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house brokers. Continuing in this association until 1930, Mr. Lovell during that year became the sole proprietor of the business. an enterprise which he has continued through the present time under his own name, in addition to conducting a general insurance and bonding business. Always interested in political and civic concerns as a member of the Democratic party, Mr. Lovell has been active in his party's organization, serving for some ten years as a county committeeman. A past vice-president of the 27th Division Association and a member and twenty-five-year medal-man of the 7Ist Regiment, New York National Guard, Association, Mr. Lovell is very active in veterans' associations, being a member and Past Commander of Montgomery Post, No. 912, American Legion, a member and Past Commander of the Clinton County Organization, American Legion, and a member and Past State Officer of the Society of the Forty and Eight. A member of Champlain Lodge, No. 327, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Mr. Lovell also belongs to Adirondacks Chapter, No. 234, Royal Arch Masons, Tyrian Council, No. 43, Royal and Select Master, De Soto Commandery, No. 49, Knight Templar, and Oriental Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, as well as belong- ing to Plattsburg Lodge, No. 621, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of which he is a Past Exalted Ruler, Plattsburg Lodge, No. 1041, Loyal Order of Moose, the Plattsburg Kiwanis Club, the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion, the Rouses Point Fish and Game Club, and the North County Golf Club. Attending the Rouses Point Episcopal Church, Mr. Lovell is deeply interested in fraternal work and also devotes himself to social welfare and to various forms of athletics and outdoor sports.
Fred K. Lovell married, in 1920, Elsie Merz, a native of New York City, who is deceased. Mr. Lovell is the parent of a daughter : Jean Elizabeth, now a student at William and Mary College.
HALL PARK MCCULLOUGH-Oldest child and only son of a former Governor of the State of Vermont, Hall Park Mccullough of North Bennington has followed his distinguished father as a lawyer and business executive but, to date, has never sought nor held public office.
His father, the Hon. John Griffith Mccullough, was born September 16, 1835, near Newark, Delaware, son of a Scotch father, Alexander McCul- lough, and a Welsh mother, Rebecca (Griffith) Mccullough-the father dying when his son was only three years of age, and the mother passing on four years later. Young Mccullough received a meagre education but mastered the few subjects he was taught, and indicative of his precocity, graduated from Delaware College at the age of twenty. The law was his chosen profession, and while studying that subject in the Philadelphia law offices of St. George Tucker Campbell, Mr. Mccullough also attended the Law School of the Uni-
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versity of Pennsylvania, receiving from that institution in 1858 his Bachelor of Laws degree, and being admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania the following year. He practiced his profession in Philadel- phia for a time but ill health drove him to sail to San Francisco, California. The climate did not agree with him there so he removed to Sacramento, the capital, where he was on the way to becoming one of the city's prominent bar- risters when ill health again compelled him to move to Mariposa in the foot- hills of the picturesque Sierra Nevadas. California was then in the pioneer period, and the town where young Mccullough settled was crude and rough, in every sense. Here feeling ran high between the Secessionists of the south- ern part of California and the Unionists, of the northern area. Mr. McCul- lough, whose health prevented his giving military service, did val ant work as an outspoken ally of the Union cause. Stump speaking across the State brought the young lawyer into the public eye, and so favorably that, in 1861 when he was just past twenty-six years of age, a coalition of Republicans and Douglas Democrats elected him as Mariposa's representative in the State General Assembly, and during the two years he was there he helped shape California's legislation through a most critical period of its history. His own party, the Republican, successfully ran him as its candidate for State Attor- ney General, and during his four-year term of office he represented his State in two hundred and fifty cases. Although renominated in 1867, Mr. McCul- lough was defeated, along with the entire Republican ticket. There followed four years of most lucrative private practice in San Francisco.
