E. A. BROWN.-Mr. Brown is a native of Orange County, where he was born fifty-six years ago. He grew up in Port Jervis, of which place his father, Orville J. Brown, was one of the leading citizens for many years. The subject of this sketch has been prominent in the politics of his district as a Democrat. He has been active and successful in business all his life. For a number of years he has been proprietor of the Russell House at Middletown, which he has made one of the best known and most popular hotels along the line of the Erie. Brown married a daughter of the late Hon. T. J. Lyon, of Port Jervis, and has one son, who is associated with him in business.

WILLIAM VAN AMEE.--William Van Amee was born in Albany, N. Y., January 9, 1847. He received his

education at the Kingston Academy. He came to Middletown at nineteen to study law with Judge Groo. In May, 1868, he was admitted to practice at the General Term of the Supreme Court at Poughkeepsie, and began the practice of law in Middletown.

Mr. Van Amee was sole counsel for the receiver of the Middletown National Bank for eight years after its failure in 1884. His efforts in these manifold cases won them all, and saved to the depositors a large portion of the assets of the Bank. In 1889, Mr. Van Amee was appointed attorney for the Middletown Savings Bank and attorney for the New York, Ontario and Western Railway Company, for Orange County.

In 1894, he was appointed one of the commissioners of appraisal to determine and award the damages sustained by property owners in Putnam County, in the proceeding taken by the city of New York, to acquire land for a pure water supply.

Mr. Van Amee cast his first vote in 1868 for Horatio Seymour for President. He has been for nearly twenty years a trustee of the Middletown State Homœopathic Hospital, and for four years a member of the Middletown Board of Education. Although not a college graduate,

Hamilton College, in 1886, conferred upon him the degree of A.M.

In October, 1889, Mr. Van Amee presented the name of Hon. J. O. Dykman to the Judicial Convention held in Brooklyn, and in October, 1893, at the request of the friends of Judge Isaac H. Maynard, presented his name to the Democratic Convention at Saratoga Springs. He is a member of the Bar Association of the City of New York, the Reform Club, the Winnisook Club, and the Camp Saball Association numbers him among its members.

Mr. Van Amee was married in the year 1871, to Lida Ostrom. They have three children.

THE ANGLO-SWISS CONDENSED MILK COMPANY.-The Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company's headquarters are at Cham, Switzerland. The Company was organized in 1866, with branches in Bavaria, Germany, England, and the United States; there are two factories in America, one at Middletown, the other at Dixon, Ill. There is no country in the world that they do not sell milk to, and their plant at Middletown is one of the best equipped in the world. Milk received at this factory is regularly inspected, and the utmost cleanliness is exercised in its condensing. The Company require that the cattle be carefully fed and free from disease. The milk when received is weighed and stored in vats, when the sugar (of the best quality) is added. It is then passed into condensing boilers. The water is evaporated and the milk sterilized and condensed. It is then transferred to coolers (which are somewhat similar in appearance to the ordinary cream freezer), from which the cans are filled, great care being taken in the soldering of these. The can is transferred to the labelling machine, which labels each can as it passes through at a terrific rate of speed. These cans are then packed into boxes by girls (the boxes being made by machinery, and are ready for shipment. The Company manufacture their own cans as well as make their own machinery.

The building herein illustrated is 350 x 100. The erection of the structure was begun in 1882, and finished early the following year. This plant succeeded the old plant

of the Orange County Milk Association, which was purchased by the Anglo-Swiss people. Among the more prominent brands the Company manufactures are those known as the " Milk-Maid," " Full-Weight," and "TipTop," which are equal to any first-class brands made. The capacity of the factory is about 100,000 quarts daily. George H. Page, is the general manager of the Company, which position he has occupied for nearly thirty years. He was the founder of the Company in Switzerland, having gone there from the United States. Olin S. Fellows, the manager of the factory, has been identified with the Company since its inception.

PORT JERVIS, N. Y.

HON. FRANCIS MARVIN.-Francis Marvin was born at New York City, March 8, 1828, and was educated at a private school in that city. He began his career as a clerk in the Catskill Bank, of which village his mother was a native, his father being from Albany. From the bank, after a few months, he entered a New York drygoods house. He remained there until 1846, when he went to Port Jervis, and soon after joined Major Seymour's party of engineers engaged in the construction of the Erie. When the railroad was extended through the Delaware Valley he was made station agent at Callicoon. He subsequently was transferred to the Department of Bridges and Buildings. In 1851 Mr. Marvin opened a general store in Port Jervis. He had married at that place, the year before, Miss Amelia St. John, daughter of Stephen St. John. Mr. Marvin conducted his business successfully, and in 1854 disposed of it, and returned to his first business love-banking. He entered the service of the Bank of Port Jervis (now the National Bank of Port Jervis), with which he has been connected ever since, rising steadily from clerk to president, a place he now holds.

