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From 1886 to 1889 Mr. Hoyt was Assistant United States District Attorney for the Northern District of New York, and was connected with many important cases, among them that of the United States vs. Lester B. Faulkner, one of the most celebrated bank wrecking cases on record.
In 1894 Mr. Hoyt was appointed by Attorney-General Olney Counsel to the United States Inter-State Commerce Commis- sion for the States of New York and Ohio, with the official title of Assistant Attorney General.
As a member of the different law firms with which he has
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been connected, Mr. Hoyt has for many years been the legal adviser and representative of some of the most important inter- ests in this part of the State. Messrs. Hoyt & Spratt are now counsel in this territory for the New York Central Lines, including the Lake Shore, the New York Central proper, the West Shore, the Michigan Central, the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg, the Terminal Railway and other Vanderbilt properties. Among the firm's clients are also included the Western Union Telegraph Company, the Ætna Life Insurance Company, the Western Transit Company and the New York State Realty & Terminal Company, with such extensive Buffalo concerns as the George N. Pierce Automobile Company, the Buffalo Dredging Company, the German Rock Asphalt Co., the M. H. Birge & Sons Company, and the Buffalo Sanitary Company.
Mr. Hoyt was for six years a Director of the Buffalo Club, for three years Curator of the Buffalo Library, and a former member of the Board of School Examiners. For several years he served as President of the Cornell Alumni Association of Western New York, and in 1895 received the gratifying honor of election by the Alumni as a Trustee of the University for a term of five years.
December 20, 1887, Mr. Hoyt married Esther Lapham Hill, daughter of Dr. John D. Hill of Buffalo.
HON. LYMAN K. BASS. This distinguished Buffalonian, now deceased, was eminent both as a lawyer and statesman. For many years Mr. Bass was one of the leaders of the Western New York bar.
Lyman K. Bass was born in Alden, Erie County, N. Y., on the 13th of November, 1836. His father, Jonathan B. Bass, was a farmer. Until he was fifteen years old Lyman K. Bass attend- ed the district schools and later Union College, whence he was graduated in 1856. He studied law in the office of John Ganson, being admitted to the bar in December, 1858. Soon
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after becoming an attorney and counselor Mr. Bass formed a law partnership with Alexander W. Harvey, under the firm name of Harvey & Bass, an association which existed till 1866. From 1867 to 1870 Mr. Bass and Mr. George Gorham were part- ners, the firm style being Bass & Gorham. September, 1872, Mr. Bass became associated with Mr. Wilson S. Bissell in the law firm of Bass & Bissell, and on the 1st of January, 1874, Mr. Grover Cleveland was admitted to the firm, whose name was changed to Bass, Cleveland & Bissell, a partnership with which Mr. Bass continued to be identified as senior member during the remainder of his residence in Buffalo.
Even before he had attained his majority he had won dis- tinction as a political orator. In 1865 he was elected District Attorney of Erie County, and was reelected in 1868. In 1870 Mr. Bass received the Republican nomination for Representa- tive in the 42d Congress, but was defeated. In 1872 he was renominated and was elected to the 43d Congress by a majority of 5,000. In the work of that Congress Mr. Bass took an impor- tant part, being especially prominent as a member of the special committee appointed to examine into the expenditures of the Navy Department, an investigation which involved the consideration of the charges against Secretary of the Navy Belknap and which resulted in the retirement of that officer from the Cabinet. His services on this committee gave Mr. Bass a national reputation. Reelected in 1874, he served in the 44th Congress. He was a cogent debater, his character as well as his ability made his opinions respected by his associates of the House.
Never a man of very robust constitution, considerations of health induced Mr. Bass in 1877 to take up his residence at Colorado Springs, Colorado. It was not his intention at the time to engage there in professional duties, but he was solicited to become associate counsel for the Denver & Rio Grande Rail- road in the celebrated controversy between that road and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe for the right of way through the
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Arkansas Canon on the route from Denver to Leadville. After being tried before the Colorado tribunals the case went to the United States Supreme Court, where it was won by Mr. Bass after an argument which was probably the most brilliant and elaborate effort of his forensic career. The result made him famous as a railroad lawyer throughout the country. He was promoted chief counsel of the Denver & Rio Grande and was also made principal counsel for the Mexican National Railway, in these capacities conducting a vast amount of litigation and winning new laurels as a jurist and advocate.
In 1874 Mr. Bass married Frances Esther Metcalfe, daughter of James H. and Erzelia Metcalfe of Buffalo. The only child of the marriage is Lyman M. Bass, a well-known lawyer of Buffalo.
