Photos: Brookhaven & South Haven Hamlets, Suffolk County, NY

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1		"1740" House .. now known as the Swezey/De Hond house, it is probably the oldest house still standing in Brookhaven hamlet. More Information about the Swezey/Dehond House	Alexandre H. Saunders de Hond, ^ William Egbert Swezey, ^
2		.. Nettie Furman Valentine by Beaverdam Creek .. This is photo of Nettie Furman beside the pond at the old Valentine place. Edna Valentine's notes read: "Trout house, carriage house, cow stable, and a little of the barn. The way the old pace looked about 1890. Nettie feeding wild geese." This photograph was no doubt taken from behind the Valentine homestead and store, looking northerly.	Nettie Furman, ^
3		A codicil dated November 6, 1757 .. to the will of Joseph Swezey copied from the original (see photograph). The original was owned by Mrs. Edna (Valentine) Bruce. It's present owner is unknown. [I] Jos Swezey do alter what was in my last will, which was made in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and 56. What is my negro wench, should be gave to my son Stephen — after my wife decease, and half part that I gave to my daughter Rebecca is of nine sheep. As witnes my hand — witness being present. His Joseph Swezey mark Witness: Prosper King Francis Burto (Barteau) According to George Miller, Francis Burto came to Fire Place in 1741.	Joseph Swezey, (ii) >
4		Adeline (Addie) Demange Swezey ..wife of Wallace Swezey	Adeline DeMange, ^
5		Al Smith, Maurice Wertheim, Theresa Helburn, and others .. Probably Dec 1924 at the cornerstone laying ceremony of a theatre, the new home for the New York Theatre Guild, paid for by the Guild's $500,000 bond issue without the aid of any rich "good fairies." The Guild's Board of Managers, responsible for its choice of plays and general policy, consisted of "a banker, a lawyer, an actress, an artist, a producer and a playwright"; that is, in the same order, Maurice Wertheim, Lawrence Langner, Helen Westley, Lee Simonson, Theresa Helburn, and Philip Moeller. Of these, Theresa Helburn, tireless and ubiquitous Executive Director and Mrs. Westley, an accomplished actress of vigorous originality, were the pair chiefly accountable for the birth and rise of the Guild. Finding the theatre "frankly commercial," the Guild has never posed as a society of pure artists. Time Magazine, 14 Dec 1924	Maurice Wertheim, ^
6		Albert M. Turner painting .. this painting, of an unidentified woman, was attributed to Alfred M. Turner and said to have been painted in 1880.	Alfred M. Turner, ^
7		Albert Taylor .. 1940 in South Haven, NY. In the background no doubt is the Carmans River mill pond then known as Hard Lake.	Albert Samuel Taylor, ^
8		Albert Taylor About 1940	Albert Samuel Taylor, ^
9		Alex Kosenkranius ..this picture comes from the 50th anniversary journal of the Brookhaven Fire Department.	Alexander Kosenkranius, ^
10		Alfred William Bruce .. about 1948	Alfred William Bruce
11		Alice Boughton and Child, Summerville, Cape Cod .. child is unidentified.	Alice Boughton, ^
12		Alice Boughton Painting While Alice Boughton was best known as a photographer, she was also trained as a painter. This picture is of the northwest corner of Alice Boughton and Ida Haskell's Brookhaven Hamlet, NY, home on Beaver Dam Road.	Alice Boughton, ^
13		Alice Boughton Painting of Miller House Another example of a painting by Alice Boughton is of the Miller House on Fire Place Neck Rd., Brookhaven Hamlet, NY	Alice Boughton, ^
14		Alma Morganthau	Alma Morgenthau, ^
15		Amelia Hewlett Coles	Amelia Hewlett, >
16		Anna Carman The photograph was labeled "Anna Carman" without other attribution. It seems likely it is that of Anna, daughter of Dr. William Carman, of San Francisco.	Anna J. Carman, >
17		Anne, Josephine and Barbara Wertheim .. LR: Anne Rebe, Josephine Alma and Barbara Wertheim, Maurice and Alma Morgenthau's three daughters	Family: Maurice Wertheim/Alma Morgenthau (F2563)
18		Anson Hard .. about 1924, fishing in in the Carman's River on the Hard Estate, South Haven, NY	Anson Wales Hard, Jr. ^
