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With this business experience of nearly forty years in Syracuse, Mr. Snow has consistently fol- lowed the upright and honorable principles that always should, and commonly do, govern the bus- iness conduct of all successful men, depending upon sagacity, good judgment, and industry for his proper reward. In this he has not been disappointed, and at the same time has gained the unqual- ified respect and esteem of the entire community.
Mr. Snow has devoted almost his whole attention to his business. Public office has never pos- sessed attraction for him, though he has received ample evidence of the confidence of his fellow cit-
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izens. He has been one of the Board of Directors of the First National bank since 1887, and has for many years been conspicuous in the direction and conduct of various benevolent and charitable institutions. He is a member of the Unitarian Church and one of its Board of Trustees.
Mr. Snow was married on the 20th of October, 1863, to Miss Harriet L., only daughter of Dr. Nelson C. Powers, who was a leading physician of Syracuse for more than thirty years. They have two children : Nelson I'., born December 9, 1868, and now in a wholesale drug store in New York city, and Carrie L., born October 15, 1874.
F FREDERICK ROWLAND HAZARD was born on the 14th of June, 1858, at Peace Dale, Rhode Island. Ilis father is Rowland Hazard, a prominent woolen manufacturer and respected citizen of that place. His mother was Miss Margaret Rood, of Philadelphia. The elder Mr. Haz- ard is I'resident of the Solvay Process Company, of Syracuse.
The subject of this sketch studied at Brown University, from which institution he graduated with honor in ISSI. It had been his purpose, as well as that of his father, that he should follow the business of woolen manufacturing, and with that end in view Mr. Hazard spent two years in the mills at Peace Dale immediately after he left the University. He studied and worked practically in the various departments of the business and made himself conversant with its details, in the endeavor to fit himself for any duty that might fall to a manager. But he was destined to another and very different field of labor. At about the time that Mr. Hazard graduated from the University, laborers were breaking ground for the establishment in Syracuse of the largest manufacturing plant in Cen- tral New York-the Solvay Process Company's works. As stated in the sketch of Mr. Cogswell, preceding this, Mr. Ilazard's father was very prominently interested in these works, and therefore it was a natural consequence of his son's ability and the demands of the new business, that the latter should be offered the position of Assistant Treasurer. This occurred in the fall of 1883 ; but the young man decided that it would be far better for his future, as well as for the business, if he could make himself thoroughly familiar with the details of the manufacture, (as he had already done in studying the woolen manufacture when he expected to engage in it) before assuming the duties of the place. He promptly started, sailing for England in the month of September, and spent nine months of industrious labor and study in the works of Solvay & Cie, at Dombasle, France. He returned in May, 1884, and has since that time rendered most efficient service as Assistant Treasurer and Treas- urer of the Company. He was promoted to the latter office in June, 1887. Mr. Hazard was made Treasurer of the Tully l'ipe Line Company and of the Split Rock Cable Road Company upon their formation. Both of these companies are intimately associated with the Solvay l'rocess Com- pany, and are described elsewhere in this work. Mr. ITazard's natural and acquired ability enables him to till these stations in a manner satisfactory to the companies and conducive to their best inter- ests. Being still a young man, of fine address and polished manner, liberally educated and with weli disciplined business habits, it is not out of place to predict for Mr. Hazard a more than ordinar- ily prosperous and honorable future.
Mr. Hazard was married on the 29th of May, 1836, to Miss Dora G. Sedgwick, youngest daughter of Charles B. Sedgwick, of Syracuse. They have three young daughters.
YLVESTER P. PIERCE was born in the town of Paris, village of Sauquoit, Oneida county, N.
