Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County Historic Scrapbooks Collection and shippers in those industries, Central LibraryHome. ofNo. Rochester511 Hursthourne Road, andIrondequoit. Monroe County being recognized as an authority. Religion, Roman Catholic. City Editor of Post Express Clubs, Elks and Knights of Columbus. Brook-Lea Country Club. Historic Scrapbooks Collection Mr. Olcott was born in Chicago Rochester Bar Association. Alhambra. Chief on Nov. a son Relief of Veterans' 13, 1861, James B. and Isabella Thrall Olcott, the! latter a native of the town of! Seeks G. 0. P. Post Greece. He attended the public schools of Rochester and the East Aurora Academy and later entered RochestOT Public the of Rochester 54/Court University in the class of 1887. From the University he joined the editorial staff of the Rochester Morning Herald and later that of The Post Express,! with which he was identified for more than 20 years, much of the| time as city editor. While with the Post Express he started a monthly magazine called American Fruits; when its success seemed assured, he left newspaper work to devote all his time to the journal. He incorporated as the, American Fruits Publishing Com pany, adding to his activities by instituting the American Nursery man and the American Nut Jour nal, and all of the publications at tained a wide circulation in their classes. On June 1, 1887, Mr. Olcott mar ried Miss Grace E. Reynolds at Manchester, N. H., who survives with three children: Gerard K., Ralph T. Jr. and Stark R. Olcott; and four grandchildren. Active in Ma.sonry Mr. Olcott was a member of Corinthian Temple Lodge, F. and A. M.; Hamilton Chapter 62, R. A. M ; Monroe Commandery 12, Knights Templar; Rochester Con sistory of Scottish Rite Masonry, and Damascus Temple. Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic i Shrine. He was a member of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce and of Alpha Delta Phi, a frater nity at the University. He was RALPH OLCOTT, connected with the Northern Nut Growers Association, the National Pecan Growers Association and the American Association of Nursery VETERAN NEWS men. The funeral will take place at DIES the home, 38 Mason Street. tr>- WRITER, morrow afternoon. Services at the horns will be conducted by Monroe i Commandery. Knights Templar, j and at the grave by Qorinthian Founder and Editor of Temple Lodge, F and A. M. Theodore S. Pulver of 204 Dart mouth Street directs attention toj Three horticultural and interesting fact concerning thej death of Ralph T. Olcott Mr. an old azines Pulver, newspaper man, says i that when he joined the reportoriai | staff of the Post Express in 1889. 43 years ago, the staff consisted of T died j DANIEL J. OMARA Ralph 70, jrea- Mr. Olcott, Edward L Allen. Ro-i THE THE ROCHESTER JOURNAL HEREWITH PRESENTS terday at hi 3$ Mawm bert K. Beach, William E. Keillyj and himself. Mr. EVENTEENTH OF A SERIES OF "THUMBNAIL" SKETCHES OF Street, after For Olcott at the! of To COM- aire years. Is the first of the HE BACKGROUND OF CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE IN THE a long period of anr years e*jr quintet to die. NG PRIMARY FIGHT. OANIEL J. OMARA. G. O. P. DESIGNEE ha waa one of the bast kn^n and OR THE ASSEMBLY. IS THE SUBJECT. most respected newspaper men of For Member of Assembly. First Monroe District: Rochester, and in his later years Daniel /. O'Mara. designee of Republicans. aa editor and proprietor of Amer Occupation. Lawyer. ican Fruits, the American Nursery 1993. Born. At Florence, a suburb of Rom*. N. T., October .11. man and the American Nut Jour Schools. District. Rome public and Syracuse Univrr nal, he became known from coast Ja\v\ Public Service. World War Vetersns Bureau, relief director. >T1 ffmamssmassmam was Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County appointed meter-ieader in the city Waterworks Bureau. Fifteen Funeral Friday Morning years ago he was named bock- The funeral will ; keeper at theHistoric.Monroe County ScrapbooksFeni- Collectionbe conducted fentiary and served inder the la:e Friday morning at 8:30 o'clock at' ithe home William H. Craig, then superin of Mr. O'Neill's brother, tendent. After elected alder jjames O'Neill, 553 Woodbine Ave- being of man, he resigned from the Peni |nue, and at 9 o'clock at SS. Peter One of a series tentiary position and after serving land Paul's Church. Burial will be one made in two-year term and part i I Holy Sepulchre Ceme- introducing the members other resigned to become deputy jtery. Mr. O'Neill never married. commissioner of public safety un j His mother died two years ago der the late Mayor Clarence D. and his father a short time before of the sales staff of the Van Zandt and Curtis W. Barker, that. Mr. O'Neill leaves, besides now director of police and at that his brother, two sisters, Mrs. J. R. j Mutual time commissioner of public safety. White and Mrs. C. F. Page, both of' Massachusetts Legislated Out Of Post Rochester; five nephews and niece. When the City Manager Charter' Life Insurance Company Mr. O'Neill was born at the ! became effective, Mr. O'Neill fouad O'Neill home at 8 Arklow Street! himself legislated out of his posi *** and lived all his life the Iockeitor?uhll tion. A short time afterward he in Elev-i enth Ward. He the ' was made deputy superintendent of passed last] s/* \*i. years of his life at 14 Arklow the Penitentiary and was con Street. He received his education firmed in his place by a Civil Serv j Charles J. O'Reilly in the ice examination. Rochester parochial schools. A Mr. O'Neill in Rochester, Mr. Mr. O'Neill was a member of lifelong Republican, and educated was active in the Eleventh Ward the Llederkranz, Bavarian Club, the Rochester Republican Committee. He would BORNO'Reilly was employed by and other organizations. have celebrated his and later the Bur Mr. O'Neill was born at the forty-fourth Telephone Corporation by O'Neill home at 8 Arklow birthday on July 4. he Street Adding Machine Company. In 1921 Eugene J. O'Neill and lived all his life in the Elev When the World War broke out, roughs enth Ward. He of Life Insurance under the passed the last [Mr. O'Neill enlisted and was sent i began the stftdy years of his life at 14 Arklow Dix. There he Jto Camp became j direction of the late W. Arthur Miller who was Street. He received his education ill of influenza, but uia-j in the Rochester {seriously most active co-workers. He parochfal schools. jmately recovered, although his lll- then one of our il A < E. J. lifelong Republican, Mr. I Iness left an effect that remained | a finer O'NEILL could not have found a better instructor, was active in the Eleventh Ward [the rest of his life. influence his life for Republican Committee. He would Some twenty-odd years ago Mr. I man or one more likely to have celebrated hia 44th birthday- [O'Neill was appointed meter-reader] RITES TO TAKE July 4. In the city Waterworks Bureau and good. ition < Life In- [held In 1923 Mr. O'Reilly decided to make is nam< ;<*>pp-i at tr after considering sev- PLACE FRIDAY >e founty Penitentiary surance his business and an Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Co. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT Rochester, N. Y., March 1st, 1929. Mr. Charles T. O'Neal is appointed General Manager in charge of Operation and Maintenance, with headquarters at Rochester, N. Y. Effective this date. WILLIAM T. NOONAN, arch of the Ninth Regi- Do you remember the big white battalion Vhlcb Rochester bur: in 190<> to wel Xational Guard ( Ivanla, ment of the Fifteenth Infantry. come home Major-' teinraJ President. jotla of the United St.v who M, Seventh < The two latter or- was returning from service in the Ar Philippine gai ulons wire billettcd in a camp It stood across Main st west of East avenu i posing looking stri tvre. nuite t tl i to the famous Ar do Ti-iomphe at! The trough Paris, if ono dl J rrnmlnr It tore ; closely. I ,side and it was draped with laurel ropes and flags. The aocoms picture shows! the I eared on Otis ha- k Hj mm> as tho carriage oft we re f < [Major-General Otis, d six! 