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DURYEA, Jesse Townsend, physician and president of
the Colwell Lead Co., was born at Manhasset, L. I.. Nov. 11, 1865,
son of Sanford B. and Ellen A. (Leeder) Duryea, and a descendant
of Joost Durie (1650-1727) a French Huguenot of Neuheim, Germany,
who came to this country in 1675 and settled on Long Island. His
father was one of the old- time photographers whose career
commenced in the days of the daguerreotype. After attending the
public schools and a business college, young Duryea went into
business at the age of sixteen. In 1886 he entered Bellevue
Medical College, and after graduating there in 1889, he was an
interne at Kings County hospital, Brooklyn, until 1890, when he
was made assistant superintendent. He was medical superintendent
of the hospital for two years (1892-94) and then became
superintendent of the contagious diseases department. At the close
of the year 1894 he was appointed expert on contagious diseases
for the city of Brooklyn, a position he held until 1896, when he
returned to the Kings County Hospital, and became the general
superintendent of all the charitable institutions of Kings and
Queens counties. In this capacity he had full power to improve
conditions of the Kings county institutions, and during an
incumbency of six years he inaugurated a number of improvements,
such as the establishment of training schools for nurses,
kindergartens in the children's departments, and schools for the
feeble-minded. He also originated and founded the National
Association of Hospital Superintendents, serving as its first
president. He was frequently called up as an expert in all matters
of hospital construction and organization. He is one of the
charter members of the Phi Alpha Sigma fraternity, also a charter
member of Troop C, and was its first surgeon with the rank of
lieutenant. He is still a member of the Kings County Medical
Society, the New York State Medical Society, and the State
Charities Aid Association. Dr. Duryea numbered among his friends
those who controlled the Colwell Lead Co., and recognizing his
business and executive ability and powers of organization, they
invited him to become the vice- president and general manager of
the company in 1902. The company was founded in 1850 as the New
York Lead Co. by Lewis Colwell, W. A. Shaw and Gardner Willard,
the original members of the firm. In 1866 it became known as the
Colwell, Shaw & Willard Manufacturing Co., Incorporated. The
present officers of the company are Jesse T. Duryea, president; S.
R. Bush, vice-president; C. F. Duryea, treasurer; and B. O.
Tilden, secretary. The New York office is at Lafayette and Walker
streets, with a branch at Worcester, Mass., and manufacturing
plants at Elizabeth, N. J. Dr. Duryea is fond of all out-door
sports, especially motoring, and while not a clubman is a member
of the Barnard Club, Hardware Club, the Riding and Driving Club,
and the Automobile Club of America. Dr. Duryea was married in
1891, to Martha M., daughter of S. R. Bush of Easton, Pa., and has
two daughters, Dorothy and Helen Royce Duryea.
[From The
National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of
the United States, By James Terry White, 1910. Submitted by
Kim.]
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