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clamation at the Republican State Convention in 1871 for Secretary of State; his election followed, he re- ceiving over twenty thousand ma- jority. He was for a time the pres- ident of the Palisades Bank, of Yon- kers, and also a director of several large corporations. For a consid- erable period Mr. Scribner was vice-president of the Belt Line Rail- road, New York city, and subse- quently became president of that company. He married Miss Sarah Woodbury Pettengill, daughter of Hon. James Osgood Pettengill, of Rochester.
GEORGE J. PENFIELD.
George J. Penfield, a former mem- ber of Assembly, was born March 24, 1826, at Camden, N. Y., the youngest son of Fowler Penfield, of English descent, who took part in the war of 1812. On the maternal side Mr. Penfield is of French and Holland descent, of the families bearing the names of DeMilt and Wormsley, that fled from the perse- cutions instituted against the Chris- tians, having left their property to be confiscated, and landed on Man- hattan Island, when New York was but a small village. Mr. Penfield had few advantages for acquiring learning. From boyhood to the age of twenty-five he was employed in farming pursuits. Before he was twenty-one he removed with his fa- ther and family to Westchester County. For many years he was a resident of New Rochelle and took an active interest in all public af- fairs. On the breaking out of the war of the rebellion he aided in fit- ting out the first regiment of vol- unteers which went from West- chester County. In 1862 Mr. Pen- field was elected secretary of the Westchester Fire Insurance Com- pany, and was subsequently chosen president of it. He was elected to various offices in the town and vil- lage of New Rochelle. He was one of the first elected Trustees of the village of New Rochelle, in 1858, was Supervisor in 1865 and 1866; later served several years as member of the Board of Education; represented the Second Assembly District in the Legislatures of 1867
and 1868. In the Legislature he made an honorable record and gained the high esteem of his fel- low-members. For many years Mr. Penfield was a member of Huguenot Lodge, F. and A. M., of New Ro- chelle, a prominent member of the First Presbyterian Church, New Ro- chelle, and later a member and trus- tee of Grace Methodist Church. He died August 6, 1896, at his Wake- field home.
BRADFORD RHODES.
Bradford Rhodes, son of William and Mary Maria (Baird) Rhodes, was born in Beaver County, Pa., February 25, 1848. His father was a farmer, of that sturdy Pennsylvania stock whence has come some of the best brain and physical workers of the nation, the son inheriting not a few of the father's characteristics. He was educated at Beaver Acad- emy and soon after his graduation became principal of Darlington Academy. In 1864, when sixteen years of age, he made an effort to serve his country in the army by enlisting in the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Pennsylvania Volun- teers. He passed the physical ex- amination, but the mustering officer would not swear him in on account of his youthful look. In 1872 he went to New York and engaged in newspaper work, but it was not long until he embarked in busi- ness for himself. Although he was guided from the first by a spirit of safe conservatism, he was ever on the alert for good business oppor- tunities, and in 1877 he saw an opening for a first-class practical bankers' magazine, and established "Rhodes' Journal of Banking," the success of which proved the keen- ness of his foresight, as it soon be- came the leading bankers' publica- tion of the country. In 1895 he pur- chased the "Bankers' Magazine," the oldest financial publication in the United States, and consolidated the two periodicals under the title of the "Bankers' Magazine and Rhodes' Journal of Banking." It is said to be without a peer in the financial world, and is the especial pride of its publisher, although a number of other very worthy pub-
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lications come from his press. Po- litically he has always been a Re- publican, and his party has honored him on various occasions. He was elected to the Assembly of the New York Legislature for three consec- utive terms-in 1888, 1889 and 1890. He was known as a conscientious, painstaking member, especially dis- tinguishing himself as chairman of the Committee on Banking, where he secured some important amend- ments to the banking laws of New York. He also introduced and se- cured the passage of the anti- bucket shop law. In 1892 he re- ceived the unanimous nomination for Congress from the Sixteenth District of New York, but he de- clined it on account of his increas- ing business. Besides being the editor of the "Bankers' Magazine," Mr. Rhodes is president of the Mamaroneck Bank and the Union Savings Bank of Mamaroneck, Westchester County, N. Y., his country place, Quaker Ridge Farm, being located near by. The place is stocked with fine horses and Jersey cattle, and is among the most desir- able locations in the county, the residence commanding a fine view of Long Island Sound. Mr. Rhodes has twice been chosen chairman of Group VI. of the New York State Bankers' Association, and has served and is at the present time (1898) serving as a member of the Executive Council of the American Bankers' Association. In. both these associations he is known as an influential worker, and has done much to increase their usefulness. Besides all the business connections mentioned, he is a director in sev- eral large corporations, and al- though he divides his time with every enterprise with which he is connected, he yet gives personal at- tention to the details of his private business. He is a tireless worker, or as he himself expresses it, "keeps everlastingly at it," and to that one trait in his character he attributes all his success in life. He is in the broadest sense of the term a self- made man. Besides enjoying an enviable reputation as clean- handed journalist, he has an excel- lent standing in the business world, and is the possessor of quite a hand- some fortune. Though an active
business man, he is connected with many social organizations, being a member of the Union League Club, the Larchmont Yacht Club, the Re- publican Club, the West Side Re- publican Club and the Transporta- tion Club. He was married Febru- ary 27, 1878, to Miss Caroline Au- gusta Fuller, eldest daughter of James M. and Jane A. Fuller, of Mamaroneck, Westchester County, N. Y. Mr. Fuller was a well-known retired banker of New York.
