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familiarly addressed. Major Weston takes much interest in Masonic matters and is a Past Master of Hudson River Lodge, Past Com- mander of Hudson River Commandery, trustee of Highland Chapter and also of the Masonic Hail Association, of this city, and a Noble of Mecca Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of New York City. Mr. Weston has excellent judgment in business enterprises and is quick to per- ceive the wants of the public, and, in supplying these wants, he has met with the encouragement that has resulted in a remunerative and increasing business. He was united in marriage on the 19th of April, 1881, to Mary C., youngest daughter of Henry D. Hornbeck, and the result of this union is two children, Ralph and Justine.
GEORGE A. CANTINE. The Cantine family in America is de- cended from Moses Cantine, a Huguenot who fled from France at the time of the infamous Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, A. D. 1685,
tines are connected with many of the older Dutch and Huguenot fam- ilies of New York State.
One of the sons of General John Cantine was Moses I., who was part owner and the editor of the AAlbany Argus, and who held many important public offices at the beginning of this century. He married Christina Hoes, a near relative of the Rev. Dr. Hoes, formerly the pastor of the old Dutch Church of Kingston. President Martin Van Buren was the brother-in-law of Moses I. Cantine, his wife Hannah Hoes being a sister of Mrs. Cantine. Mrs. Van Buren having died, her niece Miss Christina, a daughter of Moses I. Cantine was "the lady of the White House" during the administration of Martin Van Buren. The larger number of the present living members of the family are to be found within the State of New York, though many individuals are residing in the West, and some in foreign lands.
George A. Cantine is probably descended from Abraham Cantine, the fourth son of Peter, and a grandson of the Huguenot refugee.
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He was born in New York, reared in New England, received a classi- cal education, served in the Union Army, and when quite young mar- ried Marian J. Cook, danghter of General Solon H. Cook, of an old New England family and a lady of literary ability. She died in 1887,
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leaving two sons, Edward B. and Francis M. Up to 1875 he was en- gaged in teaching, on the rostrum, and in special literary work. Since then he has been extensively engaged in underwriting, holding im- portant positions as adjuster, special agent, manager and general agent. He came to Newburgh in 1886, in the capacity of general agent of the New York Life Insurance Company. He has charge of the Hudson River District, seventeen counties in all, with seventy-four sub-agencies, with his main offices in this city, Albany and New York City.
Colonel Cantine is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and is Past Department Inspector of the State of New York, and a member of several other military societies. He is au Odd Fellow of twenty-five years standing, and in Free Masonry has taken thirty-two degrees. He is Senior Warden of Newburgh Lodge and Generalis- simo of Hudson River Commandery, K. T. He is a Republican in pol- itics, and has delivered speeches in most of the campaigns since the war, but has never accepted office. Colonel Cantine has acquired considerable reputation as a polished and eloquent speaker and lec- turer. Since taking up his residence here he has addressed several important public assemblages, notably at the Memorial Day exercises of 1890. He has also gained public favor for his lectures on " German Civilization in Europe," " Madame Roland," "Soldier and Citizen," " National Civilization of America," "Money," "Art in History," and " Battle Fields." He has traveled through many States on lec- ture tours. He is a member of the Newburgh City Club, the Aurora Grota Masonic Club, of Brooklyn, and other social organizations.
CHARLES T. GOODRICH was born in Colden Street, this city, December 5, 1846. His father, Alfred Goodrich, now deceased, came to Newburgh when a boy, from Connecticut, where his ancestors long
resided; he was at one time Chief of Police and afterwards Super- intendent of Washington's Headquarters for a number of years. The subject of this sketch has had an eventful life for one of his years. In his youth he contended against grave adversity, and wrought in various fields; but now in his prime he is well on the way to that busi- ness and social oasis we call success. His education was received in the public schools of our city, but before completing the full course he left the Academy and began life in earnest as a newsboy. He was ambitious, and after carrying papers for a time, for the modest salary of a dollar a week, he became the sole proprietor of a wayside news- stand in Water Street.
