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For many years he has been one of the Trus- tees and a member of the examining committee of the Riverhead Savings Bank. He was one of the incorporators of the Suffolk County National Bank, and has been one of the Directors from the time of its organization. For twelve years he has been President of the Chautauqua and Literary Societies of Riverhead, and President of the Lect- ure Association from its beginning, in 1890. For thirteen years he served as Justice of the Peace in the town of Riverhead. All his life he has been an earnest advocate of temperance, and has done much by his words and deeds to restrain intem- perance and vice in the town where he resides. He has always taken an active interest in all edu- cational matters, as well as in the advancement and improvement of the village where he resides.
July 28, 1886, Mr. Stackpole was married to Mary A. Hayes, daughter of Caleb and Harriet Hayes, of Castle Creek, Broome County, N. Y. His wife is a graduate of the Oswego Normal School, and was valedictorian of her class. She is always enthusiastic in literary and educational matters, and has been an active worker in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, having been for some time President of the Riverhead Union and Vice-President of the Suffolk County Union, as well as State Superintendent of Scien- tific Temperance Instruction. They have one 1
daughter living, Syrena H., and have buried three sons. In person Mr. Stackpole is six feet in height, and weighs upward of two hundred pounds.
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ILLIAM H. TUTHILL. This time-hon- ored and respected gentleman is one of the oldest residents of the town of Southold, where he is now living. His long life has been replete with acts of kindness, and his whole career marked with integrity and uprightness; hence lie is entitled to and receives the respect and esteem of the entire community. During the active years of his life Mr. Tuthill was en- gaged in agricultural pursuits near Oregon, but he is now retired and living in the enjoyment of the accumulation of his earlier years.
A native of this county, our subject was born January 14, 1828, his parents being Jesse and Mary (Horton) Tuthill, also natives of this lo- cality. Both his paternal and maternal ances- tors were among the oldest families on Long Island, and of those who now live William H. Tuthill is a worthy representative. The father, who passed his entire life in the place of his birtli, was also a farmer, and in those early days cultivated his land with rude and unhandy im- plements. The soil was rich, however, and the crops put in yielded a rich return. He departed this life when William H. was in his seventeentli year. The father had been twice married, and the children born of both unions who are now living are Jacob; Eliza A., the widow of the late F. N. Terry, of Southold; William H., of this history; and Lucretia, now the widow of Robert Newbold, who also makes her home in this lo- cality.
The subject of this sketch received a fair edu- cation in the district school, and as soon as old enough devoted his attention to farming, which business lie las followed all the active years of his life. Industrious, enterprising and progress- ive, he was successful in his undertakings, and is now one of the substantial men of the locality. By his marriage withi Miss Elmia A. Mapes, four
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children were born, of whom those living are Sidney P. and Eugene M. On the death of his first wife he chose for his second companion Miss Jennie D., daughter of Nathaniel Wells Downs, now deceased, but who was then a resi- dent of Northville.
The farm which our subject owns comprises thirty-one acres in the home place, which is under admirable improvement, and twenty acres in woodland, which are located a short distance west of Mattituck. The residence on his place is a comfortable dwelling, furnished in a neat ·manner, and on this farm it is his desire to pass the remainder of his life. For many years he has been identified with the interests of Suffolk County, and in him the community has a faith- ful and unswerving friend. He has served very acceptably as Trustee of his school district. During elections, he always casts a ballot sup- porting the candidates of the Republican party, with which he has been identified ever since its organization. He is an influential member of the Presbyterian Church at Cutchogue, in which he is a Trustee. In the Sunday-school he is es- pecially interested, and in his younger years took a very active part in this branch of church work.
FRANK SMITH, who since 1883 has made the beautiful little seaside resort of East Moriches his home, is one of its rep- resentative citizens. He is a native of Suffolk, and in 1833 was born in the town of Islip. His parents were William Clark and Ency (Overton) Smith, also natives of this community, where their entire lives were passed.
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William C. Smith during his early years fol- lowed the sea for a livelihood, but when abandon- ing that business located on a farm, and there- after was engaged very successfully in general farming. He was a quiet and unassuming citi- zen, who was devoted to his family, and provided well for their comfort and enjoyment. In 1833 he died, universally regretted by the entire com-
munity, among whom he had spent an honored life. His wife survived him many years, depart- ing this life in 1859.
