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a resident of Thompsonville, Connecticut,
where he is engaged most successfully in
business as a merchant; Rae, who became
the wife of Joseph Slaybard, of New York
City ; Flora, who became the wife of
Max Block, of Thompsonville, who is engaged
in the auto supply business there
Michael, a resident of Thompsonville, engaged
in a line of mercantile business
there ; Abraham, a member of the Third
New York Artillery Regiment ; and Sam-
uel, of whom further.
Born at Maspeth, Long Island, June 15,
1895, Samuel Sisisky, son of Nathan and
Pauline (Schmidt) Sisisky, came with his
parents at an early age to Holyoke, Massachusetts,
but moved to Thompsonville,
Connecticut, June 15, 1906. Here it was
that most of his youthful associations and
impressions were formed, and here it was
that he received the elementary portion of
his education. He was graduated from
the Thompsonville Grammar School in
1908, and then studied at the Enfield High
School in Thompsonville, Connecticut,
graduating from the same in 1912. He
had in the meantime decided upon the
legal profession as his career, and accordingly,
matriculated at the Boston Uni-
versity Law School. He studied at this
well known institution from 1912 to 1914,
establishing in the meantime an excellent
reputation for himself both as a scholar
and as a man of good character, but in the
latter year left that school and continued
his legal studies at the George Washing-
ton University. He graduated from this
institution with the class of 1915, with the
degree of Bachelor of Laws, after which
he entered the Yale Law School for postgraduate
work and received from that institution
the degree of Master of Laws
in June, 1916. He was admitted to prac-
tice law at the bar of Connecticut in the
month of June, 1916, and in the month of
September, 1916, at the bar of Massachu-
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setts. He engaged in the practice of
law in Thompsonville, Connecticut, and
Springfield, Massachusetts. In spite of
the fact of his extreme youth, Mr. Sisisky
has already proved himself a man of great
ability and a lawyer of unusual brilliancy,
and at the present time much important
litigation is entrusted to his care. He has
devoted himself with the utmost singleness
of mind and purpose to the mastery
of his profession, and as a student is far
more profoundly versed in his principles
than many a man twice his age. In that
still more difficult realm of the law in
which theoretical principles are applied to
the circumstances of real life, he has also
shown a remarkable talent, and his grasp
of the significant facts of the case, and his
skill in presenting them in a logical and
orderly manner to the untrained minds of
the average jury, seem to promise a great
success for him in the future. Mr. Sisisky
is a member of Temple Bethel, at Springfield.
He is a Republican in politics, and
has already identified himself closely with
the local organization of that party. He
is a member of Lodge No. 61, Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, of Spring-
field, Massachusetts ; a veteran of the
World War, having enlisted on a waiver
and the organizer and
of physical defects ;
first president of the Returned Soldiers'
and Sailors' Club of Enfield, Connecticut.
IVES, S. Mary,
Physician.
In 1886, James Bostock Ives and his
wife, Mary Collins (Johns) Ives, and
their seven children, came from their
home in London, England, and established
a new home in Toronto, Canada.
Four years later, the family came to the
United States, locating in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, where Dr. Ives obtained
her professional education and received