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rissey) Young, and they are the parents of two daughters: Agnes Bailey, and Martha Young Ro- maine.
CHARLES CHAUNCEY MANASHAW, of the real estate firm of Manashaw & Weinstein, No. 645 East Tremont Avenue, The Bronx, New York City, is one of those able business men who manipulate their own enterprises advantageously to themselves and at the same time perform a distinctive service in promoting the growth and general welfare of the community. He was born on the east side of New York City, on Cherry Street, October 3, 1884, son of Abraham and Fanny (Manashaw) Manashaw. His. father, in the dress-trimming business in his active days, is now retired, and his mother died in 1917.
Charles C. Manashaw attended Public Schools No. 12 and No. 2 in Manhattan. At an early age he be- gan to work as errand boy for Siegel Brothers, un- derwear manufacturers, with whom he remained for some two years. He was an unusually shrewd boy, alert in keeping his eyes open to learn all about busi- ness. He was therefore able to take a position soon as buyer for various cloak houses and to fill that re- sponsible and taxing position with eminent success for some four years, when he was offered a more promising position as salesman for a dress trimming house, where he remained until 1901. By that time Mr. Manashaw was fully qualified to open a busi- ness of his own, and did so, establishing himself at first at the corner of Twelfth Street and University Place, New York City, and dealing in dress trim- mings. After six years there, he moved up to the new center of the garment making industry, Twenty- third Street, and after six more years made a third move to a more advantageous location at Thirty- first Street, where he profitably conducted his busi- ness for five years. He then sold out and entered the real estate business in The Bronx, opening an office at No. 505 East Tremont Avenue and con- tinuing there for two years. When Florida began to present such rich potentialities, Mr. Manashaw occupied himself with operations there for six months. Returning then to New York, he formed his present partnership with Mr. Weinstein, and re- mains at the quarters in which he then established himself, where he conducts a large and lucrative business.
Mr. Manashaw is Past Grand Conductor of the State of New York, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows; and a member of Bronx Lodge, No. 871, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is also affiliated with the Democratic County Committee in The Bronx, with the Pondiac Democratic Club, with the Chevra Kadisha, and the Grand Street Boys.
On November 18, 1908, in New York City, Charles C. Manashaw married Sarah Simon, daughter of Harris and Hannah (Cohen) Simon, and they are the parents of two children: 1. Harriet Dolores, born September 4, 1910. 2. Donald Gerard, born June 18, 1912.
EDWIN R. CROWE, M. D., was born in New York City, February 14, 1878, son of William Fran-
cis Crowe, a retired dry-goods merchant, and Mary (Clinch) Crowe, deceased.
Edwin R. Crowe's early education was received in the public and high schools, after which he entered the College of the City of New York. Upon grad- uation from this institution he matriculated at New York University, Medical Department, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1905. He then served a two years' interneship in Bellevue Hospitai, gaining a wide experience in his chosen profession. In 1908 he began a general practice of medicine and surgery in The Bronx, where he has established a successful clientage, and is now also associated with private hospitals.
Dr. Crowe is a charter member of the State and County Medical associations, and is a member of The Bronx Medical Society. In religious fellowship he is a communicant of the Roman Catholic church.
Dr. Edwin R. Crowe married, in 1915, in New York City, Catherine Dodds. Dr. and Mrs. Crowe reside at No. 265 Alexander Avenue, and his offices are also maintained at this address.
LOUIS DWYER-The name of Dwyer has been associated with a certain section of The Bronx for almost fifty years and is well known in that com- munity. Michael Dwyer, the father of Louis Dwyer was a native Irishman, born in Tipperary County, but came to America before his son was born, settled in The Bronx and for many years was proprietor of the famous Sylvan Cottage, situated at the corner of One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Street and Third Avenue, one of the most beautiful and popular ho- tels of its kind in that section of New York, famous in its day. For some years past, Louis Dwyer has been associated with the beautiful Paul Smith Camp in the Adirondack Mountains. He holds that as- sociation at the present time.
