Description: August P. Shearer (1911-1995) in white shirt posing with his friend Cooney. August was the son of Mary Louise Siebeneichen and Thomas Harry Birdsall Shearer. Mr. Shearer was born in Brooklyn and raised in Huntington (Suffolk County). Mr. Shearer graduated from Huntington High School and the New York State Institute of Agriculture at Farmingdale with a degree and in agriculture and animal husbandry. He later attended Queens College in the 1960s for his teaching certificate. After Farmingdale graduation, he worked at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center laundry facility before taking gardening jobs and moving up to superintendent of grounds for various estates in Long Island and Queens (J. Shields, Count VonKeller, Catholic Cenacle, Mrs. Walter Jennings (Harry Mellish Dairy), Mrs. Henry W. DeForest, and Flora M. Bonney Estates of Long Island). Mr. Shearer ended his long career as a teacher and founder of the Suffolk County BOCES Horticulture Program that helped advance the interest and number of floral design shops on Long Island. He built the first greenhouse at BOCES and won many awards for his flowers and design. Mr. Shearer met his wife, Doris Hoover, who worked as a nurse assistant at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. August Shearer is the grandfather to the collector, Pamela Griffin Hansen.
Summary/Description : August P. Shearer (1911-1995) in white shirt posing with his friend Cooney. August was the son of Mary Louise Siebeneichen and Thomas Harry Birdsall Shearer. Mr. Shearer was born in Brooklyn and raised in Huntington (Suffolk County). Mr. Shearer graduated from Huntington High School and the New York State Institute of Agriculture at Farmingdale with a degree and in agriculture and animal husbandry. He later attended Queens College in the 1960s for his teaching certificate. After Farmingdale graduation, he worked at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center laundry facility before taking gardening jobs and moving up to superintendent of grounds for various estates in Long Island and Queens (J. Shields, Count VonKeller, Catholic Cenacle, Mrs. Walter Jennings (Harry Mellish Dairy), Mrs. Henry W. DeForest, and Flora M. Bonney Estates of Long Island). Mr. Shearer ended his long career as a teacher and founder of the Suffolk County BOCES Horticulture Program that helped advance the interest and number of floral design shops on Long Island. He built the first greenhouse at BOCES and won many awards for his flowers and design. Mr. Shearer met his wife, Doris Hoover, who worked as a nurse assistant at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. August Shearer is the grandfather to the collector, Pamela Griffin Hansen.
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