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After receiving his formal education in the public schools of Glens Falls, Claude Fox, awakened to the opportunities of the Fourth Estate, joined the staff of "The Morning Star" in 1908 as a reporter, remaining on the staff of "The Morning Star" until it was consolidated with "The Morning Post" in 1909 and thus became "The Post-Star." Leaving Glens Falls in 1910, Mr. Fox crossed over into Vermont, where he became a staff reporter on the "Montpelier Argus" and later on the "Morning Journal," although after two years in that city he returned to "The Post-Star," only to leave again to join the staff of "The Glens Falls Times" in 1912, the "Times" being then owned by the Glens Falls Publishing Company. After six years on the "Times," Mr. Fox was recalled to "The Post-Star" and spent the following four years as a reporter, being made managing editor of the newspaper in May, 1922.
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This position Mr. Fox occupied until June 2, 1927, when "The Glens Falls Times" was acquired by The Glens Falls Post Company, a consolidation which resulted in Mr. Fox being appointed editor of "The Glens Falls Times," a position which he has filled through the present time.
In addition to his newspaper duties and responsibilities Mr. Fox has found time to devote himself to several phases of the social and civic life of Glens Falls and Warren County. Always deeply concerned with political problems, he early became an active member of the Republican party and served for twelve years as a member of the Warren County Board of Super- visors, being chairman of the board for three years, as well as becoming treas- urer of the Warren County Republican Committee and a member of the Glens Falls Municipal Airport Commission-these last two offices being occupied at the present time. Various philanthropic and charitable enterprises have also attracted his support, the Westmount Sanatorium in particular interesting him and leading him to be chairman of the building committee of the Board of Supervisors at the time the institution's buildings were constructed, and also to becoming a member of the sanatorium's board of managers, a position which he has held since 1931. Mr. Fox, who is a past president of the Glens Falls Masonic Club, is a member of Glens Falls Lodge, No. 121, Free and Accepted Masons, and belongs as well to Glens Falls Lodge, No. 81, Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the Church of the Messiah of Glens Falls, an institution he served for four terms as vestryman, and finds in fishing recreation from his numerous professional and civic responsibilities.
Claude Fox married, April 8, 1912, at Northfield Falls, Vermont, Harriett E. Persons, who was born in Waitsfield, Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Fox are the parents of two children: 1. Geraldine L., who attended grade schools in Glens Falls and graduated from the Glens Falls High School. She is now the wife of Robert L. Eddy, of Glens Falls. 2. Leighton E., who, after grad- uating from the grade schools and the high school of Glens Falls, attended the Albany Business College, graduating in 1926 and then joined the staff of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company of Hartford, Connecticut.
MORRIS MASLON, M. D .- Since 1911 Dr. Morris Maslon has been actively engaged in professional work as a physician in Glens Falls, distin- guishing himself especially as pathologist and bacteriologist director of the Warren County Bacteriological Laboratory and pathologist for the Glens Falls Hospital.
Dr. Maslon was born May 30, 1887, in Russia, son of Dr. Wolf and Esther (Sunkin) Maslon. His father was born in Russia, and some years
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ago took up the practice of medicine in Brooklyn, New York. The mother was also a native of Russia.
The public schools of New York City, whither his parents came to live while he was still very young, furnished the early education of Morris Maslon, who afterward became a student at the University of Maryland. Graduated there in 1909 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, he served an interneship in 1909 and 1910 at Maryland General Hospital, and in 1910 and 1911 he served as pathologist at the same institution, also holding a post as associate professor of pathology and bacteriology at the Baltimore Medical College, Baltimore, Maryland. In 1911 he came to Glens Falls to live, here becoming county bacteriologist and director of the Warren County Bacteriological Lab- oratory. He serves as hospital pathologist at Glens Falls Hospital and as director of the hospital laboratory.
