Onondaga's centennial. Gleanings of a century, Vol. II, Part 49

Author: Bruce, Dwight H. (Dwight Hall), 1834-1908
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: [Boston] : The Boston History Company
Number of Pages: 1094

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Doust, Isaac U., Syracuse, eldest son and child of William Doust, iron worker, who came to Syracuse from England in 1854, was born in this city April 12, 1856, and received his education in the public and high schools of his birth-place. He immediately learned the art of photography with Wing & Co., in the old Syracuse Savings Bank building, after which he spent one year in Wellsboro, Pa. In 1875 hie

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opened a gallery for himself on Salina street in Syracuse, which was burned out in the Wieting fire in 1881. He then established his present gallery in East Genesee street. His business now is largely of a commercial character, such as photographing machinery, etc., for engraving purposes. In addition to this he has recently begun the sale of photographer's materials, apparatus and stock. He is a member of the Onondaga County Anglers' Association, the Royal Arcanum, the Royal Templars, the United American Mechanics, having passed all the chairs in the Royal Arcanum, including that of presiding officer. He is also a member of the Photographers' Association of America, and a deacon and formerly clerk of the Church of Christ (Disciples). of which he has been Sunday school superintendent about six years. Nov. 26, 1878, he married Lura A., daughter of Lavius H. Abell of Geddes, and their children are Howard A., Lura A., Margaret G., George Ernest, Alfred 1., Brewster C., and Sarah E.

Dooley, Joseph, Syracuse, was born in the parish of Lisdowney, County Kilkenny, Ireland, April 9, 1839, and coming to America settled on the old Green farm near Utica in 1860. In the spring of 1866 he removed to Syracuse and entered the em- ploy of C. H. Baker & Co., lumber dealers, as foreman, a position he held twenty years. In 1886 he formed a partnership with Eugene J. Mack, under the firm name of Mack & Dooley, and engaged in the wholesale lumber business, but six years later sold out his interest and established his present extensive lumber yard on Lock street near the canal, where he does a large business. In 1866 Mr. Dooley married Anna Walsh, a native of the same parish in Ireland, by whom he has had ten chil- dren, viz. : Margaret (deceased), James B., John F., Mary C., Elizabeth A., Joseph C., William H., Charles H., Bernard F., and George E.

Danziger. Henry, jr., Syracuse, son of I. Henry Danziger, of Syracuse, was born in this city March 2, 1870, and obtained his rudimentary education in the place of his birth. Receiving a scholarship in Cornell University, he attended that institution for two years, when he entered Syracuse University, from which he was graduated in 1890. He read law with Baker, Schwartz & Dake in Buffalo, took a special course at Columbia College, and was admitted to the bar in New York city in May, 1892. He then entered the office of Hancock, Beach & Devine as clerk, and on July 10, 1893, with William L. Barnum, he became the junior partner of the firm of Barnum & Danziger. Both of these attorneys are members of the Phi Delta Phi. Mr. Dan- ziger is a member of the Phi Kappa Psi, one of the executive committee of the On- ondaga County League of Republican Clubs, and a director in the Commercial Pub- lishing Company and the Standard Club.

Doyle, John F., Syracuse, is a son of John and Ellen (Sullivan) Doyle, who came to Syracuse from Ireland about 1848 and still reside here. They had eight children, viz .: Mary (Mrs. Matthew Deven), James and Timothy (killed on the R., W. & O. Railroad, the former in 1877 and the latter in 1881), Agnes (Mrs. James Henderson), John F., Patrick, Edward, and William John F. Doyle was born in the First ward of Syracuse on April 19, 1865, and after receiving a common school education began as a clerk in the grocery store of Richard Farrell, where he remained two and one- half years. In 1881 he entered the employ of Hoyt H. Freeman, with whom he has ever since continued, becoming general superintendent of his entire business in

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1888. Mr. Doyle was a charter member and is president of Division No. 4, A.O.11., is a trustee of Branch 64, C. M.B.A., and was a charter member and one of the prime movers of the old Catholic Temperance Society. A staunch Republican, he has been especially active in local politics, and has frequently represented his ward in conventions and as a member of the city committee. He was elected supervisor of the First ward in 1893 and served one term, and in 1894 was appointed a member of the Board of Health. In 1891 he married Catherine A., daughter of the late Frank A. Troendle, for many years a shoemaker and dealer in the First ward of Syracuse. They have had two children: Ellen, who died July 28, 1894, aged one year, and Mary.

