Portrait and biographical record of Queens County (Long Island) New York, Part 127

Author: Chapman, firm, publishers
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: New York ; Chicago : Chapman Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 1220

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Mr. Buchanan was married to Miss A. C. Park, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and their union has been blessed by the birth of three children, Alexander, Jr., Annie and Norman. In politics Mr. Buchanan is a Republican, and has served on general and county committees.

J' AMES I. WALDRON, a prominent resident of the village of East Norwich, is justly en- titled to space in this volume. He is the proprietor of a carriage factory, and in carrying on this branch of business has been eminently successful. He was born in Brookville, L. I., February 25, 1833, and is the son of James and Hannah (Moore) Waldron. The grandfather, who bore the name of Isaac, came hither from New Brunswick, N. J., when a boy, locating in the vicinity of Jericho, where he learned the trade of a carpenter. Later he gave his attention to farming, purchasing a tract of land near Jer- icho, in the town of Oyster Bay, whereon he resided until his decease.

James Waldron, Sr., was reared in this locality and acquired his limited education in the schools which were carried on in the district. He learned the trade of a weaver when reaching mature years, and thereafter made his home in Brook- ville. One of his brothers, Jeremiah, during his

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lifetime was very prominent as a public official, and for many years was constable and collector.

Those included in the parental family besides our subject were: Alfred, who died when twenty- one years of age; John, who, with our subject, established the business which the latter is still carrying on, married Margaret Lewis, and died in July, 1890. Their daughter, Emma, is now the wife of Samuel Bayless.

James I., who is the only survivor of this fam- ily, remained under the parental roof until a young man of twenty-one years. He had completed his education at the age of seventeen years and then entered the carriage factory which his brother had established in Brookville, and re- mained with him for about five years. He then came to East Norwich and began in this line of business for himself. Two years later his brother joined him here, when they formed a partnership and built the shop in which they were interested until the death of John, which occurred when he was sixty-four years of age. During the time they were in partnership they built up a large trade, manufacturing all kinds of wagons and carriages, which were shipped to various points on the island. Mr. Waldron is an expert work- man and gives his personal supervision to every department of the business.

Although our subject has been greatly inter- ested in public affairs, he could never be prevailed upon to hold office until the spring of 1896, when he was elected assessor, which position he still holds. In politics he is a stanch Republican, casting his first vote for John C. Fremont in 1856, and has at various' times been sent as a delegate to county conventions.

Mr. Waldron was married in 1858 to Miss Mar- tha Vernon, and to them have been born four children, of whom Amelia is the eldest; Alice is now the wife of Frank McQueen, a prominent merchant and the present postmaster of East Norwich; Vernon J. is a partner of the latter; and John A. assists his father in the carriage shop.

M ARGARET M. YORK, M. D., is a worthy example of the women of this progressive age and of what can be ac- complished when opportunity is afforded. She possesses those attributes necessary for a suc- cessful career as a practitioner of the "healing art," for she is naturally kind hearted and sym- pathetic and has the happy faculty of inspiring

hope and courage in those upon whom she is called to attend, while her native intelligence and thorough and practical knowledge of her calling cannot be denied. She was born in New Orleans, La., and is descended from an old and prominent French family. Her father, Noel Magnon, was also a native of New Orleans, but the grandfather, Jacque Magnon, was a native of Bordeaux, France. He was a Royalist and was in the French government employ when Napoleon I. was at the head of affairs in that country. He lost his French possessions while in America, and was here mar- ried to a German lady, Miss Margaret Barrois, whose father conducted an extensive rice and sugar plantation in Plaquemines Parish. He was a very prominent man, and his death occurred in 1829.

The father of our subject was an extensive rice and sugar planter, but lost all his property during the Civil War. He died in New Orleans in 1881, when sixty-eight years old. He married Miss Mary McCarton, a native of New Orleans and daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Cameron) Mc- Carton. Mrs. McCarton was the daughter of Thomas Cameron, one of the followers of Charles Stuart at the battle of Colloden. A price was set on his head. He went to Ireland, was married there, and then came to America about 1798, and died in New Orleans. The McCartons were of Scotch-Irish origin. The mother of Dr. York died in 1877. She and her husband were members of the Catholic Church, and their family included fourteen children.