19		Anson Hard .. on the Hard Estate, South Haven, NY	Anson Wales Hard, Jr. ^
20		Arthur Waldron .. this image, cropped from a picture taken at the scene of the Helen Tiernan murder in 1937, has been identified as of Arthur Waldron as a Brookhaven Town police officer.	Arthur Eugene Waldron, ^
21		Augusta (Gissie) Andrews .. This photograph was found in an album apparently originally belonging to Laura C. (Miller) Ashby. The pictures were identified by stick-in labels which seem to have been written by one of her children, most likely either Jennie or Jane. This photograph was labeled "Gussie [Augusta] Andrews."	Augusta Andrews, <
22		Augustus (Little Gus) Hawkins .. cropped from a larger group picture	Augustus Andrew Hawkins, ^
23		Augustus and Prudence Hawkins .. Augustus (Little Gus) is standing to the right; Prudence is the second from the right on the running board. Others in the picture were unidentified, but were said to be Hawkins family members. The setting appears to be the Hawkins farm on Little Neck, South Haven/Brookhaven, NY.	Augustus Andrew Hawkins, ^ Prudence A. Hawkins, ^
24		Barbara Wertheim Tuchman	Barbara Wertheim, <
25		Benjamin Huntting Howell	Benjamin Huntting Howell
26		Benn Stuart Schulberg	Benn Stuart Schulberg, <
27		Bessie Bonehill .. in a professional theatrical picture. She frequently played the role of a male impersonator.	Bessie Bonehill
28		Betty Puleston	Elizabeth A. Wellington, ^
29		Betty Taylor Budny .. cropped from a picture taken while she was examining the Woodruff Family Cemetery, Bellport, NY	Elizabeth E. Taylor, ^
30		Big Tom Ellison's chair	Thomas J. (Jefferson?) Ellison, ^
31		Bob and Helen Starke, 1996	Family: Robert Westaway Starke/Helen [Starke] (F4513)
32		Brookhaven Ambulance Company .. the Brookhaven Ambulance Company was founded in 1940. It was separately incorporated from the Brookhaven Fire Department, but had a close association with it, sharing the Brookhaven Fire House with the fire department until 1970 when it moved into its own station. The Brookhaven Ambulance Company has now merged with the Bellport and Hagerman Ambulance Companies as the South Country Ambulance Company, and services most of the region between Patchogue and Shirley, NY. The ambulance pictured is a 1927 Kissell ambulance purchased from the Patchogue Ambulance Company in 1940. This venerable vehicle served the community until 1948.	James Patrick Kinsella, Sr. ^ Alexander Kosenkranius, ^ Richard J. Lyons, ^ Robert H. Lyons, Jr. [ii] ^ Charles Henry Waldron, ^
33		Brookhaven Boys .. at the Brook Store, Brookhaven, NY, 1898. From left, Forrest P. Reeve (store partner with Jake Valentine), William Nesbitt, Edward Ketcham, William Sweezey, Jake L. Valentine (store partner), Nathaniel Clinton Miller, Sidney Hawkins, and George Miller.	William Sidney Hawkins, ^ Edward Ketcham, ^ George A. Miller, ^ Nathaniel Clinton Miller, ^ William Nesbitt, ^ Forrest P. Reeve, ^ William Sylvester Swezey, ^ Jacob Lewis Valentine, ^
34		Brookhaven Elementary School About 1921 .. Ron Kinsella has assisted in identifying individuals. Please feel free to communicate identity of others.	Winfred B. Bumstead, ^ Edward de Arcas, ^ William Thurston Gwynne, ^ Jesse Edmund Hawkins, ^ Marianna Kinsella, ^ Dorothy Virginia Murdock, ^ Robert Westaway Starke, ^ Arthur Eugene Waldron, ^ Henry Zukowski, ^
35		Brookhaven Fire Commissioners (Brookhaven, NY, Fire District), about 1947 .. in front of the new fire station of the Brookhaven Fire Department dedicated August 1947. In 1947, the fire district had just one fire station. There is now a second station at the eastern end of the district, in Shirley, NY. An addition has also been added to this building to the left. Also, a detached service building has been constructed further to the left (east). A private dwelling behind this site has been converted to fire district offices. The actual date of the picture is uncertain. A history of the South Country Ambulance Company (successor to the Brookhaven Ambulance Company) indicated that their purchase of a 1938 LaSalle ambulance from the Patchogue ambulance company did not occur until February 1948. The vehicle immediately to the right of the fire commissioners is almost certainly the 1938 ambulance. The vehicle to the extreme right is the 1926 Kissell ambulance also purchased from the Patchogue ambulance company in 1940 at the founding of the Brookhaven Ambulance Company. For enlarged image click here.	Douglas E. Brown, ^ Robert H. Lyons, Sr. [i] ^ Thomas Irwin Morrow, Jr. ^ John H. Morton, ^ Frederick DeWitt Swezey, ^