This brings Mr. Mccullough's record up to 1871-a fateful year for him, and perhaps his happiest. Some few years before his path had crossed that of another native Vermonter : Trenor William Park, of honored antecedents in this State. Mr. Park, also a lawyer, removed to California with his wife and family in 1852 ; amassed a considerable fortune and aspired to be United States Senator from California. John Griffith Mccullough campaigned for Mr. Park and in a party caucus before election exposed the attempt to buy off one of Mr. Park's supporters. Failing of election, he eventually retired from all political and business activities and in 1863 returned to Bennington, Vermont. It was on a trip East in 1871 that Mr. Mccullough married Mr. Park's daugh- ter, Elizabeth Hall Park, and they returned to San Francisco to live. In 1873. the Mcculloughs removed permanently to Bennington, Vermont, and Mr. McCullough became vice-president and general manager of the Panama Rail- road Company, of which corporation Mr. Park was president. For ten years Mr. Mccullough filled this post, residing in New York City a portion of the year but making Bennington his legal place of residence. When Mr. Park died aboard one of his company's liners on December 13, 1882, Mr. McCul- lough was elected president in his stead, resigning in 1888 so that he might
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devote all his time as chairman of the executive committee of the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad, and on whose board of directors he had served since 1884. In 1893 he was appointed one of the receivers in charge of the reorganization of the old Erie Railroad, as it was known, and in 1895 the road was turned over to the newly formed company without any floating debt and with cash securities aggregating eight million dollars. Formation of the Chicago and Erie Railroad Company took place in 1890, Mr. Mccullough became its first president and remained such until his death. He was also president of the Bennington National Bank, and director of the New York Security & Trust Company, and the Fidelity & Casualty Assurance Company, both of New York City, to mention a few of the many corporations he served as director. Delegate to the Republican National conventions in 1880, 1888 and 1900, being chairman of the delegation the latter year, Mr. Mccullough was State Senator from Bennington County in 1898 and president pro tem of the Senate during that term ; was Governor of the State of Vermont for the two-year term ending in 1904; and served as trustee of the University of Vermont and Middlebury College. Governor Mccullough died on May 29, 1914, leaving his widow and four children : 1. Hall Park, of further mention. 2. Elizabeth L. 3. Ella S. 4. Esther Morgan.
Hall Park Mccullough, of whom this is primarily a record, was born June 23, 1872, at San Francisco, California, and accompanying his parents East to their winter home in New York City, in 1873, received his early edu- cation in the schools of the Metropolis. He attended Yale University, receiv- ing his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1894, and then went to New York Law School, where he received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1896, and was immediately admitted to the New York bar. He started his practice in New York City with the law firm of Stetson, Jennings and Russell, later becoming a partner in Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner and Reed, a firm which enjoys a very high rating as to the legal ability of its partners, with offices at 15 Broad Street, New York City.
Mr. Mccullough is a member of the New York City Bar Association, New York State and American Bar associations. Outside of his profession, Mr. Mccullough is active in business circles, both in New York City and in Vermont, where he maintains residences. He is president and director of the First National Bank of North Bennington and of the Bennington and Glaston- bury Company ; and director of the Union Sulphur Company, Fidelity and Casualty Company, both of New York City, and the National Life Insurance Company of Vermont. He is also trustee and treasurer of the Bennington (Vermont ) Free Library ; director and vice-president of the Bennington His- torical Society ; a Republican in politics and a member of the Congregational Church.
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Hall Park Mccullough married November 26, 1901, Edith A. van Ben- thuysen of Albany, New York, daughter of Arthur Lyman and Edith (Clarke) van Benthuysen. They are the parents of four children: I. Edith C., who married John D. McLanahan of New York City. They have two children : i. John D. McLanahan, Jr. ii. Bruce McLanahan. 2. Dr. Elizabeth H., a grad- uate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City and now a practicing physician in Bennington. 3. Ethel, wife of William R. Scott, of New York City. They have two children: i. Trenor William Park Scott. ii. Virginia Scott. 4. John Griffith, 2d.
Mr. Mccullough is a member of Mt. Anthony Country Club, Bennington Club ; Metropolitan Club, Union League Club, Mid-day Club, Yale Club, and Broad Street Club. Mr. and Mrs. McCullough divide their time between their New York City and North Bennington, Vermont, homes.
J. JUDD DAYTON -- Long a prominent figure in the industrial. political and civic life of Corinth, the late J. Judd Dayton was highly regarded by the citizens of Corinth, who recognized him as a great advocate of civic development, and a business man and public official of the highest integrity.
