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113 BROOKLYN LIFE. took a position in the Brooklyn Savings Bank, where he worked his way up to the presidency in 1912. In 1913 he was elected president of the Brooklyn Trust Company, which position he occupies to-day. Mr. Maynard has been a resident of Flatbush for over thirty years and has been interested in the civic growth of that section, as well as the borough at large.

He is a member and deacon of the Reformed Church and active in Sunday-school work. He is a charter member of the Knickerbocker Club, a trustee and treasurer of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, a member of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Banking, in 1913 appointed chairman of the Trust Company section of the State Commission to revise the banking laws, president of the Dutch Reformed Church Club and treasurer of the new Prospect Park Zoo. He is married and has two sons. s4 LEWIS M. SWASEY.

Lewis M. Swasey, Sheriff of the county of Kings, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., April 29, 1859. He began his education in the schools of this borough and completed his studies In Palmyra, Wayne County, N.Y. Then returned to Brooklyn, where he entered upon a commercial business. Being essentially a man of great personal magnetism, he was because of his popularity forced into the political limelight.

Numerous offices were tendered him and in those which he accepted made a most enviable record. Sheriff Swasey has been a member of the Republican State Committee for the past twelve years. He is executive member of the Seventeenth Assembly District. Was a delegate to the National Republican Convention at Chicago 'in June, 1912, and voted for the renomination of President William Howard Taft and he has been a delegate to all state conventions since 1898 at which time Honorable Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for Governor of the state of New" Ybfk. Mr.

Swasey was appointed State Superintendent of Elections in 1906 by the late Governor Frank W. Higgins. He was appointed Commissioner of Records in 1908 and served until June, 1911, when he was legislated out of office by the Democratic Ripper Bills. He held the position of chief clerk under Sheriffs Guden and Dike. Was appointed under sheriff by the Honorable-Alfred T.

Hobly and served in the same position under the Honorable Charles B. Law and succeeded Mr. Law as sheriff of Kings County, the county voting its approval of hinr when he was elected sheriff by a majority of 25,000 votes. The Sheriff is president of the Invincible Club, member of the Royal Arcanum, Improved Order Heptasophs, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Brooklyn Lodge No. 22, Loyal Order of Moose No.

1025, also the City and Civic Club and Belle Harbor Yacht Club. In the sheriff's office Mr. Swasey has introduced a card system simplifying matters for those who have need to apply to the various records. He has made changes in the 'civil prison so that those detained for no crime but as 'material witnesses may be accorded humane comfort. EDWARD CHARLES BLUM.

Edward Charles Blum is well known throughout the business world as a member of the house of Abraham Straus, Brooklyn. He is of that rare kind of man that can be of consequence in his community and remain human. There isn't one who is deeper in the big business, philanthropic and civic affairs of his home borough. Yet he is a well-known clubman, taking a joy in outdoor sports and the every-day life of his various club friends. He has rare taste in matters of art in all its branches, his opinion being sought in questions of architecture, sculpturing, painting and city planning; but he is just as good a judge of horseflesh.

He a living example of the fact that a man can be a sincere, good and valuable citizen, a deep thinker and leader in serious things, yet be genial, a well-liked, every-day human being. Mr. Blum is a trustee of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and is a lover of art. He is also a member of the Piping Rock Racing Association and the Islip Polo Club, and loves a good horse. He was born in New York City on February 24, 1W, the son of Adolph and Ida Blum.

When he was yet a child his parents moved to Europe and in the colleges of Germany and France he received his education. Up to 1883 Mr. Blum, when on vacation, lived in Paris, where he imbibed that taste for art which has remained with him. He returned to this country in 1884 and has lived here ever since. In 1894 Mr.

Blum married Miss Florence Abraham, daughter of the founder of the firm of Abraham Straus, and they have two children, Alice I. and Robert Edward Blum. Mr. Blum takes great interest in civic matters and for the last five years has been an active worker in city planning, being a member of the City Planning Committee and of the Court House Committee of ten appointed by Comptroller Prendergast. He is also a member of the State Probation Commission and vice-president of the Juvenile Probation Association.

He is president of the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn and a director of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish charities. Mr. Blum belongs to the New York Chamber of Commerce, is a trustee of the Kings County Trust Company, treasurer of the Flatbush Avenue Realty Company and a director of the Security Safe Deposit Company. His clubs are the Riding and Driving, the Islip Polo, the Montauk and the Brooklyn, of which he is a director. He owns the sixty-foot gasoline yacht Efra, and goes in for amateur racing at Piping Rock.

His town house is No. 45 Plaza Street, Brooklyn, and his country home, Shore Acres, at Bay Shore, L.I. EDWIN P. MAYNARD. Edwin P.

Maynard was educated in the public schools, graduating from old No. 9, and entered business life with Amadown, Love Company of Manhattan, but subsequently if 111! Vi 'M-' t'mvMK' AniJ RESIDENCE OF HARVEY MURDOCK, Montgomery Place, Brooklyn..