Dr. Margaret M. York was reared in New Orleans and was educated in the public schools and the state normal. Later she taught in New Orleans, and Galveston, Tex., and afterwards was in the civil service at Washington, D. C., for two years. She was married in that city to Ervine Denison York, a native of New York and an attorney at law. He was officially connected with the supreme court and is now connected with the San Domingo Improvement Company as secre- tary, with headquarters in New York City. After marriage Dr. York began the study of medicine in the medical department of Columbian Univer- sity, Washington, and graduated in 1893 with the degree of M. D. After a short hospital course in New York City she located in Flushing, and is actively engaged in the practice of her profession. She is a member of Goodcitizenship League, the Woman's Club; is also a member of the Woman's Anthropological Society of Washington, D. C ..

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and is working with the psychological depart- ment of the latter. She is a member of the Con- gregational Church.

Mr. York's ancestors settled in America in 1632 and trace their ancestry back to the Yorks of Wiltshire. He comes of old and prominent colonial stock of Stonington, Conn., and both the Yorks and Denisons moved to Madison Coun- ty, N. Y., at a later date. Ervine York was edu- cated in Cazenovia (N. Y.) Seminary, from which institution he graduated with honor. In 1882 he received the degree of A. M., LL. B. in 1883, and the same year he was admitted to the bar. He was Justice Miller's first secretary of United States supreme court. In politics he is a Republican. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. York, Everett Magnon and Willard Denison.

C HARLES E. RUSSELL. Jamaica has its quota of vigorous, enterprising and thor- oughgoing business men, whose popular- ity is based both upon their social qualities and their well known integrity and business activity. Of this class, none are better liked than the sub- ject of this sketch, who is the representative of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company at Ja- maica. The possession of executive ability of a high order enables him to carry to a successful issue his plans of work.

The parentage of Mr. Russell, briefly recorded, is as follows: His father, Rev. William H. Rus- sell, a minister in the Methodist Church, was for some time located in Connecticut, but transferred from there to Long Island. It was in 1863 that he came to this part of the state, and for some years afterward he preached at different places on the island, becoming known as an earnest and indefatigable worker in the Master's vineyard. On reaching an advanced age he retired from the ministry, and now makes his home at Ocean Grove, N. J.

By his marriage to Miss Hiller, a native of Michigan, Rev. W. H. Russell had five sons and one daughter, those besides our subject being as follows: William H., a graduate of the medical department of the University of New York City and a practicing physician in Florida; I. F., a graduate of the University of New York and of the Yale Law School, now professor of law in the University of New York (and it was under his instruction that Miss Helen Gould took her law course); Lillie, wife of A. C. Turner, a business

man of Ocean Grove, N. J .; Theodore J., a resi- dent of Ocean Grove; and David B., who is with his brother, Charles E., in his office at Jamaica.

During the residence of his parents in Burling- ton, Conn., the subject of this article was born, August 2, 1861. He was two years of age at the time the family removed to Long Island, and here much of his life has been passed. With an inclination toward a professional life, he turned his attention to the study of law, which he prose- cuted in the law department of the University of New York. Graduating from that institution, he was admitted to the bar and became connected with the law department of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company of Brooklyn. For three and one-half years he was in the New York office of the firm, after which he was transferred to the Jamaica office, where he has been since 1889. In this line of business he is considered an expert, having a detailed and comprehensive knowledge of its every feature.

In 1889 Mr. Russell was united in marriage with Miss Phebe E. Higbie, of Springfield, L. I. They have many friends in Jamaica, and their many excellencies of character have gained them the high regard of all who know them. In poli- tics Mr. Russell is a Republican, but without the aspirations of the politician. As a citizen he is ever ready to lend a helping hand in all matters of public welfare. He is a man of business and executive ability, sagacious and far-sighted, and at the same time a genial companion and accom- modating friend.

B RUN PLUMP, of Schuetzen Park, has for many years been one of the largest and most successful general contractors of the place. Many of the best public buildings and private residences of Long Island City give evi- dence of his skill and ability. He is honorable and upright in whatever he undertakes, and there- fore merits and has received the confidence of those who know him, and has built up a good reputation in this business.