S Y., on the 19th of September, 1814. Ile was the fifth child of a family of eight children of Dr. Spaulding Pierce and Abigail Bacon ; the former a native of Plainfield, Windham county, Conn., and the latter a native of Athol, Mass. His grandfather and his great-grandfather on his father's side were natives of l'lainfield, Conn., and his great-grandmother was the first white child born in the town of Plainfield. His father, Dr. Spaulding Pierce, settled in Paris, Oneida county, in the year
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1796, and was a practicing physician of the Old School through the period of early settlement of the town. He died when the boy, Sylvester, was twelve years old. He had met with financial losses and when the family was left without its head, Sylvester found it necessary to leave home and seek his own livelihood. At an early age, therefore, he went into a store in the village of Sauquoit, where he worked faithfully several years. He next engaged in the store of Jay Hathaway, of Rome, N. Y., for about two years, and went from there to Utica, N. Y., into the dry goods store of Theodore S. Gould. The young man remained there several years, and then found employment in the crockery store of Kansom Curtis, in the same city, and during his term of service there he was sent to Oswego to close out a general stock of goods purchased by the firm, and remained there one year. During this considerable period of varied business experience, Mr. Pierce had acquired a fund of practical knowledge of the laws governing honorable trade which was to be of immense future value to him, and he began to think of a broader field and individual effort in the ranks of business men. Accord- ingly in the spring of 1839 he located in Syracuse (then a comparatively small village) and opened a crockery store in partnership with Ransom Curtis. His first store was on the site now occupied by Coville & Morris, on East Water street, where they remained one year, when they were forced to re- move through the sale of the building, and they located temporarily on the corner of Water and War- ren streets, and then removed, in December, 1840, to what was No. 10 South Salina street. The firm were importers from England from the beginning ; their business was skillfully handled and en- ergetically conducted, and was successful from the outset. After four years Mr. Curtis went out of the firm and from that time down to the present, Mr. Pierce has continued in that line of trade alone, with the exception of short periods when several of his clerks have been allowed an interest in the business. Both wholesaling and retailing were carried on with rapidly increasing volume and reach- ing over a constantly broadening field, until he finally conducted one of the largest establishments of the kind in the State, with importations direct from Germany, Holland, France, and England. The retail branch of the business was discontinued about ten years ago. Mr. Pierce purchased the Salina street store in 1845 and rebuilt the old marble front in 1854. He purchased the Clinton street prop- erty in 1863, and built his present stores thereon in 1869 for the accommodation of the wholesale branch of the business. Besides this large establishment, which might satisfy the business ambition of most men, Mr. Pierce has long been connected with prominent manufacturing enterprises. In 1849, soon after the building of the gas works, he began the gas fitting business in a small way, and has sinee added steam heating and kindred branches. From this has grown the enormous business now done by the Pierce, Butler & Pierce Manufacturing Company, who also control the manufacture of the celebrated Florida boiler, for heating purposes. The sales of this company extend to nearly every State in the Union, and into foreign countries, and they have branches in New York, Chicago, and Boston. Mr. Pierce is president of this company, and also of the Catchpole Manufacturing Com- pany, of Geneva, N. Y., at which place the manufactory of the Florida boilers is located. The close attention always given by Mr. Pierce to his business, the high and honorable aims that he has always kept in view, and his unswerving integrity, have won for him the high esteem of his fellow-men.
In polities Mr. Pierce was at first identified with the Whigs, but upon the organization of the Re- publican party he became, and has continued, a firm supporter of its principles. He has never been a seeker after office, but, at the request of his fellow citizens, served as Supervisor of his ward (the Sixth) two terms. He is a liberal supporter of religious interests and has been for many years a ves- tryman of St. Paul's Church. Both himself and his wife were consistent and earnest members of that church.
Mr. Pierce was married in IS41 to Miss Cornelia Marsh, daughter of Elisha Marsh and Lovina Wiard, of Geddes. Mrs. Pierce's father was from Coleraine, Mass., and settled at Onondaga Hill about the year 1300, where he was one of the pioneers of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Pierce have four children : Marsh C., Charles II., William K., and Emma C. Mr. Pierce's sons are all asso- eiated with him in business.
