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of the Lake George Association. Lillian (Tuttle) Bixby, his wife, died in August, 1931, and was followed in October, two months later by her husband.
Mr. and Mrs. Bixby were the parents of seven children: I. Sidney Tuttle. 2. Emma. now Mrs. A. H. Jordan, born July 23, 1884. 3. William H., born June 15, 1888, now associated with the G. H. Walker brokerage house in St. Louis, Missouri. 4. Harold M., born June 16, 1890, now associated with Pan-Amer- ican Airways. 5. Ruth, born February 25, 1894, now Mrs. I. A. (Bixby) Stevens. 6. Ralph F., born February 27, 1899. 7. Donald, born December 16, 1901.
CARL EDWARD LAMB-As founder and head of the Carl E. Lamb Lumber Company, Carl Edward Lamb has performed an important work in Bolton Landing.
Mr. Lamb was born September 30, 1907, in Bolton Landing, New York, son of Bert Woodworth and Thirsa (Ward) Lamb. His father was for years engaged in the lumber and insurance business, and served for eleven years as a supervisor of the town of Bolton. He was sheriff of Warren County for three years, and also served as chairman of the board of super- visors.
The Bolton schools provided Carl Edward Lamb's early education, and he was admitted to high school here, continuing as a high school student until June, 1924. He then became a student at Troy Conference Acad- emy, at Poultney, Vermont, in September, 1924, there being graduated in June, 1926. In June, 1930, he was graduated from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. It was on May 1, 1931, that he organized the Carl E. Lamb Lumber Company, which he still operates.
In his political views he is a staunch Republican, and he belongs to Glens Falls Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He worships in the faith of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
In Scarsdale, New York, on December 5, 1931, Carl Edward Lamb mar- ried Helen Martin, daughter of George Alexander and Agnes Elizabeth Hale (Woods) Martin. The children of this marriage were: I. Carolyn Agnes Lamb, born April 14, 1933. 2. George Alexander Lamb, born September 25, 1934.
FRED A. FIELD, Jr .- For twenty-two years Fred A. Field, Jr., was a partner of his father, Fred A. Field, Sr., in the real estate and insurance firm of Fred A. Field and Son at Rutland, Vermont. Here the founder died on April 18, 1935; here his son and successor passed away a year later, in 1936. But the well established and widely known business of Fred A. Field
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and Son carries on, under the leadership of Mrs. Field, Jr., the widow, and her son, Fred A. Field, 3d, and Edward D. Field, of Montpelier.
Frederick Alfred Field, to give the full name of the founder of the firm of Fred A. Field and Son, was born June 7, 1850, at Brandon, Vermont, where he received his education in private and public schools and in the seminary. He was connected with various businesses until 1904, was post office inspector for eighteen months, traveling in as many states in the South and the East; teller in the Merchants National Bank at Rutland; postmaster here during President Cleveland's two administrations ; city treasurer of Rutland for one year ; trustee of the Rutland Savings Bank since 1888; served five years as trustee of the village of Rutland; appointed by the Chamber of Commerce, in which he was continuously active, to secure the new Federal Building and post office for Rutland; and United States Marshal from 1899 to 1904, when he established a general insurance and real estate business in which his son and namesake became a partner some nine years later. Although as above noted, Mr. Field held office under two administrations of a Democratic Presi- dent, he served for several years as chairman of the Republican County Com- mittee and was also a member of the City Committee and of the Republican District Committee. He was a member of the local Congregational Church and for twenty-two years was secretary and treasurer of its Sunday school ; he was a Mason and Past Grand Chancellor of the Vermont body of the Knights of Pythias.
Fred A. Field, the senior, married, June 3, 1873, Lillie Clark, daughter of Henry Clark, and they were the parents of three children: I. Richard, deceased. 2. Edward D., vice-president of the National Life Insurance Com- pany, Montpelier, Vermont, and father of three children : i. Catherine, a grad- uate of Bryn Mawr College. ii. Josephine, a graduate of the Free Arts School of New York City. iii. Virginia, a graduate of Albany High School. 3. Fred A., Jr., of further mention.