'white horses, passed under it. In the!allowed on Main street. age with General Oti In the evening Major-General James G. Cutler, chairman at the re-: wns tlie goe*t oX honor at a dinner ception committee, and President II. i at the Chamber of Commerce. B. Hathaway of the Chamber of < big arch remained in the street time an made merce. In the following carriages!for some and effort was have it retained until the came Mayor Carnahan with the gen- to coming which was scheduled to 3 aides, and Brigadier-Genera! of a convention {Joseph Wheeler, Brigadier-Genera!' be held in the city, but it was felt that would be somewhat in the nature j Theodore Schwan, Assistant Secretary1 this of State David Jayne Hill, the Hon- of en anti-climax and also that tiis jorable James Sherman and the Hon- structure was dangerous to traffic, es- le J. Sloat Fassett. State troops '!> as there was a fire station not local fraternal organize far from the corner where it stood, joined in the parade and there was so it was finally razed. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County Historic Scrapbooks Collection APRIL 4, 1933 FUNERAL RITES TOMORROW FOR MUSEUM? . : Continued Business; Father Founded in i City in 1854 MUff| Funeral services for Bernard O for Reilly, many years a member of the undertaking firm of Bernard O'Reilly's Sons, who died ter real estate ripnlpr and inven yesterday morning at his home, 176 He was an inventor of tor, died this morning at his home. consider Canterbury Road, aged 68, will take able success and was place He is survived by his widow, granted 53 tomorrow morning at 930 patents on his o'clock at his home Mamie Ellison Ocumpaugh; a son, inventions which and at ~10 at covered a wide of Blessed Herbert E. of Seattle, Wash.; a range objects Sacrament Church. Burial such as will be in brother, Frank, 360 Beach Avenue, voting machines, safety Holy Sepulchre Ceme razors, tery. and seven sisters, Mrs. Alice O. lens-grinding machinery and the like. Mr. Munson, Mrs. Clifford J. Beadle, O'Reilly was born in Roch The funeral will ester and Mrs. Catherine O. Cobb, Mrs. J. M. be private. Th attended St. Patrick's has School. On Backus, and Miss L. Louise Ocum family requested that no flow his graduation he ers be sent. paugh of Rochester, Mrs. J. H. uZ**?: ^e ""^taking business Palmer of and Miss the late Bernard Pittsburgh, Onm1S flther' Grace Ocumpaugh of Reilly. Following his father's Washington, death he D. C. continued the business with his Funeral services are expected to brother, Myles O'Reilly take place Wednesday morning. name of Bernard r?!fiiO -thoSons. Dr. George E. Norton, pastor of was sent to Camp Dix. He suf Reilly's St. Paul's Episcopal Church, of fered an attack of influenza there Started in 1854 this a The firm has which Mr. Ocumpaugh was a mem- and illness left lasting effect I long been linked with the bpr. will officiate. HEART on the deputy superintendent's ; undertaking business in ATTACK health. Mr. Ocumpaugh, who was 60, was 'Reilly's ^ther started2J?h lr:his *Mr- the son of Edmund Mr. O'Neill was appointed meter trade in 1854 at 163 Ocumpaugh, Mate reader in the Waterworks Bureau Street, where the firm prominent Rochester merchant. He | alwaysy about He then remained. Historic Scrapbooks RochesterCollectionPublic,,... 54CouicrtU k^m. Vice-rroxidant, Kori LaAth ft eetern ailvay Company* Office i Fort craith, rkanerte. om at Brand>lne pringe, Delegare* Kdueated in the iIslington. Delaware 9 public tchoole and .oldyt tiur lna; e allege* nterod railway service in 1&9C ae clerk on tha j hlladelphia & he* dipg teilweyf fro* 1 to 1903. with Lehigh falley . .: in varloua c*pt citieei in 1903 to 19C49 truinuartar, i unntylvanla Division, irm road| 19C5, treinffiacter, How Jereey & Lehigh dlvifion; 1906 nd 19c79 superintendent No* York ivltioni 19to to 1916. tu.orintundent Buffalo ivieion erne road and U-hifeh Valley Transportation oot^unyt 1917 and 1916, general eu: erintendan t, eeeii>unt vioe*preaidant and carina avruger Uhi&h Valley , . rU* 19199 coaraiecioned iftjor of tha United vtatoo rmy and &ith Unite l* tos ilroad into the aminietration aa member of teiminola of tha * rioua roade running 1920. locited at *$ aa neober of .-ieilvoy Nlagtam frontiari 9 v:aahington9 Board of djuctaent, Division of itbor9 United State* ailroad Adniniatration* in oattleaont of eUim end aa aeaietent to Director General of ailroede Fort Tmith ft eetem arising during *eder*l control! 1921 and 1928, receiver vlcu-rr. cldent fort *dth Ik ueatem aileay Company, . R| 1922 to 19299 Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County Historic Scrapbooks Collection Rochester s Youthful HeitTof the Civil War 16 years, or until he left for West Point, was a resident here. He had a number of brothers and sisters, among whom was Miss Colonel O'Rorke Killed Bertha O'Rorke, for many years a teacher at what is now Eu gene Field School No. 10. She died two years ago at the age of 90. at Gettysburg at Age of Young O'Rorke went to school at "Old Number Nine." In 1855 the University of Rochester offered the first of its free schol in arships, and O'Rorke stood at the head of the list of^young men 25; Grave Here Holy who competed. However, he did not use the scholarship. West Point Graduate Sepulchre Cemetery Will In 1857, John Williams, afterwards Brigadier General Wil liams, but at that time member of Congress from the Monroe- Be Fittingly Marked Orleans County district, sought a candidate for West Point. He asked Samuel G. Andrews, then a .school commissioner in Roch By Julia M. Traver ester, for suggestions. Mr. Andrews said immediately that he an In one of the schools who he kick this u basfd xcere fur~ *new outstanding boy public ni !lv mel O'Rorke; oelleved would not only graduate from West Point but who White iter M.\ *cielv. would reflect credit on Rochester and the district, and intro "Under this stone there lieth at rest duced him to Patrick O'Rorke. The boy entered the military A friendly man, a worthy knight; academy in June, 1857, and graduated first in a class of 34 on Whose heaft and mind was ever prest June 24, 1861. To favor truth, to further right." How or where he prepared for West Point no one now seems Epitaph on Tomb of Sir Thomas Gravener. | to know. There was no high school in Rochester between 1851, when Dr. Chester school of that burned words In all truth might well be erected on the grave Dewey's grade down, and when a school was in School No. 1 THESEof Colonel Patrick Henry O'Rorke in Holy Sepulcher Cem 1859, public high opened which occupied the site of the Education Build etery, when the Catholic Church, of which he was a loyal and building, present When the latter school he was in his second at devoted son, and the Grand Army of the Republic Post which ing. opened year I West Point. bears his name, join next to mark his last Summer resting place Sometime between the time he finished at Number Nine In a way that will to the heroic he picture posterity part played School and when he left for West Point, he completed an ap in his brief military career, and in particular the magnificent prenticeship in marble cutting at the Hibbard Marble Works, gesture he postulated in the most critical moment of the Civil p I then in South St. Paul Street. There he earned the reputation! War in the defense of Little Round Top at where I Gettysburg, of being the best workman in Rochester. he laid his life on the altar of his country. Two of CRorke's classmates at West Point were Lieutenand Dead on the field of battle at the age of 25, he lives in mem- | Alonzo B. Cushlng of Fredonla, and General George Custer. Both met heroic ends in the of duty, killed ory as an example of the type of man developed for public serv performance Cushing being on the third day at Gettysburg while in command of a battery, ice by the church and the community. The hero of Gettysburg. and Custer dying in the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876 he was the embodiment of those virtues that in all times and in when his command was annihilated by Indians. Custer is said all ages have everlastingly engrossed mens names on the scroll to have had his first taste of glory in the cavalry fightat Gettys of fame. His death, while leading a charge at Little Round Top burg, which, curiously, took place some five miles from the scene It was as if the main battle were tak in the critical moment of the pivotal battle of the Civil War, has| of the main engagement. ing place around the Pinnacle or Cobbs Hill