Mr. Dayton was born in Stony Creek, January 21, 1863, the son of Rev. James and Laura (Barton) Dayton, both deceased. Rev. Mr. Dayton was born in Hadley, New York, September 1, 1820, and received his higher edu- cation at Poultney Seminary in Poultney, Vermont. In 1843 he joined the Wesleyan Methodist Church, and was engaged as a preacher in the northern section of New York State and Vermont for many years prior to his death, October 15, 1892. Laura (Barton) Dayton, daughter of W. C. Barton of De Kalb, St. Lawrence County, died at the age of fifty-one years.
J. Judd Dayton was educated at Greenwich High School and Middlebury Academy, and later enrolled at the Troy Conference Academy at Poultney, Vermont, where he was a member of the class of 1881. For many years he was associated with the Elixman Paper Core Company, Incorporated, and at the time of his death was president of this well-known Corinth industrial con- cern. He also served as a member of the board of directors of the Corinth National Bank. He was president of the Chamber of Commerce at the time of his death, and at all times was a leading spirit in movements tending towards the improvement of local civic life.
Mr. Dayton was a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, a well- known Republican, serving many terms as village clerk, village treasurer, and also as president of the village of Corinth. Fraternally, he was affiliated with Seneca Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons at Glens Falls, Knights Templar Commandery, Oriental Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and Corinth Lodge No. 174, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
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He was married to Mary Louise Leavens, a native of Hadley, New York, and they became the parents of three children : I. J. Kenyon (q. v.). 2. James Barton, a graduate of the Corinth schools, and now a resident of this commu- nity. 3. Frances Elizabeth, a graduate of the local schools and St. Agnes School in Albany ; married Harold Hall Grey.
The death of Mr. Dayton was a severe blow to the inhabitants of Corinth and vicinity, who realized in his demise, the loss of a loyal and public-spirited citizen and one who always gave to the utmost of his time and energy to the welfare of the community, where he experienced such great success, and to which he was so closely devoted.
J. KENYON DAYTON-Numbered among the leading and most progressive citizens in the town of Corinth, is J. Kenyon Dayton, well known insurance dealer, deputy sheriff for the past five years, and a prominent figure in local civic affairs. He was born here September 23, 1889, the son of the late J. Judd Dayton (q. v.) and Mary Louise (Leavens) Dayton. J. Judd Dayton, a native of Stony Creek was throughout his lifetime a prominent figure in the public and civic life of Corinth, and served as president of the Chamber of Commerce at the time of his death. Mary Louise (Leavens) Dayton is a native of Hadley, New York.
J. Kenyon Dayton was educated in the public schools of Corinth, and after completing his high school studies, he became associated with the Elixman Paper Core Company, where he was engaged intermittently in various capaci- ties for approximately twenty-three years, during the last ten years of which period he held the post of vice-president. He also entered the insurance field during this period, but disposed of these interests after seven years. In 1936 he purchased the insurance agency of Leon Rozelle, a business which had been in existence for about fifteen years, and he has since that time successfully operated as a dealer in a general line of insurance and real estate.
Mr. Dayton is a member of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Luzerne, and he has long been an active figure in Republican affairs, having served for six years as trustee of the village of Corinth, chief of the fire department at two different periods, many years as a committeeman, and for the past five years in the important office of deputy sheriff. He is also a vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce, and fraternally is affiliated with Corinth Lodge No. 987, Free and Accepted Masons, Corinth Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Royal Arcanum and the Masonic Club.
He is married to Flossie Steadman, a native of Corinth, and they are the parents of two children : 1. Ruth E., a graduate of the local public schools and Elmira College; married Ralph Simpson of Corinth, and they are now resid- ing in Waverly, where Mr. Simpson is engaged as a school teacher. 2. Mary Louise, born in Albany, now attending high school in Corinth.
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BYRON M. HERRINGTON-In assuming the post of principal of the Cambridge Schools, Byron M. Herrington brings to the office an experi- ence as educator which dates back over sixteen years. During this time he has taught in various sections of the State and demonstrated an ability, that coupled with the aforementioned qualification, eminently fits him for his pres- ent undertaking.