Showing every disposition to help his community, Dr. Maslon acts as chairman of the Warren County Health Department and chairman of the board of managers of Westmount Sanatorium. He is a member of the Board of Health of Glens Falls and chairman of the medical staff of Glens Falls Hospital. He holds membership in Glens Falls Academy of Medicine of which he was secretary-treasurer for five years, and is active in the Warren County Medical Society (of which he became treasurer and secretary in 1933) and the Medical Society of the State of New York. He is a member of the house of delegates of the State society, and, in addition to his other activities, is a member of the New York State Association of Public Health Labora- tories, of which he is a past president. He belongs also to the American Medical Association and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American Society of Clinical Pathologists and the American Public Health Association. He is a member of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, the Northeastern New York Pathological Society, Soci- ety of the American Bacteriologists, and the American Association for the Study of Neoplastic Diseases, and is consulting staff member at the Emma Long Stevens Hospital, in Granville, New York.
During the World War, Dr. Maslon served in the United States Army Medical Corps as chief of the laboratory at the base hospital at Camp Beaure- gard, Alexandria, Louisiana, with the rank of first lieutenant. Later he was transferred to Rockefeller Institute, where he did special laboratory work. Then he was made chief of the laboratory at Embarkation Hospital No. I, Hoboken, New Jersey. He now holds the rank of major in the United States Army Medical Reserve Corps. He has retained his interest in military affairs, being a Past Commander of Glens Falls Post of the American Legion, as well as Past County Commander of the Warren County Post. He belongs also to the Jewish War Veterans and the Medical Veterans of the World War.
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As time has passed, Dr. Maslon has made every effort to keep in touch with the newest developments in his profession. He did special postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins Hospital Medical College and at the New York Post- Graduate Medical College. He has concerned himself also with fraternal, civic and social matters, becoming a member of Senate Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons and affiliating himself with all Scottish Rite bodies and with Oriental Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to Glens Falls Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and to the Phi Delta Epsilon Fraternity. He is active in the Glens Falls Anti-Tuberculosis Society. He is also a member of the Glens Falls Country Club. His church is Temple Beth El, in which he is a past president of the board of trustees. In spare time he delights above all else in outdoor life and recreations of a healthful sort, and he is particularly fond of golf. Good books are his friends, and he does a great deal of reading.
In 1911 Dr. Morris Maslon married Anna Harriet Scheres, a native of Russia. The following children were born to them: I. Harriet S., who was graduated from Simmons College in 1934 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. 2. Victor D.
SENATOR WARREN ROBINSON AUSTIN-Warren Robinson Austin, United States Senator from Vermont and a distinguished figure at the American bar for many years, was born at Highgate Center, Vermont, on November 12, 1877. He is a son of Chauncey Goodrich and Anne Mathilda (Robinson) Austin. After attending the public schools of his birthplace, he continued his education at Keyes private school in Highgate and Brigham Academy at Bakersfield, from which latter institution he went on to the University of Vermont. Here he was graduated in 1899 with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. In 1932, in recognition of his notable career, his alma mater conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
Senator Austin began the study of law with C. G. Austin and Sons, his father's firm, at St. Albans in 1899. He was admitted to the bar in 1902 and entered practice immediately afterward. In 1904 he was elected State's attorney for Franklin County, Vermont, serving until 1906, and since that time, while continuing his professional career, has been almost continuously active in public life. He was chairman of the Republican State Convention in 1908; was mayor of the city of St. Albans in 1909; served as United States Commissioner from 1907 to 1915; and was delegate-at-large to the Republican National Convention of 1928, where he was the first to second the nomination of Herbert Hoover for President. In 1912 he was also a member of the Congress of the Mint at Philadelphia and in the same year represented Vermont at the convention for the Reform of Legal Procedure, held in Chicago, Illinois. On March 31, 1931, he was elected to the United
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States Senate to fill out the unexpired term of Senator Frank L. Greene, ending in 1935, and on November 6, 1934, was reelected for the full six-year term. In the Senate he has been a national leader of his party and a mem- ber of many important committees.