Mr. Plump located in Long Island City Decem- ber 1, 1869, and the following year took up his abode in Schuetzen Park, where he has made his home ever since. He was born in Hanover, Ger- many, January 7, 1843, the son of Frederick Plump, also a native of that place. The latter followed the baker's trade in Germany until his decease, which occurred when he was past sixty

JOHN J. TRAPP.

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years of age. His wife was Lena Loenyer, a native of the Fatherland, who also died there. Both were consistent members of the Lutheran Church.

The parental family included ten children, of whom seven grew to mature years and four are living at the present time in America. Brun, who was the fourth in order of birth, attended the model schools of Germany until a lad of fourteen, when he served an apprenticeship of three years with a mason. He then traveled through the various provinces of the empire, working at his trade until the fall of 1866, when he found an opportunity to carry out his long cherished de- sire of coming to America. After landing in New York City he found work and remained until 1869, when he came to Astoria, and the same year began contracting in mason work on his own account. Among the buildings which he has erected are the Astoria Athletic Hall, the Dutch Reformed Church, and many of the finest residences in this community.

In the year 1886 our subject purchased a stock of groceries formerly owned by Richard Walters, and removing them to Schuetzen Park, built a store on the corner of Broadway and Winans Street, in which he placed them and set his sons up in business. This building is three stories in height and 25x60 feet in dimensions. It was erected for the express purpose for which it is used, and therefore has many conveniences in the way of plenty of shelving, etc., which many gro- ceries do not have. Herman F., who has the management of the establishment, is a shrewd and competent young business man and has con- ducted affairs in such an able manner that they now have the largest trade of any one store in the city, and in order to fill the wants of their cus- tomers keep two delivery wagons.

Brun Plump was married in New York City in 1867 to Miss Margaret Walters, also a native of Hanover. Their union has been blessed by the birth of five children, of whom Frederick H. is a druggist of Brooklyn; Herman F. conducts the grocery, as above mentioned, and Lena, George C. and Annie M. are all at home.

In social affairs Mr. Plump is an Odd Fellow, belonging to. Long Island City Lodge No. 395, in which he has passed nearly all the chairs. He also holds membership with Mozart Lodge, K. of H. He united with the German Second Re- formed Church many years ago and for some time was one of its officials. In his political affil-

iations he is a Republican and devoted to the best interests of his party. He is public spirited and in favor of everything which will promote the welfare of his fellow citizen, and his influence is always directed toward this end.

J JOHN J. TRAPP, LL. B., attorney-at-law. with office at No. 112 Broadway, Flushing. was born in Bayside, Queens County, in 1866, being a son of George and Margaretha (Worster) Trapp, natives of Germany. His father, who came to the United States in 1844, settled in Manhasset, L. I., where he engaged in the manufacture of carriages. After a short time he removed to Bayside, where he established the carriage works with which he was afterward iden- tified until his retirement from business. His home is now in Whitestone, where he has served as a member of the boards of village trustees and health commissioners, and also for some time held the position of street commissioner. As a citizen he is public-spirited, interested in every- thing that tends to the advancement of the in- terests of the community, and in politics he ad- heres to the platform of the Democratic party, the principles of which he believes would be most conducive to the welfare of the nation, if carried out in a practical issue.

Of the five children of George Trapp we note the following: George is a carriage maker and resides in Flushing; John J. is the second in order of birth: Fred is with his parents at Whitestone; Elizabeth is the wife of C. V. Garrison, of Murray Hill; and Cornelia, who is a talented musician and vocalist, holds the position of organist in Grace Episcopal Church. The subject of this article was reared principally in Whitestone and re- ceived his education in Flushing, graduating from the high school here in 1885 as valedictorian of his class. One year later he began the study of law in the office of Benjamin W. Downing, ex- district attorney of Queens County, and after gaining under his preceptorship a thorough knowledge of the fundamental principles of the legal profession, he entered the Columbia Law School, New York City, from which he gradu- ated June 13, 1888, with the degree of LL. B. In September of the same year he was admitted to practice at the bar of the state, since which time he has had charge of a general legal business.