Exner, Fred J., Syracuse, son of John and Louvina (Wall) Exner, who came to Syracuse in Oct., 1889, and still live here, was born in the town of Galen, Wayne Co., Jan. 12, 1874, and received his education in the schools of Clyde, N. Y. He came to Syracuse in April, 1891, and in Dec., 1893, went to learn the trade of photographer with the H. J. Ormsbee Engraving Co. In March, 1894, he was placed in charge of the photographing department of the Syracuse Evening and Sunday Herald, a position he has since filled with ability and great credit.

Emens, Harriet Dada, M. D., Syracuse, youngest child of Rev. Lemuel and Merinda Budlong Dada, was born in Hannibal, Oswego Co., in 1835, and when ten years of age removed with her parents to Fulton, N. Y., where she became a pupil in the academy, afterwards Falley Seminary, passing her studies under the princi- palships of Rev. E. E. E. Bragdon and Prof. John R. French (now vice-chancellor of Syracuse University), and graduating in 1854. The next year she offered her services to the American Board of Foreign Missions as a teacher and was sent to the Choctaw Indians in Indian Territory, where she remained four years, the first year and a half teaching a neighborhood school, the children coming on horseback from two to ten miles daily, and so easily did she acquire the language that the Indians gave her the name of " Imponna," signifying skillful. The half-breeds among this tribe were slaveholders and sympathized with the South, and before the war actually broke out, northern missionaries were looked upon by them with suspicion. During the winter of 1860, at the station where Miss Dada was living, the church was burned, the mission premises invaded by lawless persons at night, guns fired and threats made, so that in many ways the superintendent and teachers were made to feel that it was unsafe to remain. They discreetly traveled over the prairies to Southeastern Kansas, reaching the first railroad at St. Joseph, Mo. So deeply did Miss Dada become interested in those Indians that she was planning to return when the firing on Fort Sumter awoke the whole nation, and with patriotic enthusiasm she entered the service as an army nurse. Although she lacked four years of the pre- seribed age, her previous experience, with six weeks' attendance at lectures by New York's most noted surgeons, and gaining a knowledge, in the New York hospitals, of dressing wounds, made her services acceptable, the call for which reached her the day after the first battle at Bull Run, in July, 1861. Reaching Washington and re- porting to Miss D. L. Dix, she began her work in the first hospital opened in Alex- andria, Va., and during the war was stationed at Winchester, Harper's Ferry, Washington, Aquia Creek, Gettysburg, and the last year and a half at Murfreesboro and Chattanooga, serving most faithfully in caring for the sick, wounded, and dying

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soldiers. In every hospital she found New York soldiers, in nearly every one some of Onondaga's brave sons. At the close of the war she was the recipient of a beau- tiful gold badge consisting of crown and cross with a star pendant, upon which was inscribed " Inasmuch as ye have done unto one of the least of these ye have done it unto me," and upon the other side " Presented to Hattie A. Dada by Medical Officers of 12th A. C." It was to this corps that the 149th from Onondaga Co. belonged. She was often encouraged by the surgeons to take up the study of medicine, and after the war closed she entered the New York Medical College for Women, from which she was graduated in 1868, and a few months later opened an office in Syra- cuse as a homeopathic and hygienic physician, being the first woman to gain a foot- ing in the medical profession in the city and the first to be admitted to membership in the Central New York Homeopathic Medical Society. Since then she has built up a large practice, ard aims not only to cure her patients but to teach them how to keep well. In 1873 she was married to Dr. P. Walter Emens, a native of Romulus, Seneca Co., born in 1831. He was graduated from Union College, spent several years in the ministry of the Presbyterian church, became a lecturer on hygiene and physiology, and has for several years practiced medicine in Syracuse,