and the cavalry around it all the glamor of a Bayard or a Sidney, and enshrined action at Culver Road and Titus Avenue in Irondequoit. olonel O'Rorke as he his name in the hearts of the soldiers who served under him a* looked on his last visit long as they lived. Promotion Rapid to Rochester in the early Colonel O'Rorke was born in County Cavan, Ireland, on Upon graduation OHorke was assigned to the Engineer Summer of 1863. on as a lieutenant and ordered to to General the occasion of his mar March 28, 1836, a son of Patrick and Mary O'Rorke. He was Corps report Tyler. He got his battle baptism at Bull Run on July 21, 1861, less than riage to Clara W. Rochester by his parents about 1838, and for nex tiy Bishop. . month after his graduation. From then on nis as long as she was pnysicany Centralstory is i Library of Rochester and Monroeof Countythe most beautiful convent churches in this country, and en cession of valorous deeds. After Bull Run he was able to do so. The later appointed as body larged the academy. She died in February, 1893, aged 56 year?' sistant engineer in the' defense of Washington and at Fortress was removed to a lot nearer She had the reputation of being an excellent musician, and Monroe. In October, 1861, he was assigned toHistoricthe staff Scrapbooks Collection of Gen the foot of the hill. Subse particularly strong teacher in mathematics and chemistry. eral William T. Sherman, then at Port Royal, and for his serv quently, when it became evi ices there received the brevet of captain. His Death Mourned In dent that no more burials were September, 1862, the 140th Volunteer Infantry Regiment was for the to be made in the old General Morris Schaff, who was a cadet at West Point ready field, and Colonel O'Rorke was named as its cemetery, when O'Rorke was describes as commander. He on the was there, him "spare, middle size, joined it October 4, at Sandy Hook, Md. body removed to its raven black face inclined All but one of hair, to freckles, but mild as a company this regiment was raised in present grave in May Rochester] Holy Sep his manner and A was morning, voice like that of a quiet gentleman. Company raised in Brockport. It camped at Fitz- Camp ulchre Cemetery. Within 18 months of John Porter on the graduation he was twice breveted for upper Genesee about the new gal opposite cam lant and meritorious pus of the service." Schaff, in imagination, saw, "Bay University of Rochester. It wa* mustered into the Colonels Buried ard and Sidney out their hands to service of the United States on Together reaching grasp the gallant Sept. 13, 1861, and on 19 the Sept. and welcome him to the day that news of the boy company of gentlemen of all ages." battle of Antietam came in it Colonel O'Rorke's drifting successor General Schaff's estimate of Colonel started South under the O'Rorke seems to have command of its lieutenant-colonel In the command of the 140th Louis Ernst. been that of about everyone else who had intimate knowledge of Regiment was Colonel George him. Speaking before the Common Council on It was July 6, 1863, the present at who also was a Frederickburg. and with the occupying Ryan, West that news came that force day through Colonel O'Rorke had been from December 13 to and Point 16, was in the last brigade to man, having come orig killed, Mayor N. M. Bradsireet, said: W" Sllghtly engaged at Chancellorsville, inally from the Middle West. wherewhir. ColonerniiPiaC^ *f O'Rorke was He was about 30 brigade commander, taking General years of age "The fall of Colonel O'Rorke Genera* Warren when he took over the com pJace< having been assigned as chief?y\m engineer]Vafrens of Hooker's will come as a deep sorrow in corps. At Chancellorsville O'Rorke mand on August 29, 1863. He displayed conspicuous a bravery, and when Lee struck o^ for was killed at Spottsylyania in large circle of acquaintancei ** n frced May, 1864. In the few months ^^*t and friends. He was a SS X IT that he was in young at a mo5t criticai moment in command of teS^8bur8 the regiment he got it into man of great promise." He led his men up the eastern slope of Little Round Top, Zouave uniforms and it had Many years later, the Post then over its crest and on the western slope engaged in a hand to been renamed Ryan's Zouaves. hand encounter Express, commenting on hie with Hood's Texans, who had been swarming up In the years following the war death said: the western slope and had almost reached the crest when the it retained its standing as a "He was a boy of 140th New York Regiment, led by the gallant young colonel, with' crack military organization. mark in Rochester in 'old his sword raised and in the While it was in the full flower flashing July sun, met them and times/ was the first of those turned the tide of battle, preventing a rout of the federal troops. of this reputation, its members chosen from the public school* While he was thus engaged, a Confederate sharpshooter shot conceived the idea that they | for a university j him in the neck and he fell killed instantly. would like to have the bodies scholarship. of their two colonels lying side He learned a trade and became Military Burial Here by side. They got permission a marble cutter, and known to remove Colonel Ryan's body as the best workman in the His body was buried on the Bushman but it from its grave in a western nearby farm, city." Thus before rested there it he had only a few days, his widow going South and re state and to bury along side reached his with O'Rorke on majority he turning it. It reached Rochester on July 14, 1863, and was of Colonel the had a earned the given military burial the next day. All the preparations for summit of Pinnacle Hill. This reputation of being this part of the service was and each time Col the best were made by General Williams, the done, workman in a com man who had given him his to was appointment West Point. Serv onel O'Rorke's body removed to a new grave, Colonel Ry munity of about 60,000 ices were held people. in St. Bridget's Church, which Colonel O'Rorke an's also was moved to one beside it, and they lie side by side in had attended as a and in Spelling bees were boy whose choir he had sung with his Holy Sepulcher Cemetery. Thus the bodies of both men have re very pop brothers and sisters and the ular in young people with whom he had ceived four burials. the boyhood days of grown up. These youthful friends the church with black draped Colonel O^Rorke's home was at 19 Emmett Colonel O'Rorke and boyhood Street, and his white bunting, and American The church was flags. packed in a white house surrounded a neat and with with by lawn, ample brothers, and it is related that people and the streets outside were jammed with those who flower and vegetable gardens. Nearby, at 19 Ward Street, lived whenever could not get inside. there was one in the of Edward The O'Rorke children and family Bishop. the which his The pastor, the Rev. W. F. brothers were inter Payne, officiated, assisted by three Bishop children played together and went to school together, priests from St. ested, Joseph's Church. The Rev. M. O'Brien gave the and from their childhood Patrick O'Rorke and Clara Wads- they would pack him off eulogy in the church, and the Rev. F. to Jacobs of St. Joseph's worth Bishop were looked upon as sweethearts. When she spell on their side of the Church, gave the one at the grave. The choir sang "Rest, Spirit, reached womanhood. Clara Bishop became organist at St. Brid contest. He Rest." rarely failed them, get's Church, and Pat O'Rorke sang in the choir. The years at it is said, for he was one of the The funeral cortege was headed West Point and the excitement of active life by Newman's band and in military did not best line were spellers the 54th Regiment, N. Y. N. G., regular and volunteer dim their love. In the early Summer of 1863, Colonel O'Rorke army officers, soldiers, some of whom had been on the field and came home on furlough, and married Clara Bishop in St. Brid were home on others furlough; who were ready to go to the front, ( get's Church. Hardly had the priest's blessing been pronounced ahd city officials. The colonel's horse, fully caparisoned, led by when he was recalled to the field, and a few weeks later was ft groom, was followed by the hearse bearing the body. Behind killed. The O'Rorke lot in St. Pat- r* His widow entered the novitiate of the Society of the Sacred rick's Cemetery on Pinnacle Heart and in 1871 took her final vows. She was subsequently Hill was Mother at the summit. This Superior of her order in Detroit, for two different pe riods, which she built at Grosse ascent proved too difficult for M during the convent Point. She then went to Kenwood Convent, Albany, one of the largest novl- the colonel's aging mother who | tate houses of the order in this country, and to made finally Elm- daily visits to his grave titirat Provide- P t ^ u unt ~v~* <* Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County Historic Scrapbooks Collection Colonel O'Rorke s -04 swordsone he wore at West Point. and the other he earned at the defense of Little Round Top. waving it as he led his regiment in its charge against Hood s Texans. *s\ma\Ww - Q-A^fr- 'Pi .