CHARLES P. MCCLELLAND.
Charles Paul McClelland, a former State Senator, was born in Scotland, on December 19, 1854, and came to this country at an early age. He at- tended the public schools and laid the foundation for an education. Necessity required that he leave school earlier than expected. The evenings of the days he spent in hard labor he devoted to study, and in 1880 was rewarded, when he graduated with the degree of LL. B. at the New York University Law School. On being admitted to prac- tice law he opened law offices in New York city, and was not long in establishing a very successful busi- ness, and he is to-day considered one of the ablest members of the Westchester County bar. Mr. Mc- Clelland is a Democrat and a recog- nized leader of that party in the county, having been chairman of the county organization for a num- ber of years, and is prominent in the councils of his party's chiefs in the State. His political career has been most remarkable as it has been successful. His first office was that of Clerk of the village of Dobbs Ferry, which he held until elected a member of Assembly to represent the First Assembly Dis- trict, in 1884. He was re-elected in 1885. His ability soon gained for him a prominent place on the floor of the Assembly, and it was not long before he was enabled to ex- ert great influence in the framing of legislation, and thereby earning for himself a distinction that outgrew local bounds. In 1891 Mr. McClel- land was again elected to the As- sembly. He was appointed chair- man of the Ways and Means Com-
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mittee and thus became the leader of his party in that body. In the fall of 1892 he appeared in the Dem- ocratic State Convention as a candi- date for Lieutenant-Governor, and had the support of the delegation from his county as well as that of delegates from elsewhere. Before a ballot was taken he withdrew from the race in favor of William F. Sheehan. In 1892 Mr. McClel- land was successful as the Demo- cratic candidate for State Senator, to represent the Twelfth Senatorial District. In this office he served two years, and added much to his previous good record. During Pres- ident Cleveland's first administra- tion, and at the end of his service in the Legislature in 1886, Mr. Mc- Clelland was appointed a Deputy Collector of the Port of New York, and soon became Collector Ma- gone's special deputy and chief ex- ecutive officer. In this position he remained four years, part of the time under a Republican adminis- tration. Other political positions held by him have been President of the Village of Dobbs Ferry, Presi- dent of the Board of Education, and Counsel to the Village of Dobbs Ferry. He has been a manager of the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane, ten years; was a member of the Greater New York Consolidation Commission; he is a member of the Continental Lodge. No. 287, F. and A. M., a member of Spring Valley Lodge, I. O. O. F., and is a trustee of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Dobbs Ferry. Mr. McClelland was married Sep- tember 6, 1879, to Miss Meta J. Bab- cock, of Massachusetts.
JAMES W. HUSTED, JR.
James W. Husted, a former As- semblyman representing the Third Assembly District, was born on March 16, 1870, at Peekskill, and was named after his father, the la- mented Gen. James W. Husted, for six terms Speaker of the Assembly. Mr. Husted was educated at the schools of Peekskill and then at Yale College, from which he grad- uated in 1892. He decided to em- brace the profession of a lawyer, and studying at the New York Law
School was graduated from that school in 1894. He was elected as Assemblyman from the Third Dis- trict in the fall of 1894. He was re- elected in 1895 and in 1896. He de- clined a renomination in 1897. From the very commencement of his ca- reer as a legislator Mr. Husted be- came a prominent figure, and no young man ever gained a more en- viable reputation; is well informed on all public subjects, and a man of ideas; is an able and impressive speaker. He declined further pub- lic honors for the reason that he desires to devote his time to the practice of his profession. He re- mains an important factor in poli- tics, and is recognized as a Repub- lican leader in the county; has law offices in White Plains and in New York city.