When fifteen years old he found a place in the printing office of E. W. Gray, publisher of the Daily News, where he mastered the intri- cacies of the type case and performed with more or less fidelity the humble but necessary duties that fall to the lot of the "printing office devil." From the newspaper office he went to the Washington Iron Works to learn the trade of a machinist. His first work there was on the United States guuboat Lenape, then building. He remained there two years, and having made rapid progress, then went on the Erie Railroad and filled various positions till he became fireman of a locomotive with the aspiration and promise of soon becoming an engineer. But his career was not to be in that direction. May 4, 1865, his engine jumped the track in Bethlehem cut, on the Newburgh Branch, and wrecked the train. Mr. Goodrich was caught beneath the engine and held fast for three and a half hours, and his injuries were so serions in their nature that his life was despaired of. Having an iron constitution, however, he survived, but not without being left physically disabled for life.
Forced to make a new start in the world, he turned his attention to telegraphy, learned the system after three months' tuition in the
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office at Vail's Gate, and was appointed station-agent there. He was afterward employed as a telegrapher at various stations on the Erie. at length taking a position in the main office of the Western Union Company in New York City, and finally in its office in Newburgh. While in the Metropolis and before he went there his leisure hours
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were occupied in writing interesting letters to the home papers, and encouraged by their success his mind once again inclined toward
newspaper work. Finally he renewed former associations by accepting a po- sition on the local press. He was lo- cal editor for A. A. Bensel when that gentleman publish- ed the Daily Press over N. B. Beede's spice mill in Front Street, and for a unmber of years he filled a responsible position on the Telegraph under James J. McNally. When that paper passed from Mr. McNally to Dr. T. H. Cooper, Mr. Goodrich was re- tained, and during the proprietor's long illness he was the chief editor and PHOTO. BY MAPES. manager. He had JOHN H. MARTIN. Superintendent at Washington's Headquarters, also become the local correspondent of New York newspapers, and was thus enabled to vary his serions commentations on and truthful relation of the real facts of every-day life by chronicling the fancies of a fertile imagination. Mr. Good- rich's bear and snake stories of that day were models of the art. His connection with the New York dailies he has retained up to the present time. He was also at one time connected with the New- burgh Journal.
Having added to his newspaper work in 1870 the agency of an insurance company, he has gradually increased the list of his companies and the volume of his business, until his agency and real estate business have swelled to large proportions. The growth has been due to honest dealings and prompt settlement of losses. He represents about a score of leading fire, plate-glass, boiler and marine insurance companies.
Mr. Goodrich joined Brewster Hook and Ladder Company in October, 1863, and con- tinued therein till 1883, and for fourteen years was its representative in the Fire De- partment Fund. For a number of years he was Secretary of the Fund, and his knowl- edge of the insurance business was of great value to the Board, it being in no small part through his efforts that so large a fund was accumulated.
Mr. Goodrich has shown considerable ac- tivity in politics in years gone by. It 1868 he was elected City Collector by the Demo- cratic party and is now Assessor in the Second Ward. He has served as Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and as Official Re- porter. He has also been nominated by his party for Recorder and School Trustee. Another relation in which he has been prominent is with the Knights of Pythias. He has been through all the chairs of Olive Branch Lodge, and for seven consecutive years he has been a
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representative to the Grand Lodge, in which from the first year he took a prominent part, having been a member of its most important committees each year. The Charles T. Goodrich Divis- ion No. 25, Uni- form Rank, K. of P., instituted Jan- mary 5, 1891, is named in his honor.
Mr. Goodrich is a member of the Building and Loan Association, the Board of Trade, a Trustee of the First Baptist Church and is interested in several business institutions in his native city. In 1881 he mar- ried Hattie E., daughter of Cap- tain Isaac Jenkin- son, and has one son.
JAMES HAR- VEY GOODALE,
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son of Silas King Goodale, was born at Coldenham, N. Y., eight miles west of the City of Newburgh. His parents removed there from Long Island in 1814. Records in the Town of Southampton, L. I., exhibit the name of the family back to the year 1698. James Harvey's early education was gained at the academy at Montgomery. From the age of 21 he has held local, town and county offices. In 1869 he was elected Superintendent of the Poor of the county, which office he held four consecutive terms, or twelve years. During his term he built the Orange County Insane Asylum at Orange Farm, and estab- lished the Children's Home at Middletown. In 1889 Mr. Goodale was appointed Under- Sheriff, and at present resides in the court house in this city. He married Mary E. Gale, of Goshen, and his family consists of three children, Cynthia Angusta, . Minnie Phillips, wife of Benjamin Williams, of Middletown, and William Harvey, of this city.
