y o m i n q by Harry S. Douglass - Old Fulton History

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April 1954
In Los Angeles, Oct. 2ij., occurred the death of Stanley McClelland,
1+9, son of the late Supt. & Mrs. William H. McClelland, Perry, where
he also made his home in his early life. A graduate of Perry High
School, he attended Eastman School of Music, and fr>om there went to
New York where he was successful as a singer in Broadway musicals
and light operas and as a member of a well-known radio quartet. He
left New York about five years ago.
Harry E. Hovey, 72, founder and president of the Market Basket
Corporation,a grocery and supermarket chain, died Nov. 2, in Geneva,
N.Y. Born in Warsaw,he started his business 52 years ago by founding
a grocery there with $1+50 cash he had saved in the Army. The chain
now consists of 77 supermarkets and 35 grocery stores, mostly in
central and western New York and northern Pennsylvania. He had
removed to Geneva in 1915°
On Nov. 1 ij., in Warsaw, death came to Dr. Lester Hayden Humphrey, 82,
almost on the eve of a birthday. A native of Warsaw, where he was
educated, he received his medical training in New York and Albany,
and in April 1900, began the practice of medicine in Silver Springs.
Prominent in medical, fraternal and church affairs for 53 years, he
had held the post of county coroner for the past forty-five years;
was health officer for the town of Gainesville; and on the staff of
the Community Hospital and Laboratory.
William H. Coon,Batavia City Historian, died in that place, Nov. li|,
at the age of 77» Mr. Coon was a loyal supporter of this bulletin
and frequently sent along items of interest. He served as Genesee
County district attorney, 1907-17; and city attorney, 1927-39. He
was an authority on Indian lore and known in musical circles.
Rev. Lewis G. Rogers, 90, retired Congregational minister, died in
New York City, Nov. 22. A native of Albion, N.Y., he attended
Williams College, graduating in 1883, and Princeton University, and
held his first pastorate at Arcade, where he was ordained in 1888.
Subsequently, he was located in the state of Oregon, and for many
years in Buffalo churches where he was first pastor of the Plymouth
Congregational Church and was secretary of the old Federation of
Churches. For three years he was chaplain of the University of
Connecticut. He held numerous other offices in church groups before
his retirement in 19i|-3s and had taught in Nichols School, Buffalo..
County Welfare Commissioner Edgar E. Wheeler, 58, died at Warsaw,
Dec. 8, having been in the department since 1936, and commissioner
since 19144 • A veteran of World War I in France with the 77th
Infantry, he was a graduate of Colgate and Cornell Universities. He
was a native of New Brunswick, New Jersey.
In Buffalo,N.Y., Dec. 13, death claimed Clarence F. Conroy, 67, well
known labor orgainzer, after a long illness. Mr. Conroy was born at
Java Center, went to work at a young age and was one of the pioneers
in the labor movement in Buffalo. He was a national organizer for
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