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W ILLIAM E. ABBOTT was born in Lowville, N. Y., on the 19th of January, 1822. Flis an- cestors on both sides were Connecticut people. His father was Paul Abbott, born May 7, 1783, son of William Abbott, who lived in l'omfret, in that State, and subsequently removed to Union in that State, where Paul was born, and thence to Clinton, Oneida county, in 1799. His mother was Patty Eels, born in what was then known as Middletown Upper Houses, now Cromwell, Conn. Paul Abbott was a tailor and began his first business in that line at Lowville as a merchant tailor. Fie learned his trade in Whitestown, N. V., and went to Lowville to live in 1804. Ile died in that place in 1831. William E. attended the district school and the academy in Lowville, and enjoyed the good fortune of a period at Gouverneur Academy, and also at the preparatory school at Oberlin, Ohio. Possessed of a good common edneation he went to the city of Utica in 1838, when he was sixteen years old, to begin his business career. Ife served faithfully as a clerk in the dry goods stores of A. L. & R. H. Wells, and Spencer Kellogg & Son, between three and four years and made him- self a master of that business as far as it could be acquired in that time. At the end of his clerkship on the 2d of January, 1842, he located in Syracuse with his brother, Henry G. Abbott, as dealers in dry goods. Theirs was the first store in which dry goods were sold exclusively in this city. Their first store was on the site now occupied by Grant & Dunn, and either in that or one of the two adjoin- ing stores the business was successfully conducted for thirty-five years. In the year 1846 a younger brother, James H., was admitted to the partnership and the firm name became Abbott Brothers, with a branch store in Utica. William E. finally, in the year 1849, bought out his brothers and car- ried on the business alone for about thirty years, during the last three in the store on Sonth Salina street now occupied by Ginty & Son. At the close of this long period of business activity, in which was built up a successful trade and a reputation for integrity and business capacity, he retired from that line of trade. After one year of freedom from business cares Mr. Abbott joined with Edwin P. Hopkins, formerly County Clerk. in the coal business, locating their yard on West Water street, in Alexander, Bradley & Dunning's foundry yard. This was in September, 1871. After Mr. Hopkins' death his son, W. E. Hopkins, took his father's interest in the business, the firm name remaining the same. This firm was continued down to 1888, when Mir. Abbott bought his partner's interest and has since conducted the business alone.
This is a brief record of a long and honorable career, free from speculative operations and un- wholesome struggles to obtain a fortune at a grasp, that often end in ruin, and in which Mr. Abbott reached that fair measure of success to which he was entitled, and at the same time won the esteem and friendship of all the business community.
Mr. Abbott has received many evidences of the confidence of his fellow citizens. He was chosen Inspector of the Penitentiary in 1869 and held the office three years. During a period of the same length he was Supervisor of the Eighth ward, in the years 1871-3. In 1856 he was chosen a trustee of the Orphan Asylum, which office he still holds, and has been Secretary of the Board for thirty years. He is one of the charter members of the Onondaga County Savings Bank and also of the Plymouth Congregational Church, of which latter he has been a consistent and practical member. About twenty years ago Mr. Abbott purchased three acres of land on the corner of Beech and East Genesee streets, built a pleasant residence there and has ever since made it his home. In the declin- ing years of his life Mr. Abbott enjoys the fullest esteem of the community and the warm friendship of the many who have been admitted to his confidence.
It is a source of pride to Mr. Abbott that he was one of the earliest and most earnest advocates of anti-slavery, when such a course brought opprobrinm from many, and often personal abuse or in- jury. He was actively instrumental in aiding between three and four hundred slaves over the under- ground railroad and on to freedom. In the famous Jerry Rescue he was one of the actors and also one of the bondsmen of the late Moses Summers, who was indicted as one of the rescuers. Ile has ever since that incident carried, on a key ring in his pocket, one of the chain links of Jerry's shackles. In connection with Dr. Lyman Clary, Moses Summers, and Dr. James Fuller, they met in Dr. Clary's office on Warren street and put in nomination the " Jerry Rescue Ticket," as it was called, for State and county officers, and Dudley P. Phelps for Member of Assembly. The ticket was successful at the fall election and owing to the small majority given the State ticket, was instrumental in electing
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Mr. Clark as Governor of the State. This was the beginning of the great Republican party in the State of New York.
