of Plymouth Rock and Leghorn fowls and some of his prize winners are valued at one hundred dollars per pair. Orders for fowls and eggs come from all parts of the country, and he has received first and sweepstakes prizes in New York, Boston, Buffalo, Albany and other places. He is a member of the American Poultry Association and also belongs to several smaller and local poultry associations.
A man of superior intellect, frank and genial in disposition, he is very popular with his fellow men, and his circle of friends seems limited only by his circle of acquaintances.
McCABE, WILLIAM F.
For thirty years this well-known resident of Mamaroneck has made his home in this flourishing little village, and during the past score of years has risen to a position of prominence and influence in its affairs, commercial and otherwise. He has been an important factor in local politics, being a worker in the ranks of the Democratic party, and was the receiver of taxes for two years and excise commissioner for three years.
The parents of our subject were William F. and Ellen (Collins) McCabe. He was born in East Morris, now included within the limits of Greater New York, in 1857. At the age of one year William F. accompanied his father to Mamaroneck, and has since looked upon this place as his home. He received his higher education in Saint Francis Xavier College, in New York city, but left his studies when eighteen years of age in order to enter upon his business career. He was associated with his father in contracting until twenty-five years of age, when he embarked upon independent work. His first important task was the construction of the reservoir dam for the New Rochelle waterworks, and having executed this contract to the entire satisfaction of all concerned he had no difficulty in obtaining further contracts at other points and for various kinds of public works. One of the finest pieces of work that he has accomplished is the Byron bridge, connecting New York and Greenmont, Connecticut. This structure has a beautiful double arch of cut stone. Though he has taken contracts for a great many private parties, he is especially qualified to take much more important pieces of work, and caters to large public improvements.
Among those for whom he has carried out contracts are Mr. Schoonmaker, of Scarsdale, and William H. Macy and Porter A. Harrison. For three years and eight months he was engaged upon the construction of the new Croton dam for the New York city water works, and excavated the first yard of rock for that remarkable piece of work. Few public works have been carried out in this, town without his co-operation, and many of the more important improvements in Mount Vernon have been managed by him. He built six miles of macadam road in Richmond, and has the most complete facilities for this kind of enterprise, as he owns a stone-crusher and steamrollers, and in other work he has the most approved modern steam drills {eight in number), hoisting machines, etc., and keeps twenty-two horses for use in his various departments of business. It is conceded that, for the execution of street paving and public works in general, he has the most complete machinery and equipments of any contractor in this county. He employs as many as four hundred and fifty men at a time, and his pay roll frequently amounts to eight thousand dollars a month, while his contracts for two years footed up about two hundred thousand dollars.
Though he is quite devoted to his business affairs Mr. McCabe always finds time to discharge his duties as a citizen. He has been active in the work of the fire department, as for five years he was identified with the Mamaroneck Hook & Ladder Company; was for three years a member of the Croton Hook & Ladder Company and was in the patrol department here for some time, being at present an honorary member of the same. Fraternally, he is a member of the orders of Foresters and Red Men.
The marriage of Mr. McCabe and Miss Minnie Anthes was celebrated April 18, 1889. Mrs. McCabe is a daughter of Frederick and Dorothea {Miller) Anthes, of this place. The four children born to our subject and wife are William F. ; Ellen Dorothea, deceased; May; and Irene.
William F. McCabe, as an honored old citizen of Mamaroneck, deserves special mention. He is a native of county Kildare, Ireland, born about 1830. He came to America prior to his marriage and engaged in contracting after he had been on these shores for a few years. At first, however, he was employed on farms as a manager of the same. He has made a specialty of building seawalls and other similar works of public improvement, but for the past fifteen years he has lived practically retired from active labors. He has been influential in the affairs of the local Democratic party and for twenty-four years occupied the office of road commissioner, at the expiration of which period he resigned, refusing to retain the office longer. Among many other works of improvement here with which he was identified was the construction of the Mamaroneck water main. Both he and his estimable wife have arrived at the age of sixty-eight years. Of their ten children five survive, namely: Sarah Carroll, William F., Thomas, Ellen and Richard.
SHERMAN, FREDERICK W.
The ancestry of the Sherman family, of which our subject is a representative, can be traced back to William Sherman, bailiff of Debenham Stoneham, in Suffolk, England. He flourished about 1410, and was the father of John Sherman, of Suffolk, whose son, Thomas Sherman, of Dedham, England, died in 1564. The last named was the father of Henry Sherman, also of Dedham. His wife was Agnes Sherman, and his will was dated 1589. Edward Sherman, the son of Henry and Agnes Sherman, married Ann Clerc, made his home in Dedham, England, and left a will dated 1598. His son, John Sherman, was the next in the line of direct descent to our subject, and his will bore date 1654 or 1655. The last named was the father of Captain John Sherman, the founder of the family in America. He was born in Dedham, England, in 1613, and came to America in 1634, locating in Watertown, Massachusetts. His daughter was Martha Palmer, daughter of William Palmer, and their son John was killed in the Narragansett Indian fight. It was Edward Sherman, of Dedham, England, an uncle of Captain John Sherman, from whom descended General William T. Sherman and Senator John Sherman, of Ohio. Joseph Sherman, a son of Captain John Sherman, married Elizabeth Winship, daughter of Lieutenant Edward H. and Elizabeth Winship, of Cambridge, on November 18, 1673, and of this union was born William Sherman, of Charlestown, Massachusetts, who married Mehitable Wellington.
They became the parents of Roger Sherman, the great-grandfather of our subject, one of the most distinguished patriots who promoted the cause of liberty and freedom in that period which gave birth to the republic. He was married May 12, 1763, to Rebecca Prescott, daughter of Benjamin and Rebecca (Minot) Prescott, of Danvers, Connecticut. He was a member of the continental congress in 1774, was one of the signers of the address to the king in that year, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and one of the committee who drafted that document. He was also one of the signers of the articles of confederation and of the constitution of the United States. He had the distinction of being the only person who signed all four of these great state papers in the early history of the country; in fact no other signed three of them. From 1791 up to the time of his death he was a member of the United States senate, and was also a judge of the supreme court of Connecticut. He had graduated in Yale College with the degree of Master of Arts, and was a most scholarly and diplomatic statesman. He left the impress of his strong individuality upon the new republic and took a leading part in formulating its policy. He was the grandfather of three United States senators, his daughter Rebecca being the mother of Roger Sherman Baldwin, who was governor of Connecticut and a member of the United States senate; Mehitable, another daughter, was the mother of William M. Evarts, a member of the senate; and Sarah, the third daughter, was the mother of Frisbie Hoar, United States senator, and the late E. Rockwood Hoar, judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts. Roger Minot Sherman, the eminent jurist of Fairfield, Connecticut, was also a relative of the same family.
Roger Sherman, the grandfather of our subject, was likewise a native of New Haven, Connecticut, and there spent his entire life. He was a member of the firm of Prescott & Sherman, prominent merchants, who were extensively engaged in trading with the West Indies. He died at an advanced age. In 1801 he married Susanna Staples, who was born August 1, 1778, and died November 22, 1855. She was a sister of the great lawyer, Seth P. Staples, and the granddaughter of Hannah Standish, whose grandfather was Miles Standish,
