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Chester Platt operated a drugstore in Ludlowville and later Ithaca, New York. He became successively proprietor of the ITHACA DEMOCRAT, the BATAVIA TIMES, and the Madison WISCONSIN LEADER. He served as secretary to New York Governor William Sulzer, and was a prominent figure in Democratic state and national politics from 1910 to 1920. In Ithaca he was active in the Unitarian Church and in local politics. ref: rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM00195.html He may or may not have created the ice cream sundae. ref: whatscookingamerica.net/History/IceCream/Sundae.htm

He's rendered so pale he looks like a ghost in the thumbnail. I thaut (thought) he was a statue at first.

Yeah, that is what I thaut,also

I added him to Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Platt

Nicely done, Richard Arthur Norton.

Nice photo. Sir Harry was Governor of NSW, not Governor-General. His ADC, seen at right, fromm1903 to 1909 was Leslie (later Sir Leslie) Orme Wilson. Sir Leslie later became Governor of Bombay and later still Governor of Queensland. Sir Harry appears with his daughter Rita who took over her mother's duties after her Lady Rawson's 1905 death.

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BobMeade Thank you for the corrections BobMeade, especially the info about Leslie Orme Wilson. Regarding his daughter, records show that her name was Alice. She is mentioned a few times in the newspapers nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72211037 Here is a link to a notice published in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1938, after she died. nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17431034 Thanks again for your help, we have now updated our database records.

Captain Francis Harrison Smith (see here on the left) was the NSW Governor's Private Secretary in the period 1904-08. During this time he was evidently on leave from the Royal Navy. He's usually referred to in the various newspaper items as 'Mr Harrison Smith'...which might well have been in accordance with protocol...I gather he was a Paymaster Captain and that he was in the 'secretarial' branch of the Royal Navy. Later in his career he was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral and knighted (HMS Pinafore sequel). The location is Cranbrook, at Bellevue Hill, the NSW Governor's residence in the period 1901-17 www.flickr.com/photos/state-records-nsw/8474206395/

Here is a NY Times Article about F. W. Rubien, being "Frederick W. Rubien, Secretary-Treasurer of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States". There are many additional mentions of Frederick W. Rubien in NY Times articles from that time period.

AAU post held 1914-1927, Officer of the American Olympic Committee starting in 1914. archive.wmlnj.org/TheWestfieldLeader/1939/1939-02-02/pg_0... He seems best known now for his support, as secretary of the American Olympic Committee, of Avery Brundage's endorsement of the exclusion of Jews from the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

bior and artolog: Thanks for pointing us to more information about Rubien. We'll include some of it in the description next time we update.