Mr. Herrington was born at Easton, Washington County, New York, January 24, 1894, the son of Thomas and Lena (Van Orman) Herrington, both of Washington County where his father engaged in farming and from 1920 to 1923 served as county sheriff. He completed a general education at the Greenwich High School in 1911, and then matriculated at Williams Col- lege, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, from which he was graduated. He began his career as a rural school teacher in 1914, served in this capacity until 1917 and then turned his entire attention to a farming venture he had been conducting near Greenwich, in conjunction with his professional activities. He resumed teaching in 1923 as a member of the Greenwich High School faculty, continued here until 1925 and returned two years later to head the school as principal. A decade later he resigned this position to become an instructor in the State School of Agriculture at Farmingdale, Long Island, and in 1939 came to Cambridge to assume his present position. During his career Mr. Herrington has supplemented his early training through post- graduate study. In this connection he attended the State Teachers College at Albany from which he received his Master of Arts degree in 1937. He has been active in the life of his surroundings and at present holds membership in Ashlar Lodge, No. 584, of the Masonic Order, in which he is a Past Master.
In 1914, at North Cambridge, Mr. Herrington married Irene Kenyon, daughter of William and Anna (Hillman) Kenyon, and they are the parents of one daughter, Dorothy, born August 30, 1919.
GEORGE MALCOLM HALL-As clerk of Washington County, New York, George Malcolm Hall has performed a valuable work in this region of the State in recent years. He has held other public offices and has had wide business experience, and now makes his home at Hudson Falls.
Mr. Hall was born July 28, 1866, in Argyle, New York, son of John and Margaret (Gilchrist) Hall. His father was a farmer.
Argyle Academy furnished George Malcolm Hall's early education, and for nine years he was engaged in the hardware business. For five years he was town clerk of Argyle. Then, becoming interested in politics and public affairs, he began the career that has placed him in different positions of politi- cal import in his county. From the beginning of 1895 to the beginning of
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1897 he was recording clerk in the county clerk's office. Then, on January I, 1897, he was appointed special deputy county clerk. On January 1, 1901, he was named deputy county clerk, so serving until January 1, 1932. Meanwhile, in November, 1931, Mr. Hall was elected county clerk of Washington County, and he took office in this capacity on January 1, 1932, starting a new work in which he has continued down to the time of writing.
Mr. Hall's affiliation has been consistently with the Republican party. In the Free and Accepted Masons he is a member of lodge, Royal Arch Chapter and Knights Templar Commandery. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
On January II, 1893, at Argyle, New York, George Malcolm Hall mar- ried Harriet Jeannette Copeland, daughter of William J. and Elizabeth Cope- land. The children of this marriage were: I. Margaret Elizabeth Hall, born December 24, 1898, became, February 10, 1917, the wife of Harvey G. Nie- mer. 2. William Copeland Hall, born November 22, 1907.
GEORGE KNIGHT HAWKINS-Though retired, George Knight Hawkins, former principal of the Plattsburg State Normal School, which he headed for thirty-five years, is still ranked among the foremost educators of northeastern New York.
Mr. Hawkins was born at Farmersville, New York, December 16, 1862, the son of Orson Valentine and Mary (Martin) Hawkins, both of his birth- place where his father engaged in farming. He received the early part of his general education in the public schools of his native State, and then com- pleted this part of his studies at the Ten Broeck Academy in Franklinville. After this preliminary work he matriculated at the State Normal School in Fredonia, from which he was graduated in 1884. Eleven years later he was awarded his Master of Arts degree by Union University and in 1905 was the recipient of a degree of Doctor of Science presented to him by St. Lawrence University. He began his teaching career as principal of the Sherburne Union School and Academy, at Sherburne, New York, where he remained from 1884 to 1890. During the latter year he came to the Plattsburg State Normal School as head of the mathematics department and continued in this capacity until 1898, when he was appointed principal of the institution, an office in which he served with distinction and success until his retirement in 1933.