*&W 5 ft * * * * *', Miss CUts W Bishop as she looked about the time she was married to Colonel O Rorke g- Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County Dies In Cleveland Historic Scrapbooks Collection '' 3 #? >< (r*dy " ,4 / ,, #*rf^ QsmmJL DR. W. KIRKE OTIS Cleveland by George H. Jenkinson, of Rochester. Heart trouble, from which Dr. Otis had been suffering for sometime, was the cause of death. Dr. Otis left for Cleveland with the Rochester delegation to the Shrine convention Sunday night. He had not drilled with the Legion of Honor Patrol, of the Shrine, of which he was a member, becaus of his illness. Born in Honeoye Falls, the son war. The pages of Dr. and Mrs. Charles F. Otis, Colonel O Rorke s diary which he carried in the early days of the Mr. Otis received his early educa contain notes as to the of batteries at Ft. Pulaski. placement tion in that village. Later he with the Shrine dele- rites at the fun in the Medical School ? jmm* city Sunday conduct military matriculated |/tM gation of Damascus Temple. His eral. It will join Union Star Lodge, of the University of Michigan, in [7*1 body was brought back last night F. and A. M in the services. from which he was graduated Dr. Otis re | on "the Shrine special train. National and state departments 1911. At Michigan, ] in foot RITES SOI 1 The funeral will be held from the of the Veterans of Foreign Wars ceived the Varsity letter Dr. and Mrs. of Colontl the famous home of his parents, are to be represented. The West Trie widow ball, playing under Falls. Yost." Charles F. Otis of Honeoye ern District, including Buffalo and O'Rorke. wearing the habit coach, "Hurry-up Dr. Otis was born in Honeoye Jamestown, also will send repre the of a Lady of the Society of Active in Legion FOR DR. Falls. He was a graduate of the Commander OTIS, sentatives, Sprankle Heart, which she joined of Michigan Medical Sacred Dr. Otis served his interneship at University said. death.: School. Returning to Rochester, Members of Rochester Post axe after Colonel O'Rorke's the Highland Hospital, and began with he served his lnterneship at High to meet at the Powers Hotel Sun- and of which she became a private practice in association and began private to leave at 1 o'clock for his father at 756 Main Street East. JARJEJERAN land Hospital iday noon, mother. superior This picture 64 Court St., with his father at 756 the services. At the outbreak of the World War (practice was taken about 1 890. Street East in Fra- Main Dr. Otis enlisted in the Navy and' PhySR8ne^rti?6J he served in the . ._.. the war ,^, J During served with the rank of lieutenant > Dies Oil with the rank of lieutenant, teriial Circles, Navy senior grade for more than two service Heart Attack While at DR. W. K. OTIS years, part of this being s^%kTL^dJZ performed on the U. S. S. Hunting- j ton and part in the Brooklyn Naval Convention in ^ ^ j Cleveland^'.^s^Hunu^^ Hospital. services will be Main Street East to Funeral con^j office from Upon his discharge from the 3 m. for Street MUMftO j at ducted Sunday p. Dr.:| 278 Alexander Navy Dr. Otis resumed private J of 975 Main commander of W. Kirke Oti3, 44, He was a past practice. Recently he moved his of the World Veterans of For j Street East, a veteran Rochester Post, office from Main Street East to 278 War and known in fraternal Wars, and a member of Lewis I INHOtELlOOM widely eign Alexander Street. Union Star circles, who died unexpectedly Post, American Legion; . ? Dr. Otis was active in military f convention A. yesterday at the Shrine Lodge, F. and M., Honeoye and fraternal circle. He was a I Monroe County in Cleveland Falls; The Shrine, past commander of Rochester Post In American Insti- .Heart Causes Death Major Arthur T. Smith, com* Medical Society, Trouble aand of the Lake Ontario Council' Honor of and Phi Alpha mand of the Legion of tute of Homeopathy of Veterans of Foreign Wars. He1 has directed all Attended Damascus Temple, Gamma, medical fraternity. in Cleveland; also served as department surgeon Main Street he leaves members to report a*. Besides his parents, {his organization. He was a m. Otis Jr., East Armory at 1:30 p. Sunday. two brothers. Charles F. Shrine Convention member of Lewis Post of the Amer the funeral of Hone Iof The legion will attend and Donald H. Otis, both ican Legion, Union Star Lodge, F. [ at Honeoye Falls. oye Falls. and A. M. of Honeoye Falls, the dead in his of Dr. W. Dr. Otis was found Commander Harry Sprankle Kirke Otis, 44 years old,! Rochester Consistory, Damascus H. Jenklnson of For a visitor to otel room by George Rochester Post, Veterans the Shrine Convention! Temple of the Shrine; the Legion disease was the in f Rochester. Heart eign Wars, today said post Cleveland, yesterday was found.; of Honor Patrol, Monroe County ho rati nf Aoath Ke left this will fnraiati a -firing- Kfitmd and oom in the Hotel \ Medical Society, American Institute W w iomeopathy and both of Honeoye FaHs1.' Gai "PhT~Alpha value has been ncgligible--they arc, ramma, medical Funeral services for Dr. Otis will fraternity Central Libraryvaluable onlyof Rochesterthe joy of fash and Monroe County at 975 take forv i Main Street place Sunday at 3 o'clock them. IJ^ast.trDf' SSBesides!!,ved ioning his parents he Is from the .home of his parents, Mr. survived Mr. Osborn started his hobby 30 by two brothers: Charles and Mrs. CharlesHistoricF. Otis, at Hone Scrapbooks Collection years when he became inter . Otis ago Jr. and Donald H. Falls. Otis, oye ested in a piece of inlay work. "I had no sooner laid eyes on that thing than I decided I wanted 40 Years in Policeman at Artist to make something like it,!' he General Otis, Army, Night, Kindly said. Shortly thereafter he began a study of woods, and then he tried his hand at into m in the time Is Charles Osborn making designs R^Famqu^|ox Mq& Philippines JDay which to fit the materials. Since then he has handled a small for tune in these imported timbers. A Rochesterian Promoted* From Ranks to High Position closet in his room is stocked with to Government Had Estate a supply which he will use for the for Many Services next masterpiece. Near 'Frankfort/ ^ow Lyell Avenue Section arch which i Beyond the settlement of Frank Under the memorial Mam Strati fort, adjoining the Whitney tract, had been erected at and East Avenue a parade was a farm, now in Lyell Avenue passed | in which there w*t e which was known as ths Otis Es of great length but the wir tate and which will be remembered many civic elements, General like features making by many as the home of predominated, Elwell Stephen Otis, whose faith it, as a military display, probably; This wes fulness and ability won him maay the finest ever seen here. in the Take Yov promotions during his army serv largely due to the iresence record as a sold*tr line of march of the United States LcjoCa 4M\k-v.