The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-02-10
DELAWAREANS IN new YORK
They are to the Front in the Business OPP
erations Of the Great Metropolis.

of justice, eminent in the practice Of med
iclne and OF pharmacy and distinguished
as educators In tho most renowned insti.
| tutes Of learning.
Tha rector of the most fashionable Prot.
estant Episcopal Church of New York, st.
| Thomas, on Fifth avenue, the Rev. Dr. ].
| w. Brown, was formerly rector of st.
AIMS at Middletown, Del. His younger
| brother, Rev, Dr. Philip Brown, whose
| boyhood was mostly passed in Middle
! town, is II. charge of one of Trinity
Church's great ohapels that Of st. John.
And Middletown has contributed
another minister to the Episcopal
| Church of that city, one who Is fast climb
ing to the front, the Rev. Henry Chant ber-
| lain. The Rev. William DuHamal Of
| Dover Is also doing good work In tho SER
vice Of old Trinity, his specially being in
| dustrial education among the poor.
The Rev. A. G. Cummins from Smyrna
os in New York, and the Rev. Olin S.
Roche born in Wilmington. is the rector
| of old st. Peters In west Twentieth street.
DIR. Haldeman, for many years pastor of
Baptist Church of New York. situated
on the fashionable West End Avenue.
Rev. DIR. J. A. b. Wilson of the NJ: f.
Church, a Delawarean recently left New
York to take charge of u church in San
| Francisco, and his brother w. W. Is one of
the leading divlnes Of the NJ. e. Church Of
Greater New York. Tho Rev. G. H. Miller
and Rev. S. W. Robinson of Delaware are
eminent ministers In the great city.
Surely New Workers deem 1t good thing
to have DelawareaDs to teach them eth
les.
Columbia University has In Its service
three sons of Delaware, Prof. sVirgie Pret-
lyman of the Teachers College, Prof Her.
man S. Davis, and Prof. j. B. Moore Of
APPOINTMENTS. Prof. Moore is professor
of International Law, and is pre-ominent-
ly at the head OF his profession in fact he
Is one of the worlds greatest authorities on
International law.
Ii the law Delawareans have also won
great distinction in the great city. At the
bar few men have won greater success
than H. H. b. Staples formerly of Will
mington, who recently resigned the office
of First Assistant District Attorney and a
princely salary to engage in more lucra'
merly of Smyrna, and graduate from
Annapolis, Is fast winning hts way to the
top of the lsdder which reaches the crown
of legal fame. John w. Houston Of Mil
ford, has but few equals in that line of
legal practice developed by electrical in
vention. r. w. Rodd Of Dover is among
those of the bar of New York who have
won distnci ion in general practice, and
w. Lee Cannon, son of the late Wilson
i. Cannon who for many years represent
cd Kent county In the Legislation of Della
ware, has already reached practice which
marks him as one OF tine most promising
of the younger members of the bar of that
city.
Among the members of the Delaware
Society Of New York there are nearly
score Of physicians and dentists who have
succeeded in obtaining lucrative practice.
Drs. A. S. Burton, j. G. huron, }. II.
Einson, j y. Frantz c. G Horny Cove
Huntington, r. Il. Jones, j. Ii. Marshall,
W. a Roger, j. Il. Sharp, G. II. Welch
and Dr.J MeloDey are among the success
fui ones.
DR. j. H. Marshall formerly of TIewes is
interested with his brother in. law, Il. ID.
Cahoon in the control of the great retail |!
drug business of Riker SS Co. This COM
pdny j. II corporation, and Cnhoon who |
has hustled since he left Old Sussex, Is now |
practically the company, and has built up |
what is probably the largest retail drug |
business in this country. He is assisted
vrry largely in that business, by young |
men from Delaware Oscar b. Deakyne
from Ap,pquiaimlnk Is also u successful |
druggist in Brooklyn and DIR. Marshall |
has, perhaps. the tinns. ar~s s'ore III that
city
1t was son OF old Kent vino built up |
from decay to the highest plane Of sue
cess, tho Mutual Reserve Life Insurance |
Co., of New York: and it was The late |
President Harper who extended the field |
of that great Insurance institu ion to every |
S ate OF tho Union, and succeeded in max
iHg 1t simply colossal. His brother, Geo
b. Harper, is at the head of one of its
great departments, and the Mutual Re-
serve Life Insurance. Company 8 rooms are
nests Of Dcawareans.
Frank G. Jones, Dolawarean, Is
President of the Manhattan Rubber Com
pany, leading authority on rubber
manufacturing and somewhat OF an OK
pert in forming trusts. The Jones families
of Delaware are lar ye y represented in tho
industries of grea' er New York.
RE. Cochran and Eugene Hanson from
Middle; own are engaged in the domestic
fruit bu inos5 and have succeeded in build
ing up great business which reaches into
every State in the Union.
Gordon and the Diwurths of the lead
ing manufacturers OF sugared fruits and
rrns rvcs, are Delawareans from st.
Georges Hundred. 81
1hus. G Higgins of St. Georges and
brother Of Ex-senator Higgins is the Hig-
uin. of the firm of MilliSan and Hig-
,,ins one Of the leading houses dealing in
und mnnufacturln glue and gelntino.
Nor has Delaware failed to supply Now
York with the highest talent in the field
OF journalism Probably the leading fl
nanciui wr er on the New York Press to-
day is Harry Allaway, while the brilliant
n. w l.IlS lot oo many SCulS |
mana lging editor OF the Mail and Express,
is truly Daiawa can, although not born
upon It's soil, but having passed so many
wears of his boyhO ii and young manhood
in our state lie feels himself u true chick
of the Bluo Hen. And Lemuel Ely Quigg,
brilliant, daring, and dashng. His jour.
nalis ic work vas the making of him and
he has Just c,ptuspd Tom Platt the Ele-
phant and the Republican Party Of the
{ (Srpnter NcW York,
Thos. +. Barr has but recently retired
with an ample fortune after years OF great
success as II merchant in Brooklyn, and
S. l. McGoaigal from Dover has succeeded
in building up fine business.
Aydelott,'. Alice, Allabonc, Armstrong,
Burton Bayari, Bower, Cahoon, Can
non, Chamberlain. Cochran, Causden,
Cummius, Cooper, Clark, Deakyne, Dill
worth, Davis, DUPONT, Draper, Elliason,
Frazer, ordon, Hanson Henry, Houston,
Hardcaste, harrington Higgins, Harper,
Hotlccker Hardesty, Jones, Marshall,
McConaughoy, Nicl Q son, P!le Peopls,
Prcttyman, reynolds, Ray Rogers,
Spence, Sharp, Stayton. Todd, Tomlinson,
Ward, White, Welch, Wood, and Walker,
all familiar names in Delaware, are among
the names of her sons who have won COM
positions in the business opera.
tions of New YORK.
Surely D,lawaroansh have made favor
able impression in that city, and the Della.
ware Society :bele who arc justly proud
of the success,of the Blue Hens Chickens
in the Metropolis of the Western Hem
isphere (and soon to be Of the world) would
like to have any gentlemen from Delaware
visiting New, York at the time their an.
nual .inner is given, to Join them on that
occasion. The dinner will be given on the
evening Of the 18th inst, at the New Del.
monico. The ticket will be five dollars
and may be had after p. H. on the night
,f the dinner from any member OF the
Executive Committee Of the Delaware
Society.
Governor Tunnel will be the guest of
,onor, and the speakers will be Hon. John
Biggs, Howard Pyle, ESD, Medford H.
Jahoon, H. II. b. Stapler, W. Leo Cannon
md othors.