In his professional affiliations Dr. Hawkins is a former member of the National Education Association and the New York State Teachers' Associa- tion. Aside from this he belongs to the New York State Historical Society, is a charter and life member of the Plattsburg Rod and Gun Club and frater- nizes with Plattsburg Lodge, No. 828, of the Masonic Order, in which he is Past Master. He is also Past High Priest of Plattsburg Chapter, No. 39,
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Royal Arch Masons, and, Past Illustrious Master of Tyrian Council, No. 43, Royal and Select Masters, Past Eminent Commander De Soto Commandery, No. 49, Knights Templar, in addition to holding the thirty-second degree in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite.
On July 12, 1893, at Chatham, New York, Dr. Hawkins married Elizabeth Ringwood Garrity, daughter of Patrick Henry and Ellen P. (Ringwood) Garrity. They are the parents of one daughter, Elizabeth, who married Hon. Harry P. Kehoe of Plattsburg.
THOMAS P. WARD-Thomas P. Ward, mayor of Saranac Lake for six years and president of Thomas P. Ward, Inc., a real estate and insurance firm, has been an active and prominent figure in the affairs of this community throughout his residence here which dates back to 1923.
Mr. Ward was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, March 22, 1898, the son of Thomas and Katherine Ward, both of his birthplace where his father has been identified with the board of education for a number of years. Mr. Ward received a general education in the public schools of his native community and later took courses at the American Institute of Banking in: New York City. He was associated with the National City Bank at No. 55 Wall Street, New York City, for eight years. At the expiration of this period he came to Saranac Lake where he founded his present business in 1923. From the out- set of his life here he took an active interest in civic and political affairs and through his interest and contributions rose to become a leader of the local Democratic organization in which he still exerts a dominant influence.
During the World War Mr. Ward enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, became a member of the 82d Company of the 6th Regiment and served in France with the 2d Division until he was burned and gassed on Novem- ber 9, 1918. Through his military service he is a member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Aside from these affiliations he fraternizes with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Columbus and belongs to the Saran?c Lake Kiwanis Club. In his religious convictions he adheres to the Roman Catholic faith.
On December 24, 1922, at Saranac Lake, Mr. Ward married Madeline Foster, daughter of Dan and Emma Foster, and they are the parents of one son : Danny Ward, born September 13, 1923.
DWIGHT M. SAWYER, M. D .- Ranked among the prominent and successful general practitioners of Warren County is Dr. Dwight M. Sawyer, of Glens Falls, who has practiced in that community for over seventeen years.
Dr. Sawyer was born in Glens Falls, February 28, 1883, the son of Joseph Edward and Mary M. (Patterson) Sawyer, residents of his birthplace. Joseph
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Edward Sawyer, descended from the early settlers of Massachusetts, was born in Pottersville in 1851 but at an early age moved to Chestertown, New York. He was connected with the tanning business in Essex and Warren counties. In 1883 Mr. Sawyer established the business which later became the firm of J. E. Sawyer and Company, Incorporated. He was interested in the religious and civic life of the community, was a director of the Glens Falls Trust Company ; president of the Board of Education of the public school; and a member of the board of the Glens Falls Home for Women. At the time Glens Falls became a city he was asked to be a candidate for mayor but declined.
After completing a general education at Wilbraham Academy, in Massa- chusetts, in 1902, Dwight M. Sawyer attended Wesleyan University, from which he was graduated in 1906. He then matriculated at the Johns Hopkins Medical School, where he was awarded his degree of Doctor of Medicine in I9II. He then served as an interne at the New York Nursery and Childs Hospital until 1912, was a member of the house staff of the New York Lying-In Hospital until 1913, and served in the same capacity at the St. Vincents' Hospital from 1913 to 1914. In 1915 he established himself in a general practice at Yonkers, New York, which he conducted until 1922, when he returned to Glens Falls to initiate a career which he has followed with distinction and success since. He has been connected with the medical staff of the Glens Falls Hospital since 1927; was secretary of the staff for six years, vice-president for three years, and was elected president in 1939. Dr. Sawyer, who has been a member of the Warren County Medical Association since 1922, served as secretary of the organization from 1924 to 1926 and has been president since 1938. In addition to this he is a member of the New York State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He belongs to the Glens Falls Rotary Club and to the Lake George Club; is a Republican in politics and worships at the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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