Ferris, Daniel V., Syracuse, was born in Scott, Cortland Co., Feb. 4, 1838. Warren Ferris, his father, a native of Vergennes, Vt., came to Onondaga Co., and settled near Skaneateles. He afterwards moved to Ohio, thence to Cortland Co., and finally died in Skaneateles in 1855, aged sixty. He married Betsey Vail, whose father, Daniel Vail, settled in Skaneateles prior to 1800 and died in Cold Brook in the town of Spafford. Daniel V. Ferris was educated mainly in Allegany Co., where he attended the Friendship Academy under Prof. Prosper Miller, and where in 1856-7 he learned telegraphing. In 1861 he came to Syracuse and the same year enlisted in the U. S. Military Telegraph Corps, being stationed at General Blenker's headquarters at Hunter's Chapel, whence in the spring of 1862 he went to Fairfax Station. While repairing wires between Bull Run and Manassas Junction he was struck by lightning. Returning to Syracuse in 1863 he has since been connected with the Western Union Telegraph Co., having been chief operator since 1869. He was married in 1865 to Miss Della A., daughter of William Lyons, of Syracuse, and has one daughter, Mrs. W. W. Wilson, of Buffalo.

Farrington, Frank J., jr., Syracuse, was born in La Fayette, Feb. 26, 1866. His grand- father, Asa, was an early settler of that town and died there, while his father, Frank J., sr., was born there in 1835 and is stilla resident, having lived on his present farm since about 1861. F. J. Farrington, jr., was graduated from Onondaga Academy in 1885 and from Syracuse University in 1889. He read law with Hoyt, Hancock, Beach & Devine, was admitted at Utica in September, 1891, and in October following formed a partnership with Harrison Hoyt, which still continues.

Flanigan, John R., M. D., Syracuse, was born in Binghamton, N. Y., Dec. 28, 1859, was graduated from the High School of that city in 1876, and spent two years in Cornell University. After studying medicine in Binghamton with Dr. J. W. Cobb about twelve months, he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Md., from which he was graduated as M. D. in 1885 He spent the following year as house physician in the U. S. Marine Hospital in that city and in the spring of 1886

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settled in Syracuse, where he has since resided and practiced his profession. He was a member of the old Syracuse Medical Association, joined the Syracuse Academy of Medicine upon its incorporation, and belongs to the New York State Medical As- sociation and the Citizens' Club of Syracuse.

Farrington, William Sherman, Syracuse, son of Warren G., was born in Jacksonville, N. Y., Dec. 14, 1867, and was graduated from Trumansburg Academy in 1844. IIe received the degree of C. E. from Cornell University in 1888, and in September of the same year accepted a position with the Syracuse Water Board, with which he has since been identified during the work in progress, holding at the outset the position of rodman, then topographer. When the work of constructing the present system com- menced he was made chief draftsman in the engineer's office, in which capacity he continued until June 1, 1895, when he resigned to enter the firm of Allen, Farrington & Co., civil engineers, etc. In addition to these duties he is general manager in the Premier Egg Cup Co., of Syracuse. He was married April 11, 1889, to Nettie L. Crawford, of Ithaca, N. Y. They have three children, William Russell, Ruth C., and Helen T.

Fulmer, George H., Syracuse, is a son of Hiram E. Fulmer, who came from Herki- mer, N. Y., to Manlius in 1835, and now lives in Fayetteville: he is a farmer and has held several town offices. George H. was born in Kirkville, Oct. 15, 1857, was edu- cated in the common schools of Fayetteville and Syracuse, and in Sept., 1876, be- came a teacher in Meads's Business College, where he remained fourteen and one- half years. He was then assistant secretary of the American Co-operative Life In- surance Co., for three years, when he was elected supreme secretary of the order of Knights of S. F. I., which position he has since held by re-election. He is also a director in the Syracuse Tubular Hame Co., and was one of the incorporators of the Central City Savings and Loan Association. He was married, March 29, 1879, to Miss Anna M. Kendall, of Syracuse, and has one daughter, Georgiana.

