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his time and attention, Mr. Chichester is never so busy that he cannot find time to devote to fur- thering the best interests of his community. He was the first Collector of the village and for four years has been Town Superintendent of the Poor of Brook Haven. In politics he is a prominent and influential Republican and has attended the various conventions of his party. He has lately been elected a member of the county committee.
In 1883 our subject was united in marriage with Miss Clara Miller, of Patchogue, the daugh- ter of Charles Miller, also a native of this city, and one of its most respected residents. Our sub- ject's oldest child, Mabel Miller, is now in her eighth year; Leland Porter is two years old, and the second of the family died in infancy. Both our subject and his wife are members of the Con- gregational Church, in which the former is a Trustee. He is a charter member of the hook and ladder company, of which he is foreman, and in 1895 he was elected vice-president of the Suffolk County Volunteer Firemen's Association. So- cially he is a Forester, in which body he alavays takes an active part. He is a man of sterling worth and strict integrity, alike true to every pub- lie and private trust. He has been the architect of his own fortune and has built wisely and well, gaining for himself a handsome competence, which places him among the substantial residents of the community.
C HARLES HAMILTON HOWELL. Few families on Long Island have a high- er standing for character and enterprise than the one represented by the name at the head of this paragraph, and in its various members it is eminently worthy of the respect which is univer- sally conceded it. Like many of the representa- tive men of Suffolk County, our subject was born within its confines. His birth occurred in the vil- lage of Riverhead, April 9, 1850, and his father, Daniel G. Howell, was a native of the same place, born in the year 1819. He was a farmer by oc- cupation and followed that calling for the most part. In 1842 he was made a lieutenant in the
State militia, and the following year was promoot- ed to the rank of captain. For many years he was a member of the Methodist Church. His death occurred March 16, 1895. His grandfather, Silas Howell, was a lieutenant in the New York militia.
The Howell family is a numerous one in Suf- folk County, and for many generations has re- sided here, dating its residence to the earliest settlement of the country. Daniel G. Howell married Miss Jemima A. Benjamin, a native of Moriches, in the town of Brook Haven. and the daughter of Deacon Usher Benjamin. Her death occurred in 1885. She was the mother of four children, of whom our subject was the eld- est. One child died when four months old. An- other son, Francis G., is pastor of the old Johns Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of New York City, and the youngest pastor that noted church has ever had. This popular young divine is a graduate of Mt. Union College, Ohio, and was first pastor of the church at Jamesport, later at Port Washington, Long Island City, Bethel, Conn., and thence went to old Johns Street Church. The youngest son. Usher B. Howell, is the assistant secretary of the Riverhead Savings Bank, which position he has held since 1887.
Charles H. Howell's youthful days were spent in active employment on his father's farm, and he received his primary education in the public schools. Later he completed his studies at Fort Edward Collegiate Institute, and at Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie. Prior to this, when but sixteen years old, he had taught school. and teaching has been his life work. In 1872 he established a commercial institute at Bridge- hampton, and there he remained until 1876, when he opened Franklinville Academy, which he pur- chased two years later. In that institution he re- mained until the spring of 1880. when he was called to the principalship of the Riverhead school and remained in the same until the year 1888. In that year he was elected by the Republican party to the position of Commissioner of Schools for Suffolk County, and is now serving his third term. The first time he was elected by a major- ity of three hundred and fourteen, the second time by seven hundred and seventy-seven, and the
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last time by a still larger majority. He has made one of the most thorough and faithful Commis- sioners the county has ever had.
In 1895 Mr. Howell was made vice-president of the State AAssociation of School Commissioners, and is in every way qualified for that position. In 1873 he was married to Miss Rosa E. Barber, of Moriches, and they have two children, Herbert 11 .. now sixteen years old, and Robert R., seven years old. Mr. Howell belongs to the Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows, and is past grand in that order. In religion he is a Methodist, and is vice-president of the Suffolk County Camp- Meeting Association. During his youthful days lie was a great lover of the water, and as a boy spent much of his time on the same. In 1868 he was wrecked near Narragansett Bay, being canght in the great cyclone of that time. At an- other time he was cast off on the banks of the river near Riverhead, and in 1871 he was in the sloop commanded by Capt. Charles M. Reeve, on the way from New York to Shelter Island, and they were run down by a schooner off City Island, the sloop sinking in deep water in about two min- ttes. To save themselves they jumped on board the schooner and were landed in Oyster Bay. During all these wrecks he was with Capt. Charles V Reeve, now of Patchogue. His experiences have not abated his desire for the water, how- over, and he enjoys a sail now as much as ever.
L UTHER B. HULSE, whose well-cultivated homestead is located in the town of River- head, has been for a half-century identified with the welfare and development of this neigh- berhood, having passed nearly his entire life in this locality. He is now one of the largest land owners and most influential farmers in Suffolk County, and, notwithstanding his time is for the most part taken. up with his private affairs, he is never too busy to aid in progressive move- ments and all that actively concerns the develop- mient of his town. Mr. Hulse was born near Wading River, at what is now known to the resi-
dents of this locality as Hulse Landing, June 17, 1839.