On the 12th of August, 1845, Mr. Abbott was married to Jane A. Foster, daughter of Arnold Foster. of Litchfield, Herkimer county, N. Y. She died in March, 1889. He has no children of his own, but an adopted son.
PATRICK LYNCHI was born in County Kerry, Ireland, on the 1st day of November, IS24, and came with his parents to America in June, 1333. His father was John Lynch, who became a farmer in the town of Dewitt, this county, and died there. All the education ever received by Pat- rick Lynch from schools, was obtained in Ireland, and, consequently, before he was ten years old ; but he never lost an opportunity during after years to increase his store of knowledge, both in En- glish branches and in that broad general information which contributes so largely to enable a man to attain success in life. The immigration of the family to America was influenced by James Lynch, the well known early merchant of Salina village, and an uncle of the subject of this sketch. In James Lynch's store the boy, fresh from Ireland, began work as a clerk as soon as the family were settled here. When, a little later, his brothers, Cornelius and John, opened a store in Salina, Patrick began work for them in a similar capacity. In those two stores he spent his time until he reached his twentieth year. With his constant study and unremitting attention to the business he gained a practical experience which was to be of the greatest value to him in after life. When twenty years old, in company with his brothers, above named, he opened a dry goods store in Syracuse, in what is now the Empire block, under the firm name of Lynch & Co. The partnership lasted about three years, when John Lynch died and Cornelius retired. Patrick continued to do a successful business from that time down to 1851, laying the foundation of a fortune, and gaining the confidence and re- spect of the community. His spirit of enterprise and his confidence in his own ability to grasp and handle larger interests led him to enter into the manufacture of iron, an industry with which he has ever since been connected, through the former Delano Iron Works, and now the Onondaga Iron Com- pany. Like a large majority of the successful men of Syracuse, Mr. Lynch also engaged in salt manufacturing, both in the erection and management of fine salt blocks and as a stockholder in sev- eral coarse salt companies. His interest in this latter branch of the industry still continues. Mr. Lynch has been also closely identified with early banking interests in Syracuse, and was the president, and practically, the owner of the Syracuse City Bank, which was located in the building that stood on the site of the present magnificent Lynch building on South Salina street. The bank was in success- ful operation from 1851 to about 1867, when its affairs were settled up and its business closed. In
. the Morris Run Coal Company, which was organized by the late James P. Ilaskin, Mr. Lynch was also a prominent stockholder and a trustee, and he was appointed Receiver of the Hlaskin estate. In railroad interests Mr. Lynch has always felt a deep concern and an abiding faith, which led him long ago to invest in their construction. He was a stockholder in the New York Central, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, and is now a stockholder in the Syracuse, Geneva, and Corning road, which is one of the most profitable lines in the country. In all of these affairs and positions Mr. Lynch has shown, in a marked degree, those qualifications that usually characterize the business men of sound principles, cool and far-seeing judgment, boldness, combined withi prudence, and the intuition to grasp the right matter at the right time. Always feeling a deep interest in the welfare of his adopted city, he has invested extensively in real estate. Ife purchased his beautiful home on James street in 1$59, and long ago became the owner of an interest in the Malcolm and Grand Opera House blocks, besides his beautiful block recently erected on Salina street, with other minor holdings. He is a progressive citizen and keeps the best interests of the community always in view. Mr. Lynch be- longs to the Catholic faith and is in every way a liberal supporter of her churches and benevolent in- stitutions.
