selling the products of the rich soil of this part of Long Island, for which the region is famous. His business venture succeeded, and was incorporated in 1921. This corporation has always been known by the firm name of I. M. Young and Company, of which Mr. Young is still the president. The initial prosperity of the business has continued, and its satisfying growth has given employment to a large number of persons locally. A full account of the company is presented in the ensuing records of the Stark brothers, Mr. Young's associates.
Another business connection of Mr. Young is his directorship of the Suffolk County Trust Company. He is a charter member of the Riverhead Rotary Club, and belongs to the Riverhead Exempt Firemen's Association. Interested in outdoor activities, he is also a member of the Riverhead Yacht Club and the East End Surf Club.
Mr. Young also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In 1910 he joined the Freeport Lodge of this body and later transferred his membership to Lodge No. 1323 at Patchogue. Of that lodge he is still a member. He is a Congregationalist in religious faith, and belongs to the Riverhead Church of that denomination.
On February 20, 1901, Ira Moses Young married Laura M. Aldrich of Riverhead, daughter of the late George W. and the late Marietta (Hallock) Aldrich. Mr. and Mrs. Young have two children: I. Violct R., who married J. Larrie Doyle, of Sea Cliff, Long Island. 2. Ira Reginald, who married Johanne Van Middlen of Riverhead, New York; they have three children, Joan, Nancy and Phyllis.
Mrs. Laura M. (Aldrich) Young is active in the Riverhead Garden Club, being past president of that organization, as she is also of the Riverhead Women's Club. Mr. Young enjoys the pastime of hunting. The Youngs' residence is at 729 Roanoke Avenue in Riverhead.
WALTER EDWARD STARK-The brothers Walter Edward Stark and William C. Stark are known throughout Suffolk County and beyond for their many interests and activities and their contribution to the cause of agriculture in general and the famed Long Island potato crop in particular. Throughout their business careers, the brothers have been as- sociated with the same companies and today they are principal partners in the gigantic I. M. Young and Company of Riverhead, the Widener Implement Company at Bridgehampton and the Atlantic Fertil- izer Corporation and W. F. Howell Trucking Com- pany, both of Riverhead. Both are also directors of the Suffolk County National Bank.
Walter Edward Stark, who served with the Student Army Training Corps in World War I, is a lcader in the American Legion at Riverhead and is also an outstanding member of the Knights of Columbus there. In addition, he is active in other civic and service organizations.
Mr. Stark is especially well known through his activities in I. M. Young and Company, distributors of potatoes, fertilizer and seed potatoes throughout Long Island and even in New England and shippers also of lima beans and cauliflower. He was the first of the brothers to join I. M. Young in this com- pany. This was in the days when I. M. Young
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(q.v.) the founder, had just begun his expansion pro- gram, the success of which is attributed in great part to the Starks.
Walter Edward Stark, the elder of the brothers, was born at Northport, Long Island, on March 14, 1898. The parents were William and Margaret (Walsh) Stark, both also natives of Long Island, having been born at Riverhead. The father was a steamboat and oyster boat engineer who tragically died at the early age of thirty-six. Walter Edward Stark was educated in Riverhead's elementary and high schools. His first-and only job-was with I. M. Young. Immediately on graduation from the Riverhead High School in June, 1916, Mr. Stark, then eighteen years old, entered Mr. Young's employ. Mr. Young, who had begun the business on January 2, 1910, was then launching a program of buying and loading potatoes at Calverton and Wading River. With the advent of Walter Stark in 1916 and William Stark in 1918, and with the earlier entrance in the business of Mrs. Young, the business began to grow, eventually reaching the gigantic proportions of to- day, when it ships and loads more than a million bags of Long Island potatoes per year and dis- tributes more than fifteen thousand tons of fertil- izer, as well as one hundred thousand sacks of seed potatoes. Mr. Stark was treasurer in its corporation days and is now a full-fledged partner in its co- partnership aspects.
