Onondaga's centennial. Gleanings of a century, Vol. II, Part 51

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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of the prime movers in founding the local Theosophical Society and is now its treas- urer; he is a prominent Mason, and has been for two years president of the Syracuse Oratorio Society. He was well known as a talented basso vocalist of rare ability, and is active in concert and similar work. He was married in Jan., 1876, to Mrs. Rosa & chuarz Blum, by whom he has three children: Louis B., Emanuel W., and Mitchell S.

Leamy, Patrick, Syracuse, a member of the firm of Leamy Brothers, extensive general contractors, was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, March 16, 1830, and came to America in 1851, landing in New York city Jan. 22. He arrived in Syracuse on the 19th of Feb. of the same year and immediately engaged at his trade as mason and builder. In 1878 he formed a partnership with his brother Thomas, as Leamy Brothers, and commenced business for himself in general contracting, which he has since continued. This is one of the largest firms of contractors in Central New York and a partial list of the many handsome structures they have erected is as fol- lows: Morse and Fuller stores, West Fayette street; M. S. Price's dry goods house, Clinton street; county clerk's fire-proof building, West Willow street; first part of Solvay soda ash works buildings, with 151 ft. chimney; St. Lucy's church, brick; St. Mary's church, stone, regular broken ashlar; St. Paul's Cathedral, stone, broken ashlar, spire 200 ft .; Presbyterian church, brick; the Kenyon flats, Warren street, second part; C. W. Snow's eight-story fire-proof building; Wm. B. Kirk's seven- story fire-proof office building, built heavy enough for a sugar warehouse; the new Robert Gere Bank building, the best constructed building of its size in the country ; 1894, the present new McCarthy retail stores, seven stories, fronting on three streets, fire-proof throughout, steel construction, with all modern ideas known in building; the Cold Storage building. In 1852 Mr. Leamy married Miss Ellen Mahar, also a native of County Tipperary, Ireland, and they had six children, all living, as follows: James, Jeremiah, Patrick D., Mary Ann, Winifred, and Ellen. His wife died, and and in Jan., 1886, he married Fanny McNally, born in Syracuse in 1847.

Lathrop, Daniel N., Syracuse, a son of Daniel, a farmer, was born in Montrose, Pa., Sept. 9, 1835. His father dying when the lad was six years old, his widowed mother brought her family to Syracuse, where she died in 1873. He was educated mainly in old Putnam (No. 7) school and at an early age became a clerk in the grocery store of O. S. Sumner, which stood on the corner of Warren and Fayette streets on the site of J. W. Barnes's cigar store. On Sept. 9, 1852, he accepted a position with Ira H. Cobb, crockery dealer, making $100 the first year and boarding himself, and remaining until May 14, 1856, when he became a clerk for S. P. Pierce, with whose house and successors he has since been identified, excepting one year in the army. In 1856 he joined the 51st Regiment, Davis Light Guards, under Captain Chandler, in 1861 was commissioned as second lieutenant, in 1862 as first lieutenant, in 1863 as captain. In Sept,, 1864, with Lieut. Theodore M. Barber, he raised Co. D, of the 185th N. Y. Vols., and although he enlisted as private yet by virtue of raising a sufficient number of men he was granted a commission as captain, but he was not fully mustered as such until Dec. 11, 1864. Barring a short sickness he was present with his command and shared in all its marches till March 29, 1865, when he was severely wounded in an engagement on Quaker Road, near Five Forks, below Petersburg. He was taken to the hospital at City Point and subsequently, by order

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of General Grant, had his choice of going home or to the hospital at Washington, but he being unfit for duty within thirty days, he was honorably discharged in June, 1865. The day he was wounded their color sergeant, Benton H. Wilson, was wounded, and the flag finally fell into the hands of William II. Tyler, of Captain Lathrop's company, who was instantly killed at the captain's side. Captain Lathrop seized the colors and rallied the regiment, and when he was wounded relinquished them to Col. Gustavus Sniper, who led the troops to victory. For his acts of bravery in the face of the enemy Captain Lathrop was commissioned brevet mjaor. Return- ing from the war, Mr. Lathrop resumed his position with S. P. Pierce, now S. P. Pierce's Sons, and for the past eighteen years has been their buyer and business manager. He has always been an ardent Republican, casting his first vote for John C. Fremont, and during the anti-slavery times was a staunch Abolitionist active in the underground railroad. In 1866 he purchased a lot and built his present house in Danforth (now the Eleventh ward of Syracuse), of which village he was treasurer for eight years. He joined Syracuse Lodge No. 501, F. & A. M., Sept. 22, 1864, and is a member of all the Central City bodies, being a 32d degree Mason. He was sec- retary of Lodge 501. F. & A. M., seventeen years. Feb. 3, 1862, he married Harriet A. Litchfield, of Syracuse, and to them have been born five children: William A., manager Central City Brick Co .; Jennie E., who died at the age of eighteen; Frank B., a clerk for S. P. Pierce's Sons; Charles C., for five years a clerk for the same house, who died Jan. 15, 1895; and Hattie, who died in infancy.