The advantages which were given our subject for attaining an education were indeed limited, as when only ten years of age he entered a mer- cantile establishment in New York City, and be- gan to make his own way in the world. He re- mained with the same employers for eight years, during which time he occupied his spare moments in studying, and also gained a fair knowledge of the manner of conducting a successful business. After this he apprenticed himself to a ship-car- penter, with the understanding that he was to re- main until completing his trade. This he did, and a short time after being pronounced a competent workman, a call was made for men to volunteer their services in defense of the Union. Young Smith responded eagerly, and became a member of the Fourteenth Brooklyn Regiment. He re- mained in the service during the entire period of the war, but as he was most of the time on detail duty, did not participate in any active engage- ment.
In 1865 Mr. Smith returned to Brooklyn, and for some five years worked at his trade. At the expiration of that time he obtained a position in the store of A. T. Stewart, of New York City, re- maining in their employ for four years. Mr. Smith next worked in the capacity of agent for the New York & Manhattan Beach Railroad Company, having a good position with them for two years. We next find him engaged in the manufacture of water-elevators and purifiers in Brooklyn, N. Y., following this business up to 1883, the year in which we have stated he came to East Moriches. He is now engaged in the manufacture of cigars, in partnership with Charles B. Albertson, doing business under the firm nante of Albertson & Smith.
Mr. Smith was married, in 1853, to Miss Mary E., daughter of Seldon and Aim ( Bayless , Reeve. natives of this county. Two children came to bless their union, Amelia A. and Julia A., both of whom are deceased.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Smith are members in ex- cellent standing of the Methodist Episcopal i
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Church, in which the former is Trustee and Stew- ard. Socially he is a prominent Mason, and be- longs to the Legion of Honor. In him the Re- publican party finds one of its most prominent . and active workers. On this ticket he has been elected Justice of the Peace, and has also been Deputy-Sheriff of the county. He is greatly in- terested in the welfare of his community, and as one of the valued citizens of East Moriches well deserves representation in this volume.
ILLIAM H. DEALE, D. D. S., is a well known dentist of the village of Babylon. If a thoughtful man were asked to select one calling which has made rapid progress in re- cent years, that might be fairly used as illustrative of the progress of the age, he would not go far astray if he should select the science of dentistry as the one advanced and progressive branch of human learning and practical skill. Time was when the dentist was hardly more than a carpenter, his calling ranking little above the manual trades, and there are those living who can still remember that stage of its development. But all this is changed to-day, and the dentist has become a member of the liberal professions, and may justly bear the title of Doctor of Dental Surgery. The subject of this sketch is in himself a living illus- tration of the progress of the times. He has had a good general education, and has supplemented this by wide reading and study, and experience as a teacher in the public schools. He had taken a special course in dentistry before he felt compe- tent to undertake so serious and important a ca- reer, as every year the requirements that are made of those seeking entrance into this profes- sion are increasing in stringency and thorough- ness.
Dr. Deale was born at Greenport, March 2, 1864, and is the son of James and Elizabeth (Conk- lin) Deale. Here he grew to manhood, and at the age of eigliteen was graduated from the Green- port High School. From the classroom of the high school he passed to the platform of the coun-
try school, and was engaged in teaching for a number of years. By natural thrift and industry, he saved enough to carry him through the Penn- sylvania College of Dental Surgery, at Phila- delphia, graduating from that institution Marclı 2, 1892. He immediately located at Babylon, and June 28, 1893, he was married to Miss Edith Cory, of Greenport, where she was born, and where she received her education. She had also been a teacher, having followed that profession for a number of years in the Greenport schools. Both as to the quality of her work and the character of her education, she ranked high, for she had won a state certificate. One child, Robert Cory, has been born to them.
Dr. Deale has been very successful in his profes- sion, having established a good practice, and stands high in the esteem of the community. Po- litically he is a Democrat, but has no patience with the fine work of party managers, and, like his father, is in no sense a practical politician. He has refused to be a candidate for any office, hold- ing that his profession demands all his time and energy. He is an active member of the . Royal Arcanum, having served as Chaplain in that or- der, and is now Vice-Regent of the local council. Dr. Deale is the eldest in a family of six children. One sister is a teacher, and another was for a long time engaged in the same calling, but has had to give it up on account of ill-health. A younger brother, who is attending school, will graduate in 1896.