Mr. Lynch has been twice married. Ifis first wife was Sarah Strattun, of Syracuse. She died in 1845. In 1859 he married Mrs. Cynthia Van Loon, of Albany. Mrs. P. II. Pendergast, of Syra- cuse, is his daughter by his first wife.
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T HEODORE E. HANCOCK was born in the town of Granby, Oswego county, May 30, 1$47. llis father was Freeman Hancock, who was of English descent and born at Martha's Vineyard. He belonged to a hardy family of sailors. His mother, Mary Williams, was of French descent and was born in Providence, R. I. Mr. Hancock's education, after his attendance at the district schools when young, was obtained at the Falley Seminary, in Fulton, N. Y., where he graduated first in his class in 1867. 'He then entered the Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn., and graduated in 1871, at the head of his class and the recipient of prizes for proficiency in Latin and Greek. Having determined upon the law as a profession, he attended the Columbia Law School and graduated in 1873. Since that date he has practiced continuously in Syracuse, and has entered the front rank of his profession. During the period since 1873 he has been a member of the firm of Gilbert & Hancock, Hancock & Munroe, Hoyt, Beach & Hancock, and Hancock, Beach & Devine, which is the present firm of which he is a member, his partners being William A. Beach and James Devine.
Mr. Hancock is a Republican in politics and has been an earnest worker within the lines of that party as far as consistent with dignity and fairness. In recognition of his services and his standing in his profession, he was appointed by the Common Council as Justice of the city of Syracuse in 1878, and was elected to the same office in the succeeding year, and ran ahead of his ticket about 1,500, The duties of the office were discharged by him in a manner that fully satisfied his constituents. In 1889 he was nominated by his party for District Attorney of Onondaga county and at the election ran about 1,200 ahead of the regular ticket. Mr. Hancock is a student by nature and for one of his years is thoroughly equipped for his profession and the public offices to which he has been called. In the responsible work of the District Attorney's office he has the commendation of the community.
Mr. Hancock was married, in 1881, to Martha B. Connelly, and they have two children.
RTHUR B. KINNE, M. D., was born on the 25th of September, 1850, in Dewitt Center, A Onondaga county, N. Y. His father was Mason P. Kinne, a prosperous and respected farmer, and his mother was, before her marriage, Miss Mary J. Spaulding, of Canandaigua, Ontario county, N. Y. In common with most farmers' boys, Arthur B. Kinne attended the district school for his primary education, but was fortunate enough to be given more advanced opportunities in the public and High School of Syracuse, and he graduated from the latter in 1871. The succeeding three years he spent on his father's farm, and during that formative period he resolved to make the profession of medicine his life work. Accordingly, in 1874, he came to Syracuse and entered the office of the late William Henry Hoyt. There he gave up three years to unremitting study, supplemented during that period by two courses in the New York Homoeopathic Medical College, from which institution he graduated in March, 1877. In the following May he located permanently in Syracuse and has practiced without partnership associates ever since. Ile occupied first the office of Dr. Hoyt. his preceptor, and upon the death of Dr. Frank Bigelow took his office on Salina street, where he re- mained three years. During the succeeding four years he occupied an office on East Jefferson street, at the end of which time he removed to Warren street, where his office and residence have since been located.
Daring his period of practice in Syracuse Dr. Kinne has attained a position in the front rank of his profession, and has gained the respect and esteem not only of those with whom he has been professionally associated, but of a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Ile is a physician al. does not believe that his highest object was attained with the completion of his studies in college. Ile has made the best possible use of his time for study and the qualifications thus gained have not gone unrecognized. Ile is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy since ISS; ; a niem. ber of the New York State Hemwropathic Medical Society since 1SS2, and read a paper before tta! lunly in 1-53, his subject being Materia Medica, which was commended by his professional beech ren. Ever since his graduation he has been a prominent member of the Onondaga County Hoa . .. pathic Society, from which he has been a delegate to the State Society for the past three years. (!