~ ffoohe8ter ice and whose M 5*X reflects credit and honor upon the Marine Band which had been per history of the state, and mitted, as a special favor, to cor?ei; FOR COUNCILS military of Rochester. from Washington. Otis was born March 25, /CHARLES S. OWEN, Republican \ General His Binoculars Used In '18 Md. The ^ candidate for 1838, in Frederick City, Organization | General Otis was married twice removal of his family to Rochester councilman-at-large, was born in i Louisf Selrt^n. his stud;es He first married Rochester, in the enabled him to pursue daughter of Henry R. Helden o9 old Third Ward, in the University of Rochestet, : Rochester. They had two children! Jan. 7, 1869. He from which he was graiuated in Laura Lee and Mrs. M. L. Ish**r! was educated in 1860. He then went to Harva-d of Chicago. For his second wife hf the public Law School i.nd later took up the chose Mrs. Louise Bowman Mo schools and practise of law in Rochester. Alester of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., after graduating Was in Army 40 Years widot^ of an army officer. They had on? became identi Joining the army shortly after Louise B. At the time oj~ fied with Moore the outbreak of the Ctvil War, daughter, his Oct. 21, 1909, he was sur and Beirs. In General Otis devoted more than 40 death, vived by his three daughters and 1903 he was ap years of his life to active military his second wife. Mrs. Otis liwj pointed super service. His meritorious conduct visor of the at the Otis Estate in Lyell on the field of battle brought him Avenue; until when she went to livtf Third Ward to repeated advancement until, en recently, with one of her in Ca^ succeed Willi3 ! June 16, 1900, he was commissiooei daughters fornia. C. S. Owen K. Gillette who major-general of the United States became clerk of army for "military skill and mos-. During the World War when the board. He served as a ; member service in tne Po'.l- there was a call for volunteers Id i distinguished and chairman of the board until field to the More than of wood are in the ippine Islands." loan glasses govern 80,000 pieces incorporated Jan. 1,1908, when he was appointed In 1898 after the declaration of ment for the use of the navy, Mrs. tble shown here with, its designer and maker, Charles Os- commissioner of public safety. In war with Spain, he was assigned Otis brought to the U. S. marsVl )orne. took eleven months to make and he used the county election of 1910 he was It him it, to in San Francisco for the two very fine pairs of binoculars elected sheriff and assumed that duty more kinds of wood than there are flowers in the average gar mobilization and shipment oi which had belonged to thd general office Jan. 1, 1911, serving three troops to the Philippines. As com The marshal suggested that because den. years. He later became a member of the United of the historical and sentimental of the Chapin-Owen Company. He manding general States forces he conducted value of the she send retired in 1928. He resides at 1011 opera glasses only Itarted Work 30 Years tions against the insurgents ai>J one, as they might be lost. She re Hobby of Delicate Inlay Ago; \ University Avenue and has one the duties of that if the were alive daughter. He is a member of performed military plied general Table Just Contains 82,000 Bits of wh?n he would be to have thjrn Completed Damascus- Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., governor until May 5, 1%0, happy Woods from 1 9 Kinds of Trees Lalla Rookh Grotto, Elks, .Roch he was relieved at his own request used for this purpose. Imported is a that aft^r ester Ad and Erie Social clubs, is because of ill health. He retired It pleasing fact the close of the war both were re a past potentate of Damascus at the age of 64. ama will be re turned to Mrs. Otis with a Charles Osborne, 30 Winthrop any, tulip, ebony, boxwood, Temple and is commander of the June 15, 1900, long grateful burl white woods, membered as Otis when the letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt, treet, is a policeman by night. ranth, walnut, 'Shrine Patroi Day, and Caucasian whole turned out to welcome of New York )ay time sees him a quiet, kindly pines, rosewood, city present governor were to the frjm who was sec ftiat whose white head is bent walnut brought po General Otis on his return state, then assistant to be cut into of the rer his work bench as he cuts liceman's workshop Manila. retary navy. for his table. rare little bits of wood and fits miniature bits them into his own designs. His Hobby for 30 Years Yesterday Mr, Osborn brought This piece of grace forth from, his workshop an inlaid' furniture^of table the product of 11 months of ful proportions In keeping with the patient, steady toil at his hobby. delicacy of inlay design, is so far achieve Some 82,000 pieces of wood formed Mr. Osborn's greatest ment. On the in his the design. From 19 different manUe living room are a few picture frames in kinds of trees which grow in Af laid of hundreds of timber rican, Oriental, and South Ameri spicy fragments, but most of the products ca n forests these materials came. of his workshop he has given away Honduras and Philippine mahog to friends. To him their material Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County /*- ited State* B and Passing Under Otis Arch At RochesterHistoricReception ToScrapbooksGeneral Twenty CollectionYears Ago Business and Politics +- Rochester Public Library " __r1osQi^*JL ~ I ' K/i r^.^^f. Both Know Ifim W&* % I"he above photograph, was taken in this the city during celebration of Major-General Klwell S. Otis' return to ester iron, l.s Roch victorious campaign In the Philippine Islands in 1900. The Band photograph showing the US Marine der the arch w:,s secured by local members of the American Legion who tic MarinepacingBand concert LZ arrayed at Convention Hall Saturday affernoon and of evening this week, ticket to1G1 wmc" are now on sale at aie the Musle Lovers' Shoppc in East avenue. - CHARLES S. OWEN m THE THE ROCHESTER JOURNAL HEREWITH PRESENTS in the councilmnnic situation with Charles S. Owen, Rochester's THIRD OF A SERIES OF "THUMBNAIL" SKETCHESCentralOF THELibrary of Rochester and Monroe County convention - welcom the result that Mr. Owen was fleet BACKGROUND OF CANDIDATES FOR OFFICES IN THE FORTH hand-shaking, the ed councilman-at-large, *.o serve the COMING PRIMARY FIGHT. CHARLES S. OWEN, G. 0. P. DESIGNEE ing mayor, first city has had FOR COUNCILMAN AT LARGE, IS THE SUBJECT.Historic Scrapbooksin two years, isCollectiona native son and two of a home-bred product of the Third remaining years the late1 C. Ward, the home of the late Joseph Wilson's unexpired term.!: For councilman at large. George Following his selection by the; Charles S. of W. Aldridge. Owen, preference regular Republicans. voters he was The man who has followed into elected by the City Born in Rochester, January 17, 1869. Council to fill the immedi Schools Public and business. the office of mayor one of his vacancy ately, so that he took office in Business Expert accountant and salesman and until recent re closest friends and most intimate No-} vember instead of in associates the late Clarence D. , tirement as manager and director of Chapin-Owen Company. January.! general When the Public Service Member from Third Ward and chairman of the Van Zandt was born Jan. 7, 1869, organization meeting of.' the Council Board of Supervisors; Public Safety Commissioner, and Monroe Coun went to school in the old Third waa held he was elected ! Ward and marbles with the mayor. ty Sheriff. played Family One daughter. kids in that ward, many of whom Home No. 1011 University Avenue. are now holding positions of re ClubsDamascus Temple, Grotto, Elks, Erie Social and Roches sponsibility in the professions and ter Ad. business. It was only a step from the game of marbles to the of r game politics and Charlie Owen took the step His Honor, the and soon found himself groomed Mayor as the Republican ward organiza tion's candidate for supervisor. That was in 1902, at a time when he was on the payroll of Moore and Beirs, a wholesale cloth firm In St. Paul Street, He was elected and Jan. 1, 1903, found him a full- fledged member of the county board. He served three terms of two years each and might have served a fourth term had George W. Aldridge not singled him out i for appointment as commissioner of public safety. He became safety commissioner ; Jan. 1, 1908. Owen was regarded as "tourrow afternoon. There will be important meeting of archaeological a /ate burial in Web- under the influence of ceremony specialists ever conducted in Amer He was a white washer try Rural Cemetery, ica. By AUGL'STA G. ANDERSON trade. Whenever a child *r was from ! was lost, graduated Three other On Tuesday, a certificate inscribed lege of three he would leading scientists will bringing "captives." ro up and down Main j I of Medicine or the Uni- on birch bark