SHER B. HOWELL, a man widely known in the village of Riverhead and vicinity, was born December 17, 1858. He was educated in the public school, and was also a student in Bridgehampton Literary Institute, and in Claver- ack College, in Columbia County, N. Y. His brother, Charles H., was the owner of Franklin- ville Academy, and for one year he was assist- ant teacher there, and the next year became Prin- cipal. Before taking his college course lie had read law.
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For a period of four years Mr. Howell was a clerk in a drug store, and for several years after that k ot books in a business house in Riverhead. He was then called to be Assistant Secretary of the Riverhead Savings Bank, a position which he was unusually well qualified to fill, being a careful, methodical and painstaking accountant, and this position he has occupied to the present time. In 1885 he was married to Miss Minnie M., the daughter of Gilbert L. and Charry M. (Benja- min) Miller, of East Moriches. They have two children living, Grace A. and Edith M., but Helen died in infancy. Mrs. Howell is a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and po- litically Mr. Howell lias always been a Republi- can. A fuller history of the Howell family will be found in connection with the sketch of our sub- ject's brother, Charles Hamilton Howell.
ILLIAM . CONKLIN ALBERTSON. The Albertson family is of Dutch origin, and the name is of quite frequent occur- rence among the early settlers of New Amster- dam and the farming towns of Kings County. It has been variously spelled, such as Albertsen, Elburtsen and Alberts. Albert Albertsen was one of twenty patentees to whom a patent was is- sued in 1657 by the Director-General and Coun- cil of New Amsterdam for the settlement of New Utrecht.
The genealogy of the Albertson family is as follows: 1 .. - William Albertson, born November 27, 1726; was married to Mary Parker, daugliter of Dr. Jolin Parker. He died April 17, 1764, - and left to her the stream of water and the mills at Riverhead, and also a large tract of land. She was born October 10, 1731, and died December 21, 1812. 2. - William, the eldest son, who was · born December 21, 1752, and was for several years Supervisor. He was twice married, his first
wife being Polly Halsey, and his second Sarah Conklin. The latter was born June 27, 1755, and was a daughter of Capt. Joseph Conklin, who died at Albany, December 25, 1756, while there with his company on the way to take part in the French and Indian War. She was mar- ried November 14, 1730, and her children were: Helen C., who married Dr. Matthew Buell; Jo- sepli C .: Mary H., who married Thomas Storrs Lester, District Attorney; Sarah C., who mar- ried John Applebee; William: Charity W., who married Hutchinson H. Case, President of the Suffolk County Mutual Insurance Company; Jo- siah, who married Esther Terry; and an infant who died young. William Albertson died Sep- tember 26, 1818, and his wife February 9, 1806. 3 .- Joseph C., son of William and Sarah (Conk- lin) Albertson, was born October 19, 1783, and for several years was Supervisor. February 22, 1809, he was married to Phobe Terry, who was born July 9, 1787. Their children were: Albert, who took as his wife Hannah M. Cochran: Sarah C., who married J. Wickham Case; Esther T., who married William H. Wells; William; Jo- seph C., who was married to Mary Bartlett; and Daniel T., who married Caroline B. Nichols. J. C. Albertson died March 9, 1850, and his wife January 5. 1864. 4 .- William Albertson, son of Joseph C. and Phoebe (Terry) Albertson, was born August 16, 1819, and October 11, 1842, married Lucy S. Vail, who was born in Southold. Of their children, we mention the following: Sarah E., a graduate of Clavcrack College, was a young lady of much talent, culture and refine- ment, and through an accident died about the time she was to have been married to John R. Hunt, of New York City. William Conklin was the next in order; and Mary married George H. Wells. William Albertson is still living. but his wife died October 12, 1873.