GILBERT E. JACOBS, second son of William H. and Lucy A. Jacobs, was born May 6, 1850, at Williamsburgh, now a part of the City of Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1855 he removed to Hazelton, Iowa, with his parents, where he remained until 1859, when his family moved to Greenwich, Conn., where he obtained such instruction as could be had in the public schools.
In 1868 he removed to Newark, N. J., and PHOTO. BY MAPES. there engaged with his father in the grocery business until 1872, when he moved to Rah- way, N. J., and engaged in the same business with his brother. In 1875 he removed to this city and engaged again with his father in the grocery business on Colden Street, continning until February 1, 1886, when with his brother George H. he established the business of the
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Jacobs Baking Powder Company, and still continues it. Mr. Jacobs is also Treasurer of the Newburgh Reed Company, manufacturing reed chairs. On December 4, 1873, he was married to Mary Ward Munn, of Newark, N. J., and has three children: Eugene Ward, Ada Louise and Bessie May. Mr. Jacobs takes no part in politics, but is affiliated with the Republican party. He is a member of the several Masonic bodies, and was Master of Hudson River Lodge for five years.
CHARLES HENRY HALSTEAD. only son of the late Charles B. Halstead, was born August 12, 1846, in the town of Minisink, Orange County, N. Y. His early life was passed in Port Jervis until 1859, when he removed with his parents to Newburgh and entered the old High School, of which his father was the Principal. He sub- sequently attended the Newburgh Academy, but did not complete the course on account of ill-health, which prevented the accomplish- ment of a long-cherished desire of obtaining a collegiate education. After being employed four years in a grocery-store, he engaged as clerk on the propeller Thomas McManus, owned by Alsdorf & Skid- more, who did a freighting and commission business at the foot of Fifth Street, and ran this boat between Newburgh and New York. From February, 1872, to March 20, 1882, he was ticket clerk at the Newburgh station of the New York, Lake Erie and Western Rail- road Company, and then he was appointed station agent, in which position he remain- ed until June 30, 1886. In February, 1887, he engaged with the Chadborn & Coldwell Manu- facturing Company as book-keeper, where he is still employed.
Mr. Halstead was initiated into Masonry as soon as he became of age, and has ever since taken a great interest in local Masonic matters, having prepared several interesting papers on the early history of Masonry in this city, which showed much re- search and literary skill. He is safe authority on all PHOTO. BT ATKINSON. Masonic matters CHARLES H HALSTEAD. with which he is identified, and there is no one connected with the fraternity here who has done so much to advance the cause of Masonry, and who, by uniting zeal and persistent effort, combined with rare tact and judgment, has contributed so largely to place this institution on a substantial and permanent basis. His name is familiar to nearly every Free and Ac- cepted Mason dwelling in the valley of the Hudson River. In the community where almost his entire life has been spent Mr. Halstead has merited the respect and esteem of every one who has the pleasure of his acquaintance, and his unswerving integrity and high character have made for him a reputation not easily attained. He is a Past Master of Hudson River Lodge, Past High Priest of Highland Chap- ter, Past Commander of Hudson River Commandery, and has for a number of years been Secretary of his Lodge and Chapter and of the Masonic Hall Association. He is also a Noble of Mecca Temple of New York. Mr. Halstead is a bachelor, and says he is perfectly will- ing to remain so for the balance of his life.
JOHN L. SCHULTZ is the senior member of the firm of Schultz & Crum and Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue. Born in Pough- keepsie November 28, 1854, he attended the Episcopal parish school in that city. At the age of twenty-six he became a member of the Poughkeepsie Board of Health, and in 1882 was elected by the Re- publican party to the Board of Aldermen. While a member of that board he was Chairman of the Police Committee. For four years he was Superintendent of the Hedding M. E. Sabbath School. From 1873 to 1883 he was a postman.
In the latter year he came to Newburgh and purchased a half in- terest in the drygoods firm which was thereafter styled Gillies and Schultz, and subsequently Gillies, Schultz & Crum, and Schultz & Crum. In 1886, when Mr. Crum became a partner, their accommo-
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dations were greatly enlarged by the addition of the second floor of their building, No. 19 Water Street, as a department for carpets, and the extension of the building sixty feet in the rear. In September, 1890, the first floor of the adjoining building, No. 21, was added, so that now they possess what Newburgh people consider a very large and well appointed establishment. Drygoods and carpets are the two principal branches of their business.