Fralick, J. P., Syracuse, son of Richard and Eliza (Moyer) Fralick, was born in Hinmansville, town of Schroeppel, Oswego Co., Oct. 16, 1841, learned the trade of carpenter and joiner, which he followed about eight years, and with II. P. Smith started a job printing office in Syracuse in 1872. Afterward he was alone for about three years and a half. In the fall of 1876 he formed a partnership with Stephen G. Hitchcock and Galen O. Weed, under the firm name of Fralick, Hitchcock & Weed, and founded the Syracuse Sunday Times, from which he withdrew in the summer of 1882, when he established his present printing business, doing exclusively law case and legal work. Mr. Fralick started this with himself and one man ; he now employs as many as eighteen men and uses typesetting machines. He executes three-quarters of this class of work done in Syracuse and within a radius of 100 miles, and has never disappointed a lawyer by failure to get a job out on time. He is a Free Mason and has been a member of the I. O. O. F. for more than thirty years, of the Royal Ar- canum about five years, and of the A. O. U. W. eight years. In 1862 he married Sarah J., daughter of George Van Antwerp of Hartsville, N. Y.

Farmer, William S., Syracuse, was born in Hailesboro, St. Lawrence Co., July 18, 1861. He is a son of Seymour M. Farmer, and was graduated from Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary in 1882. He studied law in Gouverneur with Surrogate Vasco P.

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Abbott, in whose court he spent about ten years as clerk, and was admitted at Sara- toga, Sept. 17, 1886. In 1889 he went to Kimball, S. D., and remained two years closing up a bank, and in the spring of 1891 he settled in Syracuse, where he has been eminently successful.

Fleming, Lorenzo D., Syracuse, son of Dr. Ebenezer S., was born in Sparta, N. Y., Jan. 29, 1835, studied medicine with his father and in the office of his uncle, Dr. Lo- renzo D. Fleming, in Rochester, and finally became an apprentice in a confectionery factory in Troy, N. Y., where he remained ten years, having charge of the factory for eight years. In 1861 he started a confectionery establishment in Rochester, in which he was engaged nineteen years, when he sold out. Spending a short time in the same business in Albany, he came to Syracuse in the winter of 1881, but one and one-half years later he went to Brooklyn, where he remained about two years. He then went went to Minneapolis, Minn., for one year, but on account of his wife's ill health returned to Albany for six months and later he came again to Syracuse, where he has since resided, and where he has continued the confectionery business, having now two large and handsome stores. Mr. Fleming is one of the leading and best known confectioners in the State. In 1859 he married in Troy, Miss Minerva J. Kirk, of Ballston, N. Y., by whom he has one son, George Walter, who has been a partner of his father since 1880.

Foreman, Charles, Syracuse, son of Thomas, a baker and confectioner, was born in Horsham, Sussex, England, Sept. 5, 1851, and acquired his rudimentary education in the free grammar school of his native town. He learned his father's trade, which he followed until 1879, when he came to New York city. The next year he came to Syracuse, where he has since resided, and where he has been connected with the dining-rooms of the New York Central and West Shore depots, of which he was made the general manager by W. S. Johnston & Brother, the owners, in 1886. Mr. Foreman is a member of Central City Lodge, No. 305, F. & A. M., and of Central City Council, No. 383, R. A. He was one of the organizers of the Delaware Street Baptist church, of which he is a trustee and chairman of the finance committee. He is also a director in the V. M. C. A. in Syracuse, and in the Onondaga Land Co. of Buffalo. He was married Jan. 18, 1876, by the Rev. George Dowling, then pastor of the Central Baptist church, to Mary Jane Petherick, of Devonshire, England, and they have two sone, Thomas Frederick and Arthur Petherick, both students in the Syracuse High School.

