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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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n, thence to Brooklyn, and finallyto Janesville, Wisconsin. His son Cornelius married MissSarah E. Henry of Albany, New York, and was for a timesettled in Chicago, but afterward came to New York and becamecashier of the American Stoker Company. Frank Harvey Field, son of Cornelius R. and Sarah E. Field,was born in Chicago, on August 17, 1863. He was educated inthe public schools of Highland Park, in the suburbs of that city,and then came to New York to study law in the Law School ofColumbia University. From that institution he was graduatedwith the degree of LL. B. While a law student he was com-pelled to maintain himself by working in a telegraph office andfor an insurance company. Shortly before admission to the bar Mr. Field entered the lawoffices of Arnoux, Ritch & Woodford, and remained there until1890. In that year he formed a partnership with Edward S.Peck, at 261 Broadway, New York, which lasted until May 1,1898. Since the latter date he has practised alone at 215 Mon- 124
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\ I 1 I FRANK HARVEY FIELD 125 tague Street, Brooklyn, with conspicuous success. He is counselfor the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Brooklyn, theCitizens Electric Illuminating Company, the Municipal ElectricLight Company, the Williamsburg Trust Company, Journeay &Burnham, the American Stoker Company, the Brooklyn BaptistChurch Extension Society, and other large corporations andindividuals. He has also been counsel for the Kings CountyRepublican G-eneral Committee, and for the New York Sun in its litigation with labor organizations. He is a director ofthe Williamsburg Trust Company, the Citizens Electric Illumi-nating Company, Journeay & Burnham, and the American StokerCompany. Mr. Field has held no strictly political office, but has longtaken an active interest in political affairs as a Republican. Hehas been for two terms president of the Brooklyn Young Repub-lican Club, one of the foremost political organizations in Brook-lyn, and is a recognized leader of the part

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