McCoy, William K., Syracuse, born in Allegheny City, Pa., July 13, 1866, has spent his life in the railroad service. When about seven years old he moved with his parents to Ashtabula, O., where he remained in school until the spring of 1881, when the family removed to Chicago. There he finished his education in the Northwestern University in Evanston, III. His father was soon transferred to Pittsburg, Pa., and in the spring of 1884 to Buffalo, where he was made superintendent of the West Shore Railroad. William K. spent much of his time in railroad offices as clerk or telegrapher, and during the summer of 1881 was attached to an engineering corps locating a railroad in West Virginia. Coming to Buffalo with his father he became a telegraph operator in the West Shore offices and steadily rose to the post of train dispatcher, which position he held at Newark, N. Y., commencing in 1885. April 1, 1888, he came to Syracuse, and in Dec., 1890, was made chief dispatcher, which position he still holds, filling it with a rare ability and faithfulness of purpose. July 22, 1891, he married Miss Mary A., daughter of Lyman Crothers, of Newark, N. Y. They have one child Margaret J.

Magee, Walter Warren, Syracuse, was born at Groveland, N. Y., May 23, 1861. He was educated in the common schools, at Geneseo State Normal, at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Harvard College, graduating in the class of '89. At Harvard he obtained an Honorable Mention in history and in political economy; he also had the distinction of delivering the class day oration, which was received with great cn- thusiasm. In the fall of 1889 he began the study of law in the offices of Baldwin & Kennedy, of Syracuse. N. Y., and was admitted to the bar on Nov. 19, 1891. In politics he is a staunch Republican and has rendered valuable services for the party on the stump. In the session of 1893-94 he represented the Fifth ward in the Board of Supervisors.

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Murphy, Thomas F., Syracuse, son of Charles, was born in this city, Aug. 19 1850. He studied law with Ruger, Wallace & Jenney, and was admitted Jan. 6, 1876. He was clerk for United States District Judge William J. Wallace four years, clerk at Auburn Prison two years, clerk in the Police Department of New York city five years, and clerk of the Board of Commissioners during the erection of the City Hall in Syracuse in 1889-93. During his residence in this city he has practiced alone, and is now the resident manager and attorney for the Commercial Union Co-operative Bank of Albany. A Democrat, he is active in politics and has several times been the nominee of his party for official honors. In Jan., 1877, he married Sarah Cosgriff, who died seventeen months afterward. His second wife is Annie Keough, by whom he had nine children, of whom Charles W., Annie F., Eugene F., William T., and Howard L., are living.

Molloy, Thomas, Syracuse, was born in County Westmeath, Ireland, in 1819, and came to America with his parents in 1836, settling in the town of Florence, Oneida Co., whence he came to Syracuse in 1837, where he still resides. He was foreman on the New York Central for several years, and laid the first T rail on the latter route in Onondaga Co., and later was foreman of the Cape Vincent division of the R., W. & O. Railroad. Starting life poor in worldly goods, but endowed with a liberal sup- ply of native energy and perseverance, he wisely invested his savings in real estate and ultimately accumulated a competency, and permanently retired from active life about 1870. He supported himself from a very early age, and was in every sense a self-made man. He married Ann Murphy, a native of County Clare, Ireland, who died Nov. 20, 1893. They had eight children, of whom four died young; the others are Mary Ann (Mrs. Richard Hackett), of Oshkosh, Wis. ; Thomas H. ; Ellen (Mrs. John Murphy); and Lizzie (Mrs. Edward McNulty), of Syracuse.