Fred A. Field, Jr., of whom this is primarily a record, was born April 12, 1881, at Rutland, and after completing his education here in the grade and high schools, he attended Amherst College, where his principal athletic inter- ests were baseball and football, his fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon, and where he received his degree of Bachelor of Arts with the class of 1903. For the next four years he worked for the Library Bureau, in their Boston and Provi- dence offices ; from 1907 to 1909 he was connected with the Regal Shoe Com- pany at Whitman, Massachusetts; from then until 1913 he was associated with the Hotel Ten Eyck at Albany, New York. It was on October 6, 1913, that Mr. Field became a partner with his father in the firm of Fred A. Field and Son, Rutland, Vermont. Upon his father's death in 1935, Fred A. Field, Jr., carried on the business, with his own son, Fred A. Field, 3d, assisting in the office.
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Outside of insurance and real estate, the largest business interests of Fred A. Field, Jr., were banking and finance, and in these fields he gave noteworthy service and became widely known, as president of the Rutland Savings Bank since 1929, and president of the Vermont Bankers' Association during the crucial "banking holiday" of 1933 and the worst days of the attending depres- sion. Levi P. Smith, chairman of the State Banking Advisory Board, said this of Mr. Field :
He merits our gratitude for a vital public service performed in a manner so unobtrusive as almost to be taken for granted. It was very fortunate for Vermont that during the crucial times which included the Banking Holiday of 1933. the president of the Bankers' Association of the State happened to be Mr. Field. Despite his modesty in most matters, he was in the forefront when it came to assuming responsibilities. He had a cheerful courage and a natural easy way of grasping and carrying on business principles. With him humor and good cheer were not an evasion of hard problems, but rather a means of facing them with a clear vision and a fighting spirit. In short, through it all he was an inspiration to those who were attempting, with his help, to work out Vermont's banking problems soundly and for the benefit of all our people.
Equally unsparing of himself in civic, fraternal and religious duties which he shouldered and never shunned, Mr. Field had been a director of the Herald and Globe Association, vice-president of the Rutland Hospital, a trustee of the Evergreen Cemetery Association and the Rutland Masonic Association, presi- dent of the Rutland Chamber of Commerce, member of the Roads Committee of the Vermont State Chamber of Commerce, National Councillor of the United States Chamber of Commerce, president of the Rutland Country Club, and member of its board of governors, director of the Vermont State Hospital Association. member of the executive board of the Vermont State Golf Asso- ciation, chairman of the executive committee of the Rutland County Red Cross Society, and as already noted, president of the Vermont Bankers' Association. During the World War he was a corporal in Company B, Vermont Volunteer Militia, secretary of various Liberty Loan drives and chairman of the 1918 War Camp Community Service drive. In 1927 he was chairman of the Red Cross Mississippi Disaster Fund drive, and the same year he headed the Red Cross drive for Flood Relief in Rutland County. In his own business field, he was active always in the various affiliated associations, having served as president of the Vermont Association of Insurance Agents and member of the New England Advisory Board of the National Association of Insurance Agents. He was a member of the Congregational Church.
Mr. Field held high rank in Masonry, having been elected to receive the thirty-third degree at Dayton, Ohio, and the honor was conferred at Boston,
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Massachusetts, on September 16, 1930. His other Masonic affiliations were : Worshipful Master, Center Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, 1916-17 ; District Deputy Grand Master, Grand Lodge of Vermont, 1919-20; Grand Sword Bearer, Grand Lodge, 1922-23; Excellent High Priest, Davenport Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, 1920-21 ; Thrice Illustrious Master, Davenport Council, Royal and Select Masters, 1930-31 ; Eminent Commander, Killington Com- mandery, Knights Templar, 1926-27. Mr. Field was also a member of the various Scottish Rite Masonic bodies, and he had filled the principal offices in Delta Lodge of Perfection, Otter Creek Council, Princes of Jerusalem, and Otter Creek Chapter, Rose Croix. He had been Grand Standard Bearer of the Vermont Council of Deliberation, and was a member of Cairo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and of Vermont Lodge, Knights of Pythias.
