. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . esentcommodious residence on the old site was erected by in 1835. The childhood of Mr. Lawrence was passed much as thatof others of the time and locality was passed. He maybe truly said never to have known any boyhood, havingengaged in active business life at the early age of sixteen,as a clerk in the long-ago mercantile establishment ofHicks, Jenkins & Co., in which capacity he continued till1821. Then, Mr. Jenkins having died, Mr. Hicks made aproposition to take
. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . esentcommodious residence on the old site was erected by in 1835. The childhood of Mr. Lawrence was passed much as thatof others of the time and locality was passed. He maybe truly said never to have known any boyhood, havingengaged in active business life at the early age of sixteen,as a clerk in the long-ago mercantile establishment ofHicks, Jenkins & Co., in which capacity he continued till1821. Then, Mr. Jenkins having died, Mr. Hicks made aproposition to take young Lawrence into the firm, whichthe latter declined, entering instead into partnership witha fellow clerk in the shipping and commission business,under the firm name of Howland & Lawrence. In 1826Mr. Lawrence was married to a daughter of WalterBowne, of another old-time family of Long Island. A mention of several of the more prominent of thebusiness enterprises with which Mr. Lawrence has beenconnected will not be out of place as an evidence of thehigh esteem in which he has for many years been held in. J^^^^. HON. J. W. LAWRENCE.—A. K. P. DENNETT. US business and financial circles, both on Long Island andin New York city. Mr. Lawrences fifteen years presi-dency of the Queens County Savings Bank, of which he isnow a trustee, and his presidency for seven years of theSeventh Ward Bank of New York, of which he is nowthe oldest director, are features of a connection withmonetary institutions which goes back to a time when hewas a director in the New York branch of the UnitedStates Bank in the stormy financial period of PresidentJackson. For a third of a century he has been presidentof the Lawrence Cement Company, and he holds a sim-ilar position at the head of the Rosedale Cement Company. By the admirable manner in which he has transactedall business devolving upon him, in these and many otherenterprises of note, and the fidelity with which he hasdischarged all trusts imposed
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