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Francis Binch married Clara Elizabeth Goddard, who is a native of Not- tingham, England. Mr. and Mrs. Binch were the parents of a daughter, E'dna Elizabeth, who has passed away.
LOUIS M. CARUSONE-Practicing law in Glens Falls, Louis M. Carusone has distinguished himself in the professional world here, earning the admiration and confidence of a host of friends and fellow-citizens.
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Mr. Carusone was born August 8, 1903, in Saratoga Springs, New York, son of Salvatore and Celesta (Celentano) Carusone. His father, who was born in Italy, was associated with important contracting interests. The mother; also a native Italian, is now deceased.
Public schools in Saratoga Springs provided Louis M. Carusone's early education, and after completing his high school studies he attended Hamilton College, there taking the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1924. He enrolled for his professional studies at the Albany Law School, in Albany, New York, where in 1927 he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Admitted in that year to the New York State bar, he proceeded to practice law in Glens Falls, where he still carries on his work today. For several years he was associated with the Hon. Paul Boyce, of Glens Falls.
Not only does Mr. Carusone carry on a private practice of his chosen pro- fession, but he is a member of the Warren County Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association. He is a member of the Alpha Phi Delta Fraternity and the Glens Falls Council of the Knights of Columbus, as well as of Glens Falls Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Politically, he is a staunch Republican. He attends St. Mary's Roman Cath- olic Church. In spare time he greatly enjoys outdoor life and healthful recre- ations, being particularly fond of baseball.
In 1934 Louis M. Carusone married Margaret Fredella, a native of Glens Falls, New York. They became the parents of two children: Theresa and Louis Michael Carusone.
SALVATORE J. LEOMBRUNO-To the exacting duties of his profession and to useful participation in civic and social affairs, Salvatore Leombruno has devoted his training and best energies. He is a prominent lawyer of Glens Falls although still in his early thirties, and a popular figure in fraternal and other local circles.
Mr. Leombruno was born in Brooklyn, New York, September 6, 1906, son of Joseph and Rosina (Novelli) Leombruno, both of whom were of Italian birth, and both now deceased. His formal education was acquired in St. Mary's Academy, Glens Falls, and Fordham University, New York City, class of 1928. He then attended the Albany School of Law, being graduated in 1931 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. Admitted to the New York bar in the following year he has since been engaged in a general practice of the law in Glens Falls, with offices in the Masonic Building. He is a member of the Warren County Bar Association.
Mr. Leombruno is a director and treasurer of the Davis Medical Company, and fills like posts with the Maksur Manufacturing Company. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Glens Falls Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order
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of Elks, of which order he is Lecturing Knight; is senior counsellor of the United Commercial Travelers' Association; chancellor of the Knights of Columbus, Glens Falls Council, No. 194; and vice-president of the Sons of Italy. He also is president of the St. Mary's Academy Alumni Association, and is a member of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church. He enjoys hiking and golf, recreations which Glens Falls possesses in full supply.
In 1928, Salvatore J. Leombruno married Anna Amelda D'Angelo, a native of Canton, Ohio, and they have five children : Rosemary, Salvatore, Jr., Natalie Dolores, Richard Joseph, and Janice Ann.
STEPHEN WALTER HARNETT-After a varied business career and army service, Stephen Walter Harnett entered the newspaper field just fourteen years ago, and for the past eight years he has been editor of the Plattsburg, New York, "Daily Republican."
His grandfather, James Harnett, who was born in County Cork, Ireland, was a farmer all his life and among the pioneer Irish settlers of the town of Altona, Clinton County, New York. Here a son was born, David Harnett, who also farmed it all his life and who married Mary Lucy Murtagh, of Beek- mantown, Clinton County. Both now deceased, they were the parents of the subject of this review.
