. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . fidence with which he had inspired those whom he had soably represented in the council of the nation. Later hewas tendered the nomination for the office of lieutenant-governor ot the State of New York. This was at a timewhen he had retired permanently from the cares and re-sponsibilities of political life; and, with the desire forquiet and rest which all men feel as years advance uponthem, he could not be prevailed upon to allow the use ofhis name in the manner requested, tho
. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . fidence with which he had inspired those whom he had soably represented in the council of the nation. Later hewas tendered the nomination for the office of lieutenant-governor ot the State of New York. This was at a timewhen he had retired permanently from the cares and re-sponsibilities of political life; and, with the desire forquiet and rest which all men feel as years advance uponthem, he could not be prevailed upon to allow the use ofhis name in the manner requested, though urged to do soby some of the foremost men in his party on the groundof the strength it would lend to the ticket. In private and public life, alike, Mr. Lawrence hasever held the highest esteem of all his associates and therespect of all, of all classes and parties, who were cogni-zant of his course. In Flushing, where he is best andmost intimately known, he is regarded as the friend ofthose in need of sympathy and assistance, and the abettorof every measure tending to the public good and thepublic (^KJ^ ^^.-^- ALBION K. P. DENNETT. The subject of this sketch is one of the best knownand most prominent citizens and business men of Flush-ing. He was born in Lyman, York county, Maine, Au-gust 9th 1827, and was named in honor of GovernorAlbion K. Paris, of Maine. His parents were Jesse andAbigail (Hooper) Dennett. His grandfather JosephDennett was in the patriot service during the entireperiod of the Revolution. Mr. Dennett removed with his fathers family to thetown of Dayton, adjoining the town of his birth, when hewas about twelve years old. He received his educationin the common schools of that locality, and resided onhis fathers farm until the age of twenty-two, when hewent to New York city, in 1849, and entered the employof the Knickerbocker Ice Company, with whom he re-mained until April 1853, when he embarked in the icetrade in New York on his own acco
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