Middletown transcript., 1898-02-12
DELAwAREANs IN NEW YORK.

/ DELAWAkEANS In NEW 1Ohhe
Delaware is we'll represented in the pro.
fessional and business operations of New
York. Her sons are to the front in tbs
leading pulpits, prominent at the bar Of
justice, eminent in the practice of medicine
and of pharmacy and distinguished as ed
ucators in the most renound institute Of
learning in the great city.
The rector of the most fashionable Prot
estant Episcopal Church of New York, St
Thomas, on Fifth Avenue, the Rev. Dr.. j
W.Brown, was formerly rector of StAnne's
at Mlddlstown, Delaware. His younger, bro
ther Rev.Dr. Philip Brown, whose boyhood
was mostly passed in Middletown, is in
charge of one of Trinity Church's great
chapels, that ofSt. John. And Middleton Il
has contributed another minister to the
Episcopal Church of that city and one W he
is fast climbing to the front, the Raw
Henry Chamberlaine. The Rev. William
DuHamel of Dover. is also doing good work
in the service of old Trinity, his speciality
The Rev. A. G. Cummins from Smyrna
and the Rev. P. G. Pyle, each have parishes
in New York, and the Rev. Olin 8. Roche,
born-in Wilmington, is the rector of Old St
Peters in West Twentieth Street.
DR.. Haldeman formerly Of Wilmington,
has been for many years pastor of Bap-
tist Church of New York, situated on the
fashionable West End Avenue.
Rev. DR.. J. A. B. Wilson of the M. 3.
Church, Delawarean, recently left New
York to take charge OF church in Los An
geles, now in San Francisco, and his brother
Wells is one of the leading devines Of the
NJ. E. Church of Greater New York. The
Rev. DIR. G. H. Miller and Rev. w s. Rob
inson of Delaware are eminent ministers in
the great city.
Surely New Workers deem 1t a good
thing to have Delawareans 10 teach them
morals.
Columbia University have in their SER
vice three of the sons of Delaware; Prof
Virgie Prettyman of the Teachers College,
Prof Herman s. Davis, and Prof. J. B.
Moore, formerly of Kent county. Prof.
Moore is professor of International Law
and is pre-eminently at the head of his pro-
fessions, in fact he is of the worlds greatest
authorities on International law.
In the law, Delawareans have also won
great distinction in the great city. At the
bar few men have won greater success than
II. II. B. Staples, formerly of Wilmington,
who recently resigned the Office of First As
sistant District Attorney and princely sal
ary to engage in more lucrative private
practice. WS. Stayto formerly of Smyrna
and graduate from Annapolis is fast win
ming his way to the top of the ladder which
reaches the crown of legal fame. John w.
Houston ..of Milford, has but few equals in
that line of legal practice developed by
electrical invention: r. W. Todd of Dover
is amongst those of the bar of New York
who have won distinction in general prac
tice, and w. Lee Cannon, son of the vener'
able Wilson l.. Cannon who for many year
represented Kent county in the Legislature
of Delaware, has already reached practice
which marks him as one of the most prom
ising of the younger members of the bar Of
that city.
Among the members of the Delaware So
ciety of New York there are nearly score
of physicians and dentists who have sue
ceeded in obtaining lucrative practice. Drl
A. s. Burton, ]. G. Burton, J. T. Elliason
J. T. Frantz. C. c. Henry Cove Harrington
R. G. Jones, J. II. Marshall. W. A. Rogers
J. 7. Sharp. G. T. Welch and DR.. J I. Malone.
are among the successful ones.
DIR. ]. II. Marshall, formerly of Lewes. i
interested with his brother-in-law, F. D
Cahoon, in the control of the great retail
drug business of Riker & Co. This com
pany is corporation, and Cahoon who ha
hustled since he left Old Sussex, is nov
practically the Company, and has built u
what is probably the largest retail drul
business in this country. He is assisteI
very largely in that business, by young mel
from Delaware Oscar B. Deakyne, from
Appoquinimiuk is also successful drug
gist in Brooklyn, where also DR.. Marshal
has pupils the finest drug store in that city
1t was a son of old Kent who built VI
from decay to the highest plane of success
the Mutual Reserve Life 1nsu rance Co., Q
New York.
And it was the late President Harper
who extended the field of that great insur
ance institution to every state ofthe Union
and succeeded in making it simply colossal
His brother, Geo. B. Harper, is at the hea'
of one Of its greatest Departments, and th
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
rooms are nests of Delaw areans.
Frank C. Jones, Delawarean, is Presi
dent of the Manhattan Rubber Company,
leading authority on rubber manufacturing
and some what of an expert in formin
trusts. The Jones families of Delaware ar
largely represented in the Industries o
Greater New York.
RE. Cochran and Eugene Hanson from
Middletown are engaged in the domestic
fruit business and have succeeded in build
upa great business which reaches int
every state of this Union.
Gordon and the Dilworths of the leading
manufacturery of sugared fruits and pre-
serves, are Delawareans from st. George
Hundred.
Thos. c. Higgins Of st. Georges and bro
ther of Ex-senator Higgins, is the Higgin
of the firm Milligan & Higgins, one of III
leading houses dealing in and manufactur
ing glue and gelatine.
Nor has Delaware failed to supply New
York with the highest talent in the field o
journalism. Probably the leading finan
cial writer on the New York Press to-da
is Harry Allaway. while the brilliant A
Willis Lightbourne, for SO many year
managing editor of the Mail and Express
is truly Delawarean, although not bor
upon its soil, but having passed so man
years of his boyhood and young man
: hood in our state. he feels himself 'ru
chick of the Blue Hen. And Lemuel Ell
: Quigg-B Brilliant Daring -Dashing. hi
J journalistic work was the making of hir
r and he has just captured Tom. Platt, th
Elepant and the Republican party ofth
: Greater New York.
Thos. f. Barr has but recently retire