Louis Dwyer was born in New York City, Novem- ber 12, 1886, the son of Michael and Elizabeth (Lackey) Dwyer. Michael Dwyer, the father, was born in Ireland but came to New York while a very young man. He died in The Bronx in 1912. While their son was only two years old, Mr. and Mrs. Dwyer moved to Willis Avenue, in The Bronx, and it was here that Louis Dwyer received his early education, in the grammar and high schools of this vicinity. Later he took a business course at Woods Business College and started work at the age of seventeen as office boy for an upholstering firm. He is a member of the Eugene McGuire Association of The Bronx and of the South End Democratic Club. He is also an Elk.
Louis Dwyer married, in New York City, No- vember 12, 1914, Anne Gilligan, daughter of John and Sarah Gilligan, both of New York. They are the parents of three daughters and one son: Rose, Ann, Louis and Sarah.
CHARLES MAYNARD MAPES-Though a res- ident of one of the suburban towns in New Jersey, Mr. Mapes has been prominently and actively iden- tified with the development of The Bronx as a civil engineer and as a surveyor for almost a quarter of a century. In following this line of work, espe- cially in respect to surveying, he has most worthily
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upheld a family tradition which has not only been followed by many members of the Mapes family, one of the old and historic families of this country, but which, indeed, was started by the first of the name to come to Virginia. This was Francis Mapes, born about 1588, in Rowlesby, Norfolk, England. He was a land surveyor by profession, came to Virginia in the early part of the seventeenth century, but within a comparatively short time returned again to England where he continued to make his home un- til the time of his death. He married Anna Love- day, also of Norfolk, and they were the parents of several children, all born in England. One of these, Thomas Mapes, like his parents a native of Norfolk, where he was born in 1628, came to this country prior to 1650 and settled at Southold, Suffolk County, Long Island, where he was an ensign in the Suffolk County Militia in 1686, in which year he died. He mar- ried Sarah Purrier, daughter of Captain William Pur- rier, and it is through one of their sons that the line is carried by Jonathan and Abigail Mapes, through their son Benjamin and his wife Margaret, their son John and his wife Julia Ann (Wood) Mapes, and their son Benjamin and his wife Sarah Mather (Sel- leck) Mapes, who were the grandparents of Charles Maynard Mapes. The youngest son of Benjamin and Sarah M. (Selleck) Mapes, Charles Americus Mapes, was a surveyor and civil engineer and married Clara E. Master, daughter of David D. Master. They were the parents of five children: 1. Charles Maynard, of whom further. 2. Arthur T., born in 1881, died in infancy. 3. Clarence D., born in 1883. 4. Grandison S., born in 1885, died in infancy. 5. Milton C., born in 1888.
Charles Maynard Mapes was born in New York City, April 20, 1879, the oldest son and child of Charles Americus and Clara E. (Master) Mapes. He was educated in the public schools of New York City and at Trinity School, New York City. He then attended Columbia University School of Mines from which he graduated in 1902, taking also a course of civil engineering and land surveying under the rules of the University of the State of New York and receiving a license from the university's board of examiners for licensing professional engineers and land surveyors. Since his graduation he has been engaged in civil engineering and surveying, chiefly in The Bronx, with offices in recent years at No. 509 Willis Avenue, The Bronx. During the World War he was supervising engineer for the United States Navy Department, in charge of the construction of the Pelham Bay Naval Training Station, a work of tremendous importance and responsibility, which he carried through to complete success. He then be- came resident engineer in charge of the housing project at Newburgh, New York, for the Housing Division of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, and still later served in the same capacity for another housing project at Bath, Maine. He is a member of the Columbia University Chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity and of the American So- ciety of Civil Engineers. His religious affiliations are with the Presbyterian church and more particularly with the Presbyterian Church of Rutherford, New Jersey.
Mr. Mapes married, in Harlem, June 4, 1902,
Laura Hands, daughter of Charles Alfred and Mary Hands. Mr. and Mrs. Mapes are the parents of two children: 1. Mildred, born October 1, 1905. 2. Charles Maynard, Jr., born May 5, 1913. The fam- ily home is at No. 42 East Newell Avenue, Ruther- ford, New Jersey.
WILLIAM TEMPLE HORNADAY-To the lifelong friend of the wild animals of the world, zoologist, conservationist, and writer, William Temple Hornaday, has come recognition as wide as his scientific achievements and his humane services. He was for thirty years director of the New York Zoological Park, originator of the general plan for its improvement which has been executed as he designed, and of the buildings and other provisions for the animals. The rest of the world has done honor to him with honorary memberships in learned societies, medals, and decorations. American univer- sities have bestowed on him honorary degrees. Dr. Hornaday is now head of the Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund, No. 1, Bank Street, Stamford, Con- necticut, a conservationist organization in which cul- minate the activities of forty years in the cause of protection.
