Evening journal., 1898-02-09
IN GAY NEW YORK.
Delaware's Sons Who Have
Won Wealth and Fame There.
PROMINENT IN LIFgs WALKS

OF MEDICINE AND DISTINGUISH
ED EDUCATORS.
Special Correspondence Evening Journal.
New York, Feb. 9.-Delaware is well
represented in the professional and
business operations of New York. Her
sons are to the front in the leading
pulpits, prominent at the bar of jus
tice, eminent in the practice of medi-
cine and of pharmacy, and distinguish
ed as educators in the most renowned
institute of learning in the great city.
The rector of the most fashionable
Protestant Episcopal Church of New
York, st. Thomas, on Fifth avenue,
Rev. Dr. j. w. Brown, was formerly rec
tor of St. AIMS, at Middletown, Della
ware. His younger brother Rev. Di.
Philip Brown, whose bOyhood was
mostly passed in Middletown, is in
charge of one of Trinity Churchs great
chapels, that of ST. John And Middle
town has contributed another minis
} ter to the Episcopal church Of that city,
and one who is fast climbing to the
front, in the person of Rev Henry
Chamberlain. Rev. William DuEIamal,
of Dover, is also doing good work in
the service Of old Trinity his speciality
| DtllS luuuSlIldl tuuCdllOu dmOus lu6
poor
Rev. A. G. Cummins. from Smyrna,
and Rev. P. c. Pyle each have parishes
in New York, and Rev. Olin S. Brooks,
born in Wilmington, is rector of old
st. Peters, on West Twentieth street,
DR.. Haldeman, for many years pastor
of Baptist church in Wilmington, is
now pastor of the most fashionable
Baptist church of New York, situated
} on the fashionable West End avenue.
Rev. DR.. ]. A B. Wilson, of the NJ
! E. Church, a Delawarean, recently left
New York to take charge of a church
in San francisco, and his brother
I Samuel, is one of the leading divines
of the M. z. Church of Greater New
York. Rev. DR.. G. H. Miller and Rev
S. W. Robinson, of Delaware, are emil
nent ministers in the great city. Surely
New Workers deem it a good thing to
1 have Delawareans to teach them ethics.
Columbia University has in its SER
% vice three of the sons of Delaware, Pro-
y fessor Virgie Prettyman, of the Teach
y ers College; Professor Herman S. Da-
' Wis. and Professor J. b. Moore, of Ap-
4 poquinimink. Professor Moore is pro-
4 fessor of international law, and ispre-
: eminently at the head of his profession.
In fact he is one of the worlds great
@ est authorities on international law
a DELAWAREANS AT THE BAR.
In the law De,awareans have also
= won distinction in the great city. AT
!. the bar few men have won greater sue
- cess than H. H. b. Staples, formerly OF
Wilmington, who recently resigned the
= office of first assistant district attor-
= ney and a princely salary, to engage in
= a more lucrative private practice. w. S
y Stayton, formerly of Smyrna, and q
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 bu
r few equals in that line of legal prac
tice developed by electrical inventions
r. w. Todd, of Dover, is amongst those
l. of the bar of New York who have woI
e distinction in general practice, and w
p Lee Cannon, son of the late Wilson L
o. Cannon, who for many years repre-
le sented Kent county in the Legislature o
Delaware, has already reached a prac
K tice which marks him as one of tn
rs most promising of the younger mem
d bers ofthe bar of the city.
IN Among the members of the Delawar
d. Society of New York there are nearl.
a score of physicians and dentists VIII
have succeeded in obtaining lucrativ
X practice. Drs. A. S. Burton. J. T. ELLA
son, J. T. Frantz, c. c. Henry, Gov
Harrington, r. G. Jones, ]. H. Mai
SHALL w. A. Rogers. ]. T. Sharp, G.
& Welch and DR.. J. Meloney are anon
y the successful ones.
-, Dr. ]. III. Marshall, formerly c
-N Lewes, is interested with his brother
in-law, r. d. Cahoon, in the control {
| ha vofaf Irrtor hnrfnacc of Dflrn
.c- & Co. This company is a corporation
.ly and Cahoon, who has hustled since
mt left old Sussex, is now practically tn
IT. company, and has built up what
en- probably the largest retail drug bus
re ness in this country. He is assiste
1t very largely in that business by youn
of men from Delaware. Oscar B. Deakyn
les from Appoquinimink, is also a success
full druggist in Brooklyn, where ais
ire DR.. Marshall has, perhaps, the finei
ID drug store in that city.
as- 1t was a son of old Kent who bui
bic up from decay to the highest plane {
nth success. the Mutual Reserve Life II
lm surance Company, of New York. An
it was the late President Harper WI
a extended the field of that great insu
etc ance institution to every state of II
tie. Union, and succeeded in making it sin
nd ply COLOSSAL his DIOlntI, UcOl5c
go. Harper, is at the head of one of !
GER great departments, and the Mutual r
serve Life Insurance COmpany's rcon
are nests Of Delawareans.
Frank c. Jones, a Delawarean,
ces president of the Manhattan Rubb
rrs Company, a leading authority on ru
II | Der manufacturing, and somewhat
asst an expert in forming trusts. The Jon
inc families Of Dover are largely represen
Do ed in the industries of Greater M
ied York.
1ds r. e. Cochran and Eugene Hanse
from Middletown, are engaged in t
domestic fruit business, and have 81
ceeded in building up a great ira
,r. which reaches into every state of Il
,na Union.
anu r Gordon and the Dilworth's, Of
leading manufacturers of sugared fru
10 and preserves, are Delawareans frC
s.. Georges hundred.
Thomas c. Higgins, of St. Georg
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