There were granted to Isaac and Mary (Young) Hulse a family of five children, of whom Luther B. was the youngest, and of this family circle only two are living, the sister of our subject being Harriet, the widow of David Robinson, who makes her home in this county. Isaac Hulse was also born in the town of Riverhead. where his entire life was passed. He was the owner of a valuable estate, and in addition to its cultivation conducted a small general store at Hulse Land- ing. In his ventures in life he was remarkably successful, and at his death, when only forty- eight years of age, left his family well provided for. In politics he was a stanch Democrat, and although not a member of any religious body, al- ways contributed liberally of his means toward the support of the various denominations of his neighborhood. His wife was also born in the town of Riverhead, and lived to be ninety years of age, surviving her husband many years.
The first eighteen years of his life Luther B. Hulse passed on the home farm, living with his mother, during which time he regularly attended the district school, making good use of his educa- tional privileges. From his earliest years he worked at farm labor and became practically in- formed in everything pertaining to the farm. How- ever, being very fond of the water, he desired to experience life on the high seas before settling down in life, and accordingly secured a position on a vessel engaged in the coasting trade. During the two summers in which he was engaged in this business he visited Newfoundland and many ports in the Southern States. On the expiration of the second year he returned home and en- tered heartily into the arduous work of clearing a tract of two hundred acres of land which had been given him by his father, or which he had in- herited from the latter's estate. The greater part of this he soon placed under cultivation, and is now the proud possessor of one of the best farms in the town of Riverhead.
Miss Lucinda Hulse became the wife of our subject, June 7, 1865, and for eighteen years was his companion and helpmate. She departed this
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life January 18, 1883, leaving two children, Jessie B., still at home, and Grace L., who is a very ac- complished and well educated lady, and at present engaged in teaching school at Port Washington, Queens County.
In national affairs Mr. Hulse is a Democrat, but during elections in his home district supports the man whom he considers the best fitted for the of- fice. For the past three years he has been Asses- sor of his town, and has the honor of polling the largest vote ever given to the candidates for that office. He has also been Trustee of his school district and is found at all times ready and willing to give his support to whatever will be for the best interest of his neighborhood. Socially he is con- nected with Odd Fellows Lodge, No. 462, of Riv- erhead.
W W. HULSE. The story of the life of a worthy citizen should be given to the public; it should be read by all our people, that they may profit by the example; its lessons should be studied, and the good they inculcate impressed upon the minds of the youth of our land. All may glean from them some ker- nels of wisdom for present use, and store up knowledge and information which will be of bene- fit in after life. It is of such a citizen that we write. The story of the life of the subject of this sketch is no ordinary one; for few men on Long Island have a more faithful record as a soldier, or a more upright and distinguished one as a civil- ian, than W. W. Hulse, of Bay Shore.
Mr. Hulse was born, August 29, 1838, in Brook Haven, and is of Dutch extraction on the paternal side, his ancestors being among the first settlers of Long Island. His father, David Overton Hulse, was born in Suffolk County in 1777, just at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, and died when seventy-three years old. He was a re- markable man, an educator of exceptional ability, well posted on all subjects, and a leader among men. Mrs. Hulse, whose maiden name was Saralı Hallock, was born at Stony Brook. She was a lineal descendant of Peter Hallock, one of
the Pilgrim fathers who in 1642 occupied what is now Southold. He was the first man of the ship's company that landed, and to this day the particu- lar spot is called "Hallock's Point" in commemo- ration of that event. Of the children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hulse we mention the following: Char- lotte resides at Bellport and is now eighty-two years old; Sarah married John D. Rider. of Bell- port: Mary became the wife of Charles W. Pease, and both are now deceased; Jane married G. R. Rimmington and died when about twenty-four years old; David, born in 1826, is a builder of Brooklyn; Sarepta is the widow of Ephraim Pease; Van Buren resides in Bay Shore; Andreir is a builder in Brooklyn; Charles follows the same calling in Sayville; William Warren is our subject, and three died young.
William W. Hulse received his primary educa- tion in the district school, but at a comparatively early age left school and learned the trade of a mason with his brother, David H. In 1853, while working at his trade in Brooklyn, he completed his education at a grammar school in Green Point. On the 15th of August, 1862, which was the dark- est of all the gloomy periods of the Civil War, Mr. Hulse joined the One Hundred and Twenty-sev- enth New York Monitors, the regiment com- nianded by Col. W. Guerney and Lieut .- Col. Stewart L. Woodford. He served with this com- mand all through the war, and after returning North engaged in the building business. He se- lected his wife in the person of Miss Josephine Worth, daughter of a Methodist minister, and their union was celebrated at Brook Haven, June 3, 1867. Their eight children were as follows: Justus Warren, who married Miss Maud Wicks. of Brooklyn; Martha Hallock: David Eugene: Bertha Eloise: Blanche: Ethel Worth; Mabel, and Laura.
Politically Mr. Hulse is a stanch Republican. and has taken some interest in local politics. Had he cared to turn his attention in that direction lie would have been a leading politician. In 1831 he was a delegate to the Republican county con- vention at Riverhead, and it was the sentiment of the convention to make no nomination for Su- perintendent of the Poor. W. T. Hulse, of Port
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