EDWARD J. MILLSPAUGH
Edward Judson Millspaugh, who as the head of the firm of Millspaugh & Green, represents the coal supply of the Delaware and Hudson Coal Company for Central New York, was born in Richmond,
Richmond county, Staten Island, N. Y., June 20, 1861, and is the eldest son of Dr. Isaac Little Millspaugh and Deborah Barron Mundy, his wife. His ancestors originally came from Holland and settled
in Orange county, N. Y., the first, so far as known, being Peter von Miltzbach in 1720. The name in its Americanized form has been Millspaugh for several generations: Dr. Isaac L. Millspaugh was
born in Walkill, N. Y., February l, 1827, and is a prominent physician and surgeon in Richmond, Staten Island, where his wife, Deborah Barron Mundy, was born May 11, 1836. She died there July 7,
1890.
Edward J. Millspaugh was educated in the public schools of his native town, and at the age of eighteen became a clerk in a hardware store in New York city. He subsequently accepted a position in the purchasing department of the New York Central railroad. In these capacities he developed those excellent business qualifications which have contributed so materially to the success of all his subsequent efforts. On the 1st of January, 1887, he came to Utica as assistant to Jesse L. Eddy, then the resident sales agent for the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, and on January 1, 1800, he was appointed to succeed him. On the 1st of June of the latter year he founded the present firm of Millspaugh & Green. The company which this firm has since represented as sales agent handles more than one-third of all the coal shipped into Central, Western, and Northern New York and Upper Canada. The firm of Millspaugh & Green has offices in Utica, Syracuse, and Rochester, and in the last two cities do both a wholesale and retail business. In Utica wholesaling is done exclusively and this is the chief distributing center of their district.
Mr. Millspaugh, from his connection with this vast business, is more prominently identified with the coal supply of Oneida county and adjacent territory than any other citizen within the province of this volume, and is therefore justly entitled a place in local annals. Outside of these interests, which command his chief attention, he is actively connected with various other enterprises of local and general importance. Hof was one of the incorporators in 1890 of the Utica Cold Storage and Warehouse Company, a very successful corporation, and has continuously served as a member of the board of directors. He is also a member of the executive committee of the Extension Car Step Company of Utica. He is a member of the Fort Schuyler Club and the Oneida Historical Society of Utica, and of the Transportation Club of New York City.
On June 20, 1887, Mr. Millspaugh was married to Miss Anna Bell Mase, of Matteawan, Dutchess county, daughter of Hon. Willard H. Mase, who for five successive years represented his district in the State Legislature, was the prime mover in securing the location of the State Hospital for Insane Criminals at Matteawan, N.Y., and was largely instrumental in organizing and establishing the State Lunacy Commission. They have one son, Francis Corwin Millspaugh, born in Utica, November 16, 1890.
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