William Temple Hornaday was born in Plain- field, Indiana, December 1, 1854, son of William and Martha (Varner) Hornaday. After completing his academic course at the Iowa State College, he studied zoology and museology in the United States and Europe. The University of Pittsburgh bestowed on him in 1907 the degree of Doctor of Science; Yale, in 1917, that of Master of Arts; and Iowa State College, in 1923, that of Master of Philosophy. As collecting zoologist, Dr. Hornaday visited Cuba, Florida, the West Indies, South America, India, Cey- lon, the Malay Peninsula, and Borneo, from 1875-79. From 1882 to 1890 he was chief taxidermist of the United States National Museum. After a diversion of six years in the real estate field, in Buffalo, New York, Dr. Hornaday returned to the scientific world and assumed the important office of director of the New York Zoological Park in 1896. In that capacity he remained until his retirement on June 1, 1926, building up a zoo famous throughout the world, a source of information and pleasure to millions of Americans, which exercises a very real influence in developing a national spirit of tolerance and under- standing of wild animals, and their importance to mankind. New York City is itself proud of the well- planned, well-equipped, and well-administered Park in The Bronx.
In 1887, Dr. Hornaday began a campaign to rouse public interest in the impending extinction of the American bison. A decade later came his alarm canı- paign regarding "The Extermination of our Birds and Mammals." In the next two decades he made the first public demand for game laws for Alaska, launched a campaign to suppress automatic and pump shot-guns and a campaign in Congress that saved the fur seal industry. Through his efforts, in co- öperation with A. D. Meloy, was drafted and man- aged the movement which secured the "Bayne Law," and stopped the sale of game in the State of New York. He also assisted in the passing of similar laws in Massachusetts and California. He helped found the Wichita National bison range and herd,
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the Elk River game reserve, the Montana national bison range and herd, and the Snow Creek game preserve in Montana. He took the initiative in a successful campaign to exclude the plumage of the birds of the world from importation into the United States for millinery purposes, and with Henry Ford accomplished half of the work for the Migratory Bird Law. His assistance has been given generously to all game protection movements, not only in the Western States of America, but in South Africa, in behalf of big game, in Mexico, and in France. He has helped in the establishment of some 9,000 bird sanctuaries on private farms and ranches. Under the stimulus of his leadership the Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund came into existence in 1913-14. Between 1920 and 1926 fourteen game and bird protecting organizations came to him for financial support and received liberal assistance. In order to stimulate public interest, gold medal and honor badges costing a total of $1,324 were distributed from 1920 to 1926. The slogan of the Protection Fund best illustrates Dr. Hornaday's point of view:
The wild life of today is not wholly ours, to dispose of as we please. It has been given to us IN TRUST. We must account for it to those who come after us and audit our records.
Numerous testimonials have come to Dr. Hornaday in the shape of medals and invitations to honorary membership or official position in organizations of interests similar to his own, and a gold service medal from the New York Zoological Society. He has received, for Wild Life Conservation, a Silver Medal from the government of the Republic of France; a Gold Medal from the British Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, a Gold Medal from the Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp, Gold Medal "for eminent merit" from the Camp-Fire Club of America, Gold Medal from the International Congress for the Study and Protection of Birds, Luxembourg, 1925, and Grand Medal of Honor from the National Ac- climatation Society of France. He was president of the American Bison Society from 1907 to 1910, and holds honorary membership in the following or- ganizations: Society for the Protection of the Fauna of the British Empire; the Shikar Club of London; North American Fish and Game Protective Asso- ciation; Ontario Fish and Game Protective Asso- ciation; Oswego Rod and Gun Club, New York; Blair County Game Protective Association, Pennsyl- vania; Australian Ornithologists' Union; Royal Zo- ölogical Society of Amsterdam; Zoological Society of London, and of Dublin; the National Acclimatation Society of France; and the Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp. Because of his war services, he was decorated with the Cross of the Order of the Crown of Belgium.
