Sydney Hanson Carragan's parents were William and Harriet Hyatt Carragan of Saratoga, NY. He married Henrietta Buchanan and had two sons, Sydney and Lester. Henrietta apparently died early, and Carragan then married Margaret F.
Here is the Carragan's bio from "Pharmaceutical Era, Volume 47" from Google books:
Sydney Hanson Carragan, manager of the eastern traveling service and assistant manager of the New York branch of Parke, Davis & Co. for many years, who had been associated with that house for more than twenty-eight years, died Monday night. May 4, in his residence, 782 East Seventeenth street, Flatbush, Brooklyn, aged sixty-five years. Though the immediate cause of Mr. Carragan's death was an apoplectic stroke, the underlying ailment which shortened his life was sclerosis of the liver, from which he had been a sufferer for about two years.
A widow and two sons. Lester H., a traveling man connected with Parke, Davis & Co., and Sydney, a lawyer, associated with the law firm of Guggenheimer, Untermyer & Marshall, in New York City, survive him. Funeral services were held in his residence Wednesday evening. May 6. and the interment occurred in Greenwood Cemetery. Mr. Carragan was prominent in Masonic circles and his funeral services were attended by members of Manitou Lodge, No. 106, F. and A. M.; Amity Chapter, No. 160, R. A. M.; Palestine Commandery, No. 18, and Kismet Temple, in Brooklyn.
Mr. Carragan was born in Geyserville. about a mile and a half from Saratoga Springs, N. Y., in 1849. He received an elementary education in Saratoga and later studied civil engineering in that place and in Troy, N. Y. In the early eighties he was a surveyor and engineer associated with the Map and Grade Commission in laying out the streets of Bayonne. N. J., where his cousin, George Carragan. had become interested in banking. After completing his work with the Bayonne commission in 1885, Mr. Carragan became connected with the Keasbey & Mattison Company, and for several months sold the asbestos products of that concern. In 1886 he entered the employ of Parke. Davis & Co. as a traveling salesman, and within a few years became general traveling representative for that company, covering most of the New England and Middle Atlantic states as well as some of the southern states. In I8q6 he was made head of the eastern sales force of Parke. Davis & Co., and in 1902 he, became assistant manager of the New York branch.
Mr. Carragan was extremely popular with the Parke, Davis & Co. salesmen and had the affection and esteem of the heads of all that company's departments as well as with all others engaged in » ho manufacturing and wholesale drug business. He attended many of the annual meetings of the National Wholesale Druggists' Association and of the New York State Pharmaceutical Association, as well as of numerous other pharmaceutical organizations. The traveling men connected with the eastern service presented handsome Christmas remembrances to him almost every year within the last decade, and, in token of their appreciation of his congeniality and efficiency, the heads of the departments and officers of the company held a beefsteak dinner in his honor on September 23, 1911, to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of his association with the house. He was a stockholder in the Parke, Davis & Co. business and also a shareholder in the Takamine Ferment Company, founded by Dr. Jakichi Takamine, the celebrated Japanese chemist, who was a close personal friend of the deceased.
Mr. Carragan was first taken seriously ill in the fall of 1912. In the hope of recovering his health he made a trip to Europe in November of that year, returning to New York on May 4, 1913. He did not appear greatly improved in health upon his return and his death occurred exactly one year later. He had been able to attend to business only at infrequent intervals within the last year.
Here is the Carragan's bio from "Pharmaceutical Era, Volume 47" from Google books:
Sydney Hanson Carragan, manager of the eastern traveling service and assistant manager of the New York branch of Parke, Davis & Co. for many years, who had been associated with that house for more than twenty-eight years, died Monday night. May 4, in his residence, 782 East Seventeenth street, Flatbush, Brooklyn, aged sixty-five years. Though the immediate cause of Mr. Carragan's death was an apoplectic stroke, the underlying ailment which shortened his life was sclerosis of the liver, from which he had been a sufferer for about two years.
A widow and two sons. Lester H., a traveling man connected with Parke, Davis & Co., and Sydney, a lawyer, associated with the law firm of Guggenheimer, Untermyer & Marshall, in New York City, survive him. Funeral services were held in his residence Wednesday evening. May 6. and the interment occurred in Greenwood Cemetery. Mr. Carragan was prominent in Masonic circles and his funeral services were attended by members of Manitou Lodge, No. 106, F. and A. M.; Amity Chapter, No. 160, R. A. M.; Palestine Commandery, No. 18, and Kismet Temple, in Brooklyn.