Mr. Marvin has been prominent in public affairs, both of a business and a political character. He was President of Port Jervis in 1865, and Supervisor of the town of Deerpark in 1889. He was an incorporator and a director

HON. FRANCIS MARVIN

in the Port Jervis Water Works Company, the Port Jervis Gas Light Company, the Barret Bridge Company, and other associations of a business character. In 1892 he was elected to Congress from the Orange County District, served his constituents well, and declined a renomination. Mr. Marvin is a member of the Deerpark Club, a Freemason, and an Odd-Fellow, but his interest in all these is overshadowed by love and veneration for the old Dutch Church of Port Jervis, with which he has been connected many years.

ELI PURCELL FARNU.M-Eli Purcell Farnum was born at Butternuts, Otsego County, N. Y., March 10, 1842, and died at Port Jervis, 1896. He came to Port Jervis

as a lad, and was educated in the schools of that village and at Mt. Retirement Seminary, near Deckertown, N. J. He began life as a clerk in the hardward store of St. John, Malven & Co. in Port Jervis. In 1863 he started in business himself as a merchant in his adopted town. In partnership with his brother, P. E. Farnum, he conducted the business more than thirty years. Then the firm of P. E. & E. P. Farnum was succeeded by that of E. P. Farnum & Cole. Mr Farnum became prominently identified with the affairs of Port Jervis. He was prominent in the Port Jervis Gas Light Company, and the Barret Suspension Bridge Company, of both of which corporations he was president. He was also at one time a director in the Port Jervis Water Company. He was the proprietor of the Deerpark Ice Company, collector of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, and vice-president of the Deerpark Club. He was married in 1867 to Miss Myra, daughter of the Rev. M. Dunn, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Miss Dunn was the ward of Hon. Francis Marvin. Three children were born to him, two of whom are living-George Francis and Lillian H.

WILLIAM LOUIS CUDDEBACK, M.D.-William Louis Cuddeback was born in Port Jervis, April 26, 1854. He was educated in the Port Jervis common schools, and at Cornell University. After leaving Cornell he took the course of study and graduated at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, in 1876. He served as an interne in Bellevue Hospital until 1878.

In 1878 he began the practice of his profession at Port Jervis, and has continued to practice in that town continuously since that date.

Dr. Cuddeback has always taken an active interest in the educational, business, and social affairs of Port Jervis. From 1887 until 1892 he was president of the Board of Education, a position he filled with marked credit to himself and benefit to the schools.

He was made president of the Port Jervis Free Library at its organization in 1892. He is secretary of the Minisink Valley Historical Society, and has been since its organization in 1889 ; a director in the National Bank of Port Jervis; a member of the New York State Medical Society; of the Orange County Medical Society, of which

he was president in 1891; of the Association of Erie Railway Surgeons, and of the National Association of Railway Surgeons.

Dr. Cuddeback was married October 14, 1880, to Alice D. Malven, daughter of George Malven, of Port Jervis. Five children have been born of this marriage, Frank E., Edgar G., Lizzie, Alice, and Philenda.

HENRY B. SWARTWOUT, M.D.-The subject of this sketch was born at Huguenot, near Port Jervis, February 4, 1861. Graduating from Cornell University, he entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Graduating there, he took a course at the famous Vienna Hospital, Austria. He began the practice of his profession at Port Jervis in 1878, where he has remained up to the present time. He is the visiting physician to St. Mary's Orphan Asylum of Port Jervis.

Dr. Swartwout is a member of the New York State Medical Association; the Orange County Medical Association; the National Association of Railway Surgeons; the Association of Erie Railway Surgeons; the Deerpark Club, and is a director in the First National Bank of Port Jervis.

March 10, 1886, Dr. Swartwout was married to Miss Carrie B. Peck, daughter of George U. Peck of Port Jervis. Two children, Florence and Charlotte, have been born to him.

THE PORT JERVIS HOSPITAL.--Dr. J. Halsey Hunt was appointed Erie surgeon at Port Jervis in 1888. The railroad company offered to contract with Dr. Hunt to send the injured on the two divisions terminating at Port Jervis to that place for treatment if a hospital could be provided for their reception. Dr. Hunt built a hospital, and it was ready for use in November, 1888. In March, 1892, Drs. Cuddeback and Swartwout, having been appointed surgeons of the Erie, purchased and remodelled the hospital, and increased its scope and purpose, making it also a most beneficial institution to a wide region around Port Jervis, for to it a large number of sick and injured, in no way connected with the railroad, are brought for treatment and surgical operations.

SHOHOLA, PA.

(Eldred, N. Y.)

THOMAS SIDWELL.-The illustration accompanying this gives but a faint idea of the loveliness of the Sidwell Home, near Eldred, Sullivan County, N. Y., the property of Thomas Sidwell, Esq., a native of England, and descended of good old English stock, but now an American citizen. When a young man Mr. Sidwell sought this country for the benefit of his health, which was restored