Beyond his duties with I. M. Young and Company, and his participation in the operations of the other concerns, Mr. Stark is exceedingly active in com- munity affairs. He has been commander of the Riverhead Post of the American Legion and retains leadership in that organization. Also, he is Past Grand Knight of Immaculate Conception Council No. 928, Knights of Columbus, at Riverhead. He is a member of the Rotary Club of Riverhead, the Westhampton Country Club and the Southampton Country Club. Like his brother, he is a communicant of St. John's Roman Catholic Church, Riverhead.
Mr. Stark married Marion M. McCabe, daughter of John R. and Katherine M. McCabe, in Riverhead on June 12, 1929. They are the parents of four children: Sheila K., born January 6, 1932; Sally M., born May 16, 1938; Marion M., and Walter E., Jr., twins, born September 8, 1940.
WILLIAM C. STARK-The influence of I. M. Young and Company is felt throughout that large area of Long Island that lies between Port Jefferson to Orient Point on the north shore to Southampton to Amagansett on the south. The company, serv- ing farmers in that vast area, is composed of three principal partners-I. M. Young and the brothers William C. Stark and Walter Edward Stark. I. M. Young and Company ships and loads more than one million bags of Long Island potatoes per year and dis- tributes some fifteen thousand tons of fertilizer and one hundred thousand sacks of seed potatoes, together with complete facilities for the mixing of dusts for spraying purposes. The company also handles heavy shipments of lima beans and cauliflower. On the staff is an agronomist who is available to the farmers of the region for advice and aid.
In addition to his membership in this concern, William C. Stark is a partner of the Widener Imple- ment Company and the W. F. Howell Trucking Company and secretary of the Atlantic Fertilizer Corporation. His brother, Walter Edward Stark (q.v.), is also associated with these concerns. Both are directors of the Suffolk County National Bank at
Riverhead. The headquarters of all their operations are in the county seat.
William C. Stark was born at Northport on July 28, 1900, the son of William and Margaret (Walsh) Stark. Mr. Stark received a complete elementary and high school education, and he was seventeen years old when he entered the employ of the Suffolk County Clerk's office, where he remained for a year and one-half. In September 1918 he became an employee, alongside his brother, who had preceeded him by two years, of I. M. Young and Company. Three years later the brothers joined I. M. Young and his wife, Laura M. Young, in incorporating the concern. Mr. Young continued as president, Mrs. Young became vice president, William Stark sec- retary and Walter Stark treasurer. In July 1943 the same group converted I. M. Young and Company into a co-partnership.
Ira M. Young was an aggressive young farmer back in 1910, when he was farming part of his father's land at the head of Roanoke Avenue in Riverhead. Eager to have a part in the selling of his potatoes he opened a store at the Riverhead Station, in a building now known as the old Terrell Building. This was on January 2, 1910. In those days all potatoes were loaded in cars in bulk, graded by the farmers themselves. In 1912 Mr. Young purchased the Griffing Avenue property in Riverhead which is now the site of the main office and warehouse of the company.
In the same year he started to buy and load pota- toes at Calverton and Wading River. Also in this year Mrs. Young entered the office to help out and remained for the next eight years. Four years later Walter Stark entered Mr. Young's employ and two years after that William Stark became an employee. The association of the three men has continued unbroken ever since. In 1919 Mr. Young purchased property in Peconic and built a large warehouse, which he disposed of later to Charles Wells. From 1920 on, it was found necessary that the grading and bagging of potatoes be done by dealers in order to improve the grade and seek wider markets. Con- sequently, Mr. Young launched an expansion program.
Incorporation in July, 1921, was part of this pro- gram. In January, 1925, the company acquired proper- ty in Cutchogue, formerly owned by Henry Kaelin. A few months later the present new office building and warehouse on Griffing Avenue were constructed. In 1927 another warehouse, with large sidetrack facilities, was built on the property at Cutchogue. The following year additional property was acquired at Calverton and a new modern loading and grading warehouse with sidetrack facilities was built to- gether with a coal yard. In 1933 a property was purchased for the loading and grading of potatoes and distribution of fertilizer and seed potatoes at Bridgehampton. In 1939 dock facilities were acquired at Orient for the loading and grading of potatoes. From Orient potatoes are shipped to New England points by ship. In 1945 additional property was taken over at Southampton. There a modern loading and grading warehouse was added to the company's chain. In addition a twenty-car sidetrack was built at Southampton. Service to farmers and quality merchandise at all times are dual objectives of the company.