This crowded life has not prevented Dr. Hornaday's publication of a list of representative books on all sorts of themes, including travel, exploration and adventure: natural history; conservation; museology; the World War; fiction; and poetry. Outstanding titles are: "Two Years in the Jungle," now in its tenth edition; "A Wild Animal Round-up," published in 1925; "The American Natural History," also in its tenth edition; "Our Vanishing Wild Life"; "Awake! America," September 27, 1916; "The Man who became a Savage-Peter Paul," published in
1895; "Old-Fashioned Verses," 1919. Other enticing subjects appear in the list of his prolific contributions which are alike of value to the student of natural history and to the reader of American literature. The new edition of his "Guide Book," soon to appear, is brim-full of information brought down to date.
On September 11, 1879, William Temple Hornaday married Josephine Chamberlain, of Battle Creek, Michigan, and they have a daughter, Helen Ross, now Mrs. George T. Fielding.
ALLEN CARUTHERS-Three decades of suc- cess in his practice of the law have made Allen Caruthers, resident in The Bronx, New York, an out- standing figure in legal circles in New York City. He has also occupied a prominent place socially, par- ticularly among those New Yorkers who, like him- self, came from the South. Mr. Caruthers was born February 22, 1866, in Lebanon, Tennessee, son of William Allen Caruthers and his wife, Fannie (Mc- Call) Caruthers, and grandson of one of the most notable men in the State, Judge Abraham Caruthers. The last-named was judge of the Circuit Court of Tennessee and founder of the Law School of Cum- berland University, to which he devoted himself as professor until his death, and where he numbered among his many pupils three able young men who became judges of the United States Supreme Court. Judge Caruthers married Polly Allen.
Thus with a background of a cultured home and a hereditary bent toward the law, the young Allen Caruthers early felt ambitious to follow that profes- sion. He was grounded in the rudiments of educa- tion at the Masonic Institute Preparatory School of Hartsville, Tennessee, where he continued his studies until the age of eighteen, when he entered Cumber- land University as a student in the regular academic course. Soon, however, he turned his attentions to the School of Law of the same institution and gradu- ated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in January, 1887. Admitted to the bar that same year, he first began to practice in Hartsville, Tennessee. His next location was in the larger city of Nashville, with its multiplied opportunities, but he again fol- lowed the call of opportunity when, in 1889, the inrush of new life and business into Oklahoma made that State a promising field for a young lawyer. Mr. Caruthers established a law office in Guthrie, whence he soon moved to Perry, Oklahoma, where for eight years he flourished. On May 15, 1897, he moved to New York City and established the offices he has continued to make the scene of a very active practice since that time, thirty years ago. His well-equipped and well-appointed offices are in the center of the city, at No. 41 East Forty-Second Street, adjoining the Grand Central Railroad Ter- minal Station. Mr. Caruthers' political affiliation is with the Democratic party. He organized the first Democratic Club in Oklahoma in 1889, of which he was president; he was chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of Logan County, Oklahoma; he was first assistant prosecuting attorney of Logan County for several years, during which time he pro- secuted the notorious Dalton Gang, before their advent in the Coffeyville, Kansas, raid. Until he came to New York, Mr. Caruthers took a leading
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part in all the political activities of Oklahoma from its opening. He is a member of the Thomas A. Williams Democratic Club, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Society, the Diomedans Society, the Tennessee, and the Southern societies.
On September 16, 1898, in Peekskill, New York, Allen Caruthers married Loretta McGinty, grand- daughter of Hugh Moore, a leading builder and con- tractor of The Bronx, a powerful factor in the progress of that borough and county in his day. Mrs. Caruthers' mother was Mary Ellen (Moore) McGinty. To Mr. and Mrs. Caruthers were born: William Nicholas; Allen Caruthers, Jr .; Homer Lawrence; and Clarence Cosmos Caruthers.
JOHN JOSEPH DUFFY-As the vice-president and treasurer of the long-established earthen pipe and masons' supplies business of the J. P. Duffy Company, John Joseph Duffy has contributed to the remarkable success of that concern, his long train- ing and experience in the one line of business having made him an indispensable factor in bringing about its excellent standing. Mr. Duffy is rightly account- ed one of the most substantial of the business men of The Bronx, both with regard to the affairs of the company of which he is an official, and in active and constructive relationship with the other business and financial interests with which he is associated. He is a son of John Hoyt Duffy, formerly engaged in the coal business that had been established by his father, at Twenty-sixth Street and East River, and of Ju- liette M. (Lafferty) Duffy.