The death of Hon. Lyman K. Bass occurred in New York City on the 10th of May, 1889. In him was lost to the world a man of rare professional attainments and civic usefulness and one whose life exemplified the noblest standards of manhood and citizenship.
LYMAN M. BASS, United States Attorney for the Western District of New York, is one of Buffalo's prominent legal prac- titioners, a sound and well-read lawyer who in addition to his official duties has an extensive practice.
Mr. Bass is the only son of the late Hon. Lyman K. Bass, and of Frances E. (Metcalfe) Bass, daughter of James H. Metcalfe. Lyman Metcalfe Bass was born in Buffalo on the 5th of July, 1876. During his infancy his parents removed to Colorado Springs, Col., where he attended public and private schools. Later he entered the Academic Department of Yale College, graduating in 1897 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and Harvard Law School in 1900 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and was admitted to the bar that year.
Returning to Buffalo, Mr. Bass entered the law office of Rogers, Locke & Milburn, where he remained two years. He
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then became connected with the office of Bissell, Carey & Cooke, in which firm he was admitted partner in 1906. Upon the latter firm becoming Kenefick, Cooke & Mitchell, Mr. Bass also became a member of the reorganized firm, with which he has since continued, thus being associated as partner with the successor of the firm of Bass, Cleveland & Bissell, of which his father, Hon. Lyman K. Bass, was the senior member more than a quarter of a century ago.
When, in December, 1906, Charles H. Brown became Justice of the Supreme Court, Mr. Bass was appointed by President Roosevelt United States Attorney for the Western District of New York, an office which he still holds and whose duties he discharges with signal capability.
During the Spanish-American War Mr. Bass was Second Lieutenant of Light Battery F, 3d U. S. Artillery. Prior to joining his battery he served as acting aide on the staff of Maj. Gen. James H. Wilson, U. S. A., and afterward accompanied the battery in the Porto Rico campaign. After peace was concluded Lieutenant Bass resigned his commission and returned to his law studies.
In 1905 Mr. Bass was appointed by Gov. Higgins as member of the Board of Managers of the State Industrial School at Rochester, and continued to serve on the Board till March, 1907, when he resigned. In January, 1907, he was appointed by Mayor Adam Chairman of the Army Post Commission, a position which he continues to fill.
Mr. Bass is a member of the State Bar Association, the Erie County Bar Association, the Associate Society of Chapin Post, G. A. R., the Buffalo, Saturn, Country and Park clubs of this city, the University Club of New York and the Yale and Harvard Alumni Associations of Western New York.
August 4, 1904, Mr. Bass was married to Miss Grace Holland, daughter of Nelson Holland and Susan (Clark) Holland of Buffalo. Mr. and Mrs. Bass have one daughter, Susan, born on the 7th of June, 1905.
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CHARLES J. NORTH, for many years one of Buffalo's fore- most insurance men, and since then prominent in real estate and other interests, can also lay claim to the title of a publicist. Viewed in his general relations to the community he is a pro- gressive citizen, well abreast of the spirit of the age and using his influence for sound civic principles and material and moral advancement.
The great-grandparents of Charles J. North, all of whom were settlers in Clinton County, New York, prior to the War of 1812, were as follows: William Churchill, born at Sheffield, Mass., 1763, and his wife, Eunice Cul- ver, born at Litchfield, Conn., 1762; Liberty New- ton, born at Shrewsbury, Mass., 1766, and his wife, Asintha, born at Goshen, Conn., 1768; Daniel Jack- son, born on Long Island, 1757, and his wife, Mary Greene, born Rhode Island, 1759, and John CHARLES J. NORTII. Allen, born at Dart- mouth, Mass., 1752, and his wife, Phoebe Denel, born in Duchess County, New York, 1757.
Charles Jackson North was born at Chazy, Clinton County, N. Y., May 13, 1847. He was educated at the district schools and at a private school at Avon, Livingston County. He after- wards worked on farms for a time. In such time as he could spare from labor he studied and read assiduously and acquired an excellent education.
Odwo G. Becker
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Sons of the American Revolution, also of the Mayflower Society, holding membership in the former through the military services of Abijah North of Farmington, Conn., and Liberty Newton of Shrewsbury, Mass., both of whom were soldiers in the Patriot Army during the War for Independence. In the early '70's Mr. North was Corresponding Secretary and a Direc- tor of the Y. M. C. A., and a member and Treasurer of the First Presbyterian Church, and President of the Oakfield Club during its existence.