Mr. Carragan was born in Geyserville. about a mile and a half from Saratoga Springs, N. Y., in 1849. He received an elementary education in Saratoga and later studied civil engineering in that place and in Troy, N. Y. In the early eighties he was a surveyor and engineer associated with the Map and Grade Commission in laying out the streets of Bayonne. N. J., where his cousin, George Carragan. had become interested in banking. After completing his work with the Bayonne commission in 1885, Mr. Carragan became connected with the Keasbey & Mattison Company, and for several months sold the asbestos products of that concern. In 1886 he entered the employ of Parke. Davis & Co. as a traveling salesman, and within a few years became general traveling representative for that company, covering most of the New England and Middle Atlantic states as well as some of the southern states. In I8q6 he was made head of the eastern sales force of Parke. Davis & Co., and in 1902 he, became assistant manager of the New York branch.
Mr. Carragan was extremely popular with the Parke, Davis & Co. salesmen and had the affection and esteem of the heads of all that company's departments as well as with all others engaged in » ho manufacturing and wholesale drug business. He attended many of the annual meetings of the National Wholesale Druggists' Association and of the New York State Pharmaceutical Association, as well as of numerous other pharmaceutical organizations. The traveling men connected with the eastern service presented handsome Christmas remembrances to him almost every year within the last decade, and, in token of their appreciation of his congeniality and efficiency, the heads of the departments and officers of the company held a beefsteak dinner in his honor on September 23, 1911, to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of his association with the house. He was a stockholder in the Parke, Davis & Co. business and also a shareholder in the Takamine Ferment Company, founded by Dr. Jakichi Takamine, the celebrated Japanese chemist, who was a close personal friend of the deceased.
Mr. Carragan was first taken seriously ill in the fall of 1912. In the hope of recovering his health he made a trip to Europe in November of that year, returning to New York on May 4, 1913. He did not appear greatly improved in health upon his return and his death occurred exactly one year later. He had been able to attend to business only at infrequent intervals within the last year.
Sydney Hanson Carragan's parents were William and Harriet Hyatt Carragan of Saratoga, NY. He married Henrietta Buchanan and had two sons, Sydney and Lester. Henrietta apparently died early, and Carragan then married Margaret F.
Here is the Carragan's bio from "Pharmaceutical Era, Volume 47" from Google books:
Sydney Hanson Carragan, manager of the eastern traveling service and assistant manager of the New York branch of Parke, Davis & Co. for many years, who had been associated with that house for more than twenty-eight years, died Monday night. May 4, in his residence, 782 East Seventeenth street, Flatbush, Brooklyn, aged sixty-five years. Though the immediate cause of Mr. Carragan's death was an apoplectic stroke, the underlying ailment which shortened his life was sclerosis of the liver, from which he had been a sufferer for about two years.
A widow and two sons. Lester H., a traveling man connected with Parke, Davis & Co., and Sydney, a lawyer, associated with the law firm of Guggenheimer, Untermyer & Marshall, in New York City, survive him. Funeral services were held in his residence Wednesday evening. May 6. and the interment occurred in Greenwood Cemetery. Mr. Carragan was prominent in Masonic circles and his funeral services were attended by members of Manitou Lodge, No. 106, F. and A. M.; Amity Chapter, No. 160, R. A. M.; Palestine Commandery, No. 18, and Kismet Temple, in Brooklyn.
Mr. Carragan was born in Geyserville. about a mile and a half from Saratoga Springs, N. Y., in 1849. He received an elementary education in Saratoga and later studied civil engineering in that place and in Troy, N. Y. In the early eighties he was a surveyor and engineer associated with the Map and Grade Commission in laying out the streets of Bayonne. N. J., where his cousin, George Carragan. had become interested in banking. After completing his work with the Bayonne commission in 1885, Mr. Carragan became connected with the Keasbey & Mattison Company, and for several months sold the asbestos products of that concern. In 1886 he entered the employ of Parke. Davis & Co. as a traveling salesman, and within a few years became general traveling representative for that company, covering most of the New England and Middle Atlantic states as well as some of the southern states. In I8q6 he was made head of the eastern sales force of Parke. Davis & Co., and in 1902 he, became assistant manager of the New York branch.