THOMAS K. FRASER.
Thomas Kevan Fraser, former member of Assembly representing the First District of this county, was born of Scotch-American par- ents in the city of New York, on February 23, 1845; a son of Thomas and Jane (Kevan) Fraser. He was educated in the collegiate schools in the city of New York, and was for- merly extensively engaged in the hide and leather business in that city, retiring some twenty years ago. He became a resident of Has- tings-on-the-Hudson in 1851, where he still resides. He is largely in- terested in everything connected with the village, and has held near- ly every municipal office. He was President of the village of seven consecutive years; has been a mem- ber of the Board of Education since 1885 and President of same since 1892; was elected a member of As- sembly in 1892 and in 1893; ran again in 1895 and was defeated. As president of the Board of Sewer Commissioners, he was the chief means of getting the splendid sewer system now in Hastings. As a member of the Legislature he was instrumental in having passed the Warburton Avenue Extension meas- ure, and since has labored for the completion of that magnificent ave- nue connecting Hastings with Yon- kers. He is a member of both city
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and country clubs, but his time is mostly given to interests of the public schools. Mr. Fraser has al- ways been a Democrat. He is un- married.
GEORGE L. CARLISLE.
George L. Carlisle, former mem- ber of Assembly from the Second Westchester District, was born Feb- ruary 28, 1852. He was educated, in the public schools, at Cooper Insti- tute and Columbia College and graduated from the Columbia Law School in the class of 1879. He soon succeeded in establishing a good business in New York city and vicinity. At an early age he became interested in public affairs and especially active in politics in Brooklyn, where he then had his home. He served as president of the Nineteenth Ward Republican Club, and, later, of the Twenty-fifth Ward Club. During the Harrison campaign, in 1888, he stumped the States of New York and New Jer- sey, under the auspices of the Re- publican National Committee, and has taken an active part in all Pres- idential campaigns as boy or man since 1868. He never ran for any public office until 1895, when he was elected member of Assembly in a strong Democratic district, and this in face of the fact that he had to contend not only against the regu- lar Democratic candidate, but also against an Independent Republican. In the Legislature Mr. Carlisle in- augurated the movement that event- ually compelled the issue of railroad "fifty-trip family tickets" to the suburbs. He also introduced an- other very important bill, having for its purpose the reduction of the rate of interest which pawn-brokers are allowed by law to exact from the poor. Notwithstanding the con- scientious labor he devoted in at- tempts' to pass the bill, it failed to become a law, owing to "certain in- fluences" more powerful than Mr. Carlisle's efforts in behalf of the right. Mr. Carlisle is a resident of New Rochelle. In 1876 he married Miss Mary S. Coffin, of Nantucket, Mass., a descendant of the earliest Quakers who settled in Massachu- setts in 1642. He has three chil-
dren, the eldest of whom is being educated at Yale.
ALFRED E. SMITH.
Alfred E. Smith was born in Bronxville, Westchester County, N. Y., where he has since resided, on February 21, 1864. He received his education in public and private schools and at Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass. He gradu- ated from the latter institution in 1883. While there he took an active interest in athletics, playing on the baseball nine and being captain of the football team. He was also managing editor of the school paper and actively participated in the Adelphi Literary and Debating So- ciety. Obliged to give up a college career, he obtained a temporary po- sition in the custom service under Collector Robertson. Later he was appointed a sanitary inspector in the Health Department of New York city, he first having passed a civil service examination, resulting in his being among the first four of those competing. While he held this position he attended the late afternoon lectures at Columbia Law School. In the midst of his law school year the Health Department force of employees was reduced twenty men and Mr. Smith, as a recent appointee, was dropped. Em- barrassed by home responsibilities and expenses, he managed to finish his first year's work at the law school. He filled the position of cor- respondent and advertising agent for the New York Lumber Trade Journal and traveled almost contin- uously for two years and a half. In the spring of 1889 he opened an ad- vertising agency in the city of New York and again took up the study of law, attending the late afternoon lectures at the University Law School and studying at night. In the winter of 1889 he entered the law offices of Fullerton & Rush- more, Esqs., where he continued until he graduated from the Uni- versity Law School in 1890, and until he started in practice on his own account. Mr. Smith was elect- ed to the Assembly, as a Republi- can, in 1896, and served on the im- portant committees on General
CHARLES P. MCCLELLAND.