June 30, 1881, Mr. North was married to Miss Dora C. Briggs, daughter of Prof. Horace Briggs and Catherine Morse. The pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. North is the center of a large circle of friends.
EDWARD G. BECKER. One of the foremost men in Buffalo banking circles is Edward G. Becker, whose connection with the banking institutions of our city covers a period of more than thirty-five years. Mr. Becker is a notable example of the intellectual type of business man. A liberal, progressive finan- cier, he has mastered not only the practical details of banking, but their wide relations with the community. In the Civil Service Reform cause he has rendered to the community valu- able services.
Of German ancestry, the Becker family of which he is a mem- ber, came from Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, his ancestors having lived for many generations in the village of Bechthold- sheim. His grandparents, Christian and Charlotte Becker, came to America with their children in 1833 and settled in Buffalo. Christian Becker was a well-known and respected German-American citizen of the Buffalo of half a century ago. Christian Becker married Charlotte Holderber. The children were: six sons, Christian, Peter, Lewis, Philip, Henry, and Frederick, of whom the last three are living. Lewis Becker (or Baker) was the father of Monseigneur Nelson H. Baker, the eminent Catholic prelate.
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Henry Becker, son of Christian Becker, and the father of Edward G. Becker, is a widely known and estimable citizen of Buffalo.
He was born in Bechtholdsheim, Hesse-Darmstadt, in 1825. When eight years old he accompanied his parents to America. He was engaged in the hotel business throughout his active life in Buffalo. Mr. Becker has from childhood been a member of St. John's Lutheran Church.
In 1848 Mr. Becker married Susanna M. Nauert of Buffalo. The children are: Edward G. Becker, Franklin W. H., and Oliver J. Becker, all of Buffalo; Mrs. Amanda Gottschalk of Lancaster, N. Y., and Mrs. Lottie J. Maurer of Buffalo. Mrs. Becker died on the 28th of December, 1904, at the age of seventy-eight years.
Edward G. Becker was born in Buffalo October 22, 1852. He attended Public School No. 13 and graduated from Central High School in 1869.
After devoting two years to several business occupations, September 1, 1871, he entered the German Bank as individual bookkeeper. He was steadily advanced until he became Cashier in January, 1878. This place he continued to hold until he was retained by the Buffalo Savings Bank as Receiving Teller January 1, 1881, promoted Assistant Secretary in Feb- ruary, 1893, and on his fiftieth birthday, October 22, 1902, was elected Secretary of the Bank, his present position, and in 1903 was chosen a Trustee.
Besides his banking interests, Mr. Becker is President of the Buffalo Co-operative Brewing Company, with which he has been connected from the time of its organization.
Mr. Becker is a Republican in politics. He served four years as a Member of the Civil Service Commission by appointment by Mayor Diehl. His record as Civil Service Commissioner was one of noteworthy industry and achievement. He was one of the Committee which revised the rules and laws of the Con- mission, and had an important share in the formulation of the
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regulations now in force. In 1905 Mr. Becker was appointed Union Station Commissioner of the City of Buffalo.
Mr. Becker is a Mason of the 32d degree and a member of Buffalo Consistory; of Erie Lodge, No. 161; and Zuleika Grotto, No. 10; and Omega Lodge, No. 259, I. O. O. F., and No. 23, B. P. O. E. He is a member of the Buffalo Club, Chamber of Com- merce; a life member in the Buffalo Orpheus, and belongs to the Buffalo Saengerbund, and the Automobile Club of Buffalo.
Of the Lutheran faith, Mr. Becker has for many years been actively identified with Holy Trinity Church, of which he was the first Secretary. In the erection of the new English Lu- theran Holy Trinity Church he served as Chairman of the Building Committee.
On the 20th of May, 1875, Mr. Becker married Miss Bertha Hettrich, daughter of Peter Hettrich and Philipina (Weber) Hettrich of Buffalo. Mr. and Mrs. Becker have three children: Arthur E., who was born in 1876; Clara B., born in 1878, and Ralph E., born in 1884.
THE COTTLE FAMILY. The ancestors of the Cottle family of Buffalo came from England to Massachusetts in early Colo- nial days and resided at Boston and vicinity. The paternal great-grandfather of Octavius (. Cottle served as a soldier in a Massachusetts regiment in the old French War. His great- grandfather was a soldier in the War of 1812, and his father served in the Civil War as Lieutenant and Captain in the 49th New York Volunteer Infantry in the Army of the Potomac, and afterwards as Major in Ullman's Brigade. He was under the command of General Banks in the Southwest and in Texas, and accompanied him on the Red River expedition and participated in the siege and capture of Port Hudson.