Fred A. Field, Jr., married on October 6, 1914, Jessie Gibson Arnold, of New York, who survives with their son, Fred A. Field, 3d. Mrs. Field was born and educated in New York City. She graduated from Hunter College with the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
Fred A. Field, 3d, was born in Rutland, Vermont, January 13, 1916, was educated in Rutland public schools and Phillips Academy, Andover, Massa- chusetts. As already noted, the business of Fred A. Field and Son is being successfully continued by Mrs. Field, Jr., and her son in association with Edward D. Field, vice-president of the National Life Insurance Company, of Montpelier, Vermont.
The following excerpts from an editorial noting the death, in 1936, of Fred A. Field, Jr., give a partial appraisal of his character and achievements :
Fred Field's death robs Rutland of one of her younger men who always had been a leader in community life. The same enthusiasm with which he tackled the work of his church, his clubs and fraternal organizations in which he was an officer, characterized his efforts in the many and varied activities in which he was engaged until, during the last few years, he devoted himself untiringly to the job of directing the Rutland Savings Bank as its president. The cares of banking did not prevent Mr. Field from continuing his contacts with other concerns, interests which endeared him to many in all walks of life. .
From 1913 until his death Rutland was his home. Rutland's problems were his problems. He had held office in a variety of State and civic organizations, always leaving the imprint of his personality on whatever he touched.
Fred Field was a young man as ages go today, with much before him. The sympathy which the community extends to his family is universal and genuine. Theirs is the satisfaction of knowing that his passing leaves a gap in the ranks of Rutland leaders which cannot be filled. Men of the Fred Field type are hard to find.
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JOHN RAY STICKNEY-A pioneer in the central rural school movement of the State of New York, former president of the New York State Association of District Superintendents, official of several other educa- tional organizations and superintendent of schools of District, No. 2, of Warren County, John Ray Stickney, of Bolton Landing, ranks as one of the most prominent educators in this section of the State.
Mr. Stickney was born in the town of Wheeler, March 19, 1881, the son of Carroll C. and Julia A. (Squires) Stickney, both of his birthplace where his father engaged in farming. He received the early part of his academic education at the Franklin Academy and completed this part of his studies at the Prattsburg High School as valedictorian and president of his class in 1902. The following year he matriculated at the Geneseo Normal School from which he was graduated in 1906. Since that time he has supplemented this training by attending summer school and taking extension courses at Cornell and Syracuse universities.
The first six months of his career Mr. Stickney served as a teacher of a rural school in Oswego. He then became principal of Bolton High School, at Bolton Landing, and remained here until 1909, when he went to the North- ville High School in the same capacity. Two years later, in 1911, he resigned this post to become superintendent of schools for District, No. 2, of Warren County, an office which he assumed in January, 1912, and in which he has served since with distinction and success. In addition to being president of the New York State Association of District Superintendents in 1931, Mr. Stickney also served in this position for the Eastern New York District Superintendents Association in 1918, and for several years has been affiliated with the National Education Association.
As a resident of Bolton Landing he has been one of the most active and public-spirited members of the community, where he is charter member, for- mer secretary and treasurer of the Fire Company and has served as water commissioner and fire commissioner. He is an independent Republican in his political convictions and for seven or eight years was county committee- man for this organization. Mr. Stickney fraternizes with Lake George Lodge, No. 1029, in which he is Past Master, and at one time was Noble Grand of Bolton Lodge, No. 525, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He worships at the Episcopal Church for which he is senior warden and treasurer. During the World War Mr. Stickney was active in all patriotic movements, having charge of the local draft board, serving as captain of the Home Guard here and taking an active leadership in the Liberty Loan cam- paigns.
On December 26, 1907, Mr. Stickney married at Warrensburg, Mary Elizabeth Wright, daughter of Caleb A. and Maria Wright.