home The present papers, Dr. came to the | three were Walter Weller. son Street, a among them, j ringing large dinner bell, of Pennsylania in 1899. after of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Parker. of W Earl and Clark Wissler of the American Mu- [ Weller; Rodney Perry, crylnz. Child lost!" untti a he took a j m the postgraduate seum. Seneca bringing son of Carlton and crowd Mr. Parker's paper will be! Parkway, Perry, Clement gathered. Then he would se there in Since new bacteriology. discussed Glenn ! name of their little daughter. , L Miner. describe the child, and by Frank, presi relate thel 1901 Dr. Palmer has been a spe \ Martha-Anne, related through her circumstances dent of the University of Wisconsin cialist in roentgenology. In this father to in Log Cabin Restored and former editor of The Century. i the Seneca Indians, One day Miss Palmer he as recently capacity served assistant direct from a chief. The The address will concern the organ lineage ceremonial was conducted on came home to find that her father at Rochester roentgenologist Qen-j To the ancients Land of I the lawn of where had been the ization of state surveys and their j of the Shongo Farm, sailing through air era! from 1901 to and ' Hospital 1909, the who live on three the chief had set and restored in a An supervision by state agencies. Mr. Genesee, up plane. aviator having as *o> roentgenologist from 1909 j small the trouble with his machine Parker is at present directing the] tracts in Western New York, log cabin once owned by Deer- landed 1926. He was roentgen consulting a name is an . the on the Palmer Pennsylvania survey. important thing. Thus foot, celebrated Seneca run- grounds and invited ologist at the Monroe County Tu Mr. Palmer to ride. it came about that the Naming : ner. The officiating sachem was berculosis Sanatarium. At the time Years Mr. Palmer went Council of the Clan of the Wolf i Sononkgals Crowe, and the adopt - ago to of his death he was on the si New York sent an invitation to Martha-Anne ; Ing matron. Mrs. Shongo. mother by water, taking Memorial the) at Strong Hospital to of The once-popular packet boat on the Parker, present herself at the i the chief. clansmen and ' Erie Canal to the Hudson Served to Army conclave, a week ago last Satur j clanswomen were in full ceremo- Later he made the to day. Included in the invitation < nial and conducted the trip New During the war, Dr. Palmer regalia, York in a extended to Mrs. Parker and her ritee with single day by automo served with the rank of captain. He picturesque exactitude. bile. he he is was another, the Chief Crowe's of the an- Now, says, waitin enrolled for service on Juae 23, baby giving singing the to opportunity go by air. 1917. instructed in X-ray at Camp Life, at he finds still 00, Oreenleaf. and was finally called to haps on^ the General's Office at ^"k Surgeons for the lai -sonnel officer i cient tribal chants was and as o'clock. Burial will be made in Riv especially Arrow." Central Libraryfriends; of Rochesteran evidence of this, and Monroe County noted. Chief Mr. Miner, who had re erside Shongo, speaking in the chief gave him an Indian Cemetery. competition. He has had nearly fit ceived a preliminary at the name, English explained the solemn na naming Indian and Mr. Patterson was born 24, United States' issued to midwinter clothes, adopted him July patents ture of the occasion and festival, two years ago, 1873, in Del. him. expressed into his family. As a return for Wilmington, He was His ability and straight for was Historican Scrapbooks Collection the given old Seneca a hope that Americans of name,' what the red member of the American ward and fearless today men regarded as a Society dealings with his emulate meaning "Earth Traveler." for might the oldtime virtues courtesy, Parker his Testing Materials, the Ameri co-workers won for him admiration Certificates for gave own of the Red men. these re-named can for Steel \ name to the Kings. He told Old Society Treating and and friendship that were many and persons have just reached Roch- I the Settlers of Mrs. Parker was King's two then called Early Bausch & sincere." given the name ester. sons, Young of They are. executed by hand i'* Lomb Optical Yewanote, and Martha-Anne was Company. and Chief King and Smoke, that they would called signed by Crowe and I Bausch Pays Tribute "Ga-wen-no-e," both names Mrs. have to out and make their Shongo. With the scrolls go He leaves two William being of the Wolf of f sons, Mc Clan, which were way white and bet given silver insignia symboliz- among people, Kay Patterson and Alexan Mrs. Shongo is one of the J Henry principal ing the rank of the ter have white men's names; so matrons. name-holder, f der Sharpless Patterson, both of Rodney Perry received These are ancient he gave them the names of Wil the "The broaches, long j Rochester; one grandson, Ellison name, Runner," and held in liam and Samuel. William Parker the archives of the Shongo McKay Patterson of Rochester; "Billy" Weller, that of "Flying- was the great- grandfather of family. two brothers, Henry and Calvin Arthur C. Parker. and a sister Elizabeth, all of Phila William Parker became the delphia. father of Nicholson H. who Parker, Tribute to Mr. Patterson's abil married the first white to person ity as a scientist was Voiced yester Resident Short Martha be brought into the Only directly family, Carl L. * Time, day by Journal Bausch, superin Rochester Martha from /Special to Hoyt, an old New tendent for the company. Mar. 26.Dr. Arthur England family, related to the BUFFALO, "Close observance made possible Has Unusual Claims as American Sheldons of C. director of the Roches Deerfield, Massachu with Parker, *| The body will repose in the church minutes to the time =&= =^F&Ti?$=fc for 40 prior Historic Scrapbooksjm Collection set for the services. one had attempted suicide in his Saving Lives, Halting Runaways precinct, as his fame for snatching humans out of the water was too widely known, and any such try Once All in Day's Work for Him near the Exchange Street bridge r* was doomed to failure. There was 7^ something in the old canal water Richard as was Patterson, Renowned for Exploits Tender that far more effective that} tomato in Of Street Over Old Erie juice restoring a man'.' Exchange Brjdg* Canal, equilibrium, and with the wet-^ Celebrates Tomorrow ting, the victim returned home as Eightietlv-Birthday sober as he had left in the morning. Because of his prowess at pulling Richard these (Capt. Dick) Patterson no less than 28 persons out of unfortunates from the water, expects to spend his 80th birthday the old Erie Canal with the aid of officers of the United States Volun at his quietly home at 66 Cady a spiked pole and as for runaways, teer Life Saving Corps of this city^ Street tomorrow. And when Capt. well, he never kept any record, but which had such celebrities as Dr. Dick plans to hide himself away it. was so big no one would dispute James C. MacKenzie, a veterinary on an occasion like this, that's his claim. surgeon, and William Shay as com news. He earned his commission as modores and William Briggs as the most decorated man in Probably "Captain" the United States lieutenant, Richard Patterson was Hi in time and an automo Rochester, Volunteer Life Savers, a commis named captain of the crew. A 2 b\jWilliam A. Payne -o-o bile accident a few years ago con sion to which no pay was attached, chest of gold medals for this serv spired to take much of the old and it was his boast that he had ice bears mute testimony to his, energy out of and he him, is under never received a penny for such ability. % ^-WLC* the care of a physician, but he still which should his service, place Prior to his numerous carries himself making j erect much the record on the books of the A. A. U. COUNTY SEALER' same as in his heyday, when he without dissent. was in the business of saving lives Most of the 26 men and two at the old Exchange Street lift women who were pulled from the bridge. HENRY PEASE canal or the Fitzhugh-Carroll race. PAYNE IS DEAD; In those "*8 days his name was fre Ceptain Patterson admits previous It Linu^> fro/ blazed quently in big type, for he to their plunge had been patrons boasted both the life saving and of what are now known as night runaway-catching laurels of