Senator Austin was admitted to practice before the Circuit Court of the Second Circuit of the United States in 1906, became a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1914, the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York in 1919; the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Second Circuit in 1931 and the United States Court for China in 1917. He became attorney for the Vermont State Medical Society in 1910, represented the State of Vermont as special counsel before the United States Supreme Court in litigation to determine the boundary line between Vermont and New Hampshire, and 1916-17 was in China as attorney for negotiators of loans to the Chinese Government. These loans, totaling $130,000,000, were obtained for the benefit of the Chinese National Rail- ways, the reconstruction of the Grand Canal, national conservation work and other projects. Senator Austin has also represented many important private interests and corporations, including the International Banking Corporation, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, the Manchurian Development Com- pany, the China Corporation, the Carter-Macy Company, Ltd., and others. In the case of Woodhouse vs. Woodhouse, as attorney for the plaintiff, he obtained the largest verdict ever rendered and sustained by the high courts in an action for alienation of affections.
Senator Austin was president of the Vermont Bar Association in 1923 and is a member of the American Bar Association, the Far Eastern American Bar Association and other professional organizations. He has been a trustee of the University of Vermont since 1914, was an instructor there in military law to the Students' Army Training Corps in 1918, during the war, and in 1926 became lecturer in medical jurisprudence at the same institution. In 1923 he was first president of the Rotary International at Burlington. Senator Austin is also affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He is a member of the First Congregational Church of Burlington, where he now makes his home.
On June 26, 1901, Senator Austin married Mildred Marie Lucas, of St. Albans, and they are the parents of two children: Warren Robinson, Jr., and Edward Lucas Austin.
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR WILLIAM H. WILLS-During his active career in the State of Vermont, William H. Wills has risen to prominence both in business and in public life. He is one of the leading
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insurance men of Vermont, heading his own agency at Bennington. With the progress of his business career, he has also become an influential figure in councils of the Republican party and for some ten years has held State office. In 1936 he was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Vermont and is now serving his second term.
Lieutenant-Governor Wills was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 26, 1882, son of James Henry and Alzina (Foster) Wills, both native Ver- monters. His father died in Chicago in 1892, and his mother soon returned to her native State with her son, settling at Vergennes.
William H. Wills has been a Vermont resident since he was ten years old. He attended the Vergennes public schools for several years, but at the age of fourteen he relinquished his studies and went to work for the National Horseshoe Nail Company in Vergennes at a salary of five dollars a week. At eighteen he came to Bennington and for a time worked in a local grocery store. Later he entered the employ of a Bennington dry goods store, start- ing at the bottom but rising gradually within the organization during four- teen years of service. Eventually he became buyer for one of the departments. Meanwhile, in 1913, he began to sell insurance evenings and holidays, while continuing his daytime employment. By 1915 he had progressed so far that he felt able to devote all his time to insurance work and consequently entered the business at Bennington. Some years later he incorporated his own agency, which he still heads.
Mr. Wills' record in the insurance business has been unusually success- ful. The William H. Wills Insurance Agency is an outstanding agency in Vermont and since 1928 has had one of the largest per capita premium incomes in New England. Mr. Wills is also a director of the Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He is widely known in insurance circles and is active in the Vermont Association of Insurance Agents, of which he is past president. In addition to these connections he has served as a member of the Commission of Real Estate Licenses, and the New England Advisory Board as national counselor. At Bennington he is a director of the County National Bank.
Mr. Wills' influence has not been confined to business circles entirely. As a staunch Vermont Republican, he has taken an active interest in politics, has served on the Republican Town Committee and as Bennington County member of the Republican State Committee and in 1928 was a delegate to the Republican National Convention held at Kansas City. As Republican State leader for a number of years he has constantly strengthened the organ- ization in Vermont. His own career in public life, which has won him high honors in the State, began in 1928 when he was elected a member of the Vermont House of Representatives. From 1931 to 1935 he was a member of the State Senate, serving two terms, during both of which he was presi-
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dent pro tem of the Senate. In 1936, he was elected Lieutenant-Governor on the Republican ticket and after a successful administration of his various duties, was renominated in 1938 and reëlected for a second term, polling 73,021 votes to 33,957 for his Democratic opponent. His personal popularity with the voters is evidenced by the fact that he ran well ahead of others on the Republican ticket, except for Governor George D. Aiken and United States Senator Ernest W. Gibson. Lieutenant-Governor Wills' present term of office expires in 1940.