Stephen Walter Harnett, too, was born at Altona, September 28, 1898, receiving his education in the public schools here, the St. Louis Parochial Academy and the high school at Plattsburg. He worked for a short time with a Plattsburg photographer and then a year for the Royal Typewriter Company of Hartford, as an inspector. Enlisting in the United States Army on May 6, 1918, he was assigned to the Quartermaster's Corps and stationed at Camp Joseph E. Johnson, Florida, continuing in service there until January, 1919, when he received his honorable discharge as a private. He returned to the Royal Typewriter Company of Hartford and worked two months for them, when he reënlisted in the United States Army and was assigned to recruiting service. He remained in the army a year and then went to New York City to
work about eight months in a sporting goods house on lower Broadway, Man- hattan, and for three years in the United States Postal Service at the Brook-
lyn Borough post office. It was in 1924 that he entered the newspaper busi- ness, as a cub reporter on the Plattsburg, New York, "Daily Republican," continuing here two years, when he went with the "Adirondack Record," a weekly newspaper published at Au Sable Forks, New York. He left there in the winter of 1928 and came back to work in the circulation department of the "Daily Republican" at Plattsburg. After two years he was appointed editor of this thriving, old established newspaper, and is still serving in that important capacity.
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Mr. Harnett is a Democrat, an attendant at St. John's Roman Catholic Church, a member of the Plattsburg Post of the American Legion, and his favorite diversions are automobiling, radio and reading. He married, Novem- ber 6, 1933, Eva Mary St. John, a native of Plattsburg, and they have two children : 1. Anne Marie. 2. Stephen Owen.
ALFRED POWERS LONERGAN-Up to the time of his appoint- ment in June, 1936, as postmaster of Essex Junction, Vermont, Alfred Powers Lonergan had spent a solid thirty-three years in the retail drug business in Barre, Burlington, Bellows Falls, Montpelier and, since 1912, as proprietor of his own successful pharmacy here at Essex Junction, where he is known as a writer of some distinction and as a popular member of various business, social and fraternal organizations.
Mr. Lonergan was born September 19, 1882, at Burlington. His father, Edward Lonergan, who was born here in 1847 and died here in 1916, was a brother of the late Captain John Lonergan, a hero in the battle of Gettysburg and, after the Civil War, connected for many years with the United States Customs Office at Montreal, Canada. The mother of Alfred Powers Loner- gan was Catherine (Crosby) Lonergan, also a native of Burlington and life- long resident who died here in 1907 at the age of forty-nine years; the daugh- ter of Thomas Crosby, a native of Dublin, Ireland, and Annastatia (Powers) Crosby, related to William C. Crosby, a Vergennes, Vermont, veteran of the Civil War.
Educated in the parochial and public schools of his native city, and in St. Joseph's College, young Lonergan went to work, just a year after the turn of the present century, with the McKilip and Smith Dry Goods Store here. Two years later, in 1903, he moved to Barre, Vermont, and entered the employ of Rickert and Wells, druggists. After an apprenticeship of several years, he returned to Burlington and in 1907 became associated with druggist J. W. O'Sullivan for one year. The year 1908 found him in Bellows Falls, where he worked with druggist Oscar Gast until 1910. At Montpelier he worked for George McGrath, druggist, for the next two years, when he decided to begin to work for himself instead of for others. Thoroughly trained in every branch of the business, he had little difficulty in obtaining a license to operate a pharmacy, which he opened in 1912 at Essex Junction. So popular did he become as a local merchant and man about town that competitors in the retail drug business were forced to give up and leave him a clear field. His appoint- ment by President Roosevelt in June, 1936, for a four-year term as postmaster here was happily received by his fellow-citizens and fellow-members of the Essex Junction Chamber of Commerce, the Men's Club of Essex Junction, and various other local organizations to which he belongs. He is also a member of
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the Burlington Council, Knights of Columbus. Mr. Lonergan, who has a natural gift for writing, is the author of numerous poems which have been well received and favorably commented upon by the public.
Alfred Powers Lonergan married, January 10, 1909, while a resident of Bellows Falls, Adelia Mary Kelly, the daughter of Edward Francis Kelly, born at Winchester in 1857, and Catherine (Walters) Kelly, a native of Ire- land who died at Hinsdale, New Hampshire, in 1907.
EGBERT WATSON WEST-During his long association with the Glens Falls Insurance Company, which covers more than sixty years, Egbert Watson West has contributed largely to its development and has risen to the highest offices within the organization. Since 1920, when he was elected presi- dent, he has borne the principal executive responsibility for its operations and now continues as chairman of the board of directors.