this clubs, but In those days were vicinity. He claims to have fished designated as saloons. Not a single ILLHJEEKS Held Official Post for 24 AND Years Founded State PRINCIPAL "Backed up by a knowledge of for Testing Materials, the Ameri scientific instruments acquired at can Society for Steel Treating and Association Active in Queens 8r. Company and early ex the Early Settlers of Bausch & PASSES MtTERSON, in the sales de Lomb perience, gained Optical Company. Fraternal Groups TUTOR, partment of the Bausch & Lomb He is survived by two sons, Wil County Sealer William A. Payne, Optical Company, he co-operated liam McKay Patterson and Henry | 86, died at 5 o'clock this morning BAUSCH PLANT with Edward Bausch in the design Alexander Sharpless Patterson, at his home in Elmgrove, Greece. of microscopes and allied instru both of Rochester; one grandchild, He had been ill 11 weeks. Man Widely Known for ments during the period when the Ellison McKay Patterson of Roch Surviving are his widow, Etta two and pathway of the American instru ester; brothers, Henry Keene Payne; a son and two EXPERT, PASSES ment manufacturer was rather Calvin and* a sister Elizabeth, all daughters, Wayland H. and Marion School Work Dies -fi' ^^o'S'32| rough. of Philadelphia. R. Payne of Elmgrove, and Mrs. "His endeavors won for him the Lawrence Woolston of Spencer- Won Fame as Builder of position of director of the techni port; his mother, Mrs. Amy M. In 77th Year Microscopic and Pro cal bureau of the company, in Payne; one brother, Fred L. which he had built up a Mrs. Edna A. ' capacity Payne, and sister, a line of that the jection Apparatus products placed Wright, both of Rochester, and a Henry Pease, once active as a company in an enviable position, granddaughter, Shirley Jeanne principal iu many Western New Stricken in His Office not only among the American Payne. York schools a versatile manufacturers but the foremost of William A. Payne was a son of public nd as well. v won a wide Death today claimed a Roch- Europe Manley H. and Amy M. Payne. He scholar who reputa is "The soundness of his designs was born in Greece Feb. 6, 1876, \ ester scientist, hailed as the world's tion for his work as a tutor of stu- shown by the fact that many of I and had resided in the town ill his premier builder of microscopic and i dents preparing for colleges, died the early projection outfits, that I life. He was appointed county 206 projection apparatus. he fathered, have stood the test, sealer Dec. 30, 1908, and had 1 yesterday morning 1ft his home, have William L. Patterson, director of of time, being still sold in their been actively identified with the Albemarle Street. He would and successfully cf been 77 30. the technical bureau of the Bausch original shape New York State Association May withstanding the attacks of .the. Sealers of Weights and Measures, His death followed an illness of & Lomb Optical Company and for competition. He has had nearly 50 of which he was one of the nearly three weeks. 38 years a member of that firm's United States' patents issued to founders, a former president and a Mr. Pease was known as a staff, died in his office at 9 o'clock: him. His ability and straightfor member of the executive commit "scholar of the old school," versed this morning, aged 58. His home ward and fearless dealings with his tee. In Latin, Greek, mathematics, co-workers won for him admiration of the and' all of which was at 38 Lake View Park. With the advent gasoline English history, and friendship that were many and eervice station and the rapid he taught. From Carl L. Bausch comes this sincere. Increase in gasoline and oil pumps, He was born at West Layden, tribute to the genius of Mr. Pat "No will be which added to the sealer")? Lewis 1856. After terson: attempt probably greatly County, May 30, made to accomplish the seemingly task, he introduced many improve for college at Brockport "Close observance made possible preparing hopeless task of filling the definite ments into this branch of the State Normal School, he entered by working with him for a good vacancy made by his passing on. county service. the of Rochester, from many years leads me to firmly University The work he has been doing must He was a member of Lake Ave he was in 1887 believe that in the death of Mr. which graduated go on, but it will have to be nue Church, of Etolian of bachelor of Patterson, the scientific world has Baptist with the degree handled in a different manner." F. &. A. M., of Spencer- was awarded his lost its foremost designer of micro Lodge 479, arts, and in 1390 Mr. Patterson was born July 24, of the Consistory and scopic and projection port, and master of arte degree. apparatus. Del. He was 1873, in Wilmington, Bhrine. i had Worked With Edward Bausch From *887 to 1889_Mr. Pease a member of the American Society AND DEMOCRATS, IS charge of the public schools at now, while Mr. Pease was in humanly possible to avoid that I ENDORSEMENT OF THE LINCOLN CLUB HdUey; from 1889 to 1891 at Tona- charge of the Centralschools in Medina, Librarydisappointment. ofAll Rochesterthat was best j THE andSUBJECT. Monroe County /t wanda, and from 1891 to 1897 at that our friendship began. He in culture and in 'character was I For City Councilman, South District. Medina. He than went to Titu3- privately and gratuitously combined in him. More virile and prepared Chester A. Peake, choice of the Lincoln Republicans and ville, Pa., where he remained as me for and he also secured manhood I have never college Historic Scrapbooksrugged CollectionDemocrats. superintendent of schools from my admission to the known. With ft, however, went a University Born April 14, 1876, at Rochester. 1887 to 1922, and his retire of Rochester for tenderness and an upon by vouching my understanding SchoolsPublic of Rochester and University of Cincinnati, grad ment in that year moved from ability to do the work. He knew He was al equally pronounced. as a doctor of uating dentistry. , Titusville to Rochester. and I knew that if to me. I my admission ways Dad and was proud Public ServiceAlderman of Third Ward one term and City Coun Aside from his as depended to to be Son to him. is regular work upon my ability pass Fortunate cil from South District one term. the entrance representative teacher and principal, Mr. Pease examination I was the man who can have such an MarriedTo Bertha Wilson, 1905. lost. That busy in aiding many a prom friendship has deep influence as the influence of Henry Children Son and daughter. ened and ising young man to prepare for ripened with the years. Pease abide with him during all Home No. 168 Troup Street. college. While living in retire "H^e was the kind of man whom the years that- his influence has ClubsRochester Real Estate Board. Rochester Numismatic ment in Rochester he acquired a one could not disappoint if it was been with me." Jl&cJtester Archeological Society. wide acquaintanceship through tutoring students who lacked a subject for college entrance or who were forced to make It up Seeks during 1839193t^^^^ Councilman ^ocLo^; P" i-^- t vacations. ^, ^Si^ir'rT~*i ftur^ii A young man whom he aided was Herbert S. Weet, now super intendent of schools in Rochester. Re-election to Post The two met while Mr. Pease was principal in Medina, and Mr. Weet, a young country school teacher came to the Medina Academy for a term to prepare for the Regents' examinations. Interested in the younger man because of his ap- J parent ability, Mr. Pease encour- 1 aged him to prepare for colleee. I -three times each week from the , J nearby town in which he taught, I '% to take lessons in Latin, Greek and ; mathematics from Mr. Pease as j preparation for the University of f Rochester. Of Wide Interests ; Many other instances of similar generosity and interest on the part of Mr. Pease are known. He was 'regarded as a man of wide inter ests and a contagious sense of 'humor. He had a wide acquaint anceship among school men in | Western New York and Pennsyl- | vania, and was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity. In 1888, the year after his grad- ! uation from the University, Mr. Pease married Miss Flora J. Owen of Randolph. She died in 1892. In 1908 he married Edna Mabel Kerr of Titusville, by whom he is survived, with a twin sister, Mrs. Henrietta P. Jenks of Utica, and