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Title: New York State's prominent and progressive men : an encyclopaedia of contemporaneous biography
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Harrison, Mitchell Charles, 1870-
Subjects: Civic leaders
Publisher: (New York) : New York Tribune
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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tor of the Flushing Bank,at Flushing, Long Island. He rendered important servicesto the Navy Department in the Civil War. He has receivednumerous letters of commendation and medals for saving life atsea. He served his full time in the old volunteer fire departmentof this city. In 1894 the Board of Underwriters presented tohim a fine silver service in commemoration of the fiftieth anni-versary of his career as a saver of life and property at sea.Among the recent noteworthy cases in which this firm has beenengaged was that of endeavoring to save some of the Spanishwar-ships which were sunk in the battle off Santiago de Cuba mthe war with Spain in the summer of 1898. Mr. Merritt makes his home at Whitestone, on the Sound.He has for many years been a trustee of that village and of thevillage school. He is a member of the Larchmont and Knicker-bocker yacht clubs and of the Marine Society. He was married,in 1852, to Miss Sarah L. Nicholson, and had ten children—foursons and six daughters.
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LEWIS HENRY MEYER MONG the men of renown who have made Staten Island their home and added to the prestige and prosperity ofthe place, Lewis Henry Meyer held a prominent place. Hewas bom in Bremen, Germany, in October, 1815, the only sonof Theodore Meyer. The elder Meyer, at the time of his sonsbirth, was engaged in the management of a line of packets be-tween Bremen and New York. When only five months old,young Lewis was brought to America on one of his fathersships, under the command of Commodore Perry, whose masterfuloperations on Lake Erie formed such an important part of theWar of 1812. In New York city young Meyer attended the public schoolsuntil the year 1828, when he returned to Bremen. There he re-mained until 1836, finishing his education, and afterward servingan apprenticeship in a large mercantile house of that city. Thenhe came back to New York city, where he entered his fathersoffice in the business then conducted under the firm-name ofMeyer & Hupeden. In four years h

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