Mr. West was born in Glens Falls on May 1, 1863, a son of William Henry and Susan (Miller) West. He was educated in local public schools and first became connected with the Glens Falls Insurance Company in 1874 at the early age of eleven. He grew up with the business and was soon entrusted with more important duties. In 1885 he was appointed special agent. In 1904 he became assistant secretary and in 1907 was elected a director of the company. In 1915 he was elected vice-president and served in that capacity for five years. His assumption of the presidency in 1920 brought to the leadership of the company an executive of extraordinarily broad experience in insurance work through almost half a century. With advancing years, Mr. West relinquished some of his more arduous responsibilities, but as chairman of the board he is in touch with all important details of the company's opera- tions. He is also chairman of the board of the Commerce Insurance Company and president of the Glens Falls Indemnity Company, and Glens Falls Invest- ing Corporation, which are affiliated organizations.
Mr. West is widely known in insurance circles throughout the country, where his long and notable record as an executive has commanded respect for many years. He is a Republican in politics, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a member of the Glens Falls Country Club.
In 1886 Egbert Watson West married Julia A. Parks, of Glens Falls. They are the parents of four children : Mrs. Ruth W. Derby, Hewitt Seymour, Mrs. Dorothy W. Bowden, and Mrs. Harriet W. Dyer.
STEWART A. FARRAR-Postmaster of Warrensburg, Warren County, Stewart A. Farrar, who was formerly an insurance man, is one of the leaders of the Democratic party in both his county and community and has devoted many years to public service.
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Stewart A. Farrar was born in Warrensburg, Warren County, August 24, 1892, son of George W. and Nellie J. (Alden) Farrar. George W. Farrar, who is a native of Fort Edward, is active as a contractor. Nellie J. (Alden) Farrar, his wife, was born in Warrensburg also and is a direct descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, the famous Pilgrims, who settled in Plym- outh, Massachusetts, in 1620.
After passing through the grade schools of Warrensburg and graduating from the Warrensburg High School, Stewart A. Farrar learned the trade of a shirt-cutter and passed the next twenty years of his life in that activity in various parts of the country. In 1930 Mr. Farrar established himself in the insurance business in Warrensburg, an activity which he followed until 1934 when he was appointed postmaster of the community, a position which he has held through the present time. Always keenly interested in political prob- lems, Mr. Farrar has devoted himself assiduously to the philosophy of the Democratic party, serving as chairman of the Warrensburg Democratic Town Committee and chairman of the Warren County Democratic Committee as well as devoting nine years to service on the Warrensburg School Committee, being president of the board for two years. Trustee of the First Presbyterian Church of Warrensburg for many years and secretary and treasurer of the Warrensburg Cemetery Association, Mr. Farrar is a member and trustee of Warrensburg Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, as well as a Past Grand of the lodge, and, in addition, was the first president of the Warrens- burg Kiwanis Club, an organization of which he is still a leading member.
Stewart A. Farrar married (first), on December 26, 1916, Barbara E. Stewart, a native of Warrensburg, who died in 1919, and (second), on August 12, 1925, Mary E. Stewart, who is also a native of Warrensburg. Mr. Stewart, by his first marriage, is the father of a son, James S., who is a member of the class of 1940, Syracuse University. By his second marriage, he is the father of two children : Paul A. and Barbara J.
NICHOLAS LYNCH, Jr .; JOHN J. CUNNINGHAM -- Nicholas Lynch, Jr., and John J. Cunningham, partners of the Glens Falls firm of Lynch and Cunningham, are two of the leading insurance men of the Lake George district, operating their own general insurance agency.
Nicholas Lynch, Jr., was born November 10, 1907, son of Nicholas and Anna (Anderson) Lynch. Nicholas Lynch, Sr., who is a native of Northum- berland, Saratoga County, and a member of the police force of Glens Falls for nearly forty-five years, is a descendant of one of the first Irish families to settle in Glens Falls, the family having now been farmers and industrial workers for several generations. Anna (Anderson) Lynch, his wife, is a native of Glens Falls.
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After graduating from St. Mary's Academy, Nicholas Lynch, Jr., worked for several years in various capacities with several organizations until 1937, when he became the special agent in Glens Falls for the National Life Insur- ance Company of Vermont, a position which he held into 1938 when he formed his present partnership with John J. Cunningham. Mr. Lynch, who is a mem- ber of St. Mary's Church, belongs to Glens Falls Lodge, No. 81, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
John J. Cunningham was born in Newburgh, August 22, 1904, son of Wil- liam H. and Mary (Conroy) Cunningham. William H. Cummingham, who is a native of Aden Lair, near North Creek, Warren County, was born in the 1870's and has spent his life in the paper industry, working in Newburgh, Canada, and Pennsylvania. Mary (Conroy) Cunningham, his wife, was born in Newburgh. and is now deceased.