Philip S. Cottle, father of O. O. Cottle, was born on Martha's Vineyard. He married Harriet B. Weston, daughter of John Weston, a merchant of Willington, Conn. Her mother was Hannah Rathbone, a descendant of one of the Mayflower Pil-
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grims. Philip S. Cottle and his wife emigrated from the East to Chautauqua County, N. Y. He was a lawyer and practiced in Chautauqua County, and served as Special County Judge. He died in 1873.
OCTAVIUS O. COTTLE, son of Philip S. Cottle, has been for many years a representative member of the Buffalo bar.
Born in Chautauqua County, Octavius O. Cottle received his early education at Fredonia Academy. He began his legal studies in the office of Cottle, Snow & Edwards, at Fredonia. Coming to Buffalo in 1852, he entered the office of Greene & Sheldon, and was admitted to practice in 1853. For some years Mr. Cottle was a member of the law firm of Greene, Cottle & Stevens. Since the dissolution of that copartnership he has practiced alone.
Mr. O. O. Cottle married at Little Falls, N. Y., Miss Fannie Ford Petrie, daughter of Mr. Joram Petrie of the firm of D. & J. Petrie, who were extensively engaged in mercantile, manufac- turing and transportation business. The Petrie family settled in the Mohawk Valley before the Revolution. The mother of Mrs. Cottle was, on the father's side, of the well-known Ford family of Albany and Troy, and on the mother's, of the Vander- heydens of the latter city. The first Vanderheyden was " Patroon " of that vicinity. Mrs. O. O. Cottle died May 13, 1902.
EDMUND PETRIE COTTLE, son of Octavius O. and Fannie Petrie Cottle, was born in Buffalo July 6, 1861. He attended Mrs. Lathrop's School, Heathcote School, and the Central High School, all of this city, and the Academy at Little Falls, N. Y., also Williston Seminary at East Hampton, Mass., at the latter institution being prepared for college. Entering Yale Uni- versity in 1880, he was graduated as a member of the class of 1884 with the degree of B.A. In May of the same year Mr. Cottle visited Europe. He was at this time much interested in
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athletics, and was an expert Lacrosse player, having played with the Yale Freshmen and University Lacrosse teams, and served as President of the Yale Lacrosse Association. He was a member of the Yale Chapter of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity, and was elected floor manager of the Yale Senior Promenade Committee. The summer of 1884 he spent in traveling in Europe, after playing in England and Ireland as a member of the American Lacrosse team, and participated in all their matches, playing against " All England," " All Ireland," and United Kingdom, Cambridge University, and against all the leading teams in the British Islands, the American team losing but one match.
Before leaving for Europe the American Lacrosse team played Yale, Harvard, Princeton, New York University, Boston, the Young America Cricket Club of Philadelphia, and the Orioles of Baltimore, and won from all of them. Mr. Cottle played " cover point " in all the matches in this country, and those in England and Ireland.
Returning to Buffalo, Mr. Cottle began the study of law in the office of his father, and in October, 1887, was admitted to the bar. Col. Cottle is a lawyer of superior attainments, large experience and marked success in his profession.
Besides his law practice, Col. Cottle is Secretary and Treas- urer of the Ellicott Brick Company and the Runskool Metal Company.
June 16, 1885, he enlisted in the Signal Corps of the Eighth Brigade, National Guard of the State of New York, serving until the muster out of the corps August 5, 1886. He was com- missioned Second Lieutenant of Company F, 74th Regiment N. G. N. Y., October 19, 1886; promoted First-Lieutenant Com- pany F, March 18, 1890; Captain, November 15, 1892, and June 20, 1894, Lieutenant-Colonel. On the 24th of November, 1899, he was appointed Aide-de-Camp to Governor Roosevelt, and continued to serve in that capacity during the latter's administration.
Col. Cottle served on the committee which secured the site
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and new armory building for the 74th Regiment. He mapped out the legal procedure for obtaining the site and necessary appropriations, drew the original armory bill and the deed con- veying the site to the State.
When the Spanish-American War broke out, Col. Cottle offered his services. He was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the 201st Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, which was recruited in New York City, and served with that organization from July 8, 1898, to April 3, 1899, when the Regiment was mustered out of the service.
He then resumed his office as Lieutenant-Colonel in the 74th Regiment. During his service in the United States Volunteers Col. Cottle was with the 201st. Regiment at Camp Black, Camp Meade and Camp Wetherell, at Greenville, S. C. The regiment was twice ordered to prepare to move to Cuba, but each time its services were found unnecessary.