Mr. Carragan was extremely popular with the Parke, Davis & Co. salesmen and had the affection and esteem of the heads of all that company's departments as well as with all others engaged in » ho manufacturing and wholesale drug business. He attended many of the annual meetings of the National Wholesale Druggists' Association and of the New York State Pharmaceutical Association, as well as of numerous other pharmaceutical organizations. The traveling men connected with the eastern service presented handsome Christmas remembrances to him almost every year within the last decade, and, in token of their appreciation of his congeniality and efficiency, the heads of the departments and officers of the company held a beefsteak dinner in his honor on September 23, 1911, to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of his association with the house. He was a stockholder in the Parke, Davis & Co. business and also a shareholder in the Takamine Ferment Company, founded by Dr. Jakichi Takamine, the celebrated Japanese chemist, who was a close personal friend of the deceased.
Mr. Carragan was first taken seriously ill in the fall of 1912. In the hope of recovering his health he made a trip to Europe in November of that year, returning to New York on May 4, 1913. He did not appear greatly improved in health upon his return and his death occurred exactly one year later. He had been able to attend to business only at infrequent intervals within the last year.
Here is the Carragan's bio from "Pharmaceutical Era, Volume 47" from Google books:
Sydney Hanson Carragan, manager of the eastern traveling service and assistant manager of the New York branch of Parke, Davis & Co. for many years, who had been associated with that house for more than twenty-eight years, died Monday night. May 4, in his residence, 782 East Seventeenth street, Flatbush, Brooklyn, aged sixty-five years. Though the immediate cause of Mr. Carragan's death was an apoplectic stroke, the underlying ailment which shortened his life was sclerosis of the liver, from which he had been a sufferer for about two years.
A widow and two sons. Lester H., a traveling man connected with Parke, Davis & Co., and Sydney, a lawyer, associated with the law firm of Guggenheimer, Untermyer & Marshall, in New York City, survive him. Funeral services were held in his residence Wednesday evening. May 6. and the interment occurred in Greenwood Cemetery. Mr. Carragan was prominent in Masonic circles and his funeral services were attended by members of Manitou Lodge, No. 106, F. and A. M.; Amity Chapter, No. 160, R. A. M.; Palestine Commandery, No. 18, and Kismet Temple, in Brooklyn.
Mr. Carragan was born in Geyserville. about a mile and a half from Saratoga Springs, N. Y., in 1849. He received an elementary education in Saratoga and later studied civil engineering in that place and in Troy, N. Y. In the early eighties he was a surveyor and engineer associated with the Map and Grade Commission in laying out the streets of Bayonne. N. J., where his cousin, George Carragan. had become interested in banking. After completing his work with the Bayonne commission in 1885, Mr. Carragan became connected with the Keasbey & Mattison Company, and for several months sold the asbestos products of that concern. In 1886 he entered the employ of Parke. Davis & Co. as a traveling salesman, and within a few years became general traveling representative for that company, covering most of the New England and Middle Atlantic states as well as some of the southern states. In I8q6 he was made head of the eastern sales force of Parke. Davis & Co., and in 1902 he, became assistant manager of the New York branch.
Mr. Carragan was extremely popular with the Parke, Davis & Co. salesmen and had the affection and esteem of the heads of all that company's departments as well as with all others engaged in » ho manufacturing and wholesale drug business. He attended many of the annual meetings of the National Wholesale Druggists' Association and of the New York State Pharmaceutical Association, as well as of numerous other pharmaceutical organizations. The traveling men connected with the eastern service presented handsome Christmas remembrances to him almost every year within the last decade, and, in token of their appreciation of his congeniality and efficiency, the heads of the departments and officers of the company held a beefsteak dinner in his honor on September 23, 1911, to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of his association with the house. He was a stockholder in the Parke, Davis & Co. business and also a shareholder in the Takamine Ferment Company, founded by Dr. Jakichi Takamine, the celebrated Japanese chemist, who was a close personal friend of the deceased.
Mr. Carragan was first taken seriously ill in the fall of 1912. In the hope of recovering his health he made a trip to Europe in November of that year, returning to New York on May 4, 1913. He did not appear greatly improved in health upon his return and his death occurred exactly one year later. He had been able to attend to business only at infrequent intervals within the last year.
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