Mooney, Edward L., M. D., Syracuse, is a son of Michael Mooney, who came from County Meath, Ireland, in 1850, and moved thence to Centerville. There he was born, one of eight children, Oct. 23, 1859, and there he received his rudimentary ed- ucation. When seventeen he spent one year at the Cortland Normal School, and interspersed his schooling by working summers and teaching winters. He pursued a three years' course at the Onondaga Academy and was graduated as valedictorian of his class, after which he was retained as teacher of mathematics and Latin. He then taught in Meads's Business College, and in the fall of 1883 began a three years' course in the Medical Department of the University at Ann Harbor, Mich., graduat- ing July 1, 1886. Returning to Syracuse he immediately entered upon the practice of his chosen profession. Dr. Mooney is a member of the Onondaga County Medical Society, treasurer of the Syracuse Academy of Medicine, member of the New York Medical Society, vice-president of the Central New York Medical Society, and medi- cal director for the State of New York of the C. M. B. A. and the Industrial Benefit Association. Oct. 20, 1886, he married Miss Josephine J. Slattery, of Syracuse, and has five children: Ellen Arline, Marian Josephine, Edward Leland, Donald Sarsfield, and John Kenneth.

Moore, Henry Frank, Syracuse, son of Henry Oscar Moore, was born in Fisherville, now Penacook, N. H., Dec. 19, 1867. He left school at the early age of twelve years to learn the printer's trade and also telegraphy. He was successful in both trades

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and worked at one or the other continuously until until he became an agent in Prov- idence, R. I., for the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. In 1889 he came to Syracuse as their local superintendent, which position he still holds, being from that time until 1894 the youngest man acting in that capacity on their corps. He was married in Jan., 1890, to Miss Lucy Holbrook Baxter, of Providence, and has one child, Ethel Lenore.

Muench, William, was born in Stetten by Hechingen, Hohenzollern, Germany, Aug. 14, 1850, and in 1867 came to America and finished his practical education in the drug store of Dr. M. Bausinger in the Yates block in Syracuse, where he remained seven years. In 1874 he established a drug business for himself in the Second ward, and in the fall of 1887 moved to his present location in the Sixteenth ward. He was one of the founders of the Catholic Sun and has been president of the company since its reorganization. He was the second president of the St. Bonifacius Society, serving two terms; was president of Branch 36, C. M. B. A., two years; first grand vice- president of the C. M. B. A. for the State of New York; twice representative from the New York Grand Council to the Supreme Council of that body, and is now the supreme deputy for the State of New York for that fraternity. Ile is a member and for one term was orator of the C. B. L., and served as civil service examiner under Mayor Kirk. A Democrat in politics and somewhat active, he was a member of the city, and treasurer of the county committees, and in all these capacities has served with distinguished ability. Nov. 11, 1873, he married Elizabeth C., daughter of Frances Baumer, the well-known candle manufacturer. Their children are William G., Edmund J., Franz A., Alexis N., Carl E., A. M. E., Catherine, Norbert C. II., and Albert A.

Mahlerwein, George, Syracuse, contractor and builder was born in Liverpool, Onondaga Co., Dec. 16. 1852. Jacob Mahlerwein, his father, came here from Ger- many in 1851, but moved thence to Hastings, Oswego Co., in 1856, where he now resides, and where the son was educated. George Mahlerwein learned the trade of carpenter and joiner in that town, and came to Syracuse in 1871, where he has since resided. He engaged in contracting and building in 1877, and during the eighteen years in which he has followed that business he has erected a number of important buildings, among them being the Florence flats and the dwellings of S. C. Hayden, E. B. Judson, jr., and Alexander Brown. He has been president of the board of trustees of the First English Lutheran church for ten years and vice-president of the Builders' Exchange for two years. Jan. 30, 1877, he married Mary E., daughter of Valentine Schlous, of Liverpool, and has three sons: Frederick J., Harry J., and George H.

MeCrahon, John H., Syracuse, is a son of Edward, and was born in Rochester, N. Y., June 14, 1869. About 1880 he came to Syracuse with his parents and finished his education in the High School in the fall of 1888, when he commenced the study of law in the office of Costello, Ide & Hubbard. He was graduated from the Colum- bia Law School in New York city in June, 1891, receiving the degree of LL. B .. and being vice-president of his class. Admitted to the bar on Feb. 5, 1892, he imme- diately began the practice of his profession in Syracuse, where he still continues. In Feb., 1895, at Washington, D. C., he was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court

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of the United States. He is a member and chairman of the committee on entertain- ment of the 41st Separate Co., N. G. S. N. Y., and also a member of the S. A. A .. the Onondaga Bar Association, and the Dwight Alumni Association of New York city.

Maynard, O. C, Syracuse, born in South Valley, Otsego Co., N. Y., Dec. 7, 1850, was educated in the schools of his native town, and in 1866 graduated from the Fair- field Seminary in Herkimer Co. After teaching school for a time he went to Iowa in the interests of the U. S. Land Office to look up defective titles, etc., where he re- mained about three years. He then went to New York city and has since been actively engaged in the life insurance business. In the fall of 1891 he came to Syracuse as State agent for the Manhattan Life Insurance Co. of New York, and has offices in the Kirk block, where he transacts a large volume of business.

