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He has been for some years a constant contributor to Our Animal Friends, Mr. Henry Berg's
paper, where his contributions in behalf of considerate kindness towards all animal nature are
always welcome. His domestic, social and church relations have always been most happy. Res.
(1885) 22 W. 39th Street, New York City; office 109 Fulton Street, New York.
Children ( by is/ ?narriage) :
4151- I. George,'' h. 14 Oct., 1S39, at Chillicothe, Ohio; died at the residence of his father,
(By 2d marriage) :
in New York City, 3 Dec, 1868, te. 29 years. He received his education at the
Auburn Academy, and at Cazenovia Seminary; was in business for his father in
New York. When the war broke out, he enlisted in the 19th N. Y. L. Infantry,
which was changed to the 3d N. Y. Heavy Artillery. He was with Banks in
the Shenandoah Valley, and in the battles of Newburn, N. C, until his discharge.
After a service of two years as commissary and as hospital sergeant, without
bounty, he returned broken in health, and finally, after a succession of pulmonary
hemorrhages, and fighting the disease for five years, he died, 3 Dec, 1868.
4152. n. Helen Frances,'' b. 13 May, 1844, at Ludlowville, N. Y. Res. (18S5) with her father.
4153. HI. Frederick Hahnemann,^ b. 7 Sept., 1847, at Utica, N. Y. He married in Washington,
D. C. . Jan. 15, 1880, Louise Alfrelta (dau. of Henry and Augusta Hipkins) Parker,
born in that city, 13 Jan., 1852.
Dr. Fred. H. Humphreys received his education at the Auburn Academv,
from whence he entered the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he remained
two years. He was then two years at Columbia College School of Mines, taking
a course of analytical chemistry ; studied medicine at Bellevue Hospital Medical
College, and attended lectures in medicine at Paris, Berlin and London, completing
his course at the University of Vienna, in 1872. He has since been engaged
in the business with his father, as Secretary and Treasurer of the company. His
health has not been assured, and much of his time has been spent in travel in
various parts of foreign countries and the far south and west of our own country.
He is a gentleman of special parts and wide scientific learning, and finds his
pleasure and time largely engrossed by such pursuits. P. O. address 109 Fulton
Street, New York City. Cliild .-
4154. i. Frances Augusta," h. in New York City, Doc. 19 iSSo.
4155. IV. Jay,"
b. 12 April, 1S51, at Utica, N. Y. ; d. 27 November, 1883, in New York
City. He removed with his father's family to Auburn, N. Y., in 1854; received
his preliminary education at the High School and Academy in that city, and at
Mt. Washington Institution, New York, and graduated with honors from Columbia
College in 1874, and two years later received his degree of M. A. from his Alma
Mater. He married 26 Sept., 1877, Fannie (daughter of John I. and Elizabeth)
Smith, and niece and adopted daughter of Charles E. and Phoebe Brush, of
Babylon, L. I., N. Y., who was born at Lockport, N. Y., 3 Apr., 1858. In 1879
he removed to Summit, N. J., purchasing and rebuilding on the property where
his family now reside. He was a fine classical scholar, but early devoted himself
to music under Demonville and other masters, becoming a fine violinist, giving
all his spare time and energy to this avocation. He was in business with his
father and brother, and entered as a student at the College of Physicians and
. Surgeons, New York, and was attending his second course at the time of his death.