Aside from his activities with this company William Stark gives much attention to his other firms. The Atlantic Fertilizer Corporation was organized in 1928 and he is active as its secretary. In 1939, the Widener Implement Company was organized
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with the Stark brothers and A. Ross Widener as part- ners. In 1944 Paul Widener became a partner. This firm has its headquarters at Bridgehampton. The Starks formed the W. F. Howell Trucking Company with Walter F. Howell in 1943. Mr. Howell died in 1944, and John Buchak succeeded him as partner. In 1943 Mr. Stark was elected a director of Suffolk County National Bank. He is a member of the Immaculate Conception Council of the Knights of Columbus, the Southampton Golf Club, the Ketcha- boneck Club at Westhampton Beach and the Suffolk County Republican Club. He is a communicant of St. John's Roman Catholic Church, Riverhead.
On March 4, 1930, at Riverhead, William C. Stark and Mary L. Legere, daughter of Benjamin and Marie (Daigle) Legere, were married. They are the parents of three children: John Douglas, born April 21, 1931; William Bruce, born November 8, 1932, and James Robert, born May 30, 1936.
CHARLES ELMER LEWIS CLARK-The de- velopment of the great pleasant level stretches of Long Island as a surburban area, affording homes of their own to hundreds of thousands of workers in the teeming metropolis of skyscrapers, New York City, has enlisted the efforts of many men; some of whom have come from distant places and have turned from a variety of other occupations, and many of whom have profited as they deserved from their fore- sight and initiative. Charles Elmer Lewis Clark, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, was in business for years in the Middle West before turning to the de- velopment and appraisal of Long Island real estate.
Born in the Massachusetts capital on July 7, 1879, a son of Charles Andrew Clark, who was a wholesale merchant of cheese, spices and other foodstuffs and condiments, and his wife Jane (Ashley) Clark, Charles Elmer Lewis Clark graduated from the Newton High School at Newton, Massachusetts, in 1898, and from Williams College at Williamstown in the Berkshire Mountain region of the same state in 1902, receiving at that time his degree of Bachelor of Arts. Chance, choice or both started him in the typewriter business, first at Hartford, Connecticut, with the Oliver Type- writer Company. Later he represented the same firm in Boston, Kansas City, and St. Louis, Missouri. He also filled the position of assistant to the treasurer in Chicago.
In 1905 Mr. Clark parted company with the Oliver Typewriter Company to open in Chicago a branch of the Fox Machine Gun Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan. From this position he went to the Sears Roebuck Company in Chicago, being placed in charge of their stenographic department. In 1907 he took the decisive step of entering the real estate brokerage field in New York City. He formed a partnership with Phil J. Christ and Donald McKeller, which con- tinued until 1928. At that time Mr. Clark set up in- dependently in appraisal work in the Lawyers Build- ing in Mineola, capital of Nassau County, just be- yond the borders of Greater New York. Here he has continued in that occupation. His son, Heywood A. Clark, is now in partnership with him.
In 1934, 1935 and 1936, Mr. Clark was manager of the equalization board of Nassau County. Active in the civic and business life of his community, he is a member and past president of the Rotary Club of Garden City-Mineola. He is also a member of the Cherry Valley Golf Club, the Garden City Golf Club, the Lawrence Beach Club, and Chi Psi fraternity. In religion he is a member of the Cathedral of the Incarnation at Garden City.
On November 12, 1904, at Albany, New York, Charles Elmer Lewis Clark was married to Susan Lindsley Heywood. Of this marriage there is one child, a son, Heywood Ashley, born July 15, 1910.