Despite the many other demands made upon him, Mr. Wills has found time to be active in a wide range of civic interests and to serve a number of the State's institutions in official capacities. He is a member of the board of directors of Montpelier Junior College; a trustee of Henry W. Putnam Memorial Hospital and a trustee of the Vermont Soldiers' Home. He is also a leading layman of the Episcopal Church, junior warden of St. Peter's Church in Bennington and now president of the board of trustees of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Grange, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Free and Accepted Masons, in which latter order he is a member of Mt. Anthony Lodge, No. 73, at Bennington, and many higher bodies, including Taft Commandery, Knights Templar, and Cairo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Rutland, of which he is Past Potentate.
In 1914, William H. Wills married Hazel McLeod, a graduate of Ben- nington High School and Middlebury College.
JOHN HENRY HOPKINS, S. T. B., S. T. D., D. D .- John Henry Hopkins, rector emeritus of The Church of The Redeemer, in Chicago, Illi- nois, native of Vermont, and resident of Grand Isle, where he is now living in retirement, has been an active figure in the affairs of the Protestant Epis- copal Church of America, with which he was actively identified in many parts of the country for forty years.
Dr. Hopkins was born at Burlington, Vermont, September 17, 1861, the son of the Rev. Theodore Austin and Alice Leavenworth (Doolittle ) Hopkins. His father, also an Episcopal clergyman, served as parish priest and was prin- cipal of the Yates School for Boys at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for a number of years, and then removed to Rock Point, Burlington, Vermont, where he founded and served as principal of the Vermont Episcopal Institute from 1860 to 1881. Dr. Hopkins received a general education at the Episcopal Institute in Burlington, and after completing this part of his studies matric- ulated at the University of Vermont, from which he was graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in the class of 1883, and later, in 1906, was awarded
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the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. Prior to starting his theological training he went to the Pacific coast, and from 1883 to 1887 engaged in the fire insurance business at San Francisco, and Oakland, California. At the expiration of this period he returned to New York, entered the General Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1890, and received his degree of Bachelor of Sacred Theology in 1893. Thirteen years later he was to be the recipient of an honorary degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology awarded to him by the Western Theological Seminary of Chicago.
Dr. Hopkins was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1890, became a priest in 1891 and began his career as assistant at Calvary Chapel in New York, where he remained until 1891. He then served in the same capacity at St. James' Church in Chicago, Illinois, and in 1893 was elected rector of Trinity Church, at Atchison, Kansas. Two years later he became rector of Christ Church in St. Joseph, Missouri, and in 1899 became rector of The Church of The Epiphany in Chicago, occupying the pulpit here until 1909, when he was named secretary of the Fifth Missionary Depart- ment of the Episcopal Church, a post in which he had some supervision over missionary activities in the Province of the Middle West. The following year, 1910, he assumed his post at The Church of The Redeemer where he continued until his retirement as rector emeritus in 1929.
Dr. Hopkins is a musician and during the early part of his life he employed this talent as an organist, serving in the St. Paul's Church, at Burlington, Vermont, from 1879 to 1883; the First Presbyterian Church of Oakland, California, from 1884 to 1887; the General Theological Seminary from 1889 to 1890; and Calvary Church of New York City in 1896. He also composed music for the Holy Communion Service in B flat. Aside from this accom- plishment he has been the author of several books, including "The Life of Marie Moulton Graves Hopkins," privately published in 1933; the story of the diocese of Chicago between the two World's Fairs, entitled "The Great Forty Years," published by the Morehouse Publishing Company, of Mil- waukee, Wisconsin, in 1936; and numerous articles for church papers in Vermont, Missouri, Kansas and Illinois.