William Conklin Albertson, our subject, was born June 22, 1850, at the old homestead, "Arsha- momoque," three miles east of Southold, where three generations of his ancestors were also born. The father, who is a farmer, is a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is also identified with the Masonic order. His
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brother Joseph was a prominent attorney in New York and in California. D. Tuthill is a leading business man in New York. Albert, who was a farmer, was Supervisor of Southold four years, and was a Director of the Southold Savings Bank. The mother of our subject, Lucy S. Vail, was the daughter of Russell and Amy (Smith) Vail, the former of whom was a prominent farmer.
The subject of this sketch grew up at the old family homestead and was educated in the com- mon schools. When he was eighteen years of age he began business life by entering a store in this village as clerk. In 1868 he was elected Col- lector of the town, and has now been a member of the Board of Education for fourteen years, being at this writing President of the board. For four years he was a member of the Board of Health; has been Overseer of the Poor for three years, also a member of the Finance Committee, and is now a Director and Trustee of the Southold Savings Bank, whose history for integrity and business methods is widely known. In the store where he began he clerked for twenty years and then purchased it, and by branching out in business has become the largest shipper of farm produce in his vicinity, and is also a very extensive dealer in farm machinery. In financial and public af- fairs of the village his opinion has much weight.
Mr. Albertson was married to Miss Jennie Wells, October 2, 1876. She was a native of Ber- gen County, N. J., and a daughter of Thomas and Mary (Brower) Wells. Her father was a direct descendant of the first William Wells of Long Island, where he was one of the pioneers. He was engaged in the contracting and milling busi- ness, and was a mechanical genius, inventing many valuable articles, which were patented. He died at Oneida, N. Y., when about fifty years old. Our subject and wife have three sons, of whom W. Corey and Storrs Lester are students at Clav- erack College, and Albert Wells is a student in the public school of Southold. Mr. Albertson and his family are said to occupy the finest home in the village. He is an Odd Fellow socially, and politically is a Democrat, and attends sery- ices at the Metliodist Episcopal Church.
M ILLARD F. GRIFFITHS. The biography of our subject is a pleasing illustration of the success which earnest endeavor, con- stancy and general merit will obtain in the face of modest beginnings and patient waiting for re- ward. Mr. Griffiths has a beautiful home on Ocean Avenue, Amityville, this being his place of residence, and his dearest interests are connected with the village; although his business is con- ducted in New York City, his office being at No. 27 Park Row, where lie manages the affairs of a large hardware and metal firm. He was born in the city, September 1, 1857, and is a son of Daniel L. and Elizabeth ( Martin) Griffiths. His father, who is still living, was born in New York City, and has there been a salesman for the Heckers Flour Company for over forty years.
The boyhood days of Mr. Griffiths were spent in the busy metropolis, where he received a fair education, and graduated from the old Christy Street Grammar School. When fifteen years of age lie left school and sought work by which he could become independent. He began as an errand boy for Patterson Bros., dealers in hardware and metals. From this lowly position he was soon promoted to that of clerk and assistant in the of- fice. He entered the employ of the firm March 4, 1873, and eleven years later the company was re-organized, and in the general change he was taken in as a partner in the business. Such a step was but another proof of the merit which must have been evident from his steady advance- ment. To him was assigned the management of the business, and in the years that have passed the judgment that led to this re-organization has been justified in the constant increase in business.
December 15, 1880, Mr. Griffiths married Miss Carrie F. Starr, of New York City, which was her native place. She was a daughter of Dr. Ira and Jane (Hutton ) Starr, both now deceased. Her father was a native of Betliel, Conn., and her mother was born in Scotland. Amityville was formerly only the summer home of Mr. Griffiths. his residence being in New York City until IS94. when he became a permanent citizen of this favorite spot of New York business men.
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children: Jessie, who was born in New York City, November 16, 1881; and Alfred, born in the sar ? place, November 10, 1884. In his political ideas Mr. Griffiths is independent, although he inclines to the policy of the Republican party; but as long as individuals are stronger than principles he objects to binding himself to any party. In their church relations he and his wife are connected with the Baptist denomination, of which he is both a Trustee and a Deacon.