He was detailed as Provost Marshal of the 2nd Division, 2d Army Corps, and in that position served on the staff of Gen. Geo. W. Davis, afterwards Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, later on the staff of General George M. Randall, from November, 1898, to April, 1899. As Provost Marshal he was charged with maintaining order in a camp of about 7,000 men, also in the city of Greenville, so far as the acts of soldiers or of citizens toward soldiers were concerned.
Just before the 201st Regiment was mustered out, the citi- zens of Greenville, at their City Hall, presented Col. Cottle a handsome sword on which was engraved: "To Lt .- Colonel Edmund P. Cottle, 201st New York Vol. Infantry. March 1, 1899. A testimonial of appreciation by the citizens of Green- ville, S. C., of the valuable services rendered the City by him as Provost Marshal."
Col. Cottle is a member of Ancient Landmarks Lodge, F. & A. M., the Yale Alumni Association, the Psi Upsilon Fraternity, and a charter member of the University ('lub. He is also a member of the Buffalo Yacht Club, Lawyers' Club, and State Bar Association and Erie County Bar Association. In 1902 Col.
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Cottle married Miss Bessie Edgar McKenna, daughter of the late Wm. A. and Mrs. Belle Brewster McKenna of Detroit, Mich. Col. and Mrs. Cottle have two children: Frances McKenna Cottle and Edmund Petrie Cottle, Jr.
THE SATTERFIELD FAMILY, of honorable antecedents, and well-known in this country, is of English origin. William M. Satterfield came from England about the year 1775, and settled in Delaware, where he became a planter. All persons bearing the Satterfield name in America are descended from this original ancestor, who died in 1794.
Andrew Satterfield, son of William M. and his wife, Ann, was born May 15, 1788. He removed from Maryland to the vicinity of Sharon, Pa., about 1818. He was a farmer and an influential citizen. He married Jane Morrison. Their children were: Sarah, John, Elizabeth, Thomas, and Catherine.
JOHN SATTERFIELD, elder of the two sons of Andrew and Jane (Morrison) Satterfield, was born on the 7th of June, 1839. He received a common school education, and as a young man learned the wheelwright's trade, which he followed until the breaking out of the Civil War, when he enlisted as a private in Company B of the 140th Pennsylvania Volunteers. He went to the front and served in the Army of the Potomac until the close of the war. He participated in a number of battles, including that of Gettysburg, served through the siege of Petersburg and was present at Lee's surrender at Appomattox. He was several times slightly wounded. His gallant and efficient services brought him a series of promotions. Made a sergeant Septem- ber 16, 1862; Second Lieutenant, November 15, 1864; and First Lieutenant, March 4, 1865, and December, 1864, appointed aide to Gen. Macy of the 1st Division, Second Army Corps, he received his honorable discharge May 31, 1865.
After the war Mr. Satterfield became interested in the oil business in Western Pennsylvania. Forming a partnership with Hascal L. Taylor, he later was associated with T. S. McFarland, George V. Forman and other well-known operators,
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with whom he carried on a large and successful business in Titusville and vicinity.
In 1880 Mr. Satterfield came with his family to Buffalo. He continued for a number of years his oil business, which was finally merged with the interests of the Standard Oil Company, in 1892.
During his residence in Buffalo Mr. Satterfield became well- known in many fields of enterprise. He was a Director and Vice-President of the Third National Bank for ten years, one of the organizers of the Fidelity Trust Company, serving as Trustee and Vice-President until his death, and a stockholder and official of several traction companies since merged into the Interna- tional Railway Company. He was an officer of the Cataract Power & Con- duit Company, the Niag- ara Falls Power Com- pany, and was concerned in many other enter- prises.
In politics Mr. Satter- field was a strong Repub- lican. Closely identified with Westminster Church, was for many years one of its most active members. He was a warm friend and sup- JOHN SATTERFIELD. porter of the Homeo- pathic Hospital at Buffalo and the Children's Home at Randolph, N. Y., giving to these institutions liberally of his time and money, and remembering them both by substantial legacies, and a member of the old Board of Trade.
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October 12, 1875, Mr. Satterfield married Miss Matilda Martin, daughter of Dr. Charles D. and Matilda (Detwiller) Martin of Allentown, Pa. The children of the marriage are: John Martin Satterfield and a daughter, Marie, who married Count Franz von Larisch of Vienna, Austria. The children of the latter union are: two sons, Hans, born in 1903, and Dimitri, born in 1904.
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