friends and acquaintances who esteem him highly for his genuine worth.
PATCH, HENRY F., M. D.
The genial gentleman whose name adorns this page. Dr. Henry F. Patch, of Chappaqua, New York, is one of the best known physicians and surgeons of Westchester county, where he has been engaged in practice for a period of twenty-four years, he having located here in 1874.
Dr. Patch was born December 7, 1839, in Francestown, New Hampshire, a son of William and Sallie (Stevans) Patch, representatives of families that were counted among the early settlers of New England. Dr. Patch's education, begun in the public schools, was carried forward at Francestown Academy and completed at Dartmouth Medical College, Hanover, New Hampshire, where he graduated with the class of 1866. In that year he opened an office in Harlin, and in 1874 became identified with Chappaqua, where he soon built up and has retained a large and lucrative practice.
The year of his location in New York, Dr. Patch was united in marriage to Miss Leonora Bull, a native of New York city, and their home circle includes four children, — Florence E., Lillie L. , Daisy M. and Harry F. Their charming abode is a historic place, it being the old Greeley homestead, where Horace Greeley produced one of his best works.
In social and fraternal circles the Doctor has a wide popularity. He is a member of several medical societies, among, them the Westchester Medical Society; also he is a member of Greeley Lodge, I. O. O. F. , of Chappaqua, of which he is the secretary.
EMMET, ROBERT T.
The name of Emmet is one which has been long and conspicuously identified with the history of the Empire state, and is one in which each successive generation has produced men of honor and sterling worth, — men who have honored and been honored by the state which gave them birth and which has figured as the field of their respective endeavors in connection with the material activities which have ever conserved the progress and prosperity of the Union. From the Emerald Isle came the first American ancestor, Addis Emmet, who crossed the Atlantic about 1804, locating in New York city. He soon won prestige as a prominent lawyer and was elected attorney general of the state. His son, Robert Emmet, grandfather of our subject, was born in Dublin, Ireland, and came to the United States during his childhood. Entering the legal profession,, he was called to the important office of corporation counsel of the city of New York, and also filled the position of judge of the common-pleas court. His death occurred in New Rochelle, in 1873. Several representatives of the family have gained marked distinction at the bar, their eminent ability reflecting credit upon the profession with which they were allied.
William J. Emmet, father of our subject, was born in New York city, where he acquired his education and was reared to manhood. Entering upon his business career, he was for a number of years successfully engaged in the sugar-refining business in the metropolis. He married Julia C. Pierson, and they are now honored residents of New Rochelle. Mrs. Emmet is a native of Ramapo, Rockland county, New York, and her grandfather, Josiah Pierson, was the founder of the East Ramapo Iron & Foundry Works. He was there extensively engaged in the manufacture of iron and at the same time operated an extensive factory.
Robert T. Emmet was born in New York city in 1854. He studied in a private boarding school, after which he entered West Point Military Academy, on the Hudson, pursuing the four-years course of that institution. He was graduated in 1877, and continuing in the military service of his country as a member of the Ninth Regiment of United States Regular Cavalry, he went to the frontier to aid in the suppression of the Indians, who frequently menaced the property and lives of the pioneers on the western borders. He served in that cavalry command for fourteen years and for four years was on the staff of General Pope, after which, with his regiment, he was stationed at Fort Niobrara, Nebraska.
Resigning his commission in 1891, Mr. Emmet returned to New Rochelle, New York, where he has since resided, giving his attention to civil engineering. On the breaking out of the war with Spain, he volunteered and was commissioned major in the First Infantry New York Volunteers, and served for some months in the Hawaiian islands with that regiment. In 1883 Mr. Emmet was married to Miss Helena V. C. Phelps, only daughter of Henry D. and Kate Phelps. Her father belongs to one of the oldest and most honored families of Westchester county, and has long been a valued resident of New Rochelle. Mr. and Mrs. Emmet have three children, two sons and a daughter, — Robert M., Herman L. R. and Anita H. Mr. Emmet belongs to the University Club, of New York city, and the New York Yacht Club. While campaigning in the west he acquired a fund of interesting and ofttimes amusing reminiscences, which enrich his conversation and, together with his genial disposition, unfailing courtesy and uniform kindness, render him a social favorite.
BANKS, CHARLES G.
Charles G. Banks is ex-register of Westchester county, ex-president of New Rochelle, having held the office for three terms in succession, and ex-police justice and corporation counsel of New. Rochelle, New York. An enumeration of those men of the present generation who have won honor and public recognition for themselves, and at the same time have honored the state to which they belong, would be incomplete were there failure to make prominent reference to the one whose name initiates this paragraph. He holds distinctive precedence as a safe and careful lawyer, and has been and is pre-eminently a man of affairs, wielding a wide influence. A strong mentality, an invincible courage and a most determined individuality, have so entered into his make-up as to render him a natural leader of men and a director of opinion. For twenty years he has been an important figure in legal and commercial circles in New Rochelle, and is a representative of one of the old families of the county.
In Middle Patten, in the town of North Castle, Westchester county, Charles G. Banks, was born May 26, 1847, his parents being Captain James P. and Thurza A. (Palmer) Banks. His paternal grandparents were James and Sarah (Lane) Banks, and his maternal grandparents were Allen and Sarah (Smith) Palmer. In his father's family were four children, his brother being William L. Banks, of White Plains, and his sisters are Clarissa A. Banks and Mrs. Lizetta P. Hegeman, of Brooklyn, New York. For several generations the representatives of the Banks and Palmer families had been industrious and respected farming people of the town of North Castle and the central part of Westchester county.
When seventeen years of age, Charles G. Banks left the farm, his father having died some twelve years before, to make his own way in the world, and in 1865 accepted the position of clerk in the LeRoy Place Hotel, at New Rochelle, under his uncle, George W. Banks. He was afterward made manager, and then became proprietor of this once well-known summer resort, which was destroyed by fire some years ago. Although he met with success in this undertaking, he did not find it altogether to his taste, and in 1872 he began the study of law in the office of Charles H. Roosevelt, of New Rochelle, New York. In 1873 he entered the New York University, ani was graduated in the law department of that institution in the class of 1875. He was admitted to the bar, at a special term of the supreme court in Poughkeepsie, the same year, and in July, 1875, became the senior member of the well-known law firm of Banks & Keogh, his partner being Judge Martin J. Keogh, of the second department.
A short time before his graduation Mr. Banks was elected upon the Republican ticket to the office of police justice of New Rochelle for a term of four years, and was subsequently chosen corporation counsel of that city, which office he acceptably filled for several years. In 1877 he became the Republican nominee for registrar of Westchester county, against Stephen S. Marshall, the Democratic nominee, and, after a very active and hotly contested campaign, was elected by a majority of seventeen hundred and seventy-seven, although the county went Democratic by over a thousand majority. This was certainly a high tribute to his personal popularity, and was an indication of the confidence reposed in him by his fellow-townsmen and friends throughout the county. He was again a candidate, in the fall of 1880, but was defeated, by a few votes, with the remainder of the ticket. For a period of six successive years (three terms) he was