of Buf a brother, Alphonse Pease falo. Funeral services will take place at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning at the home. Burial will be in Ran dolph, N. Y. Praise for Mr. Pease's ability and character and his influence on ! youth was given yesterday in a tribute by Mr. Weet, who declared: "Few men have served his gen eration as a teacher as well as did Henry Pease and none have sur passed him in wholesome and stimulating influence with boys and girls. He loved to teach. It was that so much a part of his life Henry J. Peck 'from the time he came to Roches weeks ter in 1922 up until a few before his death he continued his teaching by private tutoring. No this greater tribute can be paid Semnffiurseryman, great teacher than the grief at his shown the boys who were death by A. PEAKE Dies At a few weeks CHESTER Peck, shut off from his life PRESENTS THE Henry to JOURNAL HEREWlT ago when he was forced lay THE ROCHESTER OF OF THUMBNAIL" SKETCHES down his work. TWENTY-FIRST OF A SERIES TK^KSSoSt SF , off, inthEC0 Home In East Avenue Tribute to Character "Zndjdatm "It is more than 40 years ago HB Henry J Peck, 91, veteran nurs Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County eryman and fruit grower, died at Miss Nellie E. Pierson, 87, Still Lives Next, Door To] 17- his home, 1555 East at Avenue, Dansville Schoolmates 82 Years Old Select Where Charles T. 10:30 this morning after an illness Historic Scrapbooks Collection School/ Peck, of three days. Now 91, Was Her Admirer and Champion Funeral services will be held at Ago Livedo Enjoy Reminiscences the home Monday at 3:30 p. m. with the Rev. Dr. John W. Laird of By JULIA M. TRAVER Brighton Presbyterian Church of To look back 82 on one's came Charles T. Peck, who also ficiating. Burial will be made in years j ! lived in the neighborhood, and he Brighton Cemetery. school days and to be able to became something of a special in Elmwood remember distinctly and accurately Born Avenue, Brigh guardian of little Nellie Pierson. of ton, Sept. 12, 1839, Mr. Peck spent particulars those glamorous He was just as chivalrous in those his life in that and took he used vicinity days, is a distinction rarely at i days as he is today, and an active interest in the affairs to the little the hand tained. To live next door to the take girl by of the village of Brighton, serving and lead her about the dangerous schoolhouse where one went to as president of the village boar crossings in the neighborhood in for two years, and later as the first school and in the house where one i their play and in their excursions ' alderman of the 21st Ward, when went to live when only a few into the neighbor's yards, is that part of Brighton was annexed days old another distinction After he left the army, Mr. Peck in this to Rochester. He was a Republican rarely attained restless age. came to Rochester and began to In Yet such a distinction to politics. belongs get a business education. He at Miss Nellie E. Pierson of school conducted About 55 years ago, following his Dapsville, tended a business dfl who has lived in the same house marriage to Amelia S, Hart of in the Reynolds Arcade by Georg I most all of her 87 and all i Brighton, he moved to the home In years, Eastman's father. Morton W, of that time next door to the house which he died. HJs memory went Rundel was then a teacher of book in which she attended school for back to the days when a stage keeping and penmanship in the several coach connected Rochester and years. school, and Mr. Peck remembers Pittsford and there were but three Schoolboy Now Is 91 him as a refined and interesting or four houses in East Avenue. man. Mr. Peck says that Mr. Run- Charles T. Peck, of Rochester," del was his instructor for nearly For more than a half century commander of Myron T. Adams Mr. Peck was connected with the three years. Post, 84, G. A. R.. and for many Chase Brothers Mr. Peck afterward Nursery Company years in charge of the Grand was engaged and was an officer in the in shoe busi company Army Relief Bureau, was a school the manufacturing for re ness many years. Following his mate and playmate of those days. for many years, in Elmira, tirement from active service In New and He Mr. Peck now is 91 years old, and Jersey Philadelphia. came to Rochester in. 1880 and set the company, he busied himself ry as many a man of 60. a for the of shoe superintending the care of his Only recently he returned from up plant making for the Cross .several farms In Brighton and his | the Grand Army National Encamp- uppers Brothers. garden at home. Horticulture was ment at Des Moines, having par But in all the years that Mr. his life-long interest. ticipated in the deliberations and Peck has been away from Dans His family were among the first the big parade. Last winter, he ville- he has kept up his associa settlers in this section, coming to went to Honolulu, where he passed tion with those connected with his Brighton from Lennox, Mass., and his 90th birthday. A year ago, in boyhood and young manhood, a clearing the ground, for their company with another veteran and number of whom remained in the homestead in 1812. Some of the Theodore C. Cazeau, he made an village until quite recently. So original homestead land was in the automobile trip to the old battle vigorous is he that the exertion possession of Mr. Peck at the time field of Antietam. of a trip to Dansville and back I of his death. >at is getting away from j seems to*affect him less physically Mr. is a Peck was educated in the story, which is a tale of Khan a t/ip about Rochester affects old Street that in Clover Seminary and friendship began infancy a good many people far younger later attended the old Peck School and has continued through all the than he. Recently he made two in Rochester. years, with war and removal in such trips to Dansville and back He is survived two by sons, terrupting. Miss Pierson is a in as many days, and then went C. of 32 Henry Peck Audubon daughter of Dansville's first nurs right back to his desk in the City Street and Robert P. Peck of 1555 eryman. D. M. Pierson, and Mr. Hall Annex. East Avenue, nd by six grand- he son of a man who I Has Date for 100th children. built up a reputation as a shoe Birthday merchant and manufacturer not He was the only man from the in Dansville but in Elmira, Genesee Country at the National Philadelphia and everal other com Encampment of the Grand Army munities in the- days when shoe- last month, and upon his arrival j i passing from custom home he went about his usual pro- I and indivi uU shoemaker methods gram of activities, which are many) to factory production for a man approaching the cen^ mark. And, by the he has Attended 'Select School' way, | ROCHESTER TEACHER a dinner engagement in Honolulu I A few before her birth the days for his 100th birthday in l "'exercisesjust' 8'a little family party and congratula tions!" If Col. Samuel C. Pierce's ninety first birthday party tonight is whai he wants it to be. there won't b< any trimmings. All ran or Civil War battles una past depart ment command little family party" at his home, No. 49 Greig Street. A guest of honor will be a young ster four score years behind Colo nel Pierce, when it comes to birth day celebrations. He is Luther M. Dpv. son of the former meteo*roK ogist of Roch*>sr*r. who observed his eleventh birthday yesterday. On*> of trio threp oldest living graduates of the University of Rochester is Colonel PiercA. who received his diploma in 1S60. A bronze tablet, memorializes the i COL. SAMUEL C. PIERCE scene of his studies af the old build 64CWttit. COL. SAMl'EL C. PIERCE in This G. A. R. ing Main Street West, once the leader, city One of the two oldest ajumni of the University of Roch United States Hotel. Civil Service commissioner ester and an ex-soldier, prominent in veteran circles here, Colonel Pierce was principal of and school former principal, at He was Whitney School No. 17 as a young Colonel Pierce is dead his home today. ninety- wai his man and afterwards was head of today celebrating one. Genesee School No. 4. He is a ninety-first birthday. member of New York f'ommanderv. Rochm$tr Jwumal Photo ri Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County Historic Scrapbooks Collection
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