RICHARD WOODHULL HAWKINS-Judge Richard Woodhull Hawkins is well-known to the residents of Suffolk County, for since his admission to the bar in 1904, he has held various official posts in the communities of that Long Island county. Affec- tionately known as judge to the townspeople, he has served as justice of peace for sixteen years, then as county judge of Suffolk for six years, and since 1938 he has acted as surrogate of Suffolk County.
Richard Woodhull Hawkins was born at Lake Ron- konkoma, Suffolk County, on September . 27, 1880, the son of Charles W. and Mary E. (Newton) Haw- kins, and was educated at common schools in the vil- lage where he was born. Later he attended New York Law School, from 1902 to 1904.
In addition to his judicial duties, Mr. Hawkins was appointed fire commissioner of the village of North- port for two years, and later served as supervisor for four years in the town of Huntington.
Mr. Hawkins has devoted much of his time and energies to the benefit of his community, particu- larly in philanthropic, political and social fields. Num- bered among his community services is a twelve-year membership on the Northport School Board. At pre- sent he is president of the Northport Trust Com- pany, and is a member of the Republican party. By faith he is a communicant of the Methodist Church, and is generous in his donations to religious efforts. Judge Hawkins was for eight years president of the Suffolk County Council of Boy Scouts of America.
On September 12, 1906, he married Carrie Drake, and they are the parents of two daughters: I. Lois Elizabeth, born July 1, 1911. 2. Janet Clair, born August 2, 1916.
W. DEERING YARDLEY is the second genera- tion of his family to serve the people of Sag Harbor and the adjacent area of Suffolk County by providing courteous, efficient, sympathic service at the time when it is most needed and most appreciated, when the last farewell must be taken of some loved one who has passed beyond this life. In accordance with an ancient custom, the Yardleys have combined their services as funeral directors with a furniture business.
Mr. Frederick Yardley, a native of England, was brought to the United States in his boyhood days, and when he was still a lad of only fourteen years he went to work for the firm of Thompson and Os- borne, who conducted a furniture store and under- taking business in Sag Harbor. Subsequently he suc- ceeded to the business of Thompson and Osborne. He was one of the first embalmers in the locality of Sag Harbor, and during his years in that village he was known as an active member of the Free and Accepted Masons and of the Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks. In 1932 he transferred his funeral business to the Village of East Hampton, where he continues to conduct it successfully to the present time. Frederick Yardley married Jessie Shaw, who was born in Sag Harbor, and of this union, W. Deer- ing Yardley was born at Sag Harbor on February 27, 1907.
W. Deering Yardley was educated at the public schools and attended the Sag Harbor High School. At the age of sixteen years he went to work in the store of Thompson and Osborne at Sag Harbor, with
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which his father had long been connected. He served opposite to the funeral director, and later became a professional after attending the Renouard School of Embalming in New York City, from which he gradu- ated. He received his state license in 1928. He re- turned to the employment of Thompson and Osborne and remained with them until that firm was dissolved in the year 1932. At that time his father, Frederick Yardley, as related above, moved to South Hampton. W. Deering Yardley continued in business at Sag Harbor.
An Episcopalian in religion, Mr. Yardley is also a Mason, and prominent in the activities of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He enjoys fish- ing and gardening.
In April, 1932, W. Deering Yardley was married at Jamaica in the Borough of Queens, to Olive A. Pettigrew, a daughter of David P. Pettigrew of New York City and his wife Adeline (Nickerson) Petti- grew, a native of Sag Harbor. Of this marriage there are four children: I. Carolyn, who was born at Sag Harbor in April, 1934. 2. Sandra, born at Sag Harbor in August, 1935. 3. W. Deering, Jr., born at Sag Harbor in March, 1939. 4. Ann, born like her older brother and sisters at Sag Harbor, in February, 194I.
HARRY G. STEPHENS has served the Town of East Hampton, Suffolk County, in general and a larger section of Long Island in many ways. He has been an attorney since 1902 and in the period since then has been justice of the peace in East Hampton, the Town Attorney and a director both of the Os- borne Trust Company and its predecessor, the East Hampton National Bank.