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the same he was President in 1887. In his social relations Dr. Kinne is most happily situated. Ife was married in 18So to Miss Julia I'. Smylie, of Patterson, N. J., and they have one child, a daugh- ter aged nine years.
W ILLIAM AUSTIN BEACH, attorney and counselor and ex-Collector of Internal Revenue, was born in Baldwinsville on the 22d of August, 1842. Ilis father was Henry G. Beach, a successful farmer and lumber dealer ; he held the office of Salt Superintendent one term about the year 1843-4, and died in 1871. ITis wife was Mary Thompson, who died in 1863, and both were natives of Delaware county, N. Y. William A. attended the Union school at Baldwinsville up to the year 1861, when he entered the Delaware Literary Institute, at Franklin, Delaware county, and graduated two years later. During the succeeding two years he taught school in the towns of Van Buren and Cicero, Onondaga county. In 1865 he began the study of law in the office of Graves, Hunt & Green, in Syracuse, and was admitted to practice in April, 1866. He was admitted to practice in the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, on the 10th of April, 1573 ; to the District Court of the Southern District November 23, 1885; to the Circuit Court of the Northern District November 18, 1385, and to the Supreme Court of the United States October IS, 188S. Dur- ing the period covered by this advancement, Mr. Beach enjoyed a large practice and won recognition as a lawyer of more than ordinary attainments. A Democrat in politics and with a taste for active labor in the party, he began campaign work when he was only twenty-two years old, stumping the county for the candidates of his party. He made a study of all political questions of importance, is a forcible and logical speaker, and his efficiency in this field was such that he has been called on to stump the State in every campaign since 1863. and during the past season was one of the gentlemen selected by the Reform club to meet the Republicans in joint debate on the subject of tariff reduc- tion, at the county fairs throughout the State. In recognition of his political services he was per- sonally requested by the late Samuel J. Tilden to accept membership on the State Committee, which honorable position he held from 1875 to the fall of 1877, including the memorable canvass of 1876. During a long period it is not too much to say that Mr. Beach had the confidence of Governors Til- den, Robinson, and Cleveland to a degree enjoyed by very few other men. This fact is indicated by his appointment by Governor Cleveland as one of a Commission to examine into the proposition of storing the headwaters of the Iludson river by reservoirs, and he personally drew the report advising that the lakes in the Adirondacks, tributary to the Iludson, be dammed for that purpose, storing the water during the spring floods, to provide a supply which could be made available for the river during the dry period. This report has been acted upon by the State Legislature as far as relates to Indian lake. Mr. Beach was provisionally appointed as Collector of Internal Revenue for the 25th N. Y. Collection District, on the 25th of November, 1885, and after confirmation by the Senate, was reg- ularly appointed to that responsible office on the 13th of January, 18>6. He continued in the office until June 30, 1890, conducting its large business with the most commendable efficiency, and leaving it as one among the two or three offices in the United States bearing the best records. During that period there was collected by the office the large sum of $4,706, 312.57, every dollar of which was properly turned over to the government. It may safely be inferred that during his career Mr. Beach has gained the unqualified esteem of his fellow citizens of Syracuse. He is public spirited in a high degree and has always given frecly of his time and talents for the general welfare of the community in which he lives Ile was appointed, about 1578, as one of the committee of five from each ward to revise the city Charter. He was also a member of the committee for the improvement of Forman Park and was largely instrumental in the improvements recently made in Leavenworth Circle. In the agitation of the subject of a better water supply for the city of Syracuse, a project now nearing consummation, no person has been more active and none, perhaps, more conspicuous or effective than Mr. Beach. From Buffalo across the State to New York city and before the Legislature, he labored in advocacy of the important project and is now one of the attorneys for the Water Board of the city. As a lawyer Mr. Beach occupies a high position in the Bar of Onondaga county. At the beginning
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