THOMAS K. FRASER.
GEORGE L. CARLISLE.
ALFRED E. SMITH.
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B. FRANK PALMER COUNTY REGISTER
BENONI PLATT EX- DEPUTY COUNTY CLERK.
1. HOWARD KINCH EX- COMMISSIONER OF JURORS
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A.M. JAMES MOONEY EX- DEPUTY COUNTY CLERK
ARMAND R. STAINACH- COURT INTER SPECIAL DEPU
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Laws and Banks. Upon the death of his colleague, Mr. Emmet, from the Second Assembly District, the legislative needs in that district were very largely attended to by him. He championed the cause of the people along the line of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, who were desirous of hav- ing that road provide family trip tickets. It was due to his efforts that the fares from Portchester south by sale of these tickets were reduced one-quarter. Whatever Mr. Smith ·is or has is due to his own efforts. He is unmarried and lives with his mother at Bronxville. He is village counsel and has an office at White Plains and at 31 Pine Street, New York city. As a descendant of Captain Ebenezer Smith, who served on General Washington's staff and was one of the original members of the Society of the Cincinnati, he is now a mem- ber of that order, as well as several others of a fraternal character.
BENSON FERRIS.
Benson Ferris,a former SchoolCom- He was one of the originators of the missioner, and now president of the Westchester County Savings Bank, was born at Wolfort's Roost, now Sunnyside, in Tarrytown, on July 26, 1825, a son of Benson and Maria (Acker) Ferris. His early educa- tion was obtained at the old school house, which stood on the road run- ning east from Sunnyside Lane to the Sawmill River, about one hun- dred yards east of Broadway. He subsequently attended the Tarry- town Institute. After leaving this institution he was assistant for two years at the Paulding Institute, and was for some time teacher in the old school house which he first at- tended. Later he started a store at Irvington, which was the first one opened at that place, then known as "Dearman." In 1855 he was one of sixteen who organized the Repub- lican party in Westchester County in the old Court House at White Plains. He was appointed in 1858 one of the Executive Committee of the party, at a county convention presided over by Horace Greeley, and for many years, as one of the '
leading Republicans of the county, he represented the party at State, Congressional and County Conven- tions. In 1856 he removed to Tarry- town, which has since been his home, and three years later became engaged in the hardware business, in which he continued till 1861. He has been, during the whole of his business life, closely connected with the public affairs of the town and county. While living at Irvington he was a member of the Board of Education, and has held the same position at Tarrytown. In 1865 he was elected trustee of the Westches- ter County Savings Bank, and has held the offices of secretary, vice- president and president, in which last position he still remains, hav- ing filled the office for twenty years. As a conservative, trustworthy bus- iness man, Mr. Ferris is widely known, and his advice is considered of great value. His rare executive ablility has been strongly mani- fested in his management of the savings bank of which he is the honored president. Under his guid- ance the bank has taken an envia- ble position among the leading moneyed institutions of the State. Tarrytown National Bank, and is now a director. In 1866 he was ap- pointed School Commissioner for the Second District of Westchester County by William H. Robertson, then County Judge. He was chosen a director of the Tarrytown and Irvington Union Gas Light Com- pany in 1864, and has been its sec- retary, vice-president and president. He was one of the incorporators of the Young Men's Lyceum, of Tarry- town, and served as a director for twenty-five years. In 1879 he was elected a Trustee of the village of Tarrytown. He is a member of the Westchester Historical Society. The monument erected in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in memory of the soldiers of the revolution from that section of the county was fostered by him. The project without doubt owes its success to his judicious counsel, foresight, ripe judgment and to his name as being the first contributor to the fund. Mr. Ferris was mar- ried in 1875 to Mrs. Mary P. Dutcher, of Providence, R. I .; she died in 1890.
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JAMES B. LOCKWOOD.