In 1889 Mr. Schultz received the nomination of the Republican party for Alderman-at-Large, of Newburgh, but declined to accept it. Having accepted the appointment of Deputy United States Col- lector of Internal Revenue, he entered upon the duties of that office January 1, 1890. He married Jennie, daughter of Colonel S. B. Wheel- er, of Poughkeepsie, and has two sons.
COL. EDWARD D. HAYT is the oldest son of the late Stephen Hayt, and was born in Newburgh, May 30, 1845. His education was obtained in the old academy and Wm. N. Reid's private school. His father was a well known dry goods dealer, and occupied the store at No. 66 Water Street Edward did not take kindly to the professions, but entered the store as a clerk February 1, 1862. In July, 1866, his father admitted him into partnership, and the firm was Stephen Hayt
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& Son. On February 1, 1876, his father sold his interest in the busi- ness to N. B. Hayt, and the firm was changed to N. B. & E. D. Hayt, which continued until 1880, when N. B. Hayt retired, and the firm was thereafter known as Hayt, Jansen & Wells, who continued the business until Sep- tember, 1888, when it was sold to Shuart & Embler. Mr. Hayt then purchased an inter- est in the exten- sive business of Burden & Co., at Greenpoint, N. Y., where he has since been engaged.
Early in life Mr. Hayt became im- bued with military enthusiasm, and in 1868 enlisted in the old Powell Corps, known as Com- pany E, and at- tached to the 19th Regiment, N. G. S. N. Y. He was pro- moted to second COLONEL EDWARD D. HAYT. lieutenant, which office he held until the corps was disbanded. He was also on the staff of General J. W. Husted, commanding the 5tli Division, N. G., S. N. Y., as Ordnance officer with rank of lieutenant-colonel, and in 1875 was promoted to Chief of Artillery and Division In- spector with rank of colonel. In 1876 he organized the 17th Batalion in this city and was the Lieutenant-col- onel commanding. It was largely through the efforts of Colonel Hayt that an appropria- tion was secured for the erection of the State armory in this city.
Mr. Hayt is also identified with all the Masonic bodies of this city, and is a Past Master of Hudson River Lodge, and Past Commander of Hudson River Commandery of PHOTO. BY WHIDDIT. Knights Templar. DANIEL G. CAMERON. He has attained to the thirty-second degree of Scottish Rite Masonry, and is a Noble of Mecca Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of New York City. Mr. Hayt is a social gentle- man, but has never as yet been induced to take a life-partner with him.
DANIEL G. CAMERON, lumber merchant, was born in New- burgh in 1856. His father, the late William F. Cameron, was a highly esteemed and substantial citizen, and served in the Common Council, the Board of Su- pervisors and the Board of Health. For nearly a quar- ter of a century he was engaged in the lumber trade in this city, being one of the firm of Cam- eron & Sloat, es- tablished in 1866. After leaving school Daniel G. entered the employ of his father's firm. For a period he was in the Fishkill office of the firm. After the retire- ment of Mr. Sloat he continued with his father at the Newburgh yard, and was entrusted with its manage- ment. He became the proprietor at MN=C his father's death in 1889. He married WILLIAM D. TRAPHAGEN. Ada, third daugh- ter of the late Thomas Bingham. Mr. Cameron's yard is conveniently situated at No. 60 Front Street, with a frontage on the river.
WILLIAM Mc- MEEKIN is of Scotch-Irish ances- try, and was born in County Antrim, Ireland, in 1842. His father owned a farm near the village of Kells. He came to Amer- ica with his parents when five years old, and has lived in Newburgh since 1849. When nine years old he went to work in the cot- ton factory, when the hours of labor werę from 5 a. m., till 7 p. m., with half an hour for breakfast and half an hour for dinner. Having a desire to learn a trade, and wishing to secure an education be- PHOTO. BY MAPES. fore commencing, WILLIAM McMEEKIN. he entered the Academy in October. 1857, and studied under William N. Reid, till the following Spring. The only other schooling he received was at the Glebe school in Liberty Street, between the ages of six and nine. He learned the trade of a mason, bricklayer and plasterer with
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William Dickey. In 1866 he formed a partnership with William C. Brown, which continued to the Fall of 1874, during which time they continuously engaged a large number of men in the erection of build- ings. They built Haines's woolen mills, Haigh's woolen mill, the Adams
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paper mill and many dwellings. Since then Mr. McMeekin has had 110 partner. He is a very busy man, and the list of buildings that are the work of his hands is a very long one. He is a skillful architect, and executed the plans for most of the houses he has built. In the past year he erected a large storehouse for the Quartermaster at West Point, and the large iron works for Mr. Wright, besides erecting five brick dwellings and finishing several frame houses. Mr. McMeekin was also at one period largely engaged in railroad contracting. In 1864 he married Elizabeth Greer, and has six children living.