Fowler, John Curtis, Syracuse, born at Peterboro, N. Y., Oct. 28, 1845, prepared for college at the Canastota district school and Madison University, and acted as deputy county clerk for his father, Loring Fowler, at Morrisville, N. Y., in 1862-65. He was graduated from Hamilton College as salutatorian and Clark prize orator in the class of 1865, studied law at Hamilton College and with his father at Canastota in 1870-71, and was admitted to the bar at Albany General Term, June 9, 1871. He practiced law with his father at Canastota from 1871 to 1873 and with Hon. Charles Stebbins at Cazenovia from 1873 to 1875, and since then has followed his profession alone in Syracuse. He was assistant to the commission to revise the statutes of the State, 1873-79; part compiler of Throop's Justice Manuel, 1880; indexer of the seventh and part of the eighth editions of the Revised Statutes; and author of "Supplement

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to Revised Statutes of New York," 1888. May 4, 1874, Mr. Fowler was married at Canastota to Elizabeth H. Robertson, and they have three children: Florence E., Loring, and Samuel R.

Faller, Joseph, Syracuse, was born in Baden, Germany, Feb. , 1849, learned the trade of shoemaker in his native country, and followed it there as a journeyman. In 1871 he came to Syracuse, where he has ever since resided, and two years later after working in shoe factories in this city, established his present boot and shoe store in North Salina street, Second ward. He belongs to several German organiza- tion, and was treasurer of the old Germania Society, of which he was one of the orig- inators and a charter member. In 1873 he married Helen Geschwenter, who died in Aug., 1890.

Gillis, Albert R., Syracuse, was born in Kinsman, Trumbull Co., O., attended Ober- lin College for a time, and was graduated from Cornell University as a mechanical engineer in 1875, among the very first in his class, being also in that year a member of the first winning Cornell University crew at Saratoga. Since leaving college he has held responsible positions with large firms in Ohio, Oregon, and New York. In 1884 he was made master mechanic at the Solvay Process Co.'s works in Syracuse and has ever since filled that post with ability.

Greeley, George H., M.D., Syracuse, is a native of this city, born Sept. 25, 1844. Joel Greeley, his father, came to this city from his birthplace, Essex, Vt., in 1829, married Jane Lord in 1836, and died here in 1883, aged seventy years. He was one of the largest contractors of his day and built many of the more imposing structures of Syracuse, among them the Vanderbilt House, the old Grand Opera House, Old Ladies' Home, Plymouth church, Myers block, House of Providence, the old Granger block, the first Bastable, the Fourth Presbyterian church, Amos's mills, Greenway's brewery, the Washington block, original McCarthy building, and his own Greeley block on the corner of Warren and Fayette streets. He had two sons, George H., and Horace H., the latter now a resident of 'Tacoma, Wash. George H. was grad- uated from the Syracuse High School in 1861, studied medicine with Dr. Lyman Clary, and entered the medical department of the University of Vermont. Grad- uating from the Homeopathic Medical College of New York city in 1864, the same year he commenced the practice of his profession in Baldwinsville, and in 1865 came to Syracuse, where he has since resided. having been one of the leading as well as successful practitioners. During the years 1867, '68 and '69 he was engaged in the drug business here. In the fall of 1862 he enlisted in Co. H, 175th N. Y. Vols., was mustered in as lieutenant, and served about five months, when he was wounded and compelled to resign. He then decided to continue his medical studies. Ile is a member of the American Institute (U. S. Society of Homeopathy), of the New York State Homeopathic Medical Society, and of the Onondaga County Homeopathic Medical Society, and in the latter has heldl all the offices. Ile was married in 1884 to Miss Mabel C. Rice, a native of Syracuse.