James Betts Lockwood, now a resident of White Plains, was born in the town of Poundridge, N. Y., on July 18, 1849, of American par- entage, a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent families of Westchester County, and can claim an ancestry who lived and acted in the days when patriotism was no idle boast. His parents were Alsop Hunt and Mary Eliza (Rey- nolds) Lockwood. His education was secured at the Bedford Acad- emy, at Betts Military Academy, Stamford, Conn., and at Union Col- lege. Shortly after his graduation from college he was admitted to the bar, and at the present time enjoys a large legal practice. His offices are in New York city. He has been a resident of White Plains for twenty-one years. Mr. Lock- wood was chosen by the Board of Village Trustees as President of the village of White Plains in the years 1889 and 1890; in 1885 he was elect- ed School Commissioner of the Sec- ond School Commissioner District, and was re-elected on two occa- sions, serving in that office until 1894. Mr. Lockwood is a Democrat. At present he holds the office of School Trustee of his village. Mr. Lockwood was married October 31, 1877, to Miss Cora Hamilton Mar- tin, daughter of Robert Morris and Anna Hamilton Martin, of New York city.
FFARRINGTON M. THOMPSON.
Ffarrington M. Thompson was born at Cold Spring, Putnam Coun- ty, N. Y., on April 14, 1865. Two years later he removed with his parents to White Plains, where he has resided ever since. His father, Joseph Thompson, died about four years ago. His mother, Selina H. (Glover) Thompson, is still living. He graduated with honor from the White Plains High School, and the love for his Alma Mater has sug- gested his frequent offering of gold medals to impel the present pupils of the school to higher proficiency. Mr. Thompson, though a young man, has for years been a man of affairs and prominent in local pub- 1
lic matters. He filled with credit to himself and the service the office of assistant postmaster of White Plains for seven years. He served as Village Clerk several years and his efficiency was publicly recog- nized by resolutions adopted by the Board of Village Trustees. In 1893 he was elected School Commis- sioner of the Second School Com- missioner District and served as such until 1896. He now holds the office of Justice of the Peace of the town of White Plains and also the position of Acting Police Justice of the village of White Plains. In pol- itics Mr. Thompson is a Democrat. He is a prominent member of White Plains Lodge, No. 473, F. and A. M., in which he has held important of- fices. He is a member of the law firm of Platt & Thompson, of White Plains, his associate being William Popham Platt, ex-District Attorney. Mr. Thompson is unmar- ried.
I. HOWARD KINCH.
I. Howard Kinch, ex-Commis- sioner of Jurors, was born in the town of North Castle, on May 30, 1845, of American parentage, a son of Andrew Jackson and Elizabeth S. (Townsend) Kinch. His father was Mayor of Bordentown, N. J., 1865-66. Mr. Kinch attended school at White Plains and at Round Hill, Conn .; was married in 1865 to Miss Cornelia H. Van Kirk, of Borden- town, N. J. In politics Mr. Kinch has always been a Democrat, and has been for years an active mem- ber of his party, holding for a long period the position of secretary of the Democratic County Committee, of Westchester County, and is rec- ognized as a most efficient executive officer. He served many years in the Democratic County Committee as the representative from the town of Mount Pleasant; held the posi- tion of postmaster at Pleasantville in 1869. He has also acted as an Inspector in the Department of Public Works of New York city, as special agent of the United States Treasury Department, and as a Deputy Sheriff of Westchester County. He was the first Commis- sioner of Jurors of Westchester
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County appointed under a special act of the Legislature. He is at present engaged in business as a real estate broker and is a resident of White Plains village.
M. JAMES MOONEY.
M. James Mooney, a former Dep- uty County Clerk, was born in Yon- kers, on July 19, 1857, a son of Mi- chael and Eliza Mooney. He was educated in the public schools of his native town. He took an active interest in politics as a Democrat. In 1883 he became attached to the County Clerk's office in White Plains, as a clerk under County Clerk J. F. D. Crane, and remained with each succeeding clerk up to the date of his death. From a clerkship of minor grade he was promoted to be clerk of the Su- preme and County Courts. In 1886 he was appointed by County Clerk Crumb as Deputy County Clerk, which position he held at the time of his death, February 4, 1897. He served as clerk of the Board of Su- pervisors one term. He was a mem- ber of the Twenty-seventh Regi- ment, N. Y. S. N. G., until its dis- bandment. He was a member of the Ancient Order of Foresters and also of the White Plains Concordia. He died at White Plains, where he had been a resident for fourteen years preceding. He was married to Miss Katharine T. Luckey,
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