CHARLES MASON DOW 



Mr Dow did not live to see the results of his many hours of 

 labor issue from the press. During the autumn of 1 920 he had 

 not been very well and on December 1 0th he passed away at his 

 home in Jamestown. 



In private life Mr Dow was a banker and financier. He 

 was in a way to the manner bred. The son of Albert Gallatin 

 and Lydia Mason Dow, he was born in Randolph, New York, 

 August 1 , 1 854. He attended the local academy there, went 

 for two years to Oberlin College and then studied law for three 

 years. Preferring a business career, he became a member of 

 the banking firm of A. G. Dow and Son of Randolph and later 

 of Dow and Company of Bradford, Pennsylvania. In 1888 

 he went to Jamestown and established the Jamestown National 

 Bank, which was later merged with the Chautauqua County 

 National Bank under the name of the National Chautauqua 

 County Bank, of which he became president — a position which 

 he held until his death. In 1 899 he was elected vice president 

 of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company of New York and 

 devoted himself to that institution for some years. 



Numerous other banking and private business interests engrossed 

 his attention from time to time, but it was in the field of service to 

 his State that his memory will always be cherished and that the 

 commonwealth will ever find a career worthy of emulation. Of 

 time which he might have devoted to the increase of his private 

 fortune he gave freely and unsparingly to the State. 



Alwaj^s delighting in the natural beauty of forest and stream, 

 he early became identified with that group of men of which 

 Andrew H. Green was the center. In 1 898 he was made a 

 commissioner of the State Reservation at Niagara and from 1 903 

 to 1914 was president of the Commission. During all those 

 years and even after 1914, when his official connection with the 



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