Gill, Francis B., Syracuse, born in Antwerp, N. Y., was educated in the common schools and at Ives Seminary in his native town, and at the age of eighteen began teaching school, which he continued in Jefferson Co. for five years. He was grad- uated from Cornell University in 1882, was admitted to the bar at Albany in Novem-

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ber of the same year, and has practiced law in Syracuse since Jan., 1883. In Oct., 1889, he formed a legal partnership with Giles H. Stillwell and on Jan. 1, 1895, the firm became Gill, Stillwells & White. In June, 1890, Mr. Gill married Miss Katherine C. Bruyn, of Syracuse.

Glen, Willard A., Syracuse, son of Willliam J., now a resident of Lyons, N. Y., was born in Rose, Wayne Co., May 9, 1864, and graduated from the academic de- partment of the Lyons Union School in 1883. In the fall of 1884 he entered Will- iams College and was graduated from that institution in the class of 1888, after which he returned to Lyons and read law in the office of Camp & Dunwell. He was admitted to the bar in Rochester in Oct., 1890, and in Jan., 1891, commenced the practice of his chosen profession in Syracuse in partnership with Truman K. Fuller under the firm name of Fuller & Glen, which still continues. Mr. Glen is actively interested in several local organizations, being a member of the Onondaga County Bar Association, of the Citizens' Club, and is one of the board of governors of the Syracuse Athletic Association. Although a young man he has already acquired a high standing as an attorney, and the firm of which he is the junior member is con- ceded one of the strongest legal firms in the city.

Gerni, Frederick J., Syracuse, was born in this city, May 30, 1862. Frederick Gerni, his father, a baker by trade, for five years senior member of the old firm of Gerni & Vanderbilt, and now a resident of Onondaga Valley, came here from Ger- many in 1855. He married Mary Baulshauser and had three children: Frederick J., Jennie (Mrs. George W. Egenhofer), and Louis N., all of Syracuse. Frederick J. Gerni, after receiving an English education in the public schools of the city, learned the clothier's trade, and since 1881 has been a salesman and stockkeeper for J. M. Mertens & Co., clothing manufacturers. May 12, 1884, he married Miss Louisa Hoffman, of Syracuse, and they have one son, Edward W., born Oct. 23, 1885.

Gridley, Francis W., Syracuse, is a native of Mycenae, N. Y., and was born June 20, 1868. After an attendance at the Yates Union Free School in Chittenango, from which he was graduated in June, 1889, he came to Syracuse the following fall, as a clerk in the Salt Springs National Bank, and about three months later was made assistant bookkeeper, which position he held until Jan. 1, 1894, when he was elected teller and director. He is a member of the Citizens' Club and of the Business Men's Association. Aug. 29, 1893, he married Miss Edith P., daughter of Marcus L. Peck, of Fayetteville, N. Y.

Henry, S. Madison, Syracuse, son of John and Terissa (Mentor) Henry, was born in North Parma, Monroe Co., Sept. 9, 1849, and received his education in the Brock- port (N. Y.) Collegiate Institute, in Albion College at Albion, Mich., and in Mich- igan University at Ann Arbor, taking special courses. He was then appointed to the chair of natural science and had charge of the military discipline in De Graff's Military College at Rochester, N. Y., where he remained until that institution burned. Removing to Philadelphia, Pa., he traveled considerably until Jan., 1880, when he settled permanently in Syracuse, where he has since been engaged in the real estate and commercial brokerage business. In 1871 he married Ophelia M., daughter of Frederick S. Lawrence, of Rochester, by whom he has two sons, Frede- rick S. and Willis F., both engaged in business with their father, the former in a

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Onondaga's centennial. Gleanings of a century, Vol. II, Part 49

Author: Bruce, Dwight H. (Dwight Hall), 1834-1908 Publication date: 1896 Publisher: [Boston] : The Boston History Company Number of Pages: 1094

Author: Bruce, Dwight H. (Dwight Hall), 1834-1908
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: [Boston] : The Boston History Company
Number of Pages: 1094