36		Brookhaven Fire Department Baseball Team circa 1936. .. according to newspaper accounts of the era, they were known as the "Quacks." The Brookhaven playing field was located behind the Robert Lyons home off Cemetery Rd. Patchogue Advance, 10 May, 1935, p. 4: "The Center Moriches Bears and the Brookhaven Fire Department Quacks will play Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Lyon's field in Brookhaven. It is the first meeting of the season between these two popular nines and neither of them have been defeated this season." We would appreciate further identifications of the men in the picture.	Robert Fawcett, ^ Matislaus Kalinowski, ^ James Patrick Kinsella, Sr. ^ George Maxwell Last, † ^ Harold James Lyons, ^ Richard J. Lyons, ^
37		Brookhaven Free Library, 1941. .. Raymond Perry painting of the Brookhaven Free Library (see site ID Br27), showing the library 1n 1941. The Brookhaven Free Library celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2012.	Raymond K. Perry, ^
38		Brookhaven Hamlet World War I Memorial Tablet .. erected at the memorial cannon in the Hamlet's memorial triangle.	Andre Bernard, ^ Stephen Brown, ^ Joseph Howard Carman, ^ Charles Malcolm Fraser, ^ Clifford Leroy Hawkins, ^ M. Vernon Hawkins, ^ William H. Hicken Rolf Thomsen Michelsen, Sr. ^ Thomas Irwin Morrow, Jr. ^ Edwin James Morton, ^ Norman Fairlie Nelson, Jr. ^ Chester Smith, ^ Clinton M. Smith, ^ August Louis Starke, Jr. ^ Fletcher Walling Swezey, ^
39		Brookhaven Park .. also know as Fire Place park, this small park is at the intersection of South Country and Fire Place Neck roads, adjacent the the Memorial Triangle site. It was originally the site of a small trout pond on the Miller farm. More Information about the Memorial Triangle and Fire Place park
40		Brookhaven, NY, Fire Department 1932 .. in the background is the original Brookhaven Fire House, which stood on the northwest corner of Bridge Street and Seeley St. It was destroyed by fire on Saturday morning, 15 December 1945, along with all the fire department equipment.	Captain Francis Dewitt Corwin, ^ George Ernest Last, † ^ George Maxwell Last, † ^ Robert H. Lyons, Sr. [i] ^ Robert H. Lyons, Jr. [ii] ^ George B. Reeve, ^ Arthur Eugene Waldron, ^ August Joseph Waldron, ^ Charles Henry Waldron, ^ George Arthur Waldron, ^ George Edward Waldron, ^
41		Brookhaven, NY, Fire Department Life Members, 1948 .. picture taken from the fire department's 50th anniversary journal of 1973. Albert Rodde and Joseph Leszkowitz have not yet been researched, although Albert was known to have lived in South Haven.	Robert Fawcett, ^ Robert H. Lyons, Sr. [i] ^ John H. Morton, ^ George Edward Waldron, ^ Walter Zukowski, ^
42		Bud Corwin .. believed to be about 1955	Schuyler Lawrence Corwin, <
43		Budd Schulberg	Budd P. Schulberg
44		C. Oliver Wellington	Charles Oliver Wellington, ^
45		Caleb Post	Caleb Post, †^
46		Capt. Sam Newey (left) and Capt. Bill Murdock (right) .. "Captain" was an honorific title applied by common consent in the community to especially accomplished boatmen. One of the cars in the backround has been identified as a 1939 Buick. Capt. Murdock died in 1940.	Captain William Downing Murdock, ^ Captain Samuel Wallace Newey, ^
47		Captain Abither Gerard .. captain of the Fanny Fern, one of several ferries that operated between Squassux Landing and the Smith Point Beach.	Captain Abither Bell (Abitha, Blyth) Gerard, ^
48		Captain Bill Murdock	Captain William Downing Murdock, ^
49		Captain Frank Corwin .. at beach in winter, with iceburg	Captain Francis Dewitt Corwin, ^
50		Captain Frank Corwin .. in winter with iceboat	Captain Francis Dewitt Corwin, ^

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