A graduate of St. Mary's Academy, Mr. Cunningham is well known in the insurance field and belongs to Glens Falls Lodge, No. 81, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, as well as St. Mary's Church. He is fond of both golf and fishing.
John J. Cunningham married, in Glens Falls, June 9, 1930, Dorothy Houghton, a native of Indian Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham are the par- ents of two children: I. Mary Ann, born in 1932. 2. Martha Jane, born in 1936.
BERTRAM E. MURRAY-A recognized leader in the field of civil engineering for almost thirty years, Bertram E. Murray is now serving as superintendent of highways for Warren County. He was born in Warrens- burg, May 27, 1883, the son of Robert and Louise (Van Wort) Murray, both deceased. Robert Murray, a native of Oneida, New York, was engaged as postmaster of Warrensburg for a period of more than thirty years prior to his death. His wife, a native of New York City, was a descendant of Isaac Van Wort who captured Captain André as a spy during the Revolutionary period.
Bertram E. Murray received his early education in the local public schools, and after graduating from Warrensburg High School, enrolled at Syracuse University, being a member of the class of 1909. After completing his college education he entered the employ of the State, working for two years as engi- neer for the New York State Department of Engineering. For the next eighteen months he served as engineer on the construction of a State Highway between Glens Falls, Lake George and Bolton, and since that time has held the position of Warren County Superintendent of Highways. During this period he has been engineer in charge of many new construction programs,
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including the erection of the Riverside Bridge, which has a three-hundred- foot span and is one of the longest span bridges in New York State. He is a licensed civil engineer and surveyor of the State of New York.
Mr. Murray is a member of the Presbyterian Church, an ardent Republi- can, and a member of the Bear Walle Club. He is also affiliated with Lodge, No. 425, Free and Accepted Masons at Warrensburg, American Association of Engineers, and the New York State Society of Professional Engineers. In addition he is a director of the Kiwanis Club, and an enthusiastic figure in all local civic activities.
He was married, in 1911, to Adele Wheeler, a native of Ballston Spa, New York.
EDWARD D. BURCH-The proprietor of the oldest established retail hardware and farm implement business in Argyle, Edward D. Burch has served his community in the past, also, as a public officer and, since 1926, has been town clerk of Argyle.
Mr. Burch was born at Cambridge, New York, December 1, 1874, son of Parismus and Maria G. (Lee) Burch. The father was born in Schaghticoke, New York, a farmer and speculator who spent his mature life in Pittston and later, in Cambridge, where he died in 1907. The mother, a native of Cam- bridge, died there. Their son, Edward D. Burch, the subject of this sketch, received his education in the public schools of Cambridge, and at Argyle Academy, Albany Business College, and Healey's Business College, the latter institution being located at Fort Edward. For three years he worked in the County House near Argyle as assistant superintendent of the poor, and the following two years he did carpentry work at Saratoga Springs. On January I, 1904, Mr. Burch left there and came to work at the county clerk's office in Argyle, remaining in that connection for ten years.
Augustus McCachran established the first hardware store in Argyle, later adding farm implements and machinery; he was subsequently bought out by a Mr. Winchester; and in November, 1916, Edward D. Burch became sole proprietor of this old and well known concern, which he still operates most successfully. In addition, he is a plumber and steam fitter. Active in Repub- lican political circles, he has been town clerk of Argyle since 1926. His fav- orite recreations are outdoor sports and hunting. He holds membership in the United Presbyterian Church, Argyle Lodge, No. 567, Free and Accepted Masons ; and Eastern Star, in which Masonic auxiliary he is Past Patron, and Past Assistant Grand Patron.
Edward D. Burch married Verna Kilmer, born and educated at Argyle and a member of the first class graduating from Argyle High School.
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DANIEL LEE ROGERS, M. D .- A dean of his profession in War- ren County, Daniel Lee Rogers, M. D., is not only an outstanding medical man but also a capable public servant, having held office for many years, and prominent as well in the Masonic Fraternity.