ILLIAM R. DUVALL. This prominent official and representative citizen of Suffolk County was born October 23, 1858, on Shelter Island, which, according to its population, has the distinction of being the banner Republi- can section of the Empire State. His father, whose name was also William R. Duvall, was a native of North Haven, near Sag Harbor, born in 1824. When a young man the latter went on several whaling voyages, and later located in California, where for a number of years he was engaged on the San Francisco Bulletin. In 1870 he bought the Greenport (L. I.) Times, and con- ducted this mnost ably until 1874, when he sold out, and in the following year purchased the Riverhead News, which he carried on until his death, in 1882 .. He was an able and successful newspaper man, a capable and forcible writer, and one whose trenchant editorials gained him a wide distinction. He married Miss Julia C. Case, daughter of Samuel H. and Lydia Case, of Shelter Island. She died in 1863, leaving one child, William R., our subject. In 1877 Mr. Duvall, Sr., was married to Miss A. Amelia, daughter of John C. and Eliza Lee Benjamin, of Riverhead, and the fruits of this union were a son and daughter living, and a son who died in infancy.
Until the age of fifteen years William R. Du- vall received his education in the public schools, and then entered his father's newspaper office at Greenport, where he learned the printer's trade.
In 1875, when the father purchased the River- head News and removed to that place, he was for a time with him in the office, but in the Feb- ruary following he entered the County Clerk's office as an assistant, and worked in that capacity with Clerk George C. Campbell, and later with Orville B. Ackerly. At the beginning of the latter's second term he made our subject Deputy County Clerk, and that position he held until the death of his father, in September, 1882, when lie resigned and took control of the News as its editor and proprietor. His management of the paper was signally successful. For five years he was Secretary of the Republican County Commit- tee, with Hon. N. D. Petty as Chairman, and for three years was Chairman of the committee, and the continued success of the Republican party in Suffolk County is an excellent showing for his work at the head of the committee.
Mr. Duvall has ever taken an active interest in local affairs, both political and otherwise, and in all movements to advance the interests of Riverhead and Suffolk County he has been an earnest advocate. He is a member of the Suffolk County Historical Society, the Riverhead Fire Department, Secretary of the Riverhead Town Improvement Society, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Riverhead Lecture Association. Socially he is a member of Roanoke Lodge, I. O. O. F., and of the Masonic lodge at Riverhead. As a newspaper man, he showed not a little originality, and was an able, con- scientious and interesting writer. He always advocated every movement tending to elevate and ennoble, and was just as active in opposing those that tended to lower or degrade.
In the fall of 1894 Mr. Duvall was the nomi- nee of the Republican party for County Clerk, and although this was his first movement for office, his popularity and well known fitness for the position were at once recognized, and he was elected by the unprecedented plurality of three thousand one hundred and twenty. That po- sition he holds at the present time, to the entire satisfaction of not only his Republican friends, but of all the people of the county. Upon taking charge of the office, he relinquished the manage-
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ment of the New's and associated with him as part-owner and editor a former member of his staff, Ho. . ce H. Williamson. Mr. Duvall was married, January 16, 1883, to Miss Annie May Cooper, daughter of George W. and C. Martha Cooper, the former President of the Suffolk County National Bank, and ex-Sheriff of Suf- folk County. Mr. and Mrs. Duvall have three bright and interesting sons.
AMUEL S. STANBROUGH. One who by personal sacrifice and persevering industry has become the owner of a good property is he whose name heads this sketch. He is both prominent and well-to-do, and a member of an old settled family in Suffolk County. He was engaged in farming during the active years of his life, but for the past few years, owing to his ad- vanced age, he has abandoned all kinds of ardu- ous work, and is now living on his . beautiful place near East Moriches, which is the abode of culture and refinement.
Mr. Stanbrough was born in St. George's Man- or, Suffolk County, in the year 1821, and is therefore in his seventy-fourth year. His par- ents were James and Harriet (Sanford) Stan- brough, both natives of this county, where the father was a life-long agriculturist. He carried on the work of his farm with good results, and at the time of his decease, which occurred in July, 1862, left his family well provided for. This was an occasion of mourning, as he was a man whose character was above reproach in every way, and one who served as a fit representative of the best class of agriculturists in his town. He filled many minor offices of responsibility, serving efficiently. In politics he is a Democrat. His good wife, the mother of our subject, preceded him to the grave, dying in 1846.
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