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JOSEPH SILVERMAN-A native of Glens Falls, New York, Joseph Silverman was born here January 27, 1907, the son of Russian parents, Vic- tor and Eva Silverman, both of whom are living. Joseph Silverman attended the grade schools here and after graduating from Glens Falls High School, took the art course in New York State College for Teachers and received his degree as Bachelor of Arts with the class of 1929. An older brother, A. Howard Silverman, had opened a law office in Glens Falls, and Joseph Silverman decided to follow the same profession. Accordingly, he read law with his brother. Between the time that he commenced this requisite course in the study of law and the time that he was finally admitted to the bar, Joseph Silverman did clerical work in the offices of various manufacturing companies in Glens Falls, which served the double purpose of providing necessary cash funds and of increasing his own fund of knowledge concern- ing the actual operations of a big business. Passing his bar examinations in 1936, he opened an office for the practice of law in Keeseville. Not only has he already established a reputation as a conscientious and hard working young member of his honorable profession, but Mr. Silverman has widened his circle of acquaintances here through his membership in the Essex County Bar Association and other local organizations, including the Kiwanis Club, of which he is secretary, and Ausable River Lodge, No. 149, Free and Accepted Masons. A Republican in politics, Mr. Silverman subscribes to the faith of his fathers and is a regular attendant and member of the Hebrew Temple. His recreations are golf and bowling, and stamp collecting is his hobby.
Mr. Silverman is unmarried.
KARL CRANDALL-One of the best known and esteemed citizens of Lake George is Karl Crandall, cashier of the First National Bank of Lake George for the past decade. He has never found it necessary to leave the town for larger opportunities, but has remained identified with its life to which he has made his own valuable contributions as business man, banker, resident, member and supporter of progressive movements and organizations.
He was born at Lake George, September 27, 1888, son of James T. and Sarah J. (Brown) Crandall, both of whom are deceased. His mother was born at French Mountain, New York. His father, a native of Chestertown, this State, for many years was engaged in the hotel business. Karl Crandall completed his academic education in the grammar and high schools of his birthplace, after which he went to the Albany Business College. Following in the footsteps of his father, he entered the hotel business at Lake George, but when the United States became involved in the World War, he enlisted in the United States Army and served his country from 1918 to late in the
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following year. Upon his return to civilian life, Mr. Crandall became asso- ciated with the New York Power and Light Company. In 1926 he became assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Lake George, and since Feb- ruary, 1929, he has been cashier of this institution. Fraternally, he is affil- iated with Sacrament Lodge, No. 1029, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a Past Master, and Lodge No. 912, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is a Past Grand. In sports he is a devotee of golf and skiing.
HON. WALLACE E. PIERCE-Recognized as one of the leaders of the legal fraternity in Clinton County, Wallace E. Pierce, of Plattsburg, who was particularly notable for his outstanding success as a trial lawyer, was also a distinguished public citizen, having devoted many years to public office as well as being one of the leaders of the Republican party organization in the Lake Champlain area.
Wallace E. Pierce was born at Black Brook, Clinton County, December 9, 1881, son of William Wallace and Loretta (Hayes) Pierce. William Wallace Pierce, who was a native of Black Brook, Clinton County, was associated with the J. J. Roger Company for years and in his later life entered the hotel business. Loretta (Hayes) Pierce, also deceased, was a native of Black Brook, too.
After passing through the public schools of Clinton County, Wallace E. Pierce determined to become a teacher and, accordingly, worked his way through the Plattsburg State Normal School, graduating in 1903 as an honor student. The same year he began his work as a teacher and, for three years, taught school at Au Sable Forks, following this position with similar work for three years at Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County. Then, in 1909, he resigned as a teacher and became the secretary of Congressman George R. Malby, of Ogdensburg, serving that gentleman at home and in Washington, as well as his successor, Congressman Edwin A. Merritt, of Potsdam, for a total of five years. During this period Mr. Pierce became interested in the legal profession to such an extent that he devoted his leisure to the study of the law, and, in 1914, passed the New York State Bar. Returning home to Clinton County, Mr. Pierce opened an office in Plattsburg and, since that time, for a period of more than twenty-five years, had devoted himself to the general practice of his profession, supporting it by membership in the Clinton County Bar Associa- tion, the New York State Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. During the World War, Mr. Pierce served in various capacities, including work as a "four-minute" speaker, a field in which he demonstrated abilities which made him one of the ablest speakers in Northern New York State. Always deeply interested in civic problems and in political concerns, Mr.