Daniel Lee Rogers was born in Panton, Vermont, November 15, 1861, son of Samuel and Mary E. (Mathews) Rogers. Samuel Rogers, who was a native of Panton, established himself as a marine engineer, a trade in which he was active until the time of his death. Mary E. (Mathews) Rogers, his wife, also deceased, was a native of Ferrisburg, Vermont.
After passing through the district schools at Panton's Corners and at Addison, Vermont, Daniel Lee Rogers entered the high school at Vergennes and then, after graduation, studied medicine at the University of Vermont, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine with the class of 1886. Receiving his license to practice in New York State, Dr. Rogers established himself in a general medical and surgical practice at North Hudson but, after about three years in that town, removed to Bolton Landing, New York, in 1889, where he has continued his general medical practice through the present time, thus being one of the senior members of his profession in active practice in War- ren County. A consulting member of the staff of the Glens Falls Hospital, Dr. Rogers supports his profession by membership in the Warren County Medical Society, the New York State Medical Association, and the American Medical Association.
Always deeply interested in community problems and political concerns, Dr. Rogers has been a member of the Republican party for many years and has given generously of his time to public business, serving as the coroner of Warren County ever since 1913. A member of the local organization of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, an organiaztion which he formerly presided over, Dr. Rogers is very active within the Masonic Fraternity, being a member of Lake George Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Warrensburg, Warrensburg Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, a body of which he is Past High Priest, Calvary Commandery, Knights Templar, and all other bodies of the Scottish Rite, including Oriental Temple Shrine, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Albany. Dr. Rogers, who is a mem- ber of the Episcopal Church of Bolton, finds relaxation from his responsibilities in his favorite hobby of traveling.
Daniel Lee Rogers married (first), in 1887, Carrie A. Dowd, a native of Salisbury, Vermont, who is deceased; and (second), on May 2, 1922, Kate G. Coon, who was born in Bolton, Vermont.
ARTHUR F. WELD-Official Supreme Court stenographer of the Fourth Judicial District, with headquarters at Glens Falls, and a well-known figure in local civic affairs is Arthur F. Weld. He was born in Bennington,
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Vermont, January 27, 1888, son of the late James E. and Frances ( Foster) Weld, of Huntington, Long Island. James E. Weld, born in Gloversville, New York, was engaged for many years prior to his death in the field of education.
After graduating from high school at Saranac Lake, in 1906, Arthur F. Weld entered Albany Medical College, and one year later transferred to Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. However, due to ill health he was compelled to abandon his medical studies, and he then went to Holly Springs, Mississippi, where he entered the pedagogical field. Two years later he began preparing himself for a shorthand reporting career, studying and reporting in the courts both at Chicago and New York City. He then maintained offices in Albany for several years, and later taught commercial subjects in the public schools and a private school at Watertown, New York. He next became head of the secretarial department of the Worcester Business Institute at Worcester, Massachusetts, where he remained until 1928, at which time he joined the staff of Horace Edgecomb Associates, reporters of the Department of Public Utilities of Massachusetts. From 1930 to 1936 he was a staff reporter for the firm of Colson and Brice at Albany, official reporters of the Public Service Commission, where he was engaged in reporting pro- ceedings of the commission throughout the State, as well as activities of the State Senate, legislative committees, and many important State investigations. In January, 1936, he assumed his present duties as Supreme Court stenog- rapher.
Mr. Weld is a member of the board of stewards of Christ Methodist Episcopal Church, and is affiliated with the New York State and the National Shorthand Reporters' Associations.
He was married, in 1912, to Edith S. Penoyar, of Round Lake, New York, and they are the parents of three children : 1. Arthur F., a graduate in 1937 of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, now enrolled in the Graduate College of Princeton University, at Princeton, New Jersey. 2. Richard P., a member of the 1939 class at Wesleyan University. 3. Mildred E. Weld.
WYMAN D. PASCO-Secretary and treasurer of the A. C. Emerson Company, and an active figure in the civic and public life of Warrensburg, Wyman D. Pasco was born here, December 30, 1890, the son of Delbert E. and Sarah A. (Magee) Pasco. The elder Mr. Pasco, a native of Johnsburg, New York, has been engaged for many years in the hay, grain and feed busi- ness. Sarah A. (Magee) Pasco is a native of Thurman, New York.
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