Magee, Daniel B., Syracuse, son of John, was born in Frederickton, Province of New Brunswick, Canada, Sept. 4, 1854, was graduated from St. Mary's Seminary in Montreal in 1873, and came to Syracuse in the fall of the same year as a student in the law office of Sedgwicks, Kennedy & Tracy. In the fall of 1875 he entered the Albany Law School, from which he was graduated in May, 1876 being admitted to the bar of this State at the same time. He returned to Syracuse and practiced law until 1879, then went to Boston and was admitted to the Suffolk Co. bar. He began the practice of his chosen profession in Boston, Mass., in 1879, and remained until 1885, when he returned to Syracuse, where he has since resided. He was married Nov. 26, 1891, to Miss Katherine C., daughter of Bartholomew Mack, of this city, and has one child, Ruth K.

McDonnell, George L., Syracuse, editor of the Catholic Sun, was born in Castle- bar, County Mayo, Ireland, in Oct., 1869, and after attending college in the town of Tuam he came to America. He studied law at the Niagara University for two years, and upon the inception of the Catholic Sun in Syracuse he became connected with it in a reportorial capacity under the editorial guidance of George Parsons Lathrop. When the company was reorganized in 1893 Mr. McDonnell was made editor-in-chief which position he still holds. Under his able and brilliant manage- ment the Sun has forged ahead and now occupies a leading place among the Catholic journals of the State.

Macdonald, Manville M., M.D., Syracuse, is a native of Rushford, N. Y., and was born March 16, 1841. Receiving his literary education in the old Rushford Academy, he taught select school for about five years, and studied medicine in the office of Dr. O. T. Stacy. After attending the medical department of the University of New York City for four years, an unusual length of time for that period, he was graduated in 1867, and immediately began the practice of his profession in Salamanca, Cat- taraugus Co. He afterwards took a post-graduate course at the University of New York City, and early in 1870 came to La Fayette, whence he removed in 1871 to Syracuse, where he has since resided, making hernia, chronic diseases, and surgical affections his specialties. For the successful treatment of hernia he has invented a number of useful and valuable devices, notably several distinct trusses and an original mechanico-physiological method for its radical cure. He also has material for an illustrated volume on the mechanical treatment of hernia, and is the origina- tor of many appliances used in his profession, among them an inhaler for the treat-

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ment of catarrh and an instrument for the latest known treatment of constipation, the rectum, bowels, and nervous diseases. Dr. Macdonald was health physician of the Eighth ward for a time, formerly examiner for several life insurance companies, and a member of the Onondaga County Medical Society. He married Charlotte E .. daughter of Charles W. Hoyt, who died in 1892, and of their three daughters one died young, and Clara S. and Olive I. are living.

Mara, Michael M., Syracuse, was born in the town of Tully, June 9, 1859, was grad- uated from Onondaga'Academy in June, 1880, and taught school the following winter in Otisco. He entered the law office of Vann, McLennan & Dillaye in the spring of 1881, was admitted to the bar in June, 1884, at Utica, and has practiced law in Syr- acuse ever since. He was clerk of the Board of Supervisors 1883 and 1884, clerk of the Committee on General Laws in the Assembly of 1890, and appointed clerk of the Surrogate's Court of Onondaga Co. in Jan., 1893, and is still serving in that capacity. He is a Republican and active in the campaigns of his party.

Nodine, William H., Syracuse, born in Albany, N. Y., Jan. 22, 1853, is a son of Joslin Nodine, who has long been prominent there in political and official capacities. having served the county for years. He first acquired a fascination for the tobacco trade in an establishment in which his father was financially interested, and the ex- perience gained there decided his vocation. He was a graduate of Starkey Semi- nary and of the Albany Business College, and began as a clerk for the Commercial Insurance Company in the home office at Albany, in which capacity he remained for nine years. In Sept., 1881, he came to Syracuse and commenced the manufacture of cigars, in which he has successfully continued, lately adding to his factory the making of clear Havana goods. Among his favorite brands are "Bonaparte " in two sizes, "Central City," "Enidon Perfecto," and "Bonaparte Flor del Fuma." He was married in 1875 to Emma Barringer, of Albany, N. Y.