Judge Stephens was born in Quogue on November 5, 1870, the son of E. Forrest and Frances E. (Grif- fin) Stephens. Taken to Bridgehampton when he was five years old, he first attended school in that com- munity. He was a student at the Bridgehampton Academy and in 1897 he was graduated from Brown University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The next four years he served a clerkship in the office of Judge Timothy M. Griffing at Riverhead. In 1902 he was admitted to the bar of the State of New York and in October of that year he established himself in practice in East Hampton.
In time he became town attorney, and, subsequently, justice of the peace. In the early days of his practice he was elected a director of the East Hampton Na- tional Bank and when it was merged with the Os- borne Trust Company of East Hampton he remained with the consolidated institution as a director. Judge Stephens was in the Coast Guard Reserve for thirty years before he retired. He is a member of the Suffolk County Bar Association, the Sag Harbor Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Star of the East Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, at East Hampton.
He married Mabel G. Griffing, daughter of the late Judge Timothy M. and Caroline (Perkins) Grif- fing, at Riverhead on June 16, 1906. They are the parents of two children: Edwin F., born in East Hampton on December 19, 1907, and Grace E., born in East Hampton on August 3, 1910. Edwin F. Stephens holds the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from Williams College. He served in the United States Army in World War II, as a technical sergeant. Before the war he taught lan- guages in preparatory schools. Grace E. Stephens was educated in the East Hampton High School, Abbott Academy at Andover, Massachusetts, and Connecticut College at New London.
HENRY H. LANDON-A native of New York City, where he was born on November 24, 1893, Mr. Landon is a son of a major of the United States Army, who graduated from the military academy at West Point, New York, in 1872. Major Landon is now deceased. Henry H. Landon attended Yale Uni- versity at New Haven, Connecticut, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1917. Upon leaving college he entered manufacturing work, which en- gaged his attention for some fourteen years.
Turning from the manufacturing field, he entered hospital work in New York City, following it there for twelve years before becoming superintendent of the Southampton Hospital in Suffolk County. He re- mained in that post until December 31, 1947.
During the first World War Mr. Landon was a United States naval aviator, holding the rank of lieutenant, senior grade. As a veteran of the avia- tion service he is a member of the Wings Club of New York City. He also belongs to the Southampton Club, and to the Wolf's Head Society of New Haven, Connecticut.
Henry H. Landon married Alice Gallwey, and there are five children: I. Henry H., Jr. 2. Anne. 3. Cor- nelia. 4. Richard Augustus. 5. Rolfe.
DAVID H. GILMARTIN-Aside from the posi- tion he has won in the community of Southampton as a lawyer with a large private practice, David H. Gilmartin is also a leader in the Suffolk County Bar Association and in the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
He was born in Southampton on November 26, 1908, the son of David J. and Eva McLeod (Henderson) Gilmartin. His father is also a native of Suffolk County, having been born at East Hampton on August 12, 1868. Since 1920 the elder Mr. Gilmartin has owned and operated the Gilmartin Coal, Wood and Oil Company of Southampton. He has been in busi- ness in that village since 1905. Until 1942 he also conducted a general food establishment. He retained the fuel business when he sold the other. His fatlier, Richard Gilmartin, born in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland, on May 16, 1832, came to Suffolk County in 1857. Four years later he married Mary Daly at East Hampton and for a time they lived in the cele- brated "Home, Sweet Home" house. Eva Henderson Gilmartin, the mother of David H. Gilmartin, was born in Toledo, Ohio, on August 17, 1886.
The future lawyer was graduated from grammar school in 1921 and from high school in 1925. For two years before entering college he was a student at Mount Saint Mary's Preparatory School at Emmits- burg, Maryland. In 1929 he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Fordham University and three years later that of Bachelor of Laws from the Ford- ham Law School. On April 15, 1933, Mr. Gilmartin was admitted to the bar of the state of New York. Since 1935 he has been in the general practice of law in Southampton and Suffolk County, with offices at 82 Main Street, in the village.
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