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Identifier: newyorkstatesprov2harr (find matches)
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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s, and secureda renewal of the original patent, keeping it in force until 1884.At first the pulp was sold at eight cents a pound, then it droppedto four and five, at which figures it remained for a long time.Then it declined to one cent a pound, and even less. Similarly,the price of white paper for newspapers has been reduced fromsixteen or seventeen cents a pound to two cents. The output ofpulp in the country to-day is thousands of tons a day. Half aton was the output of the first mill at Curtisville. The development of this vast business, which has so power-fully affected many other businesses, has been sufficient for onemans life-work. Mr. Pagenstecher has, nevertheless, taken anactive interest in the general industrial and commercial welfareof the country of which he is an adopted son. He has long been amember of the New York Produce Exchange. He was its man-ager in 1883-84, and a member of the committee which decidedupon the erection of the present building of the Exchange. I i I
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FRANK D. PAVEY A MONGr the younger men of New York who have attained an■jLjL enviable prominence in pubhc affairs, none is better knownthan the Hon. Frank D. Pavey. He is a native of Ohio, havingbeen born at Washington Court-house, in that State, on Novem-ber 10, 1860, the son of the Hon. Madison Pavey and Mary L.Pavey. He was prepared for college at the local schools, andthen came East and entered Yale. He was graduated from thatuniversity in 1884, with the degree of A. B., and in the class ofone hundred and fifty members was one of seven who heldphilosophical oration rank. Two years later he was gradu-ated from the Yale Law School, with the degree of LL. B., andwas one of the three chosen to represent the class in the Town-send Oratorical Prize Contest. For three years following helived in New Haven, but made several extended trips throughthe West. In 1889 the Yale Law School gave him the degreeof LL. M. In the last-named year Mr. Pavey removed to New York andmade it his home. He

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