WILLIAM D. TRAPHAGEN, the youngest son of the late Ben- jamin Traphagen, was born October 21, 1852, at New Hurley, Ulster County, in this State. When fourteen years old he removed with his parents to Newburgh, and found employment as a clerk in a dry- goods store, where he remained three years. Being seized with a de- sire for a seafaring life, he shipped before the mast on a New Bedford whaler and made two voyages, returning to Newburgh in 1875. He then entered the store of T. Bartlett & Son, and learned the boot and shoe business. In 1880 he purchased the business of John W. Magee, which he conducted alone for four years, and then entered into a co- partnership with S. J. Leslie, which was continued until July, 1890, when he retired from the firm and opened his present store at No. 2 Colden Street on the 30th August of the same year. Mr. Traphagen has long been a member of Lawson Hose Company, No. 5, and is at present its representative. He is also a member of several Masonic organizations, and has been Master of Hudson River Lodge. In March, 1882, he married Hannah B., youngest daughter of Captain James R. Jenkins, of this city.
W. S. GLEASON, M. D., was borni at Sag Harbor, Long Island, July 24, 1860. He received his academic education at Williston Sem- inary, East Hampton, Mass., and at Amherst College. In Septem- ber, 1883, he began his medical education at the University Medical College, New York, under the preceptorship of Prof. William M. Thomson. He pursued a thorough course of studies at this insti- tution, and graduated with honors at the commencement in 1886. After a term of practical hospital work, Dr. Gleason assumed the active duties of his profession by locating in Newburgh, where he has acquired a lucrative practice. The Doctor is identified with the Masonic fraternity, being a member of Hudson River Lodge, No. 607, Highland Chapter, No. 52, and Hudson River Commandery, No. 35, K. T. He is a son of the Rev. W. H. Gleason, D. D., for several years pastor of the American Reformed Church in this city. In 1888 Dr. Gleason was married to Grace, daughter of Senator J. W. Hoysradt, of Hudson, N. Y.
REV. WILLIAM H. TOLE, whose portrait appears herewith, has been honored to an unusual degree for one of his years by receiv- ing appointments to parishes of no little prominence. He was born in Newburgh, June 15, 1855, and received his early education in the schools of this city. In September, 1872, he entered Mount St. Mary's College, Emmettsburg, Md., from which institution he was graduated with honors a little less than six years later-June 29, 1878. A lapse of about two months only was enjoyed in rest and recreation, when he again resumed his studies, entering Mount St. Mary's Seminary on August 27, 1878. On July 16, 1882, he was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Church, the ceremony being performed by the Mt. Rev. M. A. Corrigan, D. D., Archbishop of New York, in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue and Fiftieth Street, New York. His first appointment was as assistant rector of the Church of St.
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Leo, East Twenty-eighth Street, between Fifth and Madison Aven- ues, New York. Here he remained for nine years, when he was appointed rector of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, at White Plains, N. Y., April 4, 1891, where he is at this writing very accept- ably performing the duties of his position, surrounded by many friends.
TRANSPORTATION.
The Commercial Arteries of the City-Railroad and Navigation Facilities.
HE contiguity of the river was an important factor in the early growth of Newburgh, but it is mainly in the last decade that the Queen City of the Hudson has attained the most important elements in its progress. 6 It is to the railroads, more than to any other one cause, that is due the steady expansion of the city in every material direction. The leading lines are men- tioned in the following paragraphs, but there are others which by connection with them at various points make Newburgh a railroad center of importance, easily reached from all parts of the Union.
river front, with facilities for transporting cars across the river. Twenty passenger trains arrive at and depart from Newburgh daily by this road.
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