While Mr. Trapp conducts a general law prac- tice, he is best known to the people as a trial and

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criminal lawyer. Well equipped for his profes- sion, he is ready to cross swords with the best, and is fearless of any controversy. He was at- torney in the famous trial of James L. Hamilton, a colored minister, who was convicted of murder in the first degree for killing his wife, he having dragged her to a pond in Newtown and held her head under the water, while he cut her throat with a razor. In several arson cases Mr. Trapp has also rendered efficient service, as in civil and litigant matters. At this writing. 1896, he is serv- ing his fifth year as attorney for the board of excise commissioners of the town of Flushing. In 1889 he was chosen to serve as town clerk of Flushing and the following year was re-elected without opposition, his nomination being en- dorsed by the Republicans. In addition to other interests he is attorney for the Flushing Busi- ness Men's Mutual Protective Association of this place; also for the board of Anglo-American Sav- ings and Loan Association of New York, filling the position formerly occupied by Mr. Downing.

Interested in everything pertaining to his pro- fession, Mr. Trapp is identified with the Queens County Bar Association and is regarded, among the other members of that organization, as one of the rising young attorneys of the county. In boyhood, through the influence of his father's stanch Democratic convictions, he became a champion of that party, and since attaining man- hood has continued loyal to the principles he espoused in youth. He is a member of the New York Medico-Legal Society, and, fraternally, be- longs to Anchor Lodge, F. & A. M., at College Point. In matters pertaining to religion, he holds membership in Grace Episcopal Church at White- stone. He is a young attorney, scarcely yet in the prime of life, with a wide field and a long and promising future before him, a man of superior ability and admirably adapted for the profession he has chosen.

D ANIEL C. BEARD. Among America's gifted sons stands the name of Daniel Beard, whose fame as an artist is not merely local but has extended to other countries. He no doubt inherits his unusual talent from his noted father, James H. Beard, N. A., who was one of the foremost painters of his day. Daniel was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, of English-Scotch origin on the paternal side. The first member of this family came from England to America in

1627 and settled in Connecticut, in which state the grandfather of our subject, Capt. James H. Beard, was born. The latter was a sea captain by occupation, had traveled all over the world, but during the latter part of his life was on Lake Erie, where he commanded the first brig that sailed on the lake. Socially he was a Mason. The Beards come of good old fighting stock, seven members of this family fighting in the War for Independence, and others represented in every war since.

James H. Beard, father of our subject, became an artist by seeing the carver design the figure head of the first lake steamboat, "Walk on the Water." This he tried to imitate, studying from nature, and met with such success and displayed such natural ability that he soon became noted He became one of the greatest animal painters in America, and one of his pictures, "Mutual Friend," was sold for $7,000, while another, "Streets of New York," brought $3,500, both dog pictures. He received a medal for both pictures. Mr. Beard portraited William H. Harrison, J. Q. Adams, Henry Clay and Zachary Taylor, from sittings, and was a warm friend of Audubon, Charles Dickens, Captain Marryat and other noted men. His greatest picture was "North Carolina Emi- grants," painted in the '30s.

About the year 1875 Mr. Beard located in New York City and there died in 1893, when eighty-one years old. The last few years of his life were spent with our subject. He was a thirty-second degree Mason. During the Civil War he raised a company and later was on Gen. Lew Wallace's staff. He married Miss Mary C. Carter, a native of Cincinnati and daughter of Colonel Carter and Deborah (Bartlett) Carter, the father locating in Cincinnati among the first settlers. Deborah Bartlett came from Rhode Island to Cincinnati on horseback. Josiah Bartlett was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and another mem- ber of this family was with Paul Jones in the Revolution. Colonel Carter held that rank in the War of 1812.

Mr. and Mrs. Beard were the parents of these children: J. Carter, Capt. Harry, Thomas Francis, Daniel Carter, Mary Caroline and Adelia Belle, all noted artists and literary characters. Mrs. Beard was a cousin of Douglas and was also re- lated to Lew Wallace, ex-Governor Denison of Ohio. Our subject, the fourth in order of birth of the above mentioned children, is one of the prominent residents of Flushing, L. I. He is

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a member of the Nereus and the Fireside Club of that village, also a member of the Village Association and lately became a member of the Mercury Wheel Club. He has been a member of the Historical Society for a number of years. Mr. Beard was married in Newtown to Miss Alice Jackson, a native of that place and daughter of Samuel Jackson, who died in 1889. Mr. Jackson was the first jewelry box manufacturer in America, and his son, Thomas, continues the business in New York City. Grandfather Thomas B. Jackson was a member of Congress two terms and a member of the New York Assembly two terms. Great-grandfather Jackson was a promi- nent Quaker. To Mr. and Mrs. Jackson were born the following named children: Bertha, Thomas, Florence, Daisy and Samuel C.