John Joseph Duffy was born March 27, 1881, at the residence of the family, No. 238 East Twenty- seventh Street, Manhattan, and he attended Saint Stephen's Parochial School on East Twenty-eighth Street, Public School No. 14 on East Twenty-sev- enth Street, and later, Saint Francis Xavier's Col- lege, afterwards taking a business course at Pack- ard's Business College, on Twenty-third Street, Man- hattan. He started his business career at the coal yard at Twenty-sixth Street and East River with his father and his uncle; he continued in that busi- ness until they retired, when Mr. Duffy came to The Bronx, and joined his uncle, J. P. Duffy, who in 1884 had established a business that has so increased as to have become one of the most important in The Bronx, dealing in earthen pipe, flue pipe, and masons' and building materials. The yards of this com- pany occupy a large area, well stocked at all times, while the offices are in the firm's own modern build- ing, at One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Street and Park Avenue, The Bronx.
After the death of Mr. Duffy's uncle, the founder of the business, his father, John H. Duffy, brother of the founder, his brother, Stephen V. Duffy, and himself, became successors to his uncle as owners of the firm, and they have since carried on the business that was incorporated in 1908 under the laws of New York, as the J. P. Duffy Company, with John H. Duffy as president; Stephen V. Duffy, treasurer; and John Joseph Duffy, as secretary At the death of John H. Duffy in April, 1926, Stephen V. Duffy be- came president, John J. Duffy, vice-president and treasurer, and Francis V. Duffy, secretary. Mr. Duffy has rounded out twenty-three years with this
business, and he is today the active head of the es- tablishment in The Bronx. He is also a member of the board of directors of The Bronx National Bank of the City of New York.
Fraternally, Mr. Duffy is affiliated with Vera Cruz Council, No. 647, Knights of Columbus, of Man- hattan; Catholic Club of City of New York; and with Bronx Lodge, No. 871, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is also president of the Rotary Club of The Bronx; member of the Schnorer Club, North End Democratic Club, both of The Bronx; and of the New York Athletic Club, and of the Winged Foot Golf Club, of New York City.
John Joseph Duffy married, November 23, 1904, Mary A. Uniacke, daughter of Michael J. and Nora (Reynolds) Uniacke, the nuptial benediction being pronounced by Right Rev. Bishop Cusack, D. D., at Saint Stephen's Roman Catholic Church, East Twen- ty-eighth Street, Manhattan.
WILLIAM M. MacLEAN - An altogether new and pleasing prospect in real estate matters has been revealed in the development of the realty plans of William M. MacLean, whose headquarters at No. 1858 East Tremont Avenue are well-known in The Bronx both for the select quality of the properties for sale and for exchange, for residential and business use, and for excellence of service on the part of Mr. MacLean, who has made a broad survey of desirable localities and who has interested a very considerable clientele. Mr. MacLean is a son of William MacLean, who engaged in the wood-turning business with his father in Baltimore, and of Olivia (Wolf) MacLean.
William M. MacLean was born June 4, 1863, in Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended both the public schools and Stewart Hall Private School. From the beginning of his career, Mr. Maclean gave his attention to the rice business, and during the course of his experience of twenty-one years in that line he became expert therein, spending fifteen ac- tive years in Texas and New Orleans. In 1920, Mr. MacLean established his present real estate business in The Bronx, and with his offices at No. 1858 East Tremont Avenue, he is one of the most successful men in his line in this district. Fraternally, . Mr. MacLean is affiliated with Copestone Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons.
William M. MacLean married (first), in Baltimore, Maryland, May Delcher, who died in 1923. They were the parents of: Ada O., born in 1883; George B., born in 1884; Harry M., born in 1886; May, born in 1890; Ethel, born in 1895. Mr. MacLean married (second) Mrs. Elise Smith.
ALEXANDER EDWARD BLACK, D. D. S .- For some thirty years Dr. Alexander Edward Black has been taking care of the dental needs of a very large patronage in The Bronx, and during all those years he has been known as an expert in mechanical dentistry. Dr. Black had the advantage of having learned the trade of the machinist before he began the study of dentistry, and his mechanical ability and training proved to be very useful in his profes- sion. His offices now (1927) are located at No. 778
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