O'Donnell Brothers, Syracuse .- Charles F. was born March 11, 1864, was gradu- ated from the High School in 1880, spent five years in the stock brokerage business and two years with the Alsop Furnace Company, and engaged in the sale of the Backus heaters under the firm name of Babcock & O'Donnell. In 1891 he married Mary Augusta, daughter of Augustus Avery, of Syracuse, and has one child, Har- riet B. Joseph O'Donnell was born Sept. 19, 1859, learned the trade of plumber, and for thirteen years held a position with Pierce, Butler & Pierce. He married, in 1887, Agnes M., daughter of Patrick Neylon, of Syracuse, and has three children : Charles Edward, Bernard Neylon, and Catherine. In 1891 he became a member of the firm of Babcock & O'Donnell and in Sept., 1893, the two brothers succeeded to the business, consisting of general plumbing, steam fitting, etc.

Power, Frank C., Syracuse, is a son of George H. and Adaline E. (Coffin) Power, and was born in Hudson, Columbia Co., N. Y., Nov. 7, 1861. Receiving his educa- tion in the district schools and academy of his native town, he engaged in the insur- ance business and later held a position with the old Hudson River Bridge Co. In Feb., 1883, he came to Syracuse as time keeper and receiving clerk for the Solvay Process Co., and has since been made chief time keeper of that establishment. Dec. 13, 1888, he married Grace E., daughter of the late Wells Lawrence, of South Da- kota. She died Sept. 3, 1891.

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Pack, 'Charles L., was born in Jordan, March 4, 1857. His father, William M. Pack, came from Rahway, N. J., and first settled in Geddes, whence he removed to Jordan, where he was engaged in business as a boot and shoe merchant for over forty years. He finally died in Syracuse on Feb. 13, 1891. Charles L. Pack was educated in the Jordan Academy, and for five years was a groceryman in his native village. He was then for three years in the mail service between Syracuse and Cleveland, and for a time connected with the advertising departments of the Stand- ard, Times and Express in Syracuse. In Jan., 1891, he became the junior member of the firm of Cady & Pack, dealers in real estate. In March of the same year he organized and incorporated the Syracuse Storage Battery Co., with a capital of $300,000, and with a factory at Phoenix, N. Y. He has continuously served as sec- retary, and is also now the general manager. Mr. Pack was elected supervisor of the Fourteenth ward in 1893 and is now serving his second year in that capacity. He was married in Feb., 1879, to Mabelle, daughter of Randall Lower, of Bridge- port, N. Y., and has five children living: Blanche F., Marion B .. William R., Clark- son L., and Ruth E. Mr. Lower was a lieutenant in the war of the Rebellion, and was killed at Gettysburg, his remains being buried on the field.

Peck, Mrs. Sarah J., Syracuse, is a daughter of James Warnby Ashton, a native of Manchester, England, who came to America and married Eliza Ann Iler, of Kinder- brook, N. Y., and lived for a long time in Burlington, N. Y., where Sarah J. was born. The family went to Oswego about 1849, where Mr. Ashton was engaged in cotton manufacturing; they subsequently removed to Saginaw City, Mich., and while on a trip to England he died. On Feb. 5, 1865, Sarah J. was married to Levi M. Peck, who was born in Manlius, a son to Myron Peck, in 1827, and who died in Syracuse, Oct. 30, 1890. Their children were Oscar Myron, born Dec. 8, 1865; Anna E., born Sept., 1870; and Frederick Ashton, born Jan., 1876, died Sept. 25 of the same year. Mrs. Peck has one grandchild adopted by her. Mrs. Peck was a private detective in McCarthy's retail store for over four years; on June 20, 1891, she was ap- pinted the first police matron in the Police Department of Syracuse, a position she still holds.

Plummer. Charles H., Syracuse, was born in Rochester, Jan. 6, 1853. He received a common school and also a practical business education from his father, Henry, who for over thirty years was superintendent of a large shoe factory in that city, and who died there in 1868. Spending two years as a fire and life insurance agent, he engaged in theatrical business in 1873, but in 1875 became chief clerk for Mckillop's Commer- cial Agency. In 1878 he was employed in a general insurance agency and in 1879 returned to the theatre business. In 1881 he accepted a position in the Rochester post-office, and in 1886 came to Syracuse as treasurer of Jacobs & Proctor's Grand Opera House; in Dec., 1887, he was made manager, and has since held that position, being reappointed by H. R. Jacobs when the latter became sole owner in the fall of 1888. Mr. Plummer has held positions involving the handling of large sums of money ever since he was twelve years old. An enthusiastic canoeist, he was one of the original members of the Rochester Canoe Club and the American Canoe Associa- tion, and is now an associate member of the New York Canoe Club, also Rochester Canoe Club. In April, 1879, he married Lilla, daughter of John Ackerman, of Roch- ester, and their children are Frank Andrews and Inez.

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Onondaga's centennial. Gleanings of a century, Vol. II, Part 51

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