The following, copied from a magazine, relates to our subject: "The studio of Dan. Beard (as he is more generally known) is unique and most interesting, for besides being very artistic, it is rich from the collector's standpoint. His collec- tion of swords and small fire-arms, of which we shall chiefly speak, are especially rare, and some of them have a history that makes their posses- sion all the more desirable. In his studio are arranged two swords carried through the war by his brother, Capt. Harry Beard, of the Thirtieth Missouri Regiment; an officer's sword of the War of 1812 and an Indian scimeter and case, also three heavy Japanese samauri swords and a heavy dragoon sword. He also has a flint-lock blunderbuss and sword, such as were used by Black Beard, the pirate, dated 1689. There are also knives from the battlefield of Ft. Donelson, a double-bladed Chinese sword, a bone-handled sword dug up in New York City, a dagger from the Island of Formosa, an artillery sword and an old Fort Artillery sword of 1833, with Roman blade filled with mercury, a Japanese dagger and a sword used during the John Brown trouble.

"He has masks from Alaska, an old crossbow of the fifteenth century, many Javanese musical instruments, and numerous cooking utensils of iron, brass and copper used by the early settlers of this country. He has a lariat given him by a man who had killed four Chinamen, but as Mr. Beard playfully remarks, 'This was while he was drunk; he was not a killer.' He has some old candlesticks, Persian lamps and two pieces of Aztec pottery, both valuable specimens of artistic hand work. Possibly the most interesting thing in the studio is a home-made Confederate flag, put

together by the loving hands of some Southern mother or sister, with two strips of turkey red and one of fine white linen. This was captured by Mr. Beard's brother and sent home as a Christmas present to Daniel, who, at that time, was a little boy.

"But the most precious of all were the treasures showed in the drawers of the rich old cabinet and in the portfolios kept therein. Here are the draw- ings, sketches and notes of the artist, taken in his many journeys, and besides these are many originals already used in the various magazines and books which Mr. Beard's prolific pen and brush have illustrated. Although coming from a family of artists of which his father and an uncle, William H. Beard, were the youngest, Daniel was not encouraged to study art, for which he had a natural love, although the environments of his early years were certainly artistic and his home a perfect kindergarten for the development of any latent talent. It is only in later years and by the most persistent study that Daniel Beard has made himself felt in the art world.

"As a boy he gave no special attention to the inducements of art but studied with much more interest the habits of birds and insects. His love of colors led him to paint tiny panoramas of soldiers and Indians, which were unrolled by a crank, and the first money he earned was for painting a political transparency for the campaign of 1864, showing Gen. George B. McClellan riding two horses (War and Peace). For this he received $4 and immediately spent the entire amount for neckties of bright hues. After graduating from the schools of Cincinnati he took a short course at Professor Worrall's Academy, in Covington, Ky., studying principally the higher mathematics with a view to becoming a civil engineer.

"In 1874 hc received a good offer from the Sanborn Map and Publishing Company, which position he accepted and for five years he traveled as surveyor over all the states east of the Missis- sippi River. During this time he pursued his studies in natural history and later, while on a visit to New York in 1879, he met Mr. Drake of the Century and St. Nicholas, who induced him, after a glance at his sketch book, to write a series of articles on natural history, with illustrations by himself. The reception they met with induced Mr. Beard to enter the field of art and story and he has continued in it since. The encouragement he received from the journals and his reception from the public not only determined him

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Portrait and biographical record of Queens County (Long Island) New York, Part 127

Author: Chapman, firm, publishers Publication date: 1896 Publisher: New York ; Chicago : Chapman Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 1220

Author: Chapman, firm, publishers
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: New York ; Chicago : Chapman Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 1220