Dr. Hopkins is a member of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church, the Historical Society of Vermont, the Church Club of Chicago, the Catholic clubs of New York and Chicago, the University Club of Winter Park, Florida, and the Masonic Order in which he holds a thirty-second degree and for which he served as prelate of the Knights Templar com- mandery at St. Joseph, Missouri, from 1896 to 1897. He is also a former member of the American Guild of Organists, to which he belonged from 1917 to 1920. As a young cleric Dr. Hopkins served as chaplain of the 4th Regiment of the Missouri National Guard in which he held the rank of captain from 1896 to 1897.
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On June 10, 1890, at St. Paul's Church in Burlington, Dr. Hopkins mar- ried Marie Moulton Graves, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Gemont and Maria (Moulton) Graves. She died on March 9, 1933.
HORACE EDWARD DYER-A descendant of a family which has been prominently identified with the history of Rutland and the State of Ver- mont for nearly one hundred and fifty years, and whose ancestors have em- blazoned their names in the historical records of New England since the middle of the seventeenth century, Horace Edward Dyer, banker, statesman, farmer and military man is numbered among the well-known citizens of his State.
His forebears were English for many generations and were settled in Glastonbury, Somersetshire, before the conquest. Among these was Siward Dyre, or Digre as then spelled (about 1036), Saxon Earl-or Military Governor-of Northumbria and called "the Giant" from his large size. He was descended from Alfred the Great and was the original Siward of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," who rejoiced that the battle wounds which killed his son were all in front.
The founder of the Dyer family in America was William Dyer, who was born in London, England, and emigrated to America, locating in Boston, Massachusetts. "It has been ascertained and certified, after a careful exami- nation at the Herald's College in London, that the coat-of-arms of the ances- tors of William Dyre is the one here mentioned. The Saracen's head undoubt- edly signifies that some ancestors took part in the crusades, while the three goats show that there is a link between William Dyre and the family of Sir James Dyer, the distinguished jurist, son of Richard Dyer, Lord of the Manor of Wincanton, Somersetshire, England. The goat is an emblem found on most of the coats-of-arms of the various branches of the Dyre (Dyer) family. The Ermine on the various Dyer shields denotes royal descent. The latin motto translated is : 'To affright I would not-to fear I know not.' And well did William and Mary-his cousin and wife-uphold this declaration of their ancestors !"
William Dyer subsequently removed to Newport, Rhode Island, where he died in 1677. His wife Mary, a Quakeress, was hanged for "conscience sake" on Boston Common June 31, 1660, choosing to die rather than abandon her faith. On March 15, 1637, he, with other residents of Boston, signed a remonstrance affirming the innocence of Mr. Wheelwright and that the court had condemned the truth of Christ, for which, November 17, 1637, he was disfranchised. April 28, 1637, William Dyer, with eight others, signed a compact preparatory to the settlement of Newport, he being the town clerk. In company with eighteen others, he, as clerk, signed the compact to incor- porate themselves into a "Bodie Politick," in Portsmouth, Rhode Island,
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March 7. 1638: and. June 5, 1639, he and three others apportioned the lands, having recorded to his name, March 10, 1640, eighty-seven acres.
William Dyer was secretary of the town of Portsmouth from 1640 to 1647 : in 1648 he was general recorder ; from 1650 to 1653 he was Attorney General of Rhode Island. On the eighteenth day of May, 1653, he received a commission from the assembly to act against the Dutch, he being at that time "commander-in-chief of the seas." He was also commissioner from 1661 to 1662 ; a deputy from 1664 to 1666; a general solicitor from 1665 to 1668; and secretary of council in 1669. Dyer's Island, which he owned, was named for him by Governor Coddington and others. William Dyer was sent to England on important missions by the colonies. He was many times a conferee of Roger Williams and the two families were later united by the marriage of their descendants. His son, Samuel Dyer, was the next in line of descent.
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