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Pierce was for many years.a public leader, his services being characterized by energetic, sincere and progressive activity. His local services began while he was still serving as the secretary to the Congressmen from his Congressional District and went on to include such offices as three years in the New York State Legislature from Clinton County and the presidency of the local board of visitors of the Plattsburg State Normal School, as well as acting as attorney for the New York State Winter Olympic Commission. Side by side with this public service, he worked generously as a leader in the Republican party, being for three years the chairman of the Republican City Committee of Ogdens- burg, for thirteen years chairman of the Clinton County Republican Com- mittee, for fifteen years chairman of the Republican Judicial Committee of Northern New York, chairman of the judicial convention which nominated every Supreme Court Justice sitting in his district (1939), delegate to every Republican State Convention since 1914, for more than two years was a mem- ber of the Republican State Committee's executive committee, and indeed, was, from 1909, active in every party organization and campaign in his section of the State. In November, 1938, he was elected to Congress from the Thirty- first Congressional District of the State of New York, comprising the counties of St. Lawrence, Franklin, Clinton, and Essex, succeeding Hon. Bertrand H. Snell, of Potsdam, New York, the then Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, who retired at the end of his twenty-fourth year in Congress. Community affairs also claimed his interest and drew heavily upon his time, for he was active in every worth-while movement during the past twenty-five years. A member of the Episcopal Church, Mr. Pierce belonged to Plattsburg Lodge, No. 828, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and Plattsburg Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, as well as being a member of Plattsburg Lodge, No. 621, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Maccabees, the Platts- burg Rotary Club, the Plattsburg Chamber of Commerce, the Plattsburg Rod and Gun Club, and the Westport Yacht Club. He was also a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. Among his community services may be listed his membership on the board of directors of the Cham- plain Valley Hospital and of the Samuel F. Vilas Home and the Children's Home of Northern New York.
Wallace E. Pierce married, in 1911, Elizabeth Richardson, of Batavia, New York. Mrs. Pierce passed away in 1936, and Mr. Pierce's death occurred January 3, 1940. They had a daughter : Elizabeth P., a graduate of the Masters School at Dobbs Ferry, who, after attending Vassar College and Barnard College, is now the wife of Albert Osborn Snite, of Highland Park, Illinois.
MORTIMER ROBINSON PROCTOR-The family of Proctor is distinguished both in its ancestry and for services to the State and Nation. It has given to the State three Governors; to the country a colonel of volun-
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teers in the Civil War ; a Secretary of War in the Federal Government, and a United States Senator. It has given to the marble manufacturing world an unbroken line of men of superior business ability. An account of the rise and progress of the Vermont Marble Company, which is essentially the Proctor family industry, appears elsewhere in this work.
The Proctor family, originally settled at Yorkshire, England, was estab- lished at Shawdon, in the beginning of the sixteenth century, through the mar- riage of William Proctor, of Nether Bordley, to Isabel, daughter of John Lilburn, of Shawdon. The family was entitled to bear arms. There is evidence to support belief that John, Richard, George and Robert Proctor came to Massachusetts between 1636 and 1643. While it is uncertain that any of the four was related to any one of the others, there is good reason for the supposition that some, if not all, of them were brothers, or that there at least was relationship existing between them.
(I) Robert Proctor, the founder of the family of that name in America, was born probably in England, and died in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, April 28, 1697. The first record of his appearance in this country is at Concord, Massachusetts, where he was made a freeman in 1643. It is supposed that he came from England with the three other Proctors, above named. There is, however, another tradition relative to his ancestry. Under the date of July 26, 1897. Mrs. Lucretia H. Lawrence, of Leominster, Massachusetts, a daugh- ter of Jacob Proctor, wrote as follows: "My father in his last days dwelt much upon the history of his family and events of his early life. He said his grandfather," who was Nathaniel Proctor, a great-grandson of Robert, of Concord, "told him that three brothers from a wealthy family in Scotland came to this country in a ship of their own. One of the brothers settled in or near Chelmsford. The Littleton branch descended from this brother. My father remembered visits back and forth with the Chelmsford relations." Until